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I blitzed back to Phoenix Tuesday to get my brother, 66, to the hospital. Turned out I couldn't move him and it required paramedics and an ambulance.

He's now sedated and on a ventilator in intensive care, in critical condition. He has improved a bit since admission, but still critical. At least they haven't called me in the middle of the night for permission to do stuff. He's got like ten different meds being pumped into him. If I'd been delayed a day or two he wouldn't be in the hospital, he probably wouldn't be at all.

Fortunately the library closes from the 24th through the first Monday in January, so I'm not losing much work. But I'm not going to leave town until he's at least out of ICU and breathing on his own. If he lives and gets out of the hospital, he'll have to go into a critical care facility to recover from some wounds (not assault-type wounds), and he'll probably will have to go into assisted living after that.

When I was here in November, he did a holographic will (hand-written) in which he explicitly gave me everything, which isn't much. And after this hospital stay, it may be pretty much nothing. He absolutely hates our sister and the will is phrased to specifically exclude anyone but me, i.e. her and her kids. And the hatred is returned: she hates him, and I know the kids don't like him either.

I'm 95% comfortable with not telling my sister and her kids that he's in such shape. I don't think they'd come to see him. But there's that tiny, niggling bit that if he were to die and I didn't tell them, there'd be problems. At the same time, I never hear from them. And if he does recover and finds out I did tell them, there's also the chance of blowback. Quite the Catch-22.

Thus the quandary.

Anyway, I need to get dressed and off to the hospital.

Pity I couldn't have transported him, he would have been a mile away. Instead, it's half an hour with good traffic.

Big surprise. After Senator Elizabeth Warren started raising a stink about the military being unable to repair its own equipment, military contractors started "intensely lobbying" for a new system of "data as a service", which would probably have been even worse. Both systems were excluded from the final bill.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/us_military_right_to_repair_stripped/

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/12/09/2123219/congress-quietly-strips-right-to-repair-provisions-from-us-military-spending-bill

This could have some interesting ramifications.

The paper was published in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology in 2000, and recently revealed emails from within Monsanto show that eight people within that corp wrote the paper and it was proposed that Monsanto people write another paper and have academics edit and apply their names to it.

The paper was cited by the Environmental Protection Agency in approving Roundup for common use, saying it "posed no health risks to humans – no cancer risks, no reproductive risks, no adverse effects on development of endocrine systems in people or animals."

I remember a news program, perhaps British, was interviewing a Monsanto exec who was praising the safety of Roundup, claiming that it was perfectly safe to drink. The interviewer pulled out a transparent glass of clear liquid, and said it was a glass of Roundup, and offered it to the exec to drink as a proof. The exec blanched and blustered and didn't drink it.

An EPA spokesperson said that they did not rely solely on this paper to clear Roundup for use.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/monsanto-roundup-safety-study-retracted

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/09/053254/science-journal-retracts-study-on-safety-of-monsantos-roundup

Called Pairdown, located at https://pairdown.com/

In the initial level, you click on a letter to remove it, forming a new word. Then the letters that you remove form a word! The second level, you remove two letters of different color, and the first color forms one word, the second another.

Then the harder difficulty blurs a letter in the word!

Another game on the web site is I'm Squeezy at https://imsqueezy.com/. You click on a letter in the column on the left to insert it into the spaces between letters in the words on the right.

Steve passed at 84, no announced cause. He was a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer who co-wrote Green Onions, In The Midnight Hour, and (Sitting On) The Dock of the Bay! Now THAT is some talent! He appeared in both Blues Brothers movies. Most importantly, he was the founding guitarist of the Stax label house band during their prime, also playing on Sam & Dave's Soul Man, later covered by the Blues Brothers.

Rolling Stone placed him at #45 in the 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time!

