JavamanPhil

@javamanphil.bsky.social

192

Posts

he/him, Assistive Technology, music, TTRPG, WWFC, Vermont Green FC, Orioles, geek, left of left of left of center, WRUV, greyhounds (save them all)

Posts Replies Media

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

Thinking real hard about The Good Place Committee today.

I aspire to one day be so comfortable in my life that I can complain to the local news about noise from a pickleball court.

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

If both parties went off the rails into paranoia, backers of both parties would call the other party a danger to civil order. But if one party slid off the rails while the other remained in the normal range, backers of both parties would still call the other party a danger to civil order.

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

HAHAHA. Stefanik. LMFAO!

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

Assistant to the Regional Hitler

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

Trump uniting the country.

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

First 24 hours are ideal conditions for bad media: * Interest in the facts is off the charts, but there is only a handful of them * Bad actors fill the unmet demand * Civiltarians try to silence political discussion * Both sides bromides roar to life * Memory itself is now said to be in bad taste

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

This admin has pushed through more left-leaning policies than any other in Bernie's 30 years in Congress, and that's in no small part thanks to his own work and campaigns. He probably knows better than anyone what it means to get Biden re-elected.

In Opinion “I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay, adding: ”With an effective campaign that speaks to the needs of working families, he will not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly.”

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

jesus, at minute 22 he starts digging in on trump and just absolutely gores him deep over and over again, people talk about trump as if he's the only one ever able to score any points, but biden's calling trump a criminal, a rapist, an idiot and a traitor to absolutely *ROARING* applause

the contrast between *this* crowd overwhelming biden with WE GOT YOUR BACK at the 9 minute mark compared with the last 2 weeks of coverage is something to contemplate for a moment.

WATCH LIVE: Biden holds campaign event in Detroit as Democrats debate possible withdrawal from racewww.pbs.org Biden continues his effort to convince detractors that he can win his presidential race on Friday with a trip to Michigan, one in trio of "blue wall" states that his campaign now says is the clearest ...

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

I found this to be a pretty compelling summary politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/manufactur...

Manufacturing consentpoliticsdancingxyz.substack.com Untangling the Neil Gaiman sexual assault allegations, and the Tortoise Media investigation that is both flawed and important

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

Crypto-mining accounts for 2% of all U.S. electricity usage. (Bitcoin alone consumes the same amount of energy as the entire state of Utah.)

Crypto Mining Consumes a Mind-Boggling 2% of U.S. Electricityheatmap.news Bitcoin alone consumes roughly the same amount of energy as Utah.

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

Project 2025 is a comprehensive plan by former and likely future leaders of a Trump administration to remake America in a conservative mold while dramatically expanding presidential power and allowing Trump to use it to go after his critics. Here’s what it entails and how it could reshape America.

What is Project 2025?www.washingtonpost.com It’s a blueprint for what a second Trump administration could look like, dreamed up by his allies and former aides. Here are some of the proposals.

Hope this shitty art was worth it: apple.news/AVaJ3husoSYC...

man can we PLEASE turn this shit off now

The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought. Now Earth’s biggest cities are at riskapple.news The Thwaites Glacier may be on the brink of collapse… and that’s a big problem

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

An interesting question is why journalists don't see Donald Trump's command of the issues as relevant to the question of which candidate's mental acuity should be centered in media coverage of the campaign.

Whatever the verbal flubs, Biden’s command of the issues is sharp here. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...

Update from Michael Crowleywww.nytimes.com

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

Reply to

Emma Evans

Now, while I am WINCING at every gaffe Overall everything Biden is saying, is solid. He's even getting his digs in. Now imagine Trump, DONALD FUCKING TRUMP, trying to answer any of this shit. It would be carnie speak.

Every time I feel bad about journalism dying I watch one of these things and watch 10 overpaid people ask the exact same question 10 different ways. What's the point of the WH press corps?

His verbal slips are no less weird than suggesting wind turbines cause cancer and he won't appoint fascists. The decision is simple.

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

The Washington Post launched a splashy "Climate Answers" AI chatbot this week. The only problem, as discovered by my colleague Maggie? It refuses to answer questions about whether AI is bad for the environment, in spite of the Post's excellent reporting on that topic: futurism.com/washington-p...

Washington Post Launches AI to Answer Climate Questions but It Won't Say Whether AI Is Bad for the Climatefuturism.com The venerable has a new AI chatbot, designed to answer climate questions. Why won't it answer prompts about AI's growing climate footprint?

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

the state of journalism.

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

the most monstrous woman isn’t a murderer or a rapist - she’s unmarried and childless at 34

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

My sis continues to kill it on the agricultural front. Hear all about her new gig at Wally Farms and their exploring innovative and climate-resistant agriculture. tool-shed.org/wally-farms-...

Wally Farms: Innovative and Climate-Resilient Agriculture - Toolshedtool-shed.org Wally Farms creates entrepreneurial models for climate mitigation and resiliency. Their mission is to explore local approaches to food security, energy Wally Farms creates entrepreneurial models for c...

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

is Donald Trump still running for president

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

For all those on the path of Hurricane Beryl, Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

Bernie Sanders on Face the Nation: "What we are talking about now is not a Grammy award contest for best singer. Biden is old. He's not as articulate as he once was. I wish he could jump up the steps on Air Force One. He can't. What we have got to focus on is policy."

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net Bernie Sanders on Face the Nation: "What we are talking about now is not a Grammy award contest for best singer. Biden is old. He's not as articulate as he once was. I wish he could jump up the steps....

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

Trump loves using Black people for rhetorical devices because he knows no one will actually go talk to Black people at that level

Thinking today about Trump’s “black jobs” line. A reminder that Trump never changes his most venal thoughts

Reposted by

JavamanPhil

reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.