Peter Jeffe
@pjeffe.bsky.social
"Understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act." - George Jackson
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Citing as a source a program that probabilistically assembles words taken from millions of disparate sources, more and more of which are themselves generated by it.
By the time the signal-to-noise ratio approaches zero the VC and founders will have cashed out and we'll be left holding the bag.
By the time the signal-to-noise ratio approaches zero the VC and founders will have cashed out and we'll be left holding the bag.
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Citing as a source a program that probabilistically assembles words taken from millions of disparate sources, more and more of which are themselves generated by it.
By the time the signal-to-noise ratio approaches zero the VC and founders will have cashed out and we'll be left holding the bag.
By the time the signal-to-noise ratio approaches zero the VC and founders will have cashed out and we'll be left holding the bag.
I love everything about this. That Carlos Alomar backed up Chuck Berry at Rye Playland, a down-market amusement park we went to as kids; the simplicity of Berry's stage cues; and his emphatic dismissal of the idea that you'd need to rehearse rock and roll.
www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/c...
www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/c...
![“I got this phone call to do a job at the Rye Playland [in Rye, New York, north of New York City]. It was an amusement park, but they had entertainment there under the giant tent and everything. I get there and in walks Chuck Berry with his electric guitar. He walks right up to us and says, ‘When I do like this’ — and he takes his headstock and moves it sideways — ‘you stop.’
“‘And when I do like this’ — and he moves his headstock up and down — ‘you play.’ That was it.
“He turns around to walk out, and I said, ‘Come on…’ I was maybe in my early twenties and naive. I said, ‘Excuse me, Mr. Berry, are we gonna rehearse?’
“That man turned around and looked at me and said, ‘Boy, I ain’t gonna rehearse rock and roll.’
“He turned around, walked out.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:thcz5zwlgps2dpvag3fbp7mi/bafkreidchkfchn74fequ7tiu44ulqbpepsx7lzjphm5r4uj5ugpylajbxi@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I love everything about this. That Carlos Alomar backed up Chuck Berry at Rye Playland, a down-market amusement park we went to as kids; the simplicity of Berry's stage cues; and his emphatic dismissal of the idea that you'd need to rehearse rock and roll.
www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/c...
www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/c...
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I think folks may not understand how painful it is when people lose their accounts. This was Eslam's lifeline for her family. It was her friends. It was her chance to not drown.
They rely on you not to forget them. Put this link in your Calendar app. Don't forget them.
They rely on you not to forget them. Put this link in your Calendar app. Don't forget them.
You knew Eslam The Artist when she had an account, that broke no rules but was suspended, taking away access to her friends, she's so young and responsible for her family trapped in Palestine. She has sacrificed her wellbeing to fight, you can help ease that burden. Donate. Share.
shorturl.at/1XJ3D
shorturl.at/1XJ3D
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I think folks may not understand how painful it is when people lose their accounts. This was Eslam's lifeline for her family. It was her friends. It was her chance to not drown.
They rely on you not to forget them. Put this link in your Calendar app. Don't forget them.
They rely on you not to forget them. Put this link in your Calendar app. Don't forget them.
I get why this specific accusation is unusual. I don't get why people think the action itself is exceptional.
Our military and intelligence services have always carried out extrajudicial killings.
Our School of the Americas has trained generations of torturers and executioners.
Our military and intelligence services have always carried out extrajudicial killings.
Our School of the Americas has trained generations of torturers and executioners.
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I get why this specific accusation is unusual. I don't get why people think the action itself is exceptional.
Our military and intelligence services have always carried out extrajudicial killings.
Our School of the Americas has trained generations of torturers and executioners.
Our military and intelligence services have always carried out extrajudicial killings.
Our School of the Americas has trained generations of torturers and executioners.
It's awesome how Obama's twin decisions not to punish the people responsible for GWOT war crimes and Great Recession financial crimes led directly to where we are now. You might say it was a failure of leadership but it's pretty clear he succeeded at what he actually set out to do.
