And going forward, who decides what's an official vs. unofficial Presidential act?

I talked to Japanese colleagues about this a lot. The issue isn't just plain old xenophobia. In a lot of cultures, when someone gets married, there are considerations about marrying 'the right kind' for the family. As silly as that might sound to U.S. 'melting pot' ears, these could be tribal, economic, linguistic, geographic, class, education, age, gender, and yes, race.

In traditional settings, the elders have to bless that marriage, welcome the person, and ideally have the families mesh together and be on the same page.

Inviting foreigners with vastly different backgrounds on almost all those axes, it's a pretty tall order to ask everyone to change those attitudes. And saying one family should close their eyes and do it for the sake of the country while their neighbors hold out for a 'suitable' match is going to be tough. The demographic 'time bomb' has been a known issue since the 80s and people are still resistant to change.

At some point, though, realities catch up.

My bet would be it would take a generational turnover and a few years of popular sitcoms normalizing it.

Trans-Am

Watched this new documentary on Kanopy (free streaming for libraries) last night. It's pretty mindblowing.

I'm still thinking about it: https://findingmoneyfilm.com/

Good thing we're not with State Farm.

No, wait...

They leave the Boeing and Soyuz up there, then when it's time, gas 'em up and have them act as controlled thrusters. Everything burns up in the atmosphere. All problems solved.

Saves them $800M and change.

So I'm riding in a bike lane and have one of these. It goes off. What exactly am I going to do about it? I can't ride through parked cars, or thump up on the sidewalk each time. Slowing down or stopping means they hit me sooner. I probably shouldn't swerve into traffic.

Maybe I could speed up, but if this alarm is going off, a much faster car is coming at me from behind.

I suppose I could put my affairs in order and find religion. Thanks modern technology!

4 points! If he doesn't beat Sunak, there's no justice in this world.

Many years ago, folks figured out how to crack firmware and find embedded keys. Since then, there have been many technological advances, like secure enclaves, private/public key workflows, attestation systems, etc. to avoid this exact thing.

Hopefully, the Rabbit folks spec'd a hardware TPM or secure-enclave as part of their design, otherwise no amount of firmware updating or key rotation will help.

There's a well-established industry of Android crackers and this sort of beating will keep happening until morale improves.

So, like teenagers learning to drive stick.

Looked like it happened right after takeoff. Can't imagine what it would be like an hour away from an airstrip at 5000 ft.

Also, fortunate not to get hit in the face by insects when near ground. Have seen it happen to passengers in convertibles going 60. No fun.

Was just listening to the latest episode of Dot Social podcast where there was a discussion with CEO of Ghost (alternative to Substack). They're integrating ActivityPub into the platform, but where they're going with it is that you can use your Fediverse ID instead of email to sign up.

Once they have that worked out, any likes or comments automatically migrate back to the fediverse. Replies back to replies also show up in your timeline and your followers can see them. This makes discovery pretty effortless. They can also use the stats to keep track of engagement across all fediverse services.

It also means turning one-way streams like RSS (podcasting), email services, and commenting services into common two-way communities.

You're now going beyond just catching up to existing services and doing things just not possible in closed silos. Real "Aha!" moment.

Holy Guacamole! CHP is waiting for emergency salsa and chips trucks.

https://www.wonderdraft.net/

It lets you import base maps and create stylized overlays, with artifacts like terrain symbols, map legends, and icon sets (extra cost for some of those). You can even draw line routes on top.

The import process is a bit wonky. Not sure you can bring in multiple backgrounds, copy/paste is a bit random, and it's a bit fiddly about file formats. It also sometimes would crash so important to save often, but the output is really nice. Also has a Mac version.

Have never met EV drivers more pissed-off at their car's software than VW owners. Hopefully, this will inject something more functional back into VWs.

They should keep it. Like the Inverted Jenny stamp, the mistake will be worth more in the long run.

Someone should build a little AI app that scrapes a job listing, then takes a resume and rewrites it in subtle ways to perfectly match the job description.

Let your AI duke it out with their AI.

NFTs will keep their value forever...