BeOS was great; I should go look and see how Haiku is doing. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Fri Apr 20th, 2001 at 05:15:55 PM EST”. This is a letter which I’m emailing to the founder and CEO…
Breaking News: Grand Jury Actually Does Its Job
Legal types like to deride the U.S. grand jury system by saying that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Ha? The joke being that U.S. citizens are such sheeple that they’ll just do whatever…
Literally The Least They Can Do: Some Hard Words About “Soft Secession”
I don’t think I’ve heard of Chris Armitage before, but he made quite a splash last week with his Substack post “It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession“. It’s … OK? I mean, it’s well written and…
Archive: Book Review: The Big U
I should re-read both the books discussed here; I still read most of Matt Ruff’s books, but I stopped reading Neal Stephenson’s after “Cryptonomicon”. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Sun Apr 8th, 2001 at 05:12:22 PM EST”.…
Наступного року в Києві: Independence Day In Ukraine
I don’t usually write for this site on the weekends; I was working on the irrigation in the garden (because I do in fact take my own advice). So this isn’t being posted on Ukraine’s actual Independence Day, which was…
WebSmurfer Revived: Smurfica Is Back, Baby
Yesterday, I revived an old site I originally built back in 1997. Yeah, that’s old. It’s been online continuously since it was built, which at this point is something like 28 years? I guess it depends on when in 1997…
Archive: Collective Patronage
Here I propose a system shockingly similar to what Patreon would do 12 years later. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Sat Jan 27th, 2001 at 12:38:44 PM EST”. Much is made of the Net’s alleged ability to…
A Texas Homecoming: Democrats Meet, Ignore, Real World
So, the ballad of Texas’ Democratic legislators is moving into a new verse. And, like most ballads, it’s been completely predictable. Our heroes, having apparently believed that the villains of the piece are done simply because the first act is…
Archive: Analysis of U.S. Military Spending
The U.S. military budget is still absurd. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Tue Jan 23rd, 2001 at 10:11:31 AM EST”. TomPaine.Com and Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities (this link requires JavaScript) have a recent analysis of American military spending by Dr. Lawrence…
You Should Read This: I Researched Every Democratic Attempt To Stop Fascism In History.
I’ve been seeing the links to this one all over the fediverse/Mastodon over the weekend, so I read it. You should read it too. It’s “I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism in history. the success rate after fascists…