Greg joins the X-odus 🌹🌍✊

Show is online and archived for the next week or so if you want to check it out!

www.wtju.net/recent-shows...

Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…

let's gooooo gonna pay for my black market spaghett now that the shelves at weggies are cleared

Hands Off! – Spectre Journal Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.

spectrejournal.com/hands-off/

Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it—this zine shows you how."

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

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Thanks to @zorakc2c.bsky.social @musiconthedlo.bsky.social @rahulvanamali.com, I have finally achieved my dream of covering a Yakuza jazz bar theme: Silky Night (Yakuza 0-5), for when you're being educated on fine whiskey, or reflecting on that run-in with the Korean mafia (youtu.be/6wiBF0lf9Fs?...)

Congrats to us for being complete shit on the location of that first one.

#WhenTaken #638 (26.11.2025)

I scored 702/1000🎗️

1️⃣📍15.4K km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥉98/200
2️⃣📍423 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇180/200
3️⃣📍458 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇184/200
4️⃣📍740 km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥈165/200
5️⃣📍2.2K km - 🗓️27 yrs - 🥉75/200

whentaken.com

The only Pete Buttigieg content you should share!

Features, Not Bugs Take a look, it's in a book!

New blog post. Dig yourself out of the shit!! (read!!)
keychange.substack.com/p/features-n...

Seeing videos, etc. using the term “wrongfully detained” when what they mean is “indiscriminately abducted.”

The difference is implication of a mistake having been made vs. the truth, which is that the acts are intentional.

How to Sell a Genocide - Pluto Press A gripping exposé of how the corporate media fuelled genocide in Gaza

I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.

Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.

Is Marx still relevant today? Only if you want to know why the media distort the news in a mostly mainstream direction; why more and more people at home and abroad face economic adversity while money continues to accumulate in the hands of relatively few; why there is so much private wealth and public poverty in this country and elsewhere; why U.S. forces find it necessary to intervene in so many regions of the world; why a rich and productive economy offers chronic recessions, underemployment, and neglect of social needs; and why many political officeholders are unwilling or unable to serve the public interest." Michael Parenti from “Blackshirts & Reds”

“Is Marx still relevant today? Only if you want to know why…”

Michael Parenti from “Blackshirts and Reds”

What brought this on lol

YouTube video by purpleschala Silky Night - Yakuza 5 (jazz quartet cover ft. @RahulVanamali @MusicOnTheDLo @TheHardModes)

I'm not worthy of sharing a musical space with @purpleschala.bsky.social, but she asked me to and I did my best 一生懸命 😤😤😤

So far we have successfully cost the NYT $60,000 in annual subscription revenue over Bret Stephens' horrible column. A drop in the bucket for them, but it's important to exact a price for pushing war propaganda.

somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this

The @theguardian.com runs with "tensions rise", to describe what is in fact unilateral US aggression against a country that poses zero threat to the US or to anyone else.

Going 2x+ the speed of a normal bike brings out the worst in some drivers.

You’d think going a speed closer to theirs and keeping it relatively consistent should make for a safer ride compared to being on an acoustic bike. But they HAVE to pass, even when approaching a light.

Trying to get used to pedaling. So far I don’t know that I’ve reached a point where it feels like I don’t need more gears to make it feel really smooth. But I’m experimenting and have only ridden it a handful of miles.

Day 2 with the Aventon cargo eBike I checked out from ebikelibrarycville.com

I feel like I could ride comfortably in much colder weather. Didn’t like to ride acoustic below 40 F.

Situating AI's hype, enforcement as a capitalist+fascist response to pandemic, police racial terrorism, increasing economic inequality, @audreywatters.bsky.social: "I always feel the need to remind people that neither robots nor AI are coming for our jobs. But management probably is."

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Charlottesville E-bike Lending Library A free e-bike lending library serving the Charlottesville area

Btw, you too can check out a bike—it’s free and easy

www.ebikelibrarycville.org

Just learning the lessons of needing to be even more defensive when going 18mph rather than 11.

Checked out a new cargo ebike from the Cville eBike Library and on my first commute to work this morning, already almost got run over by a giant truck with a giant Blue Lives Matter decal on it.

He had to get around me to get to the 4-way stop 3 seconds sooner, ofc 😎😎😎

What's up with the hashtag? Why are you manufacturing consent to allow people to pretend there's a ceasefire or a deal?

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

“During the ten-day period before I resigned, I also reached out to a former Board member, who has extensive connections in DC, to see if there was some way to stop this from happening. We spent several days trying to understand if this was a bluff and/or if there were some way to forestall the looming threat to UVA and to me. In the meantime, Paul Manning reached out directly to the DOJ lawyers to make sure he was not missing anything, and he said that they told him that if I didn't resign. they would "bleed UVA white."”

Former UVA President Jim Ryan has just released a 12-page memo of his own account of his forced resignation last summer. Here’s just a bit in which Paul Manning, a member of the Board, was told by DOJ that unless Ryan departed they would “bleed UVA white.”

Let's goooooo ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