John Morris
@anotherjtm.bsky.social
lapsed electrical engineer; still not enough paid music gigs to quit the day job; builder of rule engines and tools to help people get jobs. he/him
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Honestly, I think that the presumption that water can be fought for is actually a false presumption born of the assumption that anything can be seized with military power, given enough of it.
It's really underestimating how hard it is to move water and how much water needs to be moved.
It's really underestimating how hard it is to move water and how much water needs to be moved.
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Honestly, I think that the presumption that water can be fought for is actually a false presumption born of the assumption that anything can be seized with military power, given enough of it.
It's really underestimating how hard it is to move water and how much water needs to be moved.
It's really underestimating how hard it is to move water and how much water needs to be moved.
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hadn't heard from them in a while but now it looks like yet another agency has bought the debt
stay low and keep moving, friend.
stay low and keep moving, friend.
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
hadn't heard from them in a while but now it looks like yet another agency has bought the debt
stay low and keep moving, friend.
stay low and keep moving, friend.
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update: just got a gender swap
looks like homie's debt got sold to another agency and they messed up the transcription of the name
hold tight buddy. we're almost home free
looks like homie's debt got sold to another agency and they messed up the transcription of the name
hold tight buddy. we're almost home free
Someone gave our number to a collections agency. Been running defense for this dude for weeks.
Taking down numbers, "yeah yeah, I'll have him call you as soon as he gets back," putting them on hold for minutes on end while we go "check if he's around."
We got you, stranger.
Taking down numbers, "yeah yeah, I'll have him call you as soon as he gets back," putting them on hold for minutes on end while we go "check if he's around."
We got you, stranger.
March 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
update: just got a gender swap
looks like homie's debt got sold to another agency and they messed up the transcription of the name
hold tight buddy. we're almost home free
looks like homie's debt got sold to another agency and they messed up the transcription of the name
hold tight buddy. we're almost home free
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I guess my new version of late night online shopping is late night buying shit from the school band fundraiser. My HS kid just texted me to say I purchased an “obscene” amount of cheese and her band teacher is worried.
December 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I guess my new version of late night online shopping is late night buying shit from the school band fundraiser. My HS kid just texted me to say I purchased an “obscene” amount of cheese and her band teacher is worried.
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I think in thirty years when the full story about what’s going on with Trump and his health and who actually is in charge and how they’re hiding everything and what is happening behind the scenes comes out it is going to be so, so, so, so much worse then we are imagining.
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I think in thirty years when the full story about what’s going on with Trump and his health and who actually is in charge and how they’re hiding everything and what is happening behind the scenes comes out it is going to be so, so, so, so much worse then we are imagining.
So, be careful not to drag with “Sleigh Ride”?
DEATH TO MIDTEMPO.
(ok yeah, slight exaggeration, but GOD.)
Ballads are plaintive, emotive, and captivating. Uptempo has urgency, pressure, and fun. It’s a *pulse*.
Midtempo is the millennial gray of music and there should be less of it. Pick a tempo on purpose.
(ok yeah, slight exaggeration, but GOD.)
Ballads are plaintive, emotive, and captivating. Uptempo has urgency, pressure, and fun. It’s a *pulse*.
Midtempo is the millennial gray of music and there should be less of it. Pick a tempo on purpose.
![Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a 1942 Arlington town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen's announced plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down,[9] was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol.[10] Edgerton supported the rebuilding process but was concerned about the tax burden of the proposal, as his family farm had been ravaged by disease.[11] A memory of this scene struck Rockwell as an excellent fit for illustrating "freedom of speech", and inspired him to use his Vermont neighbors as models for the entire Four Freedoms series.[12]
The blue-collar speaker wears a plaid shirt and suede jacket, with dirty hands and a darker complexion than others in attendance.[13] The other attendees are wearing white shirts, ties and jackets.[14] One of the men in the painting is holding a document that reveals a subject of the meeting as "a discussion of the town's annual report".[5] Edgerton's youth and workmanlike hands are fashioned with a worn and stained jacket, while the other attendees appear to be older and more neatly and formally dressed. According to Bruce Cole of The Wall Street Journal, Edgerton is shown "standing tall, his mouth open, his shining eyes transfixed, he speaks his mind, untrammeled and unafraid", and his face resembles Abraham Lincoln.[5] According to Robert Scholes, the work shows audience members in rapt attention with admiration of the speaker, who resembles a Gary Cooper or Jimmy Stewart character in a Frank Capra film.[15] According to John Updike, the work is painted without any painterly brushwork.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yv5qesdlmad5db3oifduisiu/bafkreifyntqr35hnnw3s3ravou6zs64az5qktmlhozv7tsskugmpgsn6fu@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
So, be careful not to drag with “Sleigh Ride”?
