JAMPH
@jamph.bsky.social
A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him. @JGAMPHO on Twitter.
Thompson, for all his faults, still believed in the mission of journalism. He didn't catch and kill stories for powerful friends, he couldn't stop himself from blowing the lid off scoops. And he was a good writer as well.
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Thompson, for all his faults, still believed in the mission of journalism. He didn't catch and kill stories for powerful friends, he couldn't stop himself from blowing the lid off scoops. And he was a good writer as well.
My favourite contemporary sci-fi author makes olive oil to pay the bills.
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
My favourite contemporary sci-fi author makes olive oil to pay the bills.
The image projects of himself is like a monk with muscles, money and bugattis.
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The image projects of himself is like a monk with muscles, money and bugattis.
Knowing his criminal history, actual sex slavery.
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Knowing his criminal history, actual sex slavery.
Retributive justice is just as much a social construction as restorative justice, it just has a longer history. I recommend reading The Invention of Good and Evil for a good primer on this. www.ebooks.com/en-au/book/2...
The Invention of Good and Evil
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'An ambitious and anecdote-rich sweeping history of morality's growing influence over our lives' WALL STREET JOURNAL'This fat, complex, good-natured and intriguing book is...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Retributive justice is just as much a social construction as restorative justice, it just has a longer history. I recommend reading The Invention of Good and Evil for a good primer on this. www.ebooks.com/en-au/book/2...
The unit of Horsepower was invented by James Watt to help him sell steam engines to mine owners by providing a simple comparitor between the engines and a horse trotting at a steady pace on a treadmill, which was how most pumping stations were powered at the time.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The unit of Horsepower was invented by James Watt to help him sell steam engines to mine owners by providing a simple comparitor between the engines and a horse trotting at a steady pace on a treadmill, which was how most pumping stations were powered at the time.
Both things can be true at the same time! Clearly we need to rein in the speculative mania of the VC industry and put the antitrust hammer down on big tech. We've developed a very unhealthy idea of what institutional structures are needed to enable and encourage technological development.
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Both things can be true at the same time! Clearly we need to rein in the speculative mania of the VC industry and put the antitrust hammer down on big tech. We've developed a very unhealthy idea of what institutional structures are needed to enable and encourage technological development.
That whole "hyperloop got California HSR derailed" thing was always a cope. California did not need Elon's help to fuck up rolling out a major infrastructure project, and at the time he actually was upfront that he had no plans to develop the concept, it was just an idea he wanted to put out there.
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
That whole "hyperloop got California HSR derailed" thing was always a cope. California did not need Elon's help to fuck up rolling out a major infrastructure project, and at the time he actually was upfront that he had no plans to develop the concept, it was just an idea he wanted to put out there.
I have four email addresses and an average of two accounts per social platform and I've never understood the "I'll just do all of my online activity from one place under my own name!" people. How can you be like that?
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I have four email addresses and an average of two accounts per social platform and I've never understood the "I'll just do all of my online activity from one place under my own name!" people. How can you be like that?
Don't forget about SROs either. www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/the-banish...
The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes
www.ryanpuzycki.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Don't forget about SROs either. www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/the-banish...
Are The Fae Open Source? is the title of a trippy psychedelic cyberpunk TTRPG.
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Are The Fae Open Source? is the title of a trippy psychedelic cyberpunk TTRPG.
Is this a joke? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_...
Arabic numerals - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Is this a joke? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_...
Say what you will about Jeff Bezos but he is a true sci-fi fan.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Say what you will about Jeff Bezos but he is a true sci-fi fan.
If they, the Greens, SNP and Plaid can get together on a popular front effort next election it may happen.
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If they, the Greens, SNP and Plaid can get together on a popular front effort next election it may happen.
Doesn't mean I have to like it.
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Doesn't mean I have to like it.
Engineering Problems vs Political Problems
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Engineering Problems vs Political Problems
It's like standing in line but worse.
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
It's like standing in line but worse.
Don't forget the sex crimes angle, that's how you can go after the religious leaders.
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Don't forget the sex crimes angle, that's how you can go after the religious leaders.
We don't even need new legislation, just a blitz of enforcement of the sex crime, financial crime and tax laws already on the books would put the fear of god into most of the ruling class.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
We don't even need new legislation, just a blitz of enforcement of the sex crime, financial crime and tax laws already on the books would put the fear of god into most of the ruling class.
Say what you will about the ignorance and selfishness of the average American, pop culture has done a pretty good job impressing "Nazis bad" into the American self-image.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Say what you will about the ignorance and selfishness of the average American, pop culture has done a pretty good job impressing "Nazis bad" into the American self-image.
Without Trump and with a bunch of loathsome openly Nazi edgelords in charge? I just can't see it appealing. I could see Americans going for generic authoritarianism dressed up in Trumpian razzamatazz, but outright Nazi revisionism has to alienate the broad middle of the country.
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Without Trump and with a bunch of loathsome openly Nazi edgelords in charge? I just can't see it appealing. I could see Americans going for generic authoritarianism dressed up in Trumpian razzamatazz, but outright Nazi revisionism has to alienate the broad middle of the country.
It ebbs and flows, but in the 19th century congressional leaders could easily rival presidents in importance, look at Henry Clay.
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It ebbs and flows, but in the 19th century congressional leaders could easily rival presidents in importance, look at Henry Clay.
Probably a clear and unambiguous pro-Israel statement and recantation of his prior statements on the issue, which he was no doubt unwilling to do.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Probably a clear and unambiguous pro-Israel statement and recantation of his prior statements on the issue, which he was no doubt unwilling to do.