John Marc
@johnmarc.bsky.social
Somerville, MA politics, urabanisim, art and tech. Roboticist at RAI.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Tech worker: *gestures wildly in all directions*
Joe Uchill@joeuchill.bsky.social · 2d agoInterviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Adult graduate student: not to my own satisfaction.
The misogyny in this letter is appalling and if Bessent had ever sent something like this to a woman colleague in the private sector he’d have been sued for gender discrimination and fired. What an asshole
David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social · 3d agoA letter from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and a member of the Senate Finance Committee:
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 6d agoIt's been a struggle for reporters to get DHS to provide the names of officers who violate people's civil rights. Now, in our case against DHS's construction-site raids, the government is arguing in court that its employees names are "confidential" and should not be made public during litigation.
No reasonable law enforcement agency would ever fire a hail of bullets into a car that presents no safety threat … with a five-year-old in the backseat. We need an independent investigation. We need Oscar to be released from custody immediately. And we need ICE to get the hell out of our city.
El-Sayed: "I was a junior in HS on 9/11, sitting in my chemistry class. I watched as people started to point to people of my faith & say exactly the kinds of things that Rogers was saying. If that's his entire campaign strategy, you have to imagine how small minded he thinks Michiganders are."
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Btw, as @annielowrey.bsky.social chronicles in her latest book, this “time tax” is particularly onerous for low income folks and benefit recipients.
this guy just fucking sucks, man
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."
What if we did the same thing to O'Brien's daughter but she actually ages and goes feral? What if O'Brien's wife was a Pah-Wraith? What if a leprechaun showed up and fucked with O'Brien?
Gory Thing@korybing.bsky.social · 2w ago“What if OBrien was in a VR prison for 20 years but in real life it was like only a couple hours, would that be fucked up or what”
As previously stated I always bring an iced coffee to an interview, but I'd be embarrassed to bring that example from the WSJ.
mcc@dryad.technology · 3w agoWhy is billionaire-owned media suddenly coming all at once with pieces against drinking fluids. What is this manufacturing consent for. Is it building toward something. Should I be afraid
Greedy real estate developer whose takes are exclusively DSA platform.
Nick Kodama 🌳👻@nickkodama.bsky.social · 3w agoHey. If the nyt invited you to be part of a focus group what would you do as a bit?
to people who are concerned that this suggests that 'Kavanaugh is not smart,' as opposed to 'Kavanaugh is evil,' I want you to rest assured that these things are not in opposition he is both evil and a dumbass
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 3w agoThere have been lots of malevolent Supreme Court justices, but there's not really a precedent for a Supreme Court justice who is as *dumb* as Brett Kavanaugh. A complete rube. Shows his ass every time he tries to write down more than two sentences of original thought.
Guy who got a DUI manslaughter conviction and was doing his court ordered community service. Insisted over and over again how he had only crossed the double yellow line by 18" and if he hadn't been drunk he'd have faced no consequences.
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3w agoBizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”
Also, I think many people have a completely screwed up idea of what intelligence is, which, when combined with the fact that AI is supposed to have enormous intelligence, creates … problems. Consider how many people, when thinking about animals, confuse intelligence with tractability.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3w agoAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei famously said the goal of AI model development is to create a “country of geniuses in a data center.” I cannot help but think about the difference between GENIUS and WISDOM—and the potential implications of creating a critical mass of the former without the latter.
I've never forgotten the episode about fax maxhines... youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them
Never would have occurred to me without this, but Hot Fuzz and The Wicker Man (1970s) would make a lovely little revival house double feature.
Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 8mo agoWhat I really fucking love about Hot Fuzz is that it is a rare piece of artwork that unapologetically defends liberal modernity. A representative of the impartial, uniform rule of law & depersonalized state beings justice to a lawless, backward community run by a wretched clique of local grandees.
I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.
They hate the Bill of Rights because freedom is a threat to people in government who want to hide the truth about what they are doing from the American people. So they behave like tyrants because that is what they are. Vote this party out of power.
I have never attended a job interview without an iced coffee.
Dex Anderson@dexanderson.com · 4w agothere's a debate happening on tiktok about whether or not you should bring an iced coffee to a job interview and people are just wild. They're saying it's unprofessional??????
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More people are out of work now than they were before Trump took office in 2025. And families are being crushed by rising costs due to Trump's reckless tariffs, illegal Iran war, and irresponsible fiscal policies. Secretary Scott Bessent has no one to blame but himself & Donald Trump.
Four Somerville households lost their homes in Tuesday's fire on Dartmouth Street. Everyone is safe, but they're starting over with nothing. Clothes, medicine, groceries, a place to sleep. Give what you can to the Homeless Coalition's Emergency Fund: secure.qgiv.com/for/emerfun
The funniest possible target of this right now would be Bob Kraft.
Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 4w agoMaybe this a sign of something. Maybe it isn't. But the Justice Department published a "mysterious" notice as Politico put it, that people must “register as foreign agents when they act in the US at the direction or control of a foreign government [or] face civil and criminal liability. ” 🤔🤔🤔
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
Peter Flax@pflax1.bsky.social · 4w agoThis story buries the lede, but if you pull out a calculator and do the math, AAA found that the average American spends $15,031 a year for a single car! www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...
