Mazerek

Mazerek

@mazerek.bsky.social

Learner, Teacher, Procrastinator, Appreciator, Philosopher. #AFC

615 followers1.3K following147 posts

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Damn I love my “doing shit” playlist. Just went from California Uber Alles by the Dead Kennedys and right into a Sade slow jam. Life is hard, but it has its bright spots

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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

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"The FAA is losing not only its chief air traffic officer but its associate administrator for commercial space, his deputy, the director of the audit and evaluation office, the assistant administrator for civil rights and the assistant administrator for finance and management." Huh.

Bill Resh@billresh.bsky.social

This story has a dozen or so nice anecdotes on why institutional competence matters and exactly what we've lost by this administration's hackneyed "reforms." wapo.st/43fc1aw

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Trump exists in a mental world that has been constructed for him by Vladimir Putin…

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump says Putin is tired of the war because it has made him look bad to the world and he wants to look good to the world, and he would have conquered all of Ukraine in the first 5 hours of the invasion but his tanks got stuck in the mud.

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Pay double and you don’t have to hang out with these guys.

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly. Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.

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“MBDA’s complex manufacturing process of its powerful Aster missile is a case in point. The unfinished weapon is shipped across the Alps between France and Italy several times for different phases of production, adding months for little industrial benefit.” on.ft.com/4lva2qI

on.ft.comMissile maker MBDA hits snags in effort to re-arm EuropeManufacturer of Storm Shadow or Scalp missiles has increased production but inefficiencies hinder expansion efforts

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Two Republican judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals just effectively overturned Justice Allison Riggs' victory over Jefferson Griffin by retroactively nullifying thousands of lawful votes. A massive and outrageous blow to democracy.

Bryan Anderson@bryanranderson.bsky.social

Story to come. The topline: If this holds, this would almost assuredly result in an overturned election, as Griffin trails by 734 votes and many of these contested ballots are disproportionately Democrats over Republicans. #ncpol Full court opinion here--> drive.google.com/file/d/1BnPY...

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Fox News Host Jesse Watters: Being friendly to the world is what got us in this mess. We don't need friends…If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped a-bomb on Japan and now they are our top ally

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As a Missouri resident, I could see everything that’s happening coming a mile away because they already did it to my state. Defunded schools, kicked kids off Medicaid, refused the will of voters, attacked marginalized communities, and sold off farmland to foreign companies. We knew.

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This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.

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The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

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the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Whatever the immediate fallout of the scandal, what is going to stick around is the impression it gives, of hapless idiots doing ridiculous things. And I think that seriously reduces the appeal of capitulating to these jokers.

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NEW: "There cannot be democracy where lawyers are punished and lambasted simply for engaging with the justice system in representing clients opposed to the present administration." Trump's attack on the rule of law: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-atta...

thebulwark.comTrump’s Not Just Attacking Law Firms. He’s Assaulting the Rule of Law.Defense lawyers are supposed to “zealously” look out for their clients. Trump wants them to watch their backs.

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“Each of the outlets made a willful decision to forgo referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico. While it may have been performed in a subtle manner, make no mistake: It was still an act of submission.”

Status@status.news

TV news networks brand themselves as fearless truth-tellers, but this week they flinched over three simple words: Gulf of Mexico. www.status.news/p/gulf-of-me...

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The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

This should INFURIATE you

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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