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@jrkelly.bsky.social
"All power corrupts but we need electricity."
"I am mighty! I have a glow you cannot see! I have a heart as big as the moon, as warm as bathwater! We are superheroes, man! We don't have time to be charming! The boots of evil were made for walking!"
"I am mighty! I have a glow you cannot see! I have a heart as big as the moon, as warm as bathwater! We are superheroes, man! We don't have time to be charming! The boots of evil were made for walking!"
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I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
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Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
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I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
You should read this.
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
You should read this.
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This is not a place of honor
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Fa la la la la, la la la la
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is not a place of honor
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Fa la la la la, la la la la
My mom trusts GPS more than her own eyes. We were looking for an estate sale at 40 Elm. It was sending us to the street centroid. We're driving past #40: there is a sign and a sale! She INSISTS we bypass it for the app's pin (a parking lot).
The sellers of AI want the same de-skilled blind trust.
The sellers of AI want the same de-skilled blind trust.
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
My mom trusts GPS more than her own eyes. We were looking for an estate sale at 40 Elm. It was sending us to the street centroid. We're driving past #40: there is a sign and a sale! She INSISTS we bypass it for the app's pin (a parking lot).
The sellers of AI want the same de-skilled blind trust.
The sellers of AI want the same de-skilled blind trust.
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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If they cared so much about dignity, why are these parties not all in on your dignified right to:
✅ Hospice?
✅ Healthcare?
✅ Pain medication?
✅ Therapy?
✅ HOUSING?
✅ Hospice?
✅ Healthcare?
✅ Pain medication?
✅ Therapy?
✅ HOUSING?
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
If they cared so much about dignity, why are these parties not all in on your dignified right to:
✅ Hospice?
✅ Healthcare?
✅ Pain medication?
✅ Therapy?
✅ HOUSING?
✅ Hospice?
✅ Healthcare?
✅ Pain medication?
✅ Therapy?
✅ HOUSING?
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Little Connecticut has now extinguished medical debts for 160,000 people. Almost 5% of our entire state's population 🤯
Freeing a massive number of people from the shackles of bad luck
👏👏👏
www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...
Freeing a massive number of people from the shackles of bad luck
👏👏👏
www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...
CT governor erases medical debt for 40,000 more state residents with $63M in funds
“Medical debt can delay healing due to stress and anxiety about how to pay these bills,” Gov. Ned Lamont said.
www.ctinsider.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Little Connecticut has now extinguished medical debts for 160,000 people. Almost 5% of our entire state's population 🤯
Freeing a massive number of people from the shackles of bad luck
👏👏👏
www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...
Freeing a massive number of people from the shackles of bad luck
👏👏👏
www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...
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"Cloud Dancer is the color of a MacBook charger in its waning days of service."
Goddamn.
Goddamn.
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"Cloud Dancer is the color of a MacBook charger in its waning days of service."
Goddamn.
Goddamn.
Sigh, just off a thesis meeting where the other advisor says students need to be able to make use of AI, at least in planning a study and its execution.
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…
www.colincornaby.me
December 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sigh, just off a thesis meeting where the other advisor says students need to be able to make use of AI, at least in planning a study and its execution.
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404 Media previously obtained internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) emails revealing the agency’s facial recognition app, called Mobile Fortify, and catalogued social media videos showing agents scanning people’s faces to verify their citizenship.
This is what it's all about:
This is what it's all about:
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
404 Media previously obtained internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) emails revealing the agency’s facial recognition app, called Mobile Fortify, and catalogued social media videos showing agents scanning people’s faces to verify their citizenship.
This is what it's all about:
This is what it's all about:
WRONG: AI is great
FACT CHECK: AI kinda sucks
KIRBY: they want to eliminate public schools, universities, skilled/organized labor, and anything that debunks propaganda
FACT CHECK: AI kinda sucks
KIRBY: they want to eliminate public schools, universities, skilled/organized labor, and anything that debunks propaganda
i made a helpful reference
December 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
WRONG: AI is great
FACT CHECK: AI kinda sucks
KIRBY: they want to eliminate public schools, universities, skilled/organized labor, and anything that debunks propaganda
FACT CHECK: AI kinda sucks
KIRBY: they want to eliminate public schools, universities, skilled/organized labor, and anything that debunks propaganda
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real police state stuff
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
real police state stuff
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The most pertinent part of this story, to me, is that even someone who hasn’t substantially coded in years could almost immediately discover that the AI coding assistance products (like all Big AI LLM products) are designed to create emotional dependence in their users right from the start.
Wrote a long personal essay about an unexpected side project and what working with modern AI systems actually felt like.
No advice, no hot takes. Just a snapshot from the middle of it.
No advice, no hot takes. Just a snapshot from the middle of it.
