Ben Jones
@drbenjones.bsky.social
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CS Prof at U of Utah. D line handler. D language evangelist
Come be my colleague!
utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/188...
. Our school (we're bigger than a department) is an awesome place to work. Our faculty are excellent across the board. Pay and benefits are good. SLC is a nice place to live. Happy to answer any questions
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Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Computing
https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/188551
about 9 hours ago
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muscular baby jeb lund
4 days ago
As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.
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Justice for All - Truthdig
To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/justice-for-all/
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Maybe it wasn't a good idea for the legislature to let anyone carry a gun on college campuses?
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about 1 month ago
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Lol
about 1 month ago
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David Roberts
3 months ago
Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!
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More Perfect Union
4 months ago
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act in an image. ❌Health care ❌Clean energy ❌Education ❌Food assistance ❌Natural resources All slashed in order to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy.
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Joe Katz
4 months ago
Six GOP governors activated the National Guard ahead of
#NoKings
because they claimed the protesters may be violent. 5 million of us marched. And so far all actual violence seems to have come at the hands of counter-protesters, Christian nationalist terrorists and law enforcement.
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Nate Blouin
4 months ago
From me:
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Aaron Rupar
5 months ago
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
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Rep. LaMonica McIver
5 months ago
The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled
@repbonnie.bsky.social
, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
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Josh Marshall
6 months ago
Here's my new hobby. Seeing how many people lose their health coverage if Republicans pass their $880 billion in Medicaid cuts. In David Valadao's district 67,000 constituents lose their coverage. 67,000!
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youtu.be/CpWeRgbPW1Q?...
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Sopranos - He is Risen
YouTube video by Nick Spears
https://youtu.be/CpWeRgbPW1Q?si=xfPntJDysKqvpc6M
6 months ago
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Huntsman center full, already a big crowd outside for AOC and Bernie at the U of Utah
6 months ago
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Nate Blouin
6 months ago
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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This is really great
www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
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Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth
7 months ago
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Moved from a house with the cheapest induction range you can get to one with a nice Bosch gas range. Gas is so much worse! It doesn't go nearly as low or as high as the induction range
7 months ago
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"Disagree Different" huh? "...Lee referred only to an earlier Tribune article about the bill. “Learn to read a bill instead of pushing dishonest click bait [sic] headlines,” he wrote in a text message to a reporter. “Go pound sand you Communist piece of trash.”"
7 months ago
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The kids are all right
8 months ago
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Congratulations to the measles virus for its victory in the US Senate today!
8 months ago
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Maggie Bale
8 months ago
Four measles cases in Texas over the last couple weeks - all among unvaccinated people, including two children.
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
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State health officials urge vigilance as additional measles cases are identified | Texas DSHS
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/state-health-officials-urge-vigilance-additional-measles-cases-are-identified
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At the risk of sounding like a shitlib: an oldies radio station dj intro'd a song he played by talking about the huge impact that "Soul Train" had by giving black artists exposure to audiences that wouldn't have heard them before. Brightened my day a little bit
8 months ago
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My week just got a little less shitty!
9 months ago
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Maggie Bale
9 months ago
More fear mongering that harms public health and as always, the impact will be greatest on those with the fewest resources who already struggle to access dental care!
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Maggie Bale
9 months ago
The Utah legislature loves taking away power from the people: this time banning fluoride in the water.
utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/01/30/u...
This review in JAMA Pediatrics is a good overview: there is null relationship with IQ at 1.5mg/L or less (US allows 0.7mg/L).
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39761023/
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Utah lawmakers advance bill to ban adding fluoride to drinking water • Utah News Dispatch
The Legislature is considering banning adding fluoride to public water supplies, while detractors worry about public health effect.
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/01/30/utah-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-adding-fluoride-to-drinking-water/
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9 months ago
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective
9 months ago
If you feel despair, if you feel defeated, if you catch yourself dissociating or focusing on what our oppressors are doing rather than on what you can do yourself—that is territory that the enemy has claimed within you. Give them nothing. Focus on your agency. We are in a fight that we can win. 🏴🏴🏴
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The Case for Resistance
In this analysis, we explore what to expect from Donald Trump's second term and how we can prepare to confront it.
https://crimethinc.com/resist2025
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9 months ago
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Shocked, SHOCKED! To hear that Sean Reyes was involved!
www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole?utm_source=blueskythread&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
9 months ago
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Alessandro Rigolon
10 months ago
Instead on focusing on how to grow our programs and serve our students better, our deans and department chairs have been asked to spend their time thinking about multiple budget cut scenarios to address an increasingly negative political environment toward higher ed.
#AcademicSky
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University of Utah leaders instruct all departments to prepare for budget cuts — including one up to 25%
Emails from University of Utah President Taylor Randall and other senior leaders give a behind the scenes look at how the school is preparing for anticipated funding reductions from the Utah Legislatu...
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/12/30/university-utah-leaders-instruct/
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Might fuck around and mod my toddler's lite bright to power it over USB instead of AAs
10 months ago
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Merrick Garland's standing policy toward all Republicans
10 months ago
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Broncos choked, but this is the worst reffing I've seen all fucking season. DB grabs both of Mimm's arms without getting his head around and it's not PI? Herbert grabs Coopers's face and it's a penalty on the Broncos? Bush league shit
10 months ago
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Subjecting viewers to Kevin Harlan should get CBS's broadcast license revoked
11 months ago
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Alexandra Petri
11 months ago
oh, so we have to keep doing this forever
wapo.st/4fkUVgo
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Opinion | Oh, so we have to keep doing this forever
One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted.
https://wapo.st/4fkUVgo
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🌙NotYourNyx
11 months ago
Always đź’– Don't make me tap the sign
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Version 3 of PresenterMode is out. A single simple tool for giving presentations showing slides, apps, and live ipad streaming. Now able to record your presentation to video! Get it while it's hot
github.com/benjones/pre...
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Release Version 3.0 · benjones/presenterMode
This release adds recording of the shared video (along with audio from a mic) to a video file. In my testing I haven't come across any bugs aside from the bluetooth mic in my pixel buds producing ...
https://github.com/benjones/presenterMode/releases/tag/v3.0
12 months ago
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This is like a flight 93 election but we had watched one of the passengers previously hijack a plane, parachute out, then refused to prosecute them and gave them TSA precheck
12 months ago
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Just released a new version of my screen sharing app Presenter Mode. Check out a quick tour here:
youtu.be/sBFA_YjKue8
or get the app here:
github.com/benjones/pre...
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Presenter Mode Tour
YouTube video by bones
https://youtu.be/sBFA_YjKue8
about 1 year ago
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almost 2 years ago
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Rauru and Sonia sound like a couple of old swingers trying to bring Link into The Lifestyle
almost 2 years ago
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Leading with "raising costs?" Cool, cool
almost 2 years ago
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