Notices by Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)

What do you want to do?

So does the republican party with the possible exception of the freedom caucus.

He was a liberal yes, but in the classical sense. He would be called a nazi by half the democrat party today.

Adam Smith 'left wing'? 🤔 it's not even theory of moral sentiments.

I would subscribe to your current events newsletter.

I just get a lot of old guys in parking lots telling me stories about the bikes they used to ride.

Academia should never have pivoted from mainframe computing. Centralized, managed, secure, and a stable, standardized environment for all students. You should only ever need your own pc for limewire and counterstrike.

I spent many years without insurance; simply pour a little hydrogen peroxide in the effected ear, tilt your head and then pop your ears to allow a little hydrogen peroxide to slip past the ear drum and brace yourself for the sound of a rocket blasting off next to your head.

This is not medical advice

Somewhere Gram Handcock is crying into his beer.

In my youth I participated in the "Reign of Terror" organized by a local AM radio 'morning zoo' type show (TIL it's now a podcast) in which boxes of pineapple upside-down cake were turned upside-down, thus displaying pineapple right-side-up cake in the pictures on the boxes. It seemed like harmless fun at the time, I had no idea the devastation our simple prank would eventually lead to. I apologize. I can and must do better.

https://www.peculiarpodcast.com/rot/

GM ☕️

The best part about cooking with wine is: now the wine bottle is open what are you just going to let it go to waste?

Mozilla has publicly stated that they want to "more than deplatform" people who disagree with extreme left-wing politics, and have been funding research into how to censor the open web for years as they lay off devs and remove features from Firefox.

At the end of last year they laid off 30% of their workforce and then hosted an explicitly marxist "Feminist, Decolonial, LGBTQIA+, Climate Justice using Al" event in Zambia, got home and immediately did a complete company rebrand to make it clear they no longer view themselves as a software firm, but rather first and foremost "a global crew of activists".

In their latest Firefox update they added new data collection that captures every website you visit, everything you click on, and everything you type into the browser (including passwords), and sends it back to Mozilla who now says not only that they will share it with advertising partners, but also that they will use that data to "identify harmful content".

Ask yourself Tony, do you think people who call themselves a global crew of activists and host marxist, feminist, decolonial conferences might think clew.lol or any of your other online activity is "harmful"? 🤔

Do you want to find out what "more than deplatform" means? 🤔

Do you think people who hate you and want to do bad things to you should have all of your usernames and passwords? 🤔

I agree, with Whittaker at the helm signal is limited hangout at best, compromised at worst. What messaging system do you recommend for crime these days?

That's not what the decision said though. Trump's emergency appeal was about the district judge being able to ex parte dictate specific payments from usaid, not to them. To be clear, congress doesn't decide what usaid funds, they never voted to fund trans opras or gay comic books, they just voted to give an executive agency a budget and said "do things in the US national interest with this" the executive then has to determine what is in the 'national interest'. Which is why trump paused all funding for 90 days, to review programs and decide what was and wasn't.

This scotus case was exclusively about whether the elected executive, or 700 appointed district judges is in charge of determining what specific grants and programs usaid should fund.

Yeah, no. 700ish district judges each getting the power to dictate to the executive how they must conduct policy (in ex parte proceedings no less!) is pure clown world and can only result in extreme kludge as soon as two or more decide the executive MUST do conflicting things.

In the mid 2000s i took a dremel to the slide-out ashtray of a subaru legacy, cracked open a Zune dock, mini amplifier, and USB hub, hardwired everything together, and then into the legacy's cigarette lighter and speaker harness, and epoxied it back together so I had a slide-out zune dock in the center of the dash. I was sure I had some build photos somewhere, but I can't find them now.

Still amazing that they just straight up named it [what you do after releasing a defective product]

4 years and 8 million dollars worth of excavation and not a single instance of human remains were found.

https://quillette.com/2025/02/27/four-years-zero-graves-now-what/

Dozens of churches burned to the ground over fake news and manufactured outrage.

they want to collect data to train their bullshit AI projects

I don't think it's that innocent. They've been removing features and firing devs and instead funding research into how to censor the open web for years now.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/

And just recently they announced a whole brand refresh to make clear that they are not 'just a technology company', but rather a "global crew of activists".

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/

I think they want your data to identify wrongthinkers.

Fyi I just heard about:

https://ladybird.org/