Jake Hamby

Jake Hamby

@jakehamby.bsky.social

aviation, Linux, retrocomputing, music, politics, Linux, consciousness, art, philosophy, spirituality, UAPs, Commodore 64, Amiga OS, RISC OS. (he/him)

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The solidarity of news organizations in support of CNN, MS NOW & Politico has been encouraging. But how about that same solidarity when Trump abuses a journalist with comments of piggie or ugly or whatever? That means sticking up for your peers & even walking out if this abuser refuses to apologize.

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Briahna Joy Gray is currently crashing out on The Other Site about this event, so that's nice.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

Holding this maternal healthcare event alongside Harris was a smart move by El-Sayed, and a necessary one. He needs to strengthen Black support in Michigan. The divisions of the 2024 uncommitted movement were real, and Black voters haven’t forgotten how ugly that election became. #HealthcareForAll

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RIP to Chris Christie’s 2028 campaign, murdered by an octogenarian mere hours after launch

VoteHub@votehub.com

NEWS — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is considering running for president in 2028, per @wmur9.bsky.social. Christie said he first wants to “see what happens in six weeks” in the midterms, suggesting major Republican losses could open the door to another presidential bid.

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Activists and leaders reflect on Standing Rock a decade on: ‘I would do it again.' Tribal leaders and organizers return to reservation 10 years after demonstrations against Dakota Access pipeline. #NoDAPL www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comActivists and leaders reflect on Standing Rock a decade on: ‘I would do it again’Tribal leaders and organizers return to reservation 10 years after demonstrations against Dakota Access pipeline

The new book How Russia Won by David Corn is a trip down memory lane so far about Trump’s first term and aspects I’d forgotten, like how Trump and Giuliani were totally convinced that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the election and then stolen “the” DNC server and taken it back to Ukraine.

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So that whole avenue is absurd on its face, but there are a few ex-CIA people who bought into the timestamps theory that it wasn’t Russian hackers at the DNC. No one ever seems to have an alternate conspiracy for who hacked John Podesta’s Gmail, or even want to mention him. No, “the DNC server!”

The datestamps “evidence that it was an inside leaker and not Russian hackers” theory is especially ridiculous if you know that file metadata is trivially altered. There’s a UNIX command “touch” that alters the different timestamps in a file that you usually learn pretty early in learning Linux.

The new book How Russia Won by David Corn is a trip down memory lane so far about Trump’s first term and aspects I’d forgotten, like how Trump and Giuliani were totally convinced that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the election and then stolen “the” DNC server and taken it back to Ukraine.

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There’s a conspiracy theory Corn doesn’t go into, since the book is long enough already and it may be covered in his earlier book, that Seth Rich, the young DNC staffer who was tragically gunned down in DC on his way home in an apparent mugging gone wrong, was killed by Hillary for leaking them.

That theory is based on the timestamps in the leaked DNC emails, as seen on the Wikileaks site, claiming that they had to have copied the emails to a USB drive because if they copied them over the Internet, it would take longer to download them. Did they not know about the concept of a .zip file?

The new book How Russia Won by David Corn is a trip down memory lane so far about Trump’s first term and aspects I’d forgotten, like how Trump and Giuliani were totally convinced that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the election and then stolen “the” DNC server and taken it back to Ukraine.

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Trump is super insecure about being a know-nothing dolt, and when he talks to every other world leader, they have stuff they actually want to negotiate and he’d have to think about stuff and he doesn’t want to think. Putin, Xi, Kim, Orban: Trump openly admires gangster strongmen. He’s a mob boss.

Apparently from the beginning of his first term, no one could ever bring up Russian election interference around Trump because he’d go ballistic; he got really angry and apparently because he refused to concede that he had won the election with the help of an enemy of the USA and not “by himself”.

The new book How Russia Won by David Corn is a trip down memory lane so far about Trump’s first term and aspects I’d forgotten, like how Trump and Giuliani were totally convinced that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the election and then stolen “the” DNC server and taken it back to Ukraine.

