Mike Fragassi
@refrag.bsky.social
He/him
Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off.
I probably repost too damn much.
And make too many grammatical errors & tpyos.
Also @[email protected], but that's dormant.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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fascinating to frame this as pro Israel and not anti international law
Zohran Mamdani chastised a Manhattan synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews in New York.
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders
The mayor-elect chastised a synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
fascinating to frame this as pro Israel and not anti international law
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I'm not a historian but I am a political scientist and in my professional opinion saying Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history is less controversial than saying 2+2=4 or Victor Wembanyama is tall.
LESS controversial.
LESS controversial.
Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm not a historian but I am a political scientist and in my professional opinion saying Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history is less controversial than saying 2+2=4 or Victor Wembanyama is tall.
LESS controversial.
LESS controversial.
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
I can't say what I'd make, but I know I would ban any movie about a "multiverse"
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I can't say what I'd make, but I know I would ban any movie about a "multiverse"
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I’d make Rian Johnson direct a James Bond movie and Daniel Craig has to be in it again except he has to use his Benoit Blanc accent
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I’d make Rian Johnson direct a James Bond movie and Daniel Craig has to be in it again except he has to use his Benoit Blanc accent
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Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.
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While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
inthesetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
This is tonight
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This sounds like they might be running the bus down California from Montrose to Diversey
This sounds like they might be running the bus down California from Montrose to Diversey
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is tonight
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Most XKCD strips: fuck yeah science!
A small number of special XKCD strips: *sobbing uncontrollably* fuck yeah science
A small number of special XKCD strips: *sobbing uncontrollably* fuck yeah science
Just having a little cry reading the latest xkcd how about you xkcd.com/3172
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Most XKCD strips: fuck yeah science!
A small number of special XKCD strips: *sobbing uncontrollably* fuck yeah science
A small number of special XKCD strips: *sobbing uncontrollably* fuck yeah science
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An excerpt from the new @illinoispress.bsky.social book by Bloodshot Records cofounder @millerscave.bsky.social:
"So it came to pass that Eric Babcock, Nan Warshaw, and I started a record label. We each ponied up $2,000 from our wretched day jobs or savings accounts and — poof — we were a label." buff.ly/AHgr57O
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
An excerpt from the new @illinoispress.bsky.social book by Bloodshot Records cofounder @millerscave.bsky.social:
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Essential reading:
10 years ago today, dashcam footage was released showing Laquan McDonald being shot to death by a police officer. We spoke with the key players about how they helped bring the transformative video to light.
The Video That Shook Chicago
Ten years ago this month, dashcam footage was released showing Laquan McDonald being shot to death by a police officer. Nothing would ever be the same again.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Essential reading:
If you have military family members who you see at Thanksgiving, you might want to bring this up
🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you have military family members who you see at Thanksgiving, you might want to bring this up
Every single person who signed the "Harper's Letter" back in 2020 should be asked, right now if they want to recant & retract their signature.
I already think poorly of them for falling for it in the first place, but if they won't do that now, then they're absolutely irredeemable.
I already think poorly of them for falling for it in the first place, but if they won't do that now, then they're absolutely irredeemable.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Every single person who signed the "Harper's Letter" back in 2020 should be asked, right now if they want to recant & retract their signature.
I already think poorly of them for falling for it in the first place, but if they won't do that now, then they're absolutely irredeemable.
I already think poorly of them for falling for it in the first place, but if they won't do that now, then they're absolutely irredeemable.
Honest question: were any of the Harper's letter fools LGBTQ? Besides Bari Weiss
A Tennessee legislator has ordered all Tennessee public libraries to shut down for two weeks to review their childrens collections and ensure they do not contain any books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
The Harper's letter crew is going to be *furious* about this.
The Harper's letter crew is going to be *furious* about this.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Honest question: were any of the Harper's letter fools LGBTQ? Besides Bari Weiss
Idea: take the Wikipedia model of crowd-based editing, only instead of editing encyclopedia topics, apply people towards ranking recipe web pages as accurate/good, vs. AI slop.
Use the rankings to build a recipe-only search engine.
Use the rankings to build a recipe-only search engine.
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...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Idea: take the Wikipedia model of crowd-based editing, only instead of editing encyclopedia topics, apply people towards ranking recipe web pages as accurate/good, vs. AI slop.
Use the rankings to build a recipe-only search engine.
Use the rankings to build a recipe-only search engine.
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The persecution and targeting of dissenting voices is an attack on our First Amendment.
Greg Abbott’s designation of CAIR as a “terrorist organization” is no more than an attempt to silence us and vilify Muslim and Arab voices.
Greg Abbott’s designation of CAIR as a “terrorist organization” is no more than an attempt to silence us and vilify Muslim and Arab voices.
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The persecution and targeting of dissenting voices is an attack on our First Amendment.
Greg Abbott’s designation of CAIR as a “terrorist organization” is no more than an attempt to silence us and vilify Muslim and Arab voices.
Greg Abbott’s designation of CAIR as a “terrorist organization” is no more than an attempt to silence us and vilify Muslim and Arab voices.
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40% off sale on prints for 12 hours more. Got all kinda stuff in there. No charge for looking.
www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
40% off sale on prints for 12 hours more. Got all kinda stuff in there. No charge for looking.
www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
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David Sacks is a lying sack of shit who will take any handout he can get, every single time, and every American should treat him as a conniving, extorting enemy at all times.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
David Sacks is a lying sack of shit who will take any handout he can get, every single time, and every American should treat him as a conniving, extorting enemy at all times.
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“Bluesky’s got the juice!”
“Have you considered that juice prevented scurvy in english sailors which allowed them to create and enforce the brutal colonialism of the british empire and kept a quarter of the world’s population under the heel of the hated queen victoria?”
“Have you considered that juice prevented scurvy in english sailors which allowed them to create and enforce the brutal colonialism of the british empire and kept a quarter of the world’s population under the heel of the hated queen victoria?”
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“Bluesky’s got the juice!”
“Have you considered that juice prevented scurvy in english sailors which allowed them to create and enforce the brutal colonialism of the british empire and kept a quarter of the world’s population under the heel of the hated queen victoria?”
“Have you considered that juice prevented scurvy in english sailors which allowed them to create and enforce the brutal colonialism of the british empire and kept a quarter of the world’s population under the heel of the hated queen victoria?”
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How to make beautiful comics:
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
How to make beautiful comics:
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
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