2026-05-21T03:48:49Z https://njump.me Dave Rahardja https://njump.me/npub10wnp0q097e5z76rm838d9f59dz5lfvw2xvwvr32lnpye0vrdjfqqdrf0qm https://files.sfba.social/accounts/avatars/109/125/314/962/646/109/original/198de15b6ada4435.png https://files.sfba.social/accounts/avatars/109/125/314/962/646/109/original/198de15b6ada4435.png https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr4npmqd4467rapac2zcz6u5kdyh73z26h29x3y9snwq5vxgwmn8qzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq4txmew I didn’t know we had such elaborate restrictions on photography on national forest lands. It seems really odd that people aren’t always allowed to take photos or videos wherever they can legally access. <a href="https://mstdn.social/@bryanhansel/116264113037398178">https://mstdn.social/@bryanhansel/116264113037398178</a><br/>nostr:note159zaj8qefrryqcgkfkx3rce9ku7ljp8a675w56ul2at4473a2jjsrd0tp3<br/> 2026-03-20T23:55:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdkxqlm0jhxc9j3yxvemk8pgl8t786u7qvdkuyaher97angfesutgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqd4fumy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz9ngknlfqlzl7udqugl234w0xvlmqj77nrfsy4uuyqa5uajm0rhg8fmyg6'>nevent1q…myg6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Can’t wait for the AI bubble to pop too 2026-03-07T02:29:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvflheljeew26225wchc88lqln6f66f4lnfmawa7wcnwh5347lxaszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqkp5q64 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvxv2ve6z4p6u332xq085nk6xjm80yqnnfhqllhrq6vphxzsggt4cwf0zgn'>nevent1q…0zgn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wonder if you can even register those cars in the US. 2026-01-21T21:12:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvnz8s3yw0zcnk5ga4wjz92atunx9je87hx2vxvc0sj4h4rua9slgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqdy8ajt RE: <a href="https://dice.camp/@Tim_Eagon/115934400887468405">https://dice.camp/@Tim_Eagon/115934400887468405</a><br/><br/>You know it’s gonna be bad weather when Ted Cruz leaves.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note18juyxrv3pfcen6u3c0cj34hcdmnupypa96ma05q0svlhkhrj63pszsnlvv" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note18ju…nlvv</a></span><br/> </div> Stay safe Texans, your Senator Ted Cruz boarded a plane yesterday for warmer climes!<br/><br/>#UsPol #Texas #Winter #Weather </blockquote> 2026-01-21T18:25:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfklhs2gsm7ctyj394thlfccc4a2j80npapkn0tntja8ay55l9fkqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq7sl733 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf57pdrkalj6ggkz98g7a223w88usmelujfxquq663ukc4ssg8pqscug9j2'>nevent1q…g9j2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The constant hunger for “hitting the jackpot” and becoming fabulously wealthy corrupts *everything* one does. The goal of one’s social activities shifts from SERVICE to EXTRACTION. No one is a friend; everyone is a mark. Nature exists only for exploitation; society exists only for you to steal their money.<br/><br/>It’s a hollow, ghoulish existence. The numbers in your E*TRADE account becomes your self-worth. You don’t live; you “hustle”. Your thirst for the next jackpot causes you to reduce humans, animals, nature, resources—everything—into numbers on a spreadsheet, waiting to be “optimized” to drive out “waste”. You hire laywers and CPAs to minimize dollars leaving your portfolio, even when they pay for the common good. You think of politics in terms of Return On Investment, because fuck the people. There is nothing you can’t represent as a dollar figure, even your soul.<br/><br/>You become a parasite.<br/><br/>#wealthInequality #TheAmericanLie 2026-01-18T07:23:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf57pdrkalj6ggkz98g7a223w88usmelujfxquq663ukc4ssg8pqszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqhylhc4 I want a society that’s designed to make everyone moderately wealthy, and not only five people astronomically wealthy. The damage and misery caused by unmitigated inequality has been demonstrated over and over again, for millennia, yet we fall for the lie over and over again.<br/><br/>In the US, we choose inequality because we are taught to believe the blatant lie that we might one day *be* one of those five fabulously wealthy people. But look at the numbers: there are only five of them among millions; the odds are staggeringly against you.<br/><br/>It’s like a middle-school sports enthusiast thinking they will become a top-billing star in some major league, and make tens of millions of dollars a year: the numbers simply do not work out; there are only so many quarterback positions available, and tens of thousands of applicants. Yet they are raised to cling to that selfish “dream” instead of focusing on building something that *everyone* (including themselves) is likely to benefit from.<br/><br/>#wealthInequality #TheAmericanLie 2026-01-18T07:13:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstm88juzj8qsslytz9pzd56ngrtknp60rnuecagvst774rr868yegzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq7cjrxd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst40rpj5h6ed9wvchuuyxv9fn4dta98d8uq49aylq3jlef2kkm64g3jgpsc'>nevent1q…gpsc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I’m not a Wikipedia editor/contributor (I’m not knowledgeable enough for the most part), but if I were one, and I didn’t want my work to be sold to train AI so Wikimedia Foundation can make even more money off of it (they actually started selling it to Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Perplexity LAST YEAR without telling us! Surprise!), this may be a good time for me to WITHHOLD FURTHER LABOR and stop contributing to Wikipedia until they reverse this decision.<br/><br/>#enshittification <br/><br/><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-announces-new-ai-partnerships-with-amazon-meta-microsoft-perplexity-and-others/">https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-announces-new-ai-partnerships-with-amazon-meta-microsoft-perplexity-and-others/</a> 2026-01-16T21:12:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst40rpj5h6ed9wvchuuyxv9fn4dta98d8uq49aylq3jlef2kkm64gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqk7wgpr RE: <a href="https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115901357070406663">https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115901357070406663</a><br/><br/>Motherfuckers<br/>nostr:note1ez76uk3tzsx994g3yws44aplmmtgdxhpzz8vxjvp4fmv27vfv4xq03k4y4<br/> 2026-01-16T20:54:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs20q32rw7k26ke4t0hg4lkg8fpswpfct5xzsfrl0ky5ea0dqly8hqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqppf59j The Austin Independent School District has released a collection of videos showing #Waymo cars driving past school buses with their STOP signs out and lights flashing.<br/><br/>FUCK these cars. Get them off our streets.<br/><br/>#FuckWaymo<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EuLcXrIA0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EuLcXrIA0</a> 2026-01-16T04:26:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2rlx4g7va9lw0u7wchehu9gs8sv2ckh3378mjc4wx5vx82avekfczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq792kn3 It appears that turning off the new “Smart Features” in #GMail that “provide smart features and personalize your experience” also turns off a decades-old feature that categorizes spam away from your Inbox.<br/><br/>Smart Features uses Gemini #AI to enable LLM-assisted email composition and summary, and to suggest stuff from your calendars and promotional items.<br/><br/>In other words, disabling GMail’s AI features requires you to give up a categorization feature that you’ve had for decades, long before “AI” as we know it today was even a thing.<br/><br/>#enshittification <br/><br/><a href="https://support.google.com/mail/thread/389345915/turning-off-ai-smart-features-just-puts-all-my-sorted-emails-into-my-inbox">https://support.google.com/mail/thread/389345915/turning-off-ai-smart-features-just-puts-all-my-sorted-emails-into-my-inbox</a> 2026-01-15T07:28:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsre7stjjky72egrg8jhwu4c2mjp80pmuhcjh04z5szazmqka4jgcqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqsdjs66 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs00w8yjy8h88mkkpfp2yfs9dkemvgexaccf742uct45al79wue0cs5zvduj'>nevent1q…vduj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don’t think there’s escaping political parties. They are, at bottom, simply an organizing group that happens to be successful at getting votes. 