Jared Smith
@jaredwsmith.com
Software engineering, weather (@chswx.com), Padres baseball, and other esoteric hyperfixations as required. Dachshund dad. Computers were a mistake. More coffee, please.
📍 Charleston, South Carerdddd
👨💻 https://jaredwsmith.com
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📍 Charleston, South Carerdddd
👨💻 https://jaredwsmith.com
⛈️ https://chswx.com
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.
October 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.
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Idk man, as a grown man I don't want much to do with anybody whose age ends with "-teen" unless I run into them in some online multiplayer game and they ruin my day with their superior reflexes and eyesight and I have to remember "Oh yeah, they're good at this because they don't have bills or taxes"
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Idk man, as a grown man I don't want much to do with anybody whose age ends with "-teen" unless I run into them in some online multiplayer game and they ruin my day with their superior reflexes and eyesight and I have to remember "Oh yeah, they're good at this because they don't have bills or taxes"
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Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
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‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
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i am watching the northern lights over lake michigan with a ton of strangers, this is so fucking cool
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
i am watching the northern lights over lake michigan with a ton of strangers, this is so fucking cool
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A wonderful reminder that Earth is really fucking cool and it's an absolutely pure joy to observe it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A wonderful reminder that Earth is really fucking cool and it's an absolutely pure joy to observe it.
Sean Duffy got the Transportation job because he was in a show called Road Rules, didn’t he?
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Sean Duffy got the Transportation job because he was in a show called Road Rules, didn’t he?
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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Senator Schumer has failed to lead this party in one of its most critical moments, and Americans will pay the price. It’s time for him to step down from leadership and make way for a new generation willing to fight for the people instead of the powerful.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Senator Schumer has failed to lead this party in one of its most critical moments, and Americans will pay the price. It’s time for him to step down from leadership and make way for a new generation willing to fight for the people instead of the powerful.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
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I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
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It's kind of uncertain whether Johnson will ever convene the House again
Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain?
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It's kind of uncertain whether Johnson will ever convene the House again
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If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
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Glad we've taught the Trump administration that starving 42 million people and disrupting air travel is how they get whatever they want, though. Good precedent with 3 years left in this nightmare.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Glad we've taught the Trump administration that starving 42 million people and disrupting air travel is how they get whatever they want, though. Good precedent with 3 years left in this nightmare.
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Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N403YX
Area: New York City, NY, USA
#acars #vdlm2 #N403YX #YX4586
Message: WELL NOW WE KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN THERES ONLY ONE ARTCC CONTROLLER FOR THE ENTIRE STATE OF NEW YORK. RC
Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N403YX
Area: New York City, NY, USA
#acars #vdlm2 #N403YX #YX4586
November 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
VDLM2 Message From: N403YX / YX4586
Message: WELL NOW WE KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN THERES ONLY ONE ARTCC CONTROLLER FOR THE ENTIRE STATE OF NEW YORK. RC
Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N403YX
Area: New York City, NY, USA
#acars #vdlm2 #N403YX #YX4586
Message: WELL NOW WE KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN THERES ONLY ONE ARTCC CONTROLLER FOR THE ENTIRE STATE OF NEW YORK. RC
Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N403YX
Area: New York City, NY, USA
#acars #vdlm2 #N403YX #YX4586
An incredibly long day in airport purgatory purely because Republicans want to price people out of health insurance, much less starve them.
Stop voting Republican.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
An incredibly long day in airport purgatory purely because Republicans want to price people out of health insurance, much less starve them.
Stop voting Republican.
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Stop voting Republican.
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I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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The 2 most prevalent music-streaming services of 1985. #uimockup #uidesign #alternatehistory #ui #macintosh #spotify
November 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The 2 most prevalent music-streaming services of 1985. #uimockup #uidesign #alternatehistory #ui #macintosh #spotify