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Software Developer/security weirdo, swordsman, Native. Always trying to improve. Tweets are my own. I write at http://misanthropic.dev (He/They) Columbus, Ohio area All my links/sites - https://linktr.ee/jameshollingshead

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Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

10.10.2025 23:09 — 👍 3766    🔁 1515    💬 168    📌 178

The more he opens his mouth, the less that I like him.

10.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

09.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 4578    🔁 1252    💬 75    📌 47

Talk about electronic waste. That's ridiculous on so many levels...

09.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology...

If you run a NAS company, don't upset the nerds.

www.guru3d.com/story/synolo...

08.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 47    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 2

Sounds like Apple is tired of having customers

08.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

08.10.2025 01:02 — 👍 913    🔁 330    💬 28    📌 7
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

07.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 56001    🔁 21057    💬 1715    📌 1245

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

06.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 982    🔁 396    💬 35    📌 13

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

07.10.2025 04:59 — 👍 2236    🔁 679    💬 14    📌 16

Every major police agency in the country bans this.

06.10.2025 02:30 — 👍 774    🔁 190    💬 11    📌 1

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

05.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 6259    🔁 891    💬 107    📌 30

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

04.10.2025 23:14 — 👍 14560    🔁 3404    💬 139    📌 69
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JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans."

REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.

05.10.2025 00:05 — 👍 9496    🔁 3714    💬 435    📌 189

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

04.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 5738    🔁 1579    💬 66    📌 65

You literally had your state patrol officers backing up ICE.

Yes, that's not the national guard. The state troopers are less restrained in what they can do.

You've shown you're all talk and no action. And chances are good that any aspirations you have past governor are gone because of it.

04.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stephen Miller is a terrorist and a fascist nazi ghoul. On the day he is brought to justice before the Hague, I will celebrate.

04.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

i think it’s really important for people to understand that much of the nazis’ strategy was actually taken from the united states, and specifically from the genocide against indigenous people, and the continued systemic racism against Black people and the survivors of the genocide.

04.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 90    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 0

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

04.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 9506    🔁 4104    💬 327    📌 139

I see we're back at this bullshit again.

Something tells me that he's panicking

04.10.2025 01:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My "normal" is a normal person's idea of a 2 or 3.

Of course, my "10" (which has happened a couple of times) is "I had to focus to keep myself from passing out due to pain"

03.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The market is completely divorced from reality. The S&P 500 is up 0.53% since the shutdown started.

VOO, which tracks the S&P was up around 1% when I checked it a while ago.

Unhinged Tariffs? Poor labor market? Inflation? Falling consumer confidence? Govt shutdown? LINE GO UP

Bubble has to pop...

03.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's too hard. Fooling people into believing the hype is way easier

03.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Isn't the governor the controlling executive for the state patrol?

Hasn't said governor been speaking out against this sort of thing?

So... why is it happening with his officers on his watch?

Words and actions aren't lining up here.

03.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is both bad and indicative of ICEs deeply fascist tendencies and also, I dont think 30 whole ppl is probably gonna cover it for "surveil social media 24/7."

03.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 147    🔁 49    💬 18    📌 1
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You're supposed to be emotionally attached in a relationship. That's what a relationship is.

03.10.2025 06:25 — 👍 2012    🔁 144    💬 62    📌 31
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Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

03.10.2025 01:34 — 👍 13996    🔁 5787    💬 474    📌 306
Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go. “I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

02.10.2025 12:16 — 👍 3693    🔁 1580    💬 89    📌 169

What academic worth their salt trusts the word of ANY Big Tech company? Their histories demonstrate they will lie, cheat and steal and that they do not care about anything about making trillions; why trust them? Why entrust our students to them? Why train your chatbot replacements?

02.10.2025 12:09 — 👍 58    🔁 21    💬 5    📌 1

Holy shit.

02.10.2025 00:21 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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