The linked article includes a live studio performance of a shorter version of Booker T and the MG's Green Onions, an absolute classic! It is a little disturbing in that the audience is just sitting there... :-) I'm kind of amazed that Green Onions is just a quartet!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/steve-cropper-booker-t-mg-stax-records-guitarist-dead-1235477205/

This video is pretty good and very interesting!

Watch on YouTube

to focus entirely on commercial manufacturing, i.e. data centers and AI requirements.

I can't fault them, they're going where the money is, and they are required to pursue maximum shareholder value, as sick as that may be.

To illustrate the state of weirdness going on in the memory market, a "typical 32GB DDR5 RAM kit that cost around $82 in August now sells for about $310, and higher-capacity kits have seen even steeper increases." People are being told that if you need a new computer or upgrade right now, forget it. Wait a year or two. Russet is getting a new MacBook Pro from work, but Apple is a bit insulated from this kerfuffle, plus work is paying for it.

The weird bit is that high-end graphics cards spiked as AI stocks started soaring, and now graphics cards are coming down in price. But memory and solid-state drives are soaring. One thing becomes reasonable, and everything else gets priced out of reach.

Micron will continue shipping Crucial memory through February 2026 and will be honoring consumer warrantees as needed. After that, they will only be selling Micron memory to commercial customers.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

CURSE FEDEX!

It's a pretty amazing setup. Two Mamiya 645s: one a 100S, a waist-level finder and an eye-level finder, an 80mm f1.9, a 55mm, a 210mm, an extra 120 film cartridge, both a teleconverter and an extension tube, and an aluminum foam-fitted case for carrying all of it!

It was delivered today. And signed for. Sort of. And when I got home, it was no where to be found.

A 24" by 24" by 11" box that weighs 30 lbs. Not exactly inconspicuous.

The name that signed for it was nobody that I know, certainly wasn't Russet. I went to a neighbor's house, and she saw the FedEx driver carrying a large heavy box back to the truck! Now, the problem is that it was marked as delivered, so I can't do much through my FedEx account to say 'Just leave it' because it's been delivered as far as the system is concerned.

I bought it off Ebay and won a screaming deal. The pieces individually are easily worth over $1,000, with shipping I got it for $760ish. Fortunately the Ebay listing showed all of the serial numbers for the pieces, so if the driver did steal it, the equipment is easily identified.

I'm hoping the driver made a mistake in marking it delivered and that it will be dropped off tomorrow. The seller opened a ticket, so we'll see what happens.

I have a Mamiya RB67, which takes amazing photos, but it is a heavy so-and-so. I bought the 645s as they're much lighter but produce a negative over 3x larger than 35mm, albeit smaller than the RB negative.

EDIT: LITERALLY between the time I posted this and began doing the same post on LJ, the driver called! He's got three more deliveries in the area and is going to swing back by, so I'll have my equipment in about half an hour!

WHEEEEEEEE!

This is... interesting. In October, an A320 operated by Jetblue was en route from Cancun to Newark when it suffered an unexpected loss of altitude. It made an emergency landing in Miami. No injuries or damage to the aircraft. The FAA directive reported that the October flight "experienced a malfunction in its elevator aileron computer (ELAC), which is a computer that controls the plane’s pitch or nose angle. Airbus believes that solar flares—intense and concentrated streams of electromagnetic solar radiation—may have corrupted the data and caused the ELAC to malfunction, suddenly sending the aircraft plunging down."

The article goes on to say "The fix for the issue is a relatively quick revert to earlier software before the planes can fly again, except for some jets that may require a complete hardware replacement." (emphasis mine)

Now, this raises some questions. First, why does reverting the software to a previous version fix the problem? Obviously reinstalling software would fix a corruption issue, unless there was hardware damage, in which case you'd have to replace the hardware and then reinstall the software. Since you're reverting the software, that implies that the older software had some self-healing features that could detect if something had damaged the program and it could reload part or all of itself from safe storage, not unlike error-correcting memory. And personally, if I were designing software for aviation that would fly on aircraft, I'd like to have this feature. I have no idea if their software can do this.

