John M. Gamble
@jmgamble.bsky.social
Lives in Chicago.
Programs obscure algorithms.
My primary posting site is and will remain at Mastodon. The account is bridged here:
@jgamble.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Programs obscure algorithms.
My primary posting site is and will remain at Mastodon. The account is bridged here:
@jgamble.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
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Hey gang, a little bird tells me that Kobo put THE TWISTED ONES and NETTLE & BONE on sale until the 15th! (I know it’s in the UK, not sure about US)
February 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Hey gang, a little bird tells me that Kobo put THE TWISTED ONES and NETTLE & BONE on sale until the 15th! (I know it’s in the UK, not sure about US)
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This is a very smart thread from one of the best paleontology journalists in the business.
Of course the worst people in the world influence paleontology (and many other sciences).
Do you know how many fossil halls are named after the Koch brothers? With museums shrugging “Well where else are we going to get the money?”
Do you know how many fossil halls are named after the Koch brothers? With museums shrugging “Well where else are we going to get the money?”
February 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
This is a very smart thread from one of the best paleontology journalists in the business.
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More detail in this article:
www.conspirator0.com/p/computer-e...
www.conspirator0.com/p/computer-e...
Computer, enhance!
Using generative AI to "enhance" photos and videos and fill in missing details does not, in fact, work
www.conspirator0.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:51 PM
More detail in this article:
www.conspirator0.com/p/computer-e...
www.conspirator0.com/p/computer-e...
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Using generative AI to "enhance" images doesn't work, but people keep trying. Following the shooting death of Renée Good by ICE, social media users attempted to "unmask" the shooter with AI, resulting in numerous images that neither resembled each other nor the actual killer, Jonathan Ross.
January 31, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Using generative AI to "enhance" images doesn't work, but people keep trying. Following the shooting death of Renée Good by ICE, social media users attempted to "unmask" the shooter with AI, resulting in numerous images that neither resembled each other nor the actual killer, Jonathan Ross.
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I don’t ask a lot from y’all in exchange for spending thousands of dollars a year to give the public free court records.
Please share this piece far and wide.
Please share this piece far and wide.
We dropped our paywall for this new piece.
Court Watch picked one of the largest ‘news deserts’ in the South and examined all the new court dockets that went unreported to tell a larger story about the need for local journalism
‘Dockets Die In Darkness’
www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
Court Watch picked one of the largest ‘news deserts’ in the South and examined all the new court dockets that went unreported to tell a larger story about the need for local journalism
‘Dockets Die In Darkness’
www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
The Rabbit Hole: Dockets Die in Darkness
Among the 17 counties in Georgia that don’t have a single local news source, 12 of the counties are in the Middle District of Georgia’s jurisdiction. This week, we sought to highlight the dockets dyin...
www.courtwatch.news
February 1, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I don’t ask a lot from y’all in exchange for spending thousands of dollars a year to give the public free court records.
Please share this piece far and wide.
Please share this piece far and wide.
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Omg, Joi Ito recommended Warren Ellis' Global Frequency with an Amazon link directly to Epstein:
"A version of a "good conspiracy". Not exactly what we're looking for but something interesting."
NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
(Ellis himself does not appear in the archive)
"A version of a "good conspiracy". Not exactly what we're looking for but something interesting."
NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
(Ellis himself does not appear in the archive)
February 1, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Omg, Joi Ito recommended Warren Ellis' Global Frequency with an Amazon link directly to Epstein:
"A version of a "good conspiracy". Not exactly what we're looking for but something interesting."
NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
(Ellis himself does not appear in the archive)
"A version of a "good conspiracy". Not exactly what we're looking for but something interesting."
NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
(Ellis himself does not appear in the archive)
Well, not so much rudderless – there were half a dozen billionaires out there with their own special requests.
But definitely susceptible to extortion.
I do wish there had been (and there still can be!) an investigation into what Trump said to Justice Kennedy to get him to abruptly resign.
But definitely susceptible to extortion.
I do wish there had been (and there still can be!) an investigation into what Trump said to Justice Kennedy to get him to abruptly resign.
we're being ruled by a dying pedophile with dementia because another pedophile collected all the scientists and nazis he could into one big network and then died, leaving them rudderless
Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Well, not so much rudderless – there were half a dozen billionaires out there with their own special requests.
But definitely susceptible to extortion.
I do wish there had been (and there still can be!) an investigation into what Trump said to Justice Kennedy to get him to abruptly resign.
But definitely susceptible to extortion.
I do wish there had been (and there still can be!) an investigation into what Trump said to Justice Kennedy to get him to abruptly resign.
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So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 3:18 AM
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
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new CBS contributor Peter Attia
Here is Peter Attia MD emailing Epstein’s assistant claiming he goes into “JE withdrawal” when he doesn’t see him.
January 31, 2026 at 10:20 AM
new CBS contributor Peter Attia
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So, let's get this straight. Christopher "Moot" Poole created 4chan as a gathering place for hentai and CSAM enthusiasts, started /pol/ the day he met with Jeffrey Epstein, then /pol/ memed Trump to the presidency and birthed Qanon, a conspiracy theory in which Trump is a good person who hates CSAM.
