Mark Cathcart
@markcathcart.com
Music research • Writer for @ctproduced.com • Govt Watch for #LouisvilleCO #BoulderWeekly • Investor in @prsportslab.com
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Formerly/formally IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Academy of Technology, Fellow of the British Computer Society.
✓ Dad ✓ Husband.
Formerly/formally IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Academy of Technology, Fellow of the British Computer Society.
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Mark Cathcart
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· Apr 9
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
As a reminder, it's about this and staying out of jail.
Everything else is running cover for it.
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Everything else is running cover for it.
bsky.app/profile/chri...
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It's the Marc Jacobs Tr$mp collection - for the fit man who thinks he is.
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
It's the Marc Jacobs Tr$mp collection - for the fit man who thinks he is.
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This is #2/50 original 1968 Pete Turner "Giraffe" large scale prints from Jan. 1968 - It was owned by Creed Taylor. It's the cover picture from the 1967 Anton Carlos Jobim album "Wave".
What's is worth? Dunno but I couldn't come up with a big enough number for the seller to sell it to me.
#jazzsky
What's is worth? Dunno but I couldn't come up with a big enough number for the seller to sell it to me.
#jazzsky
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is #2/50 original 1968 Pete Turner "Giraffe" large scale prints from Jan. 1968 - It was owned by Creed Taylor. It's the cover picture from the 1967 Anton Carlos Jobim album "Wave".
What's is worth? Dunno but I couldn't come up with a big enough number for the seller to sell it to me.
#jazzsky
What's is worth? Dunno but I couldn't come up with a big enough number for the seller to sell it to me.
#jazzsky
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While in New Orleans French Quarter, I took the back staircase at the Cabildo Museum and found myself outside a room with National Guardsmen using facial recognition (red squares around faces) on multiple TV screens.
It really spooked me.
#facialrecognition
#nationalguard
It really spooked me.
#facialrecognition
#nationalguard
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
While in New Orleans French Quarter, I took the back staircase at the Cabildo Museum and found myself outside a room with National Guardsmen using facial recognition (red squares around faces) on multiple TV screens.
It really spooked me.
#facialrecognition
#nationalguard
It really spooked me.
#facialrecognition
#nationalguard
My kid wanted to do accounting specialising in forensic accounting. Her degree is no longer deemed professional and not eligible for student loans.
Don't think this is anything other than payback by the President and His administration. They want to force people into predatory lending.
Don't think this is anything other than payback by the President and His administration. They want to force people into predatory lending.
Payday lenders gave Trump millions. Then he helped them cash in on the working poor.
The investment in Trump has continued paying off during the pandemic.
www.motherjones.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My kid wanted to do accounting specialising in forensic accounting. Her degree is no longer deemed professional and not eligible for student loans.
Don't think this is anything other than payback by the President and His administration. They want to force people into predatory lending.
Don't think this is anything other than payback by the President and His administration. They want to force people into predatory lending.
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🎯 @robsandia.bsky.social on Private School Vouchers (for the wealthy) — “CALL THEIR BLUFF… if they want public dollars, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools… it’s not a ‘COMPETITION’ when not everyone is playing by the same rules.”
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🎯 @robsandia.bsky.social on Private School Vouchers (for the wealthy) — “CALL THEIR BLUFF… if they want public dollars, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools… it’s not a ‘COMPETITION’ when not everyone is playing by the same rules.”
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
This is unsustainable and unaffordable. My Medicare 17% premium rise for an advantage plan, the largest in history, pales by comparison.
My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is unsustainable and unaffordable. My Medicare 17% premium rise for an advantage plan, the largest in history, pales by comparison.
Seedy, vile, disgusting. You have all the money in the world and you can't even wait to get somewhere with some style and class.
I assume this is the prototype for the Qatari donated Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet, for Air Force One. That's why Tr$mp wants to use it after he's left office.
I assume this is the prototype for the Qatari donated Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet, for Air Force One. That's why Tr$mp wants to use it after he's left office.
Knowing what we know now, the creep factor is high on this one.
Epstein’s Lolita Express took its last flight in 2016 and sat abandoned at Georgia’s Brunswick Airport when photographed in 2020. This is the same jet that’s believed to have carried his trafficking victims & long list of secret VIPs.
