Dilettante polymath, developer, systems guy, nerd dad, and gourmand. Ham radio operator, General Class. Skeets are my own. #hamradio #dad #softwareengineer https://linkat.blue/jeffreyhulten.com Also at @jhulten.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
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Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood. He's turning the homes into a compound. That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe. I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.
Webhooks. Pubsub... (MQTT?) Combine polling on longer intervals with notification. A touch of belt and suspenders.
🚨 GitHub Actions on push ≠ GitOps If you think triggering CI/CD on every commit is GitOps, you're completely missing the point ✨Real GitOps = Near real-time reconciliation - Continuous drift detection - Self-healing infrastructure - Declarative state convergence 🔄 Stop pushing. Start pulling.
ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
When they said TACO TRUCK ON EVERY CORNER this is not what I wanted.
I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive. We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.
And yet the "BETA" language feeds the monster. We have words that work just fine without participating in the language of the right-wing, fascist chucklefucks. Try: CRIMINAL, RAPIST (adjudicated), TRAITOR, OATHBREAKER
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Not all of us. Some of us just haven't set up their shack in several years.
INBOX: “Beneath reproach… careless and cruel… I expect this column to be taken down and a public apology in Sunday’s edition, or my subscription will be canceled…” A Chattanooga Times Free Press reader writes to the Times Free Press about Ron Hart’s soulless *commentary*, copying us
Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA, issued a new rule requiring all contracts and grants costing over $100,000 to be personally approved by her. As floodwaters were rising in Texas, Noem failed to respond to such requests, taking 4 days to approve the spending that could have saved lives.
"I don't know what you kids are up to, but I do know one thing: laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic, ethnic group in a given nation. It's just a promise of violence that's enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean?"
Again, a private army, answerable only to the executive is the kind of thing that will destroy what's left of the American experiment.
"There’s a saying people like to attribute to Christian theology, which is ‘God will never give you more than you can handle.' It’s terrible theology." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
One of the great gifts of the modern world is that we have built a world in which children do not die nearly as much. But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.
One of the things about historical research is you encounter the fact that children used to die at heart-breaking rates. The cemeteries are full of tombs with zero to eleven year life spans. The correspondence mentions child death on a regular basis. Children died often.
Excruciatingly embarrassing
7. If this bill passes, Americans die, deficits explode, climate investments turn off and the rich get richer. If it goes down, those bad things don't happen. Those are the stakes. Keep your eyes on the prize.
I should be asleep, but can’t stop thinking about a striking sanitation worker I met today. He told me about the time a trash bag full of human shit burst in his face, and he had to spend two days in the hospital to ensure he hadn’t contracted any dangerous diseases. He makes $19 an hour.
Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
Oh goodness. Chatbots are the manifestation of Shel Silverstein’s perfect poem, “Friendship”: I’ve discovered a way to stay friends forever— There’s really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to do And you do it!!
I have not heard back from Rep. Gill’s office, but we did get biryani for dinner.
These people are Nazis. I know that's well-understood by many people at this point, but not enough. They are Nazis and we need to keep saying it.
There is a lot of "we need to tell our story better" rn, which make sense. We should do more to educate the public. But it's also the case that people & media are generally not interested in success stories, and direct their limited bandwidth to emotionally arousing failures and scandals.
This chart has been widely shared on here, it’s important to see the correction
The KKK of the 1920s is probably the most American organization to have ever existed; a for-profit fraternal organization, a multi-level marketing scheme founded by a defrocked minister to piggyback off of a popular movie, eventually torn apart by internecine infighting and a national sex scandal.
2/ jumped on that bandwagon because she believed it was her ticket to presidential contention in 2020. How do you demand Franken's resignation and endorse Andrew Cuomo? Only if you actually believe nothing and your actions are all situational and cynical. To say that he called for violence ...
On punch cards...
I love how most people know this reference to an ancient cuneiform text
Really love the idea of shitposting through the bronze age collapse though. "All this political turmoil and natural disaster is good, to me. Very normal"
Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"
But the guy and his current "girlfriend" and a couple assistants who just cant be bother to associate with the rest of us? Naw. The ten minute flight to reposition a plane so the owner doesn't have to sit in traffic between John Wayne and LAX, hell no.
Large groups like sports teams make sense. Certain musicians traveling with their band and or concert personnel could make sense. And frankly there are certain celebrities whose fan base (or hater base) would be disruptive to everyone else.
The attacks against Zohran Mamdani are Islamophobic & disgusting. These people are cowards, too afraid to debate Mr. Mamdani on the facts, so they resort to this kind of vile & depraved rhetoric. Debate the man on his ideas or sit this one out.
There are a few cases where I would make exceptions, but CEOs and billionaires aren't on the list.
no amount of free money is going to get people to have children in a stagnant society of rampant corruption and dwindling opportunity
It's interesting because despite Hungary's much-touted Orbanist pro-family and supposedly fertility-inducing policies, such as exempting families with 3+ kids from all income taxation, the Hungarian fertility rate has plummeted right into the toilet in the last few years
I don’t know what a “total rebuild” of the Democratic Party even means but the idea that we’re too close to an election to make important changes to a party that’s lost all popular support is laughable. We are 1 year 4 months and 7 days to Election Day. A fucking eternity.
