John Whalley

John Whalley

@johnpaullviii.bsky.social

Family, art, music, books. All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order. My nose is against the window pane.

1,229 Followers 621 Following 2,223 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

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Charmed Life - The Divine Comedy
It can leave me in pieces.

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I’m sure the billions of dollars he pockets from his defense contracts with the Pentagon have nothing at all to do with shilling for Trump’s illegal war. He sure seems to support regime change as long as he’s making money off it. Pathetic.

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Tweet by Kyle Griffin reporting that the Trump administration has lifted sanctions on Russian oil currently at sea, allowing it to be shipped to buyers worldwide as energy prices surge during the Iran conflict. The post includes a New York Times link and an image of a U.S. official walking outside the White House with security personnel.

Russia keeps winning under Trump.

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The nonce and future king.

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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America? The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.

Palantir Technologies raked in $1.5 BILLION in income last year — including from lucrative taxpayer-funded DHS contracts — and paid ZERO federal income tax.

It's fast becoming the most dangerous and least accountable corporation in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88

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Still not sure if we need Medicare for All?

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Pete Hegseth Says ‘the Sooner David Ellison’ Buys CNN, ‘the Better’

Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

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The war in Iran is an American failure. What do we do now? | Robert Reich The most powerful nation in the world is now being led by a rogue president who rejects its longstanding values

"The tragic failure at the center of this devastation is not that most Americans have succumbed to war fever," writes @rbreich.bsky.social.

"In fact, this is the first war America has entered in modern times without majority in support."

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"For sale, Gibson SG Standard in classic cherry finish, very good condition, with usual surface scratches and a handful of unusual ones"

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I love it

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The Dangerous Cost of Fighting Iran Without a Strategy The United States can destroy targets in Iran — but without a strategy, destruction alone leads nowhere.

War has a way of exposing the difference between power and strategy. The United States has enormous power. What remains unclear right now is whether anyone running this war has a strategy.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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Can’t beat a good soul compilation!

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ONLY 50 ALMANAC 25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION BOX SETS LEFT

ASSEMBLED AND CURATED BY THOMAS WITH EACH SET SIGNED AND NUMBERED

€75 INC. POSTAGE

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE REMEMBER TO PUT YOUR ADDRESS WITH EVERY ORDER - THANK YOU AS ALWAYS. 🙏

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An Unplugged evening. These two are the only ones I have, probably the only ones you need.
Nirvana’s is astounding, outstanding for many reasons, and should rightly stand alongside their studio albums. Young’s is great too, he’s as wilful as ever, and the set takes some interesting detours.

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A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell Boyce | Waterstones Buy A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell Boyce from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Yes dear people it's time for the COVER REVEEEAALLL

www.waterstones.com/book/a-briti...

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Today—and EVERY day—is a great day to revisit this classic album | Explore + hear more here: album.ink/dustyinmemphis

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We did it 🥹 my first Top 40 album. Absolutely wild. Thank you SO much to everyone who has supported this album, and supported me. I am truly lost for words. @officialcharts.bsky.social

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Man Hauls a Piano Up a Mountain in Thailand and Plays Beethoven for Injured Elephants If we've featured Jazz for Cows on Open Culture, then why not Classical Music for Elephants? Actually, they're not just any elephants featured above. They're old, injured, handicapped, sometimes blind...

Man Hauls a Piano Up a Mountain in Thailand and Plays Beethoven for Injured Elephants

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PCO’s “Broadcasting from Home”. Opening with one of their most well known pieces “Music for a Found Harmonium” it’s the gateway album to getting to know them. Saw a film featuring “Harmonium” on C4’s Friday Zone 10 minute slot called “Paintbox” probably early 1985, been a favourite ever since.

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These are good, but where is “Coles Corner”?

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Mighty fine quartet!

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Got it in one!

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Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014) Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, in a post on the pioneering composer of the original Doctor Who theme, we wrote that “the early era of experimental electronic music belonged to Deli...

Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014)

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Wowser! So many!
I only have two and you can probably guess which ones.

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Miniature Retro Papercraft Synthesizers by Dan McPharlin Produced between 2006 and 2009, Australian designer and illustrator Dan McPharlin‘s Analogue Miniatures are a marvel of papercraft. The tiny analog synthesizers and pieces of recording equipment were ...

Take a look at these!

www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/03/mini...

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In the village.

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Ukraine is helping us in Iran. Russia is helping Iran. Trump is helping Russia.

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Roxy Music: They Came From Planet Bacofoil in MOJO December 1995 #BrianEno #BryanFerry www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_mojo...

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