Wild to see Whelan say this, but to be clear the OLC's immunity powers are fake anyway. The "golden shield" idea was made up to justify rampant criminality in the GWBush years, then adopted by Holder to excuse Obama's inaction. It's not in the Constitution, statute, or precedent. It's not the law.
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It's awesome how Obama's twin decisions not to punish the people responsible for GWOT war crimes and Great Recession financial crimes led directly to where we are now. You might say it was a failure of leadership but it's pretty clear he succeeded at what he actually set out to do.
"Peace for our time"
"I'm a fire starter, twisted for starter!"
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Peace for our time"
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Always ask whose crimes are seen as incriminating a whole population and whose aren't. "During 2018–2021, a total of 3,991 female victims of intimate partner homicide were reported to NVDRS...." www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Always ask whose crimes are seen as incriminating a whole population and whose aren't. "During 2018–2021, a total of 3,991 female victims of intimate partner homicide were reported to NVDRS...." www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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“Relatives said he had lost a quarter of his body weight since being seized during a night raid on his family's home in the occupied West Bank town of al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya in February, when he was 15.”
US teen freed after nine months in Israeli prison amid torture
A 16-year-old Palestinian-American boy was freed after nine months in Israeli military detention that left him severely malnourished and cut off from family.
www.newarab.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Relatives said he had lost a quarter of his body weight since being seized during a night raid on his family's home in the occupied West Bank town of al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya in February, when he was 15.”
It's somewhat heartening to see this story break confinement instead of being buried like most of Israel's war crimes. Is it just because the video is so irrefutable, or does it also indicate a shift in coverage?
Israeli military kills two men after they appeared to surrender during operation in West Bank | CNN
Israeli authorities are reviewing an incident in which soldiers shot and killed two people who appeared to be surrendering in the occupied West Bank, an act described by the Palestinian Authority as a...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's somewhat heartening to see this story break confinement instead of being buried like most of Israel's war crimes. Is it just because the video is so irrefutable, or does it also indicate a shift in coverage?
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Remember, BDS is intended as a civil society alternative to violence: a boycott is a non-violent form of protest against well-documented human rights crimes by the Israeli state. What I hear when ppl decry BDS as too strict is that ppl would rather Palestinians not resist their displacement at all
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Remember, BDS is intended as a civil society alternative to violence: a boycott is a non-violent form of protest against well-documented human rights crimes by the Israeli state. What I hear when ppl decry BDS as too strict is that ppl would rather Palestinians not resist their displacement at all
I always knew Jimmy Cliff was at the center of reggae's success, but I had no idea that he was responsible for launching both Desmond Dekker's and Bob Marley's careers when he worked with Leslie Kong. In fact he was also responsible for Kong starting his legendary Beverley's record label.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I always knew Jimmy Cliff was at the center of reggae's success, but I had no idea that he was responsible for launching both Desmond Dekker's and Bob Marley's careers when he worked with Leslie Kong. In fact he was also responsible for Kong starting his legendary Beverley's record label.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Loomer certainly does seem to have speciated, not sure into what exactly.
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Loomer certainly does seem to have speciated, not sure into what exactly.
Until 1981 Italy's criminal code mandated light sentences for men who murdered women in a "state of anger caused by the offence to his honor". Whether codified in law or not, this attitude has persisted throughout the world, revealed in the use of terms like "crimes of passion".
Giulia Cecchettin's murder galvanized a movement that led Italy yesterday to define femicide as a crime with a sentence of life in prison. May other countries follow their lead.
"Through both social media and interviews, Elena Cecchettin has linked her sister’s killing to the normalisation of toxic male behavior.
'For Giulia don’t hold a moment of silence, for Giulia burn everything,' she wrote. 'Femicide is a state murder because the state does not protect us.'"
'For Giulia don’t hold a moment of silence, for Giulia burn everything,' she wrote. 'Femicide is a state murder because the state does not protect us.'"
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Until 1981 Italy's criminal code mandated light sentences for men who murdered women in a "state of anger caused by the offence to his honor". Whether codified in law or not, this attitude has persisted throughout the world, revealed in the use of terms like "crimes of passion".
