Mitch Wagner

mitchwagner.com🦍 Mitchellaneous #196: Memes and other found media

Here’s something I often see when walking the dog: This cool futuristic off-the-road vehicle.

🦍 Mitchellaneous #196: Memes and other found media: https://mitchwagner.com/2026/10/26/mitchellaneous-memes-and-other-found.html

I prefer water at room temperature. Not for alleged health reasons — it’s just how I like it. It is my second favorite way to drink water. My favorite way to drink water is hot and passed through ground coffee beans.

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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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My now ex husband would piss me off so much that a once or twice a week I would move the bookmark in his book. Not by much just one or two pages forwards or backwards. Just enough to make him think wait have I missed something or im sure I've read this. He never found out

boriken.socialA. Rivera (@bloodravenlib@boriken.social)Again, sad news from the world of the arts. > Walter Koenig, Chekov on Original ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 90 https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/walter-koenig-dead-chekov-star-trek-1236931312/ He was great in Star Trek, but for me in later years he was Bester in Babylon 5, the villain you loved to hate, and he did it oh so well. Thanks for the memories. #StarTrek #Babylon5 #SciFi #actor

RIP Walter Koenig

bit.lyWalter Koenig, Ensign Chekov on original 'Star Trek' series, dies at 90Actor Walter Koenig, known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov on “Star Trek,” has died at 90. His talent agent confirmed he passed away Monday at his home in Los Angeles.

Well, shit.

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BREAKING: Actor Walter Koenig, known as Ensign Chekov on the original "Star Trek" series, has died at 90.

While walking the dog I passed a neighbor's house with three very loud and energetic dogs.

The other answer, which will be great to know for a pub trivia quiz: A point on the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, which goes so far west that it crosses the 180th Meridian and becomes east.

I did not research this point, but I expect that this means the point in the US that is furthest west and the point that is furthest east are a single footstep apart from each other.

While walking the dog I passed a neighbor's house with three very loud and energetic dogs.

That sent me a down an Internet rabbit hole to find out where America's day REALLY starts — in other words, what's the furthest point east in either the continental US or territories. There are two possible answers, one of them a technicality.

The common-sense answer is a point in the U.S. Virgin Islands. I always forget the U.S. Virgin Islands exists.

While walking the dog I passed a neighbor's house with three very loud and energetic dogs.

A few minutes later I passed a parked car with a license plate frame that read something like, "CALIFORNIA — WHERE AMERICA'S DAY STARTS." At least I *think* that's what it said. But that does not make sense.

As a longtime tech trade journalist, I am aware in my bones that the rest of America wakes up well before California does; when I hit my desk on a workday morning my Teams messages and emails are already full.

While walking the dog I passed a neighbor's house with three very loud and energetic dogs.

Because I was interrupted, I did not record the concert.

The man looked at Minnie and exclaimed, "The cone of shame!" Yes, Minnie is still wearing the cone. It's been a month. We have an appointment at an eye specialist and are planning to switch vets.

While walking the dog I passed a neighbor's house with three very loud and energetic dogs.

I almost never see any of these dogs, because they are in a fenced backyard, and I usually don't hear all three at once, but the full orchestra was out that morning, two barking loudly in different keys and tempos and one heartily going BAROO BAROO BAROO. It was like a modern jazz concert.

I stopped to record it and an older man came out of the house across the street from the Three Dog House. He was behind me. "I'm enjoying the music," I said, and then I thought about hearing that every day. "Probably you don't enjoy it."

themoviedb.orgNeagleyFrances Neagley is a private investigator in Chicago and former military colleague of Jack Reacher in the Army's 110th Special Investigations Unit. When she learns that a beloved friend from her past has been killed in a suspicious accident, she becomes hell-bent on justice.

Neagley is the heartwarming story of a psychologically damaged young woman who starts on the path to healing with the help of her loving father, friends and a great quantity of guns and explosives. It’s a spinoff of Reacher. It’s excellent, violent fun.

It’s a Lifetime miniseries if a Lifetime miniseries had a body count In the middle double digits.

mitchwagner.com🦍 Mitchellaneous #195: Memes and other found media

🦍 Mitchellaneous #195: Memes and other found media: https://mitchwagner.com/2026/10/25/mitchellaneous-memes-and-other-found.html

A "city built by Asperger's": Julian Lucas's in-depth review of the book "The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia." www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

newyorker.comWikipedia’s Pyrrhic VictoryThe wonder of the online world was built by a community of eccentric volunteers. Can it survive the A.I. models it helped train?

theverge.comr/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and moreThe opensource subreddit’s new rules against AI have sparked a revolt.

Do they simply hate AI? Or are they overwhelmed by the flood of AI slop? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Banning non-English speakers makes this community seem unimportant and parochial.

We should not be asking whether code — or any creative work — is generated by AI. We should instead ask whether it's good.

theverge.comr/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and moreThe opensource subreddit’s new rules against AI have sparked a revolt.

Do they simply hate AI? Or are they overwhelmed by the flood of AI slop? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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How important is this subreddit in the broader open source community?

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scicomm.xyzDoug Bostrom (@Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz)Attached: 1 image Crazy shit on these ballots. "Gotta check yer parts before you can play field hockey." Uh, no. #vote

Republicans are motivated by the thought of children's genitals.

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NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

zeteo.comVenues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.