David August ❌👑

Actor. Writer. Acting coach. May have been in that thing you saw that one time (Dependent's Day, Jimmy Kimmel Live, 2nd City/Chicago Shakespeare).

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#actor #writer #ActingCoach #producer #director #Shakespeare #film #tv #movies  https://www.davidaugust.com/ 

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 I sometimes write playful screenplays about very capable people in extremely high pressure situations often playing out their internal damage on the world.

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Last Notes

2026-04-26 01:09:14 UTC

I sound like a mad conspiracy theorist: If you were president, and trying to set yourself up to never leave office, and to compromise midterms, you might want to, say, gather the entire White House press corps into a room in the hotel Regan got shot outside of for an event you normally never go to and have the USSS aim guns at them to help them understand the consequences for crossing you.
I hate I can’t believe this admin at all. I hate that they have earned our mistrust this far.
#USpol

2026-04-18 12:12:40 UTC

Obama negotiates JCPOA w/Iran: partly unfreezes $2 billion Iran cash to get rid of uranium. Strait is open, international waters.
President Rottinghands McRagebaby tears up JCPOA, spends billions, gets people killed, then gives Iran _10x_ ($20 billion) to get uranium back to JCPOA levels, and Iran claims some of control over Strait.
An almost unimaginable failure: militarily, economically, navigationally, morally, politically; made things worse for US in every way possible.
#USpol #Iran

2026-04-16 17:51:09 UTC

How 11 Deaf Men Helped Shape NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program: the Gallaudet 11
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/project-mercury/how-11-deaf-men-helped-shape-nasas-human-spaceflight-program/
#deaf #space #spaceflight #Apollo #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #moon #NASA
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2026-04-14 11:34:16 UTC

"We're told that if we don't say yes, we're driving away the future. But that's a false choice. A big employer who uses the water of 50,000 people…[but] only hires about 10 people is not an employer. They are an extraction. We are being asked to fund a 21st century luxury with a 19th century resource heist."
- Will Hollingsworth speaking about proposed datacenter in Ravenna Ohio, April, 10, 2026
via @npub1zme…j0p6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aweN-bhHvpU
#ai #datacenters

2026-04-07 20:03:11 UTC

We knew, but the proof is nice.
"Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves"
The guess-the-next-words machines don’t actually understand anything.
https://nitter.poast.org/heynavtoor/status/2041243558833987600#m
#math #ai

2026-04-07 15:05:25 UTC

Now I wanna open a chain of 24 hour diners called “Eye Oh Dine” and we’ll serve idodine tablets with every order to help keep your thyroid from collecting the radioactive Iodine-131 from nuclear fallout.
Might be a short term business, or could you say: a flash in the pan, or if the impacts are after dark, would it be fly-by-night?
Either way: it’s really gonna blow up.
#GallowsHumor #DarkHumor #NukeJokes #ThisJokeBombs

2026-03-17 20:17:16 UTC

#USpol
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2026-03-14 21:01:59 UTC

#USpol #fifa
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2026-03-13 01:33:58 UTC

#USpol
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2026-03-07 16:16:07 UTC

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

2026-03-05 02:47:33 UTC

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ah, that makes sense. So available on servers. Now I understand.

2026-03-05 02:20:13 UTC

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oh wow. So no longer available?

2026-03-05 01:49:09 UTC

The state of Montana sent violence to Washington DC in the form of wanna-be-Capitol-policeman Senator Sheehy.
As an American, I am ashamed of Montana, the Senator and (for once again bringing violence to the US Capitol) the GOP.
The country, Montana and our veterans deserve better.
No Senator should try to do the job of the US Capitol police. Breaking a USMC vet's arm is a vile act by Sheehy.
Sheehy denigrates the Senate and debases himself with violence.
https://www.newsweek.com/tim-sheehy-altercation-anti-war-protester-senate-hearing-11623354
#USpol

2026-03-04 22:53:48 UTC

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silly question since I am asking way beyond my own knowledge: is there any way to defensively program such that the software won’t crash when bad memory does a bit flip? Like any way to write the code to have a more graceful failure mode?
I realize this might be an astoundingly foolish question, and/or might require a defensive programming paradigm that no only diverges from norms but may be unfamiliar/inaccessible to standard coders.

