1. WordPress sucks big fat donkey balls no matter what you’re doing.
2. If anyone tells you that taking your unused non-Roman fonts out via the registry isn’t going to bork your computer, they lied.
3. Because of #2, I’ve finally upgraded to the last iteration of Win10. That should hold me for another 5 years.
4. I’m seriously thinking about using AI to make audiobooks. At least 3 of my books don’t qualify for Amazon Audible’s auto-audiobook program because they’re too long.
I’m going to blame my lack of planning on DreamHost.
Wasn’t tech supposed to make our lives EASIER???
This was adorable.
But there’s no links…
>.>
There is ONE LINK. If you click on it. I mean, you don’t have to. But you could. So technically, there’s a link.
R link of rando?
That’s an embedded video.
😛
Hey, look. I’m maxed out on bandwidth right now.
“This one time, at bandwidth…”
LOL
There is a link in it to watch it on YouTube.
Isn’t there a project going with feeding Project Gutenberg files into LLMs to get copyright free audio books? I recall hearing about it a while back, but as I do not care for audio books, it just registered as a “Huh, that’s a valuable use case for them.”
There’s a project going on to feed any and every piece of literature floating around on the net to a) train LLMs and b) do other things, including audiobooks.
Congressional Democrat’s are staging a coup today.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1933214166409413038
Again?
Still.
Like I said earlier – very late Republic behavior. Violence, m rule breaking, and bribery were the Roman Senate MO heading towards the civil wars and eventual dictatorships.
I am not sure what spawns the ‘all for me, none for you’ mentality but there has always been a lot of it going around.
Herd animals, whatchagonnado?
I remember a documentary on Lions. The king of the prides has an average reign of three years. At the end of three years he has a pronounced limp, missing an eye and a very scarred up face from constant challenges to his top spot. Then he finally decides ‘fuck this’ and wanders off…or he is killed.
I take one look at being in charge, everyone else’s problems are your problems and think ‘who needs that shit?’
Permanent dictatorship. Limited term dictatorships were already a feature of the republic.
What spawns it is too much money in government making power and corruption irresistible to immoral people.
When Rome was a backwater lower-middle-class farm town with a good militia, they didn’t have those problems.
Wasn’t tech supposed to make our lives EASIER???
Haha, you slay me.
Time to mail the links out to all commentators.
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I recall looking at a chart of GDP growth to see if I could detect any acceleration of growth around the introduction of IT. If information technology has had any effect on it, it has been to slow it down.
It was a chart of the rate of growth. One showing the amount of GDP shows an upward curve, if memory serves. One showing the rate of growth shows a possible slight flattening.
If memory serves.
It is very difficult if not impossible to measure any given variable in highly complex systems where nearly everything else is a variable.
ai recall that adapting the Japanese system of ‘just in time delivery’ in manufacturing was magic. That would not be possible without modern IT. Again, one variable affecting all over variables.
Now, just for fun, compare that to a graph of regulatory growth.
I am so old that IT meant Industrial Technology in college.
WordPress is the systemd of CMS. Or systemd is the WordPress of init systems. In any case, they each try to do 5,000 things poorly rather than one thing well.
Maybe systemd will assimilate WordPress.
systemd-cmsd
Oh holy hell… the Singularity is nigh (as in… enough bloated software together to suck in everything else version of the Singularity).
systemd – “a bad operating system that desperately needs a text editor”
I’ve got several problems with my installation or theme or database or webhost or something. I’m not quite sure what’s going on and the “fixes” I’ve implemented from around the web have not worked.
1. I really like my theme. I worked hard on it. It doesn’t look too outdated. In the past, I’ve been able to CSS to my heart’s content. See: sidebar. That’s my handwriting font.
2. However, it’s not very mobile-responsive when it comes to tables, because that’s what I’m using on the front page. How else am I supposed to do it? I’ve got 11 books. I’m not going to make you scroll forever.
3. I installed a mobile theme, but it was ugly. I tried a few more. All gross. I gave up.
4. Regarding book excerpts (25% of a very long book is still a lot of content), years ago, I put them up on Scribd and embedded them in my site (scroll down). It was a very tidy, efficient, economical (space-wise) solution.
5. But I had an epiphany a couple of weeks ago that only old people read on their computers. My kids don’t use their computers for much of anything, and neither has tablets. They do everything on their phones. So I’m going to have to change to something more phone-friendly. There is NO WAY you’re going to read those embedded PDFs on your phone.
6. I thought, well, I’ll just do static sites for my excerpts. @OMWC looked at it–ON HIS COMPUTER–and said, “That’s disgusting.” Yes. I know. I’m transitioning to phone-friendly. It looks fabulous on my (very small) phone.
