Manfred
@nocoursewalks.bsky.social
Embedded software engineer, working on Linux and Android OS. He/him.
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Manfred
@nocoursewalks.bsky.social
· Aug 15
This is a chart you need to see if you want to understand American politics today. To the right, something has gone terribly wrong.
Amazing what happens when you ban lead in gasoline
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As of now, 25 murdered.
80 injured, including 14 children.
People were sleeping at home — in what they believed was a safe place, somewhere in the middle of a residential district in the western city of Ternopil.
My heart bleeds in agony.
Everyone who supports russia has our blood on their hands.
80 injured, including 14 children.
People were sleeping at home — in what they believed was a safe place, somewhere in the middle of a residential district in the western city of Ternopil.
My heart bleeds in agony.
Everyone who supports russia has our blood on their hands.
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As of now, 25 murdered.
80 injured, including 14 children.
People were sleeping at home — in what they believed was a safe place, somewhere in the middle of a residential district in the western city of Ternopil.
My heart bleeds in agony.
Everyone who supports russia has our blood on their hands.
80 injured, including 14 children.
People were sleeping at home — in what they believed was a safe place, somewhere in the middle of a residential district in the western city of Ternopil.
My heart bleeds in agony.
Everyone who supports russia has our blood on their hands.
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we play this game with Trump and Ukraine every week now: the Americans present an idiotic proposal that no Ukrainian president will accept for fear of getting couped, terrible commentators who think an obvious idiot is somehow a genius go HMMM HAS HE OUTMANEOUVRED ZELENSKY and then nothing happens
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
we play this game with Trump and Ukraine every week now: the Americans present an idiotic proposal that no Ukrainian president will accept for fear of getting couped, terrible commentators who think an obvious idiot is somehow a genius go HMMM HAS HE OUTMANEOUVRED ZELENSKY and then nothing happens
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Big Accounts Don't Want You To Know This Shocking Correlation (it's 1)
mental health up
post count down
post count down
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Big Accounts Don't Want You To Know This Shocking Correlation (it's 1)
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There are a handful of things Target could do to get me and a bunch of other formerly loyal, currently boycotting customers back, and this was absolutely not one of them:
“Target also announced a partnership with OpenAI to let customers shop on Target in ChatGPT.”
“Target also announced a partnership with OpenAI to let customers shop on Target in ChatGPT.”
Target may have hit rock bottom | CNN Business
Target’s problems are intensifying.
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
There are a handful of things Target could do to get me and a bunch of other formerly loyal, currently boycotting customers back, and this was absolutely not one of them:
“Target also announced a partnership with OpenAI to let customers shop on Target in ChatGPT.”
“Target also announced a partnership with OpenAI to let customers shop on Target in ChatGPT.”
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The True Rust Sage Does Not Take The PL Flame War Bait Because The Sage Knows That Golang’s Parallelism Model Provides No Guarantees For Lock-Free Behavior And The Cloudflare Writeup Is Indicative Of A Human Failure To Properly Model Program Invariants
People want a technical solution to what is ultimately a judgement problem.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The True Rust Sage Does Not Take The PL Flame War Bait Because The Sage Knows That Golang’s Parallelism Model Provides No Guarantees For Lock-Free Behavior And The Cloudflare Writeup Is Indicative Of A Human Failure To Properly Model Program Invariants
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“lazy use of unwrap blew up a process and took out the internet” bzzt. wrong. judicious use of unwrap blew up a process instead of allowing an Extremely Named CVE to happen and spraying your bank account credentials all over the public internet
People want a technical solution to what is ultimately a judgement problem.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“lazy use of unwrap blew up a process and took out the internet” bzzt. wrong. judicious use of unwrap blew up a process instead of allowing an Extremely Named CVE to happen and spraying your bank account credentials all over the public internet
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Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
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Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
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Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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Safe spaces for the widdle guys to play in without the mean politics bullies
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Safe spaces for the widdle guys to play in without the mean politics bullies
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The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
As an aside, you might as well get ready for some serious austerity next recession and no stimmy checks. Pols are gonna be terrified to do anything that might be inflationary.
Q: Would a $2,000 tariff dividend check going to people be inflationary?
Bessent: Maybe we could persuade Americans to save that.
Bessent: Maybe we could persuade Americans to save that.
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
As an aside, you might as well get ready for some serious austerity next recession and no stimmy checks. Pols are gonna be terrified to do anything that might be inflationary.