An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
Democratic party: we must spend billions to find out what the people want. The people: (loudly and clearly, through the very process the Democratic Party set up) We want this. Democratic party: we must spend billions to fight this.
Faith communities and their leaders across the country need to stand up and say "If you work for ICE/CBP, get up and get out of here right now. You are NOT doing the work of God.
Me: I don’t see why all these people have views about the New York mayor, a city where they don’t live. Also me: as a former resident of Queens, where I haven’t lived for more than a decade, I have deep views on all NYC specific policy issues
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"Make Sex Pests Retire Again"...
we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
Absolutely disgusting that this is the way it is.
The rest are bad anatomy (especially bad women's anatomy...)
How many "bad medical takes" are just eugenics?
Remember, gang, mute whatever words and tags you need to in order to give yourself some equilibrium. Doomscrolling won’t help anything.
Being Black is weird during the times of Trump presidency. People start really, really caring about state violence but only under the terms of his rule, so it’s a mix of “YES, this is wrong,” and “Meh, this isn’t that out of character for the US.”
Yep, we gave away way too many rights after 9/11!!
Hmm sounds illegal there Messrs. Law & Order
Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.
Or they are former active duty, but they are from California and know a lie when they see one.
Right up to the point of an illegal order, since some people put the autocrat into the position of "civilian control of the military" they are upholding their oath. I don't envy them in the least...
Goodhart's Law is a good one. What are your favorite laws or axioms?
People who call what is happening in LA a “distraction” really need to trip over a fucking tear gas container. The authoritarianism is the entire point.
This is the curfew zone. So many people live there and major hotels are there. This is way bigger than the active protest zone. This is stupid.
Seven charts that show the perilous situation NASA is facing. www.planetary.org/articles/nas...
Something worth noting is how the press is leaning into the framing that what’s happening in LA is a both sides issue or that they are riots. Even when the LAPD is saying it’s under control, suddenly for the first time in their lives the press is willing to ignore them
#protectsocialsecurity #protectmedicare
If any Democratic president used a military audience as partisan prop, Republicans would melt down. The press would melt down. It was considered unthinkable until Trump showed R's and the media that oligarchic rule was within their reach.
oh my God a New York Times editor had to resign 5 years ago over publishing an op ed by Tom Cotton calling for the military to shut down George Floyd protests now Wall Street Journal is letting him do the same shit separately, "Tom Cotton" sounds like the final boss in a video game about slavery
One weird trick to save money on your health insurance!
many people do not know that despite holding a valid work visa, a Customs and Border Patrol officer can reject my re-entry into the United States anyway
No one wants to say "your kids killed grandma and you pulled the trigger".
Kids Don’t Transmit remains the biggest WTF brainworm thing I’ve ever really watched play out in real time
This is why reducing child mortality is so important *everywhere*.
When fewer of your kids survive to adulthood, you have more kids. And you don't have replacement kids (aw baby 1 died, well tine for another) , you have a whole reserve of kids (i better have babies 1-6 because only two will make it to adulthood).
I added "speed run Any%" to that mentally...
I like other people's kids, mostly because I know the parts that suck are their parents fault.
this is my politics, nearly everything else I believe is downstream of "kids should be allowed to exist and move throughout the world"
Uh, Republicans control the house and senate, do you expect Democrats can just wave a magic wand and not praise ICE and advise people to help them
i stopped wearing red crosses more than a decade ago, because police *habitually* target medics. this isn’t a one-off, it’s a deliberate choice they make over and over again. it’s not “a few bad apples,” it’s widespread practice.
And to use a photo of a Hispanic American character from a movie by a Mexican American director...
And Megan Trainors gonna be pissed.
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
of every terrible thing about this moment in LA i fear the one with the most irritating repercussions will be the fact that newsom is getting his little giuliani moment out of it
Just in from DC Bar - labor attorney Diane Seltzer defeats securities attorney Brad Bondi in a closely watched race with record turnout.
Less than 10% of the vote. Well done, all.
Started reading about habeas corpus 30 minutes ago. I'm ready to join @blackamazon.bsky.social in screaming about how everything we're seeing now is the direct result of not doing Reconstruction thoroughly enough.
Only "hobby" that I have that is more expensive is parenting... (I recognize having kids is not a hobby, but between the incremental costs of taking then out and the way some people make it their whole personality it might as well be...)
Really it's the lived experience of being both a "good kid" and a dumbass as a teen.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Bsky is focused on decentralization over privacy. That decentralization gave us blacksky and the work happening there, but it's possible because everything short of DMs are on the public firehose.
Would have to be off network. I think it's important that folks know how their data is visible, so take a look here to see your repo... atproto-browser.vercel.app/at/emmeline....
There in nothing secret in atproto by design. Anything they did would be a display hack, not a data security thing.
No one should be using the term "less lethal" when referring to the missiles and projectiles shot at protesters unless you are content doing PR for cops.
Starting to think that some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses
Goodhart's Law is a good one. What are your favorite laws or axioms?
But the further right the church, the more likely to hoard wealth l, build chapels that look like shopping malls, and fly private jets.
Too often the decent ones are shrinking and merging...
Tax all membership based clubs (also, piss off the churches by calling them 'clubs'), but let them write off the work they do without expecting payment (or conversion) to support the poor or valid educational/service activities. Incorporation is not a right. Tax-exempt status is not a right.
I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