Epstein’s Lolita Express took its last flight in 2016 and sat abandoned at Georgia’s Brunswick Airport when photographed in 2020. This is the same jet that’s believed to have carried his trafficking victims & long list of secret VIPs.
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Seedy, vile, disgusting. You have all the money in the world and you can't even wait to get somewhere with some style and class.
I assume this is the prototype for the Qatari donated Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet, for Air Force One. That's why Tr$mp wants to use it after he's left office.
I assume this is the prototype for the Qatari donated Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet, for Air Force One. That's why Tr$mp wants to use it after he's left office.
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Did you see/read this, my guess is that you didn't spot it's another attempt to drive through a racist federal ID requirement.
Who exactly is a foreigner? How do you know? Drivers licenses do NOT prove citizenship. This is a terrible idea, especially since it will likely end up with biometrics.
Who exactly is a foreigner? How do you know? Drivers licenses do NOT prove citizenship. This is a terrible idea, especially since it will likely end up with biometrics.
Foreign visitors will have to pay $100 surcharge to get into Rocky Mountain National Park, Trump administration says
International tourists will have to pay a $100 surcharge to visit Rocky Mountain National Park starting on Jan. 1 under a new policy announced by the Trump administration on Tuesday.
www.coloradohometownweekly.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Did you see/read this, my guess is that you didn't spot it's another attempt to drive through a racist federal ID requirement.
Who exactly is a foreigner? How do you know? Drivers licenses do NOT prove citizenship. This is a terrible idea, especially since it will likely end up with biometrics.
Who exactly is a foreigner? How do you know? Drivers licenses do NOT prove citizenship. This is a terrible idea, especially since it will likely end up with biometrics.
I keep complaining about the lack of 3rd-places for children and teens to gather, we just did the debate about malls and how they were really killed by mall cops who essentially heard kids like sheep dogs until they killed the mall.
This is possibly the saddest indictment #louisvilleco could make
This is possibly the saddest indictment #louisvilleco could make
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I keep complaining about the lack of 3rd-places for children and teens to gather, we just did the debate about malls and how they were really killed by mall cops who essentially heard kids like sheep dogs until they killed the mall.
This is possibly the saddest indictment #louisvilleco could make
This is possibly the saddest indictment #louisvilleco could make
MSN is going to have to do better on links, embeds if it ever wants to grow up.
Title for the article is "Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy"
If you do decide to read, remember China doesn't want to import anything, nothing at all. Soy Beans are just a sop.
Title for the article is "Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy"
If you do decide to read, remember China doesn't want to import anything, nothing at all. Soy Beans are just a sop.
Good read. Frightening thing is not AI, but that Trump, Lutnick, Miller et al have no freaking clue how to compete.
No paywall copy to Wall St Journal.
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
No paywall copy to Wall St Journal.
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
MSN is going to have to do better on links, embeds if it ever wants to grow up.
Title for the article is "Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy"
If you do decide to read, remember China doesn't want to import anything, nothing at all. Soy Beans are just a sop.
Title for the article is "Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy"
If you do decide to read, remember China doesn't want to import anything, nothing at all. Soy Beans are just a sop.
Good read. Frightening thing is not AI, but that Trump, Lutnick, Miller et al have no freaking clue how to compete.
No paywall copy to Wall St Journal.
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
No paywall copy to Wall St Journal.
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Good read. Frightening thing is not AI, but that Trump, Lutnick, Miller et al have no freaking clue how to compete.
No paywall copy to Wall St Journal.
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
No paywall copy to Wall St Journal.
www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
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Sean Duffy not clear these guys understood the assignment.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Sean Duffy not clear these guys understood the assignment.
Such an embarrassing show of incompetence.
The Republicans will of course say it's not time for gun law reform, me though it's definitely too early to turn his situation into humor, because like Kash Patel, it's gagging for it.
The Republicans will of course say it's not time for gun law reform, me though it's definitely too early to turn his situation into humor, because like Kash Patel, it's gagging for it.
Wasn’t the suspect one of the 3 people who got shot?
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Such an embarrassing show of incompetence.
The Republicans will of course say it's not time for gun law reform, me though it's definitely too early to turn his situation into humor, because like Kash Patel, it's gagging for it.
The Republicans will of course say it's not time for gun law reform, me though it's definitely too early to turn his situation into humor, because like Kash Patel, it's gagging for it.
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
Know what's insufferable? Terrible scheduling UX at medical offices.
