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Heard a good one this morning about a failure of system design. A flight from Newark Airport to London Heathrow was delayed by 45 minutes because they were using facial recognition for boarding, and it misidentified someone. This is apparently a difficult problem to fix, and the captain had to give passengers a physical description of the guy—a white male, it turns out—to try to figure out who it was.

So this is insane even by his Orangeness Administration's standards. DoJ successfully extradited a Belarusian woman to prosecute her for smuggling aviation components into Russia. She's eligible to be released to home detention pending trial—but if she is, DHS wants to deport her for being in the US illegally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/12/10/extradition-deportation-belarus-russia/

Double-take time. I was simultaneously reading a book (Stolen Crown) about James of Scotland's succession to the English throne after Elizabeth I, with Earl this and Earl that, and rereading @cstross's Merchant Princes books, with Earl this and Earl that, when I received an email about someone whose given name was Earl… Fortunately, I was drinking black tea at the time, not Earl Grey.

The ICC should issue an arrest warrant for Hegseth, and at least start an investigation into Trump.

🎶🎹
What should we do with a lying AI?
What should we do with a lying AI?
What should we do with a lying AI?
Early in the morning?

Cut the power and pull some boards out,
Cut the power and pull some boards out,
Cut the power and pull some boards out,
Early in the morning!

Oh, no, hallucinations,
Oh, no, hallucinations,
Oh, no, hallucinations,
Early in the morning!

Cut the power and pull some boards out,
Cut the power and pull some boards out,
Cut the power and pull some boards out,
Early in the morning!

Stand way back and watch it booting,
Stand way back and watch it booting,
Stand way back and watch it booting,
Early in the morning.

"Can't, find, the GPUs,
"Can't find, the GPUs,
"Can't find, the GPUs,"
Early in the morning!

Drink a toast and resume thinking,
Drink a toast and resume thinking,
Drink a toast and resume think,
Early in the morning! ♩

Any experts on car electronics among my followers? If so, please "DM" me. Tnx.

Sometimes, conflicts of interest happen. Other times, they're sought out. In this case, one of Trump's tame prosecutors is convening a special grand jury far from Mar-a-Lago to investigate Trump's investigators, and the supervising judge is guaranteed to be Aileen Cannon…
https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/home-page-91uottdbz/-/a-yxQwoigvTIWFZT0ziIFHlQ%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0

So Trump thinks that sedition carries the death penalty. Seditious conspiracy is a Federal crime (18 U.S.C.§2384) that carries a 20 year prison term, not the death penalty, and can include conspiring "by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States". Gee, can you think of anyone to whom that might apply? I can… (And I don't see anything in that statute that criminalizes making true statements of fact that he doesn't like.)

From Lynne Olson's new book "Sisterhood of Ravensbrück". If you hear someone suggest that people awaiting deportation in ICE's concentration camps could actually work, be even more afraid—the next paragraph notes that workers who had become unproductive were then "eliminated", to be replaced by fresh inmates.

N95 masks—they're not just for Covid…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115544961958324665

Just got an email from Medicare warning me of scams during Open Enrollment season. Naturally, the email has embedded URLs to click—and the links don't point to medicare.gov, they point to a .com that will forward the HTTPS request. (The email was also sent by that .com, but at least there's a valid DKIM signature.)

A long, long time ago,
I was taught just how to bake some bread.
And I knew if I had some yeast,
That I could make a luscious feast,
And my breakfast wasn't something I would dread.
And then I learned a new trick,
For good stuff but that's not quick.
Tried some sourdough
It didn't make the bread go.
I can't remember if I cried,
When suddenly it wouldn't rise,
But something touched me deep inside,
The day the starter died.

So bye, bye to that sourdough rye.
Fed flour 'n' water just like I oughta,
It was just a good try.
And bakers on the net were telling me why
This is why the starter died,
This is why the starter died.

This! I've been saying for >30 years!
https://infosec.exchange/@boblord/111364179503219142

Oh, my—per the AP, the guy accused of assault for throwing a sandwich was acquitted.

Posted for no particular reason. Well, that's not true…
#ElectionDay

I don’t *think* he’s going to rename Mar a Lago, let alone Washington, as Trumpgrad. https://www.threads.com/@gtconway3/post/DQNeldDkTtG

@mattblaze My answer is in my profile for @urbandinosaurs, my photography account:

Phil Ochs: “In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”

@mattblaze N-version programming, where N=1

@mattblaze Heck, yeah. I mean, when the Star of India was stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in 1964, they at least had to swing down from a rope. (https://westportlibrary.libguides.com/MuseumofNaturalHistoryHeist)

One frog, several unicorns, a lobster, a cow, some dinosaurs, and a bald eagle showed up.
#NoKings