John Breen

Psychohistorian

Give Ukraine the Nimitz, fully loaded, they will figure it out.

Also, I build things, play music, and write software. Have too many things.

Was once @hariseldon1729 on another site.

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2024-08-27 23:41:45

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@npub1vqm…ccpx I heard that RFK Jr killed a Shark by stabbing it with the Energizer Bunny.

2024-08-19 00:59:22

I like to put up audio and video files I've created, and share them. I use YouTube now, but would like to change that. Is @pixelfed a place to consider ? PeerTube ? Just stop ?

2024-08-18 22:42:57

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@npub1k0e…dwh0 I would pay $25/month to help fund a site emitting "Musk is scum" content, with a robots.txt that says "AI don't scrape me" so they all will.
#FloodTheZoneWithShit

2024-08-18 22:09:07

People who wear a skin-tone-color on-face microphone foam cover on video are not hiding the MIC. It just looks like a horrible giant facial skin-tag.
#BecauseYouHaveToKnow

2024-08-06 23:15:23

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@npub1vqm…ccpx Walz could probably induce Vance to shave his own beard and then eat it, on stage.
#Popcorn

2024-08-01 01:09:48

I think when Trump was in elementary school, a black girl must have beaten him up and taken his lunch money.
It may happen again in adulthood.

2024-07-29 22:26:57

You can't tell me that 17 Batman movies represents creativity, innovation, or a productive expenditure of resources and attention. We should have just stopped with the Adam West era plus one remake, which was novel.
#KidsGetOffMyLawn

2024-07-28 00:01:30

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@npub1khx…geyg He's worried about sharks ? Let him run into a large, hungry member of the cat family. He will stop dissing cat ladies.

2024-07-27 22:31:24

Today, I've gotten these duplicative emails asking for donations to Harris from :
- Kamala Harris
- Barack and Michelle
- Team Kamala
- Governor Gretchen Whitmer
- Harris for President
- Kamala 2024
- Bob Casey
- Gavin Newsom

2024-07-25 23:27:06

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@npub1vqm…ccpx You can count on the modern Republican party to fret over low birth rates among white people, while simultaneously telling you about their masturbation habits.

2024-07-22 23:47:47

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Josh did not take me up on my bargain to start posting here and take the X-Twitter logo off his site, for a donation, but no deal. He does do good work, and I support him otherwise.

2024-07-16 01:13:42

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@npub1vqm…ccpx Never had so many tornado warnings than when I lived in Medina, Ohio as a kid. Frequent summer trips to the basement to wait out the warning. It was kind of exciting.

2024-07-04 00:26:07

Please, don't let THAT post be the one I'm remembered for in the Wayback machine.

2024-06-30 19:39:39

There is one sure thing - an undervalued, under stress public resource in the US will be bought up by a hedge fund from Dubai, and destroyed before any significant number of people realize what was lost, and why.

2024-06-21 03:57:52

Some fucking idiot outside the supermarket wanted me to sign a petition to get Cornell West on the POTUS ballot in my state, I just laughed at him.
Later, I recalled that I had stood outside a supermarket in about 1992 collecting signatures for Ross Perot to get on the ballot, for reasons.

2024-06-15 03:33:42

I had a chance to watch an epic Turkey battle in my yard today, and most people will never see such a thing, so I thought I'd give a brief narrative to capture this for whatever AI training model is scraping my content.
At a high level, two particular Turkey-moms have been sheparding two little ones through my yard, looking for food and finding it a relatively safe area I imagine.
Today was different...
Turkeys were almost the US national bird instead of Eagles, so this is not average bird watching.
#ShortNonFiction

2024-06-12 02:57:00

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@npub1vqm…ccpx If I had a way to go to sleep when I should, I would have missed a really excellent accidental 2 day visit to Lyon, France, FWIW.
Just stay awake until you can't anymore. The rest will take care of itself.