2026-01-15T06:53:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8x0la8nk96et4wnuc4d7cq779tdyyx77zrtc85lknrtsvmuhhg2czypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqsy5x2d I think we can all dispense with the fiction that the separation of branches of government can overpower the collusion of partisanship. George Washington was right after all.<br/><br/>It follows, then, that a better system of government must weaken the strength of parties, by allowing minor parties to become competitive. I think that begins with #RankedChoiceVoting, which effectively undoes the natural game-theory tendency for two, and only two, very powerful parties to emerge.<br/><br/>What I would like to see next is the abolition of the Senate and the electoral college altogether, but that seems much less likely than first switching to RCV in the majority of states, or passing an amendment that permitted RCV in the way electoral college votes are counted. 2026-01-15T05:29:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8676r8zur394qaywvmyxt3fd23jtxk5uyd6ckym8m5fwr3tlfmnqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq2acdqy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmwr43jy2p4fyvptwqadlgte8guhtcklkeauwdc28lyul34l6s6qtxqczx'>nevent1q…qczx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But it is like an airport because people won’t judge you for having a martini at 7:30 in the morning. 2026-01-15T00:26:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst32kf5p8cqacyjm0782kq806zpury4h930wz348s08f4egg3v2lszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqjvn7v4 RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@augieray/115891261862815558">https://mastodon.social/@augieray/115891261862815558</a><br/><br/>“Senate Democrats aren’t eager to fight” should be on the tombstone of Chuck Schumer’s career.<br/><br/>#FuckChuck<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1rrg9xuqye665rrs4qm8varzpddssakyskxmux98jjmd0lcg83vlqev63k2" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1rrg…63k2</a></span><br/> </div> Democrats need to find a backbone and get better leaders who recognize what's happening in the nation and what's needed from them. <br/><br/>"Despite the fast-spreading outrage over the actions of DHS, many Senate Democrats aren’t eager to wage a fight over the department’s budget as part of this month’s funding fight." <br/><br/><a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-democrats-appear-ready-to-duck-ice-dhs-government-funding-deadline">https://www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-democrats-appear-ready-to-duck-ice-dhs-government-funding-deadline</a> </blockquote> 2026-01-14T04:29:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8xfx7xn7pjvk8e0yh04ju2k5e4r4r9vfrwa4x498edky7er4aq3gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqfzcafd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszf5xt3rjwq9s62t7r4d4fnmv4kwc44jnaxnj5jjp0tm0l09uzttsfgvwya'>nevent1q…vwya</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hopefully someone re-hosts the files on BitTorrent and releases a magnet URI for resilience. 2026-01-14T01:07:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsytxuw0cwlje3f79lu49zk60r4s6fpmvr9m52s7l0wsyzggtlchlszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqa3kd6m One of the biggest reasons why I left Spotify (this was after they gave Joe Rogan a truckload of money, and tried to embrace/extinguish podcasts, but before they played ICE ads and before I discovered their CEO invests in killer drones) was because they were padding their LoFi playlists with garbage AI slop attributed to fictitious artists, bands, and labels. They were obviously doing this to avoid paying out any money to artists despite continual playback.<br/><br/>Spotify is 100% leaning hard into AI. They have an “AI DJ” that “curates” your music. They are replacing artists with AI slop. It’s all part of their grand enshittification. [@halva](<a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/@halva">https://mk.absturztau.be/@halva</a> ) <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/ahf6b9v2rduf04iz">https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/ahf6b9v2rduf04iz</a> 2026-01-12T20:48:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfdesc0fvcnyphmkm5pdsf2kjhqa4h4tc960vlslhq2depywh5mhgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqx0qzhe It’s kinda hard to tell which mutual aid request posts are real and which are scams. Anyone have tips on how to exclude the scammers? 2026-01-10T22:59:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxmyp44lsrtuctm4zwn2tu5xz7ptau698dvqh0tcankqvfkmvxg6gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqjhe0z6 Getting tired of seeing posts on Mastodon by European men scolding people that they should be more polite, or that if someone categorizes some people as “bad guys” then that makes THEM the bad guys, etc.<br/><br/>Maybe sit down and listen instead, huh? Your privilege is showing.<br/><br/>I don’t know if you noticed, but some people don’t want others to exist, or to exist only in a state of misery and subservience. THESE ARE BAD GUYS. You can’t reason with them, because their position is not one built on logic, but dominance. They don’t deserve politeness, only PUBLIC SHUNNING and RESISTANCE. Being rude to them is good and proper, and healthy for the world.<br/><br/>I swear if I have to read another Dutch man lecture me, a person born in Indonesia, a nation the Dutch colonized and exploited for centuries—about being polite…<br/><br/><a href="https://www.humancode.us/2025/09/25/the-politeness-trap.html">https://www.humancode.us/2025/09/25/the-politeness-trap.html</a> 2026-01-10T19:43:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszcmypk06tgpx34yncw252la5j8z9d7lmh47gwv2w6tcrsgphwyeszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq2nztzk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstp68wcqhmp3q3rvfetyr2xmntyt7q3lr0qsfrnr3welwyqsyq4xg3g6wjf'>nevent1q…6wjf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I will sell you this piece of paper for half that subscription price.<br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/846/626/484/545/984/original/28eb25e9224e0242.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-01-06T06:00:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxsz9mx9l9duvczsy2hweg58pnlehtm28lv9l5p600n3y7d9cte4szypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqk4re6n “Billionaires will leave if you tax them”:<br/><br/>1. No they won’t<br/>2. They leave even when you don’t tax them<br/>3. Things get better for most people when they leave<br/>4. They say this so you won’t tax them<br/><br/>#billionaires #taxTheRich 2026-01-05T06:30:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2p6gkm06lyu77q5x6qs2dju40s33ep9xs9r5ztk8p35wfxr7cjpqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqwa0nyz Hey, remember that awkward and antisocial #Tesla diner that opened in LA last July, where they built giant screens that blocked the view from the apartments next door?<br/><br/>It’s a ghost town. The crowds are gone. The chef resigned in November.<br/><br/>Given that the food is mediocre and overpriced, and the atmosphere is basically “corporate diner”, the only reason people would want to go there is to be associated with the Tesla brand. And since the brand has gone toxic, well…there’s not really any reason to be there any more, is there?<br/><br/>#goodNews #fuckTesla<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/tesla-diner-elon-musk-los-angeles">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/tesla-diner-elon-musk-los-angeles</a> 2026-01-05T04:41:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspm2rydgqkx5hf6awkdfr5asdr2c0my2guawp00dmudrdcaa37unqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqctc7tz Someone posted this 8-bit JD Vance GIF and I love it.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/835/386/620/027/867/original/0a405a8d2c6ea5d8.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-01-04T06:22:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsppp868tdrmrhhtmaa5cwszzg2mzpyx8uv0nh2z6cqz7lvupqvq0czypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqh8vmae I’m not a #finance expert but this seems really bad. Banks haven’t needed this much cash infusion since the 2008 recession. On Oct 31, the Fed infused $51B of cash into one bank (they didn’t say which), and on Dec 28, they infused another $34B of cash into another bank (again they didn’t say which). This is after five years of zero such actions.