Bruce R McF (etc.)
@brucermcf.bsky.social
Obscure development & regional economist, teaching in South Carolina and living in both South Carolina and Tennessee. He/him
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The best use of pennies is to drill holes in them and use them as washers, which typically cost 10 cents each.
Pennies Are Trash Now
The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The best use of pennies is to drill holes in them and use them as washers, which typically cost 10 cents each.
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Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
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theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or
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“Many law-abiding immigrants who followed the rules in their applications for visas, green cards or asylum are being taken into ICE detention centers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Many law-abiding immigrants who followed the rules in their applications for visas, green cards or asylum are being taken into ICE detention centers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
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This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues
The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues
It also doesn't hurt the whole enterprise that the works centering African culture and perspectives are great books to read, wonderful escapes from long-recycled tropes in SF.
This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author Named TIME Must-Read Book of 2025
Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel Death of the Author has been selected as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, adding another major recognition to Okorafor's growing list of honors. The me...
brittlepaper.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It also doesn't hurt the whole enterprise that the works centering African culture and perspectives are great books to read, wonderful escapes from long-recycled tropes in SF.
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This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author Named TIME Must-Read Book of 2025
Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel Death of the Author has been selected as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, adding another major recognition to Okorafor's growing list of honors. The me...
brittlepaper.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
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"Imagine how much more aware people would be about White House corruption if news stories stopped saying 'Trump said…' and instead said, 'Trump, a convicted felon, said…'"
As @markjacob.bsky.social notes here the conventions of political reporting are helping obfuscate Trump/MAGA criminality:
As @markjacob.bsky.social notes here the conventions of political reporting are helping obfuscate Trump/MAGA criminality:
It’s the media’s version of a “pardon” when news outlets fail to remind the public of past crimes by Trump and his mischief makers such as Steve Bannon.
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How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals
News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
www.stopthepresses.news
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Imagine how much more aware people would be about White House corruption if news stories stopped saying 'Trump said…' and instead said, 'Trump, a convicted felon, said…'"
As @markjacob.bsky.social notes here the conventions of political reporting are helping obfuscate Trump/MAGA criminality:
As @markjacob.bsky.social notes here the conventions of political reporting are helping obfuscate Trump/MAGA criminality:
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Spammers attempting to convince one to use their "author services" via negging don't work when one's most recent book is a New York Times bestseller
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Spammers attempting to convince one to use their "author services" via negging don't work when one's most recent book is a New York Times bestseller
Seriously, just because Great Grandpa came off the boat, cleared the TB test and looked like a healthy enough worker to be allowed to enter the US doesn't mean it's still that easy.
It's a lot harder to get through than it used to be.
It's a lot harder to get through than it used to be.
This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Seriously, just because Great Grandpa came off the boat, cleared the TB test and looked like a healthy enough worker to be allowed to enter the US doesn't mean it's still that easy.
It's a lot harder to get through than it used to be.
It's a lot harder to get through than it used to be.
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This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is:
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is:
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can
2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise
3) other people should also get loud
4) not violent though
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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the fun thing about actually reading books and loving the English language for its weird complexities is that the two words that make up “Vanity Fair” can also be read as “self-indulgently mediocre”
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
the fun thing about actually reading books and loving the English language for its weird complexities is that the two words that make up “Vanity Fair” can also be read as “self-indulgently mediocre”
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having lived through the last 50 years, I know how it'll go. The Democrats will (eventually) fix things while also being blamed for How Bad Things Got the whole time. It'll be, "Remember when Obama met Putin in Alaska? It went to hell right after that"
having lived through the last 50 years, I know how it'll go. The Democrats will (eventually) fix things while also being blamed for How Bad Things Got the whole time. It'll be, "Remember when Obama met Putin in Alaska? It went to hell right after that"
August 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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having lived through the last 50 years, I know how it'll go. The Democrats will (eventually) fix things while also being blamed for How Bad Things Got the whole time. It'll be, "Remember when Obama met Putin in Alaska? It went to hell right after that"
having lived through the last 50 years, I know how it'll go. The Democrats will (eventually) fix things while also being blamed for How Bad Things Got the whole time. It'll be, "Remember when Obama met Putin in Alaska? It went to hell right after that"
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The second paragraph of every article about Trump freeing House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files should make it clear that he could order them released himself and chooses not to.
