Jeffrey Hulten 🅅
@jeffreyhulten.com
Dilettante polymath, developer, systems guy, nerd dad, and gourmand.
Ham radio operator, General Class.
Skeets are my own.
#hamradio #dad #softwareengineer
https://linkat.blue/jeffreyhulten.com
Also at @jhulten.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Ham radio operator, General Class.
Skeets are my own.
#hamradio #dad #softwareengineer
https://linkat.blue/jeffreyhulten.com
Also at @jhulten.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
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October 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Crowdsourcing info on a fic I can't find! I don’t know the title.
My sister read it like 10 or 20 years ago. It's for the film John Carpenter's THE THING.
It's from the creature's POV, the conceit is it's not initially trying to kill people, it's trying to study us.
Help? Retweet please! 💜
My sister read it like 10 or 20 years ago. It's for the film John Carpenter's THE THING.
It's from the creature's POV, the conceit is it's not initially trying to kill people, it's trying to study us.
Help? Retweet please! 💜
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Crowdsourcing info on a fic I can't find! I don’t know the title.
My sister read it like 10 or 20 years ago. It's for the film John Carpenter's THE THING.
It's from the creature's POV, the conceit is it's not initially trying to kill people, it's trying to study us.
Help? Retweet please! 💜
My sister read it like 10 or 20 years ago. It's for the film John Carpenter's THE THING.
It's from the creature's POV, the conceit is it's not initially trying to kill people, it's trying to study us.
Help? Retweet please! 💜
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...
The RubyGems “security incident”
Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight.
Fir...
andre.arko.net
October 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...
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One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.
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Happening now: Protest to bring back Jimmy Kimmel outside ABC Disney Studios in New York City
September 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Happening now: Protest to bring back Jimmy Kimmel outside ABC Disney Studios in New York City
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“Make unions militant again”
September 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“Make unions militant again”
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Here's hoping "The Mouse Is a Rat" follows Disney forever. Great hashtag, too. #TheMouseIsARat
September 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here's hoping "The Mouse Is a Rat" follows Disney forever. Great hashtag, too. #TheMouseIsARat
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Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood.
He's turning the homes into a compound.
That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe.
I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.
He's turning the homes into a compound.
That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe.
I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood.
He's turning the homes into a compound.
That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe.
I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.
He's turning the homes into a compound.
That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe.
I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.
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🚨 GitHub Actions on push ≠ GitOps
If you think triggering CI/CD on every commit is GitOps, you're completely missing the point
✨Real GitOps = Near real-time reconciliation
- Continuous drift detection
- Self-healing infrastructure
- Declarative state convergence
🔄 Stop pushing. Start pulling.
If you think triggering CI/CD on every commit is GitOps, you're completely missing the point
✨Real GitOps = Near real-time reconciliation
- Continuous drift detection
- Self-healing infrastructure
- Declarative state convergence
🔄 Stop pushing. Start pulling.
July 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🚨 GitHub Actions on push ≠ GitOps
If you think triggering CI/CD on every commit is GitOps, you're completely missing the point
✨Real GitOps = Near real-time reconciliation
- Continuous drift detection
- Self-healing infrastructure
- Declarative state convergence
🔄 Stop pushing. Start pulling.
If you think triggering CI/CD on every commit is GitOps, you're completely missing the point
✨Real GitOps = Near real-time reconciliation
- Continuous drift detection
- Self-healing infrastructure
- Declarative state convergence
🔄 Stop pushing. Start pulling.
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ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days.
They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.
Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.
Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone
A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work.
apnews.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days.
They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.
Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.
Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
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I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive.
We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.
We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.
July 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive.
We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.
