I prefer analog buttons and controls. Trying to dive through five layers of menus to change the air conditioner fan speed is super annoying and dangerous.
chloe
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Scranton, Pennsylvania. Paper is the technology of the future. https://chloehumbert.substack.com https://wat3rm370n.tumblr.com
I was in a friend’s rental car and in place of a rear-view mirror there was a mirror-sized digital video feed of the back of the car. They replaced one of the most reliable & intuitive safety features in a car with a digital surrogate that could glitch at any moment. KEEP ANALOG SAFTEY FEATURES
If it's on the Republican ticket, I could live with it.
Marty Olliff@martyolliff.bsky.social · 5d agoImagine an election in which Newsom and Rahm are the presidential primary front runners . . .
The paper does not know what the spy agencies "suspect." It knows what the spy agencies SAY they suspect. In the era of Trump, no one can assume that government agencies are being honest, rather than acting from political motivations.
The Wall Street Journal is doing a major story on Balaji Srinivasan and his Network State cult. I know this because Balaji has gone ballistic and is writing long screeds attacking the WSJ reporter (he always attacks preemptively when he's scared). My 2024 piece: newrepublic.com/article/1804...
The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues”
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not OK.
newrepublic.com
Touchscreens in cars are not a customer convenience feature. They are a manufacturer cost-cutting feature.
Why do none of these stories in the news about the tecfusions data center projects never mention Simon Tusha's truly sus and scandalous history? hoodline.com/2026/07/west...
Westmoreland Residents Push Back As Data Center Fight Heats Up
A Westmoreland data center fight is heating up as residents push for local control, clearer rules and a pause on new development.
hoodline.com
Responding to a threat with urgency is the right thing to do. Running out of a burning building and calling the fire department is a good idea. chloehumbert.substack.com/p/responding...
Responding to a threat with urgency is the right thing to do. Running out of a burning building and calling the fire department is a good idea.
Dear Public Officials: stop talking down to other people.
chloehumbert.substack.com
At some point I think people have to consider that it's possible that these die-hard people online involved in what looks like Democratic Party influence operations who bully any & all critics are in fact actually infiltrator double agents working for the opposition to wedge into further divisions.
They're consultants. These consultants are often like double agents. They get hired by Democrats but they're promoting pr for the Republican business interests. It's controlled opposition.
FYI before you listen to f'n "Impact Research" and please let's stop giving air to consultancies that seem to just act like double agents of some type for industry interests. medium.com/@wat3rm370n/...
The Wrong Impact Research
“IMPACT RESEARCH” is some kind of PR firm that seems to be guiding Democratic party elected representatives on the pandemic issues to…
medium.com
When are we going to admit that a lot of these consultancies are probably controlled opposition double agents? What else explains such hard epic fails year after year?
I've been saying that consultants are likely double agents for years now. It seems almost obvious.
FASCINATING/DISTURBING: Democrats' Fundraisers Are Also Running AI's Congressional Access Operation readsludge.com/2026/07/29/d...
Democrats' Fundraisers Are Also Running AI's Congressional Access Operation
Consultants paid by Rep. Haley Stevens and other Democratic Senate campaigns are also managing a nonprofit that gives Google, Meta, Palantir, and other AI companies direct access to the congressional ...
readsludge.com
Stop telling me data centers could do this or that when they're not doing the things you say they could do anyway and even if they do it's not really ok anyway.
I’m sure you’ve seen that when they try to implement a close loop in Wyoming that Meta has been accused of dumping toxic chemicals into the water
These are the same lies they said about fracking. Then came the groundwater contamination and earthquakes. Perhaps Kevin Hassett would like a data center down the street from his house.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Because everyone wants people coming in from other places and driving up home prices and pushing up rent and pricing out locals. This literally happened in Pennsylvania with the fracking bubble and it was devastating.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Does Hassett realize what he is saying here about bringing (outsiders) high income people who can buy houses? Is he that stupid?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
They keep lying about this so people will believe their kids won't move away to get good jobs but any of the high paying jobs around data centers are remote, they're not working in the data center.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Maybe Hassett can sell his house and move to a small town next to one to set a proper example for the peasants. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.
Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town
Flock sent 1,427 alerts to Roseville police over two years, flagging cars as stolen or used in a felony. In 71% of them, Flock read the plates wrong.
businessinsider.com
My youngest kid likes to spot different color cars so on the ride to camp this morning I drove through a dealership's lot so we could find more colors. Friends, there were ONLY black, white, grey, and beige vehicles. Bring back fun colors of cars!
nearly everything this administration does is just slow-motion eugenics
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 7d ago“Experts worry that the litany of unanswered questions surrounding medical frailty will lead to more vulnerable people getting kicked out of the program. Preliminary estimates from the Congressional Budget Office suggest over 7 million people will lose coverage in coming years.”
Getting increasingly annoyed as my mum ages that the tech industry after decades of the personal computing & smart phone revolutions still thinks changing stuff like interfaces is just a cool thing to do without giving a shit how it effects folks just clinging on to understanding how stuff works.
"he just wants to be famous" scream the people who won't leave him the f alone
Mike Sacks@mikebsacks.bsky.social · 7d agoJust the scummiest. The home he's lived in for decades is now worth more than $2 million. He didn't pay that. It's now worth $2 million. Fucking assholes.
