jdtechie.bsky.social

I'm going to try to keep at least part of this account more light-hearted and fun instead of just another doom scroll, so here's a thread of sites and stuff I find interesting.

These really are people who watched a couple too many Sci-FI channel originals and now believe that super powered vending machines are going to "fight back" in some undefined and illogical way.

The fact these drones are inevitably going to pepper spray random students and staff and prove ineffective in an actual scenario will be lost on whichever backwards "security consultant" was able to fleece these districts. If only there was another way to make guns less of a threat at schools...

Just the worst people making the dumbest arguments.

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer

Rule of 3 could do the funniest thing right now.

I think the fact the modal Democratic voter is a woman of color drives a lot of people crazy because while they may profess to believe in equality and acceptance, they still want women to make a little less money and be a little more quiet than them.

A lot of them felt like guys who "support" women as long as she makes less than them and laughs at their pop culture references. He was basically a rich kid who said the R-word on Reddit and apparently that was aspirational to a lot of them.

GO! MY LABUBU MISSILE! KILL!

The SiriusXM logo on that clip is pretty damning as well; this isn't some two-bit Blaze Media-type podcast. This is a radio show on the major satellite radio company's airwaves spewing Stormfront-level hate.

I guess I sort of understand the performative intent behind this proposal but woof does it seem like an untenable situation in practice.

Trump gleefully joined in with Netanyahu and now this war being managed by the dumbest people you can find in this administration is on Israel's timeline and temperament.

Yeah, it's another step in the process but to call it a "deal" is deeply misleading and, more importantly, is absolutely going to blow up in Trump's face if/when talks breakdown or he gives up more.

I get he's not paid to have an ounce of shame but you'd think someone in their comms team would advise him to maybe not mention US precision aiming and Palantir in the same sentence.

Even if these claims are all universally exclusive to agriculture (they aren't, but go with me)...what's the alternative to effectively no larger-scale society? Sky-high infant mortality rates, shortened life spans and lower quality, and extreme degradation of technological advancements?

I wish more people would treat the faux moral scolds on Xwitter with this level of contempt.

The fact people like Stoller, Cenk Uyger, and Hasan Piker are all making excuses and minimizing Platner's behavior has done wonders to confirm my priors about them.

Every time I think Jacobin has produced its worst take possible they surprise me. This being both wrong on the merits AND the presentation is at least new.

Man, you couldn't make up a dumber timeline if you tried.

I have my issues with Jeffries but Dem leadership deserves a lot of credit for getting these concessions as a minority party.

I don't know if you can play to them because they aren't intellectually consistent enough to tie down. More important is Dems need to just pass as much stuff as they can when they have power and ride the inevitable downturns while telling SCOTUS to touch grass.

Bash is an absolute clown and has been carrying the water for the GOP for years now under the guise of "just asking questions".

Yeah, the number of media types I've seen even here claim that speculation about the event is wrong even as their colleagues are just blasting misinformation out there is infuriating.

The algorithm remains undefeated.

The 3% of self-identified Dems who approve of Trump's work need to be studied and, possibly, quarantined.

Yeah, it definitely looks and feels staged like a mid-level YouTube short. But the fact this is totally believable as an event now is rather telling.

Bret Stephens is an abomination as a writer and it's largely because he is both incredibly stupid AND incredibly insulting at equal turns.

This absolutely has Fetterman vibes all over it with Platner. I also suspect he won't actually be able to beat Collins if he wins the nomination.

Shockingly, civil engagement and fighting for your future is more productive than doomposting about it.

It'll absolutely work, followed by him joining some AI company as an "advisor" or "evangelist" and then when that craters he'll get another sympathetic Michael Lewis-type author to write about how it definitely wasn't his fault due to a lack of competent business acumen.

Using the rock climbing chalk feels very on-brand for Mendoza.

Yeah, Miami isn't going to win this game if they're giving away first downs on give-up runs.

Yeah, no idea what IU was doing letting that clock burn off.

Yeah, outside of the diehard MAGA people there is absolutely no way anyone is going to believe the story being pushed by ICE here. There's just so much damning evidence.

I try not to criticize Democratic leadership, but the required addition of affordability language to condemnations of Trump's military adventurism cheapens both.

Really good thread about how the shutdown ended. Dem leadership is suffering but they also have a chance, as a party, to push back forcefully against Trump and his admin if they readjust their view of him and the stakes.

This really is a great response for what is clearly a bad faith attack.

This is going to be the big headline. I get what Jackson is doing here, as it gives the first circuit an actual chance to rule instead of Trump immediately demanding SOCTUS chime in (in a normal situation SCOTUS would have turned him down anyway). It still sucks to see people go hungry.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Based on a lot of the responses to that post, I'm guessing those bits were going to be champed regardless.

The battle of the Nates when it comes to stupid political analysis has never been closer nor as heated.

The fact he's suing the DOJ for what is suspiciously close to the original price of his new ballroom shouldn't be overlooked in his overall crookedness. Trump should be in jail but since he isn't we also get to deal with the 2-bir grifting he's done his entire life.

Beyond the overall stupidity of Lovett acting like "please don't have a Nazi tattoo you weren't going to remove until people yelled at you" is some crazy high standard, I'd love to know what Platner's actual history in politics leads to Jon believing he'd be a good Senator?

Again, I'm old enough to very much remember how Romney was portrayed in 2012 and it was as an empty suit plutocrat. Santorum ran on a ton of culture war issues and got traction, but the legacy GOP was just able to win out with Romney. But combined with Sarah Palin you could see the turn coming.

Mayor Wu isn't remotely scared of this administration and it's funny to see this dullard try to act like he'd actually follow thru on these threats.