NYPD has officers in the entity and various other imperial footholds (International Liaison Program), so evidently they can enter into obligations on behalf of the US and represent the US in foreign affairs.

Procession exdicator.

In five years time, “imagine a burger” will be too much to ask of Amerikkkans.

Theoretically a lot of this spend also comes with support contracts, and I expect even moving to a Linux flavor would have to, as well. The last public outfit I worked in was using RHEL as their path forward from big iron AIX, and even that only on the very particular piece of infrastructure I was working on, since it was a Windows shop. The licensing and support was definitely a better experience than M$, but I expect you’d be hard pressed to find a government who’d sign off on just deploying Mint on 5000 workstations and calling it a day. There’s also the enormous inertia of Windows sysadmins who only know how to do MDM and group policy and shit in AD with a GUI.

Looking forward to James Cameron becoming Jigsaw, based on this photo.

What makes a space telescope Roman, and why would they name it after that true crime demon?

The jury determined that the sandwich guy’s sandwiches lacked heft. Very sad.

The Bonegrinder says grinding the bones of starving children to powder is preferable to China something something.

Looking forward to the arch libertarians plucking out their own eyes in protest. Less looking forward to the AI psychosis victims maiming their families.

Not the most depressing long COVID graph I’ve seen this year, but definitely top 6.

Nobel Peace Prize. Hmm…

My brain short-circuited when I read “when out pasta pot boiled” and I thought this was an “of out hot eat the food” variation.

Undocumented side benefit: a 24 ton block of concrete can crush a lot of Teslas.

Ło1. Lmăű, eveñ.

The sound pandas make is called “bleating”. Make of that what you will.

Damn, Paris is so small compared to the Louvre.

Honhonhonor Among Thieves, coming autumn 2026.

It’s the Coindexter voice from TrueAnon, definitely.

I think not killing at least three toddlers in an accident is bad for their performance metrics.

DHH has been a Nazi since Basecamp, tbh. I think it just became more obvious as Rails (and, now, the entire Ruby ecosystem) became more and more central to his personality cult and pocketbook. I’m sure joining the Shopify board last year has only exacerbated the problem.