PeoriaBummer
@peoriabummer.bsky.social
Tech ethics and policy, CS education, tabletop games, D&D, indie rock, guitar, and gardening.
You first, pal. Give up your family’s government health insurance.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
You first, pal. Give up your family’s government health insurance.
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Have people really forgotten how bad it was? That they could deny you healthcare for pre-existing conditions? That babies born with « issues » had no healthcare? That people lost healthcare over diabetes or allergies or cancer? That we had to pay for mammograms? That birth control cost hundreds?
"Punish people for being unhealthy. Born with genetic defects? Fuck you."
Of course, using Mullin's logic, anyone who comes down with COVID, measles, rubella, whooping cough etc. because they refused to get vaccinated had it coming, so...
Of course, using Mullin's logic, anyone who comes down with COVID, measles, rubella, whooping cough etc. because they refused to get vaccinated had it coming, so...
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Have people really forgotten how bad it was? That they could deny you healthcare for pre-existing conditions? That babies born with « issues » had no healthcare? That people lost healthcare over diabetes or allergies or cancer? That we had to pay for mammograms? That birth control cost hundreds?
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
Are finding out who Bubba is?
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Are finding out who Bubba is?
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I preferred it when I had forgotten about olbermann
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I preferred it when I had forgotten about olbermann
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
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OpenAI is the Bari Weiss of technology
Well.
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - on.ft.com/4p8LViA via @FT
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - on.ft.com/4p8LViA via @FT
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn
And suddenly, there may be a reverse Midas at the centre of AI’s circular economy
on.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
OpenAI is the Bari Weiss of technology
The final game of the World Series was an eruption of joy and fun on here.
I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The final game of the World Series was an eruption of joy and fun on here.
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GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
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writers! you can just have a garden, you don’t have to have a metaphor
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
writers! you can just have a garden, you don’t have to have a metaphor
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We could spend decades pouring the entire GDP into researching whatever caused her to write these words, but we’d never get any closer to an explanation. We cannot understand, and we will never understand. Thank fucking god.
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
We could spend decades pouring the entire GDP into researching whatever caused her to write these words, but we’d never get any closer to an explanation. We cannot understand, and we will never understand. Thank fucking god.
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👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
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[P] At Thanksgiving dinner, I like turkey just fine, but what I love more is all the surroundings.
Trump shamelessly lies: "Go to Walmart and other companies, and in every case it's about 25% that a Thanksgiving meal and surroundings are 25% lower. That's big fact."
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
[P] At Thanksgiving dinner, I like turkey just fine, but what I love more is all the surroundings.
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
Strange how the people breathlessly offering this advice never seem to take it themselves.
The plow, the steam engine, electricity — all replaced muscle. AI replaces cognition. If you spend your day “reading lots of stuff and turning it into straight English,” well… so does the machine. The goal now is to learn from history and cushion the blow better than last time.
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Strange how the people breathlessly offering this advice never seem to take it themselves.
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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Me when I think about how my lifelong affection for AI as an idea is poisoned every day by the bullshit pretender they are using to ruin everything I love
a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open
Alt: Shatner/Kirk KHAN!!’ scream
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Me when I think about how my lifelong affection for AI as an idea is poisoned every day by the bullshit pretender they are using to ruin everything I love
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what i really want to know is whenaburger
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
what i really want to know is whenaburger
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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NYT: Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York Where Pedophilia Was Practiced the “Right Way”
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NYT: Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York Where Pedophilia Was Practiced the “Right Way”
It’s their space lasers she has a problem with.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "You should have Nick Fuentes on your show…I myself am not antisemitic. I have never criticized the Jewish people or said anything about them in particular. I am critical of their, the government of Israel."
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It’s their space lasers she has a problem with.
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I thought his trove of emails would turn up at least one example of the blockbuster tax advice Epstein was supposedly known for but it's 100% gross billionaires begging for sex advice from a borderline illiterate pimp
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I thought his trove of emails would turn up at least one example of the blockbuster tax advice Epstein was supposedly known for but it's 100% gross billionaires begging for sex advice from a borderline illiterate pimp
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