Jack Troughton
@partialtomusic.bsky.social
Unix and guitars. And humanism. Unix and guitars and humanism.
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Taste a refreshing Canada Drive - YouTube
A collection of time lapse videos of my drive up north, out west, and back again.
youtube.com
Im making a playlist on YouTube for the timelapses of the cross-Canada trip I’m taking. I’m going to pin this post for the time being as I continue to add them over time. The playlist is at youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I'm sure it's no coincidence that the venn diagram of these people and eugenicists is at best slightly oval.
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I'm sure it's no coincidence that the venn diagram of these people and eugenicists is at best slightly oval.
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love to see we’re still ignoring laws passed by Congress like they’re just suggestions, now lemme fire off an email to my tax guy
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
love to see we’re still ignoring laws passed by Congress like they’re just suggestions, now lemme fire off an email to my tax guy
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Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people
December 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people
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"You collectively fucking hate this thing. But what if we told you just one more time, without any new arguments, that you should actually like it?"
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"You collectively fucking hate this thing. But what if we told you just one more time, without any new arguments, that you should actually like it?"
Something something rats and foundering vessels.
BREAKING MS NOW:
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has quietly told confidants he plans to formally leave his job early in the new year and will not be returning to headquarters to work this month, according to eight people briefed on his account. www.ms.now/news/bongino...
FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on
Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW.
www.ms.now
December 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Something something rats and foundering vessels.
Hey now, Mr. Ladd, this is exactly the level of incisive analysis I've come to expect from someone with a sinecure at the New York Times.
December 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Hey now, Mr. Ladd, this is exactly the level of incisive analysis I've come to expect from someone with a sinecure at the New York Times.
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We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Somehow the idea that the people booking the talking heads on this aren't actually interested in illuminating what's happening is not exactly coming as a gigantic shock to me.
I went from being asked to be on 3 shows to talk about Trump v. BBC to being asked to be on no shows so I assume they looked me up or something
UK media: what’s the etiquette for talking to more than one media outlet about the same subject? OK or considered uncouth to the first one that asked?
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Somehow the idea that the people booking the talking heads on this aren't actually interested in illuminating what's happening is not exactly coming as a gigantic shock to me.
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
More from the “regular sessions of compliment bukkake” file wrt Trump’s cabinet.
Hilarious. The WH had all the Cabinet members simultaneously put out statements supporting Susie Wiles after the Vanity Fair article came out.
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
More from the “regular sessions of compliment bukkake” file wrt Trump’s cabinet.
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ISIS and Hamas are ideological enemies. Of course, 98% of people in this country do not know anything about this.
December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
ISIS and Hamas are ideological enemies. Of course, 98% of people in this country do not know anything about this.
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when you read this it is very clear that Wiles thinks she is flexing the administration's muscle. relatedly, it is also very clear that the White House is completely delusional about its standing with the public. they are high on their own supply.
Trump’s Inner Circle, On the Record (Part 2 of 2)
Susie Wiles discusses the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s war tactics, and “retribution” against Letitia James.
www.vanityfair.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
when you read this it is very clear that Wiles thinks she is flexing the administration's muscle. relatedly, it is also very clear that the White House is completely delusional about its standing with the public. they are high on their own supply.
Republican America: "Your papers, please." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq52...
December 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Republican America: "Your papers, please." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq52...
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the American Lettered.
The Meritocrats!
The Meritocrats!
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the American Lettered.
The Meritocrats!
The Meritocrats!
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A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard
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I like how we still think these things are “hidden” instead of “normalized”.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/u...?
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/u...?
Inside the White supremacist compound hiding in plain sight | CNN
Patriot Front, a White supremacist group, has been quietly building a 124-acre compound in the mountains of east Tennessee, where they train members and host fight clubs.
www.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I like how we still think these things are “hidden” instead of “normalized”.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/u...?
www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/u...?
This shit right here is why I took my TV off the internet.
I'd tag LG in this but apparently they're not on this platform. LG, you should not do this, it's not going to work to your advantage.
I'd tag LG in this but apparently they're not on this platform. LG, you should not do this, it's not going to work to your advantage.
I mean what's the value of this placement? I assume everyone tried their best to make sure no actual money was exchanged and it was all in-kind.
www.pcmag.com/news/lg-quie...
www.pcmag.com/news/lg-quie...
LG Quietly Installs Microsoft Copilot on Its Smart TVs—And You Can't Delete It
LG TV owners are not happy about the AI app showing up unannounced, becoming a permanent fixture on their homescreen.
www.pcmag.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This shit right here is why I took my TV off the internet.
I'd tag LG in this but apparently they're not on this platform. LG, you should not do this, it's not going to work to your advantage.
I'd tag LG in this but apparently they're not on this platform. LG, you should not do this, it's not going to work to your advantage.
Oh, once again Google Search is actually much smarter than Google Gemini. The search was able to figure out exactly who I was looking for while the AI was dissembling.
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Oh, once again Google Search is actually much smarter than Google Gemini. The search was able to figure out exactly who I was looking for while the AI was dissembling.
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And apparently going to the bathroom at a restaurant is not a “normal social situation” but something the law should interfere with ey
Mary-Ann Stephenson refused to say trans women are women, but insisted she would avoid misgendering people “in normal social situations”.
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
And apparently going to the bathroom at a restaurant is not a “normal social situation” but something the law should interfere with ey
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The president of the United States has decreed that the country’s most important cable news station must be sold to a conservative. Here’s why my US-based free speech organization will spend the next few years focusing on AI regulations and free speech in Europe.
December 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The president of the United States has decreed that the country’s most important cable news station must be sold to a conservative. Here’s why my US-based free speech organization will spend the next few years focusing on AI regulations and free speech in Europe.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
Read the whole etc.
If you've ever wondered why tech bros keep trying to cram things down your throat that nobody wants, nobody asked for, could never turn a profit and never actually work, frankly -- this is why.
A lot of people are making a lot of money from "failure". If they weren't, they wouldn't keep doing it.
A lot of people are making a lot of money from "failure". If they weren't, they wouldn't keep doing it.
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Read the whole etc.
MAGA biz ethics.
A for-profit education firm called Stride is opening a school inside a for-profit immigration prison run by CoreCivic. Stride has been accused of defrauding investors and providing substandard education to children.
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social spotted the job listings:
prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley.
prospect.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
MAGA biz ethics.
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the thing about the Free Press types is that when you push them on their actual ideology, it's NIMBYism
December 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
the thing about the Free Press types is that when you push them on their actual ideology, it's NIMBYism
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All of this, literally over one LGBTQ+ children's picture book. ONE. PICTURE. BOOK.
They dismantled the fucking public library for the whole county. They hate gay people this much.
If you have a library that functions, get in their inboxes or meetings now to tell them that they're great.
They dismantled the fucking public library for the whole county. They hate gay people this much.
If you have a library that functions, get in their inboxes or meetings now to tell them that they're great.
A library's entire board of trustees was fired and replaced because they refused to ban one of my books. It's so terrible. www.randolphhub.com/article/news...
Commissioners vote 3-2 to dismiss Library Board of Trustees
<p>How the Library Board voted to handle a controversial children's book led to a majority decision by commissioners to dismiss the whole board.</p>
www.randolphhub.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
All of this, literally over one LGBTQ+ children's picture book. ONE. PICTURE. BOOK.
They dismantled the fucking public library for the whole county. They hate gay people this much.
If you have a library that functions, get in their inboxes or meetings now to tell them that they're great.
They dismantled the fucking public library for the whole county. They hate gay people this much.
If you have a library that functions, get in their inboxes or meetings now to tell them that they're great.