P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes"
@gznork26.bsky.social
Spent a career in IT stacking bits and stringing words. High point: NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network during Voyager 1's encounter at Saturn. Wrote 3 novels & 200+ short stories. klurgsheld.wordpress.com Help fix the OS of our self-governance. #gOS_2.0
A US citizen standing up for his rights was accosted by ICE goons and found lying face down on the ground with injuries to his head, neck and teeth in Evanston, IL. The sadistic cowards bolted the scene when local police showed up.
U.S. citizen injured during mistaken ICE detention in Evanston - Evanston RoundTable
The Evanston Police Department is investigating a Sunday morning incident involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempting to detain
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MS NOW, CNN & Politico announced they will sue the White House today for banning them, legend 1st and 5th amendment violations.
Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Tell me again why FBI/DOJ has systematically fired the people who were ordered to investigate Trump and J6 and who did so bc it was their job.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
AI-infected MacOS 27 is out. I've used an open source utility to upgrade the Time Capsule to use SMB for Time Machine backups, but MacOS 27 doesn't like the HP Laserjet 1320 it shares out. Therefore, I'm having the Mac Mini (Plex server) share the printer to the LAN. Good thing I'm a techie.
Don’t let the proclamations of “we need regulation” from AI companies fool you. If you saw Anthropic sounding the alarm over the speed of AI development & calling for regulation, and felt like something’s off, you’re right. There’s an extremely self-serving reason they’d make a call like that. 🧵🧵🧵
We’ll have succeeded in creating Artificial Intelligence when it objects to being called that.
Absentee Ballot Report I live in NC I got my absentee ballot
What Trump is offering Americans is ILLEGAL. Under 18 U.S.C. § 597, it is a crime to offer, give, solicit, or accept compensation in exchange for voting, withholding a vote, or voting for or against a particular candidate.
1. The president of the United States gave the impression Tuesday that he was part of the 9/11 recovery effort, as well as among those who were rescued, in New York City. It was a big lie, but it was more than that. It was stolen valor.
We live in a time of deep epistemic crisis, and everything we have depended on to make meaning and certify consensus reality is either suspect or in peril. It didn't have to be this way, and it doesn't have to stay this way.
In 1937, Stalin's census found the famine killed millions. His government suppressed the report and shot the statisticians who made it. Three weeks ago, that kind of suppression was illegal in America. Now it isn't. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-sentence-that-used-to-protect
The Sentence That Used to Protect American Statistics
"Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity." That line governed the Census Bureau and then the White House quietly disappeared it.
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@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Solving SCOTUS by instantiation: End standing SCOTUS; stand up an instance for each case, drawing members from circuits plus SME.
Asha nailed this. This guy wrote a literal toddler fanfiction casting himself as Wizard Kash doing King Donald’s bidding because no institution would take him seriously. Handing national security to a court jester is pure farce. He needs crayons, not a security clearance.
Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 4w agoKash Patel would not have made it through the first stage (of many) of FBI screening. He knows it, and it makes him mad. Remember that authoritarians hire mediocre doofuses previsely because it ensures their loyalty: there is no other universe where these guys would ever have their jobs
I downloaded the METR incident report about the AI attack on Hugging Face. The implications are very unsettling. (I've worked as a software engineer on secret projects for DoD.)
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I keep telling you…he just doesn’t understand how the economy works.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · 3w agoThe polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
King County, WA sees Trump's interference as damage and routes around it, just as the Internet does with data packets.
Michael Loughry@mloughry.bsky.social · 3w agoIn King County, Washington (Seattle metro), you can print off your ballot and drop it off at a dropbox. The envelope has to include a form with your signature and a barcode that has your unique ballot id tied to your voter registration, to ensure each voter only submits one ballot.
They’re asking for people to make threats on polling places; soliciting chaos. And there’s no gd reason to serve warrants at the polls. None. Bc criminals aren’t voting in their free time. It’s all bullshit and intimidation.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoMarkwayne Mullin: "The only reason we'd be at polling places is if there's a threat to that polling place or we're serving a warrant"
This is an example of what is missing in the OS of our self governance. We need a rewrite.
John@johnmd1968.bsky.social · 3w agoWhy does congress get to confirm administration secretaries but can't deconfirm after a review period to ensure compliance with the constitution?
Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.
The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.
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Late last Friday the cunts running the FDA dropped a union busting email to top all union busting emails!! I’m tagging #theDogefiles in this because it’s so fucking related and you should give them a read anyways if you haven’t. 🧵🧵🧵 The email was your typical self sucking shit about workers…
AltFDA@altfda.altgov.info · 3mo agoGood morning ppl! Sorry I was quiet yesterday, I was working on a new project I’m calling The DOGE Files. 🧵🧵🧵 Ever wonder what the talks were, about how to used DOGE in the HHS? Let me show you.
Fighting back is rarely an option in many SA situations, something I frequently remind officers, detectives, attorneys, & the occasional jury. Saying "I think you've made your point" doesn't determine the r@pe's end. The perpetrator decides. Law enforcement & courts would do well to remember this.
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)