But this is the big question: if the software can self-repair, WHY WOULD SUCH A FEATURE BE REMOVED? Clearly such a feature would take a lot of resources, both occupying computer memory (overhead) and processing power (CPU resources) with its monitoring. BUT THIS IS A FIELD WHERE YOU WANT BOTH BELT AND SUSPENDERS! I just don't get why you would dumb-down a program.

The other question is why the computer doesn't have increased shielding? Granted, you cannot completely shield equipment in aircraft against high-energy particles, it's just not practical. The particles are too energetic, the weight and size of such shielding would be prohibitive. And because aircraft fly at high altitude, you don't have as much atmosphere acting as an attenuator, slowing down the particles a little bit. This is why living at high altitude, such as Russet and I do at 9,000', people have increased rates of thyroid problems and cataract formation: we are exposed to harsher sunlight and more directly hit by higher energy sunlight, where as people living at sea level get the full benefit of a skyful of air slowing things down.

So a couple of questions linger over this. Reloading an older version of the software shouldn't take long: after it's reloaded, the flight crew will have to confirm the ELAC system is functioning as expected. And if it doesn't load properly, it's probably due to damage to said system and the plane will have to be taken out of service pending replacement of the computer. Disruptions to air travel to accommodate things like this will cost the airlines a lot of money and result in hordes of angry passengers whose travel plans are being disrupted.

https://gizmodo.com/how-solar-flares-could-have-corrupted-an-airbus-plane-2000693690

We just got back from seeing it, and it is a fantastic sequel! They brought back pretty much the entire cast, though they did replace the mayor. I'm not going to talk about the plot at all, except to say that the script writers did a wonderful job on the story. And I'm going to leave it at that.

One thing is that I would strongly recommend re-watching the original movie before going to this one. It starts like a week after the end of the first movie and hits the ground running. Or hopping.

:-)

Oh, there's a 40 second clip at the end of the credits. There's something at the very end of the clip that I'm not sure if it's foreshadowing Zootopia 3 or not, I guess we'll find out when it gets made and released. NINE YEARS between the first and second movies, I hope we don't have to wait that long for #3.

I posted recently about Qualcom buying Arduino, and sure enough, changes are happening and they are not being well received. Specifically, the terms of service agreement has a stipulation that you cannot reverse engineer certain parts of code supplied by Arduino/Qualcom.

The issue being that formerly, before the Qualcom acquisition, Arduino was open source. All of the code was free and open: you could read it, change it, fix errors and upload the fixes to the world. Well, now parts of the code are locked behind Qualcom's corporate doors, never to be seen. Which is the antithesis of open source. And not in the least bit surprising.

Basically Qualcom may make changes to the core OS that may break user code and libraries, and it may become impossible to debug. But I'm sure there will be a paid support tier that will route your tickets to "top experts".

Another change noted that the new "current terms say that users grant Arduino the:

non-exclusive, royalty free, transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual, irrevocable, to the maximum extent allowed by applicable law … right to use the Content published and/or updated on the Platform as well as to distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish and make publicly visible all material, including software, libraries, text contents, images, videos, comments, text, audio, software, libraries, or other data (collectively, “Content”) that User publishes, uploads, or otherwise makes available to Arduino throughout the world using any means and for any purpose, including the use of any username or nickname specified in relation to the Content." So any code that you write and upload to Ardcom, or should it be Quadrino, can be taken by them and monitized with nothing going back to you - pure profit for Qualcom.

I can see the OS getting forked really soon, and as long as the forked OS works on the Arduino hardware, people ignoring the Qualcom version of the software. And if Qualcom does something like putting certificates into the hardware and forcing people into their OS, people will be dropping it at a phenomenal rate.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/arduinos-new-terms-of-service-worries-hobbyists-ahead-of-qualcomm-acquisition/

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/24/2144256/arduinos-new-terms-of-service-worries-hobbyists-ahead-of-qualcomm-acquisition

This is bad, for both Russia and the USA.

