JavamanPhil
@javamanphil.bsky.social
he/him, Birds, Birbs, Borbs, Accessibility, music, TTRPG, WWFC, Vermont Green FC (UTFG!), Orioles, geek, left of left of left of center, WRUV-fm, greyhounds (save them all), AI slop = block; Life's what you make it; just one victory and we're on our way
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
Thanks to Apple for pushing a giant Apple Intelligence iOS updated that completely filled the hard drives of the iPads used by our small, non-profit, local folk festival, rendering them essentially unusable a day before the fest started
it is going to be so funny watching San Francisco's spectacularly shitty AI billboards transform over the next few weeks into spectacularly shitty SI billboards because the people paying for them are somehow even lamer than we thought
Conor Sen@conorsen.bsky.social · 21h ago25 days until the midterms:
If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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.
A thing I didn’t get until grad school is that Peanuts strips showing Franklin in the same classroom as Peppermint Patty were a deliberate statement that really pissed some dickheads off, enough to get them complaining to the syndicate
Hourly Peanuts Comics@esnupi.me · 2d agoPeanuts by Schulz: Thursday, January 18, 1973
Pete Hegseth is a psychopath and a disgrace. Its unfathomable that he's still in power. I don't even know what to say anymore. Whenever I think that the moral rot has fully metastasized a new mutation is discovered. We're a sick society, getting sicker by the hour. I'm ashamed to be an American.
between this and ICE in cali being told to just grab everyone it seems like the new plan to save the election is to try to start the boogaloo
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d agoThe news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
Say it now, and repeat it every once in a while, so nobody pretends to faint when the day comes. No state funeral for Trump. #NoStateFuneralForTrump www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh
I find it interesting that both of the baseball players Donald Trump has advocated for and/or honored this year – Roger Clemens and Pete Rose – were involved in the exploitation of girls who were no older than 15 at the time. What a weird coincidence.
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
Well I always take second breakfast and was very happy to see my hobbit habit immortalized.
Curved Toe Link@curvedtoelink.bsky.social · 3d agoIf Lord of the Rings had been made a decade or two earlier, do you think Michael Palin and you would have ended up as hobbits?
Wednesday was not a great day for VTDigger, which missed one of the most impactful developments of the campaign season and failed to get beneath the surface on multiple stories. Digger? More like Surface-Scratcher. thevpo.org/2026/10/08/p...
Perhaps a Rebranding Is in Order at VTDigger
It gives me no pleasure to write this post, but I feel I have no choice because yesterday was a really bad day at VTDigger, starkly showcasing its shortcomings and weaknesses. The word “Digge…
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Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
9/11 was one of the worst days on American soil in history,,, we just honored its 25th anniversary. This “patriot” is encouraging something worse by 957,671%. A million times worse,,, actually.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d agoAt a Nebraska rally, Trump called higher prices a “small price to pay” before suggesting allowing Iran to "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego
I continue to think that being “too big to fail” is **exactly** their plan for how to navigate the coming crash, and it’s why they’re pushing so hard to get everybody using pricy commercial AI products all the time for everything, even in cases where there is a clear downside (ie, education)
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 5d agoKrishnan is asking a good question about New Yorkers having retirement funds tied up with "A.i." and if there's a crash what the fuck happens. "How can you ensure that you are not too big to fail?" Companies are just blathering and dodging. Talking about their tools, etc.
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 5d ago“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
I agree completely with Malka's thread. I was co-editor of a web journal (The Journal of Mythic Arts) back in the 1990s, when every single page of it had to be coded by hand. It was hard work, but worth it to connect with a wide variety of other writers and artists working with myth & folklore.
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 6d agowe fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 6d agoA Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic
Gregory Lynn@needfulwords.bsky.social · 6d agoI don’t understand why we’re supposed to give a shit about this person.