<br/><br/>The article speculates that there is a short squeeze: banks have been shorting precious metals like silver and gold, but their prices have skyrocketed. They’re getting margin-called.<br/><br/>In any case, it seems that banks are suffering a liquidity crunch, to the tune of about $85B so far. Is this bad? This seems bad.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.dcreport.org/2026/01/01/ny-fed-follow-up-34b-cash-infusions-wall-street/">https://www.dcreport.org/2026/01/01/ny-fed-follow-up-34b-cash-infusions-wall-street/</a> 2026-01-04T02:43:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqteg9uvu5fqu5svmp23fpap2zv4efzwp4pt6c2a8skaymtryteaszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqt6ft3f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd0zzexra3uyj5v9m7q7qnn47egh4mej0vevs0w5gq9wqmfy6fcpcz6qd8t'>nevent1q…qd8t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Either we discovered some new fundamental truth about how human intelligence works in the last decade, or incentives have aligned to pretend we did. 2026-01-03T02:47:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd0zzexra3uyj5v9m7q7qnn47egh4mej0vevs0w5gq9wqmfy6fcpczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq6jkjff “Human intelligence is more than predicting words” was a completely uncontroversial statement 10 years ago. 2026-01-03T01:45:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrgsne52nec99pa34h6wy7emvwee0w3zpjuphjy47knfecju02etgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq2p8s33 I’m still waiting for a taco truck on every street corner. 2026-01-02T19:55:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr7rz8n6g7jtpgs9c9w3q8jgf9ad5sy8sfheql6x705uz0dgk282gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqc6jz8t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspfngdehylftunuesjjdglv32hyswy39dpwxdy5qh5nl2n3g5kmzqsaysna'>nevent1q…ysna</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I still remember an acquaintance of mine firmly justifying the existence of private equity as basically “a bunch of folks putting their money together”, and yeah, I guess that’s true, but the track record of their devastation is undeniable. From Toys R Us to Boston Market and Red Lobster, they appear to behave in a destructive and exploitative manner.<br/><br/>I’m still scratching my head as to what kind of regulation can be put in place to prevent this—probably none? Maybe an employee-owned corporation can resist this force? 2026-01-02T19:35:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0k7v6jxtx4dz5ccy5m67g2p2vf9vdf3ylt82g9c6gzy77ghvp9uqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq0x4k7w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkjdulsc6agmznn0qct5sdx3fce0nu2qcd9mr4gmg9epj78dvq7q0kx5rp'>nevent1q…x5rp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Man, you went out of your way to be nice to him. What an asshole. GAWD.<br/><br/>You did the right thing by calling him out in the end. He didn’t deserve your kindness. 2026-01-01T08:21:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswyygddpt68nmk68k2s47qq2duzsvm5ges5gf7llygktp3c9et00czypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqvk5v5e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx6pezm49q27zpy9m38rt2m6gad6ze5y2vu5kd8ay3mnmtywwrq5s2dn63g'>nevent1q…n63g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Lake Street Church clergy Michael Woolf arrested for protesting ICE.<br/><br/>Credit: Jim Vondruska/Reuters.<br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/815/952/600/461/544/original/edd92652769823b4.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-12-31T19:59:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfdtxk6pmnh32jmlp6ajpukdjhgmhmp4d9cdcnm7rq6haf3ra0scgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqex2val #meme #trolleyProblem<br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/812/210/060/641/091/original/02aa062c1b281edb.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-12-31T04:08:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswlqclsz9eavanaxg98ajaw38rdczhm7c9t4a2u9mcp3jcj936lwczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq98gua6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgp98apy3m2jy3aq3x0tccacqahtxzk5xclnf9uush7uz5hqjfswskfmy2n'>nevent1q…my2n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, he’s been impeached (the closest thing to an indictment by Congress) twice. But he’s never been tried or convicted. 2025-12-29T21:24:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszkmt3vknrxhtss7shedgeyza36h9s0qleslu2mj6gywlfdg9jregzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq8aep9h #TodayILearned that the Betta fish was so called because of their #Javanese name: wadêr bêtah (literally: enduring fish). The name was first recorded by a European observer in Ambarawa, not far from my birthplace.<br/><br/>The word “wadêr” is not familiar to me. Apparently it means “freshwater fish”. As a coastal child, I was more familiar with the word “iwak” that refers to fish in general. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/betta">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/betta</a> 2025-12-27T01:14:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszqp056e4e2f3v2ec3g53j85qdd9zjrvfz29qwchtyv7aud5lsnqgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqna0dy9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszwfaadpd05qkhpzxwwd8a72hczkulxeuuqzkc245wanvpnhz3nqq4mt8h9'>nevent1q…t8h9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think Greta Thunberg is acting in a more Jesus-like manner than virtually anyone in the modern churches. 2025-12-24T23:45:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszwfaadpd05qkhpzxwwd8a72hczkulxeuuqzkc245wanvpnhz3nqqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqshclec In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswgyqxglelum8t4dh0mt5kwpmkw33sv3sg75a3qm4aus9qj2qdzrg26ydwu'>nevent1q…ydwu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In fact, Paul was proud of the fact that when he turned from persecuting Jesus’ followers to promoting his teaching, he DID NOT CONSULT ANY OF THE ORIGINAL APOSTLES. He went on a three-year world tour to promote the new Jesus religion before speaking to a single one of the actual people who lived with Jesus. Read Gal 1:13–24 and tell me Paul doesn’t sound like an opportunist to you.<br/><br/>Anyway, this is a rant from an atheist who used to read the Bible. I think Jesus was actually a cool dude: a humble illegitimate son, born to a teenage mother who was knocked up by a man who got away with it. He was a friend to the underdogs. He mostly ignored the Roman Empire but nevertheless annoyed them more than any of the bigwigs of Judea. He hated wealth-hoarders and monetizers. He wanted a society that fed and clothed each other. And for that, the establishment (both religious and secular) tortured and killed him.<br/><br/>Then some people turned him into a resurrected god, and it went downhill from there. 2025-12-24T23:20:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswgyqxglelum8t4dh0mt5kwpmkw33sv3sg75a3qm4aus9qj2qdzrgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqw65kn8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvfrdyr6g6y2kz6cw7uk7mpusv0wdakkwrnr9ehwzrzr8fwmrdr9cmzn5nk'>nevent1q…n5nk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Paul was not one of the original twelve apostles—those with direct knowledge of what Jesus did—but a religious scholar of sorts, who first persecuted Jesus, but then had a change of heart, and took it to himself to spread the “good news” of Jesus. In the process, he invented an entire theology and narrative about Jesus that the latter never actually claimed, along with rules and regulations that were more a product of his time than any eternal set of values.<br/><br/>It’s interesting to note that almost every “culture war” topic US conservatives complain about today is either a Pauline concept, or something Jesus never addressed, or worse, actually opposed. Homosexuality? Paul (Rom 1:26–27). Women in power? Paul (1 Cor 14:34). Abortion? Actually nobody mentioned that one (trick question). 