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Thomas A. Fine

@thomasafine.bsky.social
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Unix guru, Internet hacker, security curmudgeon, software engineer, politics fanatic, media critic, bike nerd, astronomy fan, history buff.

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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The tragic or funny thing is the vast numbers of quotes and replies unable (or more likely unwilling) to see my point so that they could mock me for "cluelessly" listing out valid criticisms. To be clear, ON 9/11, the focus should be about the victims, not the political fallout.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Every. Single. Response. to my earlier thread about 10/7 (and there've been literally hundreds) is about one thing: Emotional Reframing. 100% pure propagandist responses. And so many of them hitting on the very same few "issues" (twisting of my words). Almost like it's coordinated.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
People are mocking me for posting a 57 post thread on Zionism as a way to signal to peers that they should not read that thread and hence not listen me. "Ignore those uppity Jews". That's the message. Is that really a progressive leftist value?
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why is it hard to define Zionism? Because Zionism has changed over time. But at it's core, it has always been a story of refugee Jews returning to their indigenous homeland. Let's dig into this deeply. I'm going to break this history up into phases that I haven't seen formally stated elsewhere.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So Zionism is quite literally a Jewish word, which was culturally appropriated by people who hate Jews, and redefined into some nebulous definition and used as hate speech. Presumably because the Jew-haters feelings were hurt. Then after doing so, this person says I am redefining it. DARVO.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Blocked replies, but lets be clear: the only real (non-hate-speech) definition of Zionism is "Israel should continue to exist".
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Stray Shopping Carts of New Orleans @shoppingcartsnola.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
None of your "followers" are reading any of this. You have nothing to worry about. Keep lying your ass off, totally unfiltered.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The haters have found my thread and are, naturally, sending a ton of hate my way. Bigots gonna bigot.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Imagine if I, as a politician, made a statement on 9/11 in which 70% of my statement was describing how American hegemony and the suffering in the middle east was the important takeaway from that event. That's what Mamdani did in his statement recognizing October 7th.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look this is bullshit. They manipulated idiots with the truth and Democrats stupidly fell for it. It is LITERALLY a Justce's job (sometimes) to change "settled" law. Why did no Dems ask the obvious followup question to this pat answer? There was NEVER a promise. Or a lie. Just stupidity.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When individuals join a widespread radicalization group the "lone wolf" statement always feels off. It's also an open question how a pilot that Oman Air benched because of radicalization not only got a job with flydubai, but also got put on the Israel flight. www.cbsnews.com/news/flyduba...
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Israeli investigators believe FlyDubai alleged hijacker was likely lone wolf, sources say
The FlyDubai​ alleged attempted hijacking was likely a lone wolf attack, an early investigation by Israel shows, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's hard to keep track of the number of ways in which the quoted piece is wrong and offensive. A false history of the Hebrew language, a false history of Zionism, demonization of anyone speaking Hebrew. It doesn't matter if they panned the book. They promoted it and highlighted its lies.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow this graph.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hundreds of Beavers is a masterpiece. Fight me.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, you can go to prison for up to six years for buying a souvenir in Israel.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have to think at this point that the early statement from the Israeli official that this was "not a hijacking" is a translation and/or semantics issue. The spokesperson was also translated as saying this was a "different incident". I can't find an exact quote of the statement.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tge mistake that almost everyone makes (not just Mayor Mamdani here) is to think for a second that the amount of hate crime ought to somehow correlate to the size of a targeted population. It will be most strongly correlated to the size of the bigots population.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reposted that thread because too many errors. Now it has just the right amount of errors.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tge mistake that almost everyone makes (not just Mayor Mamdani here) is to think for a second that the amount of hate crime ought to somehow correlate to the size of a targeted population. It will be most strongly correlated to the size of the bigots population.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Robert Morris convicted in 1990 for the Morris Worm. Aarin Swartz committed suicide in 2013 facing federal prosecution for "stealing" published academic papers.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Terrible week in Toronto for antisemitism on the High Holy Days. A shooting that but for the police could have been a horrific massacre. And a protest outside of a Yom Kippur service with people yelling shameful and plainly antisemitic garbage at attending Jews.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thesis: Windows is literally just malware now, and anyone still running it in 2026 is a rube. If ANY OTHER piece of software acted the way Windows acts, no one would hesitate to call it malware. (Corollary: Linux is free, easy to install, and none of the major distros are malware.)