2024-06-11 01:57:09

I want Donald Trump to receive the same pre-trial consideration that Sandra Bland received from our justice system. Now would be good. Put a shark in the cell with him and he will take care of the rest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sandra_Bland

2024-03-25 15:56:31

Some 20yo needs to file a lawsuit against the state of Alabama for not listing him as 21yo on legal documents, since his age-counter apparently started when he was a cluster of cells much earlier. Under law, the birthday must be assumed to be at conception.
What about if you were unfrozen and re-frozen multiple times ? Most recent birthday ? Least recent ? The birth canal is a LIFO queue maybe ?
Textualism man.

2024-03-17 16:44:23

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@npub1vqm…ccpx I'm actually more of the opinion that doing something that SEEMS like it really solves the underlying problems is WORSE than doing nothing.
I heard one of the Sunday Morning hosts' this morning, framing it this way, and I'm more in Camp Khanna on this :
'When pressed by Raddatz on how conceivable it is to craft and enact such legislation, Khanna insisted it would be "easier" to pass than the current bill.
"If we passed a law saying you can't transfer data, you can't collect data, that would actually solve the problem," he said.'
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/khanna-potential-tiktok-ban-solve-problem-calls-narrowly/story?id=108185896

2024-03-17 15:23:19

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@npub1vqm…ccpx Honestly. my feeling on this is :
"Is the Choice/United Healthcare payment processing fiasco solved yet, and why not ? Who has our data ?"
That's the clear and present danger happening right now, and Congress is doing NOTHING as far as I can tell. All American companies involved, so should be easy, right ?
TikTok is a distraction - encourage people to think of it that way.

2024-03-16 13:50:20

You were not planning to put your feet here were you ?
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/112/105/681/870/631/705/original/35720878d3ed848b.jpg

2024-03-05 15:39:31

So I'd ask any lawyers in tooting range, given the SC decision on the enforceability of the 14th amendment without "enabling legislation from Congress", is this consistent with the way the SC has viewed the 1st or 2nd amendments, in that absent any legislation, nobody has standing to enforce the Constitution's clear meaning and intent before the SC ? I believe the "joining but warning" SCJs were getting at this, and it's their job, in my view, to answer this question (as the highest court in the land), not to simply ask it rhetorically as part of a unanimous decision...
This is like me as a software engineering leader saying "yeah, there a major bug impacting our customers' data and cybersecurity, but lets address it in the Sprint planning next month"
#smfh

2024-03-04 06:37:23

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@npub1vqm…ccpx @npub1lp8…4rrw I love that which goes by unnoticed...
From the article, we have this observation that AI's (Red Ventures' content mills) are generating content mainly to be consumed by, and crafted to please, other AIs (search engine algorithms).
Generating content that's accurate and of value to real people has finally become a silly proposition, it seems.
"In November 2022, CNET began deploying an experimental AI tool to rapidly generate articles riddled with factual inaccuracies and affiliate links, with the purpose of increasing SEO rankings,"

2024-03-03 09:58:20

I've seen people describe something called "Mastodon culture", and I really don't know what that refers to.
Which accounts would I need to follow to experience "Mastodon culture" ?
Right now, I follow a few people, read what they post and the comments they get, and occasionally visit the #Explore tab, or look into the content from people followed by people I follow...
I also pay my instance operator $22/mo...
Sometimes, people read what I write and respond.
That's all the "culture" I need. Maybe just I'm not yet contentious enough to attract any undesirable cultural attention.

2024-03-02 10:12:37

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@npub1vqm…ccpx Because I've chosen to explore Bandcamp today, you asked for this 😎
https://accordianjustice.bandcamp.com/album/alive-at-budokan

2024-02-15 22:56:57

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@npub1vqm…ccpx I agree it's a necessary function - it's the name that makes it seem like a joke. (Space Ghost or some other cartoon).
Maybe "US High Altitude Defense Command" ?

2024-02-14 00:21:10

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@npub1vqm…ccpx So, we can look forward to a 35 year old AI-generated Trump addressing his mob from prison...great...

