I mostly use it to monitor individual feeds for chatty, talkradio-esque mp3 files that I then download and play from my personal devices. I’ve taken to calling them “podcasts” ;)

Oy. Sadly, I suspect anybody who has worked in dev knows the outlines of this story: Management promising deliverables with unrealistic timelines and functionality; team leads with such poor internal product knowledge they don’t recognize catastrophic issues until it’s too late; poorly-trained devs squeezed to push out unscalable kludgy insecure nightmares “for now” that just never get addressed; systems gradually becoming a Jenga tower of manual workarounds and undocumented slapdash quick fixes… Ugh. Nightmare fuel.

I do hope this move results in more support for the IA/Wayback Machine and helps them to update some of their crawler tech — thanks to the rise of AI, some sites are effectively (thru captchas etc.) or actively (through straight-up greed [coughRedditcough]) blocked from being archived almost entirely, which is frustrating for legit archivists/contributors.

One person reportedly described the scene as “Graham on his worst TV day.”

So… hammered?

Funnier if it just funneled all requests to the GeoGuessr dude.

More than a dozen since 2020? Shit, I bet I’ve seen video documentation of more than a dozen incidents that deserve criminal charges this week.

I think a lot of U.S. politicians (as well as many civilians, frankly) are under the delusion that once Trump is out of office things will ‘return to normal’. That may have been true after his first term, but the landscape has shifted seismically since then. Thanks to MAGA, in a single year the U.S. has shit the bed in virtually every category of former dominance, and has effectively ceded its leadership position on the world stage. Trust is gone, alliances have been broken, and if Newsom et al. really believe things will be ‘business as usual’ ever again, their delusion is showing.

Heh…my only real memory of the film from viewing it back in the day is Liev Schreiber’s time-traveling character snickering at the word “erection”. Clearly I should rewatch it!

Terriers - excellent 2010 caper-style dramedy series starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James, created by the screenwriter behind “Oceans Eleven”. Relatable & endearing characters, compelling arcs, razor-sharp writing, wrapped in a noire detective plot set in sunny San Diego. Aired for just 13 eps on FX back in the day, only a couple of years before streaming platforms really hit big (and where it likely would have found its audience) and I’ve mourned “what could have been” ever since. Can’t recommend it enough, despite the final ep having a bit of a “lady or the tiger” ending. I urge you to seek it out.

Declining education levels and untreated mental health issues really are going to cook everybody, aren’t they? Good lord.