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another day, another example of the entire media system circling their wagons to protect The Narrative. In this story, a journalist admits that he covered up video of Palestinians beating hostages, and the overall media response has been to ignore it entirely. themedialine.org/headlines/hi...
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High-Profile Gaza Journalist Admits Suppressing Videos of Hostage Abuse To Protect Hamas Terrorists  - The Media Line
Prominent Gazan photojournalist Motaz Azaiza said in a […]
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't know why people make up lies like this when you can literally search the files online. (There are zero emails to or from Kraft. There were news articles ABOUT him mailed, and a couple of instances of people talking about him. There is no evidence he was connected to Epstein in any way.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This Macklemore thing could not be a more perfect example of how Jewish voices are ignored and Jews are ostracized. Pink's words are ignored and she's lumped with "Zionists" and hated on. People are hating on other celebs for the "crime" of just sitting next to a "Zionist".
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….
diGenova just told me by phone when I asked about his abrupt exit:
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The danger was NEVER that the AI would become sentient and take over. The danger was ALWAYS what the humans would do with it in the absence of sentience.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I remember, 18 months ago, ChatGPT coming up with a line of testimony from Ghislaine Maxwell about Epstein’s closeness to Deripaska. I coudn’t find the docket number, and assumed it had confabulated. But what if LLMs are harvesting information from otherwise hidden sources?
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OpenAI solving a major math problem Navier-Stokes) is, rather than being some great demonstration of the power of LLM, has instead turned into a lesson of how the Billionaire Tech Bros are all a bunch of fucking assholes thieves who treat their power like a toy and shit all over the world.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Trying to make sense out of this sudden MAHA discussion. We would all be healthier with less processed foods (and less meat!). Our current food system makes this more difficult for poor people. Government subsidies and regulations carry most of the blame.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"If Buying Isn't Owning Then Pirating Isn't Stealing."
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sigh. I'm not boring enough already? I need to be even more generic? Really Google?
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This, but I'll also say that we won't make any change stick unless we also have some kind of media reform.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Let me clarify this and point out that LLMs are notoriously bad at saying "I don't know". They always prefer to hallucinate some conversational-sounding answer. This is a canned response hard-coded by Google.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No, Mark Ruffalo is not antisemitic for opposing a merger that I also oppose. Mark Rufflo is anitsemitic because like all obsessed bigots, he has to pivot every single issue into an issue about "Israel". Including the merger.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Are the proposed USPS changes for ballots really too complicated for an LLM to summarize? Or is Google intentionally blocking this answer?
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Dear Homelander, I'm sorry I was so narcissistic as to let losing my Dad get in the way of worshipping at your feet. If you could please not laser me to death, I will do better." [c.f. "The Boys"]
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Insane. Flock didn't just block him from attending, they called the hotel and pretended to speak for him (or be him?) and cancelled his _personal_ hotel reservation.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
AI = Artificial Inflation. The monopolization of the purchase of high-end processors for AI is going to cascade down to make EVERYTHING more expensive.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If this country fails, and some future historians write about it's demise, I think that if they are being honest historians, the conclusion will be that the fatal turning point in our history was the Telecommunications Act of 1996. [*should have said "1990s" below]
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Any unregulated free market system will always find such individuals, and transfer power to them. Or to put this another way, such individuals always exist, and will always seek maximal power through any existing power structure that permits them to do that.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Had a good forecast originally but Perseids totally clouded out in eastern Massachusetts.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
OMG THIS IS SO GOOD
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Baking chocolate chip cookies is not really about the cookies you get in the end. It's about the chips you eat along the way.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is a huge setback for anti-corruption investigations. Essentially, the Trump administration is announcing that it is pro-corruption.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Baking chocolate chip cookies is not really about the cookies you get in the end. It's about the chips you eat along the way.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/08/2026
By politicizing the federal grant process, the OMB Grant Proposal will substantially weaken our scientific enterprise that has made the United States a global leader in innovation. Take action against the proposal the link: zurl.co/Au4wk Article: zurl.co/dGIrM
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How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yet another hint that Trump's big Dr. Evil plan is to own the still fictitious Northwest Passage.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You know what really emphasizes how bad things have gotten for Jews? When someone unexpectedly decides to publicly take a stance about it. Like Boy George. And then the vocal left does everything they can to dehumanize them. In the exact same way they have been dehumanizing Jews.
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Thomas A. Fine @thomasafine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sure the DOJ confession about the reflecting pool is a big deal... But I really think that Trump denying that a foreign nation is attacking us, and therefore blocking us from defending ourselves against that attack, is an even bigger deal.
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