Jèf Uphoff
@juphoff.bsky.social
Principal Systems Engineer at @ctrliq.bsky.social. Lapsed astro/physics guy.
Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke.
Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot. Ump.
Crazy cat gentleman.
Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke.
Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot. Ump.
Crazy cat gentleman.
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Just to be clear this is real and it is at the mall near me
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Just to be clear this is real and it is at the mall near me
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
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The thing with car culture is that you create a social model where every human being is, by default, disabled and cannot meet their daily needs without a mobility device. People have a relationship to their car more akin to a wheelchair than to a train. That's a problem.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The thing with car culture is that you create a social model where every human being is, by default, disabled and cannot meet their daily needs without a mobility device. People have a relationship to their car more akin to a wheelchair than to a train. That's a problem.
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
He was last seen midnight toking and muttering something about the pompatus of [unintelligible].
Has anyone checked on Stephen Miller since the Mamdani meeting?
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
He was last seen midnight toking and muttering something about the pompatus of [unintelligible].
Generational talent.
Mamdani may be the most talented politician I’ve seen in my lifetime. He just waltzed into the White House as a proud and unapologetic pro-Palestinian democratic socialist and slam dunked a literal fascist on live TV with a gotdamn smile. WTF
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Generational talent.
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Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
Oh, no. No no no.
Fuck no.
Fuck no.
just read a piece calling Nuzzi a "modern day political version of Hunter S. Thompson" and I think I need to log off
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Oh, no. No no no.
Fuck no.
Fuck no.
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"Africana Studies Major Meets with President at the White House, Calls Him a Fascist To His Face While Towering Over Him"
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Africana Studies Major Meets with President at the White House, Calls Him a Fascist To His Face While Towering Over Him"
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This is brilliant. Another politician would have let Trump’s line stand. Trump let him off the hook but he said it anyway.
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is brilliant. Another politician would have let Trump’s line stand. Trump let him off the hook but he said it anyway.
Oh, joy--another sleepless night coming up...
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Oh, joy--another sleepless night coming up...
A vitally important essay.
(I've sworn both oaths described therein.)
(I've sworn both oaths described therein.)
Joining @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social at the top of the 6ET to discuss this article I wrote last night. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-ameri...
What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
And why it matters there are two military oaths.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A vitally important essay.
(I've sworn both oaths described therein.)
(I've sworn both oaths described therein.)
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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The first official US coin was the Fugio cent, rumored to have been designed by Ben Franklin.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The first official US coin was the Fugio cent, rumored to have been designed by Ben Franklin.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
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i’m sure someone else has already put this together but fucking wild he called for members of congress to be hanged the same day the coast guard said a noose is no longer a hate symbol
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
i’m sure someone else has already put this together but fucking wild he called for members of congress to be hanged the same day the coast guard said a noose is no longer a hate symbol
If you see this post your getaway vehicle…
(A bit humbler than its big-cousin TBM, but it also screams along on a hell of a lot less fuel and is sitting in my hangar right now awaiting the crime…)
(A bit humbler than its big-cousin TBM, but it also screams along on a hell of a lot less fuel and is sitting in my hangar right now awaiting the crime…)
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If you see this post your getaway vehicle…
(A bit humbler than its big-cousin TBM, but it also screams along on a hell of a lot less fuel and is sitting in my hangar right now awaiting the crime…)
(A bit humbler than its big-cousin TBM, but it also screams along on a hell of a lot less fuel and is sitting in my hangar right now awaiting the crime…)
The old saw about not rushing a risotto is utter nonsense.
I'm listening to "Grace Under Pressure" while making this one, and it's going just fine.
I'm listening to "Grace Under Pressure" while making this one, and it's going just fine.
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The old saw about not rushing a risotto is utter nonsense.
I'm listening to "Grace Under Pressure" while making this one, and it's going just fine.
I'm listening to "Grace Under Pressure" while making this one, and it's going just fine.
Wow. End of an era.
A sad day for those of us who were close to the Beech line for many years. Solid machines all.
avbrief.com/textron-ends...
avbrief.com/textron-ends...
Textron Ends Bonanza, Baron Production - AvBrief.com
Bonanza turns 80 in December
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November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Wow. End of an era.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Menswear guy just spontaneously combusted
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Menswear guy just spontaneously combusted
I think I need a weird crush.
Suggestions?
Suggestions?
My weird crush is tinned fish reviews guy.
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I think I need a weird crush.
Suggestions?
Suggestions?
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor