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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 17/01/2026

One wonders what the escalation process looks like. Walz just mobilized the MN Nat'l Guard. Will Trump try to override that? Will the Guard obey, or split over it? And will he then try to invoke the insurrection act? Fucking bonkers that we can even have this conversation with a straight face 🤦‍♂️

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 17/01/2026

I’m donating as much as I can afford. We should all do what we can to support the good people of the Twin Cities, who didn’t ask to be made the front lines of a federal assault. They’re standing up all the same, and should be doing so with all of our help.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 17/01/2026

Not in the MSP area? Feeling powerless? We have a way to help our friends there fight back in the most effective way — by supporting one another so they can withstand this assault by our federal gov’t: www.standwithminnesota.com

standwithminnesota.com

Stand With Minnesota

A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 17/01/2026

Please read @donmoyn.bsky.social's article, and share far and wide. I knew things were getting bad in the Twin Cities, but this seems much worse than anything we’ve seen in LA or elsewhere. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Dispatch from the occupation

What life is like in Minneapolis now

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 18/10/2025

Brought to you by the moderately conservative Northern suburbs of Atlanta. #NoKings

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 07/10/2025

Seriously? This banner is at the top of cms.gov (and I assume other federal sites right now). Unless I'm missing something, this is a pretty obvious violation of the Hatch act, no?

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 29/09/2025

These six characters do a remarkably effective job of summarizing the massive self-inflicted wound our nation is engaging in.

"RIP H1B" scrawled across the bottom of the American Recipients of the Nobel Prize monument at the Museum of Natural History in NYC.

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JAW @jaw1.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

. 📢 HANDS OFF NYC 📍 Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, NYC 📆 Sat. Sept. 13 ⏰ 12-1 pm Trump has threatened to send military troops into New York City! Join us at Trump Tower and tell Trump: 🪧HANDS OFF NYC! 🪧 NO TROOPS! 🪧NYC WILL NOT BE OCCUPIED! This is a nonviolent Rise and Resist action. #HandsOffNYC .

Graphic with white background, text is black. Reads Hands of NYC. Image of the statue of liberty

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 01/09/2025

Need yet more reasons to reduce the number of cars stuffed into our cities? Turns out the dark ones parked everywhere can easily increase the temperature in their vicinity by 3.8ºC! Cities must increasingly take heat into account in their design and rules, as they've always done historically.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 31/08/2025

"I had nostrils on all six planes of my skull"

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 31/08/2025

Let's assume this interviewer doesn't have the disproof of this bald faced lie immediately at hand. Then where's the follow-up where they do the legwork to validate or disprove her assertions, and air it in a prominent timeslot? Otherwise it's not journalism, just a mouthpiece for the regime.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 28/08/2025

Last I checked, we had a perfectly good agency that was doing great work on this front, before some idiot fired everyone, hollowed it out, and renamed it "US Doge Service" 🤦

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 25/08/2025

Can anyone give me the not-horrifically-alarming take on this? Please?!

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 23/08/2025

Fair point. We don't need more articles breathlessly hailing our glorious AI future; nor decrying all such systems as irredeemable, colossal boondoggles. Both sides' lack of nuance poisons the discourse. Tech bros predicting mass unemployment, and AGI burning TWs of energy, aren't helping either 🤦

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 23/08/2025

Is it really so difficult for us to hold two concepts in our minds simultaneously? Yes, the SV hype machine has gone off the rails with AI and ethics. And yes, ML/AI techniques can be incredibly useful in solving difficult problems. DeepMind's protein folding solution is a huge win for biology.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 23/08/2025

100% this. Isolation, division, fear, and anger have played no small role in getting us to this point. They won't be the tools that get us back on track. Except maybe a little anger, pointed in the right direction!

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 23/08/2025

"Intel said the United States would invest $8.9 billion in its stock, on top of $2.2 billion [...]" Can someone please help me understand how this is Intel "giving the government $10B"?

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 23/08/2025

Funny what a difference a little financial support makes, especially without onerous means testing. @scottsantens.com in case you're not already aware of this study.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 22/08/2025

"The new curriculum was drafted by a review committee that includes Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation." Oh good. Now they're skipping the "put crazy people on school boards" step and just letting Heritage write out curricula. What could possibly go wrong?

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 22/08/2025

And for completeness, I do realize that we have to take the amortized energy cost of training into consideration to get a full accounting. I'd love to get a transparent breakdown of this aspect as well, and where it's trending. E.g., are we spending more or less as we train newer/larger models?

