Today in 1962, 63 years ago: in the United States, the leader of the majority in the Senate, Mike Mansfield - on his return from Vietnam, where he had traveled at the request of President John F. Kennedy- becomes the first American official to comment adversely against American intervention in the internal affairs of that country.

#OnThisDay

Ugh Spectrum is so annoying. Promo pricing expired. They "no longer sell 600 Mbps," only 500Mbps and 1Gbps. Only promo was "a free mobile line for a year." Downgraded to 500Mbps saving $20/mo because between the two of us we really don't need more and I'm not paying $100/mo or more for 1Gbps.

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die”

Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," set in Yoknapatawpha County, enters US public soon. Despite 15 stream-of-consciousness narrators making it challenging, Holly at Nut Free Nerd explains why it's worth reading.

By John Mark Ockerbloom

https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/01/it-takes-two-people-to-make-you-and-one-people-to-die/

#books #publicDomainDayCountdown

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First-edition dust jacket cover of As I Lay Dying (1930) by the American author William Faulkner. Published in New York by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Lay_Dying#/media/File:As_I_Lay_Dying_(1930_1st_ed_jacket_cover).jpg

#Oops: The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.

"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings in the context of misrepresentation of the contributions by the authors and the study sponsor and potential conflicts of interest of the authors. "

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715

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Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology ELSEVIER Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2000, Pages 117-165 RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans Gary M. Williams 9 Robert Kroes °, Ian C. Munro © 2 This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal

Whenever I go to museums, I like to pause in front of stuff that definitely isn't art and talk about the "art" and how it makes me feel just to make the other people think they're missing something.

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I initially thought this was a step stool, but now I have no idea what it is. It's like a red metal thing that has a hinge and a shelf? Anyway, it's propped against a white wall in an art museum.

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Vintage light switch with a silver-aluminum/stainless steel switch plate in the corner of an art museum.

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Drinking fountain in a long hall in an art museum

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Restroom entrance in an art museum. There appears to have been some flooding in the past because the light wood floors have some water damage and staining.

”Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie

#quotes

Four bendy buses managed to enter a roundabout at the exact same time from four different directions in Oslo yesterday afternoon and get properly stuck, each bus blocking the exit for the one behind it. #BigBusStuck

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A scene showing four red bendy buses making up a squarw around a small roundabout. There are cars trapped inside them and long lines on the two visible sides going into the roundabout. Photo was found in Avisa Oslo, a local newspaper, and was sent them by a guy named Endre Helgeland.

I plug my phone in to charge every night. TV and Movies tell me most fictional people don't.

So...

@siracusa
EDIT 2: Both hats have sold.

EDIT: The original hat has been sold. The second-gen hat is still available for $25.

Original post:
If there’s someone out there who missed the sale, or who wants to try the old design, I’ve got two chicken hats for sale. One is the original from a few years back, and the other is the new version.

Each has been worn for maybe a couple hours (and subsequently washed, of course). Selling because they’re too small for my head.

Asking $50 for the set. I can accommodate pick-up in Greater Boston or shipping within the US.

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Close-up of two black fleece winter hats on a wooden table.

Sometimes it is all about the crop.😜

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tight crop of my head, triceps, part of my pit and some of my chest.

The problem with fact checking...

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Text in image reads:- I think this is all best summed up by a comment on a random right-wing typepad post from 2022 that has weirdly been making the rounds as a meme on social media lately but that is not satire, as far as I can tell, and is a genuine thought someone had. Username Right side rick says: “Unfortunately, the problem with left-leaning media is they’re intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it’s really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of quality rightwing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless their fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence people like us on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push our agenda as statistics and, unfortunately, official studies aren’t usually on our side.” Oop! Right side rick, I think you just said the quiet part out loud buddy. But good job identifying the problem. Source https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2025/1/8/fact-checking-is-bad-for-business

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115583843485470235

Ah ha! This is why Google was able to make Quick Share work with AirDrop

Ars Technica » 🌐 2025-11-20
@arstechnica@mastodon.social

The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
Recent EU regulations pushed Apple to support better interoperability in iOS 26.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This is not creepy at all! /s

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Voice Match (@ Lets Google recognize your voice across Google products © off

I always thought of « ennui » as more of a state of being. However, in literature it is often used to describe something between boredom and depression. (It always brings me to French existential/absurdist literature, like Camus. « Ennui » isn't something you can give a single word definition to, but rather a concept. It's almost like “blasé” … IFKYK)

My heroine this week is ABC’s White House Correspondent Mary Bruce who asked the Saudi-Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman what Saudi-Arabia was doing at The White House, after Saudi-Arabia’s involvement in both 9/11 and the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

May her courage inspire us all.

Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets by @Larvitz

https://blog.hofstede.it/production-grade-container-deployment-with-podman-quadlets/index.html

#SelfHost #Sysadmin #Podman @homelab

Does ANYONE out there with a #Synology know how to ensure the #RTL8152 or #RTL8153 loads at boot time instead of having to "shutdown/restart" the adapter in the package manager AFTER reboot?

Thanks!

@siracusa @caseyliss : (I know you both have/had Synology - but do either of you know how to do this?)

PLZ re-toot ... I really am getting sick of USB-C 2.5/5/10g adapters requiring restart each reboot!