2025-12-24T23:10:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvfrdyr6g6y2kz6cw7uk7mpusv0wdakkwrnr9ehwzrzr8fwmrdr9czypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqjvtey7 As we round the orbit to another season of Christmas, I’m once again bringing up as an ex-Christian that a lot of “Christian doctrine” that believers lay claim to was actually written by Paul, then expanded over time by countless Catholic expositions, Protestant philosophers, and modern-day Evangelical charlatans.<br/><br/>Almost everything that we know about what Jesus personally taught can be read in the three and a half gospels (the Gospel of John is less of a historical record and more a philosophical interpretation of what Jesus did from a certain religious perspective, but anyway), and when you focus only on what Jesus taught it’s…actually not that much.<br/><br/>Jesus taught that love for your fellow humans was more important than adherence to Law. He taught empathy for the misfit, the oppressed, and the marginalized. He despised relentless monetization. He fed the hungry, lifted the downtrodden, and “healed” without condition. He preached nonviolence and a separation of religion and power. 2025-12-24T23:00:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgnzn6dqwjkzek2gkx6czmaxpsgp39ekvzjl45y8eqta9vly676egzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqy6tufl I recently saw a video that claimed that conservatives behave the way they do because they have oversized amygdalae (the part of the brain that causes alarm and anxiety). While there are apparently multiple studies that show correlation between amygdala size and conservative leaning, the person in this video extrapolated this information further: that conservatives are biological misfits in today’s world; that their brain structures never progressed beyond skittish hunter-gatherer behavior; and that modern medical science is the only thing that has kept them from going extinct. This is dangerous rhetoric, and it has to be stopped. This leads to #eugenics.<br/><br/>I’m *exceedingly* skeptical whenever someone offers a simple anatomical explanation for complex behavior. People have been blaming undesirable behavior on everything from unruly uteri (hysteria), to “criminal skull shapes”, to—yep—skin color and ancestry, leading to countless volumes of bigotry and suffering. 2025-12-24T09:52:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp80tyf468y429huzvtg2wcnn6ugdtstkc7tqwq8sk33znejx4m9gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqhdmx83 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg2g7pyxzr06dnrw7tj5xmfj6llhneqyu3ghnjevx2fdmkvq7p4qc6djdkf'>nevent1q…jdkf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, math is *useful*.<br/><br/>Everything in math is made-up. Some made-up parts of math are useful for modeling reality, so they continue to be used. Other made-up parts are not useful, and they are dropped. Nothing in math is completely provable (Gödel’s incompleteness theorem), but nevertheless, the surviving collection of made-up parts are consistent *enough* to be useful in understanding and manipulating real objects.<br/><br/>So…is it real? Dunno. It sure is useful though. 2025-12-19T06:04:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswt37jf0plwc6lyycu6r46q6u3w98pyaru3x3mh5a0z8fevyj7z8gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqj0wxxk Will this year’s “NORAD Tracks Santa”graphic have a gun-sight target on Santa’s sleigh in honor of Pete Hegseth? 2025-12-17T19:53:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgpmqz4tty3j9uhg9d4gluqyxseydwdkut05agfvm33qe8w5cdp0gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqya67nz As #Christmas rolls around, I once again post this timeless illustration by Everett Patterson from 2014, titled “José y Maria”. Ever more poignant today.<br/><br/>#art #illustration #christianity <br/><br/>Source: <a href="http://www.everettpatterson.com/?page_id=1667">http://www.everettpatterson.com/?page_id=1667</a><br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/713/451/124/606/689/original/6524b3c67f7121e6.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-12-13T17:31:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgn9lxc3lmkrraz27fhmkv8ssp0juuwydf0xwure6r38jd5jllasqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq98dplw “Who is the fifth pig?” — a fold-in ad from World War II.<br/><br/>Apparently these “fifth pig” fold-ins are a popular form of propaganda, dating from the 1800s. <a href="https://www.origamiheaven.com/historyofthefifthpig.htm">https://www.origamiheaven.com/historyofthefifthpig.htm</a><br/><br/>#humor #art #advertising #propaganda #illustration<br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/705/365/196/691/295/original/494c82d00b9478e7.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-12-12T07:16:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgrza5f5mt6zq4wggedu5m5qyxydy2nt7pqp0mldw79hg63nzwgjgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq8xnh59 US Fascism, explained with puppets<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6Abt5Q3gXic">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6Abt5Q3gXic</a> 2025-12-11T07:41:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq9ku3fptpnxv475ltx9mm372n0lnk69jq0t6vge6au7a2r624qmgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqnqd4uc I’m so tired of this shit.<br/><br/>Aren’t you glad Joe Biden didn’t stuff the SCOTUS when he had the chance? Haha, imagine.<br/><br/>#kakistocracy #racism<br/><br/>“Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-trumps-challenge-to-birthright-citizenship/">https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-trumps-challenge-to-birthright-citizenship/</a> 2025-12-05T22:48:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx8tncx6juadx7952whs7sxjh8gyf5n2vzgmq6uckpwttsas2mypgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqrl5jpw <a href="https://www.boycott-airbnb.org/">https://www.boycott-airbnb.org/</a> 2025-12-05T09:41:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw7vmwja0zpp2f2p8pmy7v6x28krcpmtkchzec8pc8jgw37xwkkugzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqh7u2hq Jesus Christ.<br/><br/>Either they are intentional, or they are tone deaf.<br/><br/>Either way, what the fuck, Pantone. <a href="https://mastodon.world/@clayrivers/115665157448008958">https://mastodon.world/@clayrivers/115665157448008958</a> 2025-12-05T06:22:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfllnaaf6c8e952z2lshm3w9klmsrv809ntve24nsyu3h78j6e4aczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqhkv8v2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvthdhz9zcvmwchd964033ngxfyvmzqmqsc4vgzgwhltu50vsh9rquhpl83'>nevent1q…pl83</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“&#34;The Information&#39;s story inaccurately combines the concepts of growth and sales quotas, which shows their lack of understanding of the way a sales organization works and is compensated,&#34; a company spokesperson said in a statement.<br/><br/>&#34;Aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lowered, as we informed them prior to publication.&#34;”<br/><br/>OK so does that mean Microsoft has lowered its growth targets? 2025-12-03T19:43:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2457uak3gns6edm8j5lyqw63zq34ch63nrgnpvcxe2l4w45v9uaczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqvlcgrh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgu6wjrjsccskxdjcdgc0v97hk4pxnu2uzgfup3h84080pvezfrqqj5w3pv'>nevent1q…w3pv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I used to write code for avionics (GPS sensors) and bit flips in RAM was a real concern. We used ECC RAM (40 bits per 32 bits) that we periodically read and wrote to, and we periodically invalidated caches to force a reread of Flash ROM to mitigate the errors. We also had reasonableness checks at various points in our processing to catch the rarer register-level flips that don’t cause a crash. We also had external watchdog circuits that would hard reset the CPUs if it became unresponsive. For higher integrity, integrators can use multi-sensor or dissimilar-sensor setups for cross-checking. 