MY OUTLOOK IS WORKING, KUDOS TO THE UT IT DEPARTMENT. But here’s the latest:

It has now been more than 26 hours since the beginning of the Microsoft cloud services outage.

While a few people have reported on X that they have service again, Microsoft's cloud status page at https://t.co/4krxfyDQM6 is unchanged, still reporting O365 service degradation and…

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) November 13, 2026

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Robotic slugs with claws can fuse together to create one massive machine.

GO NUCLEAR: The Climate Summit Wants Electrification. The AI Boom Wants Every Electron It Can Get.

WELL, THE GET A LOAD TAKEN OFF: What happens to your feet when you lose weight fast on Ozempic, according to podiatrists.

CHANGE: Want to ditch fluoride? Dentists explain who might benefit from hydroxyapatite toothpaste.

HMM: Major reversal in prostate cancer screening guidelines.

TRY TO STEAL MY AISLE SEAT AND PUT ME IN YOUR MIDDLE SEAT AND I’LL SEND YOU ON A FLIGHT OF YOUR OWN: Viral plane-etiquette debate erupts after man grabs passenger’s aisle seat to sit with wife.

Of course I don’t fly Frontier.

GOOD: Pennsylvania college scraps plan for gender-neutral mascot, will keep Ben Franklin after all.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Idaho Election Officials Find 2,675 Ballots Left Out of Results. “The ballots, representing a portion of early voting, had been tabulated by election machines but were not included in the county’s publicly reported results. The discrepancy was discovered during the county’s review ahead of its official canvas.”

This should never happen.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Sen. Slotkin’s ‘deterrence message’ backfires as UChicago student demands Senate ethics investigation. “A University of Chicago student who exposed remarks by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., about deterring young conservatives from working in the administration of President Donald Trump told Campus Reform in an interview that her warning has only motivated students to stand up for their political beliefs. Michael Bicksel, a second-year student and senior editor of The Chicago Thinker, has since filed a formal Senate ethics complaint against the Michigan Democrat for threatening political persecution against young Americans interested in serving in a Republican administration.”

I THINK HE’S RIGHT: Marc Thiessen: The midterms won’t define Trump’s legacy. Iran will. Reagan lost the Senate and won the Cold War. The president can follow his lead.

NO WORRIES, I HAVE MY TOWEL: SpaceX’s S42 Launch Is Named “Don’t Panic.”

WELL, THIS TAKE IS NOT ONLY FUNNY, IT’S CONSISTENT WITH THE COVERAGE:

JUSTICE: Ilhan Omar Is in Real Trouble, and She Knows It.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Alarming Rise of Open Antisemitism.

SOUNDS RIGHT: New Evidence Completely Upends Cornell 7 Case: This whole case was a political operation by the Democrat Party to mobilize female voters ahead of the midterms.

MICROSOFT OUTLOOK IS STILL OUT. Everyone is like, “Why couldn’t it be Teams?”

Plus:

I'm signal-boosting this because Luke clearly knows what he's talking about. I think his diagnosis that Microsoft's running cloud services are only metastable and cannot handle the restart storm is almost certainly correct. https://t.co/hidfQgRIW8

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) November 13, 2026

UPDATE:

If you read far enough down the thread of Microsoft's explanations you get to this gem: "The servers we returned to service can become unresponsive again once they receive traffic".

Are you fucking kidding me? Did you just say, right out in front of Goddess and everybody, that… https://t.co/cEpgP2aV5X

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) November 13, 2026

LAW AND ORDER: Send ICE to Harvard: If university administrators won’t restore order on campus, dispatch ICE to disperse the foreigners disrupting undergraduate education.

THEY SHOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM A BONUS: Circle K’s Message to Armed Clerk Who Stopped Robbers: Leave Your Gun at Home.

BEN WEINGARTEN: Ilhan Omar Almost Certainly Committed Crimes. But Will She Face Justice?

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST TIMELINE:

The world’s going to shit. AI may destroy us or make slaves of us or turn us into desperate predatory hordes. Even before the Democrats can manage that.

But in the meantime, this delightful app never fails to make me laugh my ass off. https://t.co/kGCSqD17WD

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) November 13, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and I want you to be happy.

5:45 PM ET: What time will SpaceX launch Starship Flight 15, its 1st double landing test, on Nov. 13? (Full mission timeline).

DESERVES GOT NOTHIN’ TO DO WITH IT: Pete Hegseth doesn’t deserve to be impeached.

But it’s okay. Impeachment doesn’t mean anything anymore. And yes, the GOP started this with the Clinton impeachment, which was stupid. If it had succeeded Al Gore would have been the incumbent, which would probably have pushed him over the top in 2000.

100 BUSES: AMERICANS WILL DO ANYTHING TO AVOID USING THE METRIC SYSTEM. Incredible Coral 100 Buses Long Discovered in The Indian Ocean, Could Be One of The World’s Largest.

As we should.