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“The Church cannot stay silent before injustice towards migrants. You stand with me. And I stand with you.” — Pope Leo XIV

Back in the early 90s, before the Internet, we had "Defrag and Chill". You'd start Disk Defragmenter on your 540MB hard drive, dim the lights, crack open a Surge, and just vibe while the little blue bars crawled across the screen like they were solving world peace. Forty-five minutes of pure, unfiltered anticipation. No notifications. No algorithms. Just the two of you, the gentle grinding of the hard drive, and the sacred promise that your Solitaire games were about to feel 3% snappier. This is MS_DOS 6.22, which I worked on, but I honestly have no idea who wrote defrag. Iconic utility though!

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I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be at Naval Station Norfolk as thousands of Sailors return with the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group Saturday morning following their record-breaking deployment.

BREAKING: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announces a major crackdown on parents who let their children take part in teen takeovers that have been causing chaos throughout Washington, D.C. Pirro vows to prosecute parents who fail to supervise their children, threatening the adults with fines and even jail times. "If the evidence shows the parent knew or should have known or permitted or failed to prevent participation, we're going to charge them." "If you drop your kid off and you fail to supervise them, or you let them skip school to join the chaos, you are going to face fines, court ordered classes, and possible jail time"

GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson wants us to feel sorry for Congress members making $174,000 a year.

🚨 Georgia Power is forcing a family off their farm with eminent domain for a Data Center “I'm fighting for survival of my cattle farm. I'm here because a massive data center was approved just a couple of miles from my land — and I'm being hounded by Georgia Power for an easement to build transmission lines through my property for the data center” “I'm a local farmer, not an industrial developer. These 500-kV lines aren't for me. They are for the data centers that the boards and surrounding counties continue to approve. I have mail from lawyers stacking up on my kitchen table wanting to take my case because they know my land is being targeted for eminent domain — These easements are permanent. They affect my ability to graze my cattle, they lower my property value, and they destroy the rural character of this county forever. This board makes decisions to approve these massive, massive projects, but it's residents like me, young people trying to build a life here, who pay the price. You're voting to turn our farms into a network of high-voltage wires and noisy industrial buildings. I'm asking you to realize the real-world impacts of your votes. Every time you say yes to a data center, you're saying no to a local farmer. We aren't just numbers on a map. We are the future of the county, and right now you're making that future impossible.“ This data center project affects over 330 private properties. Georgia Power says it will negotiate purchases and easements and use eminent domain Georgia Power claims its to strengthen the grid for the growing energy demand in Georgia (due to many new data centers) The lines are widely linked to Project Sail This isn’t a small operation. Project Sail is a $17 billion hyperscale data center campus by Prologis, Atlas that includes 9 massive buildings totaling up to 4.34 million square feet on 829 acres. It will demand hundreds of megawatts of continuous power equivalent to what a small city uses We cannon allow data centers to take priority over farmers

That look you make when you taxed the rich, closed a $12 billion deficit, hired 1,000 teachers, launched free childcare, funded libraries and parks, held slumlords accountable, fixed 100,000 potholes, and built the fastest housing pipeline in city history, and some guy named Todd is still in your replies saying social policies don't help people.

Joe Rogan: Palantir thinks kids should start getting drafted again into the military. I don't understand why anyone would support that. That sounds nuts. Why the fuck would a tech company be saying we need to move toward universal national military service?

🇺🇸 BlackRock is reportedly afriad that cheap drones could be used to "terrorize" AI data centers across the world.

Today I ordered all flags flown in the State of Montana to be flown at half-staff to honor the Peace Officers who have fallen or been injured in the line of duty.