@samfucious
Polymath. Atheist. Progressive. Feminist. Jazz bassist. Software engineer. Temporarily injured Kung Fu practitioner. Hobbies include astrophotography, video games, and motorcycling. Recently relocated from Seattle to Quebec City, Canada.
Things are going to get really stupid, really fast. Soon, we'll have employers complaining they can't find workers that can do the work. Then a DECLINE in productivity, like we haven't seen since the collapse of the last civilization.
Greed isn't a virtue.
The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February.
A record number of Americans are withdrawing from their 401ks to cover expenses.
Americans owe $18.5 trillion in debt — an historic high.
Meanwhile, the wealth of America's 935 billionaires soared by $1.5 trillion in 2025.
“Golden Age” for whom?
Is he dead yet?
Sam power!!!
The US senate wasn't designed to serve the people.
When I was younger, I didn't think on Rev. Jesse Jackson with the respect he deserved. It's an interesting thing to reflect on. Hearing his speeches now, I can tell that I wasn't really paying attention - just parroting the nonsense I was hearing from others around me.
"The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7." is my favorite quote from Guillermo del Toro. I don't think there is another director with whom I so identify. Hearing him talk about movies gets me emotional and his movies really speak to me.
Is it fair to say WWIII has officially started? Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Israel, and the US seem pretty entangled.
That's what getting told looks like.
More people need to clap-back at these insane morons over stuff like this.
(They should NEVER have stopped calling them "weird")
That last point seems to be lost on the detractors. In their minds, it's either we let the super-rich eat our young, or we chose Soviet Russia. There's no in between.
It's infuriating and frankly disrespectful to call our modern-day Gestapo, aka ICE, "law enforcement officers." They're nothing of the sort. Real law enforcement protects (or should protect) people. ICE terrorizes them.
If tech firms were really interested in my productivity, they'd stop shovelling AI at everything, and instead give me a system that doesn't insist on installing updates twice a fucking day.
I perceive this as a statement concerning the balance between novelty and familiarity. Is that correct?
And it should happen every single time.
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
When I saw the news story about the girls school being bombed, one of my first thoughts was about how unlike American physics, Iranian physics is 50% women at the undergrad level and how some of those girls who had been murdered were going to be physicists one day
As far as I can tell, it's about as smart as most middle managers.
"Quips".
"Telegraphs", is more like it.
How is it we all find ourselves subject to the whims of psychopaths?
Trump is not a stranger to murder.
if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal
Sure, after Trump scuttled the deal we had with Iran for his own addle-brained reasons.
There're no good guys in this. Just needless chaos.
The US has a plank in its eye, and makes overatures of removing the mote from someone else's as an excuse for a jingoistic display.
The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.
There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.
