J.E. Turcotte, re: Valjurai

#NoteToSelf <- Design an agentic model simulation to explore voting structure ideas, including 'crosshatch' voting

I know today is the last day of Next Fest, but I just didn't have enough time (I spent way too much time sorting through too much AI slop!), so I'll be doing more tomorrow! Crime Scene Cleaner is back on the menu. Hellraiser is calling my name!

Back at it with @hcrichardson.bsky.social on Tuesday,,, we'll discuss: - Trump's sinking approval ratings and the decline of MAGA - Last-minute predictions for the Midterms - The massive amount of spending by the GOP - Trump and Elon's collusion with Putin - And more

GOLDMAN: “.. we are starting to see clearer signs that the AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector. .. the share of US firms that have adopted AI in regular business functions now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth ..”

Stream Schedule! Tuesday - DBD with OMG Wednesday - Phasmo with TBC Girlies (starting at 8:30pm EST) Thursday - Discounty Friday - Mommy/Daughter Game Night or Borderland 1 GOTY

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Please, Brazil, don't fuck up as bad as we did.

Hello darkness my old friend

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

no, you can't use the government's new fraudster tip line to turn in Dear Leader. it's only meant to be used to persecute innocent Somalis. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I explain how this is exactly like what the Nazis used to do to Jews. link is here: bit.ly/4dTEgBH

Note to self: write the damn novel.

Rustup 1.29.2 has been released. This is a small release which only updates the rustls-webpki and webpki-root-certs dependencies to remove the compromised eMudhra intermediate certificates. See the announcement for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/10/20/R...

If only Americans knew who Benedict Arnold was... sigh!

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

True evil, the lot of them (and certain other obvious heads of state they're collaborating with)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Jun 10, 2024) Webb identifies 10 times more supernovae in the early universe, including some of the most distant examples, enhancing our understanding of cosmic expansion. flic.kr/p/2pWvJfJ

2. ICYMI: After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...

Sounds like this one should be ON the council ... and higher. Anyone who tries to suggest that the people are not in charge, must not ever seek to be in charge themselves.

re: the proposed merger into the single largest power provider anywhere.

The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. When Trump touts the stock market as a sign of a good economy, remember who is benefiting the most.

Diminish an anime: 4 Centimeters Per Second

Here you go:

Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

The potential illegal voting in California identified by Trump’s DOJ is microscopic: just one alleged illegal vote for every 1.7 million cast. What’s really going on? The administration is trying to justify an extraordinary federal intervention in the state’s midterms: https://demdock.com/3VZh7HU

I felt compelled to share this powerful video of my friend, Stuart, who spoke about how his Jewish faith calls him to condemn the Israeli government's injustices upon the Palestinian people. This is the courage we need to uphold justice and humanity. #CourageNow www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-story-ab...

Next stop: Phobos & Deimos 🌑 MMX has successfully launched from Tanegashima, Japan. Its mission is to observe Mars’s mysterious moons, collect a sample from the surface of Phobos and return it to Earth. Discover more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

He's gotta go, then.

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

Working on it

You can find Jacob's work here: llaughingllama.wixsite.com/portfolio

We are

MEASLES HISTORY IN USA

The new guidelines make it much harder to swear in videos. Clips of what ICE does get flagged for violence, any convo about GOP men abusing kids gets my vids flagged. I have to heavily bleep and edit vids to get them to clear now. This is censorship and it's designed into the "ad-friendly" checker

Good morning, patrons! Tonight, @forneiavtuber.bsky.social and I will be reading more City of Angles, volume 3! Two characters were killed off last chapter, so who knows what the rest of the book has in store for us? #Vtubers #Vsky #Reading #FictionFactoryGames

The Mischief Corner is Open! Cozy Morning With Discounty! Come by and say hi! www.twitch.tv/annieshijynx

It’s time to end this.

This is really worth watching.

There are over 3,000 No Kings events across the US today! Tag us in your footage and RSVP now to learn what’s next for No Kings: bit.ly/whatsnext1021. #NoKings ❌👑

Zelenskyy says Starlink restrictions REMAIN in Ukraine, crippling interceptor drones and military operations. He says Ukraine has evidence the restrictions are DELIBERATE after testing Starlink systems in the EU, where they worked perfectly at speeds that cause connections to fail inside Ukraine.

eternal scream of RAAAAGE those kids should not have to do this any more than the people waiting in line for 12 hours in Georgia should have to do that.

i feel like kahneman's system 1 might also be called the sentient mind, whilst system 2 ... the sapient mind.

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“Donald Trump is a traitor. And he’s not simply a traitor in the loose sense of someone who commits an act of betrayal…Trump is a traitor in the very particular sense laid out in the U.S. Constitution…’adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...