John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 07/10/2026I'll say that one of my issues with adobe (probably not as important to most folks) is I hate their UI. I looked at the printcraft screenshot and it looks just like acrobat. Acrobat is horrible to use. While I don't think this project is... 100
Reposted by John HarroldTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/10/2026Language barriers and national cultures are important, but they look tiny next to the deep cultural divide that separates LaTeX users from normal humans. 1415817
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 05/10/2026I must confess that when I'm walking down the sidewalk where I live I often encounter people speeding down the sidewalk on ebikes and electric scooters. I have yet to encounter someone on and ATV. I think we lack social norms about where and how these bike and scooters should be used. 110
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 04/10/2026In general everything is a struggle. And if we give up on our side then the other side will make progress. Or more progress. Just because you have lost something doesn't mean you should concede defeat. You have to keep up the struggle. And you must do so assuming the other side will as well. 030
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 03/10/2026This may sound good theoretically. But if my kids school wants to start at 9 instead of 8 then the employers of the parents for every kid who goes to that school also must change when their employees have to come to work. Then the people who deal with those companies also have to shift. 110
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 01/10/2026Another reason publishers may want your email is AI scraping. From listening to the @404media.co podcast. They ask folks to get email links for their free reporting because it was the only way to stop the AI companies from scraping their content because these companies do understand consent. 001
Reposted by John HarroldGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense 331421258
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 28/09/2026Local inference (running LLMs on your local machine) is getting pretty cheap and it works really well. We will eventually be able to run open weights models (models that have been trained on the frontier models and have comparable abilities) in our house. They may not be the best.. 142
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 28/09/2026I feel like this describes all the folks in the IDW and associated secular gurus. 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 27/09/2026"The purpose of SlutCon is to help men who are scared of women to start liking women, by putting them in proximity of women who likemen and aren't scared of men." Isn't the bullshit of this statement kind of betrayed by calling it SlutCon? 150
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 23/09/2026I just imagine this Polson guy as reviewer number 2 trying to get people to cite him: "The authors of this work clearly haven't read the 200 papers published in the last year regarding the topic of..." 011
Reposted by John Harroldkaylarudbek.bsky.social @kaylarudbek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026”Every type of discrimination, whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, color, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God’s intent” was the third point in the catechesis 121
Reposted by John HarroldCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18/09/2026🚨 46 DAYS TO GO! 📣 #ARKANSAS Democrats need your help! This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf. Donate today! #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/ar26h...secure.actblue.comChip in!Show your support with a contribution. 165
Reposted by John HarroldEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journeyheated.worldThe open houses at the edge of disasterWhat are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out. 421279407
Reposted by John HarroldMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:thehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same. 10182512699
Reposted by John HarroldHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it. 811165635363
Reposted by John Harrold404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.404media.coHackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and PeopleWhile people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. 13770743267
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 16/09/2026I feel like people are focusing on the extinction thing too much. I saw someone say: Even if it causes a nuclear exchange that is unlike to lead to extinction. I think that starting a nuclear war is pretty damn bad. Extinction shouldn't be the threshold for concern. It should be much much lower. 030
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 15/09/2026This but the advice they are asking about is: Should I try to become a tenured track professor or sell my soul and go into industry. 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 15/09/2026I live in California ,and my wife and I mailed in our ballots the week before the prop 50 vote. I normally get emails/texts telling me the progress of my ballot but this time I got nothing. So I emailed our county on Monday and heard back from a woman named Yen with questions on Tuesday. 110
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 11/09/2026I think it's important to note that Silicon Valley here refers to the billionaires who control it and not the people that live there. If you see below the democrats have consistently wont the elections in that congressional district. 031
