Jeremy (he/they)

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."

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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during President Ronald Reagan’s term. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during Ronald Reagan’s term.

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away

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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

How the higher education outrage sausage is made I was exposed by Campus Reform and lived to tell the tale

I wrote recently about my more than 20 years in higher ed: "The biggest change I have observed is that I, my colleagues, and our students are intensely surveilled in the hope that we can be publicly shamed, fired or expelled if we say or do something wrong."
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Blue graphic of the 1st amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

We stand with those who exercise their right to free speech. The irony of #ABC and the #FCC trying to silence Jimmy Kimmel on the day the Constitution was signed in 1787 is not lost on us.

Here’s the 1st amendment again, because obviously Brenden Carr and Almin Karamehmedobic didn’t pay attention.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

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.

This is bad news for the first amendment

This is why they’re deleting studies

This is unsurprising and very much not good.

Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies

This is a really, really ominous development

(AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.)

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White Christian Taliban shit right here.

Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Code being open source doesn't mean that using it for LLM training cannot be a violation of the license associated with the code. I don't see how feeding the code through an LLM gets me around my obligations to cite the original code but I also cannot cite the original code if an LLM gives it to me.

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”

My latest in @thebulwark.com

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Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt Was Killed Storming The Capitol. She Will Now Receive Military Funeral Honors. The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.

This is absolutely disgraceful.

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This is so fetch.

This is encouraging to hear at least

Air Force leadership continues to disappoint me. This is out of line with the values I was taught (and taught) at USAFA.

Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is standing in sick bay talking down to someone. Not like in a belittling way, she's just talking to someone who's sitting down. And she has a dolphin shaped metal mechanism above her eyeball because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Survival is insufficient."

An important retraction

Yas!