Shadow

I am a sample size of one. Not statistically significant, nor representative.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

These guys are so corrupt they can’t even allow this event like this to go off without trying to make a buck on it. How many times has Eric does something like this and gotten away with it? Just so telling.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I can't believe we are still doing this.

Underage voters: This is flatly false. Georgia's Secretary of State investigated this claim by comparing the full list of people who voted against their birthdays. The audit revealed there were zero underage voters in the 2020 election. Raffensperger stated directly: "They said there were 66,000 underage voters. There were zero."

Dead voters: Vastly overstated. State officials investigated this and found a total of two instances of a deceased person's name being used to cast a ballot. "Usually, that's somebody who died recently, and a family member votes with [the name]," a state official noted, adding that such a handful of cases is consistent with every election.

Felons illegally voting: Significantly exaggerated. The Trump campaign alleged 2,056 felons voted illegally. Georgia officials said they were investigating a total of 74 potential felons who may have cast ballots. When Georgia's State Election Board referred cases for prosecution, among them were just four incidents of felons voting or registering to vote in the 2020 general election.

2,423 not registered to vote: Also false. Raffensperger specifically addressed this: "They said that there were 2,423 non-registered voters. There were zero."

1,043 voted via PO box: This claim conflates voter registration addresses with actual fraud. Having a P.O. box associated with a registration record is not itself illegal, and investigators found no evidence of fraudulent voting tied to P.O. boxes. A state audit examining this issue found no proof of fraudulent ballots.

4,926 voted after registration: This claim has also been investigated and found to be based on data mismatches — primarily clerical errors in dates, data entry issues, or voters who were already on the rolls and whose records were updated after the election. No credible evidence of people actually voting before being registered was found.

395 voted multiple states: This claim was based on matching names and partial data across state lines — a notoriously unreliable method that generates false positives. Investigators found no substantiated cases of double-voting that would have affected the outcome.

40,279 voted after moving counties: This one has the most merit and actually is the hardest to part, but it's largely a misunderstanding of the law. Georgia election officials have repeatedly said they found no credible examples of election fraud related to address changes. Critically, federal law is directly relevant here: the National Voter Registration Act explicitly states that a state cannot remove a voter from the rolls on the ground that they changed residence unless the registrant confirms in writing that they moved outside the jurisdiction. In other words, voters who have moved but haven't updated their registration are often still legally entitled to cast a ballot in their former jurisdiction under federal law.

Sworn affidavits: Yes, they exist. Affidavits allege but do not prove. The point of an affidavit is for a court to review it. Courts reviewed these extensively. Trump's legal team's challenges were repeatedly rejected in court, with one judge writing that plaintiffs presented "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations... unsupported by evidence."

So, yes, cool list. All B.S. Also, btw, all super old (we knew most of this 4-6 years ago).

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@SuperNikoPower Get better soon

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Back in the early 90s, before the Internet, we had "Defrag and Chill". You'd start Disk Defragmenter on your 540MB hard drive, dim the lights, crack open a Surge, and just vibe while the little blue bars crawled across the screen like they were solving world peace. Forty-five minutes of pure, unfiltered anticipation. No notifications. No algorithms. Just the two of you, the gentle grinding of the hard drive, and the sacred promise that your Solitaire games were about to feel 3% snappier.

This is MS_DOS 6.22, which I worked on, but I honestly have no idea who wrote defrag. Iconic utility though!

[beeple @beeple]

DISTRACTION-MAXXING

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

The Secretary of State just said the War Powers Act is unconstitutional. He is deliberately misleading the American people.

The constitution says: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy.”

This is about leading forces, not deciding to start wars unilaterally. Congress has a role to decide IF we go to war. The president has the power to decide HOW we fight it.

You don’t get to rewrite Article I, Section 8 just because you don’t like it, @marcorubio.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

There’s a famous Usenet story about a programmer (Mel) who refused higher level abstractions.

It was the late 1950s, and even in that era, Mel was…well today we’d call him a boomer.

Mel only wrote in raw hexadecimal. He didn’t approve of compilers, and refused to use optimizing assemblers.

"You never know where it's going to put things”, he said.

Everyone else in the company was moving on to FORTRAN, and they didn’t understand why Mel was so stubborn about using new tools. He *loved* self-modifying code.

“If a program can’t rewrite its own code”, he asked, “what good is it?”

Mel eventually left the company, and other engineers were tasked with understanding what was left.

Mel’s hand-optimized routines always beat the assemblers; but some of it looked absolutely bizarre.

One engineer took ~2 weeks to understand why there were loops with no exit condition…yet the program worked fine.

I won’t spoil all the details, you should really read it, it’s short. But it’s a fantastic piece on “what defines a real programmer?”…which is becoming increasingly relevant in this vibe-coded era.

I strive to understand computers as deeply as Mel! If we aren’t careful, we’re going to lose the “Mels” of this world to time.

That’s part of why I go so deep in my youtube videos. I hope that younger viewers are genuinely fascinated by the inner workings of our machines, instead of handing everything off to higher abstractions.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

When you read the actual stories behind each dollar, it gets even more absurd https://t.co/a1DdwHmzJL

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

🤬

[beeple @beeple]

we're tired too...

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

You won't hear a better 55-second description of MAGA and Trump than this: in terms of the perspective of any minimally honest MAGA supporter:

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@mejashtv Placation and a two week ceasefire aside, do you find this message acceptable?

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@mejashtv It is an unhinged statement. Why does Donald Trump get a pass when no other elected official would?

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

The disconnect between Hegseth's demeanor when sharing this anecdote and the general posture most normie Americans have toward war is so vast it's really hard to put into words. 98% of them won't ever see this clip but if they did, they'd really hate it

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

And for those who told me "it's not about the oil. The USA has all the oil it needs".

Please🙄.

Trump undercuts his supporters before they know they're supposed to be changing the narrative (again).

And this is straight-up stealing and open 19th century style colonialism.

[News On 6 @NewsOn6]

More than 3,500 U.S. troops, including the USS Tripoli with about 2,500 Marines, arrived in the Middle East, officials announced Saturday, as strikes in the Iran war intensified.

The U.S. Central Command said in a social media post that the USS Tripoli, which serves as the flagship for the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group / 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, arrived in its area of responsibility.

Find out more here: https://t.co/6uxEBbnvPM

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

This skit from 2007 was 2 decades ahead of its time

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I feel like I'm going crazy. You are a United States Senator. You don't have to plead with Israel on X. You can get offline, actually vote to take some of your power back, and then have a say!

[beeple @beeple]

AGI IS BORN

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,