2025-11-29T18:00:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy09a7srggjnn7z0xe76n2pna7zyr06vqfu8gfsx92svlquh05txszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqpntyge In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvhrhsgljvdmhlp9xxck2sw4x7375gx6c5putxj3f2853qqwhl95qqfnpdh'>nevent1q…npdh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Nature dot com, you say? <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/115632267945286171">https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/115632267945286171</a> 2025-11-29T09:38:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd3gnmedsyk89ufaw8ylxg2rf20fk06t7jecxw0e6dtffn2hpwuvszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqht870j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx5c094zkm90dsfq02jxdqpypey0kgu3f9hf4gen84gvydkse7ytqk6s8w2'>nevent1q…s8w2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Next thing you’ll tell me Obama isn’t Irish. 2025-11-29T02:13:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0ggmpm9xf4tg3fhqfzmgeq4qn0agmhj4tvhrtl2f6q7wxx84dgtqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqnygm8l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd8mnlsnhefrgzu8rfrp3jh83a3m4s6ftt83swtdutmkxp5xflshg64w6je'>nevent1q…w6je</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Agreed. It takes a person with a safety net outside their current job to risk their career by disobeying their boss. This goes even for the military.<br/><br/>I’m hoping now that a federal judge has ruled National Guard occupation to be *clearly* unlawful, more troops will be willing to refuse deployment into US cities.<br/><br/><a href="https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115107765517880528">https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115107765517880528</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5615399/dc-troops-deployment-blocked-trump">https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5615399/dc-troops-deployment-blocked-trump</a> 2025-11-28T20:56:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd7ummszttdz7cpk69lnvd58zktqkwmdyq8mxtwska7q0alxe9xpczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq2f92uw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrz2486qvuc977e8x65w9fk8plkgufmqaekuqkjdz4uea0f42gmmsfvzm9p'>nevent1q…zm9p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was rooting for the cop, but the cop pulled ahead. 2025-11-26T01:23:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsghfqsfknj0g5lfpqvqed3vxxu0v0flcm7j00hujgk6hg2q7x3c8czypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqx05udh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy4t8azwyj4y3ukmlh027x2ed0c64dwk8k3m6f7443utzsjgu5d2sptyf68'>nevent1q…yf68</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>primary scare doctor<br/><br/>#dadjoke 2025-11-22T23:18:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy0nu9tuw47cze8kv45rq9x8thwm9ydw88853frgmwsqwu0n7k2kczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqe26q83 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq6y58cg2dc7f7ez2a0chas7wjzq22u0v6dv9tf3dc9p46yyparkgjhx45n'>nevent1q…x45n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The utter mediocrity of evil. 2025-11-13T10:16:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqlr3l8jz65mc3pl52mj2jt2lv9qypnwspw3yd5fnj2psk7zyjqyszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqe8ezxf #FuckChuck #kakistocracy #complicit <br/><br/>Source: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mehdirhasan.bsky.social/post/3m5cxzonkes2u">https://bsky.app/profile/mehdirhasan.bsky.social/post/3m5cxzonkes2u</a><br/><br/>Article link (paywalled): <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/senate-democrats-schumer-shutdown-surrender">https://zeteo.com/p/senate-democrats-schumer-shutdown-surrender</a><br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/528/819/194/372/899/original/98ab629bc6d91b9c.png"> <br/> 2025-11-11T02:58:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9v8qt98nc46lj9red4p2td98mwua3mvz47qyya0hkmvy8x6gmkeczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq6t4vuf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvq5xt0q3vm2snxgz7kl0dnecn4wwd2uuleghuv5ptr5tmgq2sgzg5tek3q'>nevent1q…ek3q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It’s really odd that the browser stores its state in a Desktop folder by default. 2025-11-02T20:17:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdwjd74qrdukgtdd80rhqulypnsz7hv264znzgzsn98y36xl3723czypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqmy82f2 The fact that OpenAI can become a for-profit company after tens of billions of dollars have been spent on this “nonprofit” sounds really fishy to me, and sounds like a really bad precedent, suggesting that any nonprofit can be owned by capitalists whenever it becomes financially desirable enough.<br/><br/>I’m curious to see how they pulled this off and how they agreed to divvy up their equity.<br/><br/>#openAI #AI<br/><br/>“OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv38py7ewo">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv38py7ewo</a> 2025-10-30T06:46:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdrl7e8fvzxjvhllns35csv0ak0kgjgjy66ejqp0w0g3525a7ulzczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqrkhy3e GOOD JOB #NewMexico! This is how you do it.<br/><br/>#goodNews<br/><br/>“New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal child care next week”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-mexico-free-universal-child-care/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-mexico-free-universal-child-care/</a> 2025-10-30T03:56:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxv2rrlr3hxlwunjq5trpx0rm6eeczhs46f20mqq2ctdgff82la6szypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqh3vvsx Tawny Platis on 65 years of female robotic voices in movies and TV<br/><br/>#voices #assistants #ai<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/450/840/745/095/092/original/2221a05fc6eefa2b.mp4"></video><br/> 2025-10-28T08:27:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvqv4e9een3ada3jccz3ezpg2w8aztptaqyndp9l4vszfzraph7dczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqekx83w Someone has made a website that lists food pantries in the US.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.foodpantries.org/">https://www.foodpantries.org/</a><br/><br/>#SNAP #food #foodBanks 2025-10-28T05:26:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswmxn85q95aakp02g6wdt0der8kfzwcp020fygt7xasjrrytdzm4gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqzfj067 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyjrh8dnsvxz72ery6xs4ytx0h5psmlgl2sgepk2u43m7h8qsh3pstfqpps'>nevent1q…qpps</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh no<br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/443/466/830/569/798/original/fd02176eb5df76ef.png"> <br/> 2025-10-27T01:11:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqj9cj79htv93wqth8w3nx5n7vffj392t274vcp40kkl3u7ylx7cgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqawvl6h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx8v9tjshnagy060t6n65f9u7ywe3764vz792mkj37p5gcljfvhkqpnlzpd'>nevent1q…lzpd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Here you go<br/><br/><a href="https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/technology/cal-state-ai-amazon-openai.html">https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/technology/cal-state-ai-amazon-openai.html</a> 2025-10-27T01:06:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs88vjah20dsc9jdpqhug3zqtrdczfvwg52jprxzgq0ckpmxp4f3uczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqegkwv9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqle74tas7jcqc2emedghtk6neshqw2lzgw2yfyjssqd9xc4352ycwgy407'>nevent1q…y407</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also incredible: The voice of the extreme right-wing and labor-hating Ronald Reagan now sounds like the voice of moderation. 2025-10-26T06:39:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspfhr047hlq2rv0snjwcl5qcdg7pvldapzgxt2727rwyhx439yaaqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq4gjvy5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdhjrvfexufs5853vd2568tu93fqp39xsf39txs4qgrezaq8yufeq5saapm'>nevent1q…aapm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It’s such a good and easy match. 2025-10-26T02:39:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy52l78lm0w7fpx4srmj8jh0evh8asujlh39vh83de5qq3hc4nd3czypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqfnj2gl Look, I’m not/no longer an Evangelical Christian, and I think John’s book of Revelation was mostly relevant to Roman-occupied first-century Greece rather than the reader today, but it’s SO EASY to apply its text about the Antichrist to #Trump, who checks so many boxes it should raise every Evangelical’s eyebrows.<br/><br/>Anyway, this is a good read if you’re so inclined.