"Yeah AI will take your job" like hell it will
Try asking the front desk to schedule a double appointment twice a week for the next 6-weeks!
They don't even have basic rules based scheduling ain't no way AI can do this usably.
"Yeah AI will take your job" like hell it will
Try asking the front desk to schedule a double appointment twice a week for the next 6-weeks!
They don't even have basic rules based scheduling ain't no way AI can do this usably.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Know what's insufferable? Terrible scheduling UX at medical offices.
"Yeah AI will take your job" like hell it will
Try asking the front desk to schedule a double appointment twice a week for the next 6-weeks!
They don't even have basic rules based scheduling ain't no way AI can do this usably.
"Yeah AI will take your job" like hell it will
Try asking the front desk to schedule a double appointment twice a week for the next 6-weeks!
They don't even have basic rules based scheduling ain't no way AI can do this usably.
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To date, China has purchased less than 2 million metric tons (mmt) of the “agreed” 12 mmt of soybeans this year.
This administration continues to get played by China.
This administration continues to get played by China.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
To date, China has purchased less than 2 million metric tons (mmt) of the “agreed” 12 mmt of soybeans this year.
This administration continues to get played by China.
This administration continues to get played by China.
See also, arrogance. Witkoff thinks he can outsmart Putin. Of course he can, he's American and Putin is smart for a Russian but not as smart as an American.
I saw this all the time in 1991 while in Moscow working on the ATM/ATC and aeroflot systems.
I saw this all the time in 1991 while in Moscow working on the ATM/ATC and aeroflot systems.
You have to ask, why was Witkoff chosen for this critically important role of special envoy to Putin? He had no diplomatic or foreign policy experience. No education on those subjects. So of all people, why him? I think what we all surmised is clear - Putin wanted Witkoff.
November 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
See also, arrogance. Witkoff thinks he can outsmart Putin. Of course he can, he's American and Putin is smart for a Russian but not as smart as an American.
I saw this all the time in 1991 while in Moscow working on the ATM/ATC and aeroflot systems.
I saw this all the time in 1991 while in Moscow working on the ATM/ATC and aeroflot systems.
As if anyone in their right mind could afford this is coming to America anyway.
Wait until it turns into you have to prove you're American or otherwise pay the fee. Remember a driver's license does not prove you are American.
More racist shit.
Wait until it turns into you have to prove you're American or otherwise pay the fee. Remember a driver's license does not prove you are American.
More racist shit.
National parks announce 'America-first' fees for international tourists
The new $100+ price hike will affect 11 popular parks, including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite.
The new $100+ price hike will affect 11 popular parks, including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite.
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
As if anyone in their right mind could afford this is coming to America anyway.
Wait until it turns into you have to prove you're American or otherwise pay the fee. Remember a driver's license does not prove you are American.
More racist shit.
Wait until it turns into you have to prove you're American or otherwise pay the fee. Remember a driver's license does not prove you are American.
More racist shit.
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Just a heads up, but if you are at the point of authoritarian consolidation where the fascist paramilitary troops are destroying security cameras and evidence of their crimes, not just publicly, but in court as well, you are far past the point where this ends peacefully
If ICE has nothing to hide from its raid in San Antonio, why did they smash security cameras?
If authorities are so sure they arrested 51 members of Tren de Aragua, why can’t they offer proof? www.kens5.com/article/news...
If authorities are so sure they arrested 51 members of Tren de Aragua, why can’t they offer proof? www.kens5.com/article/news...
The latest: 51 of 143 detained in major San Antonio raid are Tren de Aragua members, FBI says
The Nov. 16 raid in the area of San Pedro and Basse was the result of an investigation into a drug dealer, according to records.
www.kens5.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just a heads up, but if you are at the point of authoritarian consolidation where the fascist paramilitary troops are destroying security cameras and evidence of their crimes, not just publicly, but in court as well, you are far past the point where this ends peacefully
Yeah because a sign of spraying with forever chemicals is really going to help us 1500 miles away when buying tripled washed vegetables.
F the Tr$mp administration, every cancerous arm of it..
F the Tr$mp administration, every cancerous arm of it..
The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Yeah because a sign of spraying with forever chemicals is really going to help us 1500 miles away when buying tripled washed vegetables.
F the Tr$mp administration, every cancerous arm of it..
F the Tr$mp administration, every cancerous arm of it..
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