2026-02-28 09:48:52 UTC

Seems this is becoming relevant today. No potus can suspend or change elections.
Congress could, if it wanted to, pass laws about elections. But there is no mechanism for the Feds to choose things about elections beyond that.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-4/
#USpol #elections #voting
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2026-02-23 20:02:43 UTC

28 minutes 45 seconds into a hold that has said this entire time, "your estimated wait-time is 5 minutes."
So... their call center is located on the event horizon of a black hole? That's pretty fancy.

2026-02-23 18:00:37 UTC

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yeah, he's brilliant, and I so wish he hadn't had that stroke. Still brilliant even if his body is not as able as it once was.

2026-02-23 16:16:05 UTC

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

2026-02-21 01:53:07 UTC

#USpol #Norway #taxes #tax
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2026-02-18 01:12:05 UTC

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Start now. Or please, I invite you to go choke on your guilt for rest of miserable your life.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/choking-infant-juan-nicol-ices-201649159.html
🧵 7/7 end
#USpol #ice #ChildAbuse #HumanRights

2026-02-18 01:11:31 UTC

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Or do you revel in the suffering of that little boy who just wants to breathe? Do you wish you could suffocate him yourself?
It is not too late to start working feverishly to undo the harm your vote inflicted and keeps inflicting. Not too late to fight for redemption, to fight for that little boy, and your soul. You wrought this, and you can and should dedicate yourself to unmaking these horrors.
🧵 6/7
#USpol #ice #ChildAbuse #HumanRights

2026-02-18 01:10:41 UTC

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Or do you think you owe this baby, and other babies, and yourself and the world, and God for having made the choice you made that lead directly to this and will lead to worse? Do you have any decency left within you, any glimmer of good, any spark of the divine, that could now fed your rage and regret to behold the wages of your choice, your actions, and could you now fight to make your past wrongs hurt the world less?
🧵 5/7
#USpol #ice #ChildAbuse #HumanRights

2026-02-18 01:10:04 UTC

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Do you smile knowing whatever else you have done in life, you have cast your vote for his pain to grow, for his little lungs to burn and scar, for his tiny body to roil with terror and fear? Nothing else in your life will ever undo that vote (unless you start right now changing your ways, today, this very instant)?
🧵 4/7
#USpol #ice #ChildAbuse #HumanRights

2026-02-18 01:09:37 UTC

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Do you really think this precious little one, born innocent, is the worst of the worst and do you want them to be tortured in your name? Killed in your name?
Is this the greatness you have wished our country be lowered to? Do this infant’s lungs flooding with fluid make you feel good? Feel safe? Feel powerful and respected? Honorable or righteous? Do you thank God for giving you the power to hurt this child with your vote? With your indifference?
🧵 3/7
#USpol #ice #ChildAbuse #HumanRights

2026-02-18 01:08:57 UTC

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Do you rejoice that you voted for this two month old, not yet alive when you voted, to have to fight drowning on his own sick now?
If you voted for this, and also go to church, do you imagine God smiles on you for choosing for this baby to choke and struggle, to wheeze and hurt because ice predictably provided no doctors in the medical area where they held this newborn?
🧵 2/7
#USpol #ice #ChildAbuse #HumanRights

2026-02-18 01:08:05 UTC

Trigger warning: rage, baby torture, futile pleading to deaf ears
Ice detained a 2 month old baby boy. They have left that baby in respiratory distress for half its life (the entire month in ice custody). If you voted for this, did this baby scare you personally such that you want them struggling for air?
This baby was reportedly choking on his own vomit on Sunday.
🧵 1/7
#USpol #ice #ChildAbuse #HumanRights

2026-02-16 16:16:05 UTC

"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
—Tatiana Maslany
#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

2026-02-12 22:33:12 UTC

#USpol
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2026-02-12 04:16:05 UTC