7. So I thought, hey, why don’t I put the excerpt on its own page IN WORDPRESS?? Why didn’t I think of that the first time, you ask? Because I think I’m a brilliant interior book designer and I wanted to show off my mad skillz.
8. Then I was like, wait a minute. Why don’t I just put the excerpt on the book’s page where the Scribd embed used to be? I swear, I’m slow as molasses in January sometimes.
9. However, that’s a lot of content. Any individual page doesn’t seem to be able to handle too much content. I’m trying to get my book excerpts up, but since I write very long books, my samples (25%) are very long. I format the hell out of these fuckers and it doesn’t like it.
10. Where I used to CSS the shit out of my site, NOW I can’t get any NEW CSS to work. I mean, things have started working now, so maybe I was missing a semicolon.
11. And lastly, the autosave runs too often and times out. I’ve tried to modify my PHP file, but that breaks the site, so I don’t know what to do about that.
I suspect I have more than a couple of problems, but ferreting them out isn’t going to be easy.
Hey Sean — there’s all your links!
CSS grid would be the way to make a responsive pseudo-table, but I have no idea how that works within the context of a CMS theme.
Also, you could consider building a mobile site and just redirecting from your TLD based on browser useragent and/or screen size.
THAT is not a bad idea. Thank you!
I use Tablepress plugin for my tables. I got tired of wrangling all that markup myself.
The commenters hunger for content!
Congressional Democrat’s are staging a coup today.
Did they capture the magic gavel?
He pinned it, so he really thought he crushed this tweet.
Well, if he wanted to emulate the rest of the government, he would flatten the other four tires and then go and buy four new cars on credit, take a tire off of each, and fail to put them on the original car.
Lol, that’s perfect.
flatten the other four tires
Now that’s a govt car – with five tires.
juris imprudent:
I was waiting for someone to call me out on that, I could argue I meant the spare, but I didn’t. It was a mistake that I saw after it posted.
The sentiment is still there, and Pat, for true perfection, I think I would have needed to have him demand more funding at the end since all five cars are broken now.
I award him no points, and may God have mercy on his soul.
What kind of Windows fuckery requires fonts to be pulled via the registry? It’s been so long since I’ve used WIndows for anything but gaming I can’t recall the process, but on Linux systems it’s as easy as adding or deleting files from /usr/share/fonts/TTF or ~/.fonts and running fc-cache.
Isn’t everything in the Windows Registry?
At some point if it wasn’t there, I’m sure it’ll be added.
The kind where they say, “Go to settings and choose which ones you want to uninstall” and it looks like it worked, then you open Photoshop and find out they’re still there.
That makes me wonder if Photoshop has its own font cache on top of the stock Windows fonts location, frankly. I swear the word processors at least used to do that kind of thing as well.
PS cloud syncs its font cache. You should be able to delete them from C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\User Owned Fonts\
Cloud? Dude, what?
I’m on Pshop 7 and I’m not changing for love nor money. My Adobe does not phone home. I made sure of it.
That folder is empty.
Ahh, that makes sense then if it’s an older PS without cloud access. Apparently there’s still a local cache. Instructions for deleting it here.
For those who do need to get to locations like this quickly, keep in mind that Windows does have system variables that get to those locations much easier:
%AllUsersProfile% – Open the All User’s Profile C:\ProgramData
%AppData% – Opens AppData folder C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming
%CommonProgramFiles% – C:\Program Files\Common Files
%CommonProgramFiles(x86)% – C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
%HomeDrive% – Opens your home drive C:\
%LocalAppData% – Opens local AppData folder C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local
%ProgramData% – C:\ProgramData
%ProgramFiles% – C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86)
%ProgramFiles(x86)% – C:\Program Files (x86)
%Public% – C:\Users\Public
%SystemDrive% – C:
%SystemRoot% – Opens Windows folder C:\Windows
%Temp% – Opens temporary file Folder C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Local\Temp
%UserProfile% – Opens your user’s profile C:\Users\{username}
I thought Control Panel -> Fonts (or wherever they move it) Right click on font to delete “Delete”. Don’t screw with the Registry unless you have to. (And for the times you do — make sure gpedit.msc isn’t what you really want.)
As I said above:
You’re implying I read the whole page and then spout off on things, Mojeaux…. heresy!
Apologies. I know The Way Of The Glib, but I forgot.
Some singing and some dancing
Best break dancing ever!
I saw Cab Calloway live circa 1981.
What was it you were trying to accomplish originally?
Decolonization?
Nice.
What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?
That sounds downright un-Orthodox.
