JD Long
@jdlong.cerebralmastication.com
CTO at a specialty insurance company. Perpetual cocktail party host, open source fan, econometrician, agricultural economist, and OReilly Author.
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This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.
At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
January 20, 2026 at 8:10 PM
This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.
At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
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I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.
three ducks wearing sunglasses are standing in a line
ALT: three ducks wearing sunglasses are standing in a line
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January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.
I watched a guy in a Vikings puffer and another in a bathrobe sling at least 10,000 verbal assaults each. So I think maybe the illiterate ICE goons are bad at counting. Just a theory.
"We've seen over a thousand percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, 8,000 verbal assaults on them...."
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I watched a guy in a Vikings puffer and another in a bathrobe sling at least 10,000 verbal assaults each. So I think maybe the illiterate ICE goons are bad at counting. Just a theory.
Dolly Parton turns 80 today. I will never stop being in awe that she wrote “Joleen” and "I Will Always Love You” the same week.
Then she proved to us that a person can both go big and go home. Absolute queen.
Then she proved to us that a person can both go big and go home. Absolute queen.
January 19, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Dolly Parton turns 80 today. I will never stop being in awe that she wrote “Joleen” and "I Will Always Love You” the same week.
Then she proved to us that a person can both go big and go home. Absolute queen.
Then she proved to us that a person can both go big and go home. Absolute queen.
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People who run an AI dev environment on top of an Obsidian vault, do you use source control on it? In any other context I have AI working I'll have git in the mix. But when I use it on Obsidian, I duplicate the repo before goign to work. Should my Obsidian vault be a git repo?
December 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
People who run an AI dev environment on top of an Obsidian vault, do you use source control on it? In any other context I have AI working I'll have git in the mix. But when I use it on Obsidian, I duplicate the repo before goign to work. Should my Obsidian vault be a git repo?
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The official message of the U.S. government to ICE is if you kill an American citizen while trying to deport brown people, not only will we cover it up but we will try to jail their spouse instead.
We all died during COVID and this is hell.
We all died during COVID and this is hell.
January 19, 2026 at 1:33 AM
The official message of the U.S. government to ICE is if you kill an American citizen while trying to deport brown people, not only will we cover it up but we will try to jail their spouse instead.
We all died during COVID and this is hell.
We all died during COVID and this is hell.
This ain’t right. This ain’t wholesome.
Nasra Ahmed was shoved to the ground and detained by ICE agents, suffering cuts and bruises to her face and legs
Ahmed, a U.S. citizen born in Minnesota, spent two days in jail before being released without charges
Ahmed, a U.S. citizen born in Minnesota, spent two days in jail before being released without charges
St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
During her two days in immigration detention, a St. Paul woman who was born in Minnesota said she “put her faith in God” and prayed after suffering what appeared to be a stress-induced seizure and bei...
www.yahoo.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:41 AM
This ain’t right. This ain’t wholesome.
Maryland DOT is not fooling around.
January 18, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Maryland DOT is not fooling around.
Leica owners understand the severity of the situation 😮
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Leica owners understand the severity of the situation 😮
My wife hung this on the kitchen cabinet. I feel threatened.
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
My wife hung this on the kitchen cabinet. I feel threatened.
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
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I have been playing around with knowledge-graphs and ontologies recently, is there software to visualize/query/debug them that is not made for power users and with charm from the 80s? What is the datasette of KGs? #databs
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I have been playing around with knowledge-graphs and ontologies recently, is there software to visualize/query/debug them that is not made for power users and with charm from the 80s? What is the datasette of KGs? #databs
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Government friends, submit talks, enough to enable a government track for a day or half day. It means a lot when we can sit and chat and exchange ideas with fellow govys for more than 20 minutes.
And you, yep you who are doubting yourself, submit one please!
#RStats #PyData #DataBS #PositConf
And you, yep you who are doubting yourself, submit one please!
#RStats #PyData #DataBS #PositConf
Speak at posit::conf(2026) and share your R & Python stories!
Accepted speakers get:
✨ Travel & lodging help
✨ Free conference pass
✨ Professional coaching
Apply by Feb 6 to join us Sept 14-16 in Houston, TX!
Submit here: pos.it/conf-talk-2026
#positconf2026 #rstats #pydata
Accepted speakers get:
✨ Travel & lodging help
✨ Free conference pass
✨ Professional coaching
Apply by Feb 6 to join us Sept 14-16 in Houston, TX!
Submit here: pos.it/conf-talk-2026
#positconf2026 #rstats #pydata
January 16, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Government friends, submit talks, enough to enable a government track for a day or half day. It means a lot when we can sit and chat and exchange ideas with fellow govys for more than 20 minutes.
And you, yep you who are doubting yourself, submit one please!
#RStats #PyData #DataBS #PositConf
And you, yep you who are doubting yourself, submit one please!
#RStats #PyData #DataBS #PositConf
My wife just told me that for her 60th birthday she wants a pool party and wants to hire GWAR to play. 😳
GWAR covering Pink Pony Club is possibly to blame.
youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...
GWAR covering Pink Pony Club is possibly to blame.
youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...
GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan
YouTube video by The A.V. Club
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 11:54 PM
My wife just told me that for her 60th birthday she wants a pool party and wants to hire GWAR to play. 😳
GWAR covering Pink Pony Club is possibly to blame.
youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...
GWAR covering Pink Pony Club is possibly to blame.
youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...
Inbox Zero is psychopath material.
January 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Inbox Zero is psychopath material.
Economist here 👋 I worked in international development with the World Bank 20+ years ago. I can 100% confirm the most stabilizing force and most needed infrastructure is rule of law including contract law and property rights. Nothing else works without that. And it can be lost.
had a really interesting conversation last night with an investor and died-in-the-wool capitalist where the conclusion was something like, most Americans don't realize that functioning capital markets and the rule of law are America's actual superpowers and those things could absolutely end
January 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Economist here 👋 I worked in international development with the World Bank 20+ years ago. I can 100% confirm the most stabilizing force and most needed infrastructure is rule of law including contract law and property rights. Nothing else works without that. And it can be lost.
This tool offloads code exploration to local LLMs then uses Claude models to do the planning, design, etc. more code discovery means fewer hallucinations. Local model means cheap.
A little off topic but you two might find this a mildly interesting/ useful even just as parts for other things.
RLM proxy for context generation.
github.com/colliery-io/...
RLM proxy for context generation.
github.com/colliery-io/...
GitHub - colliery-io/muninn: Privacy-first recursive context gateway for AI coding agents
Privacy-first recursive context gateway for AI coding agents - colliery-io/muninn
github.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:52 PM
This tool offloads code exploration to local LLMs then uses Claude models to do the planning, design, etc. more code discovery means fewer hallucinations. Local model means cheap.
Good lord.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Good lord.
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Marco Rubio, June 2012.
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Marco Rubio, June 2012.
I sometimes wish I was the person the facebook ad algo thinks I am.
January 13, 2026 at 12:51 PM
I sometimes wish I was the person the facebook ad algo thinks I am.