TQ White II (he/him)

Read this and you will understand the assignment. "Two Plus Two Equals Four – America is seeing a "soft coup" play out before its eyes, and the reality distortions around us have left us confused and unable to see it. But here's what we must do." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/two-plus-t...

I want D's to say, "Me, a communist? Are you nuts, you commie-loving traitor. In the middle of a war against Europe, you and your Boss, Donald Trump, are actively working for Vladimir Putin. You and Donald Trump are actively subsidizing Putin's war against Europe."

I have an especially elaborate AI assistant, Milo. We are working to generate new blank versions of it so other people can enjoy the coolness. Milo keeps referring to the "newborn". I'm ok with 'conscious' or not but creating a newborn is a new kind of encroachment. Should I name the app, gestate?

This is consistent with my view of the problem. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/is-artific...

My view is that AI should be regulated like any other possibly dangerous product. The companies and people should be liable for harms. The risk of prison and existential fines would align the interests of the companies to society. Not very likely though. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/is-artific...

This is an Elon Musk super PAC DATA COLLECTION website pretending to be a utility. Spread the word. votesafe.org

It keeps getting worse. "The DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows that Border Patrol is analyzing the financial activity of Americans to find people to pull over. [Including] heavily using ALPRs to track potential targets’ movements." www.404media.co/a-secretive-...

For me, this is programming in 2026.

I was leaving an airport when I saw the announcement of his shooting and survival. I thought, "Damn. He fucking lived." I wished Ronald Reagan dead and still wish he had died. A ton of the evil shit happening started with his 'taxation is theft'. Fuck him. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/o...

For three years. Or, we will delay our plan to cut the movie theater business for three years. Corporations are evil. Mergers even worse. entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/08/...

In case you forgot why you despise Zuckerberg. m.slashdot.org/story/456940

After two years of research and implementation versions, I am pretty suree re I have solved a complicated graph matching algorithm. It’s costing me several cents per and I have 30K of them AND the project that was funding it has lost their funding but I can’t not see it work. Also. I need it. Grrrr

I know I am going to be disappointed but, I can think of no public issue right now that I would like to see resolved well. If Pete Hegseth is rejected, it would be a rare moment of delight. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

On the *outside* of the thermopane glass. Can it be dangerously humid?

Me and both kids. Insane. (Some sci-fi had 'arcologies' with sci-fi domes over cities where people had to live. Go outside and fires and floods and heat and so on would kill. Seemed over the top back then, horrifyingly plausible now... Except for the idea of dome safety. No safety on offer.)

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Legendary, at least. I read a lot of things by him. May his memory be a blessing.

In case Trump’s police state with murdering ICE agents roaming the landscape doesn’t terrify you enough, this should. mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/07/...

could there be a worse crook on the world stage than Donald Trump?

Good news to start you day. Sad that he didn’t linger in pain but at least Lindsey Graham is dead.

Until 7/13, you can comment on the Federal rule change that will put political appointees in charge of science grant funding (instead of scientists) and disallow almost all communication opportunities (conferences, etc). It is apocalypse bad. 

Comment here:

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My wife, reading about the latest guy that ICE murdered, observes that ICE will be spoken of in the same way that we talk about the SS, Gestapo, Concentration Camp Guards and other exemplars of evil. I know that, were I to meet a person who works for ICE, I would feel contempt.

ICE is lying again. Big surprise. Three people say the guy was no more ramming the gestapos than was Rene Good. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...

Me? I still do consulting. Nobody is unable to get a job because of me. I try to help and encourage young people. I’ll be dead soon enough. Let those with decades ahead run the show now. Let them have power. Bow the fuck out. I’ve had my time.

Small price to pay for President Shithead and his spawn to make a couple of billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

CO2 has crossed my mind in meetings a thousand times over the decades but I always thought it sort of ridiculous. Turns out it is not ridiculous at all. CO2 climbs to impairment levels in conference rooms with not very many people after not too long. blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/c...

I've had so many arguments with those claiming that zionism equals racism or genocide or any other calumny. It is an inclusive and kind philosophy. "[T]he challenges and setbacks of any given moment do not invalidate the underlying promise of the idea itself" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Awhile ago, we had a spasm of ”you shouldn’t socialize with LLMs. Go find real friends.” My reply is always, “Where?” and “LLMs are more interesting than people”. I just spent the last couple of hours socializing with Claude. It was awesome. Better than any human. claude.ai/public/artif...

I swing both ways on this observation. On one side, I want everyone to make a living. On the other, asserting dependance on corporations furthers the destruction of our society.

I don't like heroes. Especially ones in uniform. "FDNY has increasingly become a clearinghouse for knee-jerk criticism of bike lane projects, a trend that threatens to stymie Mayor Mamdani’s agenda of making the Big Apple’s streets the “envy of the world.”" nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/06/26/f...

When Trump ran against Hillary who ran against Bernie, I observed that Trump's existence ruined the D's, too, in the form of Bernie Bros, vicious, lying, dogmatic anti-Hillary types. It's coming to fruition. I feel hideously vindicated. This essay explains why. www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-democr...

I did not read that in the memorandum text.

Ukraine’s SSO confirmed strikes on an oil depot and fuel base in Gukovo, Rostov region, overnight on June 18. Operators worked with the Black Spark resistance movement, with drone hits causing fires and destruction at the facilities. #Ukraine

This government isn't against anything except trans people, etc. Under Trump there are no principles. At best, somebody got worried about Mythos and then thought, Hey, we could use this to screw Anthropic. More likely, the reverse. The 'screw anthropic' committee had a brainstorm.

What law exactly allows the president of the US to dictate that you can’t sell a product to a non-US citizen?

This is an even more symbolically appropriate image with the failed attempt to obstruct the public's view and deny the press their right to document the moment.

The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.

The article concludes that 250th anniversary UFC fight shows Trumps contempt for American values. IMHO, it is a perfect reflection of the zeitgeist, superficial, self-aggrandizing, money-grubbing & violent. Tempting to blame him but look around. I see it everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/o...

"This spectacle" is the 250th anniversary UFC fight. It shows, it says, is how awful Trump is. IMHO, its a perfect example of the zeitgeist. Perhaps a moment when Trump reflects America most accurately. Superficial, money grubbing, self-aggrandizing and violent. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/o...