Corey Mutter

Hacking a voting machine (as suggested in the teaser) isn't the problem. That's how you find and fix weaknesses. The problem is that they were told not to tell the vendor (or anyone else) what they found, so the result could be kept on the shelf and used to cast doubt on election outcomes. Yikes.

Ooh, we could do bespoke social story videos and educational tools, interesting.

if you moved WITHIN the county of voter registration before Oct 5, 2026 and didn’t update your voter info, you can EASILY do that when you CHECK-IN to EARLY VOTE starting Oct 15. If you do that on ELECTION DAY Nov 3 it will require a time-consuming provisional ballot #ncpol

I had the opposite of a misheard lyric - I heard ZZ Top singing "I had a blues man on the back and a beautician at the wheel." Looked it up wondering what the real lyric is - it's that!

The psychopaths in charge of America believe violence and savagery are how you prove you’re strong, and every problem is solved through the application of strength, and if problems weren’t solved you weren’t strong enough, and thus problems are met with perpetual escalation of violence and savagery

"I have my looks and my poetry to protect me" from "I Am A Rock" I totally related to one's appearance discouraging human contact. (It's "books")

This is also a reason to not worry too much about "they'll send their limited goons to swing polling places" - they'd have to know which ones those are. Like a couple months ago that woulda been NC, now it looks like Whatley could concede before lunch.

Reminder: NCSBE is forging ahead with their maximally-hostile rule changes, some reports had indicated they needed leg. review first but they did not. Looks like this is trickling down even to sane counties.

Today in Raleigh I saw a Tesla with license plate PDOOM-99.

can't believe the car that runs on millions of tiny explosions transmitting energy through a complex series of oily metal parts doesn't last as long as the one that's four wheels attached to a battery

That last bit's important. Even IF someone altered the machine results, nobody just trusts those.

This is why I don't expect election day Fed shenanigans in Wake County. It would be terrible triage for them. Our 2 House districts are heavily D because of R gerrymandering. Our Senate race is no longer close enough to win by point shaving. A poor use of limited goons.

Embrace 'they do not have enough goons' thought.

My wife and I did that in 2020, returned ballot in person. No harder than taking it to a post office IMO, if you drive and get around OK.

I started going to life drawing so I could ogle attractive men and women. I've been going for so long now that I've accidentally become good at drawing

Ooh, I should turn this loose on one of work's Yocto builds

Btw, even among pro AI friends, this concern is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Devs wondering how we get senior devs if the ecosystem for junior devs goes away. Doctors talking about not needing interns. Lawyers not needing paralegals. There's an ecological aspect to this and we need a plan.

I would. Almost all outrages/scandals are forgotten in a couple weeks anyway. Knowing anything about policy is frustrating when Democrats run things and just a curse when Republicans run things. Maybe a bit of research around primary time.

/comes scrambling back to the podium, grabs mic paleolithicc

Endorse. I think LLM skill with language makes them so easy to anthropomorphize, people are seeing imminent AGI where it probably isn't. TBF a year or two ago I'd have said definitely isn't; they are improving awfully fast. But it still seems like the difference is kind not degree.

Wake Co NC absentee ballot for my household was accepted by USPS last night (outgoing barcode gets read by USPS HIGH-SPEED scanner and transmitted to NC BallotTrax, BTW this is longstanding and has nothing to do with new USPS rules). One image from text, another from website) #ncpol

If you want to do this don't wait too long, there's training to do ahead of time, so get hold of your county elections board right away. I've done it for 20 years in Best Carolina and love it.

After a breakup, and fighting a drinking problem, a man impulsively hops on a flight to follow his ex, and doesn't get sick.

I can understand being deeply annoyed by someone, but if anything proves the notion that these damn electric bricks are doing bad things to our brains it’s that some people are asking their devices to TELL THEM when someone they DONT LIKE is saying something so they can go engage with them MORE.

Tired of shitting yourself because the GOP's trying to steal votes? Here's info from a veteran. I live in the US capitol of ballot fraud! The good ol' NC-09. I've personally been hit by two (2) NATIONAL NEWS-level GOP attempts to steal elections. BOTH 👏 FAILED 👏 because we WORKED. Here's how.

We kept our votes because we WORKED. And there's a lot of preemptive work we can do to to keep votes from being stolen in the first place! You can: Sign up as a poll worker at your local polling place! www.powerthepolls.org This is the #1 thing to do to protect elections. And it's paid work!

there is no level of fuckery they can manage that will counteract the blue wave that's coming in november and I hope every prospective dem officeholder is taking note of exactly how far this court is prepared to go to fuck them over in future, closer races