I, for one, am eager to hear how a “large military presence” can be built in Greenland at “NO COST to the United States.” Are we at the point of shaking down other countries to pay our troops?

You know what’s likely to end human life on Earth? A 3°–4° rise in global mean temperature. Let’s panic about that.

U.S Unveils New Plan To Undermine U.S. Economy

From The Wall Street Journal

@thomasfuchs Apple was founded closer to the Coolidge administration than to today; IBM was founded closer to Napoleon’s invasion of Italy than to the present day.

Our recent past seems shorter than its own past.

The self-own of all self-owns

@fivetonsflax @interfluidity Thanks for the heads up. I was sharing the two posted paragraphs and hadn’t gone deep into the linked piece.

who woulda thunk it that redacting the boss’ name from the Epstein files and giving him a lifetime get-out-of-tax-fraud-free card wouldn’t go over well with the senate judiciary committee

@NanoRaptor
LGBTQ
LGBTQ+
LGBTQ SE
LGBTQ SE/30

And then back to the LGBTQ Color Classic

let’s all get cyclosporiasis from kissing the copa mundial

He was not a wholly evil man; he was far worse. A principled man who had done some good, he saw evil, called it what it was, and fought it—and then joined up with it and became its lackey. He will be remembered as one who betrayed his faith, his party, and his country.

“Adam Sandler married Taylor Swift!”

(…and Travis Kelcey)

The reason you have to value the goose is that none of those golden eggs is going to incubate and hatch. No golden-egg-laying goslings. If you lose the goose, it’s over

@NanoRaptor

@SteveBellovin
June 6 > January 6

@thomasfuchs
And they were distributed free on French beaches

@NanoRaptor
I remember the programming model of the hypercube processors was so abstruse it was affectionately known as “The Conniption Machine” or “Cray-Cray”

On September 1 I’ll join the elite club (members Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Mike Markkula, and Bill Fernandez) who have worked under a number of Apple CEOs ≥ our employee number:

Woz: 1 (Scott)
Jobs: 2 (Scott, Markkula)
Markkula: 3 (Scott, Sculley*, Spindler*)
Fernandez: 4 (Scott, Markkula, Sculley, Spindler)
Espinosa: 8 (Scott, Markkula, Sculley, Spindler, Amelio, Jobs, Cook, Ternus)

* Markkula was a non-executive Board member under Sculley and Spindler but remained on active payroll

@_the_cloud @justkwin @integerpoet @jamesthomson
This may be hard for people under 50 to comprehend, but there was a time when you were not issued a username and password when joining a corporation.

That time was followed by a dark era when you were issued MULTIPLE usernames and passwords.

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, 2026. The transition, which was approved unanimously by the Board of Directors, follows a thoughtful, long-term succession planning process.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/