Jon Brown

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

You're looking at it backward... we just need to speed up humans so they can get out of the way faster.

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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy Plus, scientists are fighting back against the administration’s climate misinformation.

Here’s how Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy.

SCO summit could challenge US dominance and lend weight to China’s vision of a multipolar world The leaders of Russia, China, India and seven other nations are meeting in northern China for the latest summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization The meeting Monday could be an emerging challen...

Trump isn’t dead, he’s hiding from journalists because he knows this shows what an abject failure his foreign policy has been. apnews.com/article/shan...

This photo, from the article linked below, tells the story in full.

Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy? “She painted a very clear picture about survival.”

Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?

Who remembers the 80s Australian TV show Beyond 2000

Early this morning, an Army Joint Light Tactical Vehicle was involved in an accident with a civilian car on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.

D.C. Police confirm to me that the driver of one of the vehicles was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

It's in the small town we live in. So it's likely that half the folks cheering will already know my name ;)

This is a good example of the ouroboros problem with LLMs. Ask Google AI a Q, it provides a link to its source, which is someone quoting ChatGPT!

It's not necessarily wrong, but is reinforcing second-hand info instead of reliable original info.

Oh, and wish me luck, running my first 5K this wkend

Asimov’s Foundation is one of the greatest books ever written. Apple’s TV adaptation is ok… but strips out 80% of the story and then wastes 15 minutes of every episode explaining what’s missing.

Producers I beg of you. Lean into longer more detailed stories. SHOW don’t tell.

Harris was always my second choice for governor, you were always the first :D Let's build housing, let's fix homeowners' and health insurance, let's focus on a return of tax dollar investments in CA.

YouTube video by Rep. Katie Porter Rep. Katie Porter Lays Out Her Plan to Lower the Cost of Housing

Shoked Harris isn't going to run for CA Gov, however delighted as it puts @katieporteroc.bsky.social in the lead. Porter is my personal favorite over Harris anyway. Like Buttigieg she consistently cuts through the noise and offers smart, practical solutions like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7h8...

Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️

Another example is Costco and Instacart. Costco.com prices are higher than in the warehouses, plus you pay a delivery fee on top of the markup. Or you can order through Instacart, and they mark up prices even higher than Costco_com and have delivery fees and tips on top of the marked up prices.

It’s complicated… DD, GH, etc are marketplaces just like Etsy or Airbnb and they charge a LOT to access that market. I wish it were easier for these food businesses to be online without relying on these marketplaces but e-commerce and delivery are not trivial infrastructure to build and maintain.

“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof President The new season première goes after Trump as never before—and solves a problem that’s plagued comedians since his first term in office.

“South Park” has managed to offend nearly every political group, pop-culture fandom, and religious denomination. Now it’s managed to piss off Donald Trump like never before.

Serverless Statusphere: a walk through building serverless ATProto applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform Build and deploy real-time, decentralized Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto) apps on Cloudflare Workers.

Real-time, decentralized social apps — without running a single server. Here’s how to build and deploy an atproto app on Cloudflare Workers. blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-a...

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.

This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out WeTransfer added the magic words "machine learning" to its ToS and users reacted predictably Analysis  WeTransfer this week denied claims it uses files uploaded to its ubiquitous cloud storage service to train AI, and rolled back changes it had introduced to its Terms of Service after they deeply upset users. The topic? Granting licensing permissions for an as-yet-unreleased LLM product.…

As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out

YouTube video by The Daily Show Jordan Klepper Charts Trump's Long History with Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell | The Daily Show

Jordan Klepper Charts Trump's Long History with Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell

youtu.be/lPGBi6_G6i4

Epic by @jordanklepper.bsky.social

It’s insanely disappointing how quickly the US is falling behind China in AI and high tech manufacturing like EVs, solar panels, large wind turbines, batteries, high speed rail, robotics, drones… and the list goes on.

Hi, #3dprinting. As of a few weeks ago, I'm unemployed.

I want to do this full time. Be the filament librarian for real instead of just on the weekends, like I have for the last six years.

Can you help? forum.filamentcolors.xyz/d/31-a-call-... Reposts appreciated!

Mānoa: Unprecedented acidification ahead for corals in Hawai‘i waters A new study, led by oceanographers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, has revealed that unprecedented levels of ocean acidification are expected around the main Hawaiian Islands within the next three decades.

A new study, led by oceanographers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, has revealed that unprecedented levels of ocean acidification are expected around the main Hawaiian Islands within the next three decades.

#UHManoa #Ocean #Acidification