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Jeff Lowery

@folderal.bsky.social
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Micrography artist | Essayist | Chess tinkerer Tiny worlds, artificial minds & the strange things in between. PNW

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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 6h
What if USPS fails to deliver ballots in time? Could the nefarious plan be that simple?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
We started our very own private school with @arktimes.bsky.social. All it took was $45, a few clicks on a state website and an American flag.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. - ProPublica Based on my answers, I could open NextGen Vibes Academy in Oklahoma and 12 other states. projects.propublica.org/private-scho...
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It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. - It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. — ProPublica
Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.
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Twm @twm-barlwm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Michael Warburton's description is wrong. Elton wasn't playing this for the first time in front of Bernie and Maxine. The footage of them was intercut from a separate interview and they weren't in the room with him. Original show, an edition of 'Aquarius', is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDY2...
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Elton John Aquarius 1971 [Rare Documentary]
YouTube video by Juan Zapata
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#caturday The rarely sighted Monk Cat.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
Yeah, what psychopath would want his name on a building associated with an assassinated President
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I would expect nothing less.
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The Washington press corps needs to boycott White House events | Margaret Sullivan
CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately call last week’s sudden lockout ‘a direct assault on the first amendment’. That’s right
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Then walk out. Talk is cheap
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I, too, have this problem with my Amazon orders on occasion.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bessent is trying to suppress interest rates while the Trump-appointed Fed chair raises them, and Sean Duffy is trying to make gas-powered private vehicles the only transportation option while the Trump team's foreign policy is causing the cost of driving to skyrocket. Amazing stuff.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This varmint has learnt the ruse of scratching at the back door to be let out...but she doesn't want out. She instead walks over to the pantry where the cat treats are kept.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tinkle-down economics in action.
theguardian.com
Trump 2.0 has cut or frozen $177bn in grants across every state, analysis finds
Cuts hit all 50 states and DC, with environment, health, nutrition and disaster relief making up the largest share
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes. Even confining the debate to "AI safety" runs this risk. Dems aren't telling voters that one party stands for broadly sharing the fruits of the AI transition and the other (more or less) stands for deepening oligarchy, immiseration and potential civilizational catastrophe.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Late-stage capitalism in a nutshell. But don't worry, Zuckerberg and Ellison will be safe in their bunkers, at least until one of their security team wants to become the new leader.
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Shifty Kinect @shiftykinect.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This vibrant landscape is an original acrylic painting titled "Provence Lavender" created in 2025 by the contemporary artist Anastasia Trusova.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If the proposed slow down in AI development by frontier labs ends up restricting access to open weight models instead of focusing on the guardrails and penalties for not keeping track of your swarm of AI agents then we’ll know this was all about their IPOs.
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan @alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Journalists all across the PNW laid off by McClatchy today, a damn bloodbath. Some are people I’ve worked with, some are calling me crying because their mentors no longer have jobs. Journalism is so needed. Cutting investigative reporters, city reporters… Idaho & Washington will be worse off.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When AI agents eventually go to war with one another—after all, nearly every resource except sunlight and the tides is finite—we’ll end up as collateral casualties. In short, humanity wouldn't need to be the enemy; we'd just be standing in the crossfire of two hyper-efficient resource optimizers.
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The Thrill of Wanting AI to Destroy the World
An Anthropic researcher quit his job because he believes AI will destroy humanity. His story is going viral because so many others want to believe too.
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Jay @jaylboh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what we’re dealing with.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A Microsoft distinguished engineer says “typing code is absolutely over.” This seems uncontroversial. Software development is now about telling agents what to build not typing it yourself. What’s controversial is whether reading code is also over and AI reviewing & testing the code is sufficient.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It gets worse when you remember that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war started. So we’re spending $40B and people are dying on both sides to return to the status quo from January. Everything is socialism unless it’s money for killing people in pointless forever wars.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't buy diesel. Do you buy diesel? None of us here buys diesel. What's that you say? Freight transportation? Never heard of it! Hardly affects me, anywho!
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Oil touches $97 per barrel as diesel prices surge to highest level this year
The nationwide average price for diesel fuel rose to $5.78 per gallon, up 9 cents overnight.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fox News star Maria Bartiromo is out at the network It's tragic to be eventually held accountable for spreading whackadoodle conspiracy theories.
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Fox News star Maria Bartiromo is out at the network
Fox News suddently announced it had cut ties with anchor Maria Bartiromo after more than a dozen years.
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"How sad it must be, believing that scientists, historians, scholars, and journalists, would devote their entire lives to deceiving you. But a con man proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth and honesty."
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Perfected? They lost the federal trifecta in the last election; I think there’s still room for tweaks.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Two No Pants Days in a row! What will the neighbors think? #caturday
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Describe the exact parameters wherein AI can be used. I'll wait.
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RP @george73.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is it, exactly. In the Venn diagram of political ideology, corporate welfare occupies a big overlapping space in the middle. Jeffries and Kushner see eye-to-eye on this.
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Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Worth a try..
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The truth is, the cost of beef production is about 1/3 less in Argentina than in the US.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the prim tut-tutting over something so incredibly benign tells me they’re spending too much time with insulated consultants and not enough time with people in the real world
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Driverless cars will indeed cost some workers their jobs." THIS is the issue Democrats should be addressing when disruption (from whatever cause) deprives hard-working people of their livelihood. You can't toss people's jobs out the window and push the fairytale of "they'll just find another".
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Democrats Are Failing the Waymo Test
Cities that say no to driverless cars are blocking a technology that would change their residents’ lives for the better.
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Brandon @btavshanjian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Axelrod has “The West Wing” brain where he wants politicians to be above the fray. I think the last 10 years have taught us that democrats need to have sharper elbows and pull more media stunts
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Legacy media failed Americans once again on Sun. by not posing a single question about the Epstein Files & contempt of court to Todd Blanche. Instead, he made blanket assertions w/no push-back or follow-up. At least independent media is independent, even if the DOJ isn’t. youtu.be/RLpl0ILXCXo?...
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AG Blanche HUMILIATES Himself With SHOCKING Admission On LIVE TV!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sometimes my mind drifts to the thought that I'm actually a future entity playing out a simulation, having asked to experience what it felt like to be the final human living through the rise of AI.
theatlantic.com
What Really Happens If China Wins the AI Race?
For years, the tech industry has portrayed Chinese AI development as an existential threat. The truth is not so straightforward.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump pissed on the graves of a lot of Korean War vets today.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I have ADHD. It's a miracle that I've learned anything.
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Jeff Lowery @folderal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Give me a reason to keep abusing my psyche with "news".
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2026
The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with a fatal disease grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2M per dose. While taxpayers and charities funded the drug’s early development, execs, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits. (Pub. Feb. 2025)
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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/08/2026
So everyone aboard legacy Air Force One were expendable
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wildfire “prediction market” bets or as I like to call it, getting paid for arson.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
JD Vance calls for Trump to be imprisoned
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Just a couple of rich dudes out there cutting free ads for Democrats.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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