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 22/08/2025

Absolutely. There's so much borderline-religious zeal on both sides of the debate, losing science and engineering in the shuffle. We need a lot fewer inflated claims derived from motivated reasoning, and a lot more data. This is why I applaud Google's openness here, even as I hope for more.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 22/08/2025

That doesn't seem crazy. I don't know where the state of the art in TPU power efficiency stands over most GPUs, but ~30% seems reasonable.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 22/08/2025

Yeah, it's kind of a shit show over there. I'm at the point where I only login to FB or Instagram because my family sends me something. Otherwise, it's just not worth wading through.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 22/08/2025

My kiddo goes absolutely nuts for these shrimp chips! I have to admit, they _are_ pretty damn good.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 22/08/2025

This is also why I hate it when Altman and Co go around telling everyone we're going to need terawatts of cheap power. We want model providers competing over efficiency, not just trying to scale up as though energy were free.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 22/08/2025

Very glad Google's releasing this data: a median Gemini query burns 0.24 Wh and 0.26 ml of water. That's about 1s of microwave use, and 5 drops of water. Yes, they should release more data, and queries can vary. But it's good to have some transparency. www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1...

technologyreview.com

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

DC: If you see anything related to Trump’s ride along this evening, send to marisakabas.04 on Signal.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 21/08/2025

Amen. We're sticking around to do our part, but definitely hedging our bets and pulling our little tribe together in one place. The kids, however, are seriously looking at university in the UK or EU, and I can't blame them :(

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 21/08/2025

I hate that I have to keep saying this in so many different contexts, but... This will go down in history as one of the dumbest self-inflicted wounds any state has managed to pull off.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

Jesus, just what we needed -- a massive increase in sales and use taxes, so we can ensure our tax system is as regressive as possible 🤦

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

And now they're teeing up another in Maine: bsky.app/profile/marc...

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

See also: bsky.app/profile/thej... They're looking to scale up what they've been doing in Georgia, at the federal level. They can use this data to generate massive numbers of voter purges on specious grounds. Knowing full well that many won't even realize they've been purged until it's too late.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

And more than a few scientists! We're supporting @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social, who I'm certain will be an excellent federal representative.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

If they can bring these pieces together, it will be terrifyingly similar to the (well-documented) use of incarceration for trivial infractions, to create cheap labor in the reconstruction-era South. We already have corrupt school -> private-prison pipelines. So the pieces _are_ coming together...

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

I assume @jennycohn.bsky.social is already aware of this lunatic, but just in case you need another for your rogue's gallery of fascist nutjobs...

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

On behalf of the (sometimes great, sometimes not-so-much) state of Georgia, I'd like to apologize to everyone for the illiterate psychopaths we've sent to Congress. Trying our best to make up for it with John Lewis, @warnock.senate.gov and @ossoff.bsky.social, but some days I still just have to 🤦

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

Oh, I see now. Clever and working-as-intended, even if I would never eat this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBKy...

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Wendy’s x Wednesday - Meal of Misfortune

YouTube video by Wendy's

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

Does Wendy's know something we don't? MISFORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY YOU

Large Wendy's sign in front of the restaurant, with the text:

MISFORTUNE AWAITS
LUCKY YOU

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

See also: bsky.app/profile/thej... They've been working on this for some time in GA, because it's a swing state with a large Black population (to whom we owe a debt of gratitude for *making* it a swing state!) I'm convinced that this is precisely what they're trying to scale up for the midterms.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

Make no mistake -- the DOJ is working overtime to scale this effort up throughout the country. GA is just the test case for this effort: bsky.app/profile/j15r... Follow @democracydocket.com to stay on top of this, if you haven't already. They're fighting the good fight on this many-front battle.

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

“all data [...] will be kept securely and treated consistently with the Privacy Act.” Until they begin filing specious complaints to strike voters from the rolls. Anyone doubt that this would be used to nationalize and scale up voter suppression efforts, like we've seen here in GA and elsewhere?

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

As someone who grew up in the South, I heartily applaud these efforts. This is the sort of hard work that will be necessary to slowly heal our country after this period has passed. To the trolls with thoughtless, knee-jerk responses to the Kennedy name -- maybe read about what he's doing first?

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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 20/08/2025

Pulte built my home. So far I've found: - Breakout boxes not to code - A mangled external pipe that filled our bottom floor with poop - A bathroom leak that flooded our dining room - A cracked pipe that caused a mold infestation Maybe this asshole should focus on not cutting corners instead?

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