Kevin Kretsch (DrKev)
@drkevguitar.bsky.social
Professional Guitar Nerd, ex-Physicist, Long-Covid Disabled. He/Him. Call me Kev, never Kevin. Black Lives STILL Matter. GO BILLS!
Ireland/US/France
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” – Angela Davis
Ireland/US/France
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” – Angela Davis
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pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
If you didn't watch this when it came out, you should now.
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I know I just started my Lenten social media fast, but I just got a text that Norman Francis died.
He was my HBCU presidential hero. A life well lived, he inspired generations.
www.nola.com/news/norman-...
He was my HBCU presidential hero. A life well lived, he inspired generations.
www.nola.com/news/norman-...
Norman Francis, civil rights leader and longtime Xavier University president, dies at 94
Norman C. Francis, who advised eight presidents on education and civil rights issues, has been called “one of the most influential New Orleanians of the 20th century.”
www.nola.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:11 PM
I know I just started my Lenten social media fast, but I just got a text that Norman Francis died.
He was my HBCU presidential hero. A life well lived, he inspired generations.
www.nola.com/news/norman-...
He was my HBCU presidential hero. A life well lived, he inspired generations.
www.nola.com/news/norman-...
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These wellness grifters are going to keep killing people. You are a moron if you think cancer can be cured with beet juice. You are evil for peddling this shit to people who are low on hope and short on time. I lost 2 parents to cancer and have seen it all. Stop being stupid.
February 18, 2026 at 12:17 PM
These wellness grifters are going to keep killing people. You are a moron if you think cancer can be cured with beet juice. You are evil for peddling this shit to people who are low on hope and short on time. I lost 2 parents to cancer and have seen it all. Stop being stupid.
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22% of the electricity we generate goes to power server farms. By 2030 it's projected to lrise to 30%.
30% of our electricity comes from oil and gas.
Feels like there's an obvious step we could take here...
30% of our electricity comes from oil and gas.
Feels like there's an obvious step we could take here...
Ireland No. 1 in Europe - yet again. GHGs rose faster (+3.2%) in Ireland in Q3 2025 than ANYWHERE else in Europe.
#Climate action, my eye.
#Climate action, my eye.
February 18, 2026 at 10:42 AM
22% of the electricity we generate goes to power server farms. By 2030 it's projected to lrise to 30%.
30% of our electricity comes from oil and gas.
Feels like there's an obvious step we could take here...
30% of our electricity comes from oil and gas.
Feels like there's an obvious step we could take here...
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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
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I would really love if the endorsements on my book cover came from fellow trans/nb academics; failing that, The Gays. I've asked one person already and she said she'd do it (yayyy and Eternal Gratitude) but I am feeling so nervous about asking others that I legit can't think of anyone.
February 18, 2026 at 10:36 AM
I would really love if the endorsements on my book cover came from fellow trans/nb academics; failing that, The Gays. I've asked one person already and she said she'd do it (yayyy and Eternal Gratitude) but I am feeling so nervous about asking others that I legit can't think of anyone.
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The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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This honestly has not steered me wrong this year!
February 17, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This honestly has not steered me wrong this year!
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The difference between a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant is the difference between a $20 bill and a napkin that a fascist wrote "twenty dollars" on.
February 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM
The difference between a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant is the difference between a $20 bill and a napkin that a fascist wrote "twenty dollars" on.
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The map for No Kings Day just went live with nearly 600 peaceful protests planned across all 50 states (including our flagship event in the Twin Cities).
Find your local protest or start a new No Kings event if there’s currently nothing planned near you: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Find your local protest or start a new No Kings event if there’s currently nothing planned near you: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
February 17, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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So considering that Jesse Jackson was also protesting a democratic president targeting and detaining immigrants in concentration camps OVER 30 YEARS AGO, is it still just a talking point for “white leftists” or…….?
February 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM
So considering that Jesse Jackson was also protesting a democratic president targeting and detaining immigrants in concentration camps OVER 30 YEARS AGO, is it still just a talking point for “white leftists” or…….?
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"Most importantly, there is no AI without massive financial and ideological backing. It is therefore pointless to discuss its techniques or capabilities without asking who controls it, who benefits from it, who builds and deploys it, and what it is doing in the world"
I appeared as an expert witness before the Joint Committee on AI at the Houses of Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to discuss "AI: truth and democracy" this morning. You can read my opening statement here: www.oireachtas.ie/en/publicati...
