Larry

Husband. Father. Engineer. Math geek. Science aficionado. Christ-follower. Happy to engage in civil debate with reasonable people.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Some personal news:

Yesterday was my last day at Microsoft.

Today, I started a brand new job at the FAA and things are going pretty well!

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

BREAKING: Three days ago, the FAA rolled out its "SMART" system nationwide. That stands for "Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories."

The SMART system is "a cloud-based system that centralizes 200 data streams — weather patterns, flight paths, traffic flow, and controller staffing metrics — into one platform, synthesizing them to predict congestion before it builds."

It is designed to reduce delays, cut fuel consumption, and improve the travel experience. 😂 So far, not going so great...

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

For anyone confused about what’s happening with flights in America right now...

Basically every airport in the United States is frozen tonight, because at 3:54 p.m. Eastern on Friday the FAA’s command center put out an advisory titled “National Ground Stop,” ordering that departing flights stay on the ground until further notice “for reasons of safety,” and to understand how we got here you have to go back about 45 minutes earlier, when Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway suddenly got ground stops for what the FAA called an “equipment outage,” and air traffic control audio out of Chicago reportedly had controllers saying they were close to “ATC zero,” which is the term for when controllers literally cannot talk to or manage the planes, and Delta dispatch was apparently warning crews about frequency outages across the country, and then it spread, until Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted that the problem was hitting ALL of the Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which are the 22 big regional facilities that handle planes once they’re up above 18,000 feet cruising between cities, so the part of the system that talks to planes mid-flight basically went quiet, and the FAA’s official explanation right now is a “temporary telecommunications outage,” and they say every flight in the air has been accounted for, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says there’s no sign yet of anything “nefarious” but that they aren’t ruling anything out, and CNN reports law enforcement officials preliminarily say it wasn’t a cyberattack, but here’s the part that should bother everyone, this is only the THIRD nationwide ground stop in American history, the first was 9/11, and the second was January 2023, when one corrupted file took down the pilot alert system and it turned out the backup had the EXACT SAME bad file, and three years later we’re back here again with an aging system that Washington let rot through administration after administration while spending money on just about everything else, and yes, some people are already rushing to blame the FAA’s new AI congestion tool, but nobody has shown any connection, so maybe we wait for actual facts this time, and meanwhile the stop has reportedly been pushed out to 11:30 p.m. Eastern, FlightAware is showing thousands of delays, and travelers are stuck at gates on a Friday night with no idea when they’re leaving, so basically you have a Chicago glitch, 22 centers losing comms, a nationwide ground stop with no clear end, and a system everyone has been warning about for decades, which is roughly where American air travel is tonight.

[战斗室 @7warroom]

名嘴史蒂芬·A·史密斯在专访里满脸狐疑，准备看川普怎么在少数族裔议题上自夸。

川普没跟他绕弯子，直接从兜里掏出一张手写清单。
“我自己写了一份单子。”
史密斯当场叫板：“你念出来。”
川普回得极干脆：“只要你时间够，我全念完。”

单子一抖开，全是硬账。
第一句提刑事司法改革，史密斯只能点头：“这你确实做了。”
紧接着就是实打实的拨款。
传统黑人大学（HBCU）濒临破产时，川普任内直接给了一笔4.38亿美元的创纪录救济款。
到了2026年9月，他又亲自批准追加1.74亿。
两年下来，超出常规拨款额度的资金超过6.12亿美元。
川普原话挑明：这笔钱，民主党从头阻挠到尾。

除了拨钱，2025年4月他签署行政令，把被移走的黑人大学项目迁回白宫，重新设立大学校长组成的顾问委员会。
再到“川普账户”计划，给黑人新生儿直接注入1000美元政府启动资金进入股市，拉平资产代际鸿沟。
川普念完补了一刀：这项法案，民主党全员投了反对票。

整张清单念了足足几分钟。
对面的史密斯从原本的将信将疑，听到最后表情凝固，一句话都接不上。
主流叙事塑造了几十年的道德高地，被一张写满数字的手写单当面击碎。
面对这些真金白银的底册，所有包装出来的政治标签都落了空。

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Look at the contempt in the eyes of the civil servants. They are stunned that they’re being questioned “why can’t a combat engineer change a lightbulb?”.

This is an example of why we know government spending is the most wasteful and unproductive use of funds in the economy.

Hard working people pay a fortune in tax so these bureaucrats can cook up insane spending programs.

If you’re a tax payer, watch this video and consider how little they care about the money they take from you.

[Sougat Chakraborty @sougat18]

On Microsoft Outage

[Comrade Misty is Putin’s Buddy @SarcasmStardust]

Carl Sagan warned us about this decades ago.

[Stepsen 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @stepsenmccool]

😳😳

I am afraid this man is absolutely right and there is a huge problem coming our way.

