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sigwinch··on Bannon Claims 'There Is a Plan' for Trump to Run for a Third Term
Seems like it’s fraud to raise donations using the slogan “Trump 2028”, but that’s Bannon for ya.
sigwinch··on Pentagon Announces 'Next Generation' Press Corps
It’ll be changed in US Code, by Congress. Right now, Hegseth is actually Secretary of Defense.
sigwinch··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
If you asked Donald Trump about the “beautiful” Watergate office complex, what would he say? If you asked him which commentator on Fox News might be most familiar with Iran-Contra, would he know? His reaction to being given power is to test it. Gerald Ford is not goading him into this.
sigwinch··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Trump is the kind of actor who will explore the entire space of pardons; the history of this does not matter. He does not know the path-dependency of what will be tolerated.
sigwinch··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Trademark Curtis Yarvin
sigwinch··on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
Historically, Ubuntu was a good choice if you were releasing a licensed OS, with minimal customization, that needed CUDA more than, say, Vixie cron.
sigwinch··on Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players
I’m expecting some pardons will shape the expectation that this all could have been avoided with strategic political donations. In this era, what would you accept as a substitution for accountability?
sigwinch··on Private equity is sitting on $5T of existential dread
Only some fringe definitions meet that. Maybe Adam Smith and Stiglitz. I deeply wish more westerners talked about Adam Smith and Stiglitz. But modern definitions of capitalism omit the words people, public, and welfare.
sigwinch··on So I Was the Victim of a SIM-Swap Attack
A post by “Bender” says robots are less bribable than humans. Bender probably takes a bribe in every season.
sigwinch··on Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
And certainly, upstarts and social challenges to incumbent tobacconists would be met with regulations.
sigwinch··on Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
More probably a distraction from the emergence of his name in Epstein’s case.
sigwinch··on Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump's Immigration Force
It’s interesting to consider how leaky and penetrated Salesforce is; holding a table of candidates for deportation agent roles. People who would need to fill out SF-86 and answer whether they’re banned from gun ownership.
sigwinch··on Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump's Immigration Force
If he wants his newfound conservatism to be taken seriously, words like “ohana” are counterproductive. The goal is to (at last) build investor confidence. Join x, be mean and “edgy”.
sigwinch··on Wireguard FPGA
I feel like fans of `mosh` would run with this.
sigwinch··on American solar farms
I’m not sure land is the controlling factor. Look at current fuel mix: the upper Midwest is mostly coal, with all its disadvantages. How was it possible for Iowa, South Dakota, and Kansas to choose wind?
sigwinch··on German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters
But in terms of the classical liberal movement to control markets, the stuff before the neolibs.
sigwinch··on Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally
Panels can endure hail as well as cars and roofs, so we’re talking catastrophic hail; where we’ve seen economic losses as bad as tornadoes.

So, I’d worry about wind wrecking and broadly casting those slivers.

Rather than pick them up, maybe consider further crushing them into the ground. While that’s not good for farmland, the area under the plume of a coal plant is already broadly contaminated.

sigwinch··on Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally
Bingo. Fermenting (up to) 200 bushels is also a point source for significant CO2. Though you get 1.5t of material for animal feed.
sigwinch··on Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally
Nah, burning an entire field of panels produces less heavy metal contamination than a day of coal.
sigwinch··on We Found a Hidden Camera in the Bathroom of Our Airbnb
Host has submitted video of you planting a camera.
sigwinch··on AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
I’ll match your bet and raise you https://archive.ph/loAPz
sigwinch··on We Found a Hidden Camera in the Bathroom of Our Airbnb
Earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543146

sigwinch··on Biden Spared 37 Killers from Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment
He campaigned on ending the Federal death penalty, because it was cruel and impractical. In particular, toward the end of the previous administration, a rush to execute seemed to lack civil honor or religious circumspection.
sigwinch··on Help! We Found a Hidden Camera in the Bathroom of Our Airbnb.
Still, the incentive should provoke the owner to sweep for cameras, maybe change the WiFi password. That house cannot be rented until the problem is fixed.
sigwinch··on US unveils design for $1 Trump coin to mark 250th independence
Will accepting or refusing to accept it be complicated? If the 1866 law says no US currency features a living person, that’s pretty clear. Would accepting it be a statement of support, or a statement that he’s no longer living?
sigwinch··on Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming
The fastest I’ve seen the US Congress move lately was in relation to revenge porn. Lightning speed when something from a dim corner of the Internet can affect the real lives of their relatives.
sigwinch··on Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming
In a workplace, signs proclaiming “recording devices are in use” relate to implied consent. I think maybe things are different in workplace bathrooms?
sigwinch··on Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report
Years ago, I was introduced to a “what would Elon do?” assistant. Execs want to know what their (current or hypothetical) competition would do given their decision-support data. But they also want to know what a consult-assistant cutout would know.

(This was long before his political achievements)

sigwinch··on Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report
These are good examples.

1. Since tax prep is siloed away from development, you don’t know what you don’t know about your company’s tax and regulatory posture. You as a product owner don’t know how it compares with the industry. You don’t know the space of ways it can change.

2. But then, when they find that your development floor looks like everyone else, it’s less than profound. This analysis is most valuable to the outliers; maybe a company that’s merged and bought smaller ones and as a result needs to be told that they’re out of shape.

sigwinch··on Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report
That’s a kind of due diligence theater. In particular, managers want to know what their competitors’ engineers would recommend, which is the best static advice consultants say they can give.
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