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

2026-01-30 19:47:40 UTC

Just had my second interview with an AI interviewer.
I fully expect every single co-worker to be a clanker at these companies. Just me and like 250 bots and one other human (who put up the money).
Like there's a medieval lord in a keep, and I'm riding around the digital countryside boppin' all the machine field mice (who in their spare time try to hack the world's nuclear arsenals) on the head like a dystopian little bunny foo foo.
#job #JobSearch #ai #interview #AIinterview

2026-01-28 02:39:21 UTC

So…ice tried to go into the Ecuadorian Consulate, an act of war, today.
https://apnews.com/article/eeuu-minnesota-redadas-migratorias-ice-trump-5b98291d7dede89494b79daae50f887b
🤦‍♂️🤬
#USpol #ice #Ecuador #incursion #war
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2026-01-20 16:16:34 UTC

2026-01-19 00:27:24 UTC

"I'm a technology writer, which means I'm supposed to be encouraging you to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at the money-losingest technology in human history, AI. No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/#mere-billions
via @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
#AI #tech

2026-01-13 16:16:33 UTC

"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

2026-01-08 05:04:42 UTC

Ice agent “logic”:
“They’re coming right at us!!! We better get our murder on!!!”
She wasn’t heading toward him, her wheels were turned away.
https://youtu.be/y_PrZ-J7D3k
#USpol

2026-01-07 17:29:15 UTC

On the occasion of ice’s latest killing: Local police MUST engage, detain and arrest ice. There is no better option.
Here’s why in detail: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforcements-challenge-uphold-the-law-even-against-the-feds/
#USpol #ice #murder #law

2026-01-07 15:38:17 UTC

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Nicely done!
This site at https://peggycollinsgallery.com/featured/iris-abstract-art-peggy-collins.html is giving me a 403 error, is it a page for that work?

2026-01-07 15:36:34 UTC

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gosh that's beautiful.

2026-01-04 15:05:44 UTC

Here @npub1fdr…lvhs sums up some of why allowing monopolies (because economists from the Chicago School said monopolies were efficient) to exist is bad and preventable, if the political will to stop them grows.
https://youtube.com/shorts/lzdpS4s4xuI
#economics #monopolies

2026-01-03 17:50:26 UTC

So nice of the president to give a free Learning Annex class: How to Steal Oil Fields for Fun and Profit.
#USpol #Venezuela

2026-01-02 17:58:05 UTC

Ice melts.
"...we are publishing a list of the ten worst ICE agents we have identified so far."
https://www.crustnews.com/p/the-worst-ice-agents-we-identified
via @crustnews.com
#USpol #ice #crime #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw

2025-12-22 19:00:52 UTC

Invited to a job interview, where interviewer will be AI. They included a link to an example interview, and link to "find more information [about being interviewed by an AI] here," and that link says, "This page couldn’t be found," when I click it.
Gonna have to prank this AI interviewer, right? I mean clearly they're not a serious company using a machine to do interviews and leaving their tips for potential recruits 404. I already know it would be a nightmarish job.
#AIinterviews #JobSearch

2025-12-21 21:28:23 UTC

Hey everyone in the northern hemisphere: all the days get longer after today, whoo hoo!!! 🌞😃

2025-12-19 20:17:34 UTC

"…turns out, if you’re hiring for…pariah agency using nakedly fascist & racist messaging & recruiting for…where…jeered by…neighbors & are so hated…you…refuse to show your face, & trying to attract people who…excited to cos-play as…Navy SEAL in full tactical gear…like you’re taking Fallujah while facing down…inflatable frog costumes & wrestling to…ground hard-working roofers in…Home Depot parking lot, America’s best, brightest, & most fit don’t apply."
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-hiring-surge-is-already-a-disaster
#USpol #ice

2025-12-19 02:27:59 UTC

Ya know who gets to rename the Department of Defense if anyone does? The US Congress.
Ya know who gets to rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if anyone does? The US Congress.
Ya know who history will never be kind to no matter what he tries to rename? A 79 year old dunce.
#USpol

2025-12-15 03:21:20 UTC

Seems the FBI is not yet ready to take in surrendering forces from fictional terrorist organizations. No word on whether or not they could take surrendering Nazgul, Decepticons or Cobra from GI Joe either.
#USpol #antifacsist #fictional
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2025-12-09 20:08:07 UTC

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yeah, there will be various ways like that that studios make themselves irrelevant and wither and die, and sadly they'll harm a bunch of people working for them in the process.
In 2008, I was on a panel about social media and movies/film. The missteps, known then as they were being taken, that lead to the diminished value and damaging mergers (AT&T hollowing out WB, Disney overextending on Fox, etc., etc.) were all visible, and yet the incentives toward them remained.