January 31, 2026 at 5:29 AM
So, let's get this straight. Christopher "Moot" Poole created 4chan as a gathering place for hentai and CSAM enthusiasts, started /pol/ the day he met with Jeffrey Epstein, then /pol/ memed Trump to the presidency and birthed Qanon, a conspiracy theory in which Trump is a good person who hates CSAM.
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*cough* A little bit of extra info to add here:
There's only one transit, so the true period is unknown. It could be anywhere between 300 and 550 days.
This is an exciting candidate! But (a) we don't know if it's real, and (b) we don't know what its temperature is if it IS real.
There's only one transit, so the true period is unknown. It could be anywhere between 300 and 550 days.
This is an exciting candidate! But (a) we don't know if it's real, and (b) we don't know what its temperature is if it IS real.
New planet just dropped and it
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit
Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:11 PM
*cough* A little bit of extra info to add here:
There's only one transit, so the true period is unknown. It could be anywhere between 300 and 550 days.
This is an exciting candidate! But (a) we don't know if it's real, and (b) we don't know what its temperature is if it IS real.
There's only one transit, so the true period is unknown. It could be anywhere between 300 and 550 days.
This is an exciting candidate! But (a) we don't know if it's real, and (b) we don't know what its temperature is if it IS real.
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New planet just dropped and it
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit
Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:42 PM
New planet just dropped and it
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
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Here are the secret lists of banned books from Alberta's 2 largest school boards from @readtheorchard.org
… and they are different. How do you reconcile one board banning a book that another does not? I guess we wait for the Minister?
www.readtheorchard.org/p/here-are-t...
… and they are different. How do you reconcile one board banning a book that another does not? I guess we wait for the Minister?
www.readtheorchard.org/p/here-are-t...
Here are the secret lists of banned books from Alberta's 2 largest school boards
The Calgary Board of Education removed 42 books from its libraries and the Edmonton Public School Board removed 33 in response to an order from Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides.
www.readtheorchard.org
January 29, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Here are the secret lists of banned books from Alberta's 2 largest school boards from @readtheorchard.org
… and they are different. How do you reconcile one board banning a book that another does not? I guess we wait for the Minister?
www.readtheorchard.org/p/here-are-t...
… and they are different. How do you reconcile one board banning a book that another does not? I guess we wait for the Minister?
www.readtheorchard.org/p/here-are-t...
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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but will it be enough to keep her out of prison?
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 2:24 PM
but will it be enough to keep her out of prison?
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I really did wish studying the humanities had the impact on people's ethical positions that we think it ought to have.
In which Ed Whelan inquires of Harmeet Dhillon: “Are you drunk?”
January 28, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I really did wish studying the humanities had the impact on people's ethical positions that we think it ought to have.
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Pleased to announce I've been hired to do the marketing for this campaign
January 28, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Pleased to announce I've been hired to do the marketing for this campaign
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It was obvious that tech bros' pretend dislike of IP was limited to artists' rights, but still funny to see how quickly they spin on a dime to defend tech corp IP
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
It was obvious that tech bros' pretend dislike of IP was limited to artists' rights, but still funny to see how quickly they spin on a dime to defend tech corp IP
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wrote an essay about the leitmotif rabbit hole and why 8/10 times i don't like it wehwalt.net/leitmotifs
A Short Missive on the Leitmotif
wehwalt.net
January 28, 2026 at 3:08 AM
wrote an essay about the leitmotif rabbit hole and why 8/10 times i don't like it wehwalt.net/leitmotifs
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with alt-text:
January 28, 2026 at 10:57 AM
with alt-text:
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Epstein long ago succumbed to delusions of omnicompetence. During the Snowden business he coauthored a deeply, deeply embarrassing editorial defending the bulk phone records program absolutely littered with basic factual and legal errors.
NYU Law Prof. Richard Epstein has submitted his amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court on birthright citizenship. He has no expertise in this area and has never done, as far as I know, any substantial work on the history of the common law dating back to early modern and pre-modern England.
January 28, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Epstein long ago succumbed to delusions of omnicompetence. During the Snowden business he coauthored a deeply, deeply embarrassing editorial defending the bulk phone records program absolutely littered with basic factual and legal errors.
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Best read (if at all) after refreshing one's recollection about the rants in his interview with Isaac Chotiner www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
![Q: You wrote last week, “In the United States, if the total death toll increases at about the same rate, the current 67 deaths should translate into about 500 deaths at the end.” We are currently at eight hundred deaths—over eight hundred deaths. [This was true when we spoke; the number is now over two thousand.]
A: First of all, let me just say I wrote an amendment to that, the thing I regret most in that whole paper. But I was not so much interested in explaining why my number was right. I was interested in explaining why the other projections were wrong.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kfaxgen4pxdnmtho7tj4tijr/bafkreifbfwxns7onmah7cemgwdhmwpuv3canhd3wwo65e7kg55o2vbpfsy@jpeg)
January 28, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Best read (if at all) after refreshing one's recollection about the rants in his interview with Isaac Chotiner www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...