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Interested in all areas of science, some philosophy, thus also sci fi. Professionally network/systems/devops/cloud stuff. I spent a ton of time in the peace movement, now mostly just dealing with a messed up job market and poli sci nightmare
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Jasmine again made my day when I heard this over the weekend. Two simple words. www.youtube.com/shorts/-C4hX...

Yo, Semites! www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4B0...

Now that it is freshly being replayed repeatedly, check at any moment last night whenever Trump is talking- at how much Speaker Johnson actually blushes. His blush response does not turn off either. He goes into perma-blush when his master is talking- it's surreally almost Pavlovian.

After Tues night's spectacle, "wondering when the GOP House and Senate will send a bill for Trump to sign to try shut down all public libraries and convert them into Hooters." I'm obviously allowing my cynicism to run free-range. Maybe I can sell the eggs, since it's a product of 'being chicken'.

SoTU: DEMs not showing up is irresponsible. Several have decided to bring guests. I recommend sticking to health, worker, economics- fired employees, military, natl sec, medical. I blame house/senate leadership for not coordinating that EVERY non-GOP rep show up with someone! Had weeks to prepare!

This is inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I had a fun thought. Especially with Trump's historical attitude about COVID response and masks, and his recent firing of people working on bird flu. If bird flu jumps to humans soon it means every time Trump gets in office a plague arrives 🙄

How to respond to the chaos: daily ongoing 8hr nat'l televised town hall- talking with people who quit or got fired to save their dignity- share what they were told and saw, how the public is affected- answering questions. MAGA planned to flood the zone with fear, confusion. We can make truth louder

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xC...

I agree with John Oliver 100%. This is TOTALLY the song of the year! youtu.be/Vg_ovX4jiRo?...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg2i...

Boredom happens.... Sarah McLachlan and the guys in Manufacture can help- eat music videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqcq... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT1w...

Trump looking for his Robert Bork... fun responses of the prosecutors who have quit to retain their dignity (aside from risk of being disbarred for following Trump's and Atty Gen's orders). As funny- Trump whining "where's my Roy Cohn??" during his own prosecutions www.rawstory.com/trump-justic...

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Trump comply with court orders if they blocked his agenda? "The answer is I always abide by the courts... and we’ll appeal, but appeals take a long time." Judges have been the only prevention of firings and destroying of institutions. His familiar tactic is appeal everything to death- how ironic.

How many tasmanian devils unleashed by the Executive branch does it take to destroy the constitution and public interest institutions to make it bedtime for democracy? FAFO

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

On handling the current Executive branch: When doing analysis, avoid the fog machine of "they said WHAT??" and focus on the actions of these people. If you are an artist, especially a comedian, make fun of the entire affair- fascists jail artists FIRST because they can't stand being laughed at.

"The New Right" is far too incompetent to match anything near old 'German efficiency', but unfortunately we all have a 4-year-long dumpster fire to experience ahead of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

About 350-375MB for 25 minute episodes... not terrible. archive.org/details/peew...

I finally found something to laugh about today. www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show... District Judge Howell joined other Judges in a collective eloquent "hand gesture" about presidential pardons.

Get used to this phrase being used a lot in the coming weeks, etc.: "... had cited 'concerns from Mar-a-Lago' as the reason for the decision."

[[The document provides those working on Meta user content with an overview of the hate speech policy changes ... how to apply the new rules... accompanied by a selection of “relevant examples” - hypothetical posts marked either “Allow” or “Remove."]] theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

We were able to obtain 3.6 billion phone location data from Germany via a data marketplace. In it we found detailed movement profiles, including of secret agents, soldiers and high-ranking government officials. Here you can hear the absurd story of how easy it is to get such data (english available)

Building an AWS to GCP transition doc. Have the names of the equivalents of storage, net, instances, etc, but want to show the specific differences and pitfalls. Skill level intended to be between AWS architect associate and professional. Please chime in on what was hardest for you moving to GCP

PRESIDENT CONVICT. www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/u... manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-an... www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFs/p... ww2.nycourts.gov/people-v-don...

The Scheme is Sen. Whitehouse's book and a series of speeches to the Senate. People know about Leonard Leo and such with the Supreme Court, but the details behind who sits on the court is an amazing piece of machinery including front groups and more. www.whitehouse.senate.gov?s=the%20sche...

typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/a...

Whats the point of being worth $209 billion if you can’t play offense against politicians who might target you, your business? Couldn’t Zuckerberg be the one making Trump’s life difficult if he wanted to? Imagine Meta oriented towards Trump like Musk oriented Twitter/X toward Democrats. Unthinkable?

Musk, seen here casting a maniacal grin straight at the camera, reminding us that he likes to watch over his underling's shoulders while they work, asserting his dominance. He is telling you "I OWN these two"

Recap: Lincoln was shot in a Theatre, and Kennedy got shot in a Lincoln, the Zapruder footage of Kennedy getting shot has been used in many films shown in theaters. (if you have heard that one, tell me where- I came up with it last year and can't find it mentioned by anyone)

Ohh hahahahaha I saw this coming! Totally predictable MAGA short-circuiting w/ billionaire tech bros VS immigration fanatics

thelanguagenerds.com/2022/28-maps...

Yeah, it's that stupid.

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This was fun :) :)