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Jason Schwanz
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I do stuff
Not sure why, but I decided to go back through the Pink Floyd catalog from the beginning. Got to Main Theme off the "More" soundtrack and was like, what is TOOL doing in here? Definitely getting themes of Forty Six & 2 in it, or I guess it'd be the other way around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IejE...
Pink Floyd - Main Theme (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Pink Floyd
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Either he's legit walking around with eyes closed, fingers in his ears, yelling lalalalalala ... or he's a liar. I'm not sure which is worse, willful ignorance in the face of human suffering, or persistent lying to avoid responsibility. Either way, neither is a Christ-like response. 100% cowardice.
2nd in line to the presidency, yet consistently has no idea what’s happening in the country
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Regulars include a molecular biologist, a Quaker peacekeeper and a citizen journalist with opposing views on immigration enforcement.
The real people behind months of Portland ICE protests
Regulars include a molecular biologist, a Quaker peacekeeper and a citizen journalist with opposing views on immigration enforcement.
www.oregonlive.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Did our military personnel just become mercenaries?
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
What kind of religion is so weak that its deity needs to be "saved" by the followers? If mere mortals need to be called upon to rescue your god, you have lost all claim toward it being an all powerful, omnipotent god. This is an admission that it's not about religion, and one that most will miss.
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
October 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
By this logic he's basically saying, "If you want me to stop hitting you, then stop giving me reasons to hit you."

If you don't like being called a Nazi, perhaps you should stop acting like one
Vance: "If you want stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi."
September 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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With regard to the events of the last week, I'll note anecdotally that I saw far more vicious comments on Threads than here, and neither of them were a patch on what I saw on Reddit, which suggests to me Bluesky is just a convenient punching bag for the right, blame-wise. This is not news.
September 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.
September 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Read the whole 🧵
Don’t wish murder on anyone because then you wish it on everyone. Don’t minimize a murder cuz you didn’t like the murder victim It’s not funny. It’s not edgy. It’s not justice. It’s murder. Each murder is the death of us all in very real ways. I know, I’ve died far too much for one life.
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
August 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Guster always finds new ways to weave sonic landscapes, tell meaningful stories and deeply engage with its fan base.
Guster: Tiny Desk Concert
Guster always finds new ways to weave sonic landscapes, tell meaningful stories and deeply engage with its fan base.
n.pr
August 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Eric Schmidt (February) vs Eric Schmidt (August) is the fight of the century. [joking aside, this is a very significant shift] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
August 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The thing about Clippy is that even though it was annoying, it was down in the corner, out of the way, and easy to ignore. I ended up turning GitHub Copilot off in VSCode because it keeps injecting itself into the lines I am actively working on, and things I don't need/want assistance with.
July 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.

I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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July 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The Ayatollah’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
June 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is pure evil, there is no amount of rehabilitation that can clean this stain from these agents or this agency
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
June 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Here’s the thing about social media platforms: for the vast majority of people choosing one is a matter of entertainment, interaction, and information, not of “work.” It’s perfectly reasonable to stay away from platforms that suck for you and stick with ones you enjoy.
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June 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.
June 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I keep coming back to how dumb this take is, it’s like saying drug dealers would totally be above board if they just conducted their business out in the open, Carter was made to sell his peanut farm but this is ok?
Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
May 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
May 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"Fireside chats" are entirely skippable, and you should considered it planned free time in your conference schedule
spicy tech take - "Fireside chats" are lazy. Two execs plopped into deep squishy chairs yapping without a plan or agenda. It's disrespectful to the audience. Stand up, do the work, make a plan, fire up the audience.

Don't have a session? Fireside chat with a famous person. Everyone loses.
April 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
lol “Corvallis is the sweatpants of towns, and I mean that in a good way. I think.”

To Corvallis' credit, they do have free public transit. Might not be the light rail the author is wishing for, but it's still quite nice.
Is Corvallis really the best college town in Oregon? One former Corvallis resident goes over the pros and cons.
Is Corvallis really the best college town in Oregon?
Oregon is awash in colleges. But which is best?
www.oregonlive.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM