Jacob Carlson
@jacobwcarlson.me
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Jacob Carlson
@jacobwcarlson.me
· Nov 20
Sex and the City characters are tiresome. What I want to know is Which Bewitched Witch Would You Be?
(I'm a Serena, obvs)
(I'm a Serena, obvs)
I’m trying to get down to my birth weight.
December 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I’m trying to get down to my birth weight.
Jesus…now there’s a mensch.
December 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Jesus…now there’s a mensch.
I enjoy being annoyed so I looked up the books. It's obviously and maybe intentionally fake, but I think it's maybe the only reading list that includes Richard Bach and Bertrand Russell.
That said, I wish she read Will Durant for real.
That said, I wish she read Will Durant for real.
December 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I enjoy being annoyed so I looked up the books. It's obviously and maybe intentionally fake, but I think it's maybe the only reading list that includes Richard Bach and Bertrand Russell.
That said, I wish she read Will Durant for real.
That said, I wish she read Will Durant for real.
It’s going to be hilarious when Zaslav lists independence of news assets as a reason why he ultimately accepts the $NFLX offer.
December 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It’s going to be hilarious when Zaslav lists independence of news assets as a reason why he ultimately accepts the $NFLX offer.
I've had the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also featured in the movie Christine) stuck in my head for 3 days and I'm not even really all that pressed about it. Those horns lowkey whip. I might need to make a big beat remix of it.
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I've had the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also featured in the movie Christine) stuck in my head for 3 days and I'm not even really all that pressed about it. Those horns lowkey whip. I might need to make a big beat remix of it.
If you made businesses criminally liable for negligent disclosure of PII you would have a lot fewer businesses needlessly storing it. Parking lots aren't doing this to provide exceptional parking experiences, they're doing it to sell data to brokers.
“Parking in the garage means agreeing to the company’s terms and conditions, which includes collecting license plate data and, its privacy policy states, possibly biometric data, from its users.”
Two of the city's largest parking garages are now using artificial intelligence to recognize your car
The city and the new operator, Metropolis, promise a smooth experience from the technology, but customers in other cities have filed class-action lawsuits over the system.
www.cvilletomorrow.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
If you made businesses criminally liable for negligent disclosure of PII you would have a lot fewer businesses needlessly storing it. Parking lots aren't doing this to provide exceptional parking experiences, they're doing it to sell data to brokers.
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
I have no way of explaining why, but Quentin Tarantino and Billy Corgan basically share 1 spot in my memory. In my mind they're pretty much the same guy.
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I have no way of explaining why, but Quentin Tarantino and Billy Corgan basically share 1 spot in my memory. In my mind they're pretty much the same guy.
I love Brad with my whole chest and there is no doubt he should be the next Congressman for NY10.
More importantly you cannot convince me that's not Fred Armisen 25 seconds into the spot.
More importantly you cannot convince me that's not Fred Armisen 25 seconds into the spot.
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I love Brad with my whole chest and there is no doubt he should be the next Congressman for NY10.
More importantly you cannot convince me that's not Fred Armisen 25 seconds into the spot.
More importantly you cannot convince me that's not Fred Armisen 25 seconds into the spot.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Is casually dropping Tarkovsky in conversation a red flag? Because it’s a flag, and ain’t a green one. I need a vexillologist but for Guys.
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Is casually dropping Tarkovsky in conversation a red flag? Because it’s a flag, and ain’t a green one. I need a vexillologist but for Guys.
Gonna need a biopic starring Jesse Plemons on my desk by the end of Q3 2027. Thanks.
🗃️ Socialist of the Day: William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood (February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928) was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of America.
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Gonna need a biopic starring Jesse Plemons on my desk by the end of Q3 2027. Thanks.
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a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
I wish I could do more than sound like a Cassandra, but this is coming/already here and there's not really anything you can do about it. And this is just the consumer version.
We're not ready for the privacy implications of RF Sensing. Especially since it can be activated via software with no new hardware required. Today it can determine motion and eventually provide presence detection using Wi-Fi, ZigBee or other radios. Updates could provide even more details.
Next step for Hue MotionAware: presence detection - Hueblog.com
Hue MotionAware could become even better in the future and also detect presence, as founder George Yianni reveals.
hueblog.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I wish I could do more than sound like a Cassandra, but this is coming/already here and there's not really anything you can do about it. And this is just the consumer version.
Everything that's not Signal should have the same note attached.
Pay phone in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 1967, by Jim Marshall.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Everything that's not Signal should have the same note attached.
I wish 27 year-old Jake knew about Trader Joe's chai concentrate & Diet Dr. Pepper.
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I wish 27 year-old Jake knew about Trader Joe's chai concentrate & Diet Dr. Pepper.
The Beast In Me is my favorite modern noir anything in a long time.
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The Beast In Me is my favorite modern noir anything in a long time.
Not the point, but did my guy roast that turkey in an Eazy-Bake oven? Gas station hot dog-roller-ass turkey looking like hand-me-down luggage. No chance that dry-ass bird gives him salmonella so I hope he chokes on bone fragments.
Hey, we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe.
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Not the point, but did my guy roast that turkey in an Eazy-Bake oven? Gas station hot dog-roller-ass turkey looking like hand-me-down luggage. No chance that dry-ass bird gives him salmonella so I hope he chokes on bone fragments.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
It should cost $1 to send me an email unless I have previously emailed you. Ditto voice mail. It's entirely too easy and free for the hoi palloi to contact me.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It should cost $1 to send me an email unless I have previously emailed you. Ditto voice mail. It's entirely too easy and free for the hoi palloi to contact me.
There's lot of lamenting about an indie-sleaze revival, but the distance between now and 2006 is the same as between the release of Grease and its setting in 1959.
You're old, so what. At least your youth is a cultural curiosity and not forgotten.
You're old, so what. At least your youth is a cultural curiosity and not forgotten.
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
There's lot of lamenting about an indie-sleaze revival, but the distance between now and 2006 is the same as between the release of Grease and its setting in 1959.
You're old, so what. At least your youth is a cultural curiosity and not forgotten.
You're old, so what. At least your youth is a cultural curiosity and not forgotten.
I'm listening to a podcast where a host compares Zeus to Harvey Weinstein. Which, fair I suppose, given that the context is the intemperate raping. But still, I feel that's bit generous to Harvey.
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I'm listening to a podcast where a host compares Zeus to Harvey Weinstein. Which, fair I suppose, given that the context is the intemperate raping. But still, I feel that's bit generous to Harvey.
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This is a worse case scenario for a security product meant as an isolation boundary.
Azure Bastion CVE-2025-49752: Brief Summary of Critical Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - ZeroPath Blog
This post provides a brief summary of CVE-2025-49752, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Azure Bastion. It covers technical details, affected versions, and vendor security history based...
zeropath.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is a worse case scenario for a security product meant as an isolation boundary.