Jim Sweetman
@jsweetman.bsky.social
Semi-retired tech and telecom policy geek. EV enthusiast and Philly sports fan.
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Trump DOJ Can’t Score ICE Protest Convictions Because Federal Officers Keep Lying
This remains one of the most unintentionally funny things the Trump administration has ever done. Of course, this regime isn't known for its sense of humor, so anything generating a laugh exists despite the regime,…
This remains one of the most unintentionally funny things the Trump administration has ever done. Of course, this regime isn't known for its sense of humor, so anything generating a laugh exists despite the regime,…
Trump DOJ Can’t Score ICE Protest Convictions Because Federal Officers Keep Lying
This remains one of the most unintentionally funny things the Trump administration has ever done. Of course, this regime isn't known for its sense of humor, so anything generating a laugh exists despite the regime, rather than because of it. But laugh we will! Trump is throwing billions at ICE, hoping a whole bunch of money will finally allow it to arrest 3,000 migrants per day and…
www.techdirt.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trump DOJ Can’t Score ICE Protest Convictions Because Federal Officers Keep Lying
This remains one of the most unintentionally funny things the Trump administration has ever done. Of course, this regime isn't known for its sense of humor, so anything generating a laugh exists despite the regime,…
This remains one of the most unintentionally funny things the Trump administration has ever done. Of course, this regime isn't known for its sense of humor, so anything generating a laugh exists despite the regime,…
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Whoa. So... it apparently when a user asks Grok something it's "customizing" by comparing the user's own post history AND ELON MUSK's (though it keeps that part quiet).
July 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Whoa. So... it apparently when a user asks Grok something it's "customizing" by comparing the user's own post history AND ELON MUSK's (though it keeps that part quiet).
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After Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the historian Henry Louis Gates and his team traced the pope’s ancestry back 500 years. They discovered a complex family tree that includes noblemen, enslaved people, slaveholders, and freedom fighters. Take a look. https://trib.al/49aE3qc
June 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
After Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the historian Henry Louis Gates and his team traced the pope’s ancestry back 500 years. They discovered a complex family tree that includes noblemen, enslaved people, slaveholders, and freedom fighters. Take a look. https://trib.al/49aE3qc
He's divorced and the subject to on-and-off rumors of affairs. What kind of advice was she looking for?
www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...
www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...
Michelle Obama admits she looks to Bruce Springsteen for marriage advice
Michelle Obama has opened up about who she looks to for advice when it comes to her marriage.
www.irishstar.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
He's divorced and the subject to on-and-off rumors of affairs. What kind of advice was she looking for?
www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...
www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...
That's along way to go for Rita's
phys.org/news/2025-05...
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Water ice detected in a debris disk around young nearby star
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have detected water ice in a debris disk around HD 181327—a young star located within 160 lig...
phys.org
May 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
That's along way to go for Rita's
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I'm an American person and I claim dibs.
WELKER: What do you say to some Republicans who say the Qatari jet sends a message that the US can be bought, or that other countries can curry favor if they offer gifts?
BESSENT: I say that the gifts are to the American people
BESSENT: I say that the gifts are to the American people
May 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'm an American person and I claim dibs.
Just did a quick down and back to Atlanta. On both flights, the guy in front of me and across the aisle was watching "Andor." (different guys, btw)
May 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just did a quick down and back to Atlanta. On both flights, the guy in front of me and across the aisle was watching "Andor." (different guys, btw)
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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
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My son just pointed out to me that His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, as a Villanova graduate, may well be the first supreme pontiff who has been to a Wawa
May 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
My son just pointed out to me that His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, as a Villanova graduate, may well be the first supreme pontiff who has been to a Wawa
@thinkingpoker.bsky.social If you always reg late, when do you get to the cookie level?
April 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
@thinkingpoker.bsky.social If you always reg late, when do you get to the cookie level?
The Founders were counting on competing ambitions to keep the system they designed working
i have no doubt that senator van hollen was genuinely concerned for the safety and welfare of abrego garcia BUT ALSO this is what i'm talking about when i say POLITICAL AMBITION. van hollen may well make himself a household name and nationally recognized political figure with this move
April 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The Founders were counting on competing ambitions to keep the system they designed working
and what crap they evidently read
I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be
April 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
and what crap they evidently read
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A little housekeeping note: on Bluesky, likes are lovely, but (unlike Twitter) they don't influence what other people see. If you like a post, please consider reposting it or quoting it and adding your own thoughts. That's what gets it in front of more people
April 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A little housekeeping note: on Bluesky, likes are lovely, but (unlike Twitter) they don't influence what other people see. If you like a post, please consider reposting it or quoting it and adding your own thoughts. That's what gets it in front of more people
There are affordable bank/credit union accounts for people with low balances. The young people Mark is talking about never hear about them because they only listen to grifters who sell an easy way out of every problem.
