@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/

The thing about wealth inequality is that poverty is very, very real and most American wealth is imaginary. It’s in stocks, whose “value” is book value + optimism. When the optimism evaporates, the wealth evaporates. When wealth decreases below debt (mortgage, credit cards, car payments) then poof, you’re poor. A 20% walk back in the market will bankrupt millions of households. A 401(K) crash means millions of seniors in poverty, probably homeless.

The *very* rich will be OK, of course.

We’re hiring in the tvOS Engineering group at Apple. Real programmers really writing real code.

This one is in the same group, has the same generic job description, but is a different role number than the previous one. I can’t tell you why they’re different, it’s a secret.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200613725/ios-engineer-apple-tv

@haineux @thomasfuchs
I’m pretty sure it’s the iTunes Visualizer

25th Amendment suspension
Impeachment in the House
Conviction in the Senate
Removal from office
Indictment
Trial and Conviction
Imprisonment
Civil litigation
Confiscation of assets
Exile
Removal of name from all public buildings
Destruction of monuments and works

A third of our fellow Americans support the murder of “a whole civilization.. never to be brought back again.” Some because they are enthralled by a fascist leader, some because they are fundamentally bigoted and racist, and some because they think that bringing on a man-made apocalypse will bring the End Times and their eternal salvation.

They are all fucking insane.

This is an apocalypse of choice.

Happy Birthday, Apple Computer Company

Usually there’s only one Occam’s Razor answer to a given question but we have so, so many:

• For the oil, duh
• Distraction from the Epstein files
• Corollary: Blackmail by Netanyahu about same
• Pretext to cancel the midterm elections
• Orders from oil executives
• Orders from apocalyptic Christian nationalist zillionaires
• Bizarre dementia-enhanced grudge from 1980

Illegal orders video indictments — L
Sen. Mark Kelly censure — L
Steel and aluminum tariffs — L
Twin Cities surge — L
Venezuelan deportations — L
Gateway Tunnel extortion — L
Public health funds cuts — L
Assault charges against ICE protesters — L
Democratic governors snub — L

There are fresh indignities and outrages every day, but let’s celebrate the courts, Congress, and the states when they actually hold up the Constitutional order and don’t cave to despotism

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/116055465402253287

Something something Solyndra something something picking winners and losers

I think every one of these 47,000 people should sue the IRS for $10 billion for leaking their information, just like someone else did

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/irs-migrant-tax-data-dhs-confidential-records-b2918466.html?test_group=lighteradlayout

I just want to remind you that in 1992, the Internet cost $2.50 an hour to access ($4.00 after the first four hours a night), was three million times slower than WiFi, and nobody in your house could take phone calls while you used it. Doomscroll on THAT.

I regret to inform you that Marjory Taylor Greene has nailed it

I can’t speak for all Americans but I think the prevailing sentiment is that we want to see the rapists named in the Epstein papers prosecuted and the day care center workers and nurses and day laborers left the fuck alone

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/epstein-files-todd-blanche-deputy-ag

Philando Castile and Daniel Lewis were also legal and licensed and not suspected of any crime and did not brandish their weapons and were nevertheless gunned down by police. Gun rights groups were silent about them.

If the Second Amendment applies at the discretion of police with summary execution as an outcome, then it doesn’t exist.