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You know what, I have literally millions of words written over 40 years that could be compiled into an LLM representing "me" and still wouldn't come close to being me at all, your grandma's recorded history is confined to a bunch of extremely brief Facebook posts, how's that gonna go
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
You know what, I have literally millions of words written over 40 years that could be compiled into an LLM representing "me" and still wouldn't come close to being me at all, your grandma's recorded history is confined to a bunch of extremely brief Facebook posts, how's that gonna go
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There are a lot of layers to why this ad did not work. "It's the most terrible time of the year," is a miserable holiday message, and McDonald's solution--to come sit in their bleak corporate prison aesthetic restaurants, away from loved ones, and pay too much money for a shitty burger--falls flat.
December 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There are a lot of layers to why this ad did not work. "It's the most terrible time of the year," is a miserable holiday message, and McDonald's solution--to come sit in their bleak corporate prison aesthetic restaurants, away from loved ones, and pay too much money for a shitty burger--falls flat.
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That said, this was still an expensive ad, and it ended up being so horrendous, McDonald's had to pull it, and the companies that produced it have had to delete their posts defending their work. Undoubtedly, crisis PR has had to be pulled in, and...
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
That said, this was still an expensive ad, and it ended up being so horrendous, McDonald's had to pull it, and the companies that produced it have had to delete their posts defending their work. Undoubtedly, crisis PR has had to be pulled in, and...
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
This is a great deal. The M-series iPads are fast and cool with great screens, and the matching pencil is convenient and nice to use.
I also have an M2 iPad Air with an Apple Pencil Pro to sell. I’m taking a rock bottom price on it. $330 for the iPad, the pencil and the case and cord. The move date is being finalized and money is more important than tech I’m sentimental about. Haggling welcome.
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is a great deal. The M-series iPads are fast and cool with great screens, and the matching pencil is convenient and nice to use.
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That's a rock bottom price even if you tack shipping on. The Pencils are really nice.
I also have an M2 iPad Air with an Apple Pencil Pro to sell. I’m taking a rock bottom price on it. $330 for the iPad, the pencil and the case and cord. The move date is being finalized and money is more important than tech I’m sentimental about. Haggling welcome.
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
That's a rock bottom price even if you tack shipping on. The Pencils are really nice.
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I always forget how big wind turbines are until I drive past them. there's something eerie and unearthly about them looming out of the mist. like a kaiju but in a way that makes you feel fundamentally better about the state of the world.
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I always forget how big wind turbines are until I drive past them. there's something eerie and unearthly about them looming out of the mist. like a kaiju but in a way that makes you feel fundamentally better about the state of the world.
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Tiny in frame and vulnerable. Great camera staging to get the princess small in center of frame and surrounded. Like there’s no escape. 🎥
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Tiny in frame and vulnerable. Great camera staging to get the princess small in center of frame and surrounded. Like there’s no escape. 🎥
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Reports say that I could be a billionaire if I get the asking price for this furniture I put on Craigslist
<photo of me doing the tented hands “I am a serious person contemplating things” pose here>
<photo of me doing the tented hands “I am a serious person contemplating things” pose here>
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reports say that I could be a billionaire if I get the asking price for this furniture I put on Craigslist
<photo of me doing the tented hands “I am a serious person contemplating things” pose here>
<photo of me doing the tented hands “I am a serious person contemplating things” pose here>
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If the goal was to make people use their phones less, then mission accomplished.
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If the goal was to make people use their phones less, then mission accomplished.
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[Alan Dye working on the Liquid Glass UI]
Okay, here’s the plan. We take the iPhone’s most common functions and add as much friction as possible. Three extra keypresses, minimum, to do anything. If there’s an important option, hide it in an obscure menu, the deeper the better. Nest everything.
Okay, here’s the plan. We take the iPhone’s most common functions and add as much friction as possible. Three extra keypresses, minimum, to do anything. If there’s an important option, hide it in an obscure menu, the deeper the better. Nest everything.
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
[Alan Dye working on the Liquid Glass UI]
Okay, here’s the plan. We take the iPhone’s most common functions and add as much friction as possible. Three extra keypresses, minimum, to do anything. If there’s an important option, hide it in an obscure menu, the deeper the better. Nest everything.
