@johniwaniszek.bsky.social
Retired statistical programmer in clinical studies. I consume mass quantities of teevee drama, read in the areas of race, US civil war history, 20th century history, culture, change, personality. My musical tastes tend toward psychedelic honky-tonk.
this shit is so frustrating because there's SO MANY interesting and under-platformed artists, academics, scientists, thinkers, doers, and activists out there to spend outlet resources on, yet the press endlessly platforms and amplifies the biggest dipshits imaginable
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun
Actual names@actualnames.bsky.social · 11h agoBube Tanner United States, Census, 1930
Universities have three missions: 1) Educate and make students citizens of the world 2) Prepare them for the job market 3) Socialize them as normative for their age If that's not the real world--all 3 of them--then I don't know what is.
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · yesterdayThere's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world."
His career as a partisan was absolutely a choice. He consciously decided to do and say the things he did. They were not an accident and he wasn’t misled. Fuck this guy.
NPR disturbed my sleep by platforming a Russian propagandist this morning.
If I could make assignments, I would assign a team to see if Trump's thug army is being pre-positioned around polling places or with easy deployment to polling places.
Local affiliate WUNC just let an expert claim that Ukrainian refinery attacks contribute to a diesel shortage. Putin has banned diesel exports from Russia so the current shortage is Putin's fault, not Ukraine's
@nature.com the anthropomorpizing language of this article as well as the equating of agentic loops with actual employees/scientists without any evidence of that conjecture is deeply insulting to scientists and scientific rigor, respectively. 🧪🧬🖥️
Nature@nature.com · 5d ago"We want to see how far these agent teams of AI scientists can help us to really accelerate drug discovery and development” go.nature.com/3VmT0CF
The real domino effect:
Meta Resistance@metaresistance.bsky.social · 6d agoProfessor Jiang Xueqin, the geopolitical analyst who publicly predicted the Iran war, argues that the closest historical parallel to our moment is not World War Two but the Bronze Age collapse, and that the unravelling has already begun. Watch here: 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zB...
thirty bucks for a pastrami sandwich? No. 20 bucks for toast, egg, bacon? No.
We've had Republican rule since 2011. NC was better before they latched on, but it's not a sithole now. There are Republican states in far worse shape than NC.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump, in North Carolina calls North Carolina "one of the worst" states "in the whole nation"
All of Ed Sheeran’s opening acts and his touring band have dropped out of the remaining dates of his ‘Loop’ tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore.
I’m pretty sure it’s spelled “bestiality,” and again, here sit I, bemoaning living in a time and place in which morons with substance abuse problems have made the spelling of bestiality relevant.
When did we stop calling these things computer viruses? And also, when did we stop seeing the greedy wizard behind the curtain?
@savefrogs2.bsky.social · 2w agoThis was corporate, not political. www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/t... It's real. And the damage could be deadly.
Kawase Hasui, "Kawanishi in Tochigi Prefecture," woodblock print, 1947. #art #arte #japan #japaneseart #japaneseprint #woodblockprint #japanesewoodblockprint #printmaking #printart #woodcut #autumn #autumnleaves #museum #artgallery
“Showdown” (year u/k), oil on canvas, #JuliAdams , Seattle #Caturday #Cats #BlackCats #Art #Illustration #Painting
The foreign press is now reporting that Catherine Connolly, the President of Ireland, insisted on being seated away from Trump because he was emanating a disgusting “fecal” like nauseating odor.
Anyway. Data politics are the cataclysmic danger. AI is mostly just a mid tech attached to a speculative finance scheme. Anything it can make dangerous is already dangerous enough to kill us.
Might extinct you and your kind. But I can touch type and properly clean a cast iron skillet. I will rebuild.
you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote
JMay🍁⚖️🏝️🏖️🪖🇨🇦@bubbles9333.bsky.social · 2w agoThe lies continue. He is offering money if people vote for him.
While John Fetterman may be considering switching parties, I don’t think he has given enough consideration to a viable third option: Going and fucking himself.