Young men don't open bank accounts. They are too expensive. They download coin base or Robinhood app and buy crypto. That's their savings
If one party pushes that number higher. They vote for em. Gensler/Biden caused those savings to go down. The demo with the biggest change was young men
If one party pushes that number higher. They vote for em. Gensler/Biden caused those savings to go down. The demo with the biggest change was young men
This is legit the dumbest thing I've ever seen him say
March 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There are affordable bank/credit union accounts for people with low balances. The young people Mark is talking about never hear about them because they only listen to grifters who sell an easy way out of every problem.
I would give Chuck a pass for reading Uncle Remus is he takes another look at B'rer Rabbit.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk want a shutdown to destroy vital government services faster.
It would be a disaster.
And we have to alert everyone how much pain it would cause the American people.
From my interview on @allinwithchris.bsky.social:
It would be a disaster.
And we have to alert everyone how much pain it would cause the American people.
From my interview on @allinwithchris.bsky.social:
March 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I would give Chuck a pass for reading Uncle Remus is he takes another look at B'rer Rabbit.
"No one loves my wife more than I do" says man praising bully harassing his wife
With Wayne Gretzky maintaining a public silence so far about criticism from fellow Canadians upset over his support for President Trump, his wife Janet Gretzky wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post, “I have never met anyone who is more Proud to be a Canadian.”
Wayne Gretzky’s wife says criticism in Canada has ‘broken his heart’
President Trump and Bobby Orr have also come to the public defense of Gretzky, whose support for Trump and appearance at a Canada-U.S. game upset some of his countrymen.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"No one loves my wife more than I do" says man praising bully harassing his wife
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With Wayne Gretzky maintaining a public silence so far about criticism from fellow Canadians upset over his support for President Trump, his wife Janet Gretzky wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post, “I have never met anyone who is more Proud to be a Canadian.”
Wayne Gretzky’s wife says criticism in Canada has ‘broken his heart’
President Trump and Bobby Orr have also come to the public defense of Gretzky, whose support for Trump and appearance at a Canada-U.S. game upset some of his countrymen.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
With Wayne Gretzky maintaining a public silence so far about criticism from fellow Canadians upset over his support for President Trump, his wife Janet Gretzky wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post, “I have never met anyone who is more Proud to be a Canadian.”
Actually, there is an easy answer if they had bothered to ask. It's even a website: usaspending.gov
February 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Actually, there is an easy answer if they had bothered to ask. It's even a website: usaspending.gov
Quoted in Krugman's Substack: "I 100% believe that the primary barrier to Elon Musk gaining control of the Treasury payments system is COBOL."
I might not have gone as high as 100%, but agree it's highly likely.
I might not have gone as high as 100%, but agree it's highly likely.
February 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Quoted in Krugman's Substack: "I 100% believe that the primary barrier to Elon Musk gaining control of the Treasury payments system is COBOL."
I might not have gone as high as 100%, but agree it's highly likely.
I might not have gone as high as 100%, but agree it's highly likely.
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Oh wow. Google open sourced PebbleOS and @ericmigi.com is now looking to bring back Pebble.
Pebble was my first (and 2nd) smartwatch.
ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...
Pebble was my first (and 2nd) smartwatch.
ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...
Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back
Eight years later, you still can’t beat a Pebble
ericmigi.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Oh wow. Google open sourced PebbleOS and @ericmigi.com is now looking to bring back Pebble.
Pebble was my first (and 2nd) smartwatch.
ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...
Pebble was my first (and 2nd) smartwatch.
ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...
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DAISY JONES+ELEANOR OLIPHANT
When a director reunites 2 bitter sisters-her mom & an aunt she's never met-after 30 yrs for a documentary of their '80s all-women cultfave band, festering secrets shatter the planned narrative. She must face a new unforeseen storyline-her own #Bluepit #A #WF #Dis #Q 📖
When a director reunites 2 bitter sisters-her mom & an aunt she's never met-after 30 yrs for a documentary of their '80s all-women cultfave band, festering secrets shatter the planned narrative. She must face a new unforeseen storyline-her own #Bluepit #A #WF #Dis #Q 📖
January 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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DAISY JONES ELEANOR OLIPHANT LADY PARTS
Director Skye (autism) prefers remaining behind the camera but when she reunites a squabbling '80s all-women band for a documentary to save her career, she must decide how to manage when her personal story ends up before the lens.
#Bluepit #A #WF #Dis #Q 📖
Director Skye (autism) prefers remaining behind the camera but when she reunites a squabbling '80s all-women band for a documentary to save her career, she must decide how to manage when her personal story ends up before the lens.
#Bluepit #A #WF #Dis #Q 📖
January 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Maybe more lessons on subject/verb agreement
Some terminal Ted Talk Brain in the NYT today:
If it's true that millions of young people is not prepared for the workforce, we're probably going to need a more meaningful solution than teachers slightly changing the phrasing of their classroom instruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
If it's true that millions of young people is not prepared for the workforce, we're probably going to need a more meaningful solution than teachers slightly changing the phrasing of their classroom instruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
January 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Maybe more lessons on subject/verb agreement