<br/><br/>PS: Personally, like many quasi-religious prophecy-type documents a la Nostradamus, Revelation contains a large set of vague visions and statements that in can be interpreted to mean just about anything if you tilt your head hard enough.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/">https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/</a> 2025-10-26T02:29:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgmtvdxre3sj2vcclfngjx8k67u5942qaccus7s0t2yfs6fz4xz4qzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqe2ya5t “Trump has repeatedly said that work on the ballroom is privately funded by himself and donors and will cost nothing to taxpayers.”<br/><br/>Yeah, CNN, that’s how bribes work. If taxpayers paid for the renovation, it wouldn’t be a bribe.<br/><br/>Every name on this list should be shunned and shamed.<br/><br/>#kakistocracy #bribery #complicit <br/><br/>“White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/ballroom-donors-white-house-trump">https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/ballroom-donors-white-house-trump</a> 2025-10-24T02:21:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsduuc7fvw2x9e4jstd29spfwcaeg7w8kevsuty3j7vu6gw7a0nllgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqda6cej OH HELL NO.<br/><br/>#Amazon is now providing access to #Ring cameras via the privacy disaster that is the #Flock license plate reading network. Amazon and Flock are building a #surveillance network for profit.<br/><br/>Flock boasts that their service does not have facial recognition, but—surprise!—RING DOES. It’s only a matter of time until facial recognition data is collated and made searchable.<br/><br/>While homeowners can do whatever they want with their property, sending doorbell video to the cloud exposes EVERYONE ELSE IN SIGHT to surveillance. Every delivery person, every passerby, everyone visible on the sidewalk gets slurped up into the #panopticon whether they like it or net.<br/><br/>This is not the society we want.<br/><br/><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/</a> 2025-10-20T06:53:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfv06n2se6kd37ndn0cg33dnlvsr69x992qvz95haxz4pez089a6szypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq0lpl3c Saw a Sora video of Bob Ross painting car parts and I died a little.<br/><br/>I really hate how #AI is turning dead people into puppets. 2025-10-12T02:33:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrpf5h9t2lmr8xxcmj4rnqyd48ljnntmpl7tstdp2h8a5a9lcezeszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqspfpvr How the hell did Marc Benioff go from funding children’s hospitals to calling for a military invasion of the city the hospitals are in?<br/><br/>I think Big Tech billionaires are living on borrowed time. Literally no one likes them. Not the left, not even the right. I hope a reckoning is coming. <a href="https://mastodon.hccp.org/@igb/115352749690598411">https://mastodon.hccp.org/@igb/115352749690598411</a> 2025-10-11T03:11:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9ct377639nsjclm4yeh7f7a7pfm78a0h93v4j7pyg6rjdqtkug4qzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqvn53yg Oh look, #enshittification<br/><br/>Nobody wants this. Not even #Tesla owners.<br/><br/>#cars<br/><br/>“Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners”<br/><br/><a href="https://electrek.co/2025/10/10/tesla-pushes-tron-ares-ad-inside-cars-upsetting-owners/">https://electrek.co/2025/10/10/tesla-pushes-tron-ares-ad-inside-cars-upsetting-owners/</a> 2025-10-10T18:58:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw5urn5laqpaaluse3elr8qq5uqcakyt5832cswutlvd9xnmqm7gszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq6du8fj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyplrlmsyfh399a5kszpzammskf6qkxagmsq7fusug2qfrnuk222gwa6xpf'>nevent1q…6xpf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I read through the technical specs very briefly, and as far as I can see this is very much like how Kerberos works. Although each attestation contains no personal information, some party still needs to make the association between a user and a web service they are trying to use, potentially removing anonymity. <br/><br/>IMO there’s really no way to do this with “zero trust” end-to-end (in the human sense, not the technical term). The identity and the resource being accessed must be associatable. Now, whether or not this information is stored is a different question, and it may be possible to provide services that immediately discard this association, but that’s not a guarantee, and it remains a deanonymyzing vector. 2025-10-10T17:52:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrwp02qd87tcr4v4kyfdjhyw7t7f0htz32tkvakepfjjv2w3jdtdqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqe3p48y As a society, we need to see through the phrase “stifling innovation” as a euphemism for “not letting me make a shit-ton of money at the expense of societal well-being.”<br/><br/>The real way we’re stifling innovation is by bankrupting the public channels that fund basic research. 2025-10-10T02:03:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdyh3m3p66mdm50jupe2k904trws05670hjflg6gkx6ysmr43glnczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq2epahj “Age verification” is surveillance.<br/><br/>You can’t stay anonymous *and* verify your age. 2025-10-09T19:21:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs83dthqjpqw4vuw6cexr6mt8crg0rz54nq236yr2zz9yu4507rvugzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqqse5z8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst4ccjrs8nfclq7g7rjmj496p3l69mjrf4yshez2tmyx89zp78fvqrmxkvf'>nevent1q…xkvf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Note also that many cars have cellular radios which I have to assume will get picked up by Stingray as well. 2025-10-09T00:03:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgnad9s87mkcjer009eg3alhcr0c8sdsxjq4axsampy7wjkfx0cnczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqp8rg0v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszgd740p278vu96m9gg23mnqhshajq2v283m8lml4t8ym5u30l5cczy2s0t'>nevent1q…2s0t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Taken in isolation, maybe, but I feel like there are enough other clues on the website that I feel comfortable calling this a parody and not psy-op. 2025-10-08T19:14:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfvksd7wqw2ud4thcadwnjy5z5q0hkl5y8jk36svhtd6q2qjncftczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqz4f777 This is a pretty clever anti-#AI campaign disguised as Yet Another Misanthropic Tech Bro AI Startup.<br/><br/>#funny #humor #satire <br/><br/><a href="https://replacement.ai">https://replacement.ai</a><br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/331/197/929/643/384/original/acfc2db22fa2fc5d.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-10-07T05:20:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvyspek0zan26j4dclfm44w5ndaclx5zal670qdnx0yl0tzvzpgpczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqdxvyma “According to testimony from the Delaware case, the company allows Chinese investors to buy stakes in SpaceX so long as the money is routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs.”<br/><br/>“The investors’ names are redacted in the recently unsealed document, but their addresses span from Chile to Malaysia. One is in Russia. At least two are in mainland China. One is in Qatar.”<br/><br/>SpaceX is a national security liability. The US should never have given up their pursuit of publicly-owned basic space launch technology. <a href="https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115304576998294391">https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115304576998294391</a> 2025-10-04T14:09:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs89umdjusc49yvw90cauvm09ecvld3u962wnde5vz6ta5hpzh6waszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqeny65u “The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere.<br/><br/>The data the two missions collect is widely used, including by scientists, oil and gas companies and farmers who need detailed information about carbon dioxide and crop health. They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases.”