I vaguely remember a 20+ year old commercial (for PAC Bell?) It shows one person in a suit talking glowingly about the cloud Cuts to another executive talking glowingly about the information superhighway Pans to another person talking about the future of information Then it cuts to a stressed out technician in the basement with a bunch of wires in the background: “if I don’t get this network up in 30 minutes…I’m a DEAD MAN” 😳 That technician in the basement was my role model I’ll bet there’s a network engineer in Portugal today feeling like that…

.@ROCRegional: Show us the numbers. How many residency slots went to H‑1B and J‑1 visa holders? How many American applicants got a fair shot? @POTUS’ EO puts visa abuse under the microscope. If the system is being gamed, we’ll work with @VP’s @WHFraudTF to expose it.

I imagine their preliminary investigations were so damning they had to totally abandon them.

I’m retired. Look, I post what I do because I’m retired. You may not like what I post, but I’m in a position to be able to tell you a TON of things about public school that educators would love to share, but can’t. You don’t have to agree. But I’m not making this up. Sure I sprinkle hyperbole and sarcasm, but at the heart of my posts are information you’d be wise to at least consider, because NO ONE else will tell you what I do.

15 or 20 years ago I went to the emergency room with a deep cut on one finger and asked EVERYONE (and I mean EVERYONE: receptionist, nurses, doctors), repeatedly for prices no one had a single clue basically there is zero informed consent, zero meeting of the minds, no contract

Korea was one people until 1945. Today the men of the South stand up to three inches taller than the men of the North. Same ancestry, same language, the same height at the start. The border is 160 miles long and 2.5 miles wide. In the North, food comes through the state ration. Rice when there is rice, maize when there is not, and meat on a few holidays a year. In 2012 the army cut its minimum height for a recruit to 4ft 8in, because too few 17 year olds could reach the old one. In the South, meat consumption rose about tenfold in 50 years. Beef, pork, eggs and milk went from luxuries to every day. South Korean women gained 8 inches in height over the 20th century. It is the largest increase recorded for any population on earth. Children who escape from the North are visibly smaller than Southern children of the same age. Fed in the South, the young ones catch up. The older ones are too late. Nobody designed the experiment. But it has 75 million subjects, a genetic control and a hard border, and it has run for 80 years. One side of the wire was fed grain by a government, and the other side ate meat.

This is going up on my office wall

Just an update to highlight that since @UKLabour came to power, 6 and a half divisions worth of fighting age men have completed amphibious operations against our coast. That's more divisions than were in the Allied assault wave on D-Day.

Don't forget to teach your kids how to study! What I would've given to know what I just taught my kid when I was her age! -Flash cards -Shuffle order -Study after every class -Cards every day 15 minutes -After every quiz ask "how could I have studied better" What else should I teach her?

Memorizing times tables goes a really long way. Please, I don't want to see any more high schoolers struggling to compute 7x8.

Think Slow. Then find out who did it. TMOG puts CPU, memory, disk, network, energy, and the responsible process in one native view. Free edition: no account, no expiration. Windows, macOS, and Linux. Built by the original author of Windows Task Manager. Try it on your own hardware: tmog.org

I think most well-meaning but ineffective progressive policies can be summed up as "turning off the smoke alarm". Rent caps, lenient sentencing, scrapping standardised testing. The smoke alarm is not the fire and turning it off doesn't put out the fire.

I've always been puzzled by how many abandoned and buried cities there are. What happened to entire civilizations? Now we are watching human population collapse in a number of countries. Makes me wonder if all human civilizations fail for the same reasons. What would those reasons be? My guess is that pockets of humans develop belief systems that drive success, but success creates space for diverse opinions, and then the winning mindset is destroyed. That's what is happening in America. Traditional American values -- with all its flaws -- created a strong country. Now we have the luxury of entertaining less productive mindsets that are destroying the foundation. Maybe that happens to every civilization.

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Ben Stein Nixon speechwriter, Yale lawyer, the teacher from Ferris Bueller said this in 2019 and it still slaps: “We have a society in which there are an awful lot of people who have no idea that Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung all came to power promising the same kinds of things that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is promising. And it led to mass murder, it led to dictatorship, it led to genocide. These promises are old promises and they invariably lead to bad things.” Nailed it. Free stuff is never free. Somebody always pays. Let’s not let history repeat itself.

A kid who knows how to raid in WoW is unironically a better hire than 99% of non gamers. They develop team skills, coordination, leadership, how to master the respect of 40 people, how to share loot, maintaining a raid schedule, showing up on time, clear direct communication, how to get along with unique personalities, creating and executing on strategies, failing and trying again (perseverance), delayed gratification, etc. Invaluable skills are developed during raiding that are transferrable to the real world.

🚨 BREAKING: THIS IS HUGE. THE WHITE HOUSE JUST PUT AMERICAN LAYOFFS DIRECTLY INTO THE H-1B REVIEW PROCESS. President Trump signed a new executive order TODAY. Federal agencies are now directed to consider whether an H-1B sponsoring employer: Laid off similarly situated American workers during the previous year OR Plans to lay them off in the future. And there’s more. The Labor Department has 30 DAYS to begin reviewing previously submitted H-1B Labor Condition Applications to determine whether action against sponsoring employers is warranted. Think about the implications. A company lays off thousands of American tech workers. Then turns around and says it needs H-1B workers. The government is now explicitly being told: LOOK AT THE LAYOFFS. This is exactly the question companies should have been forced to answer all along. whitehouse.gov/presidential-…

France,Italy and Spain have large navies and ports that service their commerce w all of Asia via the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea. France has troops in Djibouti which offers bases near Yemen. So why do they fail to repress Houthi piracy which is so costly for them ? If they cannot fight rebels who can they ever fight ?

Arrest criminals. Lower crime. The solution is simple

My son was in kindergarten when I filed this #FOIA request that the State Department just responded to. Today, I am driving him to college.

We talk about this w our employees pretty often. The rules: 1. Do good work 2. Stay for 2+ yrs 3. Leave in a responsible way (with notice, do an orderly handover, be willing to take a call or email every once in a while after you're gone if we realize we need some info only you have) Then I'll be an advocate for you / your career and you will be welcome back if we have a spot.