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@chrispps.bsky.social
midwest academic / inveterate fan of The Fall / cat enthusiast / boring social democrat / photographer
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Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
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They take away our freedom
In the name of liberty
Why can't they all just clear off
Why can't they let us be
They make us feel indebted
For saving us from hell
And then they put us through it
It's time the bastards fell
In the name of liberty
Why can't they all just clear off
Why can't they let us be
They make us feel indebted
For saving us from hell
And then they put us through it
It's time the bastards fell
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Trump’s reality check on Venezuela oil:
He rolled out the red carpet for Big Oil at the White House, bragged about reviving Venezuela’s oil and pushing for $100 billion in U.S. investment.
Exxon’s chief flat-out called Venezuela “uninvestable” without massive legal and commercial changes.
He rolled out the red carpet for Big Oil at the White House, bragged about reviving Venezuela’s oil and pushing for $100 billion in U.S. investment.
Exxon’s chief flat-out called Venezuela “uninvestable” without massive legal and commercial changes.
January 10, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Trump’s reality check on Venezuela oil:
He rolled out the red carpet for Big Oil at the White House, bragged about reviving Venezuela’s oil and pushing for $100 billion in U.S. investment.
Exxon’s chief flat-out called Venezuela “uninvestable” without massive legal and commercial changes.
He rolled out the red carpet for Big Oil at the White House, bragged about reviving Venezuela’s oil and pushing for $100 billion in U.S. investment.
Exxon’s chief flat-out called Venezuela “uninvestable” without massive legal and commercial changes.
didn’t actually watch much of it because the second sentence or so she uttered was something like ‘HOT PEOPLE ONLY’ and I took that as a definitive cue for my ugly ass to peace out
just had some random vid of Sabrina Carpenter pop up on Facebook and I am like 95% sure she filmed it in the same place they used as Jackie Treehorn’s house in The Big Lebowski
January 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
didn’t actually watch much of it because the second sentence or so she uttered was something like ‘HOT PEOPLE ONLY’ and I took that as a definitive cue for my ugly ass to peace out
just had some random vid of Sabrina Carpenter pop up on Facebook and I am like 95% sure she filmed it in the same place they used as Jackie Treehorn’s house in The Big Lebowski
January 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
just had some random vid of Sabrina Carpenter pop up on Facebook and I am like 95% sure she filmed it in the same place they used as Jackie Treehorn’s house in The Big Lebowski
“Markets, bureaucracies, and machines are inventions designed to process information at speeds, in quantities, and with accuracies that surpass human capabilities…Bureaucracies have historically secured information by command, markets by seduction, and machine systems by simulation or scavenging.”
An excellent essay at Bloomberg by Walter Frick very clearly explaining our ideas about Large Models as a cultural and social technology
bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com/news/article...
Is AI More Like a Mind or a Market?
A group of scholars argue we should think of it as a “social technology” akin to a bureaucracy, a democracy or a marketplace.
bloomberg.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
“Markets, bureaucracies, and machines are inventions designed to process information at speeds, in quantities, and with accuracies that surpass human capabilities…Bureaucracies have historically secured information by command, markets by seduction, and machine systems by simulation or scavenging.”
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"Yeah, that's the thing. If you artificially cap borrowing rates, then you restrict the availability of credit. If you want to create a man-made recession, this is a good way to do it."
January 10, 2026 at 2:25 AM
"Yeah, that's the thing. If you artificially cap borrowing rates, then you restrict the availability of credit. If you want to create a man-made recession, this is a good way to do it."
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If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
January 10, 2026 at 1:34 AM
If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
the north will rise again
Ice is literally starting a ground war in winter in Minnesota. Fucking idiots 🫡
January 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
the north will rise again
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I reject those who worship death and all their works, and all their empty promises.
I reject those who worship death.
Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”
January 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I reject those who worship death and all their works, and all their empty promises.
can confirm from over in St Paul
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 AM
can confirm from over in St Paul
punk’s not dead
I’m outside of the Canopy by Hilton hotel, where protesters have gathered for a noise demonstration after learning DHS agents may be staying here.
