Chiricahua National Monument is about to become Chiricahua National Park. After years of pushing, I’m proud this is finally heading to be signed into law. It’s going to create jobs, grow our state’s economy and help preserve one of the most special places in the world.
Chris J
@cpj1.bsky.social
DevOps, IT, coding, cloud computing, scaling/performance, security, databases, metadata, movies/music, cowboy boots, road trips. He/Him
"Fetterman largely holes up in his Capitol office, lying on the couch and scrolling Apple News, several former staffers said. "'Every day was a battle that by the end of the day you were physically and emotionally battered just by getting John to do any part of his job,' a former staffer said...."
How John Fetterman spends his time comes under more scrutiny as he weighs future in the Senate
The Pennsylvania Democrat has been labeled an absentee senator for years. As he floats the possibility of running again, what has he actually done?
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Oh shit this theory may have legs The Warriors premiered on February 9, 1979 Wanna guess when the first chapter of the Guardian Angels was formed? February 14, 1979
Just started watching The Warriors (1979) for the first time and now have a richer understanding of the aesthetic context that produced the Guardian Angels' uniform
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏
i probably shouldn’t admit how much i gasped when i saw this
I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'
i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.
Elon Musk once shipped the Twitter servers across state lines in a rental moving van protected with a home-depot padlock.
yeah man, no way this will go wrong
This is probably all bullshit, but if it’s not, I’m a little concerned about the notion that an outside AI agent can take over a moving Tesla.
There are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
The new season of "Person Of Interest" sucks ass. youtu.be/BNjvqT2BBxI
Philly police receive fake homicide tip submitted by Anthropic AI model
YouTube video by FOX 29 Philadelphia
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Apparently Tim Kennedy was among the wounded and is at Walter Reed…which…shouldn’t happen.
Special forces led by Blackwater founder and Trump ally Erik Prince suffered over twenty casualties after being ambushed in the Congo, with a popular former UFC fighter among the wounded - Reuters
All of the percentages in Star Trek: The Next Generation.... ....in ascending order!
I have no idea why this tickles me so much, but it has everything to do with ... No. I'll not say more. I'll let y'all discover it on your own.
Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.
Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers
Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.
washingtonsun.com
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
"The apotheosis of insanity.” For the 20th anniversary of 30 Rock, I went deep on my favorite thing about it: all the fake shows, movies, and songs. With help from Tina Fey. www.theringer.com/2026/10/08/t...
From ‘MILF Island’ to ‘The Rural Juror’: Inside the Fake World of ‘30 Rock’
Nothing explains the greatness of the NBC sitcom—which premiered 20 years ago—like its TV, movie, and song parodies. “They were a treat to write,” says Tina Fey.
theringer.com
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
nytimes.com
When your PR sounds like a one shot story on what Lex Luthor is doing after he kills Superman.
“.. AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event .. most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...
maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
desired: CYNDI LAUPER'S PERSONAL CASSETTE TAPE COLLECTION up for auction www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2409523...
i don't think this is a wise decision and i think the Pentagon's own experts on preventing violent extremism would agree
BREAKING: The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
Just constantly indulging the most entitled people while demanding poor prove they’re actually human.
Far-right fugitive Ammon Bundy leans into Sovereign Citizen “right to drive” without registration rhetoric, gets arrested in Utah. www.stgeorgeutah.com/arrests/ammo...
They’re going to make a really awkward episode of “Teen Titans Go!” to explain corporate mergers.
“Workers change the sign on the Warner Bros. water tower to say ‘A Skydance Corporation’ on Tuesday” GETTY IMAGES
9-reporter story at Reuters saying Tesla successfully pressured automotive safety regulators and evaluators in the Netherlands to approve their FSD (Supervised) systems - partially automated driving systems - for use in customers' cars in EU. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech. The pressure is working.
Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.
reuters.com
Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly.
Putin killed 16 people last night but it’d be rude to ignore his birthday
Speechless, but expected. Trump says he has a phone call scheduled with Putin today, on the Russian leader’s birthday. “It’s his birthday, I am sure you're going to celeberate it? I have a call set up,” Trump said. #Russia