John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social
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John Bronson
@jbronson.bsky.social
· Nov 6
Yeah sex is great but have you ever found a BIOS update from 1999 that worked and got your ancient Pentium 133 to recognize the 16GB CF card you bought for it
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My not “not the gestapo” tshirt, has a lot of people asking questions that will get them kidnapped if I find out who’s asking them
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
My not “not the gestapo” tshirt, has a lot of people asking questions that will get them kidnapped if I find out who’s asking them
This is very good and also infuriating because it's the kind of plainly stated condemnation of Trump World's crimes, misdeeds, and excesses people like Schumer should be making every morning noon and night
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
!["On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreicrroq5taft777rmau2ffjlsphbcatlxnwwigf2yekoke533yycim@jpeg)
![has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreid3cmawech25ummuj2tjvgxsrvufma2kmrijlfpglalwddd3qkikq@jpeg)
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
This is very good and also infuriating because it's the kind of plainly stated condemnation of Trump World's crimes, misdeeds, and excesses people like Schumer should be making every morning noon and night
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ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
June 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
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Your life is worth less than a taillight to them
The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."
January 30, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Your life is worth less than a taillight to them
Look for the helpers
Man arrested on charges of impersonating an FBI agent in alleged attempt to free Luigi Mangione from jail
www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...
Man arrested on charges of impersonating an FBI agent in alleged attempt to free Luigi Mangione from jail | CNN
A Minnesota man was arrested and charged with impersonating an FBI agent after he tried to enter a federal jail and release suspected murderer Luigi Mangione, according to law enforcement sources.
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Look for the helpers
Guy who spent his professional life losing to an insurgency: Getting a lot of 'insurgency' vibes from this
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Guy who spent his professional life losing to an insurgency: Getting a lot of 'insurgency' vibes from this
To be fair computer cases are all ugly as shit now
...of fucking course he has the computer case designed to look like an ammo box (Corsair C70)
January 10, 2026 at 4:10 AM
To be fair computer cases are all ugly as shit now
LLM vendors have stumbled into a commonly misunderstood reality of software: It's one thing to build a technology, and quite another to deploy it in scale to the world.
It's probably more difficult to tune an LLM so it doesn't do stuff like this than to develop the technology in the first place.
It's probably more difficult to tune an LLM so it doesn't do stuff like this than to develop the technology in the first place.
January 2, 2026 at 4:50 PM
LLM vendors have stumbled into a commonly misunderstood reality of software: It's one thing to build a technology, and quite another to deploy it in scale to the world.
It's probably more difficult to tune an LLM so it doesn't do stuff like this than to develop the technology in the first place.
It's probably more difficult to tune an LLM so it doesn't do stuff like this than to develop the technology in the first place.
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there are already like 200 different physical Game Boy emulators out there, but when you have the opportunity to buy one whose components were once used to blow up a hospital in Syria, why not jump at the chance bsky.app/profile/retr...
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
there are already like 200 different physical Game Boy emulators out there, but when you have the opportunity to buy one whose components were once used to blow up a hospital in Syria, why not jump at the chance bsky.app/profile/retr...
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They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
l think, l-l... um, well, you see... um... uhm-uhhh...let me tell you about my... well, my... I, uh...I, ...um... Well you see,
Could Musk pass a Voight-Kampff Test if even tried?
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
l think, l-l... um, well, you see... um... uhm-uhhh...let me tell you about my... well, my... I, uh...I, ...um... Well you see,
Kaine looks every bit the grandpa who just spent your college money on a timeshare in Florida
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Kaine looks every bit the grandpa who just spent your college money on a timeshare in Florida
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
Don't know if "ironic" is the right word but it's certainly something that in the game's story, the SPARTAN program that created Master Chief was originally concieved to crush dissent within a fascist empire.
I truly wish that I were joking x.com/dhsgov/statu...
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Don't know if "ironic" is the right word but it's certainly something that in the game's story, the SPARTAN program that created Master Chief was originally concieved to crush dissent within a fascist empire.
Emma’s post will not age well. And not just because she’s still posting on Elon Musk’s Twitter
People who have zero tattoos should stop telling people why and how people get tattoos.
My first tattoo was in the military, and it was my grandfather’s nickname for me: Tigger. Yes, the Disney art, no, it’s not cool.
My first tattoo was in the military, and it was my grandfather’s nickname for me: Tigger. Yes, the Disney art, no, it’s not cool.
October 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Emma’s post will not age well. And not just because she’s still posting on Elon Musk’s Twitter
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This is how to treat anyone wearing Nazi uniforms or insignias. No chatter, no debate. Just put them to sleep.
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is how to treat anyone wearing Nazi uniforms or insignias. No chatter, no debate. Just put them to sleep.
No more gizmos for me thanks
The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
www.404media.co
October 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
No more gizmos for me thanks
"The political humiliation of this moment is not limited to the president nodding off or crashing out on camera...Do you want a candidate who supports genocide or one with a Nazi tattoo on his chest?"
Great piece by David Roth here.
Great piece by David Roth here.
I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...
What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us th...
defector.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"The political humiliation of this moment is not limited to the president nodding off or crashing out on camera...Do you want a candidate who supports genocide or one with a Nazi tattoo on his chest?"
Great piece by David Roth here.
Great piece by David Roth here.
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What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
sure do love being required to use Microsoft Edge at work
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
sure do love being required to use Microsoft Edge at work
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You can tell a lot about a person/org/society by who it lets be children
Funny how the press + white politicians just about never refer to unarmed Black teenagers who get murdered --
like Laquan McDonald, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Ma'Khia Bryant, & younger, like Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones-
as "kids," even though they call 30something racists "kids". 🤔
like Laquan McDonald, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Ma'Khia Bryant, & younger, like Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones-
as "kids," even though they call 30something racists "kids". 🤔
October 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You can tell a lot about a person/org/society by who it lets be children
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Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
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I think what trips people up is that rich people seem to be doing crimes but it’s important to remember common sense which is if they were doing all the crimes you think they’re doing, why is everyone in prison poor? That disproves the entire argument.
October 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I think what trips people up is that rich people seem to be doing crimes but it’s important to remember common sense which is if they were doing all the crimes you think they’re doing, why is everyone in prison poor? That disproves the entire argument.