January 10, 2026 at 1:55 AM
punk’s not dead
in being this obsequious to Trump, Machado has definitively confirmed her unfitness for a serious leadership position
This is sad on so many levels — about something that was intended to celebrate the best in people.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
in being this obsequious to Trump, Machado has definitively confirmed her unfitness for a serious leadership position
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“I don’t know how we recover from this,” said an administration official.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
“I don’t know how we recover from this,” said an administration official.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
(1) it is crucial that law enforcement officer receive the highest quality training; (2) selection, structural incentives, and institutional culture are far worse problems in this context
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: "We have an ICE agent who should have been trained not to be in front of a vehicle and never to shoot into a moving vehicle, and yet this happened on [Kristi Noem's] watch. The whole POINT of Homeland Security is to make this country more stable and safe."
January 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
(1) it is crucial that law enforcement officer receive the highest quality training; (2) selection, structural incentives, and institutional culture are far worse problems in this context
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the median ice agent has had to ask someone to help him get his hand out of a pringles can. twice.
they’re also scraping the bottom of the barrel on new recruits, borderline illiterate morons who are all wildly out of shape and who are far more likely to figure out ways of shirking work than they are actually showing up on the job
So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
January 10, 2026 at 12:44 AM
the median ice agent has had to ask someone to help him get his hand out of a pringles can. twice.
doing the wrocław wrumble
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
doing the wrocław wrumble
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As much as people say that Dems need to Fight Fire With Fire and do what the GOP do and all the rest of it: I am indescribably glad that the Democratic Party and liberals more broadly did *not* respond to something like Charlie Kirk’s murder the way the GOP have responded to this murder
January 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
As much as people say that Dems need to Fight Fire With Fire and do what the GOP do and all the rest of it: I am indescribably glad that the Democratic Party and liberals more broadly did *not* respond to something like Charlie Kirk’s murder the way the GOP have responded to this murder
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I mean congrats, fuckers, you just made the wine moms even angrier now that you’ve directly and specifically threatened their lives
January 10, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I mean congrats, fuckers, you just made the wine moms even angrier now that you’ve directly and specifically threatened their lives
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Lawlessness is bad for business
January 10, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Lawlessness is bad for business
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I have been as impressed by the normal people of this country as I have been disgusted by elite institutions and every bit of optimism I have that we are going to make it comes from that
It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
January 10, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I have been as impressed by the normal people of this country as I have been disgusted by elite institutions and every bit of optimism I have that we are going to make it comes from that
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Virginia Democrats are openly expressing willingness to pursue a congressional redistricting plan that would create 10 out of 11 Democratic-leaning seats in the state’s U.S. House delegation — a move that could have major implications for control of Congress in 2026.
Virginia Democrats signal push for congressional map that leaves just one GOP seat in bid to counter gerrymanders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Virginia Democrats are openly expressing willingness to pursue a congressional redistricting plan that would create 10 out of 11 Democratic-leaning seats in the state’s U.S. House delegation — a move that could have major implications for control of Congress in 2026.
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Breaking:
NEW YORK (AP) — Judge stops the Trump administration's freeze on child care and other social service funding for 5 states for now.
NEW YORK (AP) — Judge stops the Trump administration's freeze on child care and other social service funding for 5 states for now.
January 10, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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good
BREAKING: In a major win for voters, a federal court blocked key parts of Trump’s anti-voting executive order.
The judge ruled Trump had no authority to rewrite election rules, target mail-in ballots or force new barriers to voter registration.
The judge ruled Trump had no authority to rewrite election rules, target mail-in ballots or force new barriers to voter registration.
Federal court blocks key parts of Trump’s anti-voting order, restores states’ control over elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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the administration has decided that there are better perverse content-creation opportunities at the other end of the Mississippi
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.
www.mprnews.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:17 AM
the administration has decided that there are better perverse content-creation opportunities at the other end of the Mississippi
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Heritage Foundation say they are against pornography and want to end it but you just know they’re rubbing one out to those videos.
January 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Heritage Foundation say they are against pornography and want to end it but you just know they’re rubbing one out to those videos.