John Ball Jones

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

The current iteration of the Republican Party consists of two competing factions:

Fuck Them Kids (figuratively) and Fuck Them Kids (literally).

In this essay I will

It should anger all of us when someone implies that you can be eugenicist towards LLMs. In an age where a eugenicist agenda is being openly implemented by the US president, with the aid/direction of SV technofascists, targeting the most vulnerable among us around the world.

Here’s the thing about America: you know which mf in this vid we’re rooting for.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

They might even go after a dem politician at some point! bsky.app/profile/iwil...

Oversight. Accountability. Release the files. Now.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.

So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

While the mainstream discussions are depressingly about *how* best to remove and stop immigrants, it’s a revolutionary act nowadays to say that immigration is actually a positive thing and an essential component of a thriving country, so please join me in doing so!

McGowan: He seems to be getting rid of statisticians and climate people and weather experts and scientists and anyone who doesn't agree with what he wants to tell or what he wants to say.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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It would be bad if the president fucked children and tried to cover it up. I think that would reflect poorly on the president and the people that supported him and would be bad for the country. That’s my opinion.

a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it . Alt: A simple man in Philly trying to understand why we want to network everything to a machine that keeps making errors

If a few people can control the (central) means of "content generation", set the guardrails that *everyone* else has to perceive, who the fuck benefits from homogenizing the perspectives of those using these tools?

Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl halftime show smiling at the camera

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

It’s my belief that we should pool our resources to support the most vulnerable among us. That’s all.

After years of promising to release the Epstein files, Republicans blocked their release because Trump asked them to.

What does he have to hide?

Wow.

The Supreme Court is a completely illegitimate institution which does not respect the will of the people, the rights of citizens, or the constitution.

It does not respect us, so we should not respect it.

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

The problem with trading government services for tax cuts is that there are a lot of essential services where no amount of additional money in your pocket makes up for their loss.

The DOGE dividend was a lie.

John Leguizamo: "We feed this country, we serve this country, we build this country, and then we get treated this way."

Where my anachronox heads at

Top 1% to Receive $1 Trillion Tax Cut from Trump Megabill Over the Next Decade The Trump megabill will give the top 1 percent tax cuts totaling $1.02 trillion over the next decade. For comparison, the bill’s cuts to the Medicaid health care program will total $930 billion over t...

🧮 MAGA Math:

17 million low-income Americans (low-income families, seniors, veterans & the disabled) will lose $1 trillion in Medicaid coverage

So 902 billionaires can receive $1 trillion in tax cuts

And still, Republicans will raise the national debt $4 trillion

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Yeah see there’s things I find annoying about Bluesky. Those things are, however, not nearly annoying enough to make me use the website with the Himmlerbot.