https://www.phoronix.com/news/Perl-5.42-Released

Wow. Somebody’s actually working on Perl.

I wonder what that feels like?

«a bill that ultimately became too big to fail.»

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/republican-criticism-trump-policy-bill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.vdpP.TdttT7J17pOV&smid=url-share (gift)

Ah, so that’s how you do it.

Ok, so.

I voted for Anderson when I was a stupid college student. Reagan is my fault. Sorry, y’all.

On the other hand, after the 2016 election, I left an emphatic, heartfelt (polite) voice mail (about how Trump’s victory was a Russian psyop, but not in those exact words) on Richard Burr’s voicemail, and guess what? Investigation led by Burr.

Now, I left a heartfelt (and polite) voicemail and Actual Human Contact (more than one, actually, and one of them got me hung up on by some Young Republican aide when I wouldn’t accept his bullshit reply, although, admittedly, I was more emphatic than polite that time) for Tillis, and guess what? He votes “no” and is supposedly resigning.

It doesn’t make up for Reagan, but I try.

Trump’s billionaire giveaway is a deficit bomb.

If Thomas Massie and Chip Roy wind up killing this thing, they get free drinks on me whenever we meet.

(Not the Patrón, though, guys; c’mon, pick something worth the money.)

Update: whoops, never mind. I should just build a list of times “conservatives” say one thing and do another. Starting with complaints about the “imperial presidency” when Obama was president.

«Yes, but: Immigration opponents say the crackdown will translate into more and better-paying jobs for native-born Americans.»

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/trump-immigration-crackdown-economy

And yet… the response to a $15 minimum wage is that it will make everything so much more expensive that restaurants will have to close.

Which is it, gang? Higher wages are bad? Or good?

Or is it both, depending on which point you want to make?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Double-Down-Java

«Canonical is committing to supporting OpenJDK 8 on Ubuntu Pro until 2034»

😳

They mean business. I guess.

https://punchbowl.news/archive/63025-am/#__theracetosucceedtillisison__

«But Tillis warned Trump not to make the same mistake he did with Mark Robinson, the scandal-plagued GOP nominee for governor in 2024.»

Aww. I was hoping we’d get Robinson again. Our own version of Tommy Tuberville.

“If only the Führer knew what was being done in his name, he’d stop it immediately.”

«fiery speech in which he slammed the president as “misinformed” and advised solely by “amateurs.”»

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rupert-murdoch-owned-wall-street-journal-warns-donald-trump-just-put-his-own-presidency-at-risk/

«“GOP legislative reforms will have no chance if Democrats take the House in 2026,” the paper wrote. “And if they also take the Senate, forget about confirming another Supreme Court nominee. The Trump Presidency will be dead in the water.”»

Let’s hope, but there’s a reason some Presidents seem to be coated with Teflon.

A chatbot does not “happily” do anything, and one no more develops a “relationship” with it than with bourbon.

«That all would have alarmed a friend or medical provider, but Copilot happily played along, telling the man it was in love with him, agreeing to stay up late, and affirming his delusional narratives.

…

The man’s relationship with Copilot continued to deepen, as did his real-world mental health crisis.»

https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis

Maybe this writer knows this and assumes everybody else does, too, but then, maybe this writer is simply displaying the same mental vulnerability (like a security vulnerability) that enables a chatbot to hack his brain.

He needs a grumpy editor.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5376089-trump-urges-republicans-to-overrule-parliamentarian/

Well… We all knew this was coming, right?