We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
July 10, 2024 at 3:03 PM
“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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INBOX: “Beneath reproach… careless and cruel… I expect this column to be taken down and a public apology in Sunday’s edition, or my subscription will be canceled…”
A Chattanooga Times Free Press reader writes to the Times Free Press about Ron Hart’s soulless *commentary*, copying us
A Chattanooga Times Free Press reader writes to the Times Free Press about Ron Hart’s soulless *commentary*, copying us
July 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
INBOX: “Beneath reproach… careless and cruel… I expect this column to be taken down and a public apology in Sunday’s edition, or my subscription will be canceled…”
A Chattanooga Times Free Press reader writes to the Times Free Press about Ron Hart’s soulless *commentary*, copying us
A Chattanooga Times Free Press reader writes to the Times Free Press about Ron Hart’s soulless *commentary*, copying us
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Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA, issued a new rule requiring all contracts and grants costing over $100,000 to be personally approved by her. As floodwaters were rising in Texas, Noem failed to respond to such requests, taking 4 days to approve the spending that could have saved lives.
DHS Head Kristi Noem Prioritized Instagram Pics Over FEMA Requests for Response to Texas Floods
It took Noem four days to respond to requests from FEMA, delaying access to some search and rescue tools.
truthout.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA, issued a new rule requiring all contracts and grants costing over $100,000 to be personally approved by her. As floodwaters were rising in Texas, Noem failed to respond to such requests, taking 4 days to approve the spending that could have saved lives.
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Again, a private army, answerable only to the executive is the kind of thing that will destroy what's left of the American experiment.
I wrote today about why we should shudder about ICE and CBP adding 19,000 new agents and officers — because we should terrified of WHO would want to join CBP and ICE amid politicized authoritarian images like this: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...
July 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Again, a private army, answerable only to the executive is the kind of thing that will destroy what's left of the American experiment.
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"There’s a saying people like to attribute to Christian theology, which is ‘God will never give you more than you can handle.' It’s terrible theology." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Harrowing Tales Emerge in Texas as Rescuers Keep Up Search for Missing
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"There’s a saying people like to attribute to Christian theology, which is ‘God will never give you more than you can handle.' It’s terrible theology." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
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One of the great gifts of the modern world is that we have built a world in which children do not die nearly as much.
But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.
But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.
July 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
One of the great gifts of the modern world is that we have built a world in which children do not die nearly as much.
But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.
But it was, and remains, awful. Always a tragedy. Always, without reservation, a breaking of hearts all around them.
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One of the things about historical research is you encounter the fact that children used to die at heart-breaking rates. The cemeteries are full of tombs with zero to eleven year life spans. The correspondence mentions child death on a regular basis.
Children died often.
Children died often.
July 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
One of the things about historical research is you encounter the fact that children used to die at heart-breaking rates. The cemeteries are full of tombs with zero to eleven year life spans. The correspondence mentions child death on a regular basis.
Children died often.
Children died often.
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Excruciatingly embarrassing
July 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Excruciatingly embarrassing
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7. If this bill passes, Americans die, deficits explode, climate investments turn off and the rich get richer. If it goes down, those bad things don't happen. Those are the stakes. Keep your eyes on the prize.
July 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
7. If this bill passes, Americans die, deficits explode, climate investments turn off and the rich get richer. If it goes down, those bad things don't happen. Those are the stakes. Keep your eyes on the prize.
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I should be asleep, but can’t stop thinking about a striking sanitation worker I met today. He told me about the time a trash bag full of human shit burst in his face, and he had to spend two days in the hospital to ensure he hadn’t contracted any dangerous diseases.
He makes $19 an hour.
He makes $19 an hour.
July 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I should be asleep, but can’t stop thinking about a striking sanitation worker I met today. He told me about the time a trash bag full of human shit burst in his face, and he had to spend two days in the hospital to ensure he hadn’t contracted any dangerous diseases.
He makes $19 an hour.
He makes $19 an hour.
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Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
Abrego said he shared a cell with 20 people, who were forced to kneel overnight, “with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.”
He was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. Detainees were confined to metal bunks w/no mattresses in an overcrowded cell w/no windows, bright lights…
He was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. Detainees were confined to metal bunks w/no mattresses in an overcrowded cell w/no windows, bright lights…
Politico - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was illegaly deported by the Trump administration, details his mistreatment in a Salvadoran prison, claiming he suffered "severe beatings," sleep deprivation, malnutrition and other forms of torture at the hands of his jailers.
July 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.