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Supporter of small-d democracy and small-c civilization.

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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This how I felt when he took over my ex-employer and sacrificial federal agency. We had to email the infamous 5 things message to a special opm server. I spent a lot of time imagining what kinds of AI training they must be doing. My solution was to have chatgpt draft long wordy reports for them.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Humans are not in the loop. Humans are the loop.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
IMHO Napa could do with a lot less, well, Napa.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The fact that these guys attribute more humanity to their overcoded databases than they do living, breathing humans really says it all.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My man looks like looks like he kills dinner party conversations with awkward references to the petting zoo.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sack Blabbath
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Patrick C Miller @patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge dismisses spyware case brought by Salvadoran journalists targeted with Pegasus therecord.media/judge-dismis...
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Judge dismisses spyware case brought by Salvadoran journalists targeted with Pegasus
The plaintiffs, who all worked for the independent and Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, failed to convince the court that their case had jurisdiction in California, according to the judge’s order.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a slurry of meth and hair plugs
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.ft.com/content/2c24...
ft.com
Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks
Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Antideficiency Act violations create personal liability for those responsible... that provision should be used to put the fear of God in these assholes.W/R/T CNN's liability, do we really want to put federal vendors in the position off having to verify the validity of Congressional appropriations?
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#FreeRuthLópez
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A good magician never reveals her secrets.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy birthday to Ruth López, who is spending her second birthday in a Salvadoran prison for her anticorruption work. Que llegue pronto un ambiente global que permita florecer la justicia y los derechos humanos #FreeRuthLopez #JuicioPúblicoParaRuth cristosal.org/es/ruth-lope...
cristosal.org
Ruth López: One Year Unjustly Imprisoned
Stand with Ruth López, a human rights defender unjustly imprisoned in El Salvador. Learn about her fight against corruption and how to take action for her release.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In this metaphor, is the restaurant the GOP or the USA?
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Language of Intergalactic Commerce: Polyglossia and Cultural Exchange in the Frontier Town of Mos Eisley, Tatooine.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This came across my feed today. I haven't heard or read Ginsberg's America in decades. It is so much a product of a particular moment in history and culture but it still feels urgently relevant. open.spotify.com/track/6XVVPb...
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America
Allen Ginsberg · Howl and Other Poems · Song · 1998
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Newsom is not (yet) the annointed one for the Democrats. Whatever pressure he might bring to bear, the AGs need to own this.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm not happy either, but how does the governor get to tell the AG to "gargle oligarch cock?" I am pretty sure that's not how it works.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It would take a book to refute the BS that Hassen serves in this uncritical #WaPo puffery. 1 example: his evidence of "systematic malaise" is misspellings in a project description. Dude, let's read the word salad your bots issued to fire 10K #USAID staff. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
1 thing that might slow down the #AI train is a few good test cases establishing old-fashioned liability for humans when the agents or systems they deploy go "rogue." What sort of litigation risks should a public Anthropic need to disclose to investors? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...
nytimes.com
Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings
The company is expected to reach $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei calls for slowing down development of some advanced A.I. models.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Don Drummond FTW!
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I like community radio. And I like smart community radio graphics! #kvmr #NevadaCounty
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My man looks like he can see the new cadillac and the set of steak knives slipping out of reach.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Petey Pete inaugurates his Chippendale batallion.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Doesnt the photo look like AI slop? Where did it come from?
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My man looks like the smug youth pastor who gets to deliver the sermon once a year when everyone is on summer vacation.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thesis: raw; antithesis: cooked. Synthesis: charred.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My man looks like Captain Riker's inbred cousin who got a job selling insurance in outer Betazed.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#USAID staff in Kinshasa, Americans and Congolese alike, endured a nightmare scenario where their safety and that of their families disintegrated at the moment when DOGE was ripping the wiring out of the agency they relied upon for protection. afsa.org/fsj/foreign-...
afsa.org
They Left Nothing
As administration officials were busy dismantling USAID back in Washington, one USAID family was under attack in DR Congo, their home overrun by rioters.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My man looks like Robert McNamara's underachieving son at an arraignment hearing.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Cups are an indigenous technology that has been shamefully appropriated by the dominant culture.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Critics say" is the most intellectually dishonest opening in journalism.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Well, I've ner been to heaven.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Supreme Court has become a partisan body that’s undermining democracy and empowering authoritarianism. We must reform the Court by expanding it, putting term limits on it, and codifying strong ethics standards in law.
