Jeff
@hammondj.bsky.social
Systems engineer. Aspiring author. Student of the world.
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A prime example of why mediocre white men should not be elevated to positions of power.
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
A prime example of why mediocre white men should not be elevated to positions of power.
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Last month, in Cape Town, I interviewed Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and America's most controversial mercenary, for The Weekend Intelligence, our weekend longform podcast.
Prince's return to the limelight is a bet on the direction the world is heading.
www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
Prince's return to the limelight is a bet on the direction the world is heading.
www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
The return of Erik Prince
The comeback of America’s most infamous mercenary
www.economist.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Last month, in Cape Town, I interviewed Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and America's most controversial mercenary, for The Weekend Intelligence, our weekend longform podcast.
Prince's return to the limelight is a bet on the direction the world is heading.
www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
Prince's return to the limelight is a bet on the direction the world is heading.
www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
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The price increases that should cause more panic for every American
The price increases that should cause more panic for every American
Wary of inflation, Americans have been watching the prices of everyday items such as eggs and gasoline. A less-noticed expense should cause greater alarm: rising premiums for health insurance. They have been trending upward for years and are now rising faster than ever.Consider that, from 2000 to 20...
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August 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The price increases that should cause more panic for every American
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Google in 2015: Our goal is to power 100% of our operations with clean energy
Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea
Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea
August 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Google in 2015: Our goal is to power 100% of our operations with clean energy
Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea
Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea
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Air Canada consoles stranded passengers with pictures of their executive bonuses
Air Canada consoles stranded passengers with pictures of their executive bonuses
OTTAWA - With thousands of passengers still facing travel delays as flight attendants strike for fair working conditions, Air Canada executives have decided to comfort customers by sending photos of t...
www.thebeaverton.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Air Canada consoles stranded passengers with pictures of their executive bonuses
The #ai industry is “horrified “ that they have to obey the law arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
arstechnica.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The #ai industry is “horrified “ that they have to obey the law arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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The absolute depravity of this from a Canadian national newspaper.
I am basically speechless with rage.
I am basically speechless with rage.
August 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The absolute depravity of this from a Canadian national newspaper.
I am basically speechless with rage.
I am basically speechless with rage.
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Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began.
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August 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began.
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We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
August 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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“Israel may have won these short-term military victories, but in the long term they’ve definitely lost."
The growing movement to recognize a Palestinian state reveals how the Gaza war has left Israel more isolated internationally than ever before in its history.
My analysis
The growing movement to recognize a Palestinian state reveals how the Gaza war has left Israel more isolated internationally than ever before in its history.
My analysis
Movement to recognize Palestinian statehood reflects Israel’s growing isolation
Canada, France and Britain had been among the first and loudest to express support for Israel after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“Israel may have won these short-term military victories, but in the long term they’ve definitely lost."
The growing movement to recognize a Palestinian state reveals how the Gaza war has left Israel more isolated internationally than ever before in its history.
My analysis
The growing movement to recognize a Palestinian state reveals how the Gaza war has left Israel more isolated internationally than ever before in its history.
My analysis
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Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.
Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers
Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.
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If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us.
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
July 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us.
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
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Gonna need another Nuremberg
July 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Gonna need another Nuremberg
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Opening the Epstein files
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Opening the Epstein files
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Fantastic news: more than 1,100 people stepped up this week to support The Narwhal’s lawsuit against the RCMP, donating $108,000 — and counting — to defend press freedom in Canada! 🎉🎉🎉 thenarwhal.ca/support-press-freedom
July 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fantastic news: more than 1,100 people stepped up this week to support The Narwhal’s lawsuit against the RCMP, donating $108,000 — and counting — to defend press freedom in Canada! 🎉🎉🎉 thenarwhal.ca/support-press-freedom
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We made a river. My long read on Toronto’s visionary port lands project: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
After 18 years of work, Toronto’s Port Lands opens to the public
Now known as Biidaasige Park, the project is part of $1.5-billion effort to renew the area’s ecological and Indigenous past
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We made a river. My long read on Toronto’s visionary port lands project: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but movies didn't go "woke." You just grew up to be a bad person.
July 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but movies didn't go "woke." You just grew up to be a bad person.
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If something can be destroyed by the truth, then let it - be it a person, a government, or an empire built on lies.
July 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If something can be destroyed by the truth, then let it - be it a person, a government, or an empire built on lies.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
July 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
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![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
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July 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
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“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression... there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” - William O. Douglas
July 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression... there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” - William O. Douglas
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What's the point of negotiating a deal with a bloke who won't stick to his side of it, eh?
July 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
What's the point of negotiating a deal with a bloke who won't stick to his side of it, eh?