MikeJumpingJacksonSpoonbendersNC
@thatothermike.bsky.social
Songwriter, Blues lover, guitarist, Home Recording/Production, Software, anything Durham and North Carolina.
Guitarist for Good Rocking Sam, The Spoonbenders
App State, UNC Grad
Jumping Jackson Records - My home-grown label
Guitarist for Good Rocking Sam, The Spoonbenders
App State, UNC Grad
Jumping Jackson Records - My home-grown label
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Seems bad
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Seems bad
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Regular reminder that the full set of German intelligence assessments for Operation CRUSADER is here, together with some explanations and background.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
Panzerarmee Intelligence Reports
The table below gives easy access to the daily reports. The background to these reports is as set out below. The reports were made daily to the High Command of the Army’s Foreign Armies West …
rommelsriposte.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Regular reminder that the full set of German intelligence assessments for Operation CRUSADER is here, together with some explanations and background.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
Great thread, it's all did info out there. The slave squat versus pepe meme seems also a red herring
yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman
"Notices bulges, OWO whats this?"
- Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political
"hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3"
- From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb
"Notices bulges, OWO whats this?"
- Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political
"hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3"
- From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb
September 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Great thread, it's all did info out there. The slave squat versus pepe meme seems also a red herring
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His final photo '10:28:24 AM' seconds before the 2nd tower came down is just astonishing
#September11
#September11
September 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
His final photo '10:28:24 AM' seconds before the 2nd tower came down is just astonishing
#September11
#September11
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BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants.
People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?”
This is authoritarian control in real time.
People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?”
This is authoritarian control in real time.
September 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants.
People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?”
This is authoritarian control in real time.
People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?”
This is authoritarian control in real time.
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BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
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Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
September 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
I have found AI useful around the edges while coding...It's Stack Overflow on steroids. Beyond that it can generate yards of code that you can't trust or understand.
I am optimistic it will have value in the long term but I gave up on hype curves a long time ago.
I am optimistic it will have value in the long term but I gave up on hype curves a long time ago.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I have found AI useful around the edges while coding...It's Stack Overflow on steroids. Beyond that it can generate yards of code that you can't trust or understand.
I am optimistic it will have value in the long term but I gave up on hype curves a long time ago.
I am optimistic it will have value in the long term but I gave up on hype curves a long time ago.
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NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
August 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
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Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt
-- Hannah Arendt
August 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt
-- Hannah Arendt
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A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
August 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
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Dave Matthews Band Apologizes After Tour Bus Dumps Another 800 Pounds Of Human Shit Onto Same Boat Full Of People theonion.com/dave-ma...
August 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Dave Matthews Band Apologizes After Tour Bus Dumps Another 800 Pounds Of Human Shit Onto Same Boat Full Of People theonion.com/dave-ma...
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Roger McGuinn's version of Pastures of Plenty just on folkden.com
Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground
From the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters run down
Every state in the Union us migrants have been
We’ll work in this land and we’ll fight till we win
www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkde...
Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground
From the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters run down
Every state in the Union us migrants have been
We’ll work in this land and we’ll fight till we win
www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkde...
folkden.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Roger McGuinn's version of Pastures of Plenty just on folkden.com
Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground
From the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters run down
Every state in the Union us migrants have been
We’ll work in this land and we’ll fight till we win
www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkde...
Green pastures of plenty from dry desert ground
From the Grand Coulee Dam where the waters run down
Every state in the Union us migrants have been
We’ll work in this land and we’ll fight till we win
www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkde...
Why am I not the least bit surprised?
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content.
On his work computer.
During a Board of Education meeting.
Read that again.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
On his work computer.
During a Board of Education meeting.
Read that again.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
Ryan Walters' TV displayed "nude women" during a meeting. Now he's blaming the media.
The Oklahoma schools chief who crusades against smut now faces an investigation into his own explicit screen time
www.friendlyatheist.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Why am I not the least bit surprised?
My NC friends take note
North Carolina’s new voter plan could block more than 100,000 people from state/local races over “missing info.”
It’s more than bad policy. It sets a precedent for two-tiered voting and could restrict full ballot access nationwide.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
It’s more than bad policy. It sets a precedent for two-tiered voting and could restrict full ballot access nationwide.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
North Carolina Launches Voter Roll Program That Could Disenfranchise Tens of Thousands
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My NC friends take note
Cowards, all the way down...but stopping at Colbert himself.
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
July 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Cowards, all the way down...but stopping at Colbert himself.
The Onion is our Walter Cronkite. Media is dead
Perfect Bluesky bait. 3,000 reskeets. The man is a master of the form.
July 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Onion is our Walter Cronkite. Media is dead
There are receipts
July 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
There are receipts
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the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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DHS posts explicitly Christian nationalist and violent video about how ICE/CBP is delivering the Lord's justice
July 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
DHS posts explicitly Christian nationalist and violent video about how ICE/CBP is delivering the Lord's justice
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Then they came for the children: ICE agents attempted to question a group of middle and high school-aged U.S. citizens about their immigration status.
Even in self-designated sanctuary cities such as Manhattan, apparently no one is safe from the Trump administration.
https://trib.al/yp3k9x9
Even in self-designated sanctuary cities such as Manhattan, apparently no one is safe from the Trump administration.
https://trib.al/yp3k9x9
July 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Then they came for the children: ICE agents attempted to question a group of middle and high school-aged U.S. citizens about their immigration status.
Even in self-designated sanctuary cities such as Manhattan, apparently no one is safe from the Trump administration.
https://trib.al/yp3k9x9
Even in self-designated sanctuary cities such as Manhattan, apparently no one is safe from the Trump administration.
https://trib.al/yp3k9x9
Take note of these NC Reps voting to hurt their own districts
Profiles in cowardice: When GOP House members vote against the interests of their constituents because theyre told too. @paigemasten.bsky.social on target. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
These NC Republicans voted for Medicaid, SNAP cuts that will hurt their districts most | Opinion
The cuts in Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” could be particularly devastating to these North Carolina districts. | Opinion
www.newsobserver.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Take note of these NC Reps voting to hurt their own districts
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the American government is effectively ending its space program.
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push
The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.
www.politico.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the American government is effectively ending its space program.
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"A Lost Generation of Researchers
Cuts to the nation’s science funding are forcing future scholars to delay graduate study, continue it abroad, or forgo it entirely." www.chronicle.com/article/a-lo...
Cuts to the nation’s science funding are forcing future scholars to delay graduate study, continue it abroad, or forgo it entirely." www.chronicle.com/article/a-lo...
How Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Are Derailing Young Scholars’ Careers
Budding academics are delaying their graduate studies, continuing them abroad, or forgoing them entirely.
www.chronicle.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"A Lost Generation of Researchers
Cuts to the nation’s science funding are forcing future scholars to delay graduate study, continue it abroad, or forgo it entirely." www.chronicle.com/article/a-lo...
Cuts to the nation’s science funding are forcing future scholars to delay graduate study, continue it abroad, or forgo it entirely." www.chronicle.com/article/a-lo...