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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I must have been about five or six years old, my older cousins were babysitting me and they watched the original "Dawn of the Dead" on VHS with me in the room. I had nightmares for months, and now nearly forty years later still hate zombie movies.

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"HERE IS AN ACTUAL SAMPLE OF ELIZA'S CONVERSATIONAL ABILITY" (Source.)

A dense - very, very dense; 45 lines in an ad that was printed at only 2.5 inches tall - purporting to be the most complete version of ELIZA available in CP/M, "for any CP/M based microcomputer system with at least 40K of ram, on a standard 8 inch diskette." The sample conversational log has the patient complaining about men in specific, then her father in specific, and then bullies in specific - and Eliza brings it all back to the fact that her boyfriend made her run the program. At the end, ordering information for the "Artificial Intelligence Research Group" of Los Angeles, California.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What it is: an incredibly resource-intensive data-harvesting machine. What it does: generate profits for fascists. This is kind of all I need to know, really.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ah, I think I see where you're approaching this from - a pragmatic argument against anti-trans messaging for Democrats. Can agree that Democrats should steer clear of anti-trans positions for whatever reason!

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

just like with immigration, DEI, abortion, etc. They are using this broader economic argument as a trojan horse to smuggle in their hate. not the other way around.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No, it was that they hate trans people. Don't minimize that.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It would be great if a nonprofit, or opensource co-op, could develop something like this that held helping people like you as its end-all and be-all, as opposed to an entity like Meta, which doesn't give two shits about anything besides harvesting as much of your personal data for profit as possible

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm happy to start referring to it as "SI" if I can make it stand for "Stupid Intelligence"

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazing. This guy just created Kermitneutics.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New on my analog travel blog: El Pípila!

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(someone who took more than four undergrad philosophy courses should be able to come up with a better version of this joke)

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When the only tool you have is a Hegel, every problem looks like a dialectic.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Was thinking about this recently, seems to me that marketing/ad strategies have shifted overall from "You are lacking something, and I can sell you something to fill the lack" to "You are perfect, I can sell you something to celebrate your perfection"

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the impeachment article kind of writes itself too

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some Democrats, like Tammy Duckworth, want fascism, because it's the only way they can keep capitalism.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And also remember that CHRIST without HRT is just CIS

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's gotta be a tiny ad in the back pages of some 1985 Mother Earth News mag where you can mail-order a kit to do it.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I read a headline about a dozen Thaads being fired and I assume it's about the latest round of layoffs at Meta

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If we had anything close to a functioning democracy, our best physicians and engineering assistants would be at this very moment locking the President away in a Moriarty Cube where he can endlessly post and golf and build ballrooms without endangering the safety of the real world.

A screen shot from the Star Trek: TNG episode "Ship in a Bottle" where Doctor Crusher and Lieutenant Barclay display the cube containing the holographic program in which they have trapped the nefarious holodeck character Moriarty.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Honestly you should get on this soapbox more often and more loudly. I think lots of people - both enthusiastic No Kings supporters and detractors remaining on the sidelines - see No Kings as an end unto itself.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah not in line with your style guidelines at all. It obviously should have read "Shit, Poop Stinky".

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some Democrats would rather have fascism and white supremacism if it means that they can keep capitalism. Progressive populism would limit the power of capitalists.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Not sure if 'AI people' refers to people generated by AI or people who use/consume a lot of AI, but it's probably accurate either way

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

More to the point, it is more deadly in the US to protest ICE officers than to be an ICE officer

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I continue blogging in spite of the horrors:

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At least one old war criminal died this week...

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

- a milk cortado with a Camel you can smoke while drinking it ✊

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Simple - because some Democrats would rather have fascism than democracy.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Telling me to 'look no further' makes it certain that I will, indeed, look further.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Whether your staff are wording your posts to sound like bland PR or actually using AI to write them, the pattern is the same: this slop structure that wrings any urgency and authenticity out of your message.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm getting The Analog Nomad travel blog going - here's post Number One!

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

it took me a minute, but I got there.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

just absolutely blind to where the technology and the galaxy are going. and a surefire way to lose long-term

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

its been said many times but it is absolutely insane to watch the Rebel Alliance blaster themselves in the foot by hopping on this anti-Death Star train. a massive generational L awaits.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Pretty sure the estate of Tony Scott has a bunch lying around still too

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Is Oskar Schindler running this factory?

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