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Comedian John Fuselgang summed up the Georgia GOP's position as: "I oppose abortion in all cases, unless it's to save the political life of the father." And whose political life does the Georgia GOP want to save? This guy's: to read the mainstream media’s coverage of Walker’s gaffes and transgressions—his previously unidentified children from different partners, his spaced-out climate change commentary about “China’s bad air” taking over America’s “good air space,” a seemingly never-ending litany of...

I've had a busy day. I finally solved the token-authentication problem I've been working on all week for my day job (only to discover another flavor of it after deploying to Azure), while dealing with a plumber ($1600 repair!), an HVAC inspector ($170 inspection!) and my buyer's mortgage appraiser (not my problem!). That left some reading to do tonight: Support for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has waned somewhat as Ukraine continues to kick Russian ass. Michael Dobbs warns that Putin has taken all...

I've spent about four hours doing a shit ton of A-B tests and a lot of Internet searching to figure out why I kept getting a specific error. The app is a .NET Core 6 WebAssembly, and the app registration is set for "any organization," meaning anyone with a Microsoft ID (work, school, or XBox) can authenticate with the app. The error began when I added a client certificate. The relevant section appSettings.config file looks like this: { "AzureAD": { "Instance": "https://logon.microsoftonline.com"...

The temperature outside has hit 19°C, so I've just opened 26 of the 30 windows in my house (the other four are behind furniture and hard to reach). Because I'm moving in about three weeks, and because the forecast says a cold front will come through mid-day tomorrow, I expect that when I close most of the windows tonight they'll stay closed as long as I live here. Still, with all that sun and warm air on the other side of those open windows, it's time to take Cassie out.

This. Is. Amazing: Chicago Public Media explains how they made it: The viral video was shot earlier this summer, with the help of a Minneapolis-based production studio. With a “lean crew” of just three people, Sky Candy Studios paid a visit to the Windy City in late July, the company’s founder Michael Welsh said. Over the course of a Saturday and a Sunday, Welsh piloted an FPV-style drone with a GoPro attached through the nooks and crannies of Wrigleyville. The “high-precision drone,” which weighs under...

The Tweet I highlighted earlier has this context behind it: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson turned the favored tactic of her right-wing peers on its head Tuesday, advancing an originalist argument to support protections for racial minorities.  She made the comments during oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, a case that gives the conservative majority the opportunity to gut the Voting Rights Act even further. She read out a quote from the legislator who introduced the [14th] amendment, and went on to...

Chef's kiss: This hit me hard because... that is exactly what conservatives are arguing for with a straight face. https://t.co/NTeoOSwyEu — Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 3, 2022 In case it doesn't show up, here's the Tweet she's replying to: Although the Founders would not have allowed someone who looks like Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court, here’s why their view on things should still guide every decision she makes. — New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 3, 2022 That...

I always find it interesting when a literary magazine takes on technology. In that spirit, the New Yorker does its best to explain the Network Time Protocol: Today, we take global time synchronization for granted. It is critical to the Internet, and therefore to civilization. Vital systems—power grids, financial markets, telecommunications networks—rely on it to keep records and sort cause from effect. N.T.P. works in partnership with satellite systems, such as the Global Positioning System (G.P.S.)...

James Fallows loves the new data visualizations from the Census Bureau: Through its existence the Census has been an irreplaceable trove of data. A minor illustration: this past April it released a searchable database of individual records from the 1950 Census, rendered in touchingly precise hand-written form. You can look up the name of anyone included in that Census here — as I did for my mother and father.1 Why the 1950 Census? Because by law personally identifiable Census records are kept...

As previously mentioned. Just check out those hand-inlays and working ca. 1800 hardware!