Stay-at-home dad. Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration.
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Last Notes npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith FWIW, my Covid posture now is no meals in restaurants and masking in crowded stores. I’m back to taking a CO2 meter with me sometimes. Rates have climbed a lot in the past few weeks. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1hvd…9sq9 I don't know why I find it so surprising to see her coloring upside down, but I do! npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1hvd…9sq9 FWIW, generators remain vastly cheaper than batteries (I regret). A battery that can power a heat pump for very long is a particularly expensive battery. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith So *now* can we have a 13-member SCOTUS? npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I’m having a heck of a hard time cutting the top of a post for a set of porch steps. My miter saw isn’t big enough for the 5” post diameter, and matching up two cuts is really tricky. This would be trivial with the right saw, but is surprisingly difficult without. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Tractor Supply's amazingly regressive stance—it's as if Trump or Musk had taken over the company—is the result of a boycott from the far right, including Libs of TikTok. https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-5022816/tractor-supply-dei-climate-backlash npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith This is really shocking stuff from the Tractor Supply Company. This is a publicly traded company with over 2,000 locations across the U.S. My family spends a non-trivial amount of money there every year, but of course we'll now actively avoid them. The local farmers' co-op should get more of our business anyway. https://ir.tractorsupply.com/newsroom/news-releases/news-releases-details/2024/Tractor-Supply-Company-Statement/default.aspx npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith https://wapo.st/3KYyorV npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Trump selected such extremist delegates for the Republican convention that they decided to stage a rebellion to replace him with Michael Flynn. The Trump campaign caught wind of the dissent in Arizona and removed the delegates, but there’s cause to believe this movement has spread to other states. https://wapo.st/4cbaiq5 npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Hell of a mystery. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Timothy Mellon is 82 years old and only started funding campaigns with Trump in 2018. I wonder what he sees in Trump? npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Our democracy is fine. It’s weird that you’d ask. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I love a good 404 page. https://delaware.gov/404 npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith A blind colleague recently joined a new federal agency. The agency is refusing to let him use the NVDA screen reader (free, open source), because it's created by an Australian non-profit which is not registered on SAM.gov (because they're not a vendor). npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith One bullshit artist on Georgetown’s faculty, with the help of some pro-gun organizations that exist only on paper, appears to provide a major pillar of evidence that judges use to justify eliminating gun restrictions. His research is nonsense and his work is funded by the gun lobby. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/gun-laws-georgetown-professor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k0.2FGZ.X-6pzJp9ecZN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith AS A 737 passenger npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith “A 7 AM flight will be fine,” I said. “That’s not so early,” I said. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Republicans are not well. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/us/politics/nevada-election-clerk-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x00.kNfv.Q6_oc6P40EN6&smid=url-share npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith “For a non-trivial number of Americans, the desire to keep the United States a ‘white nation’ appears to be stronger than their desire to ensure that the country is led by a law-abiding president.” https://www.psypost.org/why-do-republicans-stick-with-trump-new-study-explores-the-role-of-white-nationalism/ npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1hx9…lyhl I understand you have feelings about this. :) npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Blog entry: Agencies must not outsource compliance to their vendor scrum team. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith The human senses: npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith It's 2024 and Siri on iOS still requires an internet connection to play a song or provide directions to a place I've been 100 times (with a cached offline map). Get it together, Apple. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith A Tractor Supply employee stopped me in the parking lot, as I carried a compressed cube of pine shavings on my shoulder. Gesturing to my EV, he informed me that he had a Camaro at home, endowed with tremendous powers by virtue of a laundry list of features (I heard “liters” and “nitrous”), and that as a result, he could “smoke me.” npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I always keep champagne in the fridge. You never know when you’ll have something to celebrate. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1hvd…9sq9 That's my thinking too. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith It looks to me like the SCOTUS majority is not merely disinterested in being perceived as legitimate, but actively enjoys being able to exercise power that appears illegitimate to do things that a majority of the country opposes. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith It's 2024, and Major League Baseball is finally integrating the record books, which will no longer protect white baseball players’ stats from the superior performance from Negro Leagues players. As a result, Ty Cobb is no longer recorded as the leading hitter, and Babe Ruth is no longer recorded as the best slugger—those titles both now belong to Josh Gibson. