Jeff Putz

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Public media is the only way that local programming survives. It's pretty dumb to make this partisan.

YouTube video by Norah Jones Norah Jones Is Playing Along with Sarah McLachlan (Podcast Season 2 Episode 6)

Taking a break from the NIN. 🙂 These two are so good.

Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead People are “bored” by their friends’ content, judge ruled, siding with Meta.

I can't believe that the judge fell for this stupid claim.

For context on my distaste for Meta, they deleted 18 years of Facebook history and however long on Instagram. All the robots said was that it was for a policy violation. I wanted to quit anyway, but there were a few folks I only connected with that way.

Meta Did Not Violate Antitrust Law, Judge Rules

Boo. Meta sucks.

UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks Government can’t use funding threats to override the First Amendment.

The First Amendment wins again. Hopefully this emboldens other universities around the country.

Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants It’s a “violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research.”…

A third of these were cancer trials.

We're closing in on 1,200 game on our new Star Wars pinball machine. That's in just five weeks.

Responding to text spam isn't fun knowing that it's probably a bot.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket came back home after taking aim at Mars “Never before in history has a booster this large nailed the landing on the second try.”…

It's great to see competition in commercial space.

Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson

Censorship in education is insanely dangerous. And let's be real, MAGA is about as dog whistly as it gets.

If you're wondering why it's so hard to make a buck on the web, this is it. This is a lot of page views for an off-season day in November, and all I can get is 13 cents per thousand views.

I've been sitting in the dark for an hour already and feel like it should be bedtime.

Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision

Well this is a solid headline to wake up to. Been awhile since we've had good news.

The #veronicamars soundtrack might be the best ever.

I am really struggling with the time change.

I decided I'm gonna give this another shot. I just have to find friends, if they're on here at all.

Parks you sell can't generate cash, so that seems kind of dumb. Whatever you make from a sale is barely going to make a dent in their debt.

@altmadison.bsky.social it rains *less* in Seattle than most places in the Midwest. Seriously, it's like 74 and sunny almost everyday in the summer.

@altmadison.bsky.social it's unfortunate that AltNation ignored the previous Wolf Alice album. It was great, start to finish. Hopefully that's not the case this time!

My coding skills are rusty. 2024 was the first time in years that my GitHub contribution graph was anemic. And AI isn't nearly as useful as I hoped to fill in the gaps.

@billchilds.bsky.social how are you cross-posting in these weird times? Manually?

There are 120,000 people who work for Tesla who are not Musk. Regular people don't flippantly replace their cars to make a political statement. I certainly can't afford to do that. It's cheaper to say he's a douche.

My thoughts (and few conclusions) about what to do with social media.

Exactly why @bsky.app is so important. Engaging on this platform is important. As is growing this platform.

Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ?

Their greed is our opportunity.

I do wish that this site had a private-only option. Most of what I post is fairly innocuous, but I don't need the entire world to see every thought.

I spoke too soon. Already had my first follow by an AI bot with huge fake boobs.

Well it looks like I have a solid seed of people to make this useful. And honestly, it's not even The Ethics Of Zuck that make me want to bail on FB. It's just mostly crap ads and very little of it is from the people.