I did a system restore on my $3.33 Packard Bell Legend 11CD. This is a GREAT little 486DX2/50 system. Let's talk about the restore process, in a 🧵 of course!

The first thing that I did was to write out track 0 of the hard drive with Packard Bell System Credentials. I found credentials for a Packard Bell Legend 10CD, which is similar. I tweaked them a bit and then wrote them out! The HDD in this system is a 730MB Western Digital.

From there, I needed to track down a boot disk and Master CD. I found a boot disk that was close enough (thank you, ), and from there, changed the port in config. sys for the Panasonic 2X CD-ROM drive in my system. From there I wrote this image to a disk. ryan.thoryk.com/pb-restore/

Begs question to what extent can you meme ethnogenesis into being? ‘White American’ not strictly a real ethnicity but is considered a real thing. Enough ‘hapa’ children now with deracinated neurosis in search of an identity under hypermodenity, could ‘Wasian’ become a real thing?

https://twitter.com/asiandawn4/status/2054006948924907529

PREDICTION: By the 22nd Century - probably sooner - ‘Wasian’ will come to be considered a serious ethnic category. You will get Wasian Americans in the same way you get White or Black Americans. This will emerge culturally through force of numbers and collective identity neurosis

https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2051453302223614143

A meme until suddenly it isn’t

https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2051443188619968737

Say this prayer before bed and watch your life change for the best:

Part 1: God, show me how good it can get. Show me who you are. Show me your goodness. And when you do, God, do not let me be the one to ruin it. If I'm being honest, I know I have talked myself out of blessings before. God, do not let me overthink the good thing. Don't let me entertain people that I know I need to walk away from.

Part 2: Don't let fear convince me that what you gave me wasn't actually mine. Remind me that I don't have to earn what you freely give. Remind me that grace isn't a performance, and that I don't have to hustle for your love. Teach me how to rest in what you have already promised.

Part 3: Okay God, so if you need to stretch me, if you need to move me, if you need to shift me, if you need to correct me, do it. Take the worry, take the guilt, take the habit that I keep going back to. God, take anything that is keeping me small while I know you are trying to grow me.

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HERE IS A LEAK OF THE FORSAKEN DEV SERVER, FOUND BY MY ZOMBIES WHILE SEARCHING NEIGHBORVILLE!
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Week 2, day 2 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings at GTMO Bay began around 0900. Follow here for updates.

Today we heard arguments from Mustafa al Hawsawi’s counsel on suppressing his 2007 statements made to the FBI after his CIA black site incommunicado detention.

Walter Ruiz for Mustafa al Hawsawi began his suppression arguments invoking Pros Trivett's baseball analogy from last week. Trivett said he'd throw a pitch right down Broadway with how secure the FBI interrogations of the black site detainees were.

This week, an organization that does not exist accused a journalist of failing to disclose her political speech. The organization is called Washingtonians For Ethical Government (WFEG). It is worth knowing who they are. /1

WFEG's complaint against Brandi Kruse argues that when a commentator repeatedly advocates for a ballot measure on her platform, that activity should be reported as an in-kind campaign contribution. They put a number on it: $1.25 million across 150+ instances. /2

Take WFEG's theory at face value. Apply it consistently. Start with: who is WFEG? Here is what I found:

• Not in the IRS exempt organizations database
• No Washington Secretary of State registration
• 'Does not accept financial contributions from the public'
• Mailing address is a law firm /3

fundamentally the problem with telling any new stories set in the world of harry potter is that jk rowling didn’t notice she set up magic to be an allegory for being part of the ruling class

the allure of the original harry potter books is finding out you are secretly a prince, and rich, and being invited to your hidden kingdom where you learn how to exercise your royal power before taking the throne. this is a juvenile fantasy set in a juvenile world; you can’t tell adult stories about adult protagonists in this universe without running up against the fundamental power imbalance between wizards and muggles. muggles can never learn magic - peasants can never simply decide to become ruling class - and wizards get to arbitrarily manipulate their memory whenever they want to maintain their invisible rule, and nobody in the wizarding world sees a problem with this. muggleborns exist but are indoctrinated into wizarding life via boarding school - the ruling class indoctrinating talented outsiders. nonhuman magic is tightly controlled and regulated - the ruling class maintaining its monopoly on power