#3166 - Big and Little Spoons

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Four-panel black-and-white comic. Panel 1: A stick figure gestures while speaking. Text: “Some people like to be the big spoon.” Panel 2: The stick figure continues, “Some people like to be the little spoon.” Panel 3: Text filling most of the panel: “And some brave truth-tellers point out that the metaphor makes no sense because different-sized spoons don’t nest right either way. You nest same-sized spoons.” Below the text are two pairs of spoons shown nested. Panel 4: The stick figure is shown lounging on a couch. They continue, “…And apparently we sleep on the couch.” Off-panel person: “Why are you still going on about the spoon thing?” Figure on couch: “Because I’m right!” Hidden text: "Are you the annoying spoon or the sleepy spoon?"

#Christmas #holiday #Thanksgiving

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Twitter user, ClassyWarfare, writes, Tweet 1: The war on Christmas cannot end until Christmas stops its illegal occupation of November. Tweet 2: I am calling on the Klaus regime to return to the borders agreed upon in the Black Friday Agreement.

#ffs

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A humorous exchange about the correct grammatical usage of the phrase "for fuck's sake" versus "for fuck sake." Two characters discuss the need for possessive punctuation while surrounded by writing tools and papers, with an artistic background that resembles a painting.

Daddy, hilariously, suggested we get a little poppers fridge for the play room and now I'm neck deep in Counter Top Skin Care Product Refrigeration which I never knew was even a thing?

A few days ago I setup a test virtual machine under macOS to see if it could be a viable option for my home lab. I anticipate that I will begin migrating some services to it in the near future.

#3164 - Metric Tip

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The comic shows two stick figures. The one on the left, wearing a hat, asks, “How tall are you?” The one on the right replies, “5 ft 24 cm” - Caption below: “When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.” Hidden text: "The package weighs 7 kg 9 oz."

In the mist of shite political news from around the world, here's a good news story, the Danish Foreign Minister give the Egyptian Foreign Minister a Lego set of the Pyramids as a gift, just look at his face ;)

#Politics #Denmark #Egypt #Lego #Joy #GoodNews

https://egyptianstreets.com/2025/11/03/danish-foreign-minister-gifts-lego-pyramid-to-celebrate-grand-egyptian-museum-opening/

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Danish minister give the Egyptian minister a Lego set of the Pyramids in a formal looking room, flags, gold, big lamp shades, the expression on the face of the Egyptian minister is just pure joy and the biggest smile ever.

So I met this Australian guy who works in IT...

I said: "Do you come from a LAN down under?"

He just smiled and gave me a mega byte sandwich ...

Surely one of the finest pieces of journalism of all time? The headline alone is award winning.

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DUCK EATS YEAST, QUACKS, EXPLODES; MAN LOSES EYE Rhadamanthus’'s Unusually Fermented Sunday Breakfast Causes It to Rise Piecemeal, Blinding Owner, DES MOINES, Jan, 2 - The strangest accident recorded in local history occurred this morning when Rhadamanthus, a duck, which took a prize at the recent Iowa poultry show, exploded into several hundred pleces, one of which struck Silas Perking in the eye, destroyIng the sight The cause of the explosion was the eating of yeast which was placed In a pan upon the back porch, and tempted his duckship, which was taking a Sanday morning stroll. Upon returning from church Mr Perking discovered his prize duck in an some what logy condition Telltale marks around the pan of yeast gave him his clue. He was about to pick up the bird when the latter quacked and exploded with a loud report and Mr Perkins ran into to house holding both hands over one eye. A surgeon was called, who found that the eyeball had been penetrated by a fragment of flying duck and gave no hope of having the optic.

I have no source and yet I must boost

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Poe: Once upon a midnight Beastie Boys: DREARY Poe: While I pondered, Beastie Boys: WEAK Poe: and Beastie Boys: WEARY

An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.

Video credit: Usherwood et al.
Source: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/223/3/jeb214809/223686/High-aerodynamic-lift-from-the-tail-reduces-drag

What is a programming language you learned and mastered, but that is now completely obsolete in your work?

(Now I feel the need to re-read it, as well as get myself a copy the Book of Dust now that the third book is about to be published.)

This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.

In this case the warning was quite literal.

The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.

What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.

Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

Goodreads volunteer moderator went rogue and changed a cover to Eric Trump's book Under Siege, and added the subtitle “Goodreads Censorship in Favor of Trump,”

🔗 https://www.404media.co/rogue-goodreads-librarian-edits-site-to-expose-censorship-in-favor-of-trump-fascism/

Baking is science, but it is also fun. Experiment and enjoy each result.

(Sometimes I also put in some baking powder or soda to get some rise, and at least a teaspoon (5ml) of vanilla for flavor.)

Basically it's equal parts flour, sugar, and fat, with an egg to bind as needed and chips to taste. Also, letting the dough rest in the fridge for at least an hour helps, too.

#3160 - Document Forgery

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The image shows a comic depicting a fake university diploma. The diploma reads “East State University” at the top, with unreadable scribbles above and below. In the center, it says “Doctor of Philosophy in Document Forgery.” There are several illegible signatures and a circular seal at the bottom center with abstract symbols. Below the diploma, a caption reads: “If you put one of these up in your office, and no one notices, you’ve earned it.” Hidden text: "It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a..."

Chef José Andrés' World Central Kitchen nonprofit is usually giving meals to people in war zones, but now, it's distributing food in Washington, D.C., in order to help federal employees during the U.S. government shutdown. Here's more from NBC Washington.

https://flip.it/qK6UAt

#USGovernment #TrumpAdministration #GovernmentShutdown #USNews #USPolitics #JoseAndres