Jeffrey Phillips
@11thjeff.bsky.social
San Francisco stuff, tech, politics, stock markets, economics, science, fiction
ran for Congress to try to prevent this future one time...
no direct message for now please; @ me first
ran for Congress to try to prevent this future one time...
no direct message for now please; @ me first
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Just like you Jefferey. If the Dems wouldn't let you run, we would help YOU get on the ballot.
Not like me. You're not like us.
I got on a ballot. W/o you. Hard part's cutting through Billionaires like you & Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel shouting over US
You and all these Billionaires are going to form a party with regular folks at heart?
My Cubes, please!
I got on a ballot. W/o you. Hard part's cutting through Billionaires like you & Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel shouting over US
You and all these Billionaires are going to form a party with regular folks at heart?
My Cubes, please!
Much will be written by future civilizations about our choice to turn a momentary price bubble into a long-term inflationary plateau.
December 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Much will be written by future civilizations about our choice to turn a momentary price bubble into a long-term inflationary plateau.
Flu has always been serious, but it's nice that go back to a risk profile that somewhat resembles the world before 2020.
Flu deaths exceeded COVID deaths last winter and we may be on track for the same thing this year!
I can speak anecdotally that at the hospital I work at we’ve had very low covid census. We test anyone experiencing respiratory symptoms, and we’ve had very few people with Covid who have needed to be hospitalized. Which is a relief because we are absolutely inundated with flu rn
December 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Flu has always been serious, but it's nice that go back to a risk profile that somewhat resembles the world before 2020.
Reposted by Jeffrey Phillips
not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year
Flu deaths exceeded COVID deaths last winter and we may be on track for the same thing this year!
I can speak anecdotally that at the hospital I work at we’ve had very low covid census. We test anyone experiencing respiratory symptoms, and we’ve had very few people with Covid who have needed to be hospitalized. Which is a relief because we are absolutely inundated with flu rn
December 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year
Control over workers, making work mandatory for health, crushing small businesses and independent entrepreneurs is the whole point.
Mike Johnson wants every American to work as hard as they possibly can for their ticket to live. Shuts 'em up, keeps the economy tight and manipulable.
Mike Johnson wants every American to work as hard as they possibly can for their ticket to live. Shuts 'em up, keeps the economy tight and manipulable.
Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
December 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Control over workers, making work mandatory for health, crushing small businesses and independent entrepreneurs is the whole point.
Mike Johnson wants every American to work as hard as they possibly can for their ticket to live. Shuts 'em up, keeps the economy tight and manipulable.
Mike Johnson wants every American to work as hard as they possibly can for their ticket to live. Shuts 'em up, keeps the economy tight and manipulable.
Reposted by Jeffrey Phillips
Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
I guess a lot of them draw more from Isaac Asimov though.
"We will uh, simply program our robut's electronical brain so that it does only good things and never bad things. Statistically." 🤓
"We will uh, simply program our robut's electronical brain so that it does only good things and never bad things. Statistically." 🤓
Frank Herbert: Thinking machines are evil
Big Tech: Thinking machines, yes
Herbert: and it's dangerous to manipulate a shared monoculture
Tech: monoculture, yes
Herbert: dehumanizing the work of conscious human beings under institutional—hey I feel like you're not listening
Tech: what? we luv u
Big Tech: Thinking machines, yes
Herbert: and it's dangerous to manipulate a shared monoculture
Tech: monoculture, yes
Herbert: dehumanizing the work of conscious human beings under institutional—hey I feel like you're not listening
Tech: what? we luv u
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I guess a lot of them draw more from Isaac Asimov though.
"We will uh, simply program our robut's electronical brain so that it does only good things and never bad things. Statistically." 🤓
"We will uh, simply program our robut's electronical brain so that it does only good things and never bad things. Statistically." 🤓
Frank Herbert: Thinking machines are evil
Big Tech: Thinking machines, yes
Herbert: and it's dangerous to manipulate a shared monoculture
Tech: monoculture, yes
Herbert: dehumanizing the work of conscious human beings under institutional—hey I feel like you're not listening
Tech: what? we luv u
Big Tech: Thinking machines, yes
Herbert: and it's dangerous to manipulate a shared monoculture
Tech: monoculture, yes
Herbert: dehumanizing the work of conscious human beings under institutional—hey I feel like you're not listening
Tech: what? we luv u
December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Frank Herbert: Thinking machines are evil
Big Tech: Thinking machines, yes
Herbert: and it's dangerous to manipulate a shared monoculture
Tech: monoculture, yes
Herbert: dehumanizing the work of conscious human beings under institutional—hey I feel like you're not listening
Tech: what? we luv u
Big Tech: Thinking machines, yes
Herbert: and it's dangerous to manipulate a shared monoculture
Tech: monoculture, yes
Herbert: dehumanizing the work of conscious human beings under institutional—hey I feel like you're not listening
Tech: what? we luv u
Anybody wanna make #Subnautica for deep space?