2025-12-09 16:07:17 UTC

I dreamt I was on a really good film set, shooting a high profile comedy (yeah, I know, we don’t really make those as much lately) with really talented writers, directors and such. Felt really good, such a nice break from what the world is right now.
#dreams #film #movie #filmset

2025-11-29 19:17:55 UTC

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No publicly provided evidence nor legal justification for these deaths has been presented by any element or official in the US government.
Sources:
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Heinz-Wilhelm_Eck
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hegseth-declines-comment-report-boat-survivors-killed-result/story?id=127951385
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-drug-boat-survivors-order-b2874580.html
🧵 5/5
#USpol

2025-11-29 19:17:37 UTC

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US law regarding the rescue of shipwrecked sailors and the violent destruction of civilian boats and non-combatant civilians not posing an immediate threat, but lethally engaged nonetheless.
The September 2, 2025 killings were among the first of a so far 3 month sequence of US strikes suspected to have already killed 80 people at Hegseth’s order.
🧵 4/5
#USpol

2025-11-29 19:17:19 UTC

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Adm. Mitch Bradley, who ordered the second strike to comply with Hegseth’s orders to leave no survivors, has also not yet been tried, convicted nor executed. Hegseth, in control of the most powerful ocean going navy on earth with massive rescue capacities, was trying to stop survivors and the boat’s cargo from being rescued by others.
He, and those who followed his illegal orders, violated international and…
🧵 3/5
#USpol

2025-11-29 19:17:01 UTC

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He’d violated international law regarding the rescue of shipwrecked sailors.
On Sunday, November 30, Eck and the others’ executions will have been carried out exactly 80 years ago.
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American Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has not yet been tried, convicted nor executed for on September 2, 2025 ordering his Special Operations commanders to kill survivors, in this case clinging to their burning, sinking ship, after crippling it with a missile strike.
🧵 2/5
#USpol

2025-11-29 19:16:43 UTC

German naval commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck was commander of U-852 and was tried, convicted, and executed (along with 2 others deemed responsible) after the war because on March 13, 1944 he ordered his crew to shoot at survivors who were clinging to rafts and wreckage of the Greek merchant ship SS Peleus after sinking it with 2 torpedoes. Eck was trying to conceal the position of his submarine, and so ordered his men to fire into the wreckage and rafts to sink them.
🧵 1/5
#USpol

2025-11-28 04:16:33 UTC

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

2025-11-24 16:58:47 UTC

In case you had not yet seen this elsewhere.
#gmail #ai #privacy #infosec
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2025-11-20 20:41:57 UTC

“What began as an effort to identify individual officers has evolved into a far more ambitious accountability tool. Soon, organizers say, every incident will be mapped to who was there, which ICE facility or federal agency they came from, what vehicle they used, who led the team, and how many times they’ve appeared in other operations.”
https://migrantinsider.com/p/news-ice-list-launches-wiki-to-expose
#USpol #ice #accountability #Justice

2025-11-20 16:40:59 UTC

Confirming he wants to kill members of Congress and plans to give the military more illegal orders.
Source links:
https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/33937
https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/33935
#USpol #impeachable #HighCrimes #military
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2025-11-20 10:16:50 UTC

#USpol #ice #iran #refuge #refugee
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2025-11-16 01:20:54 UTC

A US Federal Judge ordered the release of the people DHS now plans to hold anyway, illegally under both US and International Law.
15 of the people arrested at Broadview yesterday were clergy, peacefully protesting; bringing assistance to and advocating for the downtrodden quite literally _is_ their job.
But DHS/ICE/CBP brings only lawlessness and violence.
DHS and all its components and collaborators are a clear and present danger to the American People and the US Constitution.
#USpol
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2025-11-13 21:39:26 UTC

