Scott Cory
@jscottcory.bsky.social
Sometimes funny, sometimes thoughtful, makes mistakes.
Husband, father, cat and dog dad. Grumpy, old, gay, and many other things: proud of all of 'em.
@jscottcory in the Meta ecosystem.
scory.blogspot.com
Husband, father, cat and dog dad. Grumpy, old, gay, and many other things: proud of all of 'em.
@jscottcory in the Meta ecosystem.
scory.blogspot.com
TIL that repeated emotional and mental trauma and abuse has a similar psychiatric effect as physical trauma and abuse of the body. Both can be treated, and people can learn to reduce the impacts of the mental and physical trauma and abuse through different kinds of therapy and medication.
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
TIL that repeated emotional and mental trauma and abuse has a similar psychiatric effect as physical trauma and abuse of the body. Both can be treated, and people can learn to reduce the impacts of the mental and physical trauma and abuse through different kinds of therapy and medication.
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
They want the 3/5ths clause back in play, too.
Racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and dumb as the plank that smacks them in the face every time they step on it.
Racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and dumb as the plank that smacks them in the face every time they step on it.
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
They want the 3/5ths clause back in play, too.
Racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and dumb as the plank that smacks them in the face every time they step on it.
Racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and dumb as the plank that smacks them in the face every time they step on it.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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It's no longer hypothetical ... US Citizenship and Immigration Services has "directed its employees to halt adjudicating *ALL* immigration pathways for people from 19 countries deemed to be “high risk”. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It's no longer hypothetical ... US Citizenship and Immigration Services has "directed its employees to halt adjudicating *ALL* immigration pathways for people from 19 countries deemed to be “high risk”. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
That this is coming after the release of the 2025 National Security Strategy is not a coincidence. It is intentional and a warning to those of us who believe in democracy, equality, and the rule of law.
December 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
That this is coming after the release of the 2025 National Security Strategy is not a coincidence. It is intentional and a warning to those of us who believe in democracy, equality, and the rule of law.
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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I wonder how many EA people were around during New Atheism. They've done a great job capturing the smug, pseudo-intellectual debate bro machismo of that movement
There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I wonder how many EA people were around during New Atheism. They've done a great job capturing the smug, pseudo-intellectual debate bro machismo of that movement
It's knife sharpening time in the Cory-Gunn kitchen, and finding the right music to listen to given the current circumstances is ... challenging.
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It's knife sharpening time in the Cory-Gunn kitchen, and finding the right music to listen to given the current circumstances is ... challenging.
Menu and food goals.
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Menu and food goals.
"The Simpsons" writers room couldn't do better than this for Grandpa Simpson.
Trump: "Is Trump in good health? I sit here, I do four news conferences a day. I ask questions from very intelligent lunatics -- you people. I give the right answers. There's never a scandal. There's never a problem. I give you answers that solve your little problems."
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"The Simpsons" writers room couldn't do better than this for Grandpa Simpson.
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Du Bois lays an unforgettable & unrebuttable claim to America for its Black people in the penultimate paragraph of The Souls of Black Folk, beginning with the correct observation that Black people were here before the Puritans:
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Du Bois lays an unforgettable & unrebuttable claim to America for its Black people in the penultimate paragraph of The Souls of Black Folk, beginning with the correct observation that Black people were here before the Puritans:
I missed this thread when @sethcotlar.bsky.social first posted it. It's important, and goes to the continuing capture of governments by oligarchs and their supporters and the subsequent lessening of rights and protections for citizens.
TL:DR Wealth is not an indicator of competence and morality.
TL:DR Wealth is not an indicator of competence and morality.
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
December 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I missed this thread when @sethcotlar.bsky.social first posted it. It's important, and goes to the continuing capture of governments by oligarchs and their supporters and the subsequent lessening of rights and protections for citizens.
TL:DR Wealth is not an indicator of competence and morality.
TL:DR Wealth is not an indicator of competence and morality.
John Tower's drinking and Zoe Baird's domestic accounting are quaint memories of the days of the Senate oversight and exercising their power to advise and provide consent to Presidents for political appointments.
Seems like this information was both available and important.
Seems like this information was both available and important.
Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement
Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
John Tower's drinking and Zoe Baird's domestic accounting are quaint memories of the days of the Senate oversight and exercising their power to advise and provide consent to Presidents for political appointments.
Seems like this information was both available and important.
Seems like this information was both available and important.
