GREAT interview with @USComptroller:
?the bias of federal bank regulators “that only the largest banks can do innovation safely” must end (YES!)

This week, Canadian airline WestJet became one of the first to try to switch the ability to recline into a paid “perk” by announcing that it was reconfiguring 43 of its Boeing 737-8 MAX and 737-800  (BA)  planes to have what it classifies as a “refreshed range of seating options.”. In actuality, this means making customers pay for a seat that reclines.

I measured my reputation with mail-testerand got a 10/10 score. The missing PTR record did give me negative points, but those were offset by 2 free points for “trusted relay”. I’m also not on any blocklists, so my IP really is lucky 🙂

NEON CLASSES: BENDING BASICS

The art of neon and the bending of neon tubes is a fascinating craft! Learn the basics of neon and glass bending.

The Space Force is paying SpaceX $714 million for the five launches awarded Friday, for an average of roughly $143 million per mission. ULA will receive $428 million for two missions, or $214 million for each launch. That’s about 50 percent more expensive than SpaceX’s price per mission.

Summary: People often over-engineer solutions, and it leads to them running into problems with their CSS. In this article, we’ll take a look at the least amount of CSS that you need to make a decent looking page.

The book provides enough details to piece together how the early Standard Oil business model worked. The reality seems different than many popular accounts and is much more logically consistent.

That effort turned into the Clinton administration’s first crisis, but over time, what is now called diversity, equity and inclusion won out. President Barack Obama ended Mr. Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in 2010, allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual people to serve openly in the armed forces. He approved women in combat in 2013 and in 2016 opened all combat positions to women, revising some physical training requirements in the process. In 2016 he also opened the ranks to transgender soldiers.

Once the New York Times held out as unconnected contractually to the NFL – free to criticize its public subsidies, billionaire ownership class and bad examples set for young people. No more

Software quality was already collapsing when AI coding assistants arrived. What happened next was predictable.

Doctors say insurers are automatically downgrading their claims and paying less. Insurers say it’s their duty to prevent overbilling.

The 25 most interesting ideas I’ve found in 2025 (so far).

This is exactly my problem. Tech arrives as an option and ends up as an obligation.