Norm Holder
@normanholder.bsky.social
Retired school teacher. Too much a creature of habit.
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copy editors are better at copy editing than llms and it's not particularly close
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
April 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
copy editors are better at copy editing than llms and it's not particularly close
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this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
April 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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Where is our humanity?
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Where is our humanity?
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You use the officials USGovt secure channels to hide communications from bad actors. You use Signal to hide communications from the USGovt.
As I explain here, security isn't even the biggest part of the Signal Scandal. This is to keep actions secret from the US government. It's how to do crimes, bribes and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...
SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It
I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You use the officials USGovt secure channels to hide communications from bad actors. You use Signal to hide communications from the USGovt.
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BREAKING: last week a department-wide email went out warning everyone in the DOD that “Russian professional hacking groups are ... targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest.”
Trump Officials Ignored Major Pentagon Warning in War Plans Group Chat
The Pentagon sent out a clear warning one week before that group chat disaster.
newrepublic.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
BREAKING: last week a department-wide email went out warning everyone in the DOD that “Russian professional hacking groups are ... targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest.”
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Wow, it was about killing women afterall.
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Wow, it was about killing women afterall.
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
March 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
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“Lungs within neighborhoods.” 💚
Once you taste living in a bike-friendly, walkable world, you don’t want to go back!
Once you taste living in a bike-friendly, walkable world, you don’t want to go back!
NEW: Paris residents are voting in a referendum today on whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised & greened.
"For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”
"For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”
Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“Lungs within neighborhoods.” 💚
Once you taste living in a bike-friendly, walkable world, you don’t want to go back!
Once you taste living in a bike-friendly, walkable world, you don’t want to go back!
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March 22, 2025
March 22, 2025
Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
March 22, 2025
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We’re gonna need this meme a lot over the next few years.
March 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We’re gonna need this meme a lot over the next few years.
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I’ve run Toast Radio for 22 years. It’s a microbroadcast playing largely pop/alt/indie in a freeform format.
It lets me scratch my college radio DJ itch, and the occasional programming itch like for building @upcoming.toast.radio.
Can be heard on Live365, TuneIn, Apple Music, and at toast.radio.
It lets me scratch my college radio DJ itch, and the occasional programming itch like for building @upcoming.toast.radio.
Can be heard on Live365, TuneIn, Apple Music, and at toast.radio.
November 8, 2024 at 10:17 PM
I’ve run Toast Radio for 22 years. It’s a microbroadcast playing largely pop/alt/indie in a freeform format.
It lets me scratch my college radio DJ itch, and the occasional programming itch like for building @upcoming.toast.radio.
Can be heard on Live365, TuneIn, Apple Music, and at toast.radio.
It lets me scratch my college radio DJ itch, and the occasional programming itch like for building @upcoming.toast.radio.
Can be heard on Live365, TuneIn, Apple Music, and at toast.radio.
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"Turn it whatever way you will---whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent." -- Abraham Lincoln. Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858
March 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"Turn it whatever way you will---whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent." -- Abraham Lincoln. Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858
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March 21, 2025
March 21, 2025
These days, I keep coming back to the quotation recorded by journalist Ron Suskind in a New York Times Magazine article in 2004.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
March 21, 2025
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The below picture is an example of how to break rules.
This should be helpful for most bluesky users who may not be familiar with how to break rules.
This should be helpful for most bluesky users who may not be familiar with how to break rules.
March 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The below picture is an example of how to break rules.
This should be helpful for most bluesky users who may not be familiar with how to break rules.
This should be helpful for most bluesky users who may not be familiar with how to break rules.
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The Alien Enemies Act centers on the President.
If DJT says he knew nothing about its implementation, he’s not only lying; he’s saying that the government’s actions had no justification of any kind at all—not even the warped use of old legislation.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
If DJT says he knew nothing about its implementation, he’s not only lying; he’s saying that the government’s actions had no justification of any kind at all—not even the warped use of old legislation.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, e...
amp.cnn.com
March 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The Alien Enemies Act centers on the President.
If DJT says he knew nothing about its implementation, he’s not only lying; he’s saying that the government’s actions had no justification of any kind at all—not even the warped use of old legislation.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
If DJT says he knew nothing about its implementation, he’s not only lying; he’s saying that the government’s actions had no justification of any kind at all—not even the warped use of old legislation.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
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South Florida school teacher recalls what it was like to be deported from the U.S. as he was applying for asylum.
South Florida school teacher was applying for asylum when he was deported to Honduras
Since his deportation on Feb. 6, Wualner Sauceda now lives with relatives in a remote, rural area with dirt roads and no running water.
nbcnews.to
March 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
South Florida school teacher recalls what it was like to be deported from the U.S. as he was applying for asylum.
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"They made it so painfully simple what was wrong with this plan, that maybe the White House even couldn't fail to understand it."
'They spelled it out in crayon!' MSNBC's Rachel Maddow stunned as NYT blows up Trump plan
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow took to her show’s opening monologue on Friday to vent her frustrations with President Donald Trump’s claimed ignorance over reports that tech billionaire Elon Musk was to receiv...
www.rawstory.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"They made it so painfully simple what was wrong with this plan, that maybe the White House even couldn't fail to understand it."
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Military personnel swear an oath to the Constitution, not to any person or party. Trump's dismissals of senior leaders may test this principle across all ranks, according to a retired major general in the U.S. Air Force.
Trump’s firings of military leaders pose a crucial question to service members of all ranks
Military personnel at all levels are now facing the question of whether they will stand up for the military’s independent role in maintaining the integrity and stability of American democracy.
buff.ly
March 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Military personnel swear an oath to the Constitution, not to any person or party. Trump's dismissals of senior leaders may test this principle across all ranks, according to a retired major general in the U.S. Air Force.
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"It felt like we had all been kidnapped, thrown into some sort of sick psychological experiment meant to strip us of every ounce of strength and dignity," writes Jasmine Mooney, who was detained by Ice earlier this month.
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"It felt like we had all been kidnapped, thrown into some sort of sick psychological experiment meant to strip us of every ounce of strength and dignity," writes Jasmine Mooney, who was detained by Ice earlier this month.
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Yes. That is in fact what just happened.
March 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Yes. That is in fact what just happened.