Giulia Cecchettin's murder galvanized a movement that led Italy yesterday to define femicide as a crime with a sentence of life in prison. May other countries follow their lead.
"Through both social media and interviews, Elena Cecchettin has linked her sister’s killing to the normalisation of toxic male behavior.
'For Giulia don’t hold a moment of silence, for Giulia burn everything,' she wrote. 'Femicide is a state murder because the state does not protect us.'"
'For Giulia don’t hold a moment of silence, for Giulia burn everything,' she wrote. 'Femicide is a state murder because the state does not protect us.'"
Anger across Italy as killing of student highlights country’s femicide rate
Death of Giulia Cecchettin, 22, allegedly at hands of ex-boyfriend, casts spotlight on violence against women
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Giulia Cecchettin's murder galvanized a movement that led Italy yesterday to define femicide as a crime with a sentence of life in prison. May other countries follow their lead.
If there's anything that will make Americans wake up to the AI slop threat it's going to be when it affects either food or sports, preferably both.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
If there's anything that will make Americans wake up to the AI slop threat it's going to be when it affects either food or sports, preferably both.
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The weathers is only going to worsen, please do keep helping my friend, we have to make sure she can secure a roof for her family.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The weathers is only going to worsen, please do keep helping my friend, we have to make sure she can secure a roof for her family.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
I have a feeling that the docents at the Chester Arthur Presidential Library will be fielding much more interesting questions from visitors in the coming months.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I have a feeling that the docents at the Chester Arthur Presidential Library will be fielding much more interesting questions from visitors in the coming months.
RIP Jimmy, no more struggle.
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As the sun lights the day and the moon lights the night
Struggling man keeps reaching for the higher heights
So we plan for tomorrow as we live for today
Like a flower we bloom and then later fade away
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As the sun lights the day and the moon lights the night
Struggling man keeps reaching for the higher heights
So we plan for tomorrow as we live for today
Like a flower we bloom and then later fade away
Struggling Man
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
RIP Jimmy, no more struggle.
--
As the sun lights the day and the moon lights the night
Struggling man keeps reaching for the higher heights
So we plan for tomorrow as we live for today
Like a flower we bloom and then later fade away
--
As the sun lights the day and the moon lights the night
Struggling man keeps reaching for the higher heights
So we plan for tomorrow as we live for today
Like a flower we bloom and then later fade away
It's surprising to me how many writers of various kinds fail to include alt text with posted images. You would think that people who presumably have a heightened respect for language would want to ensure that everyone can access it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
It's surprising to me how many writers of various kinds fail to include alt text with posted images. You would think that people who presumably have a heightened respect for language would want to ensure that everyone can access it.
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No donations for 3 days. Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her baby safe & lost her husband to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please help her keep her daughter, who's very sick & malnourished, alive. They urgently need food, medicine, shelter from the cold:
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
No donations for 3 days. Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her baby safe & lost her husband to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please help her keep her daughter, who's very sick & malnourished, alive. They urgently need food, medicine, shelter from the cold:
Hezbollah wouldn't exist if Israel hadn't invaded Lebanon in 1982 and slaughtered thousands of its citizens. Every problem Israel faces is due to its own aggression and its determination never to negotiate peace settlements in good faith.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Hezbollah wouldn't exist if Israel hadn't invaded Lebanon in 1982 and slaughtered thousands of its citizens. Every problem Israel faces is due to its own aggression and its determination never to negotiate peace settlements in good faith.
The more you know...
#OtD 23 Nov 1887 the Thibodaux massacre occurred when Louisiana militia shot and killed at least 50 unarmed Black sugar workers in the Knights of Labor striking for a wage in cash (not company scrip) and lynched two strike leaders stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9593...
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The more you know...
Robyn Hitchcock finally added an Austin date to his tour and I sprung for a VIP ticket because I'm very important!
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Robyn Hitchcock finally added an Austin date to his tour and I sprung for a VIP ticket because I'm very important!