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.
Right now we need stories of the powerful taking it fully and cleanly in the nuts, so an A+ night start to finish.
posted at 9:18PM on February 9, 2025
Don't like football, but I fucking LOVE petty.
posted at 7:44PM on February 9, 2025
mea-culpa line I just wrote in an email: "I Jurrasic Parked this: too caught up in whether we could, didn't ask if we should."
posted at 8:24AM on February 9, 2025
Not me spending my Saturday night prepping some open records for publishing.
posted at 9:36PM on February 8, 2025
Hope one of those little Doge rats enjoyed watching me fill out the FAFSA right now.
posted at 4:45PM on February 8, 2025
Every day I check my Google Maps like it's some kind of fascist cole mine canary.
posted at 7:30PM on February 7, 2025
Fuck these fascists for ruining a chill Friday
posted at 6:14PM on February 7, 2025
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