Yeah, no kidding. Years ago, when I tried to start a game of "hot potato" at the beach with one... it crushed a kid.

Musk has always been an absolutist with regards to anything he himself wants to do. Rules are for other, lesser, people.

Followed by a 5600 word Slashdot summary.

I expect the announcement of the extension will happen on Tuesday.

Trump has zero leverage. The Chinese already know Trump is bluffing and will never ban TikTok.

At first glance being a polar bear geneticist appears glamorous... but then you learn they got constantly picked on in school, given wedgies and stuffed in polar bear lockers.

And don't get me started on how the girl polar bears are always laughing at those glasses-wearing geeky science types...

YATS = Yet Another Worthless TIOBE Blathering.

Applets may only now be going away officially, but fortunately most people wised up and stopped using Java for the web many years ago.

JavaScript is unrelated to Java, but it sounds the Java folks are apparently hoping they can somehow retcon that.

It could've been done... with one of these babies.

It's the sound of Trump's autopen generating another crypto-bro's pardon.

NASA's fiscal year 2026 budget proposal, though, zeroed out funding for MAVEN, which cost $22.6 million to operate in 2024. MAVEN was one of several missions "operating well past the end of prime mission" the proposal would terminate, despite MAVEN's role as a communications relay.

Even more winning! It's wearing me out!!

That statement seems to be based on what one (apparently ill-informed) author stated. From TFA:

As one author on the KDP Community forums, Leslie Anne Perry, noted, “Previously, I have not enabled DRM on my e-books. My thinking was that I wanted folks to be able to download them to other devices within their own household. However, I think I will enable it on any future e-books. I’m not sure I want people to be able to download them as a PDFs [sic].”

For some reason, she apparently objects specifically to PDF.

I will note that other parts of TFA indicate this may actually be a rather ham-handed attempt on the part of Amazon to discourage authors from choosing to self-publish without DRM. That would not surprise me in the least.

Heck, Americans have spent that much this year paying for Trump's tariffs!

They would like to sell you a cloud storage subscription, but they do give you the option to use local physical storage (or iCloud) instead.

So you angrily repeat things and shout a lot?