Related to my prior post is the #EFF guides. Look for your phone OS privacy setting guides in particular. ssd.eff.org/module-categ...

Because it seems relevant again (again?) here is some simple guidance on how to protect yourself digitally in our interesting sociopolitical environment. infosecforactivists.org

Bruce Springsteen has a new song: Streets of Minneapolis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

#Prague is just such an insanely photogenic city. I miss it.

Happy New Year from #Prague!

A few years ago, Bill Nye the science guy debated creationist Ken Ham about evolution. The last question was "what would change your mind?" Bill Nye said "Evidence." Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this." I think about that a lot.

RIP Claude, our albino alligator who passed away today. Seeing him was always a part of visiting the #CalAcademy.

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

We no longer live in a country with three branches of government (Legislative, Executive, Judicial). We live in a country with two parties (Democrats, Republicans, and FU if you're neither) This is bad on so many levels.

Strump want to "pacify" San Francisco next, justifying sending in the troops with the infamous Insurrection Act. Yet there is no rebellion against government here. #SF Insurrection; an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government. Miriam Webster Dictionary

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

We had real rain for the first time in ages here in San Francisco, and now as the sun goes down a double rainbow. 🌈 #SF

Care for a game of ERS? I found my deck with that bastard Lance in it. @pfindsen.bsky.social @emfindsen.bsky.social @joydidit.bsky.social en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptia...

You know what I'd like to see in #Congress? I'd like to see the state Representatives sitting together instead of clumped with their own party. You don't represent a freaking party. You represent your state, your region, and all of your constituents. Senators, too. Don't like it? Too bad.

The Strange New World's episode Terrarium is a great Ortegas story and it really reminds me of Enemy Mine. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_M...

I've finally started season 3 of ST:SNW and WTF is Pike doing saying the lord's prayer? I could accept Chapel and Spock talking about "faith" assuming they meant in themselves but seriously... Either Pike alone just lost points with me, or the showrunners. Hopefully not both. #StarTrek #SNW

🖖 #StarTrekDay

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't grunge.

Villainial... bad guys these days.

This is wrong. Trump could order these officers to rule as he wishes as they are in his chain of command. Hire real, qualified judges; maintain separation of powers. www.npr.org/2025/09/02/g...

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it.

Fine (or not really), we can't for whatever reason have gun laws because somehow the Supreme Court failed to understand what a well regulated militia means. So let's regulate the hell out of the bullets. REGULATE THE F-ING BULLETS.

We worried that #AI would kill us in the future because it would overtake us (Terminator and dozens of other stories). Instead AI (or rather their corporate creators) will kill us because AI will require all the power to run on most of the resources and still not work|be adopted|be profitable.

Seriously, what even is the actual, specific definition of "woke"? As far as I can tell it just means, "Wah! I don't like it so it must be bad!"

Degenerative AI. When LLMs eat the slop of their ancestors. The "heat death" of the next tech bubble. #DegenerativeAI

Slightly diminish a band: Nine Inch Thumbtacks

Slightly diminish a band: The Treatment (and their famous single Just Like Vaccines).

If you think you know this guy, NO YOU DON'T.

I've lived and worked off and on in #DC since the mid-90s. If anyone thinks it's broadly dangerous now they are deluded. I'm in DC now for work and walking around and areas alone with no worries except the goddam heat; how do y'all live in this?!?

Look, I don't know how to more clearly say this: The President is (continuing) *lying to the American people* about the state of life in DC. He's now stolen control of our police force to, I dunno, harass locals for whatever they feel like for the next month. This is horseshit, based on horseshit.

It is not now, nor is it ever, the job of our institutions to praise or criticize the passage of legislation. It is frankly disgusting, and an unnecessary politicization of our institutions and to service of its workers.

Brazil seem mildly prescient these days... #BrazilMovie #ArchibaldButtle

I'm from before the internet.

"Danger. The emergency destruct system is now activated. The ship will detonate in T-minus ten minutes."

When writing essays with LLMs, "...convenience came at a cognitive cost, diminishing users' inclination to critically evaluate the LLM's output or 'opinions' (probabilistic answers based on the training datasets)." #LLMs #DiminishingReturns arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

Rewatching Star Trek Prodigy. Hey @netflix.com are you going to have Season 3 out before I get there? #StarTrekProdigy

Included in the thread is this link. What a cool movie. jasonwang.space/orbits.html

I doubt tariffs are going to bring back manufacturing in any meaningful way that will employ a lot of folks, but I understand the longing for the well paying jobs that the service industry often simply does not pay. But manufacturing used to pay shit, and then folks unionized. Make it happen again!

#Georgism wouldn't be a panacea but it would definitely help. youtu.be/Li_MGFRNqOE

Fictional character's death you think was unnecessary? Might be a bit of a deep cut but still would have loved to see more...

My favorite Mission Impossible movie is The Princess Bride.

50 years of flesh wounds, right Tim? arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

1/12 Just published: Taxing Economic and Exclusive Rights and Privileges. This counter-cyclical tax framework targets structural power (economic and exlusive rights and privileges) instead of production, consumption and transactions. Visit: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #TaxJustice #PublicFinance

Today, we remember the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, which changed our city forever and showed the heart, strength, and spirit of San Franciscans then and now. #1906earthquake #SFHistory #sanfrancisco @sfgov.sf.gov

"Ya gotta know what time it is.” @heathercmcghee.bsky.social on how Black Americans’ understanding of autocracy was shaped by Jim Crow and how that can inform a resistance to Trump.

Starship Skeeters (I'm doing my part!)

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Not gonna lie, when Mary Wiseman first appears in The Residence my daughter and I both yelled out, "Tilly!" The Residence, BTW, is a lot of fun.

An Executive Order is NOT the Law. It is at best guidance when no law exists or guidance for a law that does exist. Laws always beat executive orders (unless and until we are no longer a Constitutional democracy and Republic).