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jordandrew.bsky.social
Canadian librarian and podcaster www.jordandrew.ca & www.youdidwhat.ca
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Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

@archive.org This is a difficult time to hire; LLMs are mass-producing fake candidates. That's why I'm reaching out here to verify that I just applied to you open Engineering Manager role, I am an avid user and booster of the Archive, and I am a real person!

The Supreme Court today let the DOGE Bros see your personal financial and other information, and also ruled that the public cannot see DOGE's records. See a pattern there?

watching CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD and had a chuckle thinking about the in-universe tell-all book about the aides who knew president ross was the hulk the whole time

There is a Dril tweet for every occasion

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

It's really wild watch the culture and discourse pivot to "but why don't we eugenics harder? really, really lean into it..."

#RFKJr talks about freedom of choice but limits it by bypassing norms. @craigspencer.bsky.social told #ABCNews RFK Jr. identifies problems, but his solutions undermine community health "As the focus shifts from community to individuals, we're losing...a lot of the gains in public health" More ⤵️

But this would require recipients working full time for an employer who actually offers healthcare benefits. So the plan will kick millions off of ALL healthcare.

SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...

I'm only a quarter of the way through The Walrus's deep dive into why major government tech projects fail, but I can't wait any longer to share it. @bluesky.sboots.ca makes an appearance just at the moment that I was becoming annoyed that the author apparently hadn't talked to him. :)

This might be the most honest thing ever posted on the site.

remember yesterday lol that was a day

The guy who bombed the fertility clinic in Southern California allegedly used an AI to try and maximize the force of the explosive. First such example? via @aric.bsky.social

NEW: Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself Trump’s administration is marshaling vast public resources and more than $1 billion worth of taxpayer money to flatter the president. Full story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

David Richardson, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was joking when he said that he didn’t know the United States had a hurricane season, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes FEMA, said.

Jonathan Joss, the actor who played John Redcorn on the animated TV show “King of the Hill” and Chief Ken Hotate in the mockumentary series “Parks and Recreation,” was shot and killed Sunday in San Antonio, his husband said in a statement.

The White House unveiled the latest presidential portrait of Donald Trump on Monday. The new image is a far cry from Trump’s first-term portrait, in which he is smiling at the camera, that is more typical of official photographs.

Daniel Wasserman's life of discrimination has included: -Growing up in Scarsdale, New York -Having a father who was a Harvard MBA and spent 30 years in PE investment, who recently launched $1.3 billion fund -Attending Yale -Attending the University of Cambridge /

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

"The underlying point isn’t to chastise the firms for making the wrong decision; it’s to remind those firms that it’s not too late to reverse course and join the ranks of the firms resisting Trump’s gambit..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

When a state believes that it doesn't have to comply with the rule of law all manner of abuse and depravity become inevitable. migrantinsider.com/p/exclusive-...