Warner Crocker
@warnercrocker.bsky.social
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Gadfly. Flying through life as a gadget geek and theatre artist...commenting along the way. Every day I learn something new is a good day. Reblogs offered without endorsement. Comments on the other hand... Chicago based. https://warnercrocker.com
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warnercrocker.bsky.social
Excellent
chicago.suntimes.com
O’Hare and Midway international airports are refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that accuses Democrats of causing the ongoing government shutdown.and its impacts on flight operations.
O'Hare, Midway refuse to play video of Kristi Noem accusing Democrats of government shutdown
They join a growing list of airports refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary due to its partisan messaging.
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donlinn.bsky.social
Good.

We are not going to tolerate that shit here...
chicago.suntimes.com
O’Hare and Midway international airports are refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that accuses Democrats of causing the ongoing government shutdown.and its impacts on flight operations.
O'Hare, Midway refuse to play video of Kristi Noem accusing Democrats of government shutdown
They join a growing list of airports refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary due to its partisan messaging.
trib.al
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gottalaff.bsky.social
One is the loneliest number.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.
Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."
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kenwhite.bsky.social
And they‘re all such overt creepy losers. Subormals.
originalsp.in
Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach Sam Douglass, Vermont state senator
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karoli.bsky.social
Some of today's worst Republicans were Young Republicans first. This story confirms what we've known about people like Brett Kavanaugh, Stephen Miller, etc.
politico.com
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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tomwarren.co.uk
Apple has teased its M5 MacBook. It’s “coming soon” and will probably be announced this week www.theverge.com/news/799408/...
Apple teases M5 MacBook
“Something powerful is coming.”
www.theverge.com
warnercrocker.bsky.social
The only thing shocking about this is that there are those who find it shocking.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
#politics
www.politico.com/news/2025/10/1…
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chicago.suntimes.com
The WGN-TV employee detained by federal agents last week in Lincoln Square was released without charges and intends to “pursue all legal avenues” to hold the federal authorities accountable, her lawyer said in a statement.
WGN employee released without charges after she was 'violently detained' by federal agents, her lawyer says
Debbie Brockman, of WGN's creative services department, is a U.S. citizen not acting in a professional capacity when she was arrested Friday in Lincoln Square.
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warnercrocker.bsky.social
I guess it should just be accepted that we're perpetual beta when it comes to Apple, even after the official release and we're not "running" betas. Seeing odd and random memory leaks caused by iconserviceagent and Control Center that are a bit baffling #Apple #macOS26

The image shows a computer system monitoring dashboard with two panels. The left panel displays memory statistics, indicating 45% pressure and 66% memory usage. Memory breakdown includes: app (5.0 GB), wired (2.9 GB), compressed (8.2 GB), and free (7.9 GB), along with a swap usage of 1.0 GB out of 2.0 GB. Below, active processes are listed with Safari (3.1 GB), ControlCenter (2.8 GB), Threads20 (1.8 GB), iconservicesagent (1.4 GB), and WindowServer (1.3 GB). The right panel features CPU statistics showing 3.23 GHz speed, 136° temperature, 46% pressure, and 67% memory usage. The panel also notes disk space (697.6 GB available on Macintosh HD), network activity (1 KB/s upload, 2 KB/s download), and hardware metrics: CPU at 136°, GPU at 130° (0.53 GHz), and fans at 5%. Both panels are styled in a dark theme with circular gauges and colored graphs.
warnercrocker.bsky.social
Your twice, and now continuing, weekly reminder that we're still in a Civil War
warnercrocker.bsky.social
Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

“His goal was to use the 187,000 images collected over the past 30 years as training data for an AI-image generator.”

#tech
www.404media.co/man-stores-ai-…
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gottalaff.bsky.social
🧵 Keep 'em coming
paleofuture.bsky.social
“It took me 15 minutes to reach customer service. The representative advised me that the wait was due to people protesting Publix’s gun policy.”
Publix idiocy
I called Publix to advise them that my family, with two households that spend more than $1,000 a week, would no longer shop there.
It took me 15 minutes to reach customer service. The representative advised me that the wait was due to people protesting Publix's gun policy. I pointed out the idiocy of the logic that they were just following Florida law, when that law allows private businesses to ban firearms on their property.
We will do our grocery shopping at Whole Foods, Target, Aldi, Costco, Walmart or Trader Joe's.
David J. Kingsley, Plantation
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bleachernation.bsky.social
The Brewers Turned One of the Craziest Double-Plays You’ll Ever See … And Also Lost

www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2025/10...
warnercrocker.bsky.social
A bit of good news.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment abcnews.go.com/Politics/supre…
warnercrocker.bsky.social
Somehow this feels like a match made in hell.

Walmart teams up with OpenAI to allow purchases directly in ChatGPT
#AI
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/wal…
warnercrocker.bsky.social
Good read. Worth your time, even if it is depressing.

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
#politics
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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markjacob.bsky.social
I wonder if the video of Tom Homan accepting a $50K payoff from the FBI is in the same lockbox as the Epstein files and the cocktail napkin that Trump used to write out his health care plan.
warnercrocker.bsky.social
Good morning. Fall continues falling. #Photography #Today #Fall #Chicago
A vibrant orange and yellow flower with a large, dark brown center stands in focus, surrounded by similar flowers and green foliage in the background, bathed in sunlight.
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
www.theatlantic.com
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Some good, brave stuff happening