PSL_4Loko
@psl4loko.bsky.social
Grid Ops nerd (BA and a TOP again, thank goodness), public power enthusiast, and basic-est of bitches. He/him. 4Loko should make a PSL flavor.
Occasional submarine and infrastructure opinions.
Bike commuting is best commuting.
Occasional submarine and infrastructure opinions.
Bike commuting is best commuting.
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Every mortgage issued is 30 years of rent control, effectively. Tenants should have the same economic predictability.
“We are ready for change, for real change, for real affordability and to end displacement of our communities.”
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...
Rent control supporters say ballot question pits struggling residents against corporate landlords
Housing advocates are advancing a ballot question for next year's election that would overturn Massachusetts’ decades-long ban on rent control. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the measure would be bette...
www.wbur.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Every mortgage issued is 30 years of rent control, effectively. Tenants should have the same economic predictability.
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It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.
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When a head of state declares that he doesn't want a specific racialized group in the country, and his newly expanded paramilitary force prepares to target that group...
There are terms for that.
There are terms for that.
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
When a head of state declares that he doesn't want a specific racialized group in the country, and his newly expanded paramilitary force prepares to target that group...
There are terms for that.
There are terms for that.
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You know who else was indicted out of the Southern District of New York following an investigation that was primarily conducted during the first Trump administration (and then convicted by a federal jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison)?
December 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
You know who else was indicted out of the Southern District of New York following an investigation that was primarily conducted during the first Trump administration (and then convicted by a federal jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison)?
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Hey, there was a lieutenant who did this in Vietnam. I think his name was Calley.
Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement
Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hey, there was a lieutenant who did this in Vietnam. I think his name was Calley.
Had to pause it because of actual work. Finally done.
I thought I'd be sick of the song (I am) but I'm genuinely impressed at how many people heard Tom's Diner and said "Hot damn, what if I did it like this instead!?".
I thought I'd be sick of the song (I am) but I'm genuinely impressed at how many people heard Tom's Diner and said "Hot damn, what if I did it like this instead!?".
An 8 minute DJ remix is completely unnecessary.
This playlist had the original as the first track and now it's into intermittent live performances. I got so excited to be done but alas.
This playlist had the original as the first track and now it's into intermittent live performances. I got so excited to be done but alas.
So far there's only been 4 tracks I'll revisit but there have been a few that have played with left/right channels and one that used a single "doot" from the intro autotuned and layered as all the music with the original vocals.
This has genuinely been more fun than I expected. Maybe 3 hours left.
This has genuinely been more fun than I expected. Maybe 3 hours left.
December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Had to pause it because of actual work. Finally done.
I thought I'd be sick of the song (I am) but I'm genuinely impressed at how many people heard Tom's Diner and said "Hot damn, what if I did it like this instead!?".
I thought I'd be sick of the song (I am) but I'm genuinely impressed at how many people heard Tom's Diner and said "Hot damn, what if I did it like this instead!?".
An 8 minute DJ remix is completely unnecessary.
This playlist had the original as the first track and now it's into intermittent live performances. I got so excited to be done but alas.
This playlist had the original as the first track and now it's into intermittent live performances. I got so excited to be done but alas.
So far there's only been 4 tracks I'll revisit but there have been a few that have played with left/right channels and one that used a single "doot" from the intro autotuned and layered as all the music with the original vocals.
This has genuinely been more fun than I expected. Maybe 3 hours left.
This has genuinely been more fun than I expected. Maybe 3 hours left.
Wellp. Everything from a bongo, to various levels of sampling and synthesizers, to a faithful live performance with an acoustic guitar, to an acapella version of the most popular cover, to a lot of other random and forgettable tracks... I'm almost 1/3rd done.
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
An 8 minute DJ remix is completely unnecessary.
This playlist had the original as the first track and now it's into intermittent live performances. I got so excited to be done but alas.
This playlist had the original as the first track and now it's into intermittent live performances. I got so excited to be done but alas.
So far there's only been 4 tracks I'll revisit but there have been a few that have played with left/right channels and one that used a single "doot" from the intro autotuned and layered as all the music with the original vocals.
This has genuinely been more fun than I expected. Maybe 3 hours left.