Adventures in Extreme Vibecoding
Or: how a Chinese restaurant shutdown, a pile of CSV files, and several hallucinating AIs wrecked my sleep schedule and quietly rewired how I think about building things
This story starts the way mos...
techbroiler.net
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The most pertinent part of this story, to me, is that even someone who hasn’t substantially coded in years could almost immediately discover that the AI coding assistance products (like all Big AI LLM products) are designed to create emotional dependence in their users right from the start.
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If I were a Member of Congress, I would not have voted with Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib (like 22 House Dems did).
But I sure would have already introduced a resolution to censure this bigot:
But I sure would have already introduced a resolution to censure this bigot:
GOP Rep. Randy Fine says he's "not afraid" of being called "Islamophobic" and that, instead of making peace with Palestinians, "destroy them first."
This was during a hearing on "Judea and Samaria"—a term used to erase Palestinian ties to what's actually known as the West Bank.
Subscribe to Zeteo.
This was during a hearing on "Judea and Samaria"—a term used to erase Palestinian ties to what's actually known as the West Bank.
Subscribe to Zeteo.
December 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If I were a Member of Congress, I would not have voted with Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib (like 22 House Dems did).
But I sure would have already introduced a resolution to censure this bigot:
But I sure would have already introduced a resolution to censure this bigot:
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I adore this short story "C'mon Boys: The unofficial history of United Hull Scrapers, Interplanetary Local 749" by @e-tolladay.bsky.social in Issue 7 of Baubles From Bones, a cozy sci-fi fantasy zine. Read online and/or buy the DRM-free EPUB, as I did.
www.baublesfrombones.com/cmon-boys.html
www.baublesfrombones.com/cmon-boys.html
December 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I adore this short story "C'mon Boys: The unofficial history of United Hull Scrapers, Interplanetary Local 749" by @e-tolladay.bsky.social in Issue 7 of Baubles From Bones, a cozy sci-fi fantasy zine. Read online and/or buy the DRM-free EPUB, as I did.
www.baublesfrombones.com/cmon-boys.html
www.baublesfrombones.com/cmon-boys.html
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I love headlines like this, where they don't name the place, ostensibly to get you to click the link.
But who else would have a $44B endowment?
www.courant.com/2025/12/12/a...
But who else would have a $44B endowment?
www.courant.com/2025/12/12/a...
A CT university has a $44B endowment. But staff layoffs are possible; prof calls it ‘demoralizing’
“Nearly two-thirds of the university’s expenses relate to compensation and benefits,” university administration said in a memo.
www.courant.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I love headlines like this, where they don't name the place, ostensibly to get you to click the link.
But who else would have a $44B endowment?
www.courant.com/2025/12/12/a...
But who else would have a $44B endowment?
www.courant.com/2025/12/12/a...
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I mean, the Penn student newspaper isn't wrong, but www.instagram.com/p/DSH1X4EDwP...
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I mean, the Penn student newspaper isn't wrong, but www.instagram.com/p/DSH1X4EDwP...
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
A Barbie doll costs about $10. If you were one of these mysterious people buying your kids 37 dolls .... annually? ..... and you cut back to one, that would leave you with $360 or $30 a month toward your newly doubled health insurance premiums.
Oops! I forgot all the pencil savings: $31.
Oops! I forgot all the pencil savings: $31.
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A Barbie doll costs about $10. If you were one of these mysterious people buying your kids 37 dolls .... annually? ..... and you cut back to one, that would leave you with $360 or $30 a month toward your newly doubled health insurance premiums.
Oops! I forgot all the pencil savings: $31.
Oops! I forgot all the pencil savings: $31.
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When you go see your doctor, your care shouldn’t be overruled by an algorithm.
Several major Medicare (dis)Advantage providers—privatized for-profit corporations like UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and CVS—have already started using AI in their prior authorization processes.
Several major Medicare (dis)Advantage providers—privatized for-profit corporations like UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and CVS—have already started using AI in their prior authorization processes.
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
When you go see your doctor, your care shouldn’t be overruled by an algorithm.
Several major Medicare (dis)Advantage providers—privatized for-profit corporations like UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and CVS—have already started using AI in their prior authorization processes.
Several major Medicare (dis)Advantage providers—privatized for-profit corporations like UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and CVS—have already started using AI in their prior authorization processes.
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“Knocking on a door, or even just walking in front of it, shouldn’t require abandoning your privacy,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @TechCrunch.com - state regulators must investigate, protect people’s privacy, and make use of their biometric privacy laws. techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/...
Amazon's Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells | TechCrunch
The feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. The company says the Ring feature is opt in and the biometric data isn't used to train AI models.
techcrunch.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Knocking on a door, or even just walking in front of it, shouldn’t require abandoning your privacy,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @TechCrunch.com - state regulators must investigate, protect people’s privacy, and make use of their biometric privacy laws. techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/...
These guys have too much fun.
Reel Inn Commercial
YouTube video by Conscious Trap
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
These guys have too much fun.