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Jim

@james-howard.bsky.social
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Old tech guy with too many hobbies. Frequently waylaid by jackassery. Texas, not Texan. Opinions expressed here are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Seeing the ever-escalating size of front yard Halloween skeletons better helps me understand the moai of Easter Island
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026
The Trump administration wants to lift sanctions on a Russian company to benefit mostly Middle Eastern investors (who also happen to be Trump family business partners) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 06/10/2026
Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against West Bank olive farmers. u.afp.com/S9Fe
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

kittydesade

Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He’s totally a blueberry.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s when you just have to say:
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Hannah Waddingham: F--K THE HATERS (Ted Lasso)
Alt: Hannah Waddingham: F--K THE HATERS (Ted Lasso) And by “haters” I mean people who think they are doing the right thing but are woefully misguided or people who woke up that day and picked stupidity.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Both are pretty iconic. If I had to pick, I’d go with “I learned it by watching you” because that’s what I still say anytime someone catches me making a mistake.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Stuffing the Passer @stuffingthepasser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Luther Burden is a man of compassion and forgiveness… *pulls out and cocks a pair of pearl-handled six-shooters* …too bad I’m Luther Burden the Third
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Senate can pass a bill to regulate college sports, but they can't pass bills to lower the price of gas, groceries, or healthcare. They can't rein in Trump's thirst for war in Iran or trade wars with Canada, but they can tell college athletes how often they're allowed to transfer. Cool.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He’s carried that burden for two generations already.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jake Gyllenhaal See What You Did There Meme
Alt: Jake Gyllenhaal See What You Did There Meme
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What is that Stafford player photo? Did he not know it was media day?
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amazing catch. But… he’s not wearing socks but leg warmers?
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can’t believe that kid is now driving age.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Captain America: I Understood That Reference
Alt: Captain America: I understood that old video game reference
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI companies: We’ve invented an unreliable guessing machine which sometimes doesn’t follow instructions. If you give it access to important systems it could kill us all. Also AI companies: Deploy this technology everywhere and replace your employees with it, otherwise China wins. IPO next month.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Not Great, Bob! - Mad Men Quote
ALT: Not Great, Bob! - Mad Men Quote
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“One day I had to pump gas— it was a few years ago” He’s just not living in a reality that we share. Does he know? Why does it matter what he thinks? Might as well be asking for fanfic.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’d be worried if they didn’t blow away a 2 year-old product. Battery pack is a good choice. No one is wearing these outside of sitting on your sofa.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Best color scheme!
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station.
The White House •
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WALLE HOUSE
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Communism directly opposes the United States
Constitution and American values.
While every Democrat voted against the largest tax cuts in American history and over 100 refuse to condemn socialism, President Trump will ensure that communism never has a place in America.
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COMMUNISM HAS NO
PLACE IN AMERICABenny Johnson • • Follow
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TRUMP TV IS OFFICIALLY LIVE 24/7
The White House just launched "TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station" — a nonstop stream featuring President Trump's speeches, major announcements, past highlights and administration updates, refreshed in real time.
The launch comes amid Trump's escalating fight with
CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which have sued his administration after being barred from White House access.
Americans can now watch the White House's own selected footage and announcements DIRECTLY,
24/7.
The media landscape just changed in a BIG way. •*
TRUMPOV
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pete Hegseth went to the A&M game and they lost to Kentucky for the first time in over 70 years. THERE IS NO BATTLE HE CANT LOSE.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Love it. This from him is great: “Much of the essence of RPG dialogue is allowing players to express their character, but ideally you also provide them with opportunities to discover things about their character they hadn't even realized yet," said Fenstermaker.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
At that point he just changes his name to Roy and gets different super powers.
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Ted Lasso Roy Kent Annoyed at Kid
Alt: Ted Lasso Roy Kent Annoyed at Kid, who enjoys his interaction with his football super hero.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
But the delivery is fantastic. “What did he say?” “I dunno, but he nailed it!l
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james, but scary. @abacadabber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They really should be explicit in the headline that the rise in South Asian hate rhetoric is stemming directly from the united states government.
Screenshot from article: “A recent example came last week when the Department of Homeland Security posted an image on social media depicting an Indian man with the words "Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh."”
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So here's the problem at the bottom of it all: Frenk is engaged in a kind of politics-of-recognition charade, where he wants to tell certain constituents that he really hears them, really sees them, wants to lift them up, and his way of doing that is to endorse their false view of this symposium.
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So today, the UCLA Faculty Senate, in its understated and careful way, issued a rare rebuke to Frenk, expressing "concerns and reservations" about the obvious lack of respect for academic freedom that his statement conveyed by amplifying these false charges of support for terrorism and antisemitism.
dms.senate.ucla.edu
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think you have to be CET, otherwise it is just Sparkling Discourse.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Everyone loves SACK FRIES
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Someone once told me that mathematicians only talk to each other to coordinate that they are working in different areas. So, yeah, that tracks.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 12/09/2026
Analysis by @saulelbein.bsky.social, who has spent years documenting dangerous "zombie" oil wells, found more than 25,000 plugged wells across Texas are at critical risk of failure—50 times more than had previously been reported. This map helps you find them.
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1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One?
Our state's homes are built above a hundred years of drilling by an industry that was never made to clean up after itself.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
That’s >$5B per employee…
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was there around the same time. I don’t remember it being busy at all, but it isn’t a large venue— I could see it getting crowded quickly.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those who are new, Joe DiGenova has spent the last 30 years baselessly accusing Democrats of committing crimes. If he is saying publicly the Trump administration pushed him out because he wouldn’t bring cases because there was no evidence, things are really bad.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think you’re right that the experience and execution is everything.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m often amazed at the jaggedness of experiences. Sometimes I’m like “This is magic” and then sometimes I’m five replies into a prompt thinking “I should have just looked this up myself”
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his ̶s̶a̶l̶a̶r̶y̶ trillion dollar IPO depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair (paraphrased)
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A legendary Medicare fraudster almost slipping up on illegal PAC coordination is pure brand consistency.
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