harry potter is a story about the reptilian conspiracy, from the pov of the reptilians. it pretends to be about fighting fascism in the form of voldemort but the way the premise structures wizard-muggle relations (and relations with nonhumans, eg house-elves) is itself almost inherently fascistic

https://x.com/QiaochuYuan/status/2054226425562189937

the sign of a truly good fantasy series is when the magic in it is an allegory for magic

eg

https://twitter.com/qiaochuyuan/status/2054357946277257347

Democratic candidates for California governor are now openly instructing the media on the rules of engagement: they are not to be asked "gotcha questions." After all, they are not Republicans. Xavier Becerra is the latest to instruct a reporter on how to interview a Democrat...

......Becerra told KTLA's Annie Rose Ramos "By the way, this is a profile piece. This is not a gotcha piece, right?" He went on to explain, "The way I describe profile is you talk about all the things I've done, things I want to do — along with some tough questions, but not only tough questions."...

...Katie Porter also reminded reporters of how to interview Democrats and finally cut off an interview when the reporter insisted on asking tough questions like she was some type of . . . well . . . Republican.

1/ The Russian government's Internet shutdown from 5th to 9th May appears to have been predictably badly implemented. It seems to have spilled out from Moscow across Russia and also affected SMS and phone calls, causing widespread disruption and public anger. ⬇️

2/ The restrictions were officially explained as security measures leading up to and during the Victory Day parades in Moscow and St Petersburg. Russian firms issued advisories to download maps, stock up on cash, and use Wi-Fi. In practice, far more got broken than anticipated.

3/ Russians interviewed by the independent Russian outlet 'We can explain' reported that the outages affected other cities, as well as knocking out Wi-Fi and mobile phone services. They expressed anger, deep dissatisfaction, and frustration at the situation:

This is one of the most logistically incompetent hot takes by any German journalist in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

95% getting through is a 5% loss rate per trip
95%(x) for 10 to 20 kills means x = 200 to 400 trucks on this route
10 trips means 40% total fleet loss - 80 to 160 trucks
1/

You can follow the 5% loss curve in this 500 unit fleet at 10 exposures in the graphic below.

A 40% fleet loss in 10 days from a 5% drone loss rate is logistical collapse for the Russian Army in occupied Ukraine.

Only some trying to get AfD eyeballs would say different.

2/

This leaves out the fact that the Russian Army doesn't use *ANY* mechanized logistical enabler like pallets, Truck D-rings, forklifts, or telehandlers.

Russian trucks are in the drone kill zones 3 times as long as a Western truck due to loading times.

Receipts:
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Even the feds had to finally admit "Alligator Alcatraz" was a boondoggle.

1) It was an environmental shit-show. (Literally. 1,400 people defecating daily in one of the most fragile ecosystems in the country - a place taxpayers spent billions to restore.)
orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/12/max…

2) Spending was out of control - $92 million went to a single porta-potty company. (Repped by a lobbyist close to Trump and DeSantis.)
3) There were lots of other costly, no-bid deals - and zero accountability.
4) It had a record of rights violations ...
orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/17/92-…

... both human and constitutional, cited by multiple judges. One judge issued another ruling against the state this past Monday.
So it was an environmental mess, a human rights mess and a costly mess.
Apparently that final part was the nail in the coffin.
nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/…

Hi everyone, I’ll be live-tweeting the Unearthing the Past at Henry Street Bridge event presented by @IndianaLandmark at 6:00 p.m. for #IndyDocumenters. Media Partners: @indydocumenters @mirrorindy

@IndianaLandmark @indydocumenters @mirrorindy The event is being held at the Indiana Landmarks Center and on Zoom. The event focuses on archaeology connected to the Henry Street Bridge project and discoveries at Indianapolis’s historic Greenlawn Cemetery. 🧵

@IndianaLandmark @indydocumenters @mirrorindy The Henry Street Bridge project is moving forward near the site of Greenlawn Cemetery, where archaeologists have found evidence tied to the area’s layered past, including burial sites of some of Indianapolis’s earliest residents. 🌉🧱🪦