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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 14h

"The Engineering of Consent"
I read this and can't help but think of episode 2 of Adam Curtis' "The Century of the Self."

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 16h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 16h

At least it's an OHP (although built in Spain with a funny looking CIWS.)

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2d

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 2d

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 2d

The folks going on about the MTG - MAGA split 🙄

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 3d

The Romero branch of the church. The best branch.

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 3d

A prayer: Gawd, please shield me from doing whackadoo shit with St. Umberto Eco's words about cretins, fools, morons and lunatics. Especially:
"There are lunatics who don’t bring up the Templars, but those who do are the most insidious. At first they seem normal, then all of a sudden…"

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 4d

Them: Did you see this whackadoo shit? Who comes up with this?
Me: Are they an astrophysicist or mechanical engineer?
Them: ummm [reads closely]...aerospace.
Me: Close enough.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4d

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 4d

Back in Taipei.

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 4d

"I'll allow it"

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 4d

Trump brain: "it's a volunteer army!"

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 5d

Speaking of reclusive writers, Pynchon's new novel is all Milwaukee and Chicago so far.

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 5d

One issue in the Oregon National Guard case, being argued today, is the meaning of “rebellion.”
And when is military force needed to enforce law?
And who gets to decide?

It reminds me of a question we returned to again and again during the Forever War: what is war?
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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 6d

Jesus.
www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Hunger fight in Georgia complicated by SNAP overhaul, lost data

Rural Hancock County, about 100 miles southeast of Atlanta, has the highest estimated rate of childhood food insecurity in the nation, according a report.

www.ajc.com

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 6d

One of my nightmares from the late 80s and early 90s when I worked on very large uninterruptible power supply systems after midnight so as not to disturb daytime operations: making a mistake while working on the very large battery bank and shorting it out with subsequent disastrous results.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 6d

They did give me a nightmare scenario addition:

"The larger the datacenter, the larger the battery backup it needs, which we also only have recently started addressing in the code."

And added "So, yeah, I guess we're waiting for a Triangle Shirtwaist Fire for datacenters."

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 7d

I've been blessed at Osaka Family Mart
@funranium.bsky.social

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 7d

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 7d

Early morning Osaka

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 8d

Sunset at Tansui during the Mid-autumn Festival.

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 9d

See also, "The John Milius School of Military Science"

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 9d

Midnight snack.

Tuna and onion onigiri from Family Mart across the street in Taipei.

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 10d

Breakfast with my daughter in Taipei.

Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 11d

❤️Hyacinth Bucket
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 11d

Congressional authorization for war is the lesser of two weevils

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ACLU @aclu.org · 12d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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