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Jeff Schult

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"My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known." -- Nikos, to Schmendrick. The Last Unicorn Author, journalist, techie Fantasy/scifi, great books #Connecticut

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Dec 1

If my mom was here, she'd tell you not to encourage me.

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 6d

My anti-FAshion statement.

"I voted early" sticker on patched blue jeans.

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deadshock @debbshock.blue · 7d

well, my autopsy came back negative. what does that mean

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 10d

Where will you be? Bethel?

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 17d

Even if this is a false positive -- #AVG and #Avast have some explaining to do.

Because when software starts flagging political/academic material as malicious, it is VERY GODDAMNED SUSPICIOUS.

CTLook @ctlook.com · 17d

So TrumpActionTracker.info is a terrific site for documenting the U.S.'s lurch into authoritarianism.

And #AVG antivirus, owned by #Avast, is flagging the site as "malicious," which it is not from any technical standpoint. What gives, AVG and Avast? If you use these programs, please speak up.

AVG antivirus claims the "Trump Action Tracker" is malicious. It is not.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · Jul 15

POWERLESS is at last a book! The story of a storekeeper trying to carve out a little freedom in the West Coast People's Democratic Republic, and of the WCPDR trying to carve out a little in a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist world.

www.amazon.com/Powerless-Ha...

Powerless

Powerless [Turtledove, Harry] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Powerless

www.amazon.com

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 24d

Yo?

Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Sep 26

Let's catch up soon. :)

Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Sep 26

I don't. But I'm about half Norwegian.

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Sep 26

Good for her.

The NFL should stick to its brand and show a big-time poker game instead.

Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Sep 20

My emergency contact for many years has been a good lawyer.

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Sep 5

WHY are they putting Trump in 2028 presidential polling? If he's still president then it will NOT be because he won an election.

currently.att.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Poll: Gavin Newsom leads 2028 Democratic primary field, edges out Trump in head-to-head matchup

A new Yahoo/YouGov poll puts Newsom at the front of the Democratic Party's 2028 presidential primary pack, with 21% of registered Democratic voters and registered voters who lean Democratic now pickin...

currently.att.yahoo.com

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Sep 1

Taking photos this morning at the #NewtownCT 63rd Labor Day parade. You may recognize, marching/strolling ...
Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, Treasurer Erick Russell, Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz.

More in the alt text.

I was taking pictures and videos at the Newtown Labor Day Parade this morning for the Democratic Town Committee. Felt like old times, back on a newspaper beat ...
Out of 100-plus photos, 30-some were worth looking at and if it was back in the day and I was the editor picking shots for the front page, I probably would have gone with this one.
"Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, Treasurer Erick Russell, Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz enjoy their march in the 63rd Newtown Labor Day Parade."

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 30

I've often driven right past the prison in Concord where they do that.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2019...

Part 3: An Idle Mind

Three years ago, Samuel and Rachel purchased a wooden crate manufactured by inmates at the New Hampshire State Prison, but they wondered: was it ethically…

www.nhpr.org

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 30

Always thought they should change it to "Live Free, Then Die."

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 30

Wow.

Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 28

Yep.

Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 28

Ever feel like you're one of just a very few good neurons left in a diseased brain?

And I don't even watch zombie movies.

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 27

Blessed are the cheesemakers.

Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 22

Sometimes it is, in fact, over before it's over.

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 21

My whole brain came from books.

Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 21

Reading includes a wide range of benefits, Professor Thomsen said, including the promotion of well-being and empathy for different perspectives.

“It’s a problem if people don’t read books,” he said, “because that’s where people are confronted with complex ideas.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/w...

Facing a ‘Reading Crisis,’ Denmark Wants to Make Books Cheaper

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 21

Their go-to offense is to accuse others of what they themselves are most guilty of. MAGA and QAnon loved throwing this at others ... Until ...

Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 17

Bring whatever it is over here, I'll grill it.

Don't care what it is. Bag of peas? Fine.

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 15

In a movie, he'd steal any scene from anybody. Yet you would know of his remorse.

Jeff Schult @tftb.com · Aug 14

As good as it gets ...?

www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?

GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.

www.newyorker.com

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