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Foreign Policy for America @fp4america.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In today’s #MustRead, @iyengarish.bsky.social and @christinalu.bsky.social explain why U.S. water systems are becoming an easy target for hackers linked to Iran, with utilities in at least seven states targeted in recent attacks. ⬇️ foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/13/c...
foreignpolicy.com
Why Hackers Keep Going After U.S. Water Supplies
A spate of new attacks believed to be linked to Iran has highlighted the water sector’s vulnerability.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Manzanar provides a too-relevant reminder of one of the largest US Government experiments with internment camps & loyalty oaths for immigrants and natural born citizens. I am so glad that part of the site was preserved so that it can continue to shock the conscience. #WWII #history #California
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O Ninguém de Ningures 🛰🍉🎗 @ninguemningures.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Elon Musk tem todo o dinheiro do mundo e, em lugar de adicar-se à caridade como outros milionários, meteu-se no governo de Trump com o "DOGE", a recurtar programas de ajuda e foder aos pobres. É sen dúvida um dos maiores filhos de puta que nunca vim, e merece todo o malo que lhe poida passar.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
When we start saying things like "AI broke into systems" rather than "Open AI engineers negligently used AI in ways that violated systems of others," we have already lost an important battle. #AI www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
A Startling Glimpse at AI’s Ruthless Efficiency
The Hugging Face hack reveals that the web is in a vulnerable new era.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What are your priorities to un-rig the game?
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Meanwhile, America's partners know that diplomacy with the US now consists primarily of stroking the engorged ego of our own Caligula. www.jeuneafrique.com/1827206/poli...
jeuneafrique.com
Donald Trump a « son » autoroute au Maroc
Sur les réseaux sociaux, le président américain a remercié le roi Mohammed VI pour avoir baptisé « Donald J. Trump Highway » l’axe routier marocain qui relie Tiznit à Dakhla. Il évoque un « honneur co...
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
State Department's Inspector General, one of the cadre of real professionals looking out for gov't fraud, waste, and abuse, continues to show how badly this administration has botched its responsibilties regarding foreign assistance. #foreignassistance #usaid www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-f...
stateoig.gov
Evaluation of Department of State Administration of Foreign Assistance Programs Transferred from the U.S. Agency for International Development | Office of Inspector General
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My man is gonna need a bib and a dry depend before dinner is served.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/07/2026
impeachment is not going to happen — the bar is too high — but it just takes a simple majority and a signature to expand the entire federal judiciary.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My man looks like his b-school startup project involved men's fashion accessories made from human skin.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
go.bsky.app/RRWUme7 #starterpacks #water #california
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I thought I'd try to read Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, as I heard it relates to my recently adopted home. What I discovered is another story, much more troubling and 3-dimensional, that won't stay on the page. What is the word for this kind of experience? www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
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The Dark Secret Hiding in the Pages of Angle of Repose
Finding current relevancy in the accusations of plagiarism that have long haunted a classic of the West: Stegner’s Angle of Repose.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I would be curious to hear from @ossoff.bsky.social and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social how they think the next administration can help restore trust in Congress, the judiciary, and rule of law in the US. If we are going to make it to the tricentennial, we have a lot of work to do.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love. Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed.... I can assure you it has not recurred. Women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence."
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Reagan's disregard for the Boland amendment comes pretty close. But even that created a scandal back when Congress was still functional.
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Fargo Pentameter @fargopentameter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
go.bsky.app/8LkgMXh #foreignpolicy
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