A Singular Monkey
@finitemonkey.bsky.social
Physics, Electronics, and Computer Science Teacher by profession
Runner, cyclist, and traveler by choice
Against eating the seed corn
Runner, cyclist, and traveler by choice
Against eating the seed corn
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
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Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
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This is incoherent blather
WELKER: If tariffs help consumers, why is the administration rolling them back?
BESSENT: You know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. We try to push down the things we can control.
BESSENT: You know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. We try to push down the things we can control.
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is incoherent blather
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The smash-and-grab is complete. Don't worry, DOGE might be gone, but the damage done will last the rest of our lives.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The smash-and-grab is complete. Don't worry, DOGE might be gone, but the damage done will last the rest of our lives.
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Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
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Well, well, well....
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Well, well, well....
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
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no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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An under-appreciated downside of “AI search” or “Google Zero” is it becomes nearly impossible to replicate the same results for different people, meaning it will become easier for scammers to do stuff like this and harder for journalists (and law enforcement) to demonstrate the size of the problem
Americans Googling Obamacare Are Finding 'Junk Insurance' Instead
During open enrollment, ads from telemarketers are crowding out official health exchanges.
www.bloomberg.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
An under-appreciated downside of “AI search” or “Google Zero” is it becomes nearly impossible to replicate the same results for different people, meaning it will become easier for scammers to do stuff like this and harder for journalists (and law enforcement) to demonstrate the size of the problem
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Yesterday, there was a completely clear night here in Heidelberg, and between 5am and 6am, my trusty little #SeestarS50, patiently waiting on the balcony, managed to catch 3I/Atlas - so here's a little animation of an extrasolar object in motion :-) 🧪🔭🎢
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yesterday, there was a completely clear night here in Heidelberg, and between 5am and 6am, my trusty little #SeestarS50, patiently waiting on the balcony, managed to catch 3I/Atlas - so here's a little animation of an extrasolar object in motion :-) 🧪🔭🎢
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Kavanaugh should personally have to pay for all the broken windows, bandages and tow fees that called trivial.
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Kavanaugh should personally have to pay for all the broken windows, bandages and tow fees that called trivial.
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11-23 is Fibonacci Day & I always fall into a spiral
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
11-23 is Fibonacci Day & I always fall into a spiral
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Border Patrol has a surveillance program tracking millions of drivers by name and then gets them pulled over for lies. Listen to the officer admit that he is careful to conceal the reason for the stop so if it ever gets questioned, no one will know that there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Border Patrol has a surveillance program tracking millions of drivers by name and then gets them pulled over for lies. Listen to the officer admit that he is careful to conceal the reason for the stop so if it ever gets questioned, no one will know that there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE.
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Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: A lawsuit filed in California says Google secretly flipped Gmail access for its Gemini AI from opt-in to default ON, letting it scan emails and attachments without clear consent. The suit claims this violates California wiretapping laws. This is a privacy nightmare.
Lawsuit Accuses Google AI Assistant of Surreptitiously Accessing Gmail and Messaging Files - CPO Magazine
A lawsuit filed in California is accusing Google's "Gemini" AI assistant of spying on private communications, citing an undeclared change in policy from opt-in to opt-out that took place in October of...
www.cpomagazine.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: A lawsuit filed in California says Google secretly flipped Gmail access for its Gemini AI from opt-in to default ON, letting it scan emails and attachments without clear consent. The suit claims this violates California wiretapping laws. This is a privacy nightmare.
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Trump’s post on Truth Social is almost identical to the language used in a tweet from Chris Rufo earlier today.
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Trump’s post on Truth Social is almost identical to the language used in a tweet from Chris Rufo earlier today.
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#FindsFriday!
An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.
From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.
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An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.
From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#FindsFriday!
An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.
From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.
📷 me
An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.
From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.
📷 me
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Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
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This was a really fun story to write www.wired.com/story/google... also shoutout to Girls on the Run, which is an amazing organization!
@wired.com
www.gotroregon.org
@wired.com
www.gotroregon.org
Instead of an AI Health Coach, You Could Just Have Friends
I used the public preview of Fitbit’s new AI Health Coach and became both faster and noticeably weirder.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This was a really fun story to write www.wired.com/story/google... also shoutout to Girls on the Run, which is an amazing organization!
@wired.com
www.gotroregon.org
@wired.com
www.gotroregon.org
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About Half of Adults with ACA Marketplace Coverage are Small Business Owners, Employees, or Self-Employed
www.kff.org/affordable-c...
What do Republicans stand for? Not Entrepreneurship.
www.kff.org/affordable-c...
What do Republicans stand for? Not Entrepreneurship.
About Half of Adults with ACA Marketplace Coverage are Small Business Owners, Employees, or Self-Employed | KFF
This analysis estimates that 48% of adults under age 65 with individual market coverage are either employed by a small business with fewer than 25 workers, self-employed entrepreneurs, or small busine...
www.kff.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
About Half of Adults with ACA Marketplace Coverage are Small Business Owners, Employees, or Self-Employed
www.kff.org/affordable-c...
What do Republicans stand for? Not Entrepreneurship.
www.kff.org/affordable-c...
What do Republicans stand for? Not Entrepreneurship.
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Remember when there was an entire political party worried about big government and Big Brother?
license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Remember when there was an entire political party worried about big government and Big Brother?
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Your regular reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from Trump to GWB/torture to Iran-Contra to Watergate, back to 1865 - is that there are never any actual legal or personal consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics
This, from 2016, feels very quaint now. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Why Trump Would Almost Certainly Be Violating the Constitution If He Continues to Own His Businesses
The meaning of the Emoluments Clause is fairly clear. And it all goes back to a diamond-encrusted snuffbox Ben Franklin got from Louis XVI.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Your regular reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from Trump to GWB/torture to Iran-Contra to Watergate, back to 1865 - is that there are never any actual legal or personal consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics
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Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.