@davidpham5.bsky.social
Self taught in many things. Slightly above average software engineer. Work for the local paper. Privacy and data protection is my racket. Studied history. Gen 1 American. 99.99.99hrs+ on FF7 on PS1. My new years' resolution is to eat more homemade carbs.
I wonder if the increase in sports and gambling together has accelerated in alienating a certain segment of the population who want nothing to do with gambling in their sports experience.
No one has explained to me why we’re in this war in the first place
Someone at the NYT asked me a couple years ago for an opinion piece on "how to solve the Colorado River water crisis."
So I made a nice little writeup on the most obvious answer: charging for water.
Once the editorial board saw it, they freaked out & cancelled the piece.
Not great for those mortgage rates Trump has promised to bring down. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The White House is considering ending funding for a longtime civil rights election program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote.
The program sends neutral, third-party observers to monitor election sites to ensure voters don't experience discrimination at the polls.
But Karl, it would be unsporting to call out a bribe for being a bribe.
Ooo. Gas is expensive in Louisiana where usually it is not. The regime clearly had no plan beyond “blow shit up” and “kill and traumatize civilians.”
handelsblatt on trump’s iran war
[checks notes]
There may well be a boring, innocent explanation here. But at the very least the optics are terrible, given prior meddling in/sabotage of other statistical agencies. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
Moronistan.
The quoted tweet is, among other things, a devastating indictment of Politico. No one there is capable of recognizing it or feeling shame, but still.
Am I the only person alive who has never felt even the slightest temptation to gamble? The whole appeal of it absolutely baffles me and yet it appears to be swallowing our culture whole.
How you sleep when you just destroyed your country’s economy and plunged it into a senseless war to distract from your membership in a sex trafficking ring.
Breaking NYT:
The Trump admin just lifted sanctions on Russian oil currently at sea — allowing it to be shipped to buyers around the world as Trump scrambles to contain soaring energy prices because of his war with Iran.
The admin claims the move is temporary.
Close the Straits? Who could have predicted that?
In case you’re wondering how his night is going, Musk is currently reposting Grok AI videos made by his fans including one of him kissing a random woman
A man without education or history is sure to be confident in his decisions and judgment. The world recoils to his carelessness as people die, cities burn, and society convulses. A man as alien as Trump is a threat to freedom and democracy.
“Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.”
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Four more Americans just died due to Trump's war
Breaking:
Four service members have died after a U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq on Thursday while supporting Trump's war in Iran.
Rescue efforts are still underway for the remaining two crew members after an apparent mid-air accident between two KC-135 tanker aircraft.
Great point from @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social: From Minneapolis to the Mideast, Trump keeps discovering that he can't bully and bullshit his way through. Failure to grasp real-world complexities keeps blowing up in his face.
On the pod, Nick is so illuminating:
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
Example 23, the Chinese century.
Wind power, as it turns out, is very useful
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Went on @reckless.bsky.social's podcast to talk about surveillance and how the US government interprets its surveillance authorities, what that means for all of us in this digital age, and maybe why Anthropic wasn't entirely thrilled with Pete Hegseth's demands.
I'm feeling pretty good about the latest iteration of the Markpub.at lexicon! Getting ready to publish soon!
Ok. I realize I'm late to the game, but earlier this week I *finally* installed @s.ly's superpowers to my Claude Code setup and, dang, it really does add superpowers to what already felt like superpowers. I feel like I need to go back and redo everything I've done before.
github.com/obra/superpo...
Thinking big thoughts on analytics in ATProto I clearly need to put down! This is really cool!
People are totally going to set up pirate servers for their cars aren't they. I bet they already have.
This is *the* threat to our democracy.