
Kirk Israel's commonplace and blog. Quotes and links daily since 2001.
2025.04.02
Like in both of the latter cases, it is just that duality of "clean" and "uncluttered". It does feel empowering. And a nearly empty inbox feels the same way.
I want to double down on daily rituals of cleaning both personal and work email out on the regular.
2025.04.01
2025.03.31
Only those Feb 29th-ers have it weirder.
Being born on the 31st, or even 30th is rarer than being born on any other day of a month.

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2025.03.28
Oh don't worry guys, our top intelligence official is just casually boosting Russian state media, but it's fine because it's her personal account. Totally normal.
Rest of conversation -
HIMES: Do you think it's responsible for you, as head of the intelligence community, to retweet posts from individuals affiliated with Russian state media?
GABBARD: That retweet came from my personal account.
HIMES: Personal account? You're the Director of National Intelligence, not an Instagram influencer. There's no such thing as "personal" when you're elevating Kremlin propaganda.
GABBARD: I have the right to share information--
HIMES: Information? You mean Russian disinformation. You sit in high-level intelligence briefings, then turn around and boost the same narratives Moscow is pushing. Should we just CC the Kremlin on your next meeting and cut out the middleman?
GABBARD: This is just an attempt to smear me--
HIMES: Smear you? You lied under oath in a Senate hearing yesterday, claiming you knew nothing about classified information, while sitting in Signal chats where war plans were discussed. You retweet Kremlin-backed sources, then act shocked when people question your loyalties.
GABBARD: I'm focused on national security--
HIMES: National security? While pushing Russian propaganda and pretending you're clueless about intelligence leaks? If a Democrat had done half of this, you'd be screaming treason on national TV.
GABBARD: This is about free speech--
HIMES: Free speech? You're the President's top intelligence advisor, not some random guy on Twitter. Every word you amplify has consequences. And right now, you're handing America's enemies exactly what they want--straight from your "personal account."
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1904907517261705605
The computer language Forth - best hope for after-collapse technological rebuild?
2025.03.26

Tracking Trump: Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump's Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Write an OpEd, get abducted by dudes in masks.
video here
Fascist state shit.
remember, if they don't need a trial for non-citizens, you don't get a trial to prove you're a citizen :-D

Here's the OpEd Fullbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk was kidnapped by masked agents (and then illegally sent to Louisiana) for co-authoring.
Sorry, but saying Israel has been extraordinarily cruel against the Palestinians is not "activities in support of Hamas."
This country is slip-sliding into fascism.