"Anarchist militants have waged terror campaigns in the United States and Europe, conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization through their brutal attacks."
No, not the premise of a dystopian movie, it is a statement from the US Department of State from about 3 hours ago. They go on to designate 4 seemingly random groups as part of the vast and imaginary international antifa network as foreign terror organizations:
https://xcancel.com/StateDept/status/1989034285819740531#m
#USpol #delusion

2025-11-09 06:31:41 UTC

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indeed. Good call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6PrUfeWCMo

2025-11-09 00:44:03 UTC

"[Target] has a new directive for store employees: If a shopper comes within 10 feet of you…smile, make eye contact and greet or wave. If…within four feet — ask whether they need help or how their day is going…"
If shopper comes within 1 foot, store employees must kiss them, gently. If within 2 inches, then the employee must propose, perform and consummate a marriage to the customer.
Bigots are gonna try to deflect while going more broke.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/2025/11/07/target-is-now-requiring-its-employees-smile-more/

2025-11-06 21:00:53 UTC

Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics
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2025-11-04 04:16:33 UTC

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

2025-10-30 17:52:21 UTC

#USpol #SNAP #WIC #food #FoodSecurity
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2025-10-27 00:29:57 UTC

"The Civil War still turned states to ash, and killed hundreds of thousands of Andrew Jackson’s generation’s kids and grand-kids. Bad compromises are bad because they don’t meaningfully or persistently solve anything."
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/tyrants-fall/
#USpol #tyrants #law #news

2025-10-24 21:56:02 UTC

So what, are the US armed forces a mercenary force working for a billionaire now? Are they literally potus and friends’ private army, navy, air force, coast guard and space force?
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schakowsky.house.gov you rep me. How is this anywhere near legal?
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-military-payroll-anonymous-donation-trump-e327c306292043755d9d700731039e83
#USpol

2025-10-24 11:56:12 UTC

I tried to reach the last owners of Versailles to see how having such an opulent palace while your people starve worked out… but they seem not to be able to reply.
https://apnews.com/article/east-wing-white-house-ballroom-demolition-b60fcfb6dae74bea1654ccd3baad188b
#USpol

2025-10-24 00:04:47 UTC

#USpol
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2025-10-23 18:14:02 UTC

How many enemies dreamt of destroying the White House. How many soldiers wished they could flatten it. How many generals fantasized about razing the American People’s house.
This one man beat them all. Same man brought the confederate flag into the Capitol, same man presides over the largest tax hike in history (tariffs are import taxes), signed off on the ending of nutrition for the hungry and end healthcare since it will now be unaffordable.
This. One. Man.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-ballroom-57512e0d91432f75529946fddfbfe2c5
#USpol

2025-10-15 22:33:08 UTC

Chicago is in Cook County and now courts are safer.
"Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court."
"...bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to court proceedings. It includes arrests inside courthouses and in parking lots, surrounding sidewalks and entryways."
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-ice-immigration-court-arresting-a1d9641502d6a97db077c973ec93a6e7
h/t @justinthenickofcrime@threads.net
#USpol

2025-10-11 16:02:31 UTC

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it is complicated. Very.
Brute forcing as an innovation tactic (adding processors, data centers, etc.) is only one possible path, and it has clear downsides: it’s expensive.
I feel like too few companies took DeepSeek’s method last year as a serious option.
And so there’s this too, again suggesting the brute force method is not the only viable one:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv251004871J/abstract

2025-10-11 15:40:35 UTC

I think there’s a real possibility that local, running on consumer electronic devices, generative AI without the need for expensive processors, data centers, massive amounts of water and electricity may well be the actual long term way forward for generative AIs like LLM, image and video generators.
#tech #ai #GenAI #LLMs #llm #midjourney #chatgpt

2025-10-02 21:03:42 UTC

"Americans are concerned about crime, but don’t broadly support President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to police U.S. cities according to a new…poll."
"Blackmore, 70, is a retiree…says the Guard deployments feel like an occupation."
"'Are we really going there?' he asks. 'It’s not America to me, to see that — a national force policing everyday lives of Americans on our streets and highways.'"
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/27/poll-americans-dont-broadly-back-national-guard-deployment/
#USpol #military #law #crime