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 11/09/2026 The weird thing is she's been married twice but on her third marriage. I have to think she's in some kind of polycule. 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 10/09/2026It me! I was making the biologicals! The weapons! Truthfully, I use AI to develop tools to help with drug discovery. When I tried to use Fable it kept telling me "something something biological something reverting back to Opus" so I'm assuming that I represent one or more of these efforts. 100
Reposted by John HarroldRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.nytimes.comOpinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true. 561924741
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 10/09/2026@banditelli.org good luck tomorrow Brett. You’re in our thoughts. 100
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 09/09/2026I live in California so I'll just mail in my vote against republicans in every election... over broken glass. 110
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 09/09/2026To the people who suggest companies would rather treat than cure a disease because it's more profitable, I give you disease prevention. Where's the money in that? 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 09/09/2026Just remember that we invaded Iraq based on the 1% doctrine. The 1% chance that Iraq could give islamic terrorists a nuclear weapon. 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 09/09/2026What exactly are we teaching these kids in alpha school? His pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Tz...youtube.comTHE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) | Hannibal Meets The Senator | MGMYouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 08/09/2026LLM Companies selling AI to the Average Person: Math is really hard, and I’m proudly ignorant of math in a way that would seem embarrassing to admit about any other topic. So people who can do math are really smart. LLM solves math problems I cannot even comprehend. LLM must be smart. 020
Reposted by John HarroldBrendancalling @brendancalling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I’m playing with my band the New Country Gold Classics this Thursday Sept 10 at Secondhand Ranch, 1148 Frankford Ave in Philly, 8-11. We sound like this. #honkytonk #rocknroll #swing @r5-to-philly.bsky.social @thedenature.bsky.social @willbunch.bsky.social @booman23.bsky.social @eschatonblog.com 075
Reposted by John HarroldSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 08/09/2026Catholic Batman is called Daredevil 112434347
Reposted by John HarroldGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895453545
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 05/09/2026It’s hard to see because of the scale, but the arrow pointing to the prison you go to for not paying taxes is just under this arrow. 040
Reposted by John HarroldGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026And I'll add finally that even if you aren't inviting them to the tent, there are some lines you don't cross even for temporary alliance on legislation. You don't fuck with Nazis. You don't fuck with anti-vaxxers. And not for nothing, there's a lot of overlap between the two. 544477
Reposted by John HarroldGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026You can get these people on board for discrete policy items like pesticide bans maybe, but they are animated by a belief that if everyone just followed their elaborate health mythology, we'd all be cured and live forever. And the fact that someone isn't and is sick? Their fault. 445365
Reposted by John HarroldJim Gruman @opus1993.bsky.social · 05/09/2026@jamesmcmurtry.bsky.social 's storytelling… A song for a moment 25 years ago Annie refers to Ann Compton, who was a reporter for ABC News, who was on Air Force One on 9/11. youtu.be/TmMRtmB51kU?...youtu.beJames McMurtry - Annie [Official Audio]YouTube video by James McMurtry 111
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 04/09/2026@jasonkoebler.bsky.social I know you said you were overwhelmed with tips, but this seems right up your alley. 000
Reposted by John HarroldBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and 692717519
Reposted by John Harrold Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 02/09/2026Now Democrats know the winning strategy 117220
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 01/09/2026@samleecole.bsky.social, @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social I like the normal format of the podcast where you discuss your stories, but I also wanted to say that I'm really enjoying the interviews that you folks have been doing lately on the podcast. 000
Reposted by John HarroldRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New from me: The first of a three-part series, 20 years in the making. Some may be familiar with the broad strokes, but there's a lot of new reporting here. It's a story about one conviction, but also the systematic corruption that affected thousands of cases in two states over three decades.radleybalko.substack.comThe framing of Chris DuncanPart One: “You won’t believe the videotape we have.” 724782
Reposted by John HarroldZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's especially nice that, with admittedly a few exceptions, they also didn't doom and decide to flee the country. 5458
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 31/08/2026Google is a giant tech company and capable of overwriting how they do things any time they want. When their AI was telling everyone to make pizza with glue, they could make an exception to stop that. They can easily override what google maps says about a couple places. 021
Reposted by John HarroldJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them" 588367947980