😱

[Larry @MrStreamline]

Apparently @Microsoft made an update that switched all my files to OneDrive, and then started uploading everything on my computer, bogging down my network connection! I don’t want all my files on OneDrive! What are you doing!!!

[Pensare Basketball @PensareBBall]

I feel for Steph Curry.

It cannot be easy watching your wife become the punchline of so many lewd jokes.

And while I understand his instinct to defend her, I wanted to address something that has bothered me about Ayesha Curry's public conduct over the past two years, and why I believe Steph, despite his admirable intentions, has fundamentally misunderstood the criticism.

First, a few things worth establishing.

I don't believe men should control their partners' career decisions, dictate their ambitions, or police their public speaking engagements. I'm also a film director who has directed 13 films, so I'm well aware that actors sometimes have to kiss other actors. It's part of the profession. Anyone scandalized by that fact probably doesn't understand the profession very well.

But my criticism has very little to do with the kiss itself.

It has to do with something considerably more troubling: the increasingly blurred distinction between autonomy and vanity, between ambition and envy, and between the pursuit of one's own greatness and the resentment of someone else's.

And despite Steph's valiant efforts to defend his wife, I suspect he may look back on this period ten years from now and feel rather differently.

Let's start with the film.

Part of the reason people are mocking it is that it looks like AI slop in human form. A lazy script, dreadful lighting, uninspired cinematography, recycled plotlines, and acting that oscillates between bland and genuinely uncomfortable.

Anyone insisting that Ayesha Curry deserves to be taken seriously as an actor on the strength of this performance needs to have their head examined.

But the film itself is almost beside the point.

To me, it represents a recurring theme in Ayesha Curry's public persona over the past two years: vanity masquerading as autonomy.

And there's an important distinction between the two.

On Red Table Talk, Ayesha spoke about wanting more male attention and validation, particularly in the context of the enormous attention her husband receives from women.

Now, I don't pretend to know the inner workings of their marriage. But I do find the psychology of that admission revealing.

Because beneath the desire for validation lies a potentially destructive belief: that the admiration your partner receives somehow diminishes your own worth.

That love is a competition. That attention is a finite resource. That one person's ascent necessarily represents another person's descent.

Nietzsche might have recognized in this the beginnings of ressentiment: the tendency to measure oneself against another person's success, and eventually to experience that success not as something to celebrate, but as an indictment of one's own inadequacy.

And this is where I believe the distinction between genuine independence and performative independence becomes critical.

On Call Her Daddy, Ayesha spoke about her ambitions to be a career woman and how marriage and motherhood altered the trajectory she had imagined for herself.

There is nothing inherently wrong with that admission. Plenty of people struggle to reconcile the lives they imagined with the lives they ultimately chose.

But when placed alongside her earlier comments, a recurring sentiment begins to emerge:

"I'm more than just Steph Curry's wife."

And of course she is.

But here's the question: Why does being Steph Curry's wife need to be framed as something to overcome?

Why must proximity to greatness become a burden rather than a blessing?

Why must an identity be established in opposition to the very person one has chosen to love?

There is something profoundly unhealthy about treating your partner's extraordinary achievements as an obstacle to your own self-realization.

And I suspect this is why so many people, including those in the so-called manosphere, have rallied to Steph's defense.

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[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Hasan Piker hits a wall when he tries to tell a man born in the Soviet Union that Americans are just as controlled as people under communism.

Konstantin Kisin shuts down the comparison and lays out the difference.

When he’s done, even Piker admits he’s right.

HASAN PIKER: “A lot of people think, well, as long as I can eat a Big Mac, you know, as long as I can watch TV, as long as I can consume porn [...] then, you know, things are probably fine.”

“It’s a different mechanism of control that makes you think that you are actually an active participant in this.”

Kisin isn’t buying it.

KONSTANTIN KISIN: “The difference between those countries is not that they can’t eat a Big Mac.”

“The difference is that if they criticize the government, in Russia today even, but of course in the Soviet Union previously, you’re going to get killed, right? In America, that’s not what happens, right? In America, you don’t get put in jail.”

HASAN PIKER: “We don’t know yet.”

That’s his whole defense: what MIGHT happen in America.

So Kisin makes it personal.

KONSTANTIN KISIN: “You in China or in the Soviet Union would be killed if you were critical of that regime.”

HASAN PIKER: “I would definitely be jailed, for sure.”

And there it is. Piker makes Kisin’s argument for him.

KONSTANTIN KISIN: “So that’s the difference between these countries and America. It’s not a Big Mac, it’s freedom.”

Only in a free country can you build a career telling people they aren’t free.

CONTEXT: Communist regimes don’t just jail their critics.

Under Stalin, the Soviet secret police executed 681,692 people in two years, by the regime’s own records. That’s more than 900 a day.