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We really downplay how damaging the unsubstantiated rumors about the “pee tape” from the Steele dossier distracted from the actual corruption and Putin doing all those gray zone active measures social media trolling plus the Podesta phishing attack and the DNC server hack with Clinton’s emails.

There was/is a whole distasteful line of jokes starting from the first term about Trump and Putin and gay sex, or that Trump is being controlled by blackmail, and while I’m sure Putin has dirt galore on Trump from his multiple Moscow visits, it’s obvious Putin is controlling him by simple flattery.

The new book How Russia Won by David Corn is a trip down memory lane so far about Trump’s first term and aspects I’d forgotten, like how Trump and Giuliani were totally convinced that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the election and then stolen “the” DNC server and taken it back to Ukraine.

I’m getting to the “perfect phone call” with newly elected President Zelenskyy, where Trump threatens not to send him military aid to defend against Putin unless he investigates Hunter Biden and Burisma, which of course he has no idea about since he’s just been elected and it’s a made-up scandal.

Trump is yelling to his aides, “I don’t want to have any fucking thing to do with Ukraine. They fucking attacked me. They tried to take me down.” and then he added “I want the fucking DNC server.” The DNC sent hard drive images of their infected servers, and apparently they were mostly cloud VMs?

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The 1966 ed. of The Meat We Eat says that meat is a “virile and protective food”, thus “a liberal meat supply has always been associated with a happy and virile people.” A book called Meat Technology says “the virile Australian race is a typical example of heavy meat eaters.” virile = manly!

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I went to Cal Poly, Pomona, which is an aggie school, so I checked their website and indeed, you can major in animal science, animal health science, agribusiness & food industry mgmt., food science & tech, or nutrition, but not “meat science”. It’s a bit morbid. www.cpp.edu/agri/

cpp.edu The Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture at Cal Poly Pomona The Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture at Cal Poly Pomona offers hands-on learning with plants, animals, food, nutrition, and fashion.

digestible. We know it is appetizing. We know it appeals to young and old. We know meat-eating races have been and are leaders in the progress made by mankind in its upward struggle through the ages.” Don’t show RFK Jr. this book! (found via The Sexual Politics of Meat, 1990).

“I know nothing about marijuana,” Nixon said in an Oval Office recording on 6 Mar 1973. “I know that it is not addictive and dangerous and all the rest of it and all the kids are in favor of legalizing it. On the other hand it is the wrong signal at this time.” www.mprnews.org/episode/2024...

mprnews.orgMinnesotan discovers new insight into former President Richard Nixon’s views on marijuanaMinnesota lobbyist Kurtis Hanna listened to hours of taped conversations from the Nixon White House. In one, the former president who started the war on drugs said that marijuana was not dangerous.
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Seymour Hersh’s The Price of Power is a great exposé of Nixon’s real foreign policy machinations that came out in 1983. Subsequent declassifications and evidence have confirmed the book’s description of how decisions were made. E. Howard Hunt & James McCord are the two “ex”-CIA guys in Watergate.

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Alexander Haig was a slippery character as well. I didn’t realize he got rapidly promoted by Nixon for his service to Nixon and not his service in war. Wikipedia paints only a skeleton overview of the Moorer-Radford Affair, where the Joint Chiefs were spying on Nixon’s security council (Kissinger).

Nixon’s military chiefs were using military attaches to spy on documents that Nixon and Kissinger and friends were sharing amongst each other about their overtures to China and the USSR, and leaving the SecDef and the Secretary of State out of the loop as well. It was all Nixon/Kissinger.

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If you read Bryant’s book, he makes clear exactly how both grand jury investigations (state and federal) were rigged to make the accusers / victims look like liars, when the only thing they were guilty of was accusing powerful Omaha and DC people of trafficking. Wikipedia makes them out to be liars.

