Doug Lucas

YouTube video by CharlesBerthoud Beethoven on slap bass sounds FILTHY

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on electric slap bass (3min): youtu.be/4G1NSy24_Ug #music

This is really good, surprisingly good.

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The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Saturday August 9, 2025 Ukrainian President Zelensry rejects Trump's Proposal to cede territory to Russia. "Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier" he said in a video shot from his office. Secretary of Defense Hegseth reposted a video af a pastor saying women shouldit be allowed to vote with the comment "All of Christ for Al of Life" When the Pentagon was acked about it they did not walk it back

Drawing of the Day: Zelensky rejects Trump’s plan to give territory to Russia and Hegseth thinks women shouldn’t vote

!!KICKED OUT OF FEDCON MILITARY RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE (aka @DEFCON) !! - for daring to raise our voice against war criminals and the rise of Al tech fascism. 20 years ago when I spoke at the DEFCON hacker conference it was "spot the fed". After years in prison for hacking charges related to Anonymous, I was excited to finally return - only to find it thoroughly run by feds and deeply enmeshed with the military industrial complex we fight against. A disgusting display, the first hour's fascist fireside chat with DEFCON's Dark Tangent and General Paul Nakasone - a four star general and director of NSA and US CYBERCOMMAND until just last year. With DT saying "Go Army!" shamelessly recruiting for the military and praising Al imperialism as US bombs fall on Gaza - we had to take a stand. As they smugly took their final jello shots with so much blood on their hands, we shouted "War criminal!" "Free Palestine!" "This isn't a hacker conference - it's a military recruitment drive!" For daring to speak out, we were aggressively kicked out by Las Vegas Convention Center security guards - who put hands on us, calling us homophobic slurs. No goons or anyone from DEFCON offered any discussion or due process. Shameful how Fedcon treats real hackers and freedom of speech. Hackers, take a stand against the military co-optation of our communities and the hacker ethic! Jeremy Hammond

repost from @FreeJeremyNet (Jeremy and Jason Hammond) on twitter:

KICKED OUT OF FEDCON MILITARY RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE (aka @defcon.bsky.social ) - for daring to raise our voice against war criminals and the rise of AI tech fascism.

The Rise Of Authenticity: Why Genuine Connections Will Drive Social Media In 2025 Unveiling the dark side of social media: fake content and artificial connections. Learn why authenticity is more important than ever.

2025) Biz says in world of artificial* intelligence spam, authenticity & deinfluencers will win socials. But will fear of character* assassination stop users from opening up?

www.searchenginejournal.com/authenticity...
logie.ai/news/authent...

* Actual intelligence & actual assassinations may vary

Why Lex Fridman? Questioning why anyone should take the man-o-verse podcasters seriously

Also wondering WTF's Lex Fridman? His "Research Scientist" credentials, dubious; his water-carrying for Musk+Kremlin: clear. Wanna hate-read a piece on him? This from Feb: medium.com/the-politica...
"Generations of young [...] handing the keys to their thought processes over to men with microphones"

cspyce installed and ready...as spice! NumPy is installed! Version: 2.3.2 naif0012.tls leapseconds kernel installed and ready! de440s.bsp time-trimmed planetary ephemeris installed and ready! pck00011.tpc planetary constants kernel installed and ready! From datetime, imported datetime UTC Time: 2026-06-19T02:00:00 Pacific Daily Time: 2026-06-18 19:00:00-07:00 Ephemeris Time (ET): 835106469.1844513 CTRL+D to quit. >>>

Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility What Can One Do With SPICE? * Compute many kinds of observation geometry parameters at selected times * Positions and velocities of planets, satellites, comets, asteroids and spacecraft * Size, shape and orientation of planets, satellites, comets and asteroids * Orientation of a spacecraft and its various moving structures * Instrument field-of-view location on a planet’s surface or atmosphere https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/Tutorials/pdf/individual_docs/03_spice_overview.pdf

It's not really science fiction-writing if you're not programming python scripts to figure out stuff about the (future) setting.

(Joking of course...)

Image of prison cell derived from Megadeth's 1992 Countdown to Extinction cover art. No inhabitant pictured.

~17 years of #journalism, I've learned:

1) Almost all, even "the good people," will lie to journos to try to tilt coverage (further) in their supposed favor--and brag about it

2) a man laboring unpaid/underpaid to help women he's not in love with, will be regarded with deep suspicion by almost all

Allies of genocide

Here is screenshot my report on anti-Trump protest yesterday here in Seattle. If I can figure out the BlueSky UI, I will also post the text.

In this CNN story, shared by the secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense, leaders of the featured church say we should repeal the right for women to vote

www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/p...

2/ Previous threads of mine with more info/context:

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See also: bsky.app/profile/doug...

That's it...for now

Sheinbaum rejects US ‘invasion’ after Trump orders military to target Mexico cartels Mexico’s president says ‘there will be no invasion … it’s absolutely off the table’ after news reports of order

1/🧵Trump signs secret directive for Pentagon to capture/kill (alleged) LatAm narcos: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

#Mexico Pres. Sheinbaum: "absolutely off the table"; "no risk that [US] will invade"

Security analysts in MX fear this would devastate US-MX relations without denting cartels

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ROYBAL CAMPUS - CDC SHELTER IN PLACE.

GUNMAN AT EMORY POINT (EMORY ATLANTA CAMPUS AT EMORY POINT CVS) per the emory emergency alert.

Hide, stay safe, we love you all. We hope this ends asap.

Outside the ISS in July 2013, Parmitano stuck wedged in between components as water fills his helmet

Parmitano's short, first-person account of an EVA to adjust ISS ethernet cable turning into a harrowing close call: "Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers": blogs.esa.int/luca-parmita...

Video of same here (@ 61min): upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

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First EVA selfie. By astronaut Luca Parmitano in July 2013. More info: https://www.iflscience.com/space-selfies-djing-a-party-from-orbit-how-astronaut-luca-parmitano-brought-space-to-earth-79780

Nowadays, many see #space as boring, conquered, routine astronaut repairs on Earth orbit hardware

But in '13, few days after taking this 1st-ever EVA selfie, Luca Parmitano was adjusting #ISS gear when a leak filled his suit with almost half a gallon of water, blinding & nearly drowning him.

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Excerpt from story: The young democracy to the west, which introduced the concept of the Rights of Man to jurisprudence, now gives a feverish world the Doctrine of the Lowest Common Denominator in government. According to this doctrine as I have come to understand it through prolonged observation, it is not the worst who should govern—as many of my prejudiced fellow-delegates insist—but the mean: what might be termed the ‘unbest’ or the ‘non-elite.'

William Tenn's "Null-P" (1951) stars "normal man" & "living abstraction" George Abnego, the "median made flesh." By beating rival billed as "An Abnormal Man for an Abnormal World," Abnego becomes prez of post-apocalyptic U.S. Humanity devolves.

13-page full tale: www.mathfiction.net/files/Willia...

YouTube video by Just Away Allan Holdsworth, Anders Johansson, Jens Johansson - Heavy Machinery (Full Album 1997)

Complete album Heavy Machinery (1996)

* Fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth

* Drummer: Anders Johansson (ex-Yngwie)

* Keyboardist/synthbass: Jens Johansson (ex-Yngwie)

Yes, the Johanssons are brothers

(52min): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJBJ...

#music

Library of Congress response, Aug. 6 approx 8pm Eastern: www.instagram.com/p/DNCD9oiVChz/

Screenshot of same embedded herein.

Per email blast by #KingCounty ( #Seattle) Elections Director Julie Wise:

* Results certification: Aug. 19

* Estimated total turnout: 28%. [I believe that's ballots received as a % of registered voters]

* Special filing period open for offices without candidates: cd.kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

Unofficial as of this afternoon: Aug.'25 #KingCounty ( #Seattle) primaries: election-results-01.kingcounty.gov/results.pdf Results trickle in next few days

Good:
G. Zahilay winning county exec
K. Wilson winning mayor
E. Evans winning attorney
Bad:
V. Song winning on school board
Low turnout overall

And even if rule of law were strong, they should.

I agree with DA Krasner's point on ICE, but since (what amounts to) rule of law in U.S. is quite crumbling, prosecutors should allege rather than assert a defendant's actions. Defendant's lawyer might file that this public statement is prejudicial. Innocent till proven guilty; DAs don't decide guilt

Image of a Kindle (showing Jules Verne) on a table with tools around it. Source: https://swling.com/blog/2021/01/reviving-a-kindle-hacking-a-nook-and-more-e-ink-please/

If anyone knows how to get a #Kindle #ebook purchased from #Amazon off of a proprietary/default Kindle device so that it may be emailed, please let me know. I'm trying to obtain an obscure book for time-sensitive #journalism purposes & snailmailing it to Mexico (which I'm also doing) is really slow.

#Epstein survivors are speaking out against Trump and his protection of high-profile predators. Survivors request a third party independent inquiry and committee be created “to ensure that NO victims names or likenesses are revealed" if files are released. #3E #OpDeathEaters

It’s not like their boxes are informed understanding of power held by members of Congress. They are just various nonsensical customs and norms people have without thinking accepted as the way of the world over time.

For a lot of folks in DC, this stuff is a huge deal because within the systems they know, it represents a change in emphasis.

And I’m here to say that the system they know is leading to catastrophic failure and they need to start thinking outside insanely obtuse boxes.

This is going to be dumb.

What Is a Pocket Rescission? Understanding President Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s new plan to illegally stop spending.

New paper from me explaining "pocket rescissions," an illegal budgetary maneuver the White House is planning to do in the very near future that, ironically, misuses an aspect of the Impoundment Control Act to permanently impound funds.

(Thread on the paper)
www.americanprogress.org/article/what...

Last fall, @propublica.org and @documented.net broke the story that Russell Vought, Trump’s current budget chief, said he planned to put career civil servants “in trauma.”

Now, we're investigating the full extent of Vought's impact on the federal government. We need your help… 🧵 1/