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(((Ron Zucker)))

@ronzucker.bsky.social

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Geek, former professional policy wonk, poker player, bridge player, and general lover of humanity in all of its disparate, fascinating forms.

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I built an electric guitar out of a beautiful wood carving I found on Instagram. Every time I play it, I think of the story. An artist, friend of a friend, went back to Italy as his grandmother was dying. The vines are the ones from her kitchen window. I think knowing that helps me play better.

Picture of a "partscaster" made from a wood carving.

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

One day -- one goddamned day! -- in 2025 has more and more awful government actions that should be a scandal than I think I've ever seen

An X post from Sam Stein:

Just to get a sense of how off-kilter or politics has become, just TODAY we have:

* An expose revealing or HHS Sec "still uses psychedelics and even smoked dimethyltryptamine"
* A report the the dept FBI Director want given a background check
* A report that Michael Flynn may get a $50m settlement??
* The president sic-ing the DOJ - overtly - on Democrats ties to a sex predator that he himself is tied to
* The Attorney General happily agreeing to his request
* A report the the DHS sec sent millions in ad contracts to a firm tied to her
* A congressman alleging that Trump's wanna-be assassin may have been "groomed"

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

@drewmagary.bsky.social, whom I followed from Deadspin to Defector and whose books I've enjoyed, wrote www.sfgate.com/politics/art... and here's the thing. I don't live in NYC. It has no effect on me. VA is closer, but still not me. But I was still buoyed by yesterday, and here's why:

Tuesday night, in an off-year election, a majority — yes, a goddamn majority — of eligible American voters agreed with me. These people spent eight months living in a woke-free America and collectively decided, “We don’t want this.” What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone. Contrary to what Ted Cruz might tell you, that’s what woke does. Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good.

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A picture of prepared ingredients for a cake (eggs, flour, sugar, milk, and butter) measured out, captioned, "Happy 25th birthday, #Linux! Here's your f-ing cake, go ahead and compile it yourself!"

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Of all the things I will never forgive this administration for, making me agree with Richard Hanania is the least consequential but most surprising.

X Post from Richard Hanania: "Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab "any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?"

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Silverado.

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

To understand carceralism, it helps to know the intellectual underpinnings and history of incarceration. Dr. Abolafia's book is fascinating.

Cover of the book: The Prison Before the Panopticon by Jacob Abolafia.

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I'll just leave this here...

XKCD cartoon. A man's presumable partner, of screen, is talking to him as he sits at a keyboard:
"Are you coming to bed?"
"I can't. This is important."
"What?"
"Someone is wrong on the Internet."

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(((Ron Zucker))) @ronzucker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Speaking as a geek who has worked with neural networks, this article fully sums up some of my frustration around the AI revolution: newrepublic.com/article/1883... The rest is summed up with this picture (h/t to @megber.bsky.social for forwarding to me).

A screen shot of Google suggestion pancetta or bacon as a "kosher" substitute for salt pork.

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