Nathan Lowe
@nlowe.dev
Principal SRE for Starlink at SpaceX. Linux and Open Source enthusiast. I also like technical theater!
Previously @_nlowe on Twitter
Opinions are my own.
Previously @_nlowe on Twitter
Opinions are my own.
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New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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US House of Reps has passed a bill to criminalize trans healthcare for people under 18. This bill can be still stopped in the Senate, call/write your senators & ask them to oppose.
Californians:
@schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
@padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/
Californians:
@schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
@padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/
Here is the story on the vote. We will have a story on McBride's speech out tomorrow morning.
US house votes to ban youth HRT, potentially leaving thousands of kids to early deaths
The bill is the most consequential attack of trans rights in the 21st century,
theneedlenews.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
US House of Reps has passed a bill to criminalize trans healthcare for people under 18. This bill can be still stopped in the Senate, call/write your senators & ask them to oppose.
Californians:
@schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
@padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/
Californians:
@schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/
@padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/
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Banning medical care for trans kids doesn’t stop them from being trans. It just makes their lives into a horrible nightmare.
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Banning medical care for trans kids doesn’t stop them from being trans. It just makes their lives into a horrible nightmare.
Man, I JUST started getting comfortable with Firefox after Google killed uBlock. Time to start looking again...
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Man, I JUST started getting comfortable with Firefox after Google killed uBlock. Time to start looking again...
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Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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I want to drive a dump truck of cow manure to the Microsoft headquarters and drop it off in the lobby as a thank you.
They didn't ask for it, they didn't want it, but maybe they can figure out how to get rid of it.
They didn't ask for it, they didn't want it, but maybe they can figure out how to get rid of it.
Is there a way to get this mind-numbing Co-Pilot shit off Microsoft Word?
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I want to drive a dump truck of cow manure to the Microsoft headquarters and drop it off in the lobby as a thank you.
They didn't ask for it, they didn't want it, but maybe they can figure out how to get rid of it.
They didn't ask for it, they didn't want it, but maybe they can figure out how to get rid of it.
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
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Washington friends if you get a level 3 flash flood evac alert, take it seriously and get out immediately. You don't have time to finish your shopping--just get out
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Washington friends if you get a level 3 flash flood evac alert, take it seriously and get out immediately. You don't have time to finish your shopping--just get out
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Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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For nearly two-and-a-half years, Florida has been blocked from enforcing its anti-drag law against anyone.
Even SCOTUS rejected their request to enforce it.
Now, with no opinion, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the injunction only covers Hamburger Mary’s—and, as such, can be enforced otherwise.
Even SCOTUS rejected their request to enforce it.
Now, with no opinion, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the injunction only covers Hamburger Mary’s—and, as such, can be enforced otherwise.
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For nearly two-and-a-half years, Florida has been blocked from enforcing its anti-drag law against anyone.
Even SCOTUS rejected their request to enforce it.
Now, with no opinion, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the injunction only covers Hamburger Mary’s—and, as such, can be enforced otherwise.
Even SCOTUS rejected their request to enforce it.
Now, with no opinion, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the injunction only covers Hamburger Mary’s—and, as such, can be enforced otherwise.
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🚨 Alert fatigue. Is it still public enemy #1 when it comes to faster incident response?
This is one of things we want to find out in the 4th annual Observability Survey.
Share your perspective by Jan 1, 2026 and you can opt in to win #Grafana swag: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/
This is one of things we want to find out in the 4th annual Observability Survey.
Share your perspective by Jan 1, 2026 and you can opt in to win #Grafana swag: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨 Alert fatigue. Is it still public enemy #1 when it comes to faster incident response?
This is one of things we want to find out in the 4th annual Observability Survey.
Share your perspective by Jan 1, 2026 and you can opt in to win #Grafana swag: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/
This is one of things we want to find out in the 4th annual Observability Survey.
Share your perspective by Jan 1, 2026 and you can opt in to win #Grafana swag: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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They'll do this shit and then insist they're there to make us safer.
ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
They'll do this shit and then insist they're there to make us safer.
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Nazi get shot on stage: "put up statues in every public space."
Kids get shot at school: "things can happen."
Kids get shot at school: "things can happen."
December 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Nazi get shot on stage: "put up statues in every public space."
Kids get shot at school: "things can happen."
Kids get shot at school: "things can happen."
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“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
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The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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The UI changes in iOS 26 are “pretty” but incredibly annoying! Fortunately I found this very helpful article on how to undo the worst of it.
How to Undo Your iPhone's New Look After iOS 26
You don't have to accept Liquid Glass.
tech.yahoo.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The UI changes in iOS 26 are “pretty” but incredibly annoying! Fortunately I found this very helpful article on how to undo the worst of it.
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We wear the crucifix to humbly affirm a core conviction: the righteousness of torturing the innocent.
by Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt
by Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt
December 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
We wear the crucifix to humbly affirm a core conviction: the righteousness of torturing the innocent.
by Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt
by Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt
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these mfers love talking about God while radiating evil like an unshielded reactor core
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
these mfers love talking about God while radiating evil like an unshielded reactor core