Chris DeLuca

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It’s cherry blossom season, motherfuckers.

“The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero,” because “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Complexity is generative, but “all complex ecosystems have parasites.”

Something to keep in mind during this extended “conversation” on waste we’re having in America. Worth a read. 🇺🇸

I rarely link to the New York Times opinion section, because it usually sucks shit. We all know this. However, One Way to Keep Trump’s Authoritarian Fantasy From Becoming Our Reality? Pretty good.

Trump wants us to be demoralized. He wants his despotic plans to be a fait accompli. They will be if no one stands in the way. But every time we — and especially those with power and authority — make ourselves into obstacles, we also make it a little less likely that the administration’s authoritarian fantasy becomes our reality.

When trying to type event.target.closest(), I instead wrote event.target.closet(). It took me too long to debug.

Currently, this is an embarrassing mistake. However, if we bug the ECMAScript standards committee, all event targets can have their own closet.

Companion, 2025 - ★★★½

Subtle metaphors are for chumps. Read more

Started reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 📚

Remember when I asked for more anti-trust? Ask and you shall receive. It’s good for society when billionaires face plant.

Google keeps losing anti-trust cases. All of them will be appealed, but damn if that isn’t heartening. More anti-trust.

The precursor to the CIA wrote a manual for simple sabotage. Jason Kottke’s thoughts.

Ha, some of these things are practically best practices in American business, not against enemies but against their employees, customers, and themselves.

That has been my almost universal experience.

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I’m pleased to announce that the cats will be playing Coachella next year. 🐈 🐈‍⬛

I’m now a proud supporter of independent, local journalists Hell Gate. Pictured here: my stickers and thank you note. 👏 for small operations.

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You love to see it. The Alamo Drafthouse Workers Won via Hell Gate (paid link).

No one should be surprised Trump is a fascist. No one should be surprised at the speed at which he is wrestling away democracy from us. No one should feel like they will be spared.

Brian Kardell and Eric Mayer have a good discussion on the Mozilla privacy policy changes over at Igalia.

Slowly coming back from being sick. Still have a wet, raspy cough, but otherwise the worst of the symptoms are gone. It wasn’t COVID, so probably a cold or some similar virus, but boy, does Chronic GVHD make things worse.

Karla Pacheco making me genuinely laugh on Blue Sky.