Stop having to scroll through 100 extra fonts I don’t need while I’m trying to design a book. I don’t know what I want to use until I see it, and the non-Roman fonts were irritating me, ESPECIALLY in Photoshop and Illustrator.
I did keep one Chinese font, and that’s because I had to find and install it for a client.
You mean you’re not going to release your book in Wingdings?
What was it you were trying to accomplish originally?
Take over the world Pinky… Take over the world.
Speaking of insurrectionism, I can’t find it today but a day or two ago there was a story about the LA school district announcing they would prevent ICE from conducting operations related to school graduations. I can’t wait for the footage of open combat between LA school resource officers and federal marshals.
As far as I can tell, the rumors about ICE entering schools is just that – rumors.
My college (and the union) e-mailed us all procedures to follow if/when ICE agents entered our classrooms while teaching. I asked where this was happening and I was told it was not – but it might.
Its all for clicks
My wife was talking about getting the same sort of email from her university, and I asked “are they asking you to break the law? In writing?”
She immediately emailed that to the head of HR, and nothing was heard about it again.
WordPress sucks big fat donkey balls no matter what you’re doing.
I wax Stoic in such moments, and comfort myself that at least a donkey is made happy somewhere.
Oh, my!
A bear that waxes? Hmmm.
Is he waxing on or waxing off?
I’m not even going to start on my Word styles problems, except to say that I had to figure out a way to do a very precise/sophisticated compare to find all the instances of italics Word stripped out of 305,000 words.
Apropos of nothing, after 3 months of weighing it up, I decided to officially kick off my mid-life crisis at Lino Ink in Abilene yesterday.
Is that Times Roman?
It’s Capitalis. You thought I’d put a proprietary font on my skin?
If it is, it is in truth.
So how does that translate to “Sweet and Sour Chicken”?
真実とは何か
I have a coworker who got a Chinese character tattoo. His wife is Chinese and he made sure it was correct.
I know him just well enough to have made that joke.
Sensei:
Well done, sir… well done.
The real question is: what would they write on you if you did ask for Sweet and Sour Chicken?
火攻?
Zwak. 咕嚕雞球
https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%95%E5%9A%95%E9%9B%9E%E7%90%83
I can only read the last two characters which are chicken and ball.
(psst: it was a reversal of the joke you made. Plus, 火攻 means fire weapon, so spicey chicken?)
Well, at least I know what your arm look like now.
Alright…senator being handcuffed at Noem’s briefing….
Are cops just supposed to know who our better are?
Political kayfabe, regardless.
“Sure, Bub, and I’m Marie Antoinette.”
Yep. It is my impression that Senators have an official forum for questioning agents of the executive. I could be mistaken.
So a case of ‘dont you know who I am?’
“I have people skills!!”
Getting an education
Across America’s community colleges and universities, sophisticated criminal networks are using AI to deploy thousands of “synthetic” or “ghost” students—sometimes in the dead of night—to attack colleges. The hordes are cramming themselves into registration portals to enroll and illegally apply for financial aid. The ghost students then occupy seats meant for real students—and have even resorted to handing in homework just to hold out long enough to siphon millions in financial aid before disappearing.
The scope of the ghost-student plague is staggering. Jordan Burris, vice president at identity-verification firm Socure and former chief of staff in the White House’s Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer, told Fortune more than half the students registering for classes at some schools have been found to be illegitimate. Among Socure’s client base, between 20% to 60% of student applicants are ghosts.
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The scheme has also proved incredibly lucrative. According to a Department of Education advisory, about $90 million in aid was doled out to ineligible students, the DOE analysis revealed, and some $30 million was traced to dead people whose identities were used to enroll in classes. The issue has become so dire that the DOE announced this month it had found nearly 150,000 suspect identities in federal student-aid forms and is now requiring higher-ed institutions to validate the identities of first-time applicants for Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms.
“Every dollar stolen by a ghost is a dollar denied to a real student attempting to change their life,” Burris explained. “That’s a misallocation of public capital we really can’t afford.”
Don’t give up the narrative.
wHy iS cOLleGe So eXpEnSivE?
The best part is they probably hired a new administrator for every third fake student enrolled.
Education obviously needs more funding.
No. Every dollar stolen is another five dollars (at least, once you factor in overhead, administration, interest payments, etc.) stolen from a tax payer you cunt.
But the spending multiplier makes it a net gain …
In a nightmare twist, community and technical colleges are seen as low-hanging fruit for this fraud scheme precisely because of how they’ve been designed to serve and engage with local communities and the public with as few barriers to entry as possible. Community colleges are often required to accept every eligible student and typically don’t charge fees for applying. While financial-aid fraud isn’t at all new, the fraud rings themselves have evolved from pandemic-era cash grabs and boogeymen in their mom’s basement, said Burris.