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The second paragraph of every article about Trump freeing House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files should make it clear that he could order them released himself and chooses not to.
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MeToo was the only reason people started caring about Epstein, btw.
Everything Epstein did was more or less public knowledge for decades prior, but only after the social consciousness of "rape by powerful men is bad actually" hit, did it get taken seriously, starting with Miami Herald's work.
Everything Epstein did was more or less public knowledge for decades prior, but only after the social consciousness of "rape by powerful men is bad actually" hit, did it get taken seriously, starting with Miami Herald's work.
MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
MeToo was the only reason people started caring about Epstein, btw.
Everything Epstein did was more or less public knowledge for decades prior, but only after the social consciousness of "rape by powerful men is bad actually" hit, did it get taken seriously, starting with Miami Herald's work.
Everything Epstein did was more or less public knowledge for decades prior, but only after the social consciousness of "rape by powerful men is bad actually" hit, did it get taken seriously, starting with Miami Herald's work.
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
"For an example of women ruining the workplace, consider the case of a male Mentor, who has no agency at all in this accounting, being forced to ruin the workplace by bringing their pre-existing scumbag predatory behavior into the workplace."
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
I mean
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"For an example of women ruining the workplace, consider the case of a male Mentor, who has no agency at all in this accounting, being forced to ruin the workplace by bringing their pre-existing scumbag predatory behavior into the workplace."
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If you saw latest news bulletin, chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grams per week under Big Brother. Those are the actual numbers. We just have to get the citizens of Oceania understanding.
Rep. Keith Self on Newsmax: "If you saw Fox News just recently, groceries, gas, inflation in general is down under President Trump. Now, the mainstream media won't tell you that. But those are the actual numbers. We just have to get the American people understanding."
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
If you saw latest news bulletin, chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grams per week under Big Brother. Those are the actual numbers. We just have to get the citizens of Oceania understanding.
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My best take on AI so far:
I don't need a New computer that just gets in between me and the better computer.
nothing AI is doing that I wouldn't rather do myself. Don't use the tools for me: give me the damn tools.
I don't need a New computer that just gets in between me and the better computer.
nothing AI is doing that I wouldn't rather do myself. Don't use the tools for me: give me the damn tools.
* I don't need a computer that gets between me and the better computer. *
I'm not gonna say that we should all go back to running .exe files from the command prompt, but AI as UX — as a user interface — is just an immediate fail.
Just stop.
Go back to the drawing board, design something else.
I'm not gonna say that we should all go back to running .exe files from the command prompt, but AI as UX — as a user interface — is just an immediate fail.
Just stop.
Go back to the drawing board, design something else.
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
My best take on AI so far:
I don't need a New computer that just gets in between me and the better computer.
nothing AI is doing that I wouldn't rather do myself. Don't use the tools for me: give me the damn tools.
I don't need a New computer that just gets in between me and the better computer.
nothing AI is doing that I wouldn't rather do myself. Don't use the tools for me: give me the damn tools.
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If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
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Lawyers, in despair (the evil ones in elation): Finally, "because I said so" accepted as evidence.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Lawyers, in despair (the evil ones in elation): Finally, "because I said so" accepted as evidence.
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“If the election were held today, we’d come up short.”
Even Vivek says he’s behind @amyactonoh.bsky.social
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November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“If the election were held today, we’d come up short.”
Even Vivek says he’s behind @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Donate to her campaign here: secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_a...
Even Vivek says he’s behind @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Donate to her campaign here: secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_a...