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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13h

thank you!

Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13h

I've consistently enjoyed and deployed sarcasm since I was like 7 but there are roles and situations that call for sincerity and earnestness, and we're destroying society by forgetting that. I'm sorry if sincerity & earnestness make you feel lame but you can hire people to be lame on your behalf.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13h

(this is true not only of this place but tech companies more broadly. and not just tech companies, but especially tech companies.)

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13h

3) lots of execs & programers seem to think "execs & programers interacting directly with users [when & how they feel like it]" shows they take users seriously. It does the opposite. Refusing to employ actual professional communicators to do this important work demonstrates *contempt* for users.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13h

one thing 10 minutes of trying to catch on up the mess has reinforced for me is that social media companies 1) should employ professional communicators, not just rely on execs Posting; 2) should recognize that "execs shitposting" and "building trust and understanding" are mutually exclusive

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14h

waffles?

wait, no, I definitely do not want to know about waffles

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

Editorial: We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot

Provocateurs on the right and left were the story of a chaotic weekend in Chicago. Our political leaders need to reclaim the narrative and cool things down.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14h

I've been largely offline for like a month for reasons too boring to mention. Who has a good primer on what I gather is Bluesky's slightly-sooner-than-expected heel turn?

seems like a good time to tap this sign, btw: bsky.app/profile/jami...

Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · Dec 13

I remain deeply apprehensive about a social media platform that doesn't make it easy for users to 1) download a user-friendly archive of their own content and 2) mass-delete their own content.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, couple of quick questions.

First, what year is it? Second, who was president in 2017?

Ken Vogel via Twitter:
https://x.com/kenvogel/status/1975654772620599691

NEW: In 2017, Hunter Biden pursued a deal to sell land around the US Embassy in Romania, & possibly the land on which the embassy sat, to a joint venture that included a Chinese government-linked company.

The venture, & the Chinese company, collapsed.

4:09 PM · Oct 7, 2025

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14h

that is quite a lot of cameras, and the most horrifying part is that the number of cameras is not the horrifying part

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

open.substack.com

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14h

but surely the courts will step in to ensure such corruption does not go unchecked

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14h

aside from the whole "that definitely isn't constitutional" part can anyone see any problems with Trump just transferring government revenue to whatever bank account he wants or nah?

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16h

wrongly smug is the worst kind of smug

Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17h

what an odd thing to refuse to answer bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17h

seems totally innocent

Bondi also refused to answer questions over DOJ's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, telling Durbin: "I'm not going to discuss
anything about that with you, senator."

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

our "stealing" division consumes more energy than all but three nations and has an annual budget of $7,280,000,000. our "oops, sorry, we'll put it back" division is a guy named Lenny. he works part time on nights and weekends, when he isn't at JV lacrosse practice.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

please bear with us we are just a small family-run general store. there are but three of us, and sister susie is out with the flu so we are stretched quite thin.

gabriel &
@GabrielPeterss4
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we are working hard on fixing unnecessary content violations on sora 2!!
bear with us, we are a small team!

gabriel &
@GabrielPeterss4
sora research at @OpenAl,

OpenAl generates $4.3 billion in revenue in first half of 2025,

OpenAl expects business to burn $115 billion through 2029,

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

That's a reason to not release the product, to not even make the product. If your lawyers advised it was okay to release the product, fire them. If you did not have lawyers to say this, fire the person who said you didn't need lawyers, hire some, then fire your whole team and pull the product.

gabriel &
@GabrielPeterss4
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we are working hard on fixing unnecessary content violations on sora 2!! bear with us, we are a small team!
2:09 PM • Oct 6, 2025 • 13.7K Views

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

IMO "access" has never been Jake's drug of choice; it has always been "fame"

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

I have so many questions but they all simplify to: What the fuck is this

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what a Weekend at Bernie's-type scenario might look like

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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Sarah Lipton-Lubet @liptonlubet.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to @joanesposito.bsky.social and @heartlandsignal.bsky.social for having me on to highlight the incredible damage the Roberts Court is doing and what we need to do to stop them.

Listen here: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, there's some stuff in there I think maybe I kind of knew a loooong time ago -- and some stuff I probably did not -- but it was a really interesting refresher.

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