At least in the Watergate case, the alleged call girl ring allegedly being run out of the DNC HQ was made up of willing college-age women who weren’t being trafficked afaik, so it’s way less reprehensible than the Franklin / Lawrence E. King / Craig Spence / Boystown ring from the 1980s.

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If you really want to get suspicious, Gerald Ford was on the Warren Commission and he was one of the fixers for the official story (along with Allen Dulles, who would’ve been covering up his own potential involvement in the JFK assassination if he were involved; see The Devils’s Chessboard).

One thing Nick Bryant bemoans, as do I, is that certain Wikipedia entries are obviously controlled by the CIA or other intelligence agencies, like the story about the Franklin sex trafficking investigation and how two victims were convicted for prison sentences for perjury for not recanting.

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There’s a strong case to be made that Bob Woodward’s entire journalism career is a CIA “Operation Mockingbird” situation, and that “Deep Throat” was a composite of several people. He says in the interview why the “flower pot on the balcony” and “clock drawn on his NYT copy” signaling couldn’t work.

I recently read a book by Rachel Maddow about Spiro Agnew’s corruption as governor, and how the administration had to figure a way to get him to resign quickly after Nixon’s reelection because they knew Nixon was one way or another, and they couldn’t have another obvious crook take over as POTUS.

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Nixon was taken down not for the really bad crimes that we found out over the following decade, like the secret bombing of Cambodia and various illegal campaign contributions, but because of a botched double burglary of the DNC headquarters at the Watergate. Some aspects don’t make a lot of sense.

His theory is that the bugging operation was about a political call girl blackmail ring that was running out of the DNC headquarters, and that the reason these elements of the CIA were mad at Nixon and wanted to take him out of power, was that his overtures to China & Russia were seen as treasonous.

tbf it’s entirely *plausible* that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan lab who were somehow being paid by the CDC and USAID to work on bioweapons (*with* China? Less plausible). The thing is that all the evidence points to a natural mutation jumping the species barrier. The DNA has long been sequenced.

That’s a conspiracy he believes in that he doesn’t actually claim to have any firsthand knowledge about; it’s just his opinion. He does do a lot of real research for his books. I’m reading his book on Watergate now, namely the theory that several involved had CIA ties and wanted to take Nixon down.

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Replying to @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Guaranteed once it's underway Trump will start saying "some people are saying it should be called the 'Arc de Trump'... I like the sound of that" and it will be made perfectly clear that his entire fixation with the arch is bc he heard "Arc de Triomphe" once and thought it sounded like "Trump."

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“[The Arch will do] damage to the historical and cultural landscape. But that is the goal. The scale of this arch is intended to smother and minimize everything around it. It is intended to dominate your attention and imagination and direct it to Trump.” kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/trumps-arc...

kevinmlevin.substack.comTrump’s Arch Will Be Built and It Won’t Be Coming Down Any Time SoonThe Washington Post reported yesterday that the Trump administration is set to begin excavation work at Memorial Circle in Arlington, Virginia, for the planned 250-foot-tall triumphal arch, in the nex...

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Replying to @catturd2.bsky.social

Grok "research on controversial topics" may, in fact, be the dumbest way you could ever use AI

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“Research on controversial topics”

Tom McKay@catturd2.bsky.social

"descriptions" and "bullet points" are doing some very heavy lifting here, using any "titles & descriptions" directly in journalism is plagiarism, also it's funny to me that copy editing (which AI tools are actually great at) is nowhere to be seen

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Replying to @reginageorgebush.bsky.social

when Nevada Democrats gerrymandered the state to hell and back in 2022 they let Republicans keep one safe seat because it makes things easier for the Democrats, and besides it's kind of hard to attach all the Democrats in Reno to Vegas on a map. this is that seat.

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new place Republicans shouldn't be spending in where they suddenly are: Trump+14 NV-02, the Reno/Carson City/Elko seat, where the Club for Growth just dropped more than half a million on attack ads against Dem nominee Teresa Benitez-Thompson