Since I know he won’t see this, I went to the bathroom in a restaurant as Christopher Nolan was coming out and it smelled worse than anything I’ve ever smelled in my life. It wasn’t even a poop smell. It was like he was making compost in there. It was unreal.
there’s a musician joke: night of the big performance. the orchestra is all about to go on stage, but the conductor falls and smashes both his hands. he’s taken to an ambulance. all the musicians are standing in the wings, offstage, wondering: what now? the audience is waiting.
the second chair violinist is feeling brave. he knows this whole piece. all the parts. he steps to the front, to the concert director. he says: i can conduct this. the director says: alright. they all go on stage. the violinist goes up to the conductors podium. sweating. he starts. does the whole piece perfectly. standing ovation. the next day they all come in for rehearsal. the violinist is back in his second chair. the first chair turns to him and says, “hey man, where were you last night?”
Just a reminder that DOGE failed at every possible level:
* At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and already wasn't being renewed.
* At the macro level, they didn't impact spending at all. The government spent more in 2025 than 2024.
* At the institutional level, they didn't even convince the GOP that deficits are a problem worth caring about. The GOP only signature bill in 2025 exploded the deficit by trillions of dollars.
* At a personal level, Elon got run out of town with his tail between his legs. The most notable public facts about the Cracked Coders are that one of them was a mini-Hitler, one was called 'big balls', and none of them bothered to learn how the government actually works before they set it on fire.
They gutted a bunch of important institutions, fired whole departments at random, decimated medical research funding, killed millions of people dependent on USAID, and still failed at every possible level.
Lenovo has replaced the right control key on their otherwise-pretty-nice latest X1 Carbon (warranty replacement) with a copilot key. Fine. I won't begrudge some Microsoft PM "AI impact" in his self-review. But know what I do begrudge? The scancodes, plural.
See, the copilot key is defined to emit not only a new scancode (0x6e), understood as F23 key (which archeologists believed wasn't a real key, but a legendary signifier of excess), but also left shift and left meta (Windows key). When you type the copilot key, the PC firmware sends the machine left-shift-down left-meta-down f23-down f23-up left-meta-up left-shift-up.
That's a problem for remapping the copilot key back to right-control though. Even if we interpret 0x6e as right-control, we get a bunch of other modifiers we don't need along with, a press of copilot-r gets read as control-meta-shift-r, which is not what I want.
Why did they do this? I have no idea. 0x6e by itself would have sufficed to identify the new key. All the other neokeys that seemed like good ideas at the time got normal scancodes. F23 would have been fine. The scancode 0x6e is so uncommon Linux had to be patched to recognize it.
I'm determined to have a right control key, however, so now I run keyd to present a fake virtual keyboard to Wayland. Whenever it sees a left-shift-down or left-meta-down, it waits a few milliseconds to see whether an F23 has arrived. If it has, it synthesizes a right-control press. If it hasn't, it forwards the modifier presses.
Now there's a whole new stage in the input processing pipeline, and extra input latency, that exists solely because AI is so special that it demands not only a new key, but for that ceremonial key to be carried on a litter of modifier bits as it parades into the OS and commands that inference happen now.
You are one of the dumbest people on earth, my district is literally a majority white district. Your conspiracy theories are laughable and should have no place in a society that cares about facts.
BREAKING: A top oil company executive says Donald Trump "smelled like rotten roast beef" during his big White House meeting on Venezuela, he farted audibly no less than a dozen times, and he kept getting up to look at and compliment the nonexistent ballroom like he's senile.
Pluribus is not a great show in spite of its slow pace, but because of it. During the long moments of quiet, Vince Gilligan offers the viewer some time to browse their phone and check social media messages When the characters speak it’s time to look up. It’s genius.
1) yes, The Epstein Files have basically been true crime entertainment for six years
2) there’s no evidence or accusations of him trafficking toddlers, but people often need to pretend so in order to take the crimes seriously. Because what he actually did is groom teen girls for sex, and half the country aren’t quite sure it’s wrong for older men to pursue girls at “the most fertile age,” or if the concept of grooming even applies to heterosexuality
Just a heads up to my fellow MAGA posters on here, if you’re still supporting Trump 100%, it’s gonna be a tough fight as he does more 5D chess and completely contradicts everything he campaigned on. I don’t wanna alarm anybody but you’re gonna have to be prepared to suck his dick and eat his cum to prove your loyalty. Possibly also let him bust in your ass.
This patriot? I’m ready. Trusting the plan.