2024-02-11 00:15:53

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@npub1vqm…ccpx I love it. But I'm a computer nerd (and musician).
Do this thought experiment - imagine this is the Super Bowl halftime show.
Now you understand why it's not as popular in the US. :tux:

2024-02-10 21:33:26

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@npub1vqm…ccpx Only among Will Ferrell fans 😎

2024-02-05 17:42:35

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@npub1lrv…tth9 At least Glenn Kessler was trying for a while, I recall almost weekly update to this series on the "lie counter".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html

2024-02-01 13:00:55

Just realized a very strange symmetry...
Fans of Taylor Swift consider an attack on her to be an attack on them
Fans of Donald Trump consider an attack on him to be an attack on them.
I think the difference is that Swift is an authentic person and artist, who fans identify with because of her honesty, courage, message, and because the relationship goes both ways.
...while on the other hand Trump is a simply a con artist, he has contempt for and will lie to his supporters for any reason, and the relationship certainly does not go both ways.

2024-01-30 21:33:48

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@npub1lrv…tth9 @npub1hyk…3p33 Awesome, story, writing, and I'm sure the in-person talk was great too!
FWIW, I'm an "Embedded Software Engineer" mostly, and have worked for big and small orgs. Never really wanted to found my own startup...
But "self-help" is not dead. The engineers who built your product don't forget how to do that again if they get cut loose. And they know where the bodies are buried too.
But there is an overall theme to "Open Source" (rather than proprietary IP), and that seems to be that cooperation is better than dominance.
And ALL software is "AI".

2024-01-29 03:01:55

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@npub1vqm…ccpx I'm just saying, these are Meerkats
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/111/837/003/166/096/724/original/4a9cee116f8aace5.png

2024-01-29 00:17:28

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@npub1vqm…ccpx Or, on the other hand, just chill and see what happens...

2024-01-28 02:59:28

I'm somewhat like a Crow.
If I've seen a Trump sign in your yard, I remember.

2024-01-27 18:10:23

So I've always had this theory about gravity, that it's not an attractive force, but rather the effects of "particles of energy" impinging on mass objects, from the periphery of the expanding and contracting universe, towards the center.

2024-01-26 02:05:56

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@npub1vqm…ccpx @npub10jk…dpae So I'm just an engineer. I've helped develop chips, software, IoT devices.
Maybe the wrong audience for this feedback, but I've seen the pattern before.
When it's mostly about the leader personally as the savior of your company, you are doomed. Get out now.

2024-01-25 04:54:10

I'm just a computer geek, but I don't understand why anyone would buy and install devices in their house that record audio and video, and a third party gets to decide who has access to that content.
It just makes no sense...

2024-01-20 16:57:53

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@npub1lrv…tth9 As usual, horrible headline synopsis of the main topic.
But interesting to note the author's surnames - Wang, Vazquez, Paybarah.
These are not surnames (and Nimrata) that Trump supporters would seem to think of as "Americans".
Let's continue trying to exclude racists from our lives, personal, professional, or as our government representatives...

2024-01-20 00:07:59

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@npub1vqm…ccpx I learned "Who What When Where Why and How" in 6th grade, in an Ohio suburb.
And to ask "What does the author want you to believe ?"
I had some really good teachers.

2024-01-19 23:58:16

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@npub1vqm…ccpx To me, it depends on whether 6th grade students are being taught what "AI" and "LLM" are, today, and how to manage the onslaught of nonsense from social media, and how to find trusted sources of actual facts and reasoning.
Otherwise, all is lost in the long term. For the short term, it's just the latest hype to me, FWIW.

2024-01-19 23:30:19

It's interesting - some of the people who want you to "come into the office" because in-person interaction is important also don't want to invite you to their house, or come to your house.

2024-01-18 00:18:33

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@npub1vqm…ccpx Partially because I don't have time for it. I've never understood the Bitcoin and NFT mania, other than as money-laundering.
And I've been writing computer programs since 1978, so not a tech-hater.