There was a successful launch Thursday from Pad 31 in Kazakstan of a Soyuz rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut to the ISS. But there was a problem on the ground.

One of the launch tower's moving platforms that is used to inspect and service the rocket was not properly secured prior to launch. The blast from the rocket passing the platform blew it down into the flame trench, causing a lot of damage to the pad, probably the tower, and presumably destroying the platform - which weighed 20 tons. Roscomos, the agency that runs the Russian space program (roughly the equivalent of NASA) claims that the damage will be repaired shortly. However, so many materials in manpower, money, and actual physical materials have been diverted to their failing war effort against Ukraine that this might not happen. One specific example of how Roscomos is being squeezed is that they used to send four crews to the ISS annually, now they're sending three.

While Russia has many launch facilities through its countries and neighbors, i.e. former USSR countries, Pad 31 is currently the only launch pad that can be used to send Soyuz and Proton rockets to the ISS. Pad 1 at the Kazakstan facility - where Uri Gregarin launched from - could be used, but it's been decommissioned and is being turned into a museum.

The Soyuz launches are used for crew/supply missions, the Proton launches are solely supply runs but also used to boost the ISS into a higher orbit. Fortunately NASA can also use SpaceX Dragons and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnusfor boost and also for supply.

This will also put some pressure on SpaceX as they've been having some problems with their super-heavy booster, trying to get it reliable enough to get people to the Moon and allegedly to Mars, not to mention their lunar lander being so far behind schedule that NASA is sending out an SOS contract for someone else to come up with another lander, otherwise SpaceX's tardiness will delay the USA going back to the Moon.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/russian-launch-pad-incident-raises-concerns-about-future-of-space-station/

This is both funny and sad because (A) it happened to the International Association of Cryptologic Research, an organization that's been around for 50-some years, and (2) because it demonstrates how brittle encryption can be.

The organization was its annual leadership election, and was using high-strength and verifiable encryption. Everyone who submitted their vote could verify, through their own encryption key, that their vote was correct and not tampered with. Three members of the election committee each held one-third of the key required to completely decrypt the master file to tabulate the vote, so all three had to simultaneously submit their part of the key to process the votes.

One of the members lost their part of the key, irrecoverably, through simple human error - not a hack. Thus, the file remains forever locked.

The IACR is re-running the election which will close on December 20 using a different encryption methodology requiring two of the three key portions. And the person who lost their part of the key has resigned from the election committee, I don't know if they're still part of the organization.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/cryptography-group-cancels-election-results-after-official-loses-secret-key/

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/iacr-nullifies-election-because-of-lost-decryption-key.html

There are several things interesting about Zork. It was one of the earliest imagination games that didn't have set winning conditions, instead you explored and tried to figure things out. It also was perhaps the first multi-platform games. They developed the Z-Machine, sort of a virtual environment that allowed the game to run on IBM Dos machines, Apple IIs, and others. That was extraordinarily revolutionary for the time!

And now you can download the source code for free. You can also download Z-Machine implementations for free. There's also CRT emulators that you can download if you really want to go 1980s old school!

And if you don't want to bother with all that, you can buy the game at Good Old Games for $6, but it's Windows-only.

One thing that I'm kind of curious about, though: when did Microsoft acquire the rights to Infocom IP? I don't recall that. While this is a cool thing for Microsoft to do, the source code for Zork and pretty much all the other Infocom games has been available for a few years, I downloaded them ages ago.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/20/1942250/microsoft-open-sources-classic-text-adventure-zork-trilogy

"Oh, well, you see there's still an on-going investigation! We CAN'T release them!"

The stage was set a few weeks ago when Trumplestiltskin told Bondi to investigate Bill Clinton and the Democrats. So now the files are part of an active, on-going investigation and it could conceivably be argued that they can't be released. At least until the investigation is concluded. Even though in the 20,000 pages that have been released thus far Clinton's name has not appeared.