<br/><br/>#kakistocracy #space #climateChange <br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened">https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened</a> 2025-09-29T19:47:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdwsj6qald4nucjs94d0evlc4qkquddkx6tplx4wuctnqrn089m5qzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqejaxvs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs08hx6y604gdne6sn2u7g5ry9dcs8alff9efvhrvpr98vg2zss3kgrvas5h'>nevent1q…as5h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is a good commentary that links to the article above: <a href="https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry">https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry</a><br/><br/>The tl;dr is that the amount of money spent on capital expenditure (building server farms and chips) for AI has exploded, but it has not brought the concomitant revenue growth to make it sustainable. AI capex is now responsible for more GDP growth than “all of consumer spending combined.” To pay for this, the AI industry needs to generate more than $2T *annual* revenue by 2030, which is ludicrous. Sooner or later, the piper must get paid.<br/><br/>#ai #bubble 2025-09-29T18:08:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs08hx6y604gdne6sn2u7g5ry9dcs8alff9efvhrvpr98vg2zss3kgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqhzsnm6 Deutsche Bank is now warning that the US AI bubble is about to pop.<br/><br/>“It may not be an exaggeration to write that NVIDIA—the key supplier of capital goods for the AI investment cycle—is currently carrying the weight of U.S. economic growth. The bad news is that in order for the tech cycle to continue contributing to GDP growth, capital investment needs to remain parabolic. This is highly unlikely.”<br/><br/>“In the absence of tech-related spending, the U.S. would be close to, or in, recession this year.”<br/><br/>#ai #bubble<br/><br/>“The AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes ‘parabolic,’ Deutsche Bank warns: ‘This is highly unlikely’”<br/><br/><a href="https://fortune.com/2025/09/23/ai-boom-unsustainable-tech-spending-parabolic-deutsche-bank/">https://fortune.com/2025/09/23/ai-boom-unsustainable-tech-spending-parabolic-deutsche-bank/</a> 2025-09-29T18:08:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxj4sck92g05qrlp8n30wxywzdcmvcnkxrygnyns7mp4se9ewej4gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqf9wwje HAHAHAHA<br/><br/>#cars #tesla <br/><br/>“Tesla Bros Attempt Coast-to-Coast Trip in Self-Driving Mode, Crash Right Away”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/tesla-bros-attempt-coast-to-coast-trip-in-self-driving-mode-crash-right-away/">https://www.vice.com/en/article/tesla-bros-attempt-coast-to-coast-trip-in-self-driving-mode-crash-right-away/</a> 2025-09-28T00:27:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfdluj6zexqxw3wp85hh23kgle37quw4yld0up5kk82fpzqketayczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqpaedv3 It wasn’t that long ago that “States Rights” type conservatives would get enraged at the prospect of the federal government sending troops into US cities. Remember Jade Helm 15, a military exercise that conservatives whipped up into something of a pretense for Obama to use the military to occupy Texas?<br/><br/>Now that Trump is *actually* sending troops to occupy US cities, those conservatives have little to say.<br/><br/><a href="https://archive.md/20150501094033/http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/29/jade-helm-15-a-military-simulation-draws-scrutiny-and-wild-speculation-in-texas/">https://archive.md/20150501094033/http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/29/jade-helm-15-a-military-simulation-draws-scrutiny-and-wild-speculation-in-texas/</a> 2025-09-27T21:46:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs93cuxf38qc84c5jaw0umt20vvmm2ewha8un2ex6gn3uf0ta8a52gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq832l99 I can’t make people care enough to write #AltText for their images, but I can refuse to boost posts that don’t have Alt Text for their images.<br/><br/>I’m sure I’m not alone.<br/><br/>Boost this if you do the same. 2025-09-27T19:20:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8z7wsh9rgpt5j5jvjnr80svq3ktvwjh93ycug98z4c3952gtatngzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqhhv6pq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxfukzmzudjchuym8as4mnmqjcuz3es6sfppp2tl4zx2eyurk2u5gzuwtxt'>nevent1q…wtxt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>““‘IS BUILDING’ will be defined as, ‘breaking ground’ and/or ‘under construction,’” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “There will, therefore, be no Tariff on these Pharmaceutical Products if construction has started.””<br/><br/>lol, companies are going to buy an empty plot of land, get one contractor to dig a hole, declare it “under construction” and call it a day.<br/><br/>No sane business owner is going to commit any significant amounts of money to long-term investment while this fickle administration is in power.<br/><br/><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/25/business/imported-pharmaceuticals-tariff-trump">https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/25/business/imported-pharmaceuticals-tariff-trump</a> 2025-09-26T04:47:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxfukzmzudjchuym8as4mnmqjcuz3es6sfppp2tl4zx2eyurk2u5gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqm4jfj3 Yeah, that oughta teach em foreigners<br/><br/>#kakistocracy<br/><br/>“A 100% tariff on some imported drugs is coming October 1, Trump says”<br/><br/><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/25/business/imported-pharmaceuticals-tariff-trump">https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/25/business/imported-pharmaceuticals-tariff-trump</a> 2025-09-26T04:36:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg0f4jrg93kyg8qzh7l7qq0x4kguqgaqqp987angfzp3ej0xd7jhgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqzcnnr5 What is it with Elon and young, impressionable men?<br/><br/>Plus this: “rapid-fire one-on-one meetings at which employees have been asked to explain their work at the company”<br/><br/>This seems to be Elon’s MO: Get rid of people with expertise, replace them with some young man (it’s always a man, never a woman) who’s bought into his worldview, then have them do a loyalty test on the remaining people.<br/><br/>Authoritarian types love to do this, for some reason.<br/><br/>🤷 I guess I’m fine with this if it makes xAI’s product worse.<br/><br/>#fuckElon #ai <br/><br/>“Elon Musk Fires 500 Staff at xAI, Puts College Kid in Charge of Training Grok”<br/><br/><a href="https://futurism.com/elon-musk-college-kid-xai-grok">https://futurism.com/elon-musk-college-kid-xai-grok</a> 2025-09-25T16:40:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8pyq3dh9qu5hq68unu5x79ly0u59l9j5jtf503gsqk4tytcaefxgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqq24mqp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9f3jw0q93n408zzlnumu0rlx7w9c95e6hhj75rle090szmrj5lyg3fpkch'>nevent1q…pkch</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Isn’t it amazing how random people on the internet take your words and find it appropriate to take the least charitable possible interpretation of them? 2025-09-24T02:27:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst6yjgtnv6gwzqchshjjc7s054y3dpaqy6564phdpuxnq5yjyawyczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqxfqj7h The China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center posted this video of their new battery ejection system for EVs for when they experience thermal runaway, and I cannot stop laughing.<br/><br/>The thought of launching a one-ton battery pack presently ejecting streams of hot flaming gases ten meters away is as horrifying as it is hilarious.<br/><br/>Good luck whoever is to my right!<br/><br/>#cars<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/256/684/956/981/987/original/ecd1c4b43ff1b9a4.mp4"></video><br/> 2025-09-24T01:30:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqjaer2jppjpruu2pqshl4a9dz5jmtajgn5g9lqt27l4mxrs27ueczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqk55lw9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfdwazyw62aeqrl9vrhja4ht3yuq2wsdkelecuenu49jypnv7spes5csxu6'>nevent1q…sxu6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There’s no “cure” for capitalism, I’m afraid; and I don’t even know if any other system that’s touted to be superior won’t bring other horrors of their own, because humans are as cruel as they are creative. We can only make the system better or worse. 