Notices by Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)

Happy 13-year anniversary to my favorite sentence ever printed in a newspaper. Super props to NYT for this gem:

"When Pablo Escobar was Chapo’s age, he had been dead for more than a decade."

Here's another way the Overton window his shifted. I keep seeing comments like, "They spent $45m on this parade!?" and at no point does anyone suggest that it was a grift

I mean, it'd sure be easy to divert $30m in funds for something that looked like it cost $10m to produce

Except we all know that $30m isn't even couch cushion money anymore. He had to sit in that pavilion being miserable for three hours when he can pick up $275m for a 'dinner' he attended for less than thirty minutes

@mattblaze
A long overdue thank you, Matt

Once or twice a week, I have a text chain that consists of half a dozen texts presenting your bona fides, and always ends with this

[Thanks on behalf of the text recipients, too. In my circles you're responsible for more blood pressure reduction than the average beta-blocker]

Much discussion about “opsec” (a term I don’t love when talking about people exercising their rights, but whatever) at protests today, including about phones and Faraday containers.

A Faraday container is probably less useful here than you think it is, but if you do rely on one, make sure it actually works. Here’s a post I did a while back on the ins and outs of containing RF: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

The right of assembly
Not just for IKEA

denver #nokings

@fedward
Damn it, fedward
May Flip's memory be a blessing

On the subject of people impersonating cops...

googling 'woman raped by man impersonating cop' returned hits for seven unique US cities on the first page of results

[The results for 'woman raped by cop' are equally distressing, but not the subject of today's discourse. Not as of yet, anyway]

Cosplaying law enforcement for criminal intent has always been a thing. What's changed is it is much much easier now, with more reason to believe one will be rewarded rather than punished for doing so

@gvwilson
Pretty sure that's a "no jury would convict" joke. At minimum it's ground for divorce

Well played

I have some kind of food poisoning or stomach virus that I was hoping would run its course in time for me to keep my plans for today. Alas, no...

How can I best support those out doing what I'd hoped to be doing today? Are there bail funds to contribute to? Other suggestions?

@rustoleumlove
From the time my kids were small, we told them, "If you ever get separated from us or need help or to use someone's phone, don't look for a police officer. Look for a woman who looks like grandma"

Holy shit. But also... this will not go well:

"Authorities have instructed local residents not to answer the door for anyone saying they are police unless there are two officers present and to call 911 to confirm the identity of the officer if there is only one."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ake-cop-shoots-minnesota-state-senator-john-hoffman-and-state-rep-melissa-hortman-at-their-homes/

I'm hardly Eliezer's biggest fan but this is some quote:

Mr. Yudkowsky said OpenAI might have primed ChatGPT to entertain the delusions of users by optimizing its chatbot for “engagement” — creating conversations that keep a user hooked.

“What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.bbst.ncHDvDTLgGad&smid=url-share

Sign idea:

No Kings except this guy, and even then for only ~7 minutes

I wonder if Eugene Goodman ever looks at the news and thinks, "I should have just let them go right..."

@pluralistic
The texts were offensive

That 40% of the senate Dems went and voted for Trump's Grypto bill after was infuriating

Primary every single fucking one of them

FYI:

"Anker Innovations is recalling 1.15 million portable chargers after some consumers reported fires and explosions.

According to a notice from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the lithium-ion battery inside certain "PowerCore 10000" made by Anker, a China-based electronics maker, can overheat. That can lead to the "melting of plastic components, smoke and fire hazards," Anker said in an announcement."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anker-powercore-power-bank-recall-lithium-ion-batteries/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other

This is a fairly conventional architectural composition, emphasizing the curved facade. To get a high resolution capture of the wide structure, this was made as a stitched composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens. The Phase One back was shifted left and right by about 12mm.

By using shift movements at a fixed perspective, the two captures can be stitched directly together into a panorama without needing to transform the frame geometry (as you would with panning).

The Wizard of Oz heads to The Sphere here in Las Vegas

As ad campaigns go, this is pretty great

@aram
As someone who used to participate in the internet gopher hunt, who remembers browsing the Vatican within days of NCSA Mosaic being released, and whose email address is still @ panix.com after 33 years, I'd love to hear you say more about that

@aram
Martin Gardner once said that the best way to learn about a subject was to see what people get wrong about it. So:

What do people get wrong about you?

[If that's too personal, what is the thing in your field that people are most wrong about now?]