Jim Hammerand
@jimhammerand.bsky.social
Journalist and photographer in the Pacific Northwest (Edmonds, WA)
At least one air tanker (#N292EA) has arrived over the #OldTrailsFire in Spokane. Stay safe everyone - pay attention to evac warnings and if you’re told to go, GO!
This is about a worst case scenario that you can imagine for Spokane. Level 3 GO NOW evacs extend all the way to Division. Absolutely heartbreaking. #wawx #wawildfire #OldTrailsFire
Crossing the river is extremely significant as it means this fire is now seriously threatening the City of Spokane. Level 3 (GO NOW!) evacuations are now in place in one part of Northwest Spokane and I’d be paying close attention if you’re in Seven Mile or North Indian Trail.
Check out the steaming pile of AI garbage that just won $1,000 first prize in the Ohio State Fair poster contest. It's especially tragic since the 5th place, drawn by an actual human, is great. Rooster (OH fair has biggest poultry show in US) riding the "butter cow" (exactly what it sounds like).
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
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Jimothy inspired me to take karate lessons in a suburban strip mall. Thank you, Jimothy.
Just caught this Boeing 777X test flight over Edmonds - looks like the first one for Lufthansa that flew for the first time in May (with the same temporary registration, N20080)
At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
This young man was valedictorian of his high school. He came to the U.S. when he was three. ICE held him for a month. Then they shipped him to El Salvador. www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...
Texas Christian University student deported to El Salvador
Luis Andrade Garcia came to the United States from El Salvador around age 3. ICE deported him this week following an arrest in Arlington.
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“[the Food Traceability Rule] was supposed to be in force on Jan 20 of this year. FDA proposed pushing it to July 2028, and Congress made that stick. Had it been operating, the 27-state distribution list and the real names behind those 8 codes would have been in FDA's hands in a day — in May”
JTA@jtaskins.bsky.social · 3w agoAnalysis on recall and brand codes: www.marlerblog.com/case-news/ta...
Bet these kids at little league in Kirkland appreciated the exhaust from the diesel truck parked and idling right next to the field.
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
It’s so refreshing to read stories from reporters who have expertise in what they’re covering; nobody knows this beat better than @gillianbrockell.com
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w agoNEW FROM ME: "As Bloomberg says, DHS *wants* to create its own deportation airline. But we’ve known that since last year. What the new documents actually show is that they’ve failed. No one wants be an ICE pilot or an ICE flight attendant." gillianbrockell.com/whats-missin...
Dawg they literally asked Apple employees to bring company property TO THE INTERVIEWS?
![8. Tang Yew Tan spent twenty-four years at Apple, most recently as Vice President of
Product Design for iPhone and Apple Watch. Today he is OpenAI’s Chief Hardware Officer. Apple
entrusted Mr. Tan with its most sensitive projects, trusted partner relationships, proprietary manufacturing techniques, and unreleased products. Apple’s investigation has revealed that Mr. Tan has been
methodically using Apple’s confidential information to benefit OpenAI.
9. In the months before he left Apple, Mr. Tan met with OpenAI or its collaborators and
discussed meetings with a key Apple supplier. He began emailing himself information about Apple’s
suppliers and internal summaries of the consumer electronics industry. And today, when interviewing
Apple employees for jobs at OpenAI, Mr. Tan uses Apple’s confidential information to gain access
to even more insider knowledge. He has used an Apple internal project codename to ask, “What’s the
plan[?]” for an unannounced Apple product. He has directed job candidates still working for Apple
to bring “Actual parts” from Apple to their interviews for “show and tell” sessions in which he and
his team at OpenAI can elicit still more Apple confidential information. These directions to bring
Apple’s parts to OpenAI job interviews surprised at least one of the candidates, who commented that
he “didn’t even know we could take those from the office.”
10. This is part of OpenAI’s strategy to extract Apple’s confidential information. OpenAI
has been instructing Apple employees to bring “CAD/design artifacts” and “prototypes” to their interviews and to divulge details about their work such as “subsystem and component selection,” the
“tools or methodologies you use for system integration, such as CAD software, simulation tools,”
and “Vendor selection and communication/collaboration with vendors.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yrt5gwlcn3kn4xgeoef4hbpy/bafkreigpfkxa34bhnn5jwsehpir3p426ytizq7n3ss6rl3qomlnmih6744)
“The three men who were arrested during an immigration operation that resulted in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said a federal officer fired at them almost immediately after exiting his vehicle and that at no point did the driver veer in his direction.” (Gift article) wapo.st/4ydn1Ux
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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Literally hilarious chart from Bank of America. 10/10 zero notes.
Put 3 kids thru college w/ a blue collar job. Worked dawn to dusk, building homes. Loved his wife of 30yrs & John Deere. Lived here longer than I've been alive It doesn't make a life more valuable. But so many immigrants detained, deported, dying bear the trappings of "real America" we mythologize
Houston Chronicle@houstonchronicle.com · 4w agoThe son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston Tuesday morning, issued a statement on social media Tuesday night, saying "my father did not deserve this."bit.ly/4aK0hS2
every so often Zelensky gets a chance to go back to to being a funny guy on tv and it's like his eyes light up and he loses 5 years of age look at his face man is SO HAPPY to just be crushing a punchline
Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4w agoPresident Trump: Would you go to Moscow? President Zelenskyy: It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.
Today’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/
Let AI Burn
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Stop whatever you're doing and read @bryce.lol on Morgan Stanley's coverage of SpaceX: www.ft.com/content/09a6...
The space bit of SpaceX is worth $9 a share, says Morgan Stanley
You miss all the moonshots you don’t take
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Here's my full interview with CNBC, covering my bear case against generative AI, OpenAI's questionable finances, AI's lack of ROI, and how all of this is a symptom of the tech industry running out of hypergrowth ideas. It's great to see the mainstream media discussing this. youtu.be/TtmPccUTDP8?...
Ed Zitron on CNBC: Generative AI Doesn't Work, And Big Tech Is Out Of Hypergrowth Ideas
YouTube video by Ed Zitron
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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last mo.Had a great time on CNBC talking OpenAI’s sovereign wealth fund play, AI ROI, the capex bubble, and how the tech industry has run out of hypergrowth ideas. www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...
Some aerial firefighting photos from Lake Chelan and the Chelan Hills Fire today
Super Scoopers filling up on Lake Chelan to fight the Chelan Hills Fire today (no audio)
Coulson 737 firefighting aircraft has arrived at the Chelan Hills Fire
The Chelan Hills Fire is burning near Orondo, WA (southeast of Lake Chelan) and is around 800 acres as of this morning per @watchduty.org