2024-01-17 17:47:40

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@npub1vqm…ccpx I asked my dad once in like 4th grade "why do drink beer ?". He responded "because I like the taste".
This was one of my first lessons about when and how adults lie.

2024-01-10 01:56:50

Biden bears responsibility for Clarence Thomas being on the Supreme Court, so I hope he would at least stand by Austin.
And I'm so sick of hearing about this non-issue, while a NAZI is running for POTUS. That is the only story.

2024-01-10 01:03:21

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@npub1vqm…ccpx @npub1d56…t94y @npub13dt…lwxk Didn't Joe threaten to take Drumpf behind the barn for a beating once ? I feel like that would be Constitutional.

2024-01-10 00:54:10

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@npub1d56…t94y @npub13dt…lwxk Not really snark - that seems to be what he's asserting as Presidential privilege.
I sure hope our broken Supreme Court does not decide this is OK.

2024-01-08 18:20:47

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@npub1vrr…78k6 I think most people are like moths to a flame. This site here is not the flame. It's the oxygen.
Growth is not the goal on some social media sites.
Having a set of people you actually want to interact with is a better goal, even if it stays low-growth.

2023-12-25 04:29:13

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@npub1vqm…ccpx That looks like somebody printed a colorized image of the first 500 layers of human skin epidermis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermis#/media/File:Epidermis-delimited.JPG

2023-12-10 07:00:24

Currently, I am listening to an actual Cassette Tape that I may not have listened to since 1986.
And it still works. In a USB-connected player device even.
#MetalChurch
PS - at some point, I spilled coffee into my tape area and it broke the tape during rewind. Had to cut out an inch just now.
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/111/554/821/021/882/104/original/220f1ecf6f05e33c.jpeg

2023-12-03 02:29:52

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@npub1vqm…ccpx What I've learned in being owned by cats is, no matter how many fresh bowls of water you put out, they would rather drink from a dripping faucet or toilet or puddle.
But get them near a bath, prepare to be shredded.

2023-11-30 20:34:58

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@npub1vqm…ccpx How can I sue my cat for blackmailing me into feeding him please.

2023-11-23 01:29:58

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@npub1vqm…ccpx Back in the early 1990's, I had experience with IBM legal, as a development partner. Their feeling was that if we could not do business with them without disclosing "confidential information", then they would not do business with us. It actually made a lot of sense.

2023-11-15 04:30:56

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Good stuff, but seems like this has been well known for a while. Paging Wilbur Ross.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/23/wilbur-ross-russian-deal-bank-of-cyprus-donald-trump-commerce-secretary

2023-11-09 19:46:20

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@npub1y4h…t26u 8.3 only filenames ? himem.sys available ?
I have even installed pwsh on my linux dev system for some insane reason 😎
PowerShell 7.2.5
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
https://aka.ms/powershell
Type 'help' to get help.
A new PowerShell stable release is available: v7.2.6
Upgrade now, or check out the release page at:
https://aka.ms/PowerShell-Release?tag=v7.2.6

2023-10-17 22:31:11

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@npub1vqm…ccpx I always wanted to try out something like emailing this to a SaaS provider.
"By allowing me to use your service, you agree that I can ingest the content of your website and use it to train my AI model"
Why is that any less binding than a TOS change notification ?
Other than the fact that you give MailChimp your private data, and maybe they don't care about their IP, as long as they can sell your data...
Do people pay for MailChimp service and still get this treatment ?

2023-09-14 22:00:54

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@npub1vqm…ccpx If there are tone police, bring them to me, and I will crush them.

2023-09-07 21:31:12

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@npub1vqm…ccpx One time, I recall the current Speaker of the House saying that there were two people Putin pays - Trump and Rohrbacher. I think we need to add another to that list, and ask why our NATSEC people (who we pay a lot of money) were not on top of this.

