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Civicslog
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I’ve been keeping a list of Trump II admin actions on a blog and decided to give it its own home: Civicslog.com. The list goes back to the election and I’ll port those items over several at a time while trying to keep up with the daily flood.
President Humpty Dumpty issues a decree.
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
www.whitehouse.gov
September 29, 2026 at 9:58 PM
President Humpty Dumpty issues a decree.
Hey @governor.ca.gov: Any plans to sign the “Balcony Solar” bill (SB 868) into law before the 9/30 deadline? It’s been on your desk for weeks. CA renters should have an opportunity to cut ⚡️costs, reduce carbon emissions, and help the grid during peak usage.
What’s the holdup?
What’s the holdup?
September 27, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Hey @governor.ca.gov: Any plans to sign the “Balcony Solar” bill (SB 868) into law before the 9/30 deadline? It’s been on your desk for weeks. CA renters should have an opportunity to cut ⚡️costs, reduce carbon emissions, and help the grid during peak usage.
What’s the holdup?
What’s the holdup?
Seems like the National Weather Service’s Area Forecast Discussion has gotten sloppy and less informative over the past several months. More typos. Less meteorologist’s reasoning behind the forecast. The AFD is a valuable resource and it’d be a real loss if it were to go away. @nws.noaa.gov
September 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Seems like the National Weather Service’s Area Forecast Discussion has gotten sloppy and less informative over the past several months. More typos. Less meteorologist’s reasoning behind the forecast. The AFD is a valuable resource and it’d be a real loss if it were to go away. @nws.noaa.gov
Somehow singular “they” snuck up and lodged itself in the part of brain that says ”this sounds right.” Now whenever generic “he” turns up in older texts I give it a sidelong glance. It sounds anachronistic, but more, it sounds off, and the colonization of my ear is complete.
September 22, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Somehow singular “they” snuck up and lodged itself in the part of brain that says ”this sounds right.” Now whenever generic “he” turns up in older texts I give it a sidelong glance. It sounds anachronistic, but more, it sounds off, and the colonization of my ear is complete.
AI Force? An AI Tsar? I thought they had given that job to a tech-bro?
(Asks chat.)
They did: David Sacks was the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto Tsar. But it was a limited-time appointment, so when his term ended, he joined the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
(Asks chat.)
They did: David Sacks was the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto Tsar. But it was a limited-time appointment, so when his term ended, he joined the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
September 20, 2026 at 1:37 PM
AI Force? An AI Tsar? I thought they had given that job to a tech-bro?
(Asks chat.)
They did: David Sacks was the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto Tsar. But it was a limited-time appointment, so when his term ended, he joined the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
(Asks chat.)
They did: David Sacks was the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto Tsar. But it was a limited-time appointment, so when his term ended, he joined the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
The talk about ai-authored human extinction seems premature. Surely the machines will need some of us to stoke the fires, for a while. And those people will need homes and food and all the rest, produced by other humans.
We might call the transition to machine-servitude “the latest capitalism”.
We might call the transition to machine-servitude “the latest capitalism”.
September 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The talk about ai-authored human extinction seems premature. Surely the machines will need some of us to stoke the fires, for a while. And those people will need homes and food and all the rest, produced by other humans.
We might call the transition to machine-servitude “the latest capitalism”.
We might call the transition to machine-servitude “the latest capitalism”.
The nesting dependent clauses stuffed into this sentence leave us waiting all afternoon for the speaker to announce his point.
No wonder the cook quit.
No wonder the cook quit.
This day our cook maid (we having no luck in maids now-adays), which was likely to prove a good servant, though none of the best cooks, fell sick and is gone to her friends, having been with us but 4 days.
September 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
The nesting dependent clauses stuffed into this sentence leave us waiting all afternoon for the speaker to announce his point.
No wonder the cook quit.
No wonder the cook quit.
If the $5k is coming out of his pocket, then yeah. It won’t change my vote, but thumbs up, sure, good plan.
September 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
If the $5k is coming out of his pocket, then yeah. It won’t change my vote, but thumbs up, sure, good plan.
My fantasy baseball team in the last week of the season as injuries mount.
September 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM
My fantasy baseball team in the last week of the season as injuries mount.
Sea cucumber fisherman.
Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
September 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Sea cucumber fisherman.
This leaves the current broken system in place, which means ultimately the utilities and ratepayers will be forced to cover wildfire costs. Here’s an idea: The state should take the IOUs public. But not until the ongoing lack of resolution drives the share price closer to $0.
Wildfire liability bill dies without a vote on final day of session
The measure, which was opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's public utiliites, never came to a vote in the Assembly.
calmatters.org
September 2, 2026 at 5:35 PM
This leaves the current broken system in place, which means ultimately the utilities and ratepayers will be forced to cover wildfire costs. Here’s an idea: The state should take the IOUs public. But not until the ongoing lack of resolution drives the share price closer to $0.
This means there’s less food.
S&P Agriculture Index has now traded green for 13 straight days, its longest winning streak this century 📈📈
September 1, 2026 at 10:39 PM
This means there’s less food.
Our dark disco future.
August 24, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Our dark disco future.
Last week the music streaming algorithm found a reason to throw in the Hoodoo Gurus song “Bittersweet” and it’s been an ear worm trapped in my noggin ever since. So here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrq...
Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet
YouTube video by HoodooGurusVEVO
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August 24, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Last week the music streaming algorithm found a reason to throw in the Hoodoo Gurus song “Bittersweet” and it’s been an ear worm trapped in my noggin ever since. So here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrq...
I’ve been bugged by the transformation of the term “late-stage capitalism” which first described a system in its final throes, its contradictions irresolvable, into today’s meaning, nearly the opposite, that describes a capitalism ever more pernicious in its ability to find resources to exploit.
August 23, 2026 at 4:59 PM
I’ve been bugged by the transformation of the term “late-stage capitalism” which first described a system in its final throes, its contradictions irresolvable, into today’s meaning, nearly the opposite, that describes a capitalism ever more pernicious in its ability to find resources to exploit.
Byron’s Don Juan
Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
July 28, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Byron’s Don Juan
I’m no @tamslick.bsky.social but here are a couple of automotive curiosities from the morning walk: a semi-restored early 60s Chevy Nova. (I drove a Nova wagon of this vintage, for a time, in a teal that matches this car’s primer.)
July 25, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I’m no @tamslick.bsky.social but here are a couple of automotive curiosities from the morning walk: a semi-restored early 60s Chevy Nova. (I drove a Nova wagon of this vintage, for a time, in a teal that matches this car’s primer.)
Suddenly no longer trying to be relevant.
July 12, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Suddenly no longer trying to be relevant.
Reposted by Lars
© Elena Wuest.
'An Afternoon Tea II.'
Oil on canvas, 2026.
110 x 110 cm.
'An Afternoon Tea II.'
Oil on canvas, 2026.
110 x 110 cm.
July 10, 2026 at 9:44 AM
© Elena Wuest.
'An Afternoon Tea II.'
Oil on canvas, 2026.
110 x 110 cm.
'An Afternoon Tea II.'
Oil on canvas, 2026.
110 x 110 cm.
Same, Sam, except it’s F1 and a Scot droning on about tire selection.
To church, and slept all the sermon, the Scot, to whose voice I am not to be reconciled, preaching.
June 21, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Same, Sam, except it’s F1 and a Scot droning on about tire selection.
Looked but didn’t notice the guy with the instruction sheet.
June 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Looked but didn’t notice the guy with the instruction sheet.
This site really shows its best self on sports or scaffolding nights.
June 13, 2026 at 1:55 PM
This site really shows its best self on sports or scaffolding nights.