All a play towards the midterm. If things shut down for a short while the GOP will get the blame but if the shutdown is long enough all bets are off. The Dems right now have a momentum and decent chance at controlling house and congress by year’s end. All they need is to show some solidarity towards DACA and say “We…

I had a similar incident while growing up in Argentina where ceilings are high, particularly in the narrow bathroom I was in taking a dump as a kid. I look up and this huge spider with clear eyes was directly above me about 5 feet above me. I didn’t think much of it at the time but I haven’t forgotten it for the last…

buttload! good choice of words!

now that we’re getting used to $100K+ cars as if they were $100+ jeans suddenly we have $200K+ cars and $200+ jeans!

Was gunning for a Circle 2 cam this year. Rethinking it now

I’ve been keeping the paper docs in a fire-retardant safe. Not hard to break into sure but that’s not what I was going for anyways. Would such option help in this case?

100% insane more like.

If Amazon Video is trully making its way into the ATV I’m in.... for the HD version.

lack of Touch ID will be sorely missed. A lot of the logistics involved when my wife and I need to share passwords, install apps and other shenanigans on each other’s phones involved registering at least one finger on the other person’s device.

they look like a certain body part... ears!

apparently everybody knows how to win an election.

i guess a white dragon killing another won’t count?

While in Use should be default on every app. Except Apple cuz hell probably they can gather whatever info they want anyways.

i’d like to add CAR SHOPPING to the list of things you should dress up for.

we’ve been having an influx of “logan” types of movies with Stallone at the forefront making sequels for Rambo and Rocky culminating the lot in the Expendables franchise. the likes of Al Pacino, Deniro, Costner have all been making “retired ex-something” coming back for one last score for a few years now too. why not?

the most important question of this episode:

old advice no? i mean in the age where USB’s are on the way out and most of us don’t plug as many things to our laptops as we’re used to this advice has very limited applications.

and then Putin will buy it from the Chinese

The Bournette Ultimatum

Great article. As a guy who’s been following AI and IBM history it’s painful to realize that overblown marketing and desperate CEO hypes isn’t reserved to the idiosyncrasy of the ignorant or inexperienced.