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.
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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...
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Land of the free baby
Its an excellent week to sign up to speak at the Houston Independent Schoolboard (of Managers) meeting.
Abbott is threatening other districts with takeover (like us) if their students protest ICE. HISD is threatening students with suspensions etc for walking out to protest ice. Sign up by Wed @ 12!
Abbott is threatening other districts with takeover (like us) if their students protest ICE. HISD is threatening students with suspensions etc for walking out to protest ice. Sign up by Wed @ 12!
February 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Land of the free baby
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We should really refuse to use the sanitized term “detention camps.”
These are concentration camps, and if allowed to continue, they will soon be death camps.
These are concentration camps, and if allowed to continue, they will soon be death camps.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM
We should really refuse to use the sanitized term “detention camps.”
These are concentration camps, and if allowed to continue, they will soon be death camps.
These are concentration camps, and if allowed to continue, they will soon be death camps.
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It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.
February 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.
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Ahem
February 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Ahem
Turns out that bigotry is expensive.
Who knew?
Who knew?
What a disgrace.
ICE may have handed a suspect in the largest jewelry heist in American history a free pass by deporting him before he ever faced trial.
This is the result of Stephen Miller’s chaos. Reckless mismanagement that undermines public safety and makes a mockery of the justice system.
ICE may have handed a suspect in the largest jewelry heist in American history a free pass by deporting him before he ever faced trial.
This is the result of Stephen Miller’s chaos. Reckless mismanagement that undermines public safety and makes a mockery of the justice system.
Prosecutors stunned as ICE lets suspect in $100m jewelry heist leave US
Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores, charged with stalking armored truck in 2022, allowed to self-deport to South America
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Turns out that bigotry is expensive.
Who knew?
Who knew?
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Why is the scaredest and most innocent teen in the entire world flanked by not one but two HSI people too embarrassed to show their faces?
January 29, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Why is the scaredest and most innocent teen in the entire world flanked by not one but two HSI people too embarrassed to show their faces?
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
This is an extremely bad sign for the medium term prospects for the United States.
MAGA-aligned military commanders are pressuring enlisted service members to go to the Melania movie and bring their families. Troops at 8 different bases have complained. www.businessinsider.com/us-military-...
February 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
This is an extremely bad sign for the medium term prospects for the United States.
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The Olympics are a trash heap.
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 7, 2026 at 12:49 AM
The Olympics are a trash heap.
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He's disabled. They're going to murder him because he's disabled.
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
He's disabled. They're going to murder him because he's disabled.
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worst since…2009
It's Trump's economy now:
Layoffs hit their worst January levels since 2009, Challenger says
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/l...
Layoffs hit their worst January levels since 2009, Challenger says
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/l...
Layoffs hit their worst January levels since 2009, Challenger says
With the recent narrative centering on a no-hire no-fire labor market, the data suggests that the layoff part of the equation could be stepping up.
www.cnbc.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:14 PM
worst since…2009
Read the whole etc.
Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:
1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
February 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Read the whole etc.
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A revealing facet of all these Epstein emails is just how illiterate many rich people are, they write like morons.
January 31, 2026 at 10:57 PM
A revealing facet of all these Epstein emails is just how illiterate many rich people are, they write like morons.
Ladies and gentlemen may I present the American “paper of record.”
Have no fear, New York Times is ON IT.
February 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Ladies and gentlemen may I present the American “paper of record.”
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Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make.
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
www.404media.co
February 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make.
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
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probably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"
@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator
www.forever-wars.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
probably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"
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Again they took away your incredibly meager healthcare and gave your money to the child-snatching squad
Top Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Negotiators Say Talks to Restore ACA Subsidies Likely Dead
New, higher health-insurance bills are kicking in for many households.
www.wsj.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Again they took away your incredibly meager healthcare and gave your money to the child-snatching squad
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Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult
February 4, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult
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"we have built our industry in one of the bluest states in the nation and then explicitly allied ourselves with a fascist regime that targets that state"
*there is a massive backlash*
*surprisedpikachu dot jpg*
*there is a massive backlash*
*surprisedpikachu dot jpg*
I could be wrong but I tend to think the more than tech billionaires pour into measures to ward off attempts to tax them, the more likely those measures are to pass. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
‘Woke up the sleeping giant’: Tech goes hard on California politics
Tech donors are spending unprecedented sums to win ballot measure fights, place allies in the state Legislature and ensure Gov. Gavin Newsom is succeeded by another industry ally.
www.politico.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM
"we have built our industry in one of the bluest states in the nation and then explicitly allied ourselves with a fascist regime that targets that state"
*there is a massive backlash*
*surprisedpikachu dot jpg*
*there is a massive backlash*
*surprisedpikachu dot jpg*
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For the evening crowd.
New post: Mark Carney must flatly reject Danielle Smith's latest round of anti-constitutional posturing emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/mark-carne...
Mark Carney must flatly reject Danielle Smith's latest round of anti-constitutional posturing
Danielle Smith has threatened to withhold provincial funding for new judicial appointments unless the province gets more of a say in selecting judges.
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM
For the evening crowd.
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When I thought the Epstein scandal was just going to hurt libs like Bill Clinton I thought it was the biggest scandal ever. But now that people I like are getting caught up in it, I think it’s a big nothing burger, and that everyone who’s promoting it should be ashamed.
February 4, 2026 at 11:41 PM
When I thought the Epstein scandal was just going to hurt libs like Bill Clinton I thought it was the biggest scandal ever. But now that people I like are getting caught up in it, I think it’s a big nothing burger, and that everyone who’s promoting it should be ashamed.
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”Provocative” is like “intellectual.” If other people use it to describe you, maybe you are. If you use it to describe yourself, you’re more likely just an asshole.
February 4, 2026 at 7:36 PM
”Provocative” is like “intellectual.” If other people use it to describe you, maybe you are. If you use it to describe yourself, you’re more likely just an asshole.
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The fucking Carney government **USED AI** TO READ THROUGH SUBMISSIONS TO ITS PUBLIC AI CONSULTATIONS.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/02/aico...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/02/aico...
What the Government Isn’t Saying About the Results of its AI Consultation - Michael Geist
The government quietly released a “what we heard” report this week discussing the response to its 30-day sprint AI consultation from last October. Described as the “largest public consultation in the ...
www.michaelgeist.ca
February 4, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The fucking Carney government **USED AI** TO READ THROUGH SUBMISSIONS TO ITS PUBLIC AI CONSULTATIONS.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/02/aico...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/02/aico...