February 17, 2026 at 3:40 PM
"Most importantly, there is no AI without massive financial and ideological backing. It is therefore pointless to discuss its techniques or capabilities without asking who controls it, who benefits from it, who builds and deploys it, and what it is doing in the world"
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A confidential document shows that Trump’s DOJ plans to analyze states’ voter files and then instruct the states to remove specific voters. But the federal government has neither the legal authority nor expertise to correctly add and remove voters from the rolls. bit.ly/46tX4nd
“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data
At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.
www.brennancenter.org
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM
A confidential document shows that Trump’s DOJ plans to analyze states’ voter files and then instruct the states to remove specific voters. But the federal government has neither the legal authority nor expertise to correctly add and remove voters from the rolls. bit.ly/46tX4nd
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Jesse Jackson aint got no business being taken from us during Black History Month 😭💔. Rest In Power ✊🏾
February 17, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Jesse Jackson aint got no business being taken from us during Black History Month 😭💔. Rest In Power ✊🏾
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Reverend Jesse Jackson is an ancestor now. The titans we studied in our history books are gone and we’re all we have left. We’re called to fight, but we’re also called to hope.
We’re our only hope.
Rest well, Reverend Jackson, and we’ll see you in the morning.
We’re our only hope.
Rest well, Reverend Jackson, and we’ll see you in the morning.
February 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Reverend Jesse Jackson is an ancestor now. The titans we studied in our history books are gone and we’re all we have left. We’re called to fight, but we’re also called to hope.
We’re our only hope.
Rest well, Reverend Jackson, and we’ll see you in the morning.
We’re our only hope.
Rest well, Reverend Jackson, and we’ll see you in the morning.
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Jesse Jackson is gonna get slandered a lot today by "the others."
Please dont help them.
The problem with getting old is that you dont get to die young in all your glory and best days.
People get to see your full humanity and imperfections.
Like normal
Please dont help them.
The problem with getting old is that you dont get to die young in all your glory and best days.
People get to see your full humanity and imperfections.
Like normal
February 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Jesse Jackson is gonna get slandered a lot today by "the others."
Please dont help them.
The problem with getting old is that you dont get to die young in all your glory and best days.
People get to see your full humanity and imperfections.
Like normal
Please dont help them.
The problem with getting old is that you dont get to die young in all your glory and best days.
People get to see your full humanity and imperfections.
Like normal
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As of this morning, only one of the men who was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that fateful evening is still living.
Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.
Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.
February 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
As of this morning, only one of the men who was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that fateful evening is still living.
Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.
Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.
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“We’re not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.”
Jessie Jackson
REST IN PEACE
Jessie Jackson
REST IN PEACE
February 17, 2026 at 10:44 AM
“We’re not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.”
Jessie Jackson
REST IN PEACE
Jessie Jackson
REST IN PEACE
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Even as Rev. Jesse Jackson has died, his afterlife has begun through us. Through our undying struggle against racism. Through our eternal organizing of rainbow coalitions against resurgent ethnostates. Through our everlasting striving to “Keep Hope Alive!” Rest peacefully, Rev. Jackson. 🕊️💔
February 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Even as Rev. Jesse Jackson has died, his afterlife has begun through us. Through our undying struggle against racism. Through our eternal organizing of rainbow coalitions against resurgent ethnostates. Through our everlasting striving to “Keep Hope Alive!” Rest peacefully, Rev. Jackson. 🕊️💔
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i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
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Folks, with the death of Jesse Jackson, let's not fill up the timeline with eulogies of Jesse Jackson from people (us, white folks) who never really knew him. Let's (us, white folks) instead fill the timeline by reposting our Black neighbors' words and memories of him.
February 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Folks, with the death of Jesse Jackson, let's not fill up the timeline with eulogies of Jesse Jackson from people (us, white folks) who never really knew him. Let's (us, white folks) instead fill the timeline by reposting our Black neighbors' words and memories of him.
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I met Jesse Jackson when I was a kid. He taught me to say “I am somebody. I’m black and I’m proud.” RIP to a real one
February 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I met Jesse Jackson when I was a kid. He taught me to say “I am somebody. I’m black and I’m proud.” RIP to a real one
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Rev. Jesse Jackson was a trailblazer and a leader in our fight for civil rights in this nation, and his work will live on.
My heart is with his family and loved ones today. May he rest in power.
My heart is with his family and loved ones today. May he rest in power.
Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Rev. Jesse Jackson was a trailblazer and a leader in our fight for civil rights in this nation, and his work will live on.
My heart is with his family and loved ones today. May he rest in power.
My heart is with his family and loved ones today. May he rest in power.
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Rest in Power Jesse Jackson
“What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.”—
Jesse Jackson
“What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.”—
Jesse Jackson
February 17, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Rest in Power Jesse Jackson
“What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.”—
Jesse Jackson
“What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.”—
Jesse Jackson