Most young men believe in equality. But underestimating the allure of the manosphere got us 8 years of Trump. Despite moral failings, Ramaswamy, Herrera and Miller each still received >40% of the vote. The antidote is content that shows men a better way. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/opinion/maga-manosphere-midterms-vibe-shift.html
56m agoJeff Tranter has made an excellent YouTube video showing the #heathkit #H89 version of the #FujiNet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIwKRtN5CfE
Thanks, Jeff!
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117600594152783572
This is the most delicious part: "Cindy Hyde-Smith (had previously blocked Colom) from becoming a federal judge."
1h agoRE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/117600065097998771
The Secretary of Defense, USians.
Can’t imagine any #veterans are keen on his lack of respect on this day and at that location.
Dickhead.
Scott Colom Wins Mississippi Race,
Becoming First Black Senator of the Former Confederate State Since 1881
Colom, who narrowly defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith to become elected Mississippi senator,
was previously blocked by his opponent from becoming a federal judge
Some days it feels like 50% of my startup is just chasing down enough disk capacity to make this crazy idea work. If not on the #postgresql master; on the replica. If not on the fileserver, on its backup.
280TB so far; with a copy of nearly every open-source package released in 2026. Next week we'll be at 347TB; which should give us enough room to survive until January. This shit is getting expensive :(
1h agoLook if a CEO starts act like a rockstar, they are an exec in mad men.
1h agoOne of the things I'm still not over, and it's one of those subtly affirming things, is like... When topics around meds come in, women around me don't flinch or hesitate to talk about anything. They bring up using the pill, menopause, or whatever in the most natural tone, and I can only assume this kind of chat is normal between women, but it wasn't for me for most of my life
Really affirming to see how they don't think twice about including me anymore
The recent drama around Nvidia founder Jensen Huang has reinforced many of my Bayesian priors:
* chicks dig guys in black leather jackets
* chicks dig rich guys
* chicks really dig billionaires
* spies dig billionaires
* spies really dig billionaire CEOs
* every billionaire CEO likely gets several attractive female spies "thrown" at him, working either for foreign govs or rival firms, either to gather intel, to bribe, or to blackmail (or all three)
* black leather jackets are a wise investment for a man, regardless of whether in an AI bubble or not
my god i am shooting up uncut schadenfreude this evening
3h agoThis is powerful
#PeteHegseth #Hegseth, a #warhawk #FoxNews television personality, a person of no #integrity, who has no business leading the #US #USA #ArmedForces, does what plastic fakers with zero awareness do: he and his entourage of posers laugh disrespectfully at the #TombOfTheUnknownSoldier
He receives a harsh rebuke from The Sentinel. The guardian of the tomb who maintains solemn silent decorum at the site
Sometimes in life a deeply symbolic moment capture it all
3h ago"Which open source does Europe rely on? A survey for the EU Sovereign Tech Fund pilot"
https://www.sovereign.tech/news/survey-for-the-eu-sovereign-tech-fund-pilot
Ah yes, "open enrollment" - the crazy American healthcare gamble where you get out your crystal ball and predict your earnings & health needs for the next year, and if you're wrong, you're shit out of luck because nothing matters more than insurance company profits. We need Universal Healthcare!
I am here!
NEW: A Republican member of the election board in Forsyth County, Georgia, challenged dozens of midterm ballots, claiming four were cast by dead people.
ProPublica found all four are alive.
https://www.propublica.org/article/election-challenge-forsyth-county-georgia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Georgia #Election #Vote #Voting #Midterms #USPolitics #Law
8h agoYou rolled a new gender today. Gender is bug triage overload.
When I was running Cloudera, we did a fair amount of business with the US government and its key intelligence allies around the world.
When we began to expand meaningfully into China, two very serious people from the FBI came by our offices. They sat me down and gave me a direct lecture about honeypots. If you're a middle-aged US tech nerd dealing with a geopolitical rival and an attractive person makes themselves sexually available, draw the correct conclusion. You're an obvious target.
9h agoOn the one hand, I truly don't care about the House Democrats who didn't show up for the fake Hegseth impeachment vote.
On the other hand, using the no-shows as a cudgel against Jeffries' leadership is good praxis.
Anyway, we'll get Hegseth in January, and all the other crooks and idiots too. And by "get" I don't mean impeach since it will remain impossible to get a conviction in the Senate. I mean subpoena for hearings, and arrest & imprison when they ignore the subpoena.
