John M. Gamble
@jmgamble.bsky.social
Lives in Chicago.
Programs obscure algorithms.
My primary posting site is and will remain at Mastodon. The account is bridged here:
@jgamble.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Programs obscure algorithms.
My primary posting site is and will remain at Mastodon. The account is bridged here:
@jgamble.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
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Jon Langford Live at Hideout Block Party - 20th Anniversary on 2016-09-10 https://archive.org/details/ajc01902_jon-langford-skull-orchard-2016-09-10
Jon Langford Live at Hideout Block Party - 20th Anniversary on 2016-09-10 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Jon Langford & Skull OrchardHideout Block Party - 20th AnniversaryHideoutChicago, ILSeptember 10, 2016** 16 BIT **Master recording generously loaned from...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Jon Langford Live at Hideout Block Party - 20th Anniversary on 2016-09-10 https://archive.org/details/ajc01902_jon-langford-skull-orchard-2016-09-10
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O dear God I had no idea this almost happened!!!
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
O dear God I had no idea this almost happened!!!
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Do you think that he travels with his own stack of phonebooks to perch on?
Bovino: "We're ratcheting operations up in Chicago. That's a very corrupt system in Chicago. Whether it's those elected leaders like Pritzker or those out of control judges, Chicago needs some attention. You're gonna see some very dynamic operations."
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Do you think that he travels with his own stack of phonebooks to perch on?
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OK, I'm a bit confused: just recently I heard a paper was published doi.org/10.1093/mnra... suggesting that the acceleration of the Universe might not even exist, and now there's this 🔽 suggesting that the error bar on the slowing down of this acceleration might have been underestimated.
A little less than a year ago, a large team of cosmologists reported evidence that dark energy (which drives the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe) evolves over time. This made a huge splash but has also been viewed with healthy skepticism. Today they report that evidence has weakened. 🧪
The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: A Reanalysis Of Cosmology Results And Evidence For Evolving Dark Energy With An Updated Type Ia Supernova Calibration
We present improved cosmological constraints from a re-analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 5-year sample of Type Ia supernovae (DES-SN5YR). This re-analysis includes an improved photometric cross...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
OK, I'm a bit confused: just recently I heard a paper was published doi.org/10.1093/mnra... suggesting that the acceleration of the Universe might not even exist, and now there's this 🔽 suggesting that the error bar on the slowing down of this acceleration might have been underestimated.
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Brilliant satire that doubles as a primer on the ongoing construction boom of supersized data centers across small town America—promoted as jobs creators even as the AI they enable is…wiping out jobs.
By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...
By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...
How AI data centers were invented #shorts
YouTube video by Charlie Berens
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Brilliant satire that doubles as a primer on the ongoing construction boom of supersized data centers across small town America—promoted as jobs creators even as the AI they enable is…wiping out jobs.
By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...
By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...
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I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
August 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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The identity of Sarah Kendzior, researcher on authoritarian states, and Sarah Kendzior's content discussing authoritarian states are...not really easy to separate.
So I'm struggling to see this as a response.
So I'm struggling to see this as a response.
False attribution. If a person is suspended it is because of their identity? Could it not be because of their content? I wrote about it here aaron.leaflet.pub/3m52nqqmk322v
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
aaron.leaflet.pub
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The identity of Sarah Kendzior, researcher on authoritarian states, and Sarah Kendzior's content discussing authoritarian states are...not really easy to separate.
So I'm struggling to see this as a response.
So I'm struggling to see this as a response.
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"It's just some people online" was the phrase that I got from the CDC after presenting as a pro-vax parent activist 10 yrs ago on how we were trying to build a counter-movement online but had no resources. This is an analysis we published in Wired, that later became the cover of The Economist. 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"It's just some people online" was the phrase that I got from the CDC after presenting as a pro-vax parent activist 10 yrs ago on how we were trying to build a counter-movement online but had no resources. This is an analysis we published in Wired, that later became the cover of The Economist. 1/2
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It’s for sale as a poster in their redbubble store.
"Colors of Aurora" Poster for Sale by alienyrox
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www.redbubble.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
It’s for sale as a poster in their redbubble store.
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
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I mean, if the minority whip is voting for something, then the minority leader is in on it
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I mean, if the minority whip is voting for something, then the minority leader is in on it
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idk which possibility is more damning for Schumer
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
idk which possibility is more damning for Schumer
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
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Cursed timeline
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Cursed timeline
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When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
YouTube video by SamCam2011
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
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50 years later, a new book looks at how economic forces and industrial decline led to a Great Lakes tragedy.
The wreck of the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ - Detroit Metro Times
On Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing its entire crew of 29 and becoming the largest shipwreck in the Great Lakes. The tragedy was immortalized in a Gordon Lightfoo...
www.metrotimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
50 years later, a new book looks at how economic forces and industrial decline led to a Great Lakes tragedy.
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I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it.
Threading several of these pieces below.
Threading several of these pieces below.
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it.
Threading several of these pieces below.
Threading several of these pieces below.
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Kind of familiar.
Isn't it.
Isn't it.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Kind of familiar.
Isn't it.
Isn't it.
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It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
As a native Michigander I would normally approve of such a self-destructive move. But we as a country not in a position to let this idiocy slide.
If your alma mater is even hinting at doing something similar, write angry letters.
If your alma mater is even hinting at doing something similar, write angry letters.
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
As a native Michigander I would normally approve of such a self-destructive move. But we as a country not in a position to let this idiocy slide.
If your alma mater is even hinting at doing something similar, write angry letters.
If your alma mater is even hinting at doing something similar, write angry letters.