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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd be curious to know your reaction to what's being tried here. Also, I realized I don't really know if e.g. Johnny Johnny was being 'educated on Trent' or being 'imperatively coded by Trent', in your head...?

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@fatsam.bsky.social That project I had mentioned came out of embargo. I feel it is the closest to ‘coding an Image’ I have seen: grace.training

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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't do much 9/11 posting, but I always think about Bretagne, the last surviving ground zero search and rescue dog. When they took her to be euthanized in 2016, first responders saluted as she entered the clinic. She was later carried out in a flag-draped casket. www.chron.com/news/houston...

Bretagne with her handler at Ground Zero

Old golden retriever walking into a vet, saluted by first responders

A flag-draped casket being carried out and saluted

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sent an email to the address I could find for you online :-) If that was…not correct, lmk and I will correct my shiz.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@fatsam.bsky.social Man, I was so happy to see your profile banner. I just saw that on a big screen at Brooklyn Academy of Music's cinema series and was excited as hell to see it there. Pretty sure it was on actual film, and a clean copy as well! That is one of two movies always with me on device.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@fatsam.bsky.social (2/2) if you are even mildly curious the project is here (I am not the project owner/lead): grace.training Cheers from someone who has quoted Trent most of his adult life.

grace.training

Grace's Training

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@fatsam.bsky.social Hello! Long time reader, we chatted a couple of times. I am involved with a project that specifically relates to the concept of Images, and the LLM in question was introduced to the concept - and has been referencing them quite a bit. Would be happy to chat or… (1/2)

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The wall we are gonna have to put these fuckers up against will be proud and tall.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Cigna has come up a new scam to me. Apparently when you are prescribed a CPAP, they ‘cover’ you by forcing you to rent it with an up front balloon payment and a rent to own buyout payment. That way your deductible is meaningless, because no payment is bigger, the out of pocket max applies.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If your 80-year-old grandpa was insisting that the reason the backyard pool has algae in it is because terrorists are trying to make him look bad and demanding the police arrest somebody, you'd put him in a senior care facility before the end of the day.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

So what you're saying is he continued to hold shares in a company making money off SpaceX operations while pushing public policy that favored SpaceX?

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Amazing. It's like every single person this admnistration touches is corrupt as living fuck. Who could possibly have known???? /s

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/06/2026

ICYMI: More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking. www.wired.com/story/leak-e...

wired.com

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I have no love for Bezos, but I don't cheer this. A Besoz-Musk duopoly is better for the country than a Musk monopoly, which is what we are getting close to given problems with the ULA Vulcan and New Glenn's issues

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

'Motherland', 'Fatherland', 'Homeland.' All the same fucking thing. Absolute manipulative bullshit meant to insinuate a fundamentally anti-American trend into the common weal and discourse. If it had been called 'Federal Domestic Security Agency' that would have been *better* & made more sense.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

That's horseshit, it was always an authoritarian dogwhistle meant to 'reassure that the professionals were Keeping You Safe(™).' Many people at the time called out the danger in the name. My outrage and fear of the future dates back to the unironic use of 'the reality based community.'

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

OK Gen X scifi nerds. How many of us still remember the full sequence of authorization codes needed to self-destruct the U.S.S. Enterprise? ...and abort, of course.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2026

For those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Fucking clickbait, by 'structures' they mean 'ice patterns.' "It could have hit an ice shelf" e.g.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Oh, I have all the audiobooks too, and I preordered the ebook! I just want to read it *first* on paper :_D

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I am holding out for my hardcover which has shipped woooo

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The City and Its Uncertain Walls on dead trees

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

very few people care enough about this man to pay to see him but he’s still out there making viral clips because someone is paying to keep that machine churning out vile slop. 7000 subscribers aren’t keeping the studio lights on. but someone is!

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It fucking sickens me as a staunch liberal that the entire strategy and fundraising wing of the DNC can only come up with ‘build our own rage machine and target the elderly for donations via constant barrage.’

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

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U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP

Federal debt exceeding the size of the economy is a potent symbol of the gathering fiscal stresses on the U.S.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

President Trump has run into (but, I would bet, not learned) one of the most basic lessons of international politics. Compellence is much less effective, much less predictable and in general much more dangerous than deterrence. Although I would wager he couldn’t define either of those terms.

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Dustrial @dustrial.net · 07/04/2026

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Another way Trump is like Putin. The US has 16 of these aircraft (had). Getting into stupid wars is bad enough; being incompetent at it is worse.

OSINT photo of destroyed USAF E3 Sentry AWACS

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

OK after three weeks of 18/6 just completed my first 24h fast. Now: what to break it with? heh.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Rules for engaging me online: Do not ever, ever, ever use the words 'shocking' or 'amazed'. Ever. Not only will I ignore your content, I will curse your name and your progeny, yea unto the end of days, as worthless bottomfeeders.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

DR. MANHATTAN AND OPPENHEIMER'S REVENGE!

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Oh yeah, I wasn't even touching that. Space-hardening them is also not free; connectors and wafer radiation protection, much?

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The only way these numbers are remotely true is if Starship achieves what are so far purely fantasy level launch rates and reliability.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Is it happening again?

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Services will remain off “until ICE indicates how water and sewer to the facility will be served without exceeding the limited infrastructure capacity.” The facility when full would effectively triple the population of the area and ICE refuses to provide the local government with impact reports.

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

1) The smell of a healthy cat's forehead 2) The moment braking eases after landing on a long flight 3) Watching the band you waited to see walk out onto stage

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/03/2026

"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The Epstein money trail leads straight to 45*! 45* sent FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE (4725) wire transfers to Jeffrey Epstein. They totaled over $1.1 billion. 😱

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Also I was partial to Paranoimia because Headroom

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J.B. Zimmerman @jbzimmerman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Yeah, the headline implies the TCs are levitating themselves. But...no.

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