Duke Usul
@dukeusul.bsky.social
Divorced dad, sci-fi and fantasy nerd, IT guy, musician, dog dad, mental health advocate, ally, progressive weenie. He/Him
All opinions my own, not my employer's.
📍Durham, NC, USA
All opinions my own, not my employer's.
📍Durham, NC, USA
Uhhhh.... You've had 15 years GOP
Roger Marshall on Republicans replacing the ACA: "It's gonna take us a while to figure out the right way to do it"
December 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Uhhhh.... You've had 15 years GOP
Sounds like a YOU problem there Sam.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Sounds like a YOU problem there Sam.
Absurd. But when the AI bubble bursts I guess the market will be flooded with low cost RAM so yay?
This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
Crucial memory will soon be a memory itself as Micron abandons consumers in favor of AI data centers
The RAM crisis is just getting started.
www.pcgamer.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Absurd. But when the AI bubble bursts I guess the market will be flooded with low cost RAM so yay?
Stares in Ecclesiastical Latin
Today in Schism:
Robert Griffin III claims the committee is “persecuting Christians” by ranking Notre Dame ahead of BYU
Robert Griffin III claims the committee is “persecuting Christians” by ranking Notre Dame ahead of BYU
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Stares in Ecclesiastical Latin
Gross and disgusting
A new federal directive by Mehmet Oz allows the sharing of Medicaid applicant data with DHS effective immediately, rescinding previous “interagency integrity” firewalls. This forces mixed-status families into an impossible calculus: access life-saving medical care or remain invisible to enforcement.
NEWS: Medicaid Data Now Flows to ICE
Effective today, a new federal directive allows immigration enforcement to access state healthcare enrollment data, TPS ends for thousands of Burmese war refugees, plus Kristi Noem explainer video.
migrantinsider.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Gross and disgusting
I'm way ahead of you!
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'm way ahead of you!
There is no valid justification for the US to enter Venezuela and anyone who orders such should be impeached, removed, stand trial, and spend a long time in jail.
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
There is no valid justification for the US to enter Venezuela and anyone who orders such should be impeached, removed, stand trial, and spend a long time in jail.
Hopefully the first of many to be disgraced and discarded from the newest revelations.....
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Hopefully the first of many to be disgraced and discarded from the newest revelations.....
Maybe he really is dying and he figures what the hell, take everyone else down with him.....
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Maybe he really is dying and he figures what the hell, take everyone else down with him.....
So well earned! Such a phenomenal author.
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
So well earned! Such a phenomenal author.
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Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
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BREAKING
Weeks after she won her special election, Adelita Grijalva has been sworn-in and is now a member of Congress.
Weeks after she won her special election, Adelita Grijalva has been sworn-in and is now a member of Congress.
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
BREAKING
Weeks after she won her special election, Adelita Grijalva has been sworn-in and is now a member of Congress.
Weeks after she won her special election, Adelita Grijalva has been sworn-in and is now a member of Congress.
Ugh, fuck this place.
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Ugh, fuck this place.
You've had fifteen fucking years to come up with something better.....
VAN SUSTEREN: Is the Republican healthcare solution going to go into effect at midnight on Dec. 31? Because people are gonna get sticker shock
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
You've had fifteen fucking years to come up with something better.....
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
So: what's the AI economy actually going to look like?
There's a ceiling on what 'average consumer' will pay for an AI tool. Just compare it to what we individuals pay for a search engine.
So the great proposition is Big AI selling Big Everyone tools they can use to lay off humans? 1/2
There's a ceiling on what 'average consumer' will pay for an AI tool. Just compare it to what we individuals pay for a search engine.
So the great proposition is Big AI selling Big Everyone tools they can use to lay off humans? 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
So: what's the AI economy actually going to look like?
There's a ceiling on what 'average consumer' will pay for an AI tool. Just compare it to what we individuals pay for a search engine.
So the great proposition is Big AI selling Big Everyone tools they can use to lay off humans? 1/2
There's a ceiling on what 'average consumer' will pay for an AI tool. Just compare it to what we individuals pay for a search engine.
So the great proposition is Big AI selling Big Everyone tools they can use to lay off humans? 1/2
Dr Oz actually tries to help.
RFK Jr hauls ass afraid he'll catch aomething.
DJT stands there like a sociopath.
RFK Jr hauls ass afraid he'll catch aomething.
DJT stands there like a sociopath.
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Dr Oz actually tries to help.
RFK Jr hauls ass afraid he'll catch aomething.
DJT stands there like a sociopath.
RFK Jr hauls ass afraid he'll catch aomething.
DJT stands there like a sociopath.
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Looking possible that the Democrats might sweep the board today--which means attempts to pervert the 2026 Congressional election will go into hyperdrive.
Get ready.
Get ready.
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Looking possible that the Democrats might sweep the board today--which means attempts to pervert the 2026 Congressional election will go into hyperdrive.
Get ready.
Get ready.
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We are in the worst timeline.
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
We are in the worst timeline.
They love you very much, but they are not the hell your whales.....
The Cetacean Translation Initiative is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications. Lawyers think the discoveries could galvanize the world to recognize whales’ lega...
AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? - Inside Climate News
The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications. Lawyers think the discoveries could galvanize the world to recognize whales’...
insideclimatenews.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
They love you very much, but they are not the hell your whales.....
LIAR
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
LIAR
This is frightening for me, a cis white man. I can't imagine for everyone else.
DHS/TSA consistently fails to recognize me via facial recognition at airports since I grew my hair and beard out....
DHS/TSA consistently fails to recognize me via facial recognition at airports since I grew my hair and beard out....
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is frightening for me, a cis white man. I can't imagine for everyone else.
DHS/TSA consistently fails to recognize me via facial recognition at airports since I grew my hair and beard out....
DHS/TSA consistently fails to recognize me via facial recognition at airports since I grew my hair and beard out....
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October 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Incredible. My phone won't even let me in sometimes based on Face ID..... "definitive" my ass.
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Incredible. My phone won't even let me in sometimes based on Face ID..... "definitive" my ass.