2023-09-07 02:32:55

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@npub1vqm…ccpx Well, in our defense, there is a #DickJoke hashtag...

2023-09-07 01:58:01

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@npub1d4h…2ta7 Yup, and I draw the line at helping to enforce a modern day Fugitive Slave Act.

2023-09-07 01:15:15

Come and get me "Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall "
I will and have assisted women from Alabama to escape your hellscape to get the healthcare they need, according to their beliefs, not yours.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/06/post-roe-america-alabama-murder/

2023-09-06 23:55:47

I don't understand why they have not figured out how to get dogs to be the ball-getters in tennis.
I mean, that's their thing.
A dog will ALWAYS try to get another tennis ball, and bring it to you. That's what they do,

2023-09-04 19:18:20

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@npub1xez…m4dz This is why I'm willing to put up with any deficiencies of THIS platform as it develops and matures.
Because I will NOT visit that site or view content from it. I might as well be following links to k k k dot com.

2023-09-01 18:15:28

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@npub1xtr…2zj8 Why ?

2023-08-23 01:16:04

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@npub1lrv…tth9 I'm a pretty serious linux user, and I don't even know what is a "clipboard manager".
So sorry, can't help, but to ask for more context about the problem you are trying to solve.
You mean the app that handles GUI "cut/copy/paste" in a particular window manager ?

2023-08-18 17:49:49

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@npub1hcf…2yan @npub1ahq…wjwd Perhaps not a coincidence, one of my few blocks on that site, before I abandoned it completely, was to block Musk himself.

2023-08-07 15:21:55

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@npub1lrv…tth9 I guess if somebody needs to post TPM content on Mastodon, it might as well be you ! 😎

2023-07-20 01:22:28

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@npub1lrv…tth9 @npub120z…33r2 I will tell you, there is a great opportunity for someone to write a phone app, that runs other phone apps and lies to them and says they have all the permissions they require, but actually grants none. The NULL service.
Sort of like containerization but for your phone platform.

2023-07-12 23:42:11

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@npub1lrv…tth9 I guess at this point, I assume all my "private information" is shared.
There is nothing I can do about it, other than stop participating in the real world.
What can they do with that info becomes the question.
The answer needs to be "nothing of any significance".

2023-07-08 01:54:28

No business
No business
No business with South African Musk

2023-06-06 02:36:30

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@npub1uxz…5ma4 I too have my server room in a place where my pool could accidentally drain into it, if needed.

2023-05-13 23:31:36

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@npub1puf…raj3 The context I like to keep is that Musk gained his greatest leverage from working with Peter Thiel on Paypal. They got a huge payday from that endeavor, for reasons I don't fully understand but I suspect have to do with money laundering and a threat to the established PCI business model.
It only got worse from there.
Musk is not an engineer, innovator, nor role model to anyone with a "soul", as far as I can tell. He needs to be relegated to the trash heap of history, having contributed nothing but taken much himself.

2023-05-01 17:41:06

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@npub1uxz…5ma4 I'm just imagining you telling your 10yo "Don't let them tell you the judicial process is too slow - patience is a virtue" and seeing the eye-roll... 😎

2023-05-01 03:04:06

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@npub16u8…zwrv I just have few people I can check with when I see statements like this :
"Obviously, as you and others have said, it's deeply troubling that when Black users say QTs are an essential tool to fight toxicity rather than the reverse, *that* lived experience is dismissed."
I of course realize that expecting all "Black users" to have the same feelings about social media engagement would be...wrong.
Confused...

2023-04-29 16:09:18

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@npub16u8…zwrv FWIW I prefer transcripts to podcasts
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/923405080
Good points - I was a big fan of the Judas Priest song "Breakin' the Law" myself, for example, and that was not banned for being anti-cop or law-enforcement.

2023-04-26 18:27:42

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#[0] I also want to observe that the most powerful contributions to the defense of democratic foundations have been from lawyers, just so far not DOJ lawyers. I'm thinking of Dominion, Disney, and Marc Elias specifically.