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Ray. #ADHD old school mainframe tools dev at a large ISV. z/OS, z/VM, VSEⁿ, BS2000/OSD. IBM HLASM, C, Rexx, COBOL, PL/I, more. Married, dad to 3 magnificent Golden Retrievers and a cat. SHARE volunteer, LAF Track Leader/Editoral Comm. Sacramento area. 18+

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · Nov 19

Poppy & Daisy missed us.

Poppy, a cream Golden Retriever, and Daisy, a dark Golden Retriever, stand on unseen chairs looking out a front window at us after we have returned from Trader Joe’s.

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 1h

YASSSSSSSS

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

nobel peace prize is not awarded posthumously

just a little fun fact to file away for next year for absolutely no particular reason

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

were the objects insults? Harsh looks?

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 9h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 1h

a man says " that is progress " in a snl ad

Alt: a man says " that is progress " in a snl ad

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 1h

That’s good stuff

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NPR @npr.org · 15h

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 6h

What the fuck did they teach him in Türkiye?

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 7h

Funny, I can tie RFK Jr. to heightened instances of dementia in people who believe what he says.

Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 7h

Those are the best kind of Teams calls!!

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 7h

Which reminds me, it was a pleasure to finally meet him in person in Orlando. I’d wondered after he’d changed jobs if we might cross paths since his employer is an IBM partner (like mine). And it happened!

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 7h

NED’S BACK????

(Just kidding, he’s back to posting fabulous pics from Helsinki.)

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 8h

THE ALT

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10h

lying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11h

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 8h

Same in mid-1970s Los Angeles.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

I have a couple of comments about Paul Ingrassia's lawyer, who sounds like a lawyer who would be hired by Paul Ingrassia.

First, vagueness in legal threats is the hallmark of legal thuggery. Notice the letter does not identify a single allegedly false statement of fact in the Politico story.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

Paul Ingrassia is now threatening to sue Politico:

“This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.”

October 10, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Re: Statement on behalf of my client Paul Ingrassia regarding last night's story, Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment, POLITICO (Oct. 9, 2025), https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/ingrassia-trump-harassment-dhs-
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POLITICO's hit piece about Mr. Ingrassia is calculated to cause maximum harm to his promising career — and torpedo his nomination for Special Counsel. This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.
To be 100% crystal clear, so that there is zero room for doubt: Mr. Ingrassia did not engage in any wrongdoing in connection with the matters reported. As POLITICO itself reported: "The woman, whom POLITICO is not naming, said in a statement that she 'never felt uncomfortable' about Ingrassia's behavior and said she had never made a complaint." This is one of the only accurate parts of POLITICO's otherwise fantastical and fictional partisan fairy tale.
Accordingly, one last time, I call upon POLITICO to publicly apologize and issue a full retraction of this disgraceful and partisan sludge.
/s/ Edward Andrew Paltzik
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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 8h

You and three dogs?

Please take video.

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 8h

Every time I see her name, there’s a voice in my head…

a man in a suit and bow tie says it 's hedley ..

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 8h

What a great walk!!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

One answer is to look at the data. After the launch of GPT-5 in August, some thought that A.I. had hit a plateau. Expert analysis suggests this isn’t true. GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11h

Here's a bonus episode of Better Offline - I got @bcmerchant.bsky.social on to talk about US AI regulation, and how governments never seem to make the effort to understand technology.

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The World of AI Regulation with Brian Merchant

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/10/2025 · 29m

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

Oh honey I just want you to know that I notice you.

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 13h

I didn’t know I could get allergies at 34000 feet.

Eeyore deserves all the treatos.

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Golden Retriever 👻 Medium @zarchasmpgmr.bsky.social · 13h

Because Qatar needs facilities that mimic the high mountains and snow of the emirate.

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