As it turns out, people already have it working in Linux. I just torrented the latest KDE Neon build in case I get a wild hair for a project tomorrow.

I’m not holding my breath for a Linux version. They’re positioning themselves as the alternative to Adobe, so they only need to cover those situations.

Though downloading it did introduce me to MSIX installers, which then led down a rabbit hole. Back in the app, all I did to kick the tires was create a layout and hit T to see if I could immediately draw a text box. The answer was “yes,” so that’s a good first impression. I just have nothing to design currently.

Just the idea of sit-ups. Yeah, y’all can fuck right the fuck off with that.

Masters was in underwater basketweaving, so he leaves it off his tagline.

The ragtag band only wins in the movies.

The latest Last Week Tonight has a good primer on some of it. Medicare Advantage is what my ex sells, and they are up in arms right now that open enrollment is just dead, and the shutdown has tied their hands in many ways. Things are going to get ugly.

Sign all the pieces with an Autopen.

All theatre. “We care about our customers more than money” is not in any corporate lexicon.

There are several examples of successful independent journalism ventures.

The point the story is making is the situation for journalists striking out on their own is that work ends up being way more on the back end, such that the reporting itself is a fraction of the time as cultivating the site and keeping subscribers happy with your interaction level, lest they bolt.

What legacy media provided was a premade audience, legal cover and no pay reduction with each lost subscriber. Slim offerings, to be sure, but we’re really learning as we go that as shitty as working conditions were, you could be doing all of that and having to moonlight in marketing.

Perhaps the thinking goes that because of the company name, they are entitled to the full annual discharge of the Amazon basin.

That’s an interesting – if wildly incorrect – summary.

I might make an exception for publishers of religious texts. Seems solid otherwise.

No doubt being built to compute how much energy we’re wasting on LLMs.

To ask this question is to be unaware of where the NYT has been going for years – probably over a decade by now in the open, and behind the scenes before that. This media situation didn’t spring forth fully formed.

That’s really the pressing question of the next week. I don’t think Trump has sufficient advisors to explain to him that this situation could easily turn into the sort of cliff Coyote falls off of after the Roadrunner stops for a second or two and watches him go by. I’m not sure he’s still touching ground, but he hasn’t looked down at the canyon yet, so as with anyone lacking object permanence, it doesn’t exist.

I don’t do multiplayer, but I fucking bow down to this pun. Though I’m now wincing at the idea of kids in the cargo area.

Oh, I guarantee we’ll see something happen.

🎶 What it is ain’t exactly clear. 🎶

And accounting, having no idea what the going price of maotai is and what the markup might be in a service setting, just goes “yeah, that seems reasonable.” The perfect crime.

Oh, shit … that’s fucking hilarious. Oops!

The five-year contract with government technology middleman Carahsoft Technology, made public in September, provides Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) licenses for a product called Zignal Labs, a social media monitoring platform used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon.

Surely, Palantir fits in here somewhere …