Okay, here’s the plan. We take the iPhone’s most common functions and add as much friction as possible. Three extra keypresses, minimum, to do anything. If there’s an important option, hide it in an obscure menu, the deeper the better. Nest everything.
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Seasonally appropriate science! ❄️⛸️🧊🏒🧪
In computer simulations, as an object slides along the surface of ice, a structureless, "amorphous" layer forms. Materials scientists at Saarland University in Germany argue that this process may be the cause of ice’s slipperiness. www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-ice-s...
December 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Seasonally appropriate science! ❄️⛸️🧊🏒🧪
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I have a love/hate relationship with RFK Jr, and by that I mean that I love how easy it is to hate him. He's like a Muppet villain who's been dumbed down for a cartoon with a dash of Dickensian glee at the sufferings of the masses
December 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I have a love/hate relationship with RFK Jr, and by that I mean that I love how easy it is to hate him. He's like a Muppet villain who's been dumbed down for a cartoon with a dash of Dickensian glee at the sufferings of the masses
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Day 10
"Spirit of the woods - Nightingale"
Hand embroidered thread painting artwork
#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt
"Spirit of the woods - Nightingale"
Hand embroidered thread painting artwork
#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt
December 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Day 10
"Spirit of the woods - Nightingale"
Hand embroidered thread painting artwork
#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt
"Spirit of the woods - Nightingale"
Hand embroidered thread painting artwork
#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt
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I was told I was “bad at math” until I took precalc my junior year of high school and my teacher told me to come in on lunch breaks so she could help me understand the material. It turns out I’m good at math but the “self learning” style my school used didn’t work for me!
I do think that some people who didn’t experience being Bad at Math in the 2000s and 2010s are probably really underrating how demeaning that experience was at the time
speaking on the basis of being a humanities type who struggled with math (until I learned to program later on) who felt that society was giving me a constant message in the 2000s that I was a worthless parasite who would die in a ditch on that basis alone
December 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I was told I was “bad at math” until I took precalc my junior year of high school and my teacher told me to come in on lunch breaks so she could help me understand the material. It turns out I’m good at math but the “self learning” style my school used didn’t work for me!
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like him or not, Ed Zitron is the exact creature that the supervillain AI boosters deserve
I still think better critics are needed - the "AI is a scam" people or Zitron or others are just feeding off this resentment - but...yeah. Whole thread is on point.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
like him or not, Ed Zitron is the exact creature that the supervillain AI boosters deserve
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It's useful to note that the incidence of "some degree of dyslexia" is about 10%.
Not all dyslexics are helped by the same font features. I know one who strongly prefers monospaced fonts, which is counter-intuitive.
My #1 recc is DO NOT FULLY JUSTIFY. Ragged right helps a lot.
Not all dyslexics are helped by the same font features. I know one who strongly prefers monospaced fonts, which is counter-intuitive.
My #1 recc is DO NOT FULLY JUSTIFY. Ragged right helps a lot.
In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It's useful to note that the incidence of "some degree of dyslexia" is about 10%.
Not all dyslexics are helped by the same font features. I know one who strongly prefers monospaced fonts, which is counter-intuitive.
My #1 recc is DO NOT FULLY JUSTIFY. Ragged right helps a lot.
Not all dyslexics are helped by the same font features. I know one who strongly prefers monospaced fonts, which is counter-intuitive.
My #1 recc is DO NOT FULLY JUSTIFY. Ragged right helps a lot.
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This would be a picture in a Cyberpunk dystopian novel.
That they see it as "complaining" is ultimately inhuman behavior. They do not see us as people, who want to have a life we enjoy. We are a number that is to be balanced in a spreadsheet. Nothing more.
I treat them accordingly.
That they see it as "complaining" is ultimately inhuman behavior. They do not see us as people, who want to have a life we enjoy. We are a number that is to be balanced in a spreadsheet. Nothing more.
I treat them accordingly.
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This would be a picture in a Cyberpunk dystopian novel.
That they see it as "complaining" is ultimately inhuman behavior. They do not see us as people, who want to have a life we enjoy. We are a number that is to be balanced in a spreadsheet. Nothing more.
I treat them accordingly.
That they see it as "complaining" is ultimately inhuman behavior. They do not see us as people, who want to have a life we enjoy. We are a number that is to be balanced in a spreadsheet. Nothing more.
I treat them accordingly.
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Also, AI has been incredibly and constantly pitched explicitly as a way for execs to lay off way more working class people! None of this is at all subtle!
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Also, AI has been incredibly and constantly pitched explicitly as a way for execs to lay off way more working class people! None of this is at all subtle!