Electronic Panopticon

Welcome to the auto-erotic cannibalism phase of capitalism!

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Here's Lula celebrating tonight with Erika Hilton, a transgender politician who led the drive to end the six-day work week in Brazil. Erika showed workers solidarity, they showed her solidarity back. Solidarity is how fascism loses.

Nancy 10/13/26

Mood

Red Robin’s new menu was clearly designed by ai. Fries missing from the burger section. Dips blended into one line so that the wait staff had to explain that no, that wasn’t one item.

Wasn’t quite ready to share this the other day, but I have just published FIVE new Hensel arrangements for strings, including four versions of Die frühen Gräber… some for real sicko low strings ensembles (4 cellos and contrabass, anyone?)

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

It’s a rigged casino.

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Most aristocratic gold isn't in wigs or tiny cakes — that's just a few % of it. Most is productive bread capital: bakeries that employ people, bake baguettes & fund baguette research. Redistribute that gold & you're punishing aristocrats that feed us all. Soon-to-be-a-foot-shorter Louis XVI explains

VIA jake_explains A lot of graphs have gone off the rails since 1971 That was the year that President Nixon broke the link between dollar & gold, completely changing how money works ...as a result, quality of life for everyone has trended in the wrong direction #money #inflation #usa #economics

‘They were brilliant people’: fascinating film reveals a Harlem Renaissance reunion In the dazzling archival documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem, a 1972 cocktail party brings together various creative luminaries as they discuss and debate www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

A good way to tell you’re in Hell is if Authenticator is your phone’s top suggested app.

When you have wealth, you want power. When you have power, you want wealth. When you have both, you want to live forever and be God. That’s when you’re f—ked. My interview with @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Went to Burlington Coat Factory. Was stopped at the entrance by a an employee in ICE Cosplay labeled LOSS PREVENTION. Asked to individually stop for a face scan before being let in. 1 person at register with line of 10 people waiting. Other staff busy checking at the door. Left cart and bailed.

A somewhat hammered ORSON WELLES getting some bloopers in whilst shooting a commercial for Paul Masson ‘Champagne’ in 1978.

Specifying that this needs to be in person in Berkeley CA

I hate how good this is.

I am hopeful that years from now the jurisprudence of Samuel Alito is pushed to the same corners as Plessy and Korematsu. His notion that “religious freedom” requires elevating a brand of Christianity above criticism turns the First Amendment on its head. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...

Ecosia has a much deeper problem than which text fabrication engine they're using - they're fundamentally driving a shift towards more wasteful, bloated and inefficient digital existence and they continue to refuse to disclose any meaningful information

Seeing people joke about software engineering in the wake of Margaret Hamilton's death. Obviously there's a difference between what's largely euphemised as software engineering presently and the discipline she strove to create.

Farewell to Margaret Hamilton, legendary programmer and the antithesis of every ship-it-and-see-what-breaks code bro out there.

Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time.

the true moral of this nasa story is this: if you present anything as a choice to management, be it testing or other safety critical work, they will see it as optional, and will default to saying no doing anything more than the minimum best practice means taking more responsibilities for delays

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

“They have had to forge for themselves an art of living in times of catastrophe in order to be born a second time and to fight openly against the instinct of death at work in our history.”

Holy shit.

Always thinking |5| moves ahead.

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

On October 1, 1970, Janis Joplin walked into Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles and recorded “Mercedes Benz,” an a cappella performance that would become the final studio recording of her life. 🕯️💖🕊️ 🌹

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Anything is high risk if you do it dumb enough

Every day we get closer to this:

I'm afraid everything in this article will be familiar to everyone who has ME/CFS (or Long Covid) - and much of it will be familiar to everyone who has any chronic illness. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They were denied opportunities because men can “handle the pressure better.” Another popular trope is the man who only seems to hear a good idea when another man says it. www.wired.com/story/women-...