This has genuinely been more fun than I expected. Maybe 3 hours left.
Wellp. Everything from a bongo, to various levels of sampling and synthesizers, to a faithful live performance with an acoustic guitar, to an acapella version of the most popular cover, to a lot of other random and forgettable tracks... I'm almost 1/3rd done.
Occasionally I get the songs Tom's Diner and Alice's Restaurant confused. I listen to both every time I make that mistake, and today I found a playlist of 18 hours of Tom's Diner covers.
So that's the soundtrack for this shift and part of next sorted.
So that's the soundtrack for this shift and part of next sorted.
December 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
So far there's only been 4 tracks I'll revisit but there have been a few that have played with left/right channels and one that used a single "doot" from the intro autotuned and layered as all the music with the original vocals.
This has genuinely been more fun than I expected. Maybe 3 hours left.
This has genuinely been more fun than I expected. Maybe 3 hours left.
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Yeah, like at this point this was a student very clearly recruited to bait this kind of situation. And because academic discipline is never a neutral situation it’ll work: bsky.app/profile/cait...
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Yeah, like at this point this was a student very clearly recruited to bait this kind of situation. And because academic discipline is never a neutral situation it’ll work: bsky.app/profile/cait...
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every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
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You can reason with people who are curious but un- or ill-informed: I gave an A to a student in a medieval history class who asked me on the first day when Game of Thrones took place, because she read the material, worked hard, and produced well-argued essays. You can't work with bull-headed morons.
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
You can reason with people who are curious but un- or ill-informed: I gave an A to a student in a medieval history class who asked me on the first day when Game of Thrones took place, because she read the material, worked hard, and produced well-argued essays. You can't work with bull-headed morons.
Wellp. Everything from a bongo, to various levels of sampling and synthesizers, to a faithful live performance with an acoustic guitar, to an acapella version of the most popular cover, to a lot of other random and forgettable tracks... I'm almost 1/3rd done.
Occasionally I get the songs Tom's Diner and Alice's Restaurant confused. I listen to both every time I make that mistake, and today I found a playlist of 18 hours of Tom's Diner covers.
So that's the soundtrack for this shift and part of next sorted.
So that's the soundtrack for this shift and part of next sorted.
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Wellp. Everything from a bongo, to various levels of sampling and synthesizers, to a faithful live performance with an acoustic guitar, to an acapella version of the most popular cover, to a lot of other random and forgettable tracks... I'm almost 1/3rd done.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.
Occasionally I get the songs Tom's Diner and Alice's Restaurant confused. I listen to both every time I make that mistake, and today I found a playlist of 18 hours of Tom's Diner covers.
So that's the soundtrack for this shift and part of next sorted.
So that's the soundtrack for this shift and part of next sorted.
November 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Occasionally I get the songs Tom's Diner and Alice's Restaurant confused. I listen to both every time I make that mistake, and today I found a playlist of 18 hours of Tom's Diner covers.
So that's the soundtrack for this shift and part of next sorted.
So that's the soundtrack for this shift and part of next sorted.
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A lot of people are pointing out that this guy is no prince among men and that JPMorgan Chase has done some stuff, and right—that’s what makes it so notable that this guy thinks there will be accountability for this stuff in the future. He believes this is the *strategic* choice. That’s revealing.
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A lot of people are pointing out that this guy is no prince among men and that JPMorgan Chase has done some stuff, and right—that’s what makes it so notable that this guy thinks there will be accountability for this stuff in the future. He believes this is the *strategic* choice. That’s revealing.
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i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
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Everyone stop, this is important
July 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Everyone stop, this is important
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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You know what? I'm going to post this again. It's really important that as many Americans see this as possible.
Trump’s FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million on Redacting Epstein Files
A new report reveals the FBI’s frantic “special redaction project” when they thought the Epstein files would be released.
newrepublic.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
You know what? I'm going to post this again. It's really important that as many Americans see this as possible.
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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And reminding everyone that he tried to shut up Democrats who talked about following the law.
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
And reminding everyone that he tried to shut up Democrats who talked about following the law.
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The journalist who got this scoop and reported it is a former U.S. Army infantry soldier and Iraq War vet
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The journalist who got this scoop and reported it is a former U.S. Army infantry soldier and Iraq War vet