2025-09-30 23:56:52 UTC

The gop controls all three branches of government, if their government shuts down, then the gop are the one’s who shutdown their government.
#USpol #shutdown

2025-09-30 22:48:06 UTC

Art 3, Sec 3 of US Constitution: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them…”
Potus, today: “I told Pete [SecDef], we should use…cities as training grounds for…military National Guard, but military, because we’re going into Chicago…soon…” & “I signed an executive order…for quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances…because it’s…enemy from within, & we have to handle it…”
🧵1/2
#USpol #military #potus #treason #HighCrime #misdemeanor

2025-09-27 21:51:02 UTC

“The [South Korean] Ministry of National Defense is pursuing measures to reward service members who contributed to the protection of the citizens by refusing to follow illegal and unjust orders during the emergency martial law situation on December 3rd of last year.”
https://wordkorean.com/soldiers-who-refused-illegal-orders-during-the-12%C2%B73-martial-law-will-be-rewarded-ministry-of-defense-soldiers-who-fulfilled-their-duties/
#USpol #Korea #coup #military #law

2025-09-27 12:12:19 UTC

Asking “…all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity," is _not_ having “…urged U.S. soldiers to…incite violence,” in fact seems to be the opposite of a call for violence (it is a call to be peaceful).
Petro is the current President of Columbia.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/americas/us-revokes-colombia-president-visa-petro-intl-hnk
#USpol #Colombia #diplomacy
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2025-09-27 00:47:35 UTC

A one-time national guardsman, who deployed for civil affairs, can absolutely lecture *checks notes* the most senior generals and admirals in the US armed forces on whatever “warrior ethos” is.
It’s a protein powder, right? Warrior Ethos sounds like a protein powder available from the tiktok shop.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hegseth-tell-generals-warrior-ethos-231847918.html
#USpol

2025-09-26 00:28:31 UTC

I translated bondi's statement into what she meant:
#USpol #satire #Comey
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2025-09-25 18:05:08 UTC

“Hey everybody! I’m gathering all our most senior military commanders of the US military in one place at one time, so don’t, like ya know, bomb this one place or anything at 38.979896 North and 77.422607 West at about 10:30 in the morning on Tuesday. Thanks!”
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-hegseth-meeting-military-commanders-4ceb8026bff7c652b08c08e8afb1df99
#USpol #military #NationalSecurity

2025-09-22 20:30:54 UTC

Timeline cleanse.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/249/841/635/667/200/original/3c003f88d6f98122.mp4

2025-09-21 22:41:33 UTC

Not for nothing, you all need to get your Rapture Insurance:
https://youtu.be/-EfcqINYWyo
#comedy

2025-09-21 03:59:44 UTC

"Among Republicans younger than 45, the decline is particularly glaring: 61% say the country is headed in the wrong direction, a spike of 30 percentage points since June, the last time the question was asked."
https://apnews.com/article/poll-republicans-direction-country-kirk-violence-economy-66e5a964a807a5a1412ef0596f37ec39
#USpol

2025-09-20 22:46:34 UTC

Not only was airfield at Bagram built in 1950s by Soviet Union, but potus was one who wanted US out of Afghanistan.
“It was Trump's administration that signed the peace agreement with the Taliban that paved the way for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan near the end of his first term.”
Bad things may well happen to US soldiers if potus follows through on this.
quote source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/09/18/trump-bagram-military-base-afghanistan/86220636007/
source of potus post: https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/33047
#USpol #Afghanistan
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2025-09-19 21:54:50 UTC

Former Disney CEO thinks Disney and ABC messed up.
Because they did.
source: https://xcancel.com/Michael_Eisner/status/1969088566098870363#m
#USpol
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2025-09-19 00:34:52 UTC

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yeah. That was part of my hope too, to get them before the wild versions showed up in my life.

2025-09-18 09:56:41 UTC

Got my Covid and flu vaccinations.
I hope you will too.
#health

2025-09-16 17:55:38 UTC