Regarding the claim that the release of the files will endanger the privacy of victims or other innocent people in the files, the bill that was approved yesterday did address those concerns, so that claim is null. Also, any CSAM or identifying photographs are also redacted, so that's null.

And again, what's Mike Johnson going to do? The bill ordering the documents to be released has no teeth to it. So what, he'll hold members of the government in contempt and order PAM BONDI to prosecute them? Yeah, that'll happen.

What I think would be the likely result is if the Justice Department doesn't release them despite this law passing is that we'll have a Deepthroat event and more tranches of the documents will happen to leak.

We shall see.

Article is behind a free paywall requiring registration:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/19/epstein-files-justice-department-release/

I should have included one very important piece of information on the court throwing out the Texas redistricting plan. It was concluded that it was blatantly and baldly illegal on the simple premise that it was racist and racially discriminatory. A very important point.

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN TEXAS? SAY IT ISN'T SO!

Another point in California's Proposition 50, their redistricting plan to fight Texas' redistricting. The original plan was that it had a trigger - if Texas went through with their plan to redistrict, so would California. From what I read last night in two different sources - neither of which was 100% official but tended towards that way - that trigger was removed in the legislative process before it went to the public vote. So theoretically, if Prop 50 survives court challenges, the redistricting will happen and the count in the house of Democratic seats will go up in California's representation.

Of course, it is widely believed that in next year's mid-term elections that there will be a huge backlash against the incumbent party and the Dems will gain a large number of seats in both chambers. But as that election is over 11 months away, I'm not holding my breath. Too much will happen between now and then, memories are short and there's no telling what the state of the country or the political landscape will be then.

In the House of Representatives, the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed almost unanimously, 427 to 1 with Clay Higgins (R-LA) the lone no vote, claiming that it will expose victims. I personally expect their names will be redacted, but I could be wrong. In the Senate, Chuck Schumer called for the bill to be passed by voice acclamation and it passed unanimously. There were five or six non-votes in the House at the conclusion of the vote, I don't know if they were absent or didn't vote.

So the bill has overwhelmingly passed Congress. And now comes the interesting part - it goes to the White House for Trump to sign! If he doesn't sign it, he grossly breaks campaign promises going back years which he could have fulfilled at any time by his command. And he's facing a truly huge veto-proof margin. I would really like to see the blow-back of him not signing it and it going back for an override vote.

But here's another thing. He has blatantly ignored and broken the law so many times during this presidency, ruling by fiat. If he refuses to sign the bill and tells Bondi to not release the files, what's Johnson going to do? Does Mikey have the cajones to hold impeachment proceedings?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-epstein-files-bill-rebuke-trump_n_69174f28e4b0191be9d4d60c

Jon/Thespian/DisneyDreamer voiced questions as to whether the files could be altered. As it happens, England has their own set of the files. It's possible that other countries also have sets. I expect that as soon as more information is released that they will be meticulously double-checked against other copies.

Second event: TEXAS!

The United States District Court Western District of Texas, El Paso Division, issued a 160 page document to preliminarily enjoin the State of Texas using their redrawn maps, reducing the number of Democratic districts in the U.S. House of Representatives for the upcoming 2026 elections next year. The best part: the judge signing the statement was a Trump appointee! He was joined by an Obama appointee.

Needless to say that this was a preliminary injunction and it will be appealed to the circuit court, and then to the supreme court if it's upheld at the circuit level.

Still, it's a beginning.

I absolutely loved the quote at the beginning of the decision:
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

The person who said that? United States Supreme Court Justice John C. Roberts.

