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Love it! Slightly more elegant than my solution: a piece of electrical tape over the clock.

Thanks for the fix -- appreciate the quick action!

Dear Canada,

Please cease this kind of behavior immediately. We're supposed to be the only dumbshits around here.

Yours truly,

'Merica

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/mosquito-afri...

Dunno what the longer term effects of this and the other departures will be, but in the world of vibe-finance Alphabet dumped 4.15% of share value as of this minute.

Slightly OT, but this reminded me of Colson Whitehead's _The Intuitionist_[1], an amazing speculative mystery novel about two dueling schools of elevator inspection philosophies: the Empiricists and the Intuitionists.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intuitionist

"Librareome Project"

Take my money!

The best part about Kirkland Roundabouts is that they come in a handy family-size 24 pack.

I'll let myself out.

Just drove past The Brick yesterday. Roslyn's just a bit less rustic these days, e.g., a 2-bedroom 2000sqft house is going to set you back at about $600K.

[polite golf clap]

So the new Turing test is whether a machine can convince you that you are deceased?

Sounds like a good diy project with an old monitor and a raspberry pi...

Not only a tech pioneer, also a genuinely decent human who helped found Social Venture Partners and IslandWood here in the puget sound. He will be missed, but not forgotten.

Many thanks to the op -- it's a book I haven't read in about a decade and seems like the right time to revisit.

Blast from the past! I think it was something like 15 years ago when I had an OpenIndiana vm running NexentaStor to control an HP MSA P2000 SAN.

I am not nostalgic for those days.

If you haven't listened to the interview[1], it's is absolutely bananas. Baszucki might want to think about dialing back on the ketamine a bit.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-...

That last one still makes me tear up. What a beautiful way to exit the stage.

"Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a nerf ball..."

Sometimes a little good old fashioned mayhem is good for employee morale

Among all the incredibly depressing and shitty stories about late-stage capitalist consumer culture I've heard, this has to be one of the most depressing and shittiest.