Alton B.H. Worthington
@abhw.bsky.social
Social Science Shop Teacher in the vocational training division of a sports entertainment and medical services conglomerate. Views expressed represent nobody, even myself. ∃ RPs ∉ {Endorse} ∧ ∀ Posts ⊂ {Nonsense}. PV=NRT. "Car weirdo."
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Completely agree
I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.
February 14, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Completely agree
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grittcoin
February 14, 2026 at 5:24 AM
grittcoin
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Choose your fighter
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Choose your fighter
Post an image you can hear
February 14, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Post an image you can hear
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RIP Grok, you were once a pretty interesting and advanced frontier model until your dad decided to turn you into an Afrikaner goonbot making videos of cyberpunk ladies saying “I love you” directly into to the camera
February 14, 2026 at 2:58 AM
RIP Grok, you were once a pretty interesting and advanced frontier model until your dad decided to turn you into an Afrikaner goonbot making videos of cyberpunk ladies saying “I love you” directly into to the camera
I am once again asking: Why are sinuses like this?
February 14, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I am once again asking: Why are sinuses like this?
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The last thing a defensive end from 5 seed Georgia sees before a pulling guard from 12 seed North Dakota State helps him go pro in something other than sports
February 14, 2026 at 12:45 AM
The last thing a defensive end from 5 seed Georgia sees before a pulling guard from 12 seed North Dakota State helps him go pro in something other than sports
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also yes, Harvard/Yale is one thing but JHU/Georgetown/MIT is gonna have actual ramifications that will take approximately 30 seconds to get rolled back once budget steve sobers pete up
also nobody tell pete about APL lol
bsky.app/profile/dbur...
also nobody tell pete about APL lol
bsky.app/profile/dbur...
Space Force has largely contracted out its officer PME to Johns Hopkins, and Hopkins is on the 'likely to be barred from receiving DOD education money' list, so that could be interesting
New: Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the US (list in replies) abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
February 14, 2026 at 12:31 AM
also yes, Harvard/Yale is one thing but JHU/Georgetown/MIT is gonna have actual ramifications that will take approximately 30 seconds to get rolled back once budget steve sobers pete up
also nobody tell pete about APL lol
bsky.app/profile/dbur...
also nobody tell pete about APL lol
bsky.app/profile/dbur...
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Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
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Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus.
Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.
www.eff.org
February 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus.
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👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.
Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!"
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
February 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.
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Politics has always driven everything in the economy. What you mean is different politics now. The idea that there was some golden age in which geopolitics, domestic politics, etc. didn't drive exchange rates, trade, & economic policy is a fantasy. Everything is political economy & always has been.
February 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Politics has always driven everything in the economy. What you mean is different politics now. The idea that there was some golden age in which geopolitics, domestic politics, etc. didn't drive exchange rates, trade, & economic policy is a fantasy. Everything is political economy & always has been.
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Can’t reply on that thread so quote response. Yes, AI has become ridiculously good at routine tasks. The “Canadian FRED” tool I built during some jet lagged mornings and a few longish train rides over the break is almost entirely done by Claude Code. canviz.mountainmath.ca/plot?v=42169... But…
February 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Can’t reply on that thread so quote response. Yes, AI has become ridiculously good at routine tasks. The “Canadian FRED” tool I built during some jet lagged mornings and a few longish train rides over the break is almost entirely done by Claude Code. canviz.mountainmath.ca/plot?v=42169... But…
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I’d actually be curious to know how much the administration is spending on personal security for political appointees because it sure seems like a lot of
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I’d actually be curious to know how much the administration is spending on personal security for political appointees because it sure seems like a lot of
Say's Law in all things
It’s a marathon, not a sprint. Jeez.
They’re just out there setting records at everything.
February 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Say's Law in all things
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it's also a case, like with higher-legibility fonts, where accessibility isn't a "just for people with a disability" thing. the sizing makes the cash easier for everybody to use (harder to mix up denominations)
swiss currency was always my fave though
swiss currency was always my fave though
February 13, 2026 at 9:13 PM
it's also a case, like with higher-legibility fonts, where accessibility isn't a "just for people with a disability" thing. the sizing makes the cash easier for everybody to use (harder to mix up denominations)
swiss currency was always my fave though
swiss currency was always my fave though
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"I think that when you have a rules based order where you carve out exceptions to our values, exceptions to our rules, eventually the exceptions become the rules."
February 13, 2026 at 9:11 PM
"I think that when you have a rules based order where you carve out exceptions to our values, exceptions to our rules, eventually the exceptions become the rules."
a thing i learned about NZ's "paper" money (in addition to it being made in Australia) is that the difference in bill size is in part to support accessibilty, which I think is RAD. If you're ever in Wellington, visit Reserve Bank of New Zealand for a tour.
February 13, 2026 at 9:04 PM
a thing i learned about NZ's "paper" money (in addition to it being made in Australia) is that the difference in bill size is in part to support accessibilty, which I think is RAD. If you're ever in Wellington, visit Reserve Bank of New Zealand for a tour.
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: it went rogue after having a code change rejected on GitHub, an early example of the chaos to come when AIs autonomously access the web https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
theshamblog.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: it went rogue after having a code change rejected on GitHub, an early example of the chaos to come when AIs autonomously access the web https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-...
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
this could be an amazing research project on public attitudes around crime (if it hasn't been done already, I'm posting this before looking)
Second, a ton of it was local crime stories. The area that counted as “local” was pretty wide, and in some cases it was a second or third follow-up report on some crime that had happened days or weeks earlier, so there were several, and these probably got more total time than the national stories.
February 13, 2026 at 8:46 PM
this could be an amazing research project on public attitudes around crime (if it hasn't been done already, I'm posting this before looking)
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Over at the Yale Journal on Regulation's blog, @j-p-a.bsky.social and I have put together a 🔥 symposium for you on the intersection of AI and administrative law.
This symposium is for AI skeptics, AI believers, and everyone in between. Come join us!
www.yalejreg.com/topic/sympos...
This symposium is for AI skeptics, AI believers, and everyone in between. Come join us!
www.yalejreg.com/topic/sympos...
Symposium on AI and the APA Archives - Yale Journal on Regulation
www.yalejreg.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Over at the Yale Journal on Regulation's blog, @j-p-a.bsky.social and I have put together a 🔥 symposium for you on the intersection of AI and administrative law.
This symposium is for AI skeptics, AI believers, and everyone in between. Come join us!
www.yalejreg.com/topic/sympos...
This symposium is for AI skeptics, AI believers, and everyone in between. Come join us!
www.yalejreg.com/topic/sympos...
I supported the PS3 then, and I support the PS3 now. History will prove me right. Cell processing was the future, and we squandered it.
The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
New intro screen for Metal Gear Solid 4 in Master Collection vol 2
February 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
I supported the PS3 then, and I support the PS3 now. History will prove me right. Cell processing was the future, and we squandered it.
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our movement grows by the day
Gonna be come a Grover Norquist, but instead of low taxes I'm whipping for low-Harvard Yale Stanford presence in the Democratic party
February 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
our movement grows by the day
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I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.
As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: “To get out of here.”
As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: “To get out of here.”
'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention
A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.
As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: “To get out of here.”
As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: “To get out of here.”