2025-09-24T00:49:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdy5van4qvmw4z5eqvvare2yz8zvujf4px77gl26vggla4dwafcjqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqlvffaa Another success story for #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI.<br/><br/>UBI is one good way out of this capitalist mess. The benefits of technology and automation should accrue to ALL OF US, not just a handful of oligarchs. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@scottsantens/115254333187890419">https://hachyderm.io/@scottsantens/115254333187890419</a> 2025-09-23T19:15:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqr8lswevtnxes7fw4m32vpgmy2n6w9ecky3f6yl9zelm6n2mga0qzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqgju2n3 I don’t know how this could look good for Sinclair. Trump may post something nice on Truth Social about them, but they’re mainly going to educate their millions of annoyed viewers exactly how much territory they own, which is A LOT. So that’s good education. <a href="https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/115251221213408860">https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/115251221213408860</a><br/><br/>Here’s a map of Sinclair markets: <a href="https://sbgi.net/tv-stations/">https://sbgi.net/tv-stations/</a> 2025-09-23T02:33:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstws8rvrkz46s0f9m25vplye8680r3f6x4rp0v4ma5y3dwekevh7gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyql6577n This article seemed like a fluff piece at first, but the more I read it, the more I realized that it describes an insidious and serious problem that’s spreading undetected across society.<br/><br/>I know (thankfully few) people who regularly talk to ChatGPT about their day. ChatGPT being a statistical word extruder will dutifully listen and regurgitate your point of view, as it is designed to choose words from the same probabilistic cluster that your own words come from. You end up staring into a carnival funhouse mirror, but you slowly begin to mistake your reflection for another, very sympathetic, person.<br/><br/>Charlatans of all ages have known to use sycophancy and obsequious agreement to manipulate the vulnerable. #AI is now automating this behavior at scale.<br/><br/><a href="https://futurism.com/chatgpt-marriages-divorces">https://futurism.com/chatgpt-marriages-divorces</a> 2025-09-20T07:57:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs25vmmp6kyr8l7zc5sdxza6epssk0k50mmdnrmrjfcdgqvfurzztqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqj6860y From 2022. Not a perfect analogy, but still good.<br/><br/>Source: <a href="https://xcancel.com/KatysCartoons/status/1504463231380865031">https://xcancel.com/KatysCartoons/status/1504463231380865031</a><br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/217/165/861/702/883/original/858d9b5bd84112a6.png"> <br/> 2025-09-17T02:00:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp0ags6wxv84335kguuwptmfadqqszjtcpt7ulmfg9w3fcq6jkagczypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqtyjlw5 This is a good page to bookmark.<br/><br/>#kakistocracy #rightWing <br/><br/>“None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from &#39;the Left&#39;. Not one. We can count them.”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/15/2343622/-None-of-the-last-31-political-killings-was-by-anyone-from-the-Left-Not-one-We-can-count-them">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/15/2343622/-None-of-the-last-31-political-killings-was-by-anyone-from-the-Left-Not-one-We-can-count-them</a> 2025-09-15T20:02:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspj8q5ctuq6ruwxg6kj8rcys9x53s5vfhsyjdf4yl807sf9m8hn7gzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqgj8n0w During discourse, do not insist on civility, but good faith.<br/><br/>It should be acceptable for a person who has suffered a grave injustice to shout in rage, and it should not be acceptable for a charlatan to mislead with eloquence. 2025-09-14T05:42:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrxhd40gld336t0huvp67322f9rel3hg0392kcn5ktjg2s8jta4dgzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqs7fy9h Rep. Brian Mast (R-Florida) has introduced a bill that would allow the Secretary of State (which today is Marco Rubio) to designate any US citizen a “terrorist supporter” based on their online speech, and deny them a passport.<br/><br/>First of all, a passport should be a *right* to any US citizen and a *service* provided by the US government. Refusing to issue a passport is essentially the equivalent of confiscating one’s passport—something that is already illegal to do.<br/><br/>Second, the First Amendment prohibits the government from creating laws that constrain people’s right to speech and opinion, something that Republicans have seemingly never understood. For a government agency to deny service to a citizen based on their speech is clearly unconstitutional.<br/><br/>#kakistocracy<br/><br/>“NEW BILL WOULD GIVE MARCO RUBIO “THOUGHT POLICE” POWER TO REVOKE U.S. PASSPORTS”<br/><br/><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/">https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/</a><br/><br/>Unpaywalled: <a href="https://removepaywalls.com/https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/">https://removepaywalls.com/https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/</a> 2025-09-14T04:19:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf5nqjqgrqelrcplr2rc6v2h7gwgcuphq46zj56eapupttj2dfvsqzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqny490u Good job, Kaiser!<br/><br/>“Kaiser says no limits on COVID vaccine for its patients”<br/><br/>#healthcare #Covid #KaiserPermanente #sfba <br/><br/><a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/kaiser-covid-vaccine/3946558/">https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/kaiser-covid-vaccine/3946558/</a> 2025-09-14T04:10:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2r0cvmkffdrf2rqjfm55s4tm0fzesc5hc44mcguxkgdgz2kjpzagzypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyql3qucz Reposted with alt text<br/><br/>#flexibleWork #remoteWork #ReturnToOffice <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mklopez/115187361052628583">https://mastodon.social/@mklopez/115187361052628583</a><br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/187/372/180/853/025/original/4e22a3ed6822bdfb.png"> <br/> 2025-09-11T19:43:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyff7nvhja5lhpp6ep8tg46600687yk8vey7rlc2l2y003ge7ch7czypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyq3r98wk The Koreans are leaving, not just from the LG plant that was raided but from other LG plants.<br/><br/>#kakistocracy #fuckICE <br/><br/>“Trump offered to let detained Korean workers stay in US, but almost all heading home” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/trump-offered-let-detained-korean-workers-stay-us-almost-all-heading-home-2025-09-11/">https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/trump-offered-let-detained-korean-workers-stay-us-almost-all-heading-home-2025-09-11/</a> 2025-09-11T17:14:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq6w8mcx3c8aysds27wznh3ux540h7ryylhlmc766jy68gvyr3n2szypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqv29vfj #Banksy is a genius. The more the government paints over the mural depicting a protester being brutally silenced by a judge, the more poignant its message becomes.<br/><br/>Absolute artistic masterpiece.<br/><br/>PS: This art piece was painted on the side of a courthouse in London.<br/><br/>#art #censorship #protest #freedomOfSpeech<br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/183/310/160/210/733/original/6d479f954c5eb725.jpeg"> <br/> <img src="https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/183/310/187/627/268/original/ff0f5374ff9836cc.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-09-11T02:30:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp3d2pvuqqhm3t2a2f0gdztdpej9f7y4xrsmqe3apu6m84d55tcxszypa6v9upuhmxstmg0v7ya54xs452na93ege3esw9t7vyn9asdkfyqm35xzy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdhednqaeuwgn78rls6jxz0kp4kqesxtc6pcjhs4gj7jfyd2j5wys0ad4rk'>nevent1q…d4rk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Charlie Kirk says you don’t need to feel people’s pain.<br/><br/>“I can’t stand the word empathy actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/podcasts/charlie-kirk-calls-empathy-a-new-age-term-that-does-a-lot-of-damage/">https://www.mediaite.com/media/podcasts/charlie-kirk-calls-empathy-a-new-age-term-that-does-a-lot-of-damage/</a> 2025-09-10T23:59:43Z