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My hatred of Corbynism was that it was a purely aesthetic political project and I'm starting to realise that Starmerism is also basically that, just with a much less attractive aesthetic.
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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And the wildest thing about it is how much the public has been told these guys are just smarter and better, and thus deserving of the outsized power they wield
then you look behind the curtain and it’s
“Dear Jeffrey, how do I leverage my social position to sleep with a specific college student”
then you look behind the curtain and it’s
“Dear Jeffrey, how do I leverage my social position to sleep with a specific college student”
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
And the wildest thing about it is how much the public has been told these guys are just smarter and better, and thus deserving of the outsized power they wield
then you look behind the curtain and it’s
“Dear Jeffrey, how do I leverage my social position to sleep with a specific college student”
then you look behind the curtain and it’s
“Dear Jeffrey, how do I leverage my social position to sleep with a specific college student”
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Another great pull from the evil photos every editor has
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Another great pull from the evil photos every editor has
But also positive the last five out of seven. Choose your fighter.
S&P 500 returns Nov 1-Oct 31 ahead of mid-term elections? Bad.
Avg -2.2%, median -3.5% (since 1962)
Avg -2.2%, median -3.5% (since 1962)
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
But also positive the last five out of seven. Choose your fighter.
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The cartels utilize terror as a tool of furthering their criminal enterprise (as do many criminal organizations), but they are not engaged in a campaign of terrorism towards the US, which is a distinction worth highlighting since the latter claim is at the core of the Admin's use of the word here
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The cartels utilize terror as a tool of furthering their criminal enterprise (as do many criminal organizations), but they are not engaged in a campaign of terrorism towards the US, which is a distinction worth highlighting since the latter claim is at the core of the Admin's use of the word here
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Yes and no. It depends on who is using the phrase "terrorism" and in what context
Yes they use terror as a (mainly local) means to further their business enterprise, but no they don't do what we've come to call ExOps for the supposed purposes of some vague global reordering
Yes they use terror as a (mainly local) means to further their business enterprise, but no they don't do what we've come to call ExOps for the supposed purposes of some vague global reordering
Cartels employ terrorism routinely. They kill journalists, mayors and mayoral candidates, and all manner of civilians to terrorize the rest into tolerating them. There are 99 problems with what we’re doing about them but calling them “narco-terrorists” ain’t one.
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Yes and no. It depends on who is using the phrase "terrorism" and in what context
Yes they use terror as a (mainly local) means to further their business enterprise, but no they don't do what we've come to call ExOps for the supposed purposes of some vague global reordering
Yes they use terror as a (mainly local) means to further their business enterprise, but no they don't do what we've come to call ExOps for the supposed purposes of some vague global reordering
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"they used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex" OF COURSE IT'S PEDOCON THEORY
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"they used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex" OF COURSE IT'S PEDOCON THEORY
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This is the perfect move for the Senate because the hot potato stays with them for only a few minutes and then they pass it entirely to the president and don't have to deal with it anymore. John Thune is boring and difficult, not stupid.
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is the perfect move for the Senate because the hot potato stays with them for only a few minutes and then they pass it entirely to the president and don't have to deal with it anymore. John Thune is boring and difficult, not stupid.
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Hours after Speaker Mike Johnson confidently declared that Senate Republicans would "fix" Thomas Massie's bill requiring release of the Epstein files, the Senate just passed the bill as is by unanimous consent without any changes. A massive, embarrassing debacle for Johnson.
It now goes to Trump...
It now goes to Trump...
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hours after Speaker Mike Johnson confidently declared that Senate Republicans would "fix" Thomas Massie's bill requiring release of the Epstein files, the Senate just passed the bill as is by unanimous consent without any changes. A massive, embarrassing debacle for Johnson.
It now goes to Trump...
It now goes to Trump...
Stop and think about how someone with the job title of "journalist" reported this as fact.
www.thedrive.com/news/local-n...
www.thedrive.com/news/local-n...
Local NBC Station Fooled by AI Video of Race Track Power Outage Causing Huge Crash
They even parroted the video's caption, which said the power company turned the lights off during the race to intimidate the track owners so they'd pay their bill.
www.thedrive.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Stop and think about how someone with the job title of "journalist" reported this as fact.
www.thedrive.com/news/local-n...
www.thedrive.com/news/local-n...
Now a GitHub outage? SREs are going through it today
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Now a GitHub outage? SREs are going through it today
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$HD flirting with its Liberation Day closing low.
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
$HD flirting with its Liberation Day closing low.