Mentioning the lunar rover's effective radius is limited by astronauts' remaining life support if they have to walk back—
strikes me that all space exploration is basically scuba diving or worse levels of controlling your personal air supply every single minute.
Not enough space fiction about that
strikes me that all space exploration is basically scuba diving or worse levels of controlling your personal air supply every single minute.
Not enough space fiction about that
How did the Lunar Roving Vehicle work? (NASA)
YouTube video by Jared Owen
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December 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Anybody wanna make #Subnautica for deep space?
Mentioning the lunar rover's effective radius is limited by astronauts' remaining life support if they have to walk back—
strikes me that all space exploration is basically scuba diving or worse levels of controlling your personal air supply every single minute.
Not enough space fiction about that
strikes me that all space exploration is basically scuba diving or worse levels of controlling your personal air supply every single minute.
Not enough space fiction about that
How did the Lunar Roving Vehicle work? (NASA)
YouTube video by Jared Owen
m.youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Mentioning the lunar rover's effective radius is limited by astronauts' remaining life support if they have to walk back—
strikes me that all space exploration is basically scuba diving or worse levels of controlling your personal air supply every single minute.
Not enough space fiction about that
strikes me that all space exploration is basically scuba diving or worse levels of controlling your personal air supply every single minute.
Not enough space fiction about that
On a wider note, what of the hero's journey, when you've taken so long to return to the world of the Known that it's become Unknown to you?
"Oh, master of two worlds with his magic hammer come to share his boon from the Outerworld? Whatever loser, we all got magic hammers now—I don't even use mine"
"Oh, master of two worlds with his magic hammer come to share his boon from the Outerworld? Whatever loser, we all got magic hammers now—I don't even use mine"
The idea that you'll see all your old friends in heaven is so outdated because like.. on rare occasions I catch up with somebody (holidays, life events) there's this shared affirmation that we don't really keep up with anyone from back then, and nobody's even seen Brian in a decade...
So which era?
So which era?
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
On a wider note, what of the hero's journey, when you've taken so long to return to the world of the Known that it's become Unknown to you?
"Oh, master of two worlds with his magic hammer come to share his boon from the Outerworld? Whatever loser, we all got magic hammers now—I don't even use mine"
"Oh, master of two worlds with his magic hammer come to share his boon from the Outerworld? Whatever loser, we all got magic hammers now—I don't even use mine"
The idea that you'll see all your old friends in heaven is so outdated because like.. on rare occasions I catch up with somebody (holidays, life events) there's this shared affirmation that we don't really keep up with anyone from back then, and nobody's even seen Brian in a decade...
So which era?
So which era?
December 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The idea that you'll see all your old friends in heaven is so outdated because like.. on rare occasions I catch up with somebody (holidays, life events) there's this shared affirmation that we don't really keep up with anyone from back then, and nobody's even seen Brian in a decade...
So which era?
So which era?
Reddit "perfect" tv pilot list..
Two things:
- so many of these are shows from over a decade ago
- I've seen most of them now
I used to watch a LOT of tv, both as an escape and an active interest in contributing to the medium
Career out of reach for so long, the tv I wanna write isn't even tv now
Two things:
- so many of these are shows from over a decade ago
- I've seen most of them now
I used to watch a LOT of tv, both as an escape and an active interest in contributing to the medium
Career out of reach for so long, the tv I wanna write isn't even tv now
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December 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reddit "perfect" tv pilot list..
Two things:
- so many of these are shows from over a decade ago
- I've seen most of them now
I used to watch a LOT of tv, both as an escape and an active interest in contributing to the medium
Career out of reach for so long, the tv I wanna write isn't even tv now
Two things:
- so many of these are shows from over a decade ago
- I've seen most of them now
I used to watch a LOT of tv, both as an escape and an active interest in contributing to the medium
Career out of reach for so long, the tv I wanna write isn't even tv now
Hope some of you read these Buy calls last month. Dip last week was a shock but the swing back to the initial top blow-off seems to be complete.
People are saying Santa Rally. I'm not really sure what next week holds. Probably hang for the new year, thankful for where we are
People are saying Santa Rally. I'm not really sure what next week holds. Probably hang for the new year, thankful for where we are
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hope some of you read these Buy calls last month. Dip last week was a shock but the swing back to the initial top blow-off seems to be complete.
People are saying Santa Rally. I'm not really sure what next week holds. Probably hang for the new year, thankful for where we are
People are saying Santa Rally. I'm not really sure what next week holds. Probably hang for the new year, thankful for where we are
Sometimes the sheer existence of xkcd causes me to question everything I've done with my life, when this delight is apparently an option. Because these are the places my brain goes to be happy, and I don't get that in my life anymore.