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Earlier ProPublica documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” That claim is absurd. What it is: routine acts of vandalism.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Earlier ProPublica documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” That claim is absurd. What it is: routine acts of vandalism.
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"Each of the six preachers opposes women in ministry and teaches that men should be in charge of families."
Important work done here by Brian, important read: ⬇️
Important work done here by Brian, important read: ⬇️
1st preacher at Hegseth's monthly Pentagon prayer services was his former pastor in Doug Wilson's denomination. Preachers since then: 3 Southern Baptist pastors, a grandson of Billy Graham, & a former NFL player accused of insider trading:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/pentagon-p...
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/pentagon-p...
Pentagon Preachers Proclaim a Lord of War
After the ambush on National Guard members in Washington, D.C., last week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced he would send 500 more troops to the nation’s capital.
publicwitness.wordandway.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Each of the six preachers opposes women in ministry and teaches that men should be in charge of families."
Important work done here by Brian, important read: ⬇️
Important work done here by Brian, important read: ⬇️
While America's relationship with oligarchy has always been present, none of us has consented to replace our representative democracy with an authoritarian oligarchy.
Fight against oligarchy with all available tools. Don't assume they won't work to engage people.
Fight against oligarchy with all available tools. Don't assume they won't work to engage people.
Some in the Democratic Party want to you think we must choose between social justice and economic populism.
Rubbish.
The only path forward is embracing both.
Rubbish.
The only path forward is embracing both.
December 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
While America's relationship with oligarchy has always been present, none of us has consented to replace our representative democracy with an authoritarian oligarchy.
Fight against oligarchy with all available tools. Don't assume they won't work to engage people.
Fight against oligarchy with all available tools. Don't assume they won't work to engage people.
People who've read or watched "The Expanse" may remember the big alien bad exploited by a plutocratic oligarch was a radiosynthetic substance.
This is a fascinating discovery, but there are lots of risks and unforeseen consequences that may result from exploiting novel metabolic pathways.
This is a fascinating discovery, but there are lots of risks and unforeseen consequences that may result from exploiting novel metabolic pathways.
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
People who've read or watched "The Expanse" may remember the big alien bad exploited by a plutocratic oligarch was a radiosynthetic substance.
This is a fascinating discovery, but there are lots of risks and unforeseen consequences that may result from exploiting novel metabolic pathways.
This is a fascinating discovery, but there are lots of risks and unforeseen consequences that may result from exploiting novel metabolic pathways.
10/10. No notes.
There are lots of reasons why public safety, law enforcement and access to justice in DC should evolve and improve. None of them involve the National Guard or heavy weapons.
There are lots of reasons why public safety, law enforcement and access to justice in DC should evolve and improve. None of them involve the National Guard or heavy weapons.
I wrote this @thenation.com to keep from howling from my rooftop. "After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie." tinyurl.com/2456cc46
After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie
West Virginia’s governor, Patrick Morrisey, is inventing reasons for the National Guard to occupy Washington, DC. We cannot let his outrageous fabrications take hold.
tinyurl.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
10/10. No notes.
There are lots of reasons why public safety, law enforcement and access to justice in DC should evolve and improve. None of them involve the National Guard or heavy weapons.
There are lots of reasons why public safety, law enforcement and access to justice in DC should evolve and improve. None of them involve the National Guard or heavy weapons.
Expertise is valuable.
Straight up war crime
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Expertise is valuable.
There's a good case for application of intellectual property law that can and should shut down abusive data extraction for training of LLMs.
“The communications could help prove what’s known as “willful” infringement, which triggers significantly higher damages of $150,000 per work.“
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
There's a good case for application of intellectual property law that can and should shut down abusive data extraction for training of LLMs.
Phillips - long ago an advisor to Richard Nixon - wrote this in the early 00s as a sequel to "The Politics of Rich and Poor."
It's applicable now more than ever.
It's applicable now more than ever.
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Phillips - long ago an advisor to Richard Nixon - wrote this in the early 00s as a sequel to "The Politics of Rich and Poor."
It's applicable now more than ever.
It's applicable now more than ever.
Keep the evidence.
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Keep the evidence.
Since we've had a media blackout on the shooting of two National Guardsmen I'm going to assume the shooter is white and probably either National Guard or uniformed law enforcement. Because if the shooter was anything else, we'd already have a name and pictures and a blue line mob howling.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Since we've had a media blackout on the shooting of two National Guardsmen I'm going to assume the shooter is white and probably either National Guard or uniformed law enforcement. Because if the shooter was anything else, we'd already have a name and pictures and a blue line mob howling.