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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

7.6M earthquake, 33km deep, Panama. If this impacts canal operations, it will bring an unwelcome supply shock at a time when other shipping lanes are under pressure from the Strait of Hormuz and Bab.

Liquefaction mapped against population density, Panama 7.6M earthquake

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

October intuition: the regime will increase paramilitary violence in the run up to the election. The protests against this violence will trigger the Insurrection Act and an attempt to cancel the mid terms. The failure of that action will drive domestic military action, which will split the military.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Someone with a camera took some Yeti mugs.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If what Trump said were true, capitalism would fall apart. The act of purchasing the bananas (as an asset) would convert them to zero value. They would not be a product that an importer could sell to retailers AND they would have zero nutritional value to consumers.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Historically, the strategy of appeasement has (checks notes)... oh.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Federal websites must provide a trusted way to access official data and information. If the US government is moving fully to AI for design and content, that trust must now be questioned.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026

Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.

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GSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer

The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

People need to go to jail for this. Full stop.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/09/2026

omg someone just sent me this

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Liberals say the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our democracy. They’re wrong— the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our republic.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We've done a lot of thinking around the interface between informal and formal disaster response. There is a place for both. Strengthening a national health system is very different than mobilizing a community. Some of our thinking is in this zine: blog.bl00cyb.org/disaster-zine/

blog.bl00cyb.org

Disaster Zine | willowbl00

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

But mutual aid is even slower to mobilize, because it takes time to campaign for funding and collectively decide how to spend it. To manage that challenge would entail constant fundraising and rebuilding something that looks a lot like USAID's grant making/transparency/anti-corruption architecture.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Right now, aid organizations are missing the golden window for lifesaving aid (the first 72 hours) because many do not have funds in our bank accounts to lean forward and deploy teams *before* funding proposals are approved. My organization did for VZ, but that is because our teams are so small.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As a humanitarian who works in collective intelligence, I empathize with the concept of mutual aid, but I have to speak a difficult truth: it's not possible to replace USAID's $35 billion w/ mutual aid. Let's say that mutual aid is 50% more efficient. It still can't replace $17.5B with mutual aid.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Is the Kennedy Center site wanted for a permanent Cagematch Colosseum or a large outdoor parade ground with braziers and eagles?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is both what you should probably expect if your fellow countrymen repeatedly empower an iconoclastic authoritarian movement and in and of itself, of course, completely bugfuck insane. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

nbcnews.com

Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations

The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As a humanitarian, I deal the consequences of underfunded health systems, well-funded armed groups, economic collapses, persecuted refugees, and climate-driven famines and fires. I see pestilence, war, poverty, injustice, and famine. It is time to pay attention to who rides these five horses...

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Greer either has no idea how interdependent our nation's energy and auto industries are, or he is mistepresenting the situation.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

As I put together a playlist for That Day, I realized that the US is going to have a serious supply chain problem the week after the celebrations in the streets. Millions of car speakers will be destroyed from playing dance music at volume setting 11.

Volume potentiometers/knobs from the movie "Spinal Tap" that go to 11.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This insight expanded my thinking...

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sounds like an ideal moment to switch the music to Tchaikovsky 6, movement II...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A rather inexpensive way to externalize significant risks. In an era of AI, this particular cut makes no sense.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

ZERO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

That seen makes me want to sing, Mah-na Mah-na

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Big fan of red line go up, not so crazy about blue line stay flat.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"We're gonna do a command economy without any data and instesd rely on the volk's lived experience" continues to be an incredible bit

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Epic poems like the Odyssey changed with each story teller. Even after it was written down, each era made it relevant to the current context. Today, we remake so that it speaks to us now. Not that someone who owns Grok would understand that each retelling is customised to each audience...

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

All wagers are created equal! oh, wait...

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

As soon as this story broke, the WH Press office called a lid for the day. They wanted to keep any leaks contained.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Vitruvius on the proposed Corinthian order:

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/07/2026

El Niño continues to grow, with sea surface temperatures clearly at record high levels for the time of year... 📈 Sign up for our next monthly briefing to learn more, including Q/A: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... We'll also have an update on 2026's U.S. billion-dollar disasters so far.

Line graph time series of daily Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures from 1982 to 2026. This year is currently a record high for this time of year. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1, and the graphic is created by Climate Central.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I am sure that this post will generate some feedback. ;-)

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

By the Burning River Brigade in NE Ohio

A sign installation on a highway overpass that says "someday a mortician gets to superglue his lips shut."

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I have already met some number of people who are basically a front-end to an LLM

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If any of those 850k shells has a rapid unscheduled flight in the wrong direction...

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

fwiw, my dad was a military bomb tech. his first thought is that the number of shells must be inflated. his second thought was that a lot of people may be going to the hospital. third, at 300+ shells per sec, it is inevitable that some simultaneously exploding shells will eventually collide.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

that probably should have been phrased as a question rather than a statement. 14hr days on VZ earthquake. sorry!

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Also, the frequency of the explosions and the pitch of the explosions are likely two separate phenomena. I think this will be low and loud and constant, not a hum at middle C.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I have to ask: is this even possible? Will the 40min fireworks session extend for much, much longer? How many decibels will it be? What is the probability of an event that causes a cascading failure? As a classically trained musician, I would only want to experience this sound from very far away.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In the machine era, so many people yearn for human made art and music. Craft and know-how—the knowledge we hold in our bodies, in our hands, in our oral history—is the least legible element for AI training models because it cannot be written down. It is part of what makes craft so human.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

...playing Bach by the Trash Fence. Then classical music took off as orchestras formed, playing fully-staged ballets and pops concerts for thousands of listeners. We kept getting words of thanks that mirror what you spoke about rejection of AI: authentic, human, real.

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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

...generated, this music was immensely popular. EDM adapted & increasingly took on greater use of samplings: human voices, acoustic instruments, etc. All the while, we classical musicians found dubstep refugees in the relative calm of the Deep Playa, surprised and relieved to find someone...

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