Justin O’Conner

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

Do you use an iPhone? Update to 26.4 Go to general -> transfer reset -> reset -> reset dictionary They fixed an input lag bug and clearing all the bad habits it caused gives you back your old phone where spell checker worked and strange text replacement is gone.

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

I’m no historian, economist, or sociologist. But I wonder how much of this narrative is leftover propaganda from the time. It seems possible to me that this rich empire was always doomed to fall apart because it was built on the backs of murder, espionage, exploitation, and manipulation…

Dragonball: Evolution. A steaming turd of a film. I knew it would be bad, but I hoped it’d be hilariously bad… no. It was just boring and lame the entire way through. It was an insultingly stupid movie with no respect for its audience.

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves. If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.

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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

If you are in the PNW and freaking about all the recent announcements and feeling like there is nothing you can do? Donate to local legal resources for immigrants. The legal defense needs to move quickly in these cases before the defendants are moved. No Actblue! @nwirp.bsky.social www.nwirp.org

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

For me, it was Paperboy 2 on the NES. The game over screen in that game scared the shit out of me as a kid for some reason.

You’ll have no teeth, no retirement, the children will work in cryptomines earning dogecoin to spend at the company shop, we’ll have the supermeasles, eggs’ll be $15/dozen, and the military will send you to a Salvadoran concentration camp for breathing wrong. But by god, America will be great again

Dems stop letting sycophantic soulless consultants piss all over their momentum challenge (impossible)

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

I understand it’s tempting to shit all over the lack of unity presented by the American political left. And most of them deserve it. I’m not going to tell you how to feel or think, but do remember: there are people VERY invested in maximizing the division among the left, to keep them disorganized.

Please read and share the full statement from R.E. Burke’s family downthetubes.net/comic-creato...

It’s okay to be afraid and unsure right now. It’s easy to fall into a spiral of hopelessness, to let fear paralyze you… but remember: all you can do is your best. If all you can muster is going to work and making it through the day without crying, then you succeeded today. One day at a time.

For the first time since - apparently - 2023, I’m feeling fired up enough to write a blog post. This one’s about how “vibe coding” is a self-betrayal: justinoconner.me/blog/2025/03...