In another blow to the administration, the Indiana legislature stopped their plans to redistrict, I believe their main point being questioning the legality of the action. I'm not sure what this action will hold in regards to California's redistricting as theirs was passed by ballot proposition, of course it is guaranteed that just as the Texas decision will be appealed, the California proposition will be challenged and then endlessly appealed in court.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-redistricting-court_n_691cb930e4b0414d84d7b979

It's really simple. There are many defense systems that the military own - flat-out own - that they are not allowed to repair! They have to wait for parts, or DRM unlocks by defense contractor specialists, before repairs can be effected. As a result, units needing repair are sometimes cannibalized to keep other units in fighting condition.

Which is an absolutely insane situation for any military to be under. Yet, because of DRM and other contractual limitations that defense contractors have been allowed to restrict the Pentagon with, it's reality. The article states the example of a knob - a simple knob - for a "Black Hawk helicopter screen control knob that costs $47,000 as part of a full assembly could be manufactured independently for just $15." This is just one example of the insanity that the military has to deal with because of contractual and DRM lockdown and lock-in. The military's personnel are trained to maintain the equipment, they have the tools and 3D printers to print things. But they are not allowed to.

Senator Warren (D) is on the committee that is currently preparing the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-challenges-defense-industry-right-to-repair-opposition-funding-talks-2025-11-10/

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/1917226/us-senator-challenges-defense-industry-on-right-to-repair-opposition

GREATLY loosens! Even people with just Bachelor degrees are potentially eligible - and freshly-minted ones at that! If the degree is in robotics, AI, or new materials - and even if you don't have a job-offer from a Chinese company - you might be able to waltz into China and start marketing yourself.

This includes teachers in these subjects.

The Nature article is partially paywalled.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03657-6

https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/1857233/chinas-new-scientist-visa-is-a-serious-bid-for-the-worlds-top-talent

(NOTE - The HTML code that I've always used for posting photos is messing with me and only partially working. If the photo is not visible, click on the little icon above the embiggen text and the photo will load. Right now all of my old photos will not load as I'm moving the domain of my old web site as something corrupted the old software and I wanted a shorter domain name.)

It has been almost two years since I posted any photos! I have been shooting, not nearly as much as I should, but tonight Russet got notification from her crew at the observatory that the aurora was visible down here! So off we go to the back door, which faces north, and out come the cameras!

(clicken to embiggen)

This was shot with my Canon R6 Mk 2 with the R15-30 zoom at 15mm, f16 for 20 seconds at ISO 25,600. This is a jpeg with no post-processing.

ETA: Very curious! Just posted the same HTML on Live Journal - and the photo popped up just fine! So maybe DW is having an issue at the moment and it'll be fine later? We shall see....

And by Leon, I mean Leon Muskbrat, the world's richest manchild.

(He's officially Leon 'cause the Prez called him that twice, so that makes it official.)

3am Saturday morning, Leon posted a Grok-generated video of a 'woman' that resembles his ex-wife and weirdly-named child's mother Grimes, who smiles and says "I will always love you" in a very bad lip sync.

I'm a little unclear whether he thinks this was a spiffy tech demo or showing off something that he did or just what this was.

The 87-y/o acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates had a very interesting observation:

“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history,” Oates wrote.

“In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world,'” Oates concluded.

WOW. Pity he can't take Tylenol for such a burn as it might cause him to become autistic.

He, of course, retorted and tried to disprove her observations and, in doing so, pretty much reinforced them.

But I was thinking about her statement of how it could be used as a metric about what a lot of political figures post about. Now, Leon, AKA the Ketamine Kid, AKA The Edgelord, AKA the frat boy who never grew up and hires gamers so that he himself can appear to be a skilled online gamer, this clearly applies. I can't imagine how boring a conversation with him would be: he'd probably have to steer it towards himself and his companies so as to have something to talk about!

(tagged under Tesla since I don't have, and don't want to add, a Musk tag)

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ai-girlfriend-love-grok-desperate-2000683797

The Attorney-General of Texas, Ken Paxton, has decided to sue the corporations Kenvue, and Johnson and Johnson, the makers and former makers of the Tylenol family of pain relievers, citing “deceptively marketing Tylenol” knowing that it “leads to a significantly increased risk of autism and other disorders.”

