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Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸

When I see someone waving a flag today, I regret that my first wary instinct is to suspect they may actually hate our country. They might claim to appreciate specific parts, so long as those parts precisely match their own corner of it, but otherwise not so much.

I love my country. That means I love the people in it, even if they don’t look like me, sound like me, think like me, worship like me, love like me, or simply exist like me. If your family was around before Europe found it, I’m glad you’re still here. Part of later waves of immigration? Hi, neighbor! Just got here last week, whether through official channels or not? Welcome aboard, friend! To me, that’s patriotism: honoring the actual ideals this wonderful country was founded on, not the twisted little corrupt version politicians push at us.

Opinion | Birthright citizenship overreach by the Supreme Court ends term - The Washington Post:

A more modest ruling, relying on those statutes, would have left the constitutional issue for a future court to consider if and when Congress deliberates on the issue and decides to change the rules.

I use to pay for a WaPo subscription, but their takeover by rightwing extremists ruined it. Imagine wringing hands because SCOTUS made a ruling based on a plain reading of the Constitution.

It’s Friday night and I’m registering a domain, as one does.

Scientists Made Tiny Diving Suits for Cyborg Cockroaches. They Can Breathe Underwater for 3 Hours:

Researchers […] have built a soft, wearable oxygen system that lets cyborg cockroaches survive and move through water and low-oxygen spaces. The attempt turns a land insect into something closer to an amphibious robot, one that could someday crawl through flooded rubble, drains or collapsed tunnels after disasters.

“Can we? Sure! Should we? Eh.”

Happy 28th birthday, honeypot.net! 🎉

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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses | The Verge:

This week, it quietly announced that your glasses’ Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless you pay for a $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription.

Me: You know, these ugly creeper peepers could not possibly make me want them any less.

A PM deep in the heart of darkness: Hold my creatine.

I started today’s presentation with “I went into security engineering because I love public speaking and I’m really good at it”.

Sometimes you have to commit to the lie.

I saw a guy wearing a nylon shirt and matching cargo shorts, both clean but faded from too many washes, a plain non-matching ball cap, black sneakers, about 30 tools clipped to his belt, and a couple of ID badges. He was a phone lineman, maybe an electrician, perhaps a fiber optic engineer, with a broken in outfit he’d worn to work every day for months.

The perfection nearly caught my breath. Guy dressed like that, there’s not a room in the country where a security guard wouldn’t buzz him in.

My OpenClaw, summarizing my day’s adventures:

“Solid evening flow though. Car bodywork → Animal Crossing → Cyberpunk. The perfect arc of ‘paid labor, chill labor, and violent labor.’”