![Comic. [Two people walking together as inverted catenary curves fall around them.] PERSON: Oh wow, the first inverted catenary fall of the year! Time to swap out my all-season tires for square ones.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiatr2ciyeqboikl6ohjuiscmlmkigixmvfutnhnvduecemtcqjri4@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Sometimes the sheer existence of xkcd causes me to question everything I've done with my life, when this delight is apparently an option. Because these are the places my brain goes to be happy, and I don't get that in my life anymore.
That Millennial feeling that Princess Mia who interned with Vogue is way too young to play Goodwill Hunting's wife. It's not even that much of a gap... it's just... genres and like...a very specific age of cementing archetypes.
Looks better than the armor!
Looks better than the armor!
The Odyssey | Official Trailer (2026)
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December 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
That Millennial feeling that Princess Mia who interned with Vogue is way too young to play Goodwill Hunting's wife. It's not even that much of a gap... it's just... genres and like...a very specific age of cementing archetypes.
Looks better than the armor!
Looks better than the armor!
Out of the darkness and into the light
🙌☀️🙌
🙌☀️🙌
December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Out of the darkness and into the light
🙌☀️🙌
🙌☀️🙌
Spare a thoughtism for autism
What do you mean? They're already at the printers!...
What do you mean? They're already at the printers!...
December 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Spare a thoughtism for autism
What do you mean? They're already at the printers!...
What do you mean? They're already at the printers!...
It's a bad system: to get a PhD to work in industry, you have to spend a large part of a decade lying to everybody, that you've really always wanted to teach, tackle some weirdly specific research niche, and *maybe* they say it's good enough to drop it for the corporate job you wanted the whole time
THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It's a bad system: to get a PhD to work in industry, you have to spend a large part of a decade lying to everybody, that you've really always wanted to teach, tackle some weirdly specific research niche, and *maybe* they say it's good enough to drop it for the corporate job you wanted the whole time
I don't get it. All I had was an entire family's portions of Irish stew, a number of large loaves of bread, an entire pumpkin pie every single day for a week and a large tuna sandwich with extra chips and then two other bags and a hamburger
I blame endocrine disrupters, honestly. And obviously 5G
I blame endocrine disrupters, honestly. And obviously 5G
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I don't get it. All I had was an entire family's portions of Irish stew, a number of large loaves of bread, an entire pumpkin pie every single day for a week and a large tuna sandwich with extra chips and then two other bags and a hamburger
I blame endocrine disrupters, honestly. And obviously 5G
I blame endocrine disrupters, honestly. And obviously 5G
Weird one, because if they'd found him earlier, he'd already be pardoned for this. So... 🤷♂️
BREAKING: The FBI makes an arrest in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in D.C. on the eve of the Jan. 6 riot, an AP source says.
FBI makes arrest in investigation into pipe bombs placed in DC on eve of Jan. 6 riot, AP source says
The FBI has made an arrest in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Weird one, because if they'd found him earlier, he'd already be pardoned for this. So... 🤷♂️
I would like to sincerely apologize for the post that got me suspended. I did not mean to suggest nor imply that my mom taking Aleve during pregnancy gave me "stronger, longer lasting Autism". I see now this was wrong.
So on this one specific metric, I'm just as good as @PattonOswalt.bsky.social!
So on this one specific metric, I'm just as good as @PattonOswalt.bsky.social!
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I would like to sincerely apologize for the post that got me suspended. I did not mean to suggest nor imply that my mom taking Aleve during pregnancy gave me "stronger, longer lasting Autism". I see now this was wrong.
So on this one specific metric, I'm just as good as @PattonOswalt.bsky.social!
So on this one specific metric, I'm just as good as @PattonOswalt.bsky.social!
But why would Trump import a shooter to run a false flag attack and distract from his illegal occupation of US cities? It makes no sense...
MAGA Outrage Collapses After New Report Links Shooter’s U.S. Status to Trump
The MAGA outrage machine kicked into high gear the moment news broke that 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal had been arrested for allegedly shooting two National Guardsmen in downtown W...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
But why would Trump import a shooter to run a false flag attack and distract from his illegal occupation of US cities? It makes no sense...
Happy Thanksgiving to everybody but Canada!
No, no, they just already had theirs. I dunno, time zones or something.
No, no, they just already had theirs. I dunno, time zones or something.
November 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to everybody but Canada!
No, no, they just already had theirs. I dunno, time zones or something.
No, no, they just already had theirs. I dunno, time zones or something.
Support the troops?
Trump: "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured" (C-SPAN)
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November 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Support the troops?