All the Magic Piece of Toiletpaper has to say about the matter is this: “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings”

The National Education Association votes to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League: https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-national-education-association-just-voted-to-cut-all-ties-to-the-anti-defamation-league/

It may seem like somewhat of a detour, but demonstrating as a first practical example that all problems are recoverable can serve as a big confidence boost, helping people feel more confident messing around with all the other little things and being more comfortable potentially breaking them. For didactic purposes, I would split the exercise into two sections.

1: Place some “precious files” (some funny memes) on a sacrificial machine, then render it un-bootable by some means (deleting the EFI bootloader, corrupting / deleting some OS files, etc.). The purpose of the exercise is to prepare a bootable USB media and demonstrate that file recovery (under mundane circumstances, when the computer simply stops booting) is not some wizardry requiring the expertise of computer forensics experts. All you need is the ability to point a functioning OS at the filesystem. A second USB drive can be formatted as a destination to place the recovered files.

2: After exercise one, OS re-installation and restoration of the recovered files. While Linux is great, and likely will be a requirement of exercise one, the focus here should be on installing whichever OS the user is comfortable with. The point is to demonstrate that installing an OS and starting from scratch is easy, which is true regardless of if it is Windows or a mainstream Linux distribution. Either way, several tasks from exercise one will be repeated: flashing a USB image, formatting drives, selecting an alternate boot device in the UEFI firmware.

2.1: If using Windows, demonstrate how simple it is to use the MassGravel Windows Activation Scripts, so users understand they never need to worry about what happened to their original installation media or license key sticker as a pre-requisite for OS installation.

I think beginning these demonstrations on PC hardware is a better option than some more locked-down devices like video game consoles, routers, or mobile phones - where the tools are often reverse-engineered / experimental, and mistakes potentially can lead to permanent damage.

Seeing a bunch of reports / footage today about a large-scale federally-coordinated operation in/around MacArthur Park, LA (oof, come up with a better name). Lots of military vehicles moving around, mounted ICE units, and reckless endangerment of the public.

Naturally, somebody has sent some relevant documents to Ken Klippenstein. This “show of presence” appears to be part of what they are referring to as “Operation Excalibur.” The documents indicate the involvement of nearly a dozen “law enforcement” agencies coordinated in a mission to stamp out alleged activities and lawlessness which read like the fever dreams of a Fox News comment section.

Yeah I checked the ReadMe. Their recommendation, Project64-EM (and the original, Project64) do not have any ports for non-Windows platforms. None the less, I have found success using Parallell Launcher, which runs the ParallellN64 libretro core sans RetroArch. The game is running well for me now.

There are a LOT of absolutely incredible level packs out there. I recommend checking out Doomworld’s Cacowards Archive (running annually since 2004) for a sampling of the absolute cream of the crop.

HARM anti radiation missiles

I fucking hate these weapon systems marketing lanyards. They are almost as bad as Congress when it comes to acronyms.

Trump had his own personal Vietnam. Chuck Schumer can have his own personal 9/11.

You’re the CEO of a polling institution. Run a poll asking “Do you support ‘doing 9/11’ to the Democratic Party?” you coward.

this is a 911 moment for the Democratic Party

For even the most cynical treatlerites, it really does just boil down to “what have you done for ME lately?” From a naive perspective, Israel is nothing but a liability. From a critical perspective, Israel is nothing but a liability. To the institutionalist, “rule of law” liberals, Israel is nothing but a liability. To the “America First” nationalists, Israel is nothing but a liability. The only people who see merit in the cause of Israel are total cranks and zealots who truly believe the US or Israel (depending on who you ask) are ordained by God (and their secular cousins, the Atlanticists - the fundamentalists of American civic religion), who look forward to dying in a nuclear inferno on that hill. There are a lot of them though.

Big Beautiful Summer.

Having trouble running this smoothly in Mupen64Plus (Z-buffer problems), ParallellN64 (performance), or Project64 (running an emulator in an “emulator”) :/

Looks sick though.

The Democrats as we know them will never go away. They might never win a national election ever again, but they will gatekeep and backstab and coopt until Hell freezes over.

The last thing the industry wants is another Doom (1993). A game that is (now) open source, highly portable, highly moddable, and still FUN and approachable 30 years later (and well preserved, as a result). At the time, it made sense for Id to release the source, because it held their competitors feet to the fire. Today, there is nothing left to innovate on the technology side of video games. They want everything to work like Madden/FIFA, where the publishers do the work a couple modders can pull off in a week and charge full price for it all over again.

Didn’t realize the “lore” behind this song (which is a Bruce Springsteen cover btw, lmao) until I finally read the book. It does the book a great justice.

If you can blank out Bruce Springsteen playing croquet in Obama’s back yard, Bruce and Tom did a combined live performance which is actually legendary.

(to the tune of “Fly Like an Eagle”)

Dicks keep on slipping, slipping, slipping,

Into my butthole

While I think the third-worldists / ultras / anti-electoralists are generally right about the prospect of electoral work within the Great Satan, I feel like the pushback against Mamdani (specifically thinking of a couple well known Twitter users here) is an over-correction, and their criticisms come across as lazy and reflexive to me.

First is the criticism of electoral work being a misdirection of resources. It is worth noting that New York is just one city within the Great Satan. Circumstances are different than e.g. the Bernie campaigns of 2016 and 2020. We don’t have “the left” dropping everything from sea to shining sea to get this man in office. It is a local struggle, and placed in the context of a city which has seen a militarized police force repeatedly deployed to crush and evict several anti-genocide encampments, it has the potential to change the way these other non-electoral tactics unfold moving forward, and a lot of people involved in the campaign are likely involved in these other tactics. It isn’t a this-or-that situation at all.

Then there is the criticism of Democratic Party entryism. We all know the Democratic Party is a dead end institution, but also it is an extremely loosely defined institution. There is a big difference between building independent campaign infrastructure which is capable (among other things) of capturing the Democratic Party ballot line in a municipal election vs. planning to take control (or attempting to reform) institutions like the DNC, county and state level party organizations, the constellation of think tanks, PACs, and corporate media which define the party more broadly. The electoral strategy is a consequence of the shit-ass voting system we’ve got. I wouldn’t call all cases of contesting a Democratic primary election entryism. It really depends on what your goals are. Do you think the party will embrace you if you win? Do you think you can influence them? Or are you doing it just to get on the ballot while eliminating some centrist goblin and forcing people to choose between social welfare and fascism.

I have several hopes for this campaign. I hope it activates people who have been unactivated. If it manages to do this, I wouldn’t consider it a misdirection of resources. I would consider it more along the lines of “meeting the people where they’re at.” And from there people have the potential to grow.

I don’t understand how people can write this off simply as entryism. The idea of entryism being bad is that the party cannot be reformed so it is a waste. Well, LOOK at the reaction of all the elite party and media figures to this news. They are destroying themselves. Is that a waste? If an act of “entryism” does more to undermine and destroy an institution than other tactics, can we really be mad about it?

No, this won’t stop the genocide, or bring down the empire, but I also don’t see any harm coming from this, at this stage at least. For the moment, it is making all the right people go apeshit.

I am convinced laptops are designed beginning and ending with specs and price point. Shit like the keyboard, case, speakers, electronics, etc. are 100% afterthought, and completely neglected if the alternative is being $10 more expensive than a competing product line. Nobody is sorting their search results on Amazon or NewEgg by durability. There is no way to assess this when ordering online.