Steven Berson

The degree to which Flavor Flav has become one of our best civic leaders is a testament to him and an indictment of so many currently employed in those roles.

MJ: In the last six decades, there’s compelling evidence that they’ve tried to rig national elections at least five other times – in 1968, 1972, 1980, 2000, and 2020. Most of these plots you know about; some you may not. open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...

I really like this photo my kiddo took with my Poco phone's camera of a brown moth landing on an outdoor Halloween decoration on a typically warm central Texas autumn day. Think they have a really good eye. #Halloween #fall #autumn #Texas #Austin #ATX #outdoors #moths #beautiful #calming #photo[...]

How to trigger an audio engineer in one easy step: post social media comments dogging a band's or performer's mix, sound or tones, solely based on what is heard in a concert video - recorded via a tiny crap overloaded phone mic, and then shared with audio embedded via a crap ass low bitrate los[...]

Picked up this MSEcore MU8 fanless desktop PC used off of ebay for $350 USd including tax & shipping, to see if I can get the dream of a Linux DAW working well enough for integration into my professional dedicated mastering studio. I don't have an extra machine room or closet in my one room stu[...]

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

I wrote about Elon Musk's fake flying car and its mid-air collision with lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism:

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Devoting your social time to platforms where you control your own account and your own data, is the only real long term solution to hating billionaires controlling their own platforms.

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

Oh what a shock if only someone could have told them this was happening, if only

He has 2 daughters in that school, he’s a legal/law abiding gun owner, he was driving by when he saw the shooter enter the school, so he rushed in and shot & killed the shooter. He saved the lives of who knows how many others. He is a real life hero.👇 www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Character.ai bankruptcy + CoreWeave stock drop = first canary in the coal mine for the "AI" bubble to pop. My take is that it happens 2nd quarter 2027 as there is enough market manipulation plus inertia from prior investments to keep it rolling for a bit more. Guess we'll see. #CharacterAI #Cod[...]

Poltergeist! RE: https://chattrbx.com/ap/users/116015860785067977/statuses/117441265235455816

We live in the era of the BS "cease fire" Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza, Sudan, DRC, Ukraine + others Actions are greater than words - by far. #maga #war #trump #iran #yemen #middleeast #ukraine #oligarchy #fascism #politics #sudan #gaza #lebanon #drc

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

Anyone remember when for a bit some 25+ years app designers were putting out crazy gui's that didn't conform to the windowed confines pretty much every desktop & mobile app out these days? A sparked memory made me feel some nostalgia for the Sonique mp3 player that was my fave back in the late[...]

The amount of diesel supposedly being released by Russia to US is less than a day's supply, & 1/20th of our daily exports of diesel. This "deal" does 0 to change anything. "300000 tons" released to USA from Russia = 2.25million barrels daily USA domestic consumption of diesel = 3.89million bar[...]

Was able to easily install my own instance of Hubzilla on my website server hosted by Bluehost, thanks to Softaculous. But now I'm dealing with a blank canvas with no Federated sites or followed accounts. Anyone know of a good tutorial for setting this up? #Hubzilla #Fediverse #socialmedia #mas[...]

Fixed it for Trump.

Trump murdered 234 people MINIMUM in boat strikes, has interned many tens of thousands of people in camps, and started a WAR in Iran (as well as attacking Venezuela and kidnapping their President) ....Oh, also,wants to attack Cuba Pretty sure the Nobel committee was on solid ground

Mamdani, in closing, on today's ICE shooting: "This is an agency that must be abolished."

Who says nobody cares about #videogames? #music #film #tv

And another git tag for mobile-config-firefox, this should definitely help #Debian based distributions like #BengalOS and #Mobian - finally support for ESR 153 :-) https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/tags/5.5.1 #mobileConfigFirefox #nuraeco #LinuxMobile […]

Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...

The Narcissist in Chief said in a recent speech on the ongoing war with Iran: "They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay." Anyone else think he might have been saying out loud some discussion around plans the Project2[...]

The two things I miss in Fedi that some other social media sites have: translations & archiving. Lots of posts in some of the instances I am connected to are in languages I don't read, but it would be really nice to still be able to understand them. And it would be great to be able to download [...]

WTF? Don Jr is a partner of 1789 Capital (as is Peter Thiel ally Chris Buskirk), which backs Anduril, which received a government contract worth up to $20 billion earlier this year. 1/

"If there was ever a kid America’s immigration system was for, it was Pierre Damas Bel. America, to him, wasn’t just a safe haven from his broken homeland of Haiti. It was a place where he seemed destined to flourish."

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

The illusion of choice: I try to avoid Amazon for purchases when I can, so for online shoe purchases for stuff I can't find in my local brick&mortar places, I've been using Zappos. Only to find out today, that Zappos was bought up by Amazon all the way back in 2009. Oh well. I still like these [...]

Super Boiro Band - Samba [Guinea, Afro-latin Funk] (1976), crazy wah-wah guitar, sexy organ sounds, slinky tight latin rhythm section. Incredible groove. https://redd.it/c1rohl https://youtu.be/PckyWCCyxJM

ICE has expelled people from all over the world to Costa Rica every Thursday or Friday since April. Last week's flight was canceled due to the First Circuit's ruling in DVD vs. DHS. But with SCOTUS's outrageous stay on Tuesday, this week's third-country removal flight appears to be in progress.

This is the only product that I purchase where the supposed purpose of tariffs beyond just another way for government to grab some of our earnings - that is, as an incentive for domestic manufacturing to sprout up in the face of foreign based competitors that have less overhead - has actually o[...]

1/ You should check out my sobering and compelling conversation with @radleybalko.bsky.social about ICE and why it must be abolished before its abusive tactics spread to the rest of American law enforcement at @theunpopulist.net . 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

Just in case you thought Trump signing off on gutting fuel economy standards would make driving more affordable, it won't www.telemetryagency.com/post/claims-...

What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about the $200bn+ NVIDIA GPUs sitting in warehouses, and how Oracle issuing a force majeure notice over expected delays to its data center project in New Mexico is a wrench in basically every AI data center debt deal. youtu.be/1CbvhJO8Nfo?...

New story from me begs a pretty big question - why does the world's largest issuer of stablecoins Tether still struggle to open basic bank accounts? Tether's CIO Zachary Lyons enlisted the help of a tiny Caribbean bank to approach Singapore's DBS for an account, but then the FBI stepped in...

I can’t believe we’re still doing this

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

SEIU stands with Wilber, his family, and immigrant workers across this country who deserve to live and work with dignity and a path to citizenship.

Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/

We are so fucking back. 🪶

This was a ROUGH shot, F40, 500ISO, 1/8th second shutter speed, about 10 minutes after sunset, on a monopod, even harder to edit, but I'm gonna stick with: We are so fucking back. 🪶

It continues to amaze me how hummingbirds can just fly in place! This Ruby-throated Hummingbird seemed to be sizing up its approach to the purple salvia in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. 🥰🥰🥰 #Hummingbirds #CentralPark #birdsseenin2026

If you believe that gas and diesel prices are high in late September 2026 because of Biden and Zelenskyy, then you might be a Trump supporter. And a moron. Which is pretty much the same thing.