WHEEEEEEEEEE!

President Pudding Brain did that lovely press conference a few weeks ago where he repeatedly said, with minor variations "“Don’t take Tylenol. There’s no downside. Don’t take it. You’ll be uncomfortable. It won’t be as easy maybe, but don’t take it if you’re pregnant. Don’t take Tylenol and don’t give it to the baby after the baby is born”. There were some supercuts of this made that were quite amusing.

A couple of interesting sidenotes. The first is that Paxton will probably not be in office when this goes to trial as he's running for the U.S. Senate, so this is purely performative to appease the Orange God. He's also facing Federal Charges, which I believe are still pending, on some campaign finance irregularities - he was impeached on Texas charges but of course the Republican Texas legislature without surprise or irony found him innocent. It's definitely in his best interest to get out of Texas local politics before a change in political power takes place, which could happen.

The reality of autism and Tylenol, of course, is that autism was first classified as a disorder over a decade before Tylenol came to market. Still, this could cause J&J and Kenvue to bend the knee and cough up millions of dollars to the "Trump Presidential Library".

I hope they fight and drive Paxton et al into the ground.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/if-things-in-america-werent-stupid-enough-texas-is-suing-tylenol-maker/

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Life genuinely sucks, and I have a quandary
Congress strips Miltary's Right to Repair from the Nat'l Defense Authorization Act
25 y/o paper extolling the safety of Monsanto's Roundup retracted from journal
A pair of word puzzle games
RIP: Steve Cropper, a Blues Brother and master session musician
Computer memory maker Micron/Crucial exits consumer business
I bought a new camera kit and today ALMOST had it delivered!
Airbus issues recall of over 6,000 A320 aircraft for software rollback
If you saw and enjoyed Zootopia, DEFINITELY see the sequel!
Qualcom's already changing Arduino's TOS and causing concern
Russia's space program breaks their main launch pad!
Cryptography organization has to nullify election because someone lost the decrypt key!
Microsoft releases the source code for Zork I, II, III
Why we may still never see the Epstein files, and a bit more on the Texas gerrymander
Interesting legal/political stuff today! Epstein vote passes and Texas gerrymander struck down!
Senator Elizabeth Warren challenges defense industry contractors over Right To Repair
China greatly loosens visa restrictions for STEM degree holders
The auroras were visible down here tonight!
Does Leon want to be a real boy?
Texas, envying Florida's stupidity ranking, sues the maker of Tylenol for deceptive marketing

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Life genuinely sucks, and I have a quandary

Congress strips Miltary's Right to Repair from the Nat'l Defense Authorization Act

25 y/o paper extolling the safety of Monsanto's Roundup retracted from journal

A pair of word puzzle games

RIP: Steve Cropper, a Blues Brother and master session musician

Computer memory maker Micron/Crucial exits consumer business

I bought a new camera kit and today ALMOST had it delivered!

Airbus issues recall of over 6,000 A320 aircraft for software rollback

If you saw and enjoyed Zootopia, DEFINITELY see the sequel!

Qualcom's already changing Arduino's TOS and causing concern

Russia's space program breaks their main launch pad!

Cryptography organization has to nullify election because someone lost the decrypt key!

Microsoft releases the source code for Zork I, II, III

Why we may still never see the Epstein files, and a bit more on the Texas gerrymander

Interesting legal/political stuff today! Epstein vote passes and Texas gerrymander struck down!

Senator Elizabeth Warren challenges defense industry contractors over Right To Repair

China greatly loosens visa restrictions for STEM degree holders

The auroras were visible down here tonight!

Does Leon want to be a real boy?

Texas, envying Florida's stupidity ranking, sues the maker of Tylenol for deceptive marketing