“There is an acceleration due to the proliferation of these automated technologies,” he said. “These are organized criminal enterprises—fraud rings—that are coming both from within the U.S., but also internationally.”
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The attacks specifically zero in on coursework that maximizes financial-aid eligibility, said Mike McCandless, vice president of student services at Merced College. Social sciences and online-only classes with large numbers of students that allow for as many credits or units as possible are often choice picks, he said.
Incentives matter. Maybe if they were loaning out their own money they’d be a little more on the ball.
<a href=" https://boisedev.com/news/2025/06/11/new-manufacturing-facility-nampa-june-2025/" We discuss manufacturing frequently, here is a too local story about a new facility. Makes housing for generators.
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I don’t think that went through properly.
https://boisedev.com/topics/nampa/
Don’t be silly, only the Chinese can manufacture things.
Bretz RV & Marine in Nampa is a client of the company I work for.
House Republicans have narrowly advanced a request from the White House to claw back $9.4 billion that lawmakers have already approved for public media and more than a dozen accounts across the State Department focused on foreign assistance.
The 214-212 vote is a major victory for President Donald Trump, who had been lobbying hard for lawmakers to pass the legislation, including in a social media post shortly before members went to the floor.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/12/house-clears-9-4b-in-funding-clawbacks-requested-by-white-house-00403305
“…a dozen accounts across the State Department focused on foreign assistance.”
Funding for the deep state to stage more riots in blue cities in the US.
Makes housing for generators.
Modular construction. Maybe they can build a housing for me.
Well, we all know that this should be housing for indigent generators.
Now define “reasonable”
The Supreme Court delivered an important victory to disabled children on Thursday, unanimously affirming their right to reasonable accommodations in public education. Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion for the court reiterated that schools engage in unlawful discrimination when they deny these accommodations to kids, even if officials are not acting in bad faith. His ruling provides a lifeline to schoolchildren throughout the country who are wrongly denied equal access to learning opportunities because of a disability.
Yet this victory comes with an asterisk: In a concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas—joined, alarmingly, by Justice Brett Kavanaugh—launched an assault on civil rights law that would devastate disabled Americans’ ability to receive an education and participate in all aspects of public life. Thomas and Kavanaugh suggested that the long-standing interpretation of disability law is, in fact, unconstitutional, arguing that states should have far more leeway to discriminate against those with disabilities. We should expect such callous radicalism from Thomas. But Kavanaugh’s endorsement of this position is yet another ominous sign that the justice is drifting toward the hard-right flank of the court.
It is difficult to know exactly what to make of Kavanaugh’s drift to the right because he remains an intellectual lightweight who struggles to articulate and defend his views with any coherence. Is he just another MAGA-pilled jurist eager to promote Trump’s agenda? Did his bruising confirmation battle leave him with a lifelong grudge against Democrats that he acts upon by trashing progressive priorities from the bench? Has he fallen under the influence of Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito, who spurn centrism as craven capitulation to their perceived enemies on the left? Whatever the cause of his transformation, it is by now an undeniable fact that he has abandoned the middle of the court, sliding to the right of Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and sometimes even Justice Neil Gorsuch.
If Kavanaugh bears a grudge against the people who slandered him during the confirmation, who can blame him?
And, as for inarticulate intellectual lightweights, what’s Katangi up to these days?
Observer: “The disabilities act is an abomination that facilitates fraud.”
Government actor: “Let’s make it worse.”
So, another day ending in Y.
Did his bruising confirmation battle leave him with a lifelong grudge against Democrats that he acts upon by trashing progressive priorities from the bench?
They say that like it would be a totally abnormal and neurotic response. Gee, why would anyone be resentful about being falsely accused of rape in an effort to stymie the biggest career move of their life?
Ok, if I had read all the way to the bottom of the original post, I would have seen that Brooks said pretty much that.
It’s Brooks’ fault for not threading properly.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissected Thomas’ gripe about “unintentional discrimination” in her own deft concurrence. Sotomayor explained that existing statutes apply whether or not officials show “any invidious animus or purpose.” At bottom, these laws do not simply outlaw state bigotry toward disabled people; they also “impose an affirmative obligation” to accommodate disabilities.
That slate article is like an olympic skating judge explaining her scores; completely subjective and personally biased. Good judges get good scores. Evil judges get bad scores.
Progressive gobbledygoop “…impose an affirmative obligation…” means what exactly in people-speak?
I suspect it means you cant just follow the law but must surrender your heart to big brother.