Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.
So the reporting I'd love to see is why, seemingly out of thin air, USAID became the far right's big bad. Maybe I don't pay enough attention (jfc) but like... it wasn't a talking point during the campaign. That first week it wasn't a priority. But now??? Now they say every bad thing rolls up to it.
posted at 9:25AM on February 7, 2025
Hear ye hear ye, another meeting of the Insomnia Club is called to order.
posted at 4:28AM on February 7, 2025
At my most optimistic, I just don't think they can sustain this.
posted at 6:42PM on February 6, 2025
ProPublica has launched a handy tracker to keep tabs on who's who among Musk's little fash goons projects.propublica.org/elon-musk...
posted at 4:53PM on February 6, 2025
Imagine if billions of dollars HAD been stolen to fund left wing news media. Imagine.
posted at 11:40AM on February 6, 2025
All journalists should work through this very good security checklist from Freedom of the Press Foundation. freedom.press/digisec/b...
posted at 7:09AM on February 6, 2025
Small news orgs that are suddenly on the receiving end of gov documents might want to acquaint themselves with Secure Drop. securedrop.org (Which in another lifetime I gave early funding to.)
posted at 7:04AM on February 6, 2025
Nobody has ever been as good at something as my dog is at finding and eating shit that will kill her off the ground
posted at 8:03PM on February 5, 2025
I hate all of this for us.
posted at 5:43PM on February 5, 2025
So any 20-year-old self-styled 10x engineer operating today is largely writing code with a lot of help from ChatGPT so like... that feels like a whole hell of a lot of data security issues not even being remotely addressed rn
posted at 1:25PM on February 5, 2025
Lots of new folks here reading & sharing my stuff. Thank you!! I'd love to ask you to follow along by subscribing. It's free and fun. Or something. dansinker.com/follow/
posted at 11:20AM on February 5, 2025
Everything was so shit that I forgot Paczki Day was today. Absolute failure.
posted at 10:14PM on February 4, 2025
Absolutely raced to do it. Have to be completely thrilled to stop doing the bare-ass minimum level of lip service.
posted at 8:53PM on February 4, 2025
You blow up the department of education for one reason: you want to resegregate the schools.
posted at 7:41PM on February 4, 2025
little fash dipshits
posted at 3:01PM on February 4, 2025
this bigass box of Girl Scout Cookies that just arrived might be the only good thing left rn
posted at 2:40PM on February 4, 2025
Everything has gone to shit, but at least we have Insomnia Club. Welcome.
posted at 3:54AM on February 4, 2025
Can someone get me back to the Sinbad Shazam universe please?
posted at 10:52PM on February 3, 2025
What if you're always angry but can't turn into the Hulk, what then.
posted at 7:51PM on February 3, 2025
Dreaming of the day that I don't have to think about Elon Musk and his little fash dipshits.
posted at 5:23PM on February 3, 2025