Under Mao, the Great Leap Forward killed at least 45 million people in four years, per historian Frank Dikötter.

Under Pol Pot, nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population was dead within four years.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

David Robinson was the first pick in the 1987 NBA draft and he did not play a game until 1989, because he had a job.

He was a lieutenant junior grade in the United States Navy.

He turned up at the Naval Academy in 1983 at six foot seven.

The height limit for a midshipman at the time was six foot six.

The Superintendent of the Naval Academy signed a waiver so that he could come in anyway.

Then he kept growing. By his second year he was seven feet. He finished at seven foot one.

At seven feet he could no longer serve as an unrestricted line officer, which is the job that puts you on a ship. The Navy had admitted a man by waiver who was now too tall to go to sea on one.

He had a way out. He could have left the academy, transferred somewhere else, sat out a year and been in the NBA in 1988.

He stayed.

The Secretary of the Navy at the time, John Lehman, worked out an arrangement. The five year commitment every graduate owes was cut to two years of active duty.

So San Antonio used the number one pick in the entire draft on a 21 year old who was contractually unavailable until the fall of 1989, and then waited for him.

He spent those two years at the submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia, as assistant resident officer in charge of construction.

Jos Joseph of We Are The Mighty got him talking about that posting years afterward, and the piece of it he reached for first was not the submarines or the base or the uniform.

"Doing street lights for a new community."

He had not even been a starter as a freshman at Navy. He averaged 7.6 points that year.

Over the next three he won 82 games and was named the best player in college basketball.

He got to the Spurs in the fall of 1989, at 24, two years behind everybody drafted with him.

He was the rookie of the year. He played fourteen seasons, all of them in San Antonio, and he is in the Hall of Fame.

They call him the Admiral, which was never his rank. He left the Navy as a lieutenant junior grade and he has never once corrected anybody about it.

He has been asked ever since what the Navy gave a man who would have been fine without it, and the answer has not moved in all that time.

"The number-one lesson was the importance of teamwork."

"There's just such a pride in working together and serving a cause bigger than yourself."

Today is Veterans Day. The best college basketball player in America spent the two years after his draft running construction jobs on a submarine base in Georgia, because he had said he would.

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Passion of the Christ Actor Jim Caviezel Calls Abortion America’s “Great Sin” https://t.co/otxaJuJUo3

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Biden staffer found guilty after telling jury he only dismembered his wife, but didn’t kill her
https://t.co/4f8lYsC4ku

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

A whopping 64% of D.C. bus riders do not pay the fare ... so they're going to raise the price
https://t.co/I58D8WNr80

[Alex Hollings @AlexHollings52]

Now seems like a good time to remind people that a bit over ten years ago, China compromised a network of CIA sources, hunted them down, and executed them.

https://t.co/JlyENCR2Hf

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

The funniest way America has dealt with Chinese spies is by putting them in a real version of the Truman Show.

[dre @OnBallSteph]

Steph Curry ranks 99th in minutes per game (28.6), but 2nd in points per game (30.6) this season.

The greatest 38-year-old player in NBA history.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, please pray for the entire Kirk family, who learned they'll wait until at least June 2028 for justice, news likely made doubly painful by remarks about Charlie this week that are beneath contempt.

On the “I’ve Had It” podcast, so-called culture commentators Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughed at the idea of digging up Charlie’s body and “doing it again.”

Then Dave Chappelle told a sold-out Madison Square Garden that “life got better” after Charlie was murdered, and that Charlie is now “looking up, laughing so hard he can’t breathe.”

I have often defended comedians, and I understand that pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable is part of the gig. But this is different.

This is laughing at the murder of a young husband and father of two small children, who was killed with a microphone in his hand, inviting those who disagreed with him into honest, respectful dialogue. Shame on you.

There have always been people in the fever swamps who cheer when someone dies. What is new is that it now comes from the main stage and is met with applause.

How did we get here?

This is what a culture looks like when it drifts away from God. Remove God, and with him any sense of the transcendent and the sacred, our objective sense of what is true and good is left in ruins.

What remains is relativism, “my truth” and “your truth,” and finally a game of power: my team against yours. In a world like that, a man's death can become a punchline.

Charlie understood this cultural disease and spent much of his life trying to heal it. It's why he went onto hostile campuses to sit with young people, many of them unmoored and unaffiliated, and make the case for God, for truth, and for a moral order beyond themselves. He listened patiently, argued charitably, and spoke openly about Jesus Christ.

It is my hope, then, that many more will take up this vital part of Charlie's work.

[바울이 @kaleumeleu37968]

여섯번째 생존법.

재난이나 전시 상황에 도시를 탈출(Bug Out)하려던 사람들의 80%는 목적지에 도착하기도 전에 길 위에서 죽습니다.