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/05/28/negro-leagues-statistics-officially-incorporated-into-major-league-record-book/73882293007/ npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Billionaires are determined to die in imploding submersibles while diving to the Titanic. And, hey, who are we to stop them? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/science/titanic-submersible-ohio-billionaire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk0.JH1u.E2YBLREneLg7&smid=url-share npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Trump is claiming that Biden tried to have the FBI murder him. This is a lie, of course. But it’s not Trump’s usual sort of lie—it’s a dangerous escalation in rhetoric. What sort of retaliation do people regard as morally appropriate for attempted murder? What might Republicans do to defend Trump from Biden, especially in light of January 6? https://wapo.st/4bscOHV npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith So if Trump gets convicted in the hush money case...he'll just appeal, right? And surely he'll be permitted to stay out of prison pending appeal, because he's always given the benefit of the doubt. And that appeal will take many months, even years. So there's basically no chance that he'd be in prison between now and the election...right? Am I missing something? npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1lrv…tth9 Here's what I want to know: would this include the Charlotte airport, or is that covered by federal law? Is North Carolina establishing that it is illegal for a mask-wearing person to have a layover at CLT? npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith If you find yourself buying a battery backup for your shower, you should reconsider some of the choices you've made in life. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N1UAKDZ/ npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Virginia Gov. Youngkin, who has tried hard to style himself as a moderate, just vetoed a pair of bills that simply established that Virginians have a right to contraceptives, and health care providers have a right to provide contraceptives. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith There's a group chat that includes Michael Dell, Howard Schultz, Bill Ackman, Daniel Loeb, and nearly 100 other powerful kajillionaires whose names are less well-known. They used it to advocate for arresting protesters at Columbia University and to fund-raise for New York City mayor Eric Adams. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/ npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub13vv…0sze Kind of like when my iPhone becomes convinced I'm driving when I'm actually on a train (only it presumably impacts your insurance rates). npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith OK Apple's new Vehicle Motion Cues is super cool. They reduce motion sickness while using an iPhone or iPad in the car by having little dots move around on the screen in tandem with the vehicle's movement, to align visual cues with your inner ear's sense of movement (the lack of which causes motion sickness). https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/ npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub13vv…0sze …I see you're way ahead of me. :) npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub13vv…0sze I read "Across Realtime" last year, and aspects of it has stuck with me. Until now I had no idea that it was the third book in a series! npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith “Fast food may be a tough habit to legislate away, though. In 2016, 91 percent of parents reported buying lunch or dinner for their child in the past week from one of the four biggest chains.” npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Allow me to continue to contribute to your timeline full of aurora photos. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith The aurora is borealising pretty hard here in Virginia. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Something u learned the hard way as a child is that magnets are very bad for computers. But are they anymore? Floppy disks and CRTs were damaged by magnetic fields. Is there anything left in computers (or phones) that is harmed by magnetic fields of a consumer strength? npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I am increasingly doubtful that AmEx’s Centurion Lounges actually exist. No matter when I fly—early morning, late at night, the middle of the day—the app always says they are full, in all airports. This is a benefit to me in the same way that AmEx offers me discounts at resorts in, like, Bali. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith This narrative is the same for every violent clash at protests in the past ~seven years (maybe longer, idk): a leftist group is peacefully protesting, a right-wing group shows up and openly assaults the protesters for *hours*, and police watch and do nothing. At this point it’s a playbook being run by the violent right and police in implicit coordination. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU0.AUdX.RBfy685XvxHg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I’m reading a history of the development of the transistor, and I’m struck by the fact that some of the most important quantum physics research in the world was happening at Bell Labs, in the 1930s and 1940s, in service of improving telephony. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith For a small fee, the law is optional. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Soon npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Oh come ON npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith A real thing everyone in the U.S. did straight through the nineties was have their social security number printed on their checks. We would just hand out pieces of paper with our name, address, phone number, bank account info, and SSN. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith "Ralph Nader Reviewing Pens for The Wirecutter" was not on my bingo card. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/ralph-nader-favorite-pens/ npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I love this story about the dress-designing substitute teacher who has one of his dresses made for a student, but I want it to be, like, 10x longer. I have so many questions. https://www.rappnews.com/news/schools/fairy-godfather-makes-magic-for-one-senior-s-prom/article_a6041bc2-01fd-11ef-937d-6b328c4c3e24.html npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Today the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments as to whether Donald Trump is allowed to murder his political rivals, despite every lower court ruling against him, and it’s entirely possible they’ll OK it. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith We need to make it socially unacceptable to work at McKinsey and to hire McKinsey. They cheerfully built and executed a strategy to addict millions of Americans to OxyContin, killing hundreds of thousands of people (and counting). I have no doubt they're doing something equally evil right now. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith It really looks like the Supreme Court is going to OK outlawing homelessness. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I like how every major power source except for solar photovoltaics has a description that ends with “...which spins a turbine.” Coal? Spins a turbine. Nuclear? Spins a turbine. Concentrating solar? Spins a turbine. Hydroelectric? Spins a turbine. Natural gas? Spins a turbine. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith “Over the last week, demonstrators visibly identifying as supporting Mr. Trump — with red hats or clothing, or banners and flags — have never totaled more than a dozen.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/politics/trump-trial-protests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.nnzQ.O03Z5j6nF2cU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1lv4…ru5g ChaOS, RhinocerOS, and AsbestOS are all great operating system names! npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Don't tell me your bathtub is running a *proprietary* operating system‽ npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith 1,300 people have followed my new bot in the past 12 hours, and I was really nervous that the next post it made might be boring or nonsensical and then everybody would say "we've made a huge mistake this bot actually sucks.” Instead it's this, which I'm delighted by. https://botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyou/112298380614532978 npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I made a new Mastodon bot, called "I Hope This Email Finds You.” Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails. (It uses phrases from Google Books that include the phrase “finds you.”) I've been having fun reading these, so I turned it into a bot because you, too, might have fun reading them. https://botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyou/112295528875440987 npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1c35…9pmh Fair! npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Good news: Far-right group Turning Point USA has identified some election fraud! npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith A health thing everybody should know is that if an older person suddenly loses their entire mind, that’s not 24-hour-onset dementia, it’s a UTI. They need antibiotics and then they’ll be fine. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Also great about induction stovetops: my stovetop is occasional counter space! I’d never do that with a standard flat top electric—too dangerous—but with a bit of caution it’s fine on an induction. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Theory: The New York Times' editors are infected by that same fungus that infects ants' brains and makes them climb to the tops of blades of grass so they'll be eaten by sheep, but instead it makes them report on any bullshit that Christopher Rufo spouts. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/business/media/npr-suspends-business-editor.html?ugrp=u&unlocked_article_code=1.lE0.Q5dC.qTjdgCI2UTQN&smid=url-share npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith "Can't you just type in the number?” npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Browsers should refuse to respect paste-disabling. This is not something that any user wants. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I'm trying to pay my Virginia income taxes online, and they have disabled paste in any field of consequence. Paste in a password? Nope. Your bank's routing number? You're gonna have to hand-key that. Your bank account number? You better believe you're typing that in. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I'm watching the Steve Martin documentary, which prompted me to remind you that being famous is actually very bad. I have known a fair number of famous people over the years, personally and professionally, and exactly none of them enjoyed, on balance, being famous. The more famous you are, the more terrible that it is. Fame is isolating and frightening and unpleasant. I've had a few moments of micro-fame and they were all terrible. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith It only took us three years for the Supreme Court to seriously consider the position that actually, it's not against the law to violently attack Congress. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1nlt…t44t eXtreme Polyamory npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith “We learned a strategy from the Multiamory podcast called ‘agile scrum,’ which was adapted from business-meeting models. We utilized that format.” 😳 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/15/magazine/polycule-polyamory-boston.html?unlocked_article_code=1.k00.RFj3.Q2PR9XD-kpkE&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=u&sgrp=c-cb npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1hvd…9sq9 “COBOL is old.” npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1hvd…9sq9 Thanks for such a great interview about COBOL! I nearly always walk away annoyed by misrepresentations in COBOL coverage, but not this time. :) npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1c35…9pmh I sure did a double-take. :) npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Trumpism is taking over American Christianity, which in turn is driving many Americans away from Christianity. Affiliation with the religion has dropped precipitously in the past decade. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-07/trump-s-brand-of-christian-conservatism-is-driving-people-from-church npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith St. Louis, Missouri. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith 4.8 earthquake centered in New Jersey. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sbh3yv/executive npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I am delighted to see these exploitative serial criminals getting punished. I have followed this couple’s exploits for 8 years, and their Trumpian ability to worm out of all consequences, allowing them to exploit the most vulnerable for this long, is a condemnation of the US justice system. I hope this time it sticks. https://wapo.st/3vFBD3G npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith With Biden joining Threads, I’d like to remind everybody that there are enormous policy and legal hurdles in the way of the federal government joining and interacting with the fediverse. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1hvd…9sq9 I wish I had a better understanding of SawStop's array of patents. Sure, there's one main one, but there are a bunch of others, and I don't understand the impact of them agreeing not to enforce just one. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith NYC's chatbot tells me that you must wear long pants to the DMV, so that's good to know about. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith It was long clear that Trump would take over the Republican Party. But I did not anticipate that he’d take over evangelical Christianity in the US. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/politics/trump-2024-religion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE0.daml.DHeVVV7PIAAU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=u&sgrp=c-cb npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Open source software is a critical part of our national security infrastructure, but one that government is entirely neglecting. Federal agencies rely on OpenSSL, liblzma, etc. just as much as the private sector. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith Every time the legal system has Trump dead to rights, it creates a special exception just for him. His whole career. It never stops. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith This is a weird subhed. Those of us who live outside of mobile phone coverage don’t just rely on our landlines for “emergencies,” but for *all* phone calls. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I made a new Mastodon bot! It uses three years of applications for custom license plates in Virginia that were rejected for being inappropriate (courtesy of a FOIA request by Virginia Public Media), and generates images of those plates. It posts twice daily. Some are funny, some are gross, some are weird little puzzles, and the number "69" shows up a lot. https://botsin.space/@rejectedplates/112151431401925961 npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith There are vendors selling generative AI to create RFPs. There are vendors selling generative AI to write proposals in response to RFPs. There are vendors selling AI to review those proposals. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1nlt…t44t The German Research Foundation and the EU. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith OK but you literally could have just asked a parent npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith …so, liveness detection as a key component of IAL2 remote identity proofing is dead, yeah? Like, we need to completely surrender IAL2 and accept that our choices are either IAL3 or compensating controls, right? https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-researchers-unveil-vlogger-an-ai-that-can-bring-still-photos-to-life/ npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1lrv…tth9 Major transit projects, like major tech projects, routinely cost multiples of their planned costs, for the same reasons. The solutions: have the state actually employ engineers etc. to oversee the work knowledgably, inspect the actual work being done *constantly*, cancel contracts for non-performing vendors, and don’t have a single prime vendor that outsources to a bajillion subs. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1v52…qu8a I have the same setup, although it’s more like 200 feet in my case, and it’s two outbuildings in two different directions. In one case, I use powerline Ethernet, which I somehow get gigabit out of, to my great surprise. In the other (my office), I trenched conduit with cat6. I had to trench power to that building anyway, so there was no avoiding the expense. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith In my mind, French political history was a monarchy until the late 1700s, when the French Revolution brought democracy, but somehow Napoleon…? Today I read the "Political history of France" Wikipedia entry and, wow, I had no idea. Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew ruled as emperor until 1870, then there was a coup d’état in 1958, with the president turning the government over to General Charles de Gaulle to prevent a civil war. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith If you were wondering if maybe the Republican Party can be salvaged, three-quarters of Republicans say that it would be good for Trump to follow through on his promise to be a dictator "only for a day.” npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1c35…9pmh The phrase "modern-day slavery" is right up there with with "neo-Nazis" as providing a bit of rhetorical padding that blunts the reality of the situation. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith I wanted to listen to this episode of PJ Vogt's "Search Engine" podcast. I wasn't thrilled to see that he’s using Substack, but then was confused when I couldn't find the podcast anywhere. It turns out it's not a podcast! It's some Spotify faux-podcast, a way to pull podcasts into their walled garden. npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1hvd…9sq9 I speculate that France actually has reasonable regulation of Airbnbs—in the U.S., it seems like caveat emptor. (My one stay ever at an Airbnb was so bad that the Times of London wrote an article about it and Airbnb had to change their policies.) npub1v3uupkjgerfn7pyx9kk2pe08d4wynqs2py04avp0kfusxymswn7qfvwupy Waldo Jaquith @npub1vhe…33f8 @npub1hvd…9sq9 ...I'm just gonna keep staying at hotels
