Noel Dickover
@noeldickover.bsky.social
Project management @ GMU.edu. Master pumpkin carver: fantasypumpkins.com, reads UFO research, Wash Wizards, Mystics, Ravens fan. Former international devt, Human Rights (30 countries), Federal govt consultant (6 Depts/Agnc). #PaganFolkRock list on Spotify.
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Happy Halloween 2025 edition!
Here are my pumpkin carvings from this past Friday.
Do check out the rest of my family's carves as well at fantasypumpkins.com.
We had a great turnout with wonderful weather to match! 1/10
#PumpkinCarvingFriday #PumpkinCarving #Halloween #fantasyArt #scifiart
Enjoy!
Here are my pumpkin carvings from this past Friday.
Do check out the rest of my family's carves as well at fantasypumpkins.com.
We had a great turnout with wonderful weather to match! 1/10
#PumpkinCarvingFriday #PumpkinCarving #Halloween #fantasyArt #scifiart
Enjoy!
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Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data.
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
Robert Reich
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data.
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America.https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=4Ptdx0tQBOBOUin1
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I’ve photographed snow with D.C’s Christmas trees since 2003. It doesn’t often happen in D.C. Here is a selection of my photos, labeled with the date. @capitalweather.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’ve photographed snow with D.C’s Christmas trees since 2003. It doesn’t often happen in D.C. Here is a selection of my photos, labeled with the date. @capitalweather.bsky.social
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Giving credit where credit is due #FIFA #FIFApeaceprize
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Giving credit where credit is due #FIFA #FIFApeaceprize
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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Impeaching Trump's incompetent and lawless cabinet officials is the Democrats taking out trash the Republicans brought in.
Representative Thanedar's articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are the constitutional way to remove a criminal from a position of power.
Representative Thanedar's articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are the constitutional way to remove a criminal from a position of power.
December 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Impeaching Trump's incompetent and lawless cabinet officials is the Democrats taking out trash the Republicans brought in.
Representative Thanedar's articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are the constitutional way to remove a criminal from a position of power.
Representative Thanedar's articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are the constitutional way to remove a criminal from a position of power.
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
Demolish the fucking Ball Room. That's the campaign promise I want.
December 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Demolish the fucking Ball Room. That's the campaign promise I want.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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The Golden Age.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Golden Age.
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The correct title is "FIFA Peace Bribe"
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The correct title is "FIFA Peace Bribe"
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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This is great. Just signed, and filed it away for future class reading too.
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is great. Just signed, and filed it away for future class reading too.
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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"After spending several months bragging about killing people by bombing random boats in the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is suddenly far less interested in taking credit." www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegse...
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"After spending several months bragging about killing people by bombing random boats in the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is suddenly far less interested in taking credit." www.publicnotice.co/p/pete-hegse...
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I'm sure Vladimir can't wait
Imagine being the second person to get the FIFA Peace Prize
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I'm sure Vladimir can't wait
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I mean this is straight up white supremacy:
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I mean this is straight up white supremacy:
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There is no reason to be polite or decorous about this any more.
The current Supreme Court is corrupt.
US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.
The current Supreme Court is corrupt.
US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There is no reason to be polite or decorous about this any more.
The current Supreme Court is corrupt.
US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.
The current Supreme Court is corrupt.
US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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FIFA is the Trump Administration of the sporting world.
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
FIFA is the Trump Administration of the sporting world.
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Science suppliers are just a tiny piece of the story. Universities fuel so many other businesses from editors to restaurants. So much more needs to be written about ALL the small businesses taking a hit from ill-conceived policies and what it will do to "college towns." #academicsky
“There’s a whole class of people who are not recognized but who are integral to scientific system,” Dewar said. As the impact reverberates outward, “that’s who’s going to get hit harder.”
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
#AcademicSky
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
#AcademicSky
Trump Cut Funding to Higher Ed. Other Businesses Are Feeling the Pain.
His effort to punish universities could have a billion-dollar ripple effect.
www.chronicle.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Science suppliers are just a tiny piece of the story. Universities fuel so many other businesses from editors to restaurants. So much more needs to be written about ALL the small businesses taking a hit from ill-conceived policies and what it will do to "college towns." #academicsky
What's the problem with committing war crimes within a lawless regime again?
Trump will just "pre-pardon" his drunkard Secretary of Murdering Fishermen and go on bombing whoever bugs him that day.
The problem is unfortunately more fundamental than war crimes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump will just "pre-pardon" his drunkard Secretary of Murdering Fishermen and go on bombing whoever bugs him that day.
The problem is unfortunately more fundamental than war crimes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US airstrike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour before second deadly attack, video shows
Footage seen by US senators shows two unarmed, shirtless men struggling to stay afloat before they were killed, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
What's the problem with committing war crimes within a lawless regime again?
Trump will just "pre-pardon" his drunkard Secretary of Murdering Fishermen and go on bombing whoever bugs him that day.
The problem is unfortunately more fundamental than war crimes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump will just "pre-pardon" his drunkard Secretary of Murdering Fishermen and go on bombing whoever bugs him that day.
The problem is unfortunately more fundamental than war crimes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I don't support corrupt orgs or corrupt events, especially when they give a "Peace Prize" to a dictator wannabe murdering helpless fisherman.
I LOVE watching and have attended WC finals but NO #FIFAWorldCup for me!
#Boycott fascim. Boycott the #FIFA World Cup!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
I LOVE watching and have attended WC finals but NO #FIFAWorldCup for me!
#Boycott fascim. Boycott the #FIFA World Cup!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Trump awarded inaugural Fifa peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
US president receives new Fifa honour as scrutiny grows over Infantino’s political alliances and Trump’s disputed record on global conflicts
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I don't support corrupt orgs or corrupt events, especially when they give a "Peace Prize" to a dictator wannabe murdering helpless fisherman.
I LOVE watching and have attended WC finals but NO #FIFAWorldCup for me!
#Boycott fascim. Boycott the #FIFA World Cup!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
I LOVE watching and have attended WC finals but NO #FIFAWorldCup for me!
#Boycott fascim. Boycott the #FIFA World Cup!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...