영화 속 주인공들은 차를 타고 유유히 교외로 빠져나가 시골 은신처에 도착하지만, 현실의 피난길은 가장 처참한 약탈과 조난의 무덤입니다.

이번 사례는 우크라이나와 러시아를 참고했습니다.

문명이 붕괴하는 순간, 도시를 벗어나기 위해 반드시 알아야 할 5대 피난·탈출 생존 철칙입니다.

1. 재난 터지자마자 차를 몰고 고속도로로 나가지 마라

재난 사이렌이 울리는 순간, 수백만 명이 동시에 차를 끌고 나옵니다. 도심 주요 간선도로와 고속도로는 1시간 안에 '움직이지 않는 거대한 철창'으로 변합니다.
- 도로가 막히면 유턴도, 후진도 불가능합니다.
- 히터를 틀다 연료가 바닥나면, 영하의 도로 한가운데에 버려진 금속 관 속에 갇히는 꼴이 됩니다.
- 차량 탈출은 재난 경보 후 '단 1~2시간 이내'에 도시 외곽을 완전히 통과할 수 있을 때만 유효합니다. 그 타이밍을 놓쳤다면 차라리 튼튼한 오토바이, 산악자전거, 또는 도보가 10배 안전합니다.

2. 밀리터리 전술 배낭을 메는 순간 당신은 1순위 표적이 된다

카키색, 카모플라주 무늬의 몰리(MOLLE) 전술 배낭에 전투화를 신고 나서는 것은, 약탈자들에게 "내 가방에 비싼 생존 장비와 비상식량이 가득하다"고 광고하는 자살행위입니다.
- 극한의 혼란 속에서는 누구의 눈에도 띄지 않는 '회색 인간(Gray Man)'이 되어야 합니다.
- 낡고 평범한 학생용 백팩, 허름한 스포츠 가방, 때 묻은 비닐 쇼핑백에 장비를 나누어 담으세요.
- 겉모습은 누구보다 가난하고 절박해 보여야 약탈자의 표적에서 벗어납니다.

3. '시골 친척 집'이라는 막연한 탈출은 노숙자로 가는 지름길이다

미리 연료, 식량, 방어 수단을 완벽하게 비축해 둔 '검증된 베이스캠프'가 없다면 무작정 도시를 떠나지 마세요.
- 평소 연락도 없던 시골 친척이나 지인의 집은 당신의 피난처가 되어주지 않습니다. 그곳 사람들도 이미 자원 고갈과 침입자 공포로 극도로 예민해져 있습니다.
- 연고도 없는 시골로 향하는 것은 스스로 자원이 고갈된 채 길거리 노숙자가 되겠다는 선언입니다.
- 확실한 목적지와 도달 경로, 예비 루트(Plan B)가 없다면 무리하게 길을 나서지 마세요.

4. 가장 강력한 탈출 무기는 총이 아니라 '신발과 양말'이다

피난길에서 당신을 살리는 것은 고가의 장비가 아니라 당신의 '발'입니다. 도로가 마비되면 결국 수십 킬로미터를 걸어야 합니다.
- 평소 신지 않던 새 등산화나 군화를 신으면 5km도 못 가 발뒤꿈치가 까지고 물집이 터져 그 자리에 주저앉게 됩니다.
- 완전히 발에 길들여진 편안한 트레킹화나 러닝화를 신으세요.
- 그리고 반드시 '여분의 울(양모) 양말 3켤레'와 물집 방지용 바셀린, 테이프를 챙기세요. 발이 망가지는 순간 당신은 이동력을 잃고 그 자리에서 낙오자가 됩니다.

5. 골든타임 2시간을 놓쳤다면, 탈출을 포기하고 실내를 요새화하라

재난 발생 직후 2시간이 지나면 도로는 패닉에 빠진 군중, 버려진 차량, 경찰의 바리케이드로 아수라장이 됩니다. 이때 뒤늦게 짐을 싸서 거리로 뛰쳐나가는 것은 무법지대 한복판에 맨몸으로 뛰어드는 짓입니다.
- 초반 골든타임을 놓쳤다면, 무리한 탈출을 포기하고 즉시 집 안으로 후퇴(Bug In)하세요.
- 문과 창문을 굳게 걸어 잠그고, 물을 최대한 받아두며, 초기 72시간의 대혼란과 군중 패닉이 가라앉을 때까지 조용히 숨죽이고 버텨야 합니다.
- 탈출은 도로의 혼란이 정리되고 군경의 통제가 시작되거나, 혼란이 진정된 이후에 시도해도 늦지 않습니다.

최고의 탈출은 영웅처럼 길을 뚫는 것이 아니라, 군중의 패닉에 휩쓸리지 않는 냉정함입니다. 가족의 안전을 위해 이 글을 북마크해 두세요.