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Chris J

@cpj1.bsky.social

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DevOps, IT, coding, cloud computing, scaling/performance, security, databases, metadata, movies/music, cowboy boots, road trips. He/Him

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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · Nov 22

This is the schema project I'm working on to catalog physical media libraries. The documentation is terrible, but there are examples for both movies and music.

github.com/cjcodeproj/v...

GitHub - cjcodeproj/vtmedia-schema: XML schema for cataloging media libraries.

XML schema for cataloging media libraries. Contribute to cjcodeproj/vtmedia-schema development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 52m

Rest in peace to the donated heart that lived 13 years, 7 months, and 11 days longer than it needed to.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, the Duggars are about as legitimately bad as it gets in every respect. Proud members of a gleefully ignorant, deeply misogynistic cult. It’s almost impossible to overstate how much TLC’s point-and-laugh programming contributed to the normalization of extremist Christians.

maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 12h

Look at this fucking dangerous chaos agent www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-mo...

Jinger Duggar Admits She's 'Anti-Medicine' After Daughter's ER Visit

Jinger Duggar opened up about daughter Felicity's recent trip to the ER and why she's becoming 'more crunchy' when it comes to health

www.usmagazine.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15h

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 18h

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent

www.nytimes.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day

Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

www.abc.net.au

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 1d

For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack

Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted

Here are a few of them:

Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List

A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arres...

www.wired.com

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

Via Gary Marcus.

Wow.

Tweet (yes, ugh, I know) from Seth Harper of New Yorker story on AI:

The biggest capital outlay ever, for a product that no one will pay for.
OpenAl loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime Al. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways. n.pr/47B4pRT

Cars are essential in most of the U.S. They're also increasingly unaffordable

The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways.

n.pr

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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, you didn't use this?

a close up of a person 's hand applying lotion to another person 's arm .

ALT: a close up of a person 's hand applying lotion to another person 's arm .

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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 1d

Do the residents get a monthly catsup bill??

Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 1d

Well, you gotta test them...

Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · Feb 22

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

A pair of silver aluminum barbecue tongs on a white background .

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Among the many amazing things about Adams pleading his case here is that he openly supports and now is asking for help from… people who cancelled funding for cancer research.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare but only for my friends

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 1d

This is sooooo on-point, but especially this shit right here: newrepublic.com/article/2023...

This is the seemingly immutable advantage that Trump and the Republicans have over Democrats. It’s not that they have a better grasp of the values of some mythical heartland America. (They really don’t. This is the party that routinely attacks Disney and football. There is no cultural rake that they do not habitually step on.) Their advantage is that they spent decades building their own constellation of conservative propaganda outlets, and then they went out and purchased most of the mainstream outlets as well. Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. Patrick Soon-Shiong owns the Los Angeles Times. Larry Ellison’s son owns CBS, and is preparing a bid to purchase CNN. Ellison will also soon own a major share of TikTok. Elon Musk turned Twitter into X and filled it with right-wing propaganda.

In reality, Democratic politicians and Kamala Harris specifically talked little if at all about climate change and trans rights in 2024—and spoke *constantly* about “kitchen table issues.” WelcomePAC’s formula for success is precisely what Democrats tried. It failed. WelcomePAC’s only answer is, “Well, try it some more.”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.

Comment on a linked in post, from user Kurtis Loken who presents themself as "Experienced Metrology Engineer | AI/ML real world experience | Patented Solutions | R&D | Mass Production"

Comment reads:

Emily M. Bender You are a linguist. LLMs have proven some theories disproved others about how language works. I would think that would be an amazing time to be a linguist.

Have you ever actually talked to an AI…I mean really talked to one? The Turing test has been passed. (Sonnet 4.5 has particularly impressed me when discussing ideas with it…definitely has passed my own Turing test.)

I would really love to see a conversation between yourself and it discussing your views. That would make a great podcast. Have these models explain to you why your idea to ban them may or may not be a good idea. These things probably have their own opinions on the topic if someone would listen to them. Maybe that’s you?

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Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

At #IETF124 hackathon, Table 27 with the #ATProto_MTL crew @wesleyfinck.org @ngerakines.me @bnewbold.net @bad-example.com @dholms.xyz

Table with people sitting along it, from left to right, Wesley, Nick, Bryan, Fig, Daniel.

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 1d

Very weird to tweet about the tweet you’re going to do on Monday. Also hi @jacobsilverman.com

Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

Ezra Klein

This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism

I saw a poll a few weeks ago that struck me. It was from The New York Times and Siena University. It asked Americans what they thought the top problem facing the country was. No. 1 was the economy. That was what I expected. But No. 2 wasn’t immigration or inflation or democracy or climate change or even Trump. It was political division. In that same poll, 64 percent of the country said we’re too divided to solve our problems. They’re not wrong.

I hear it when Trump says, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” When I hear that, I hear something scary, but I also hear an opening, an opportunity: In the end, most Americans want America to work. They know we disagree with one another. They don’t want us to hate one another.

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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 1d

If you have a weird old relative that has a million pennies stored in his garage, drop it off at your local bank.

www.axios.com/2025/11/01/p...

Retailers face growing penny shortage, sparking limits and SNAP concerns

The end of penny production has stores rounding change and pushing for federal clarity.

www.axios.com

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 7d

The US on December 7, 1941

Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 7d

YAMAMOTO?????????????

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tweets mcgee is not changing his name to something else @smallupsetter.bsky.social · 2d

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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 2d

What the fuck?

Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 2d

Los Angeles, CA -

LAPD has commanded The Douglas, the nearest bar to Dodger Stadium to turn off the televisions. They are now calling unlawful assembly, though as far as I can tell the only signs of anything are people on the sidewalk. It is the 9th inning.

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d

reddit is fast with the gif

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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 2d

a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field

Alt: a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field

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chomper88.bsky.social @chomper88.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s Kennedy Center can’t sell tickets. What a surprise.
wapo.st/4oSB7VX

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover

Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump posts crazy stuff like this at times where he feels like he’s not getting enough attention and wants people to start talking about him again. It’s deranged, narcissistic behavior.

If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!

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