Jay Gruber

I do some of my best work out of spite, yes. Good fuel. 😅

Yes, it's so dumb! Who came up with this "just consistently make good choices" nonsense?

Nice work, both for doing your thing, and your post has nudged me in the direction of doing the rhythm boxing workout that I was procrastinating. Ahh it will be fueled by spite.

As a Husky, reluctantly...

Yeah, Go Cougs for that one that's just awesome. Respect the dragon man, long may he burninate.

We have been through so many manufactured moral panics about nonsense harmless things.

But this thing keeps demonstrating harms. And we have unlimited money for it. And we have unlimited benefit of the doubt for it.

Bluesky, seeing the cultural pendulum ready to reverse swing:

You Should Care About Other People!

Mobile Identify*

I flagged Mobile Identity as inappropriate in the Play store. "Content felt hostile".

"Of course I'm real! Of course this is a real place, Charlie! You want to come here and visit? It's easy! All you have to do is..."

ChatGPT already encourages self-harm sometimes. Why not

Hey the poll feature looks pretty neat! I know some folks talking about starting a book club. Was thinking of using this to vote on which book to read first.

You've Been Quiet - Jay's Pub a lot lately

Something I wrote: jay.leaflet.pub/3m5f3fldejs2x
Still enjoying leaflet for writing

Come on 50 years is only like 2 baseball games from this year's post season, pay that thing off in no time

Set piece defense couldn't hurt

"like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings"
- Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, back in April

I enjoyed reading this piece about why media outlets that claim to be pure, objective, and impartial are completely full of shit.

Cool, so you agree that we should have some public restrooms in this city

... The same devices that agents are running Mobile Fortify on? These are the devices on which they should daily take many screenshots and send those to email?

The phones that DHS uses to gather biometrics that they treat as more authoritative than a birth certificate. DHS's phones.

Already preparing for the whiplash when another one of these headlines and "awarded FIFA peace prize" happen on the same day.

Whether this interaction is human-coded or a "hallucination", a product that lies like this to someone who expresses suicidal ideation is not a product that we should permit to exist.

OpenAI should be dismantled stone by stone and every member of leadership held accountable. This is abhorrent.

Lead the way then, Cavalrysword. Show us how it is done. Go encourage some white voters and come back and tell us how it goes.

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

"Forgive us our trespasses"
A soldier carrying a rifle

"... as we forgive those who trespass against us"
A military plane

A Message of Forgiveness, brought to you by our newly renamed Department of War. Inspiring stuff.

Luddite (laudatory) one who embodies Silicon Valley's principle of "move fast and break things"

Yup, Jim James

Mr. James is who I was thinking of. Something neat I just found: the city has an archive and a bunch of old yearbooks scanned. www.anacorteswa.gov/Archive.aspx....

Got curious, checked his wiki page for a birth year (+18) looked at the '74 book. Lists a Mr. Cornett as art teacher, I'm not familiar

A dog lying on its side on a couch

Dang. I miss having Inspectors General.

New ICE mobile app pushes biometric policing onto American streets | Biometric Update Designed for ICE field agents, the Mobile Fortify app enables real-time biometric identity verification using facial recognition or contactless fingerprints.

"An audit last September by DHS’s Inspector General [...] revealed that ICE failed to apply required government security settings to roughly 73 percent of its mobile devices"

Quelle surprise.

www.biometricupdate.com/202506/new-i...

Why do I feel like ICE agents are running this Mobile Fortify app on their personal iPhones with no org security controls

We are led by a pirate king, but make it suck and not be cool

Stop it. The man said "for those able and willing to help". If that isn't you, you can just keep quiet.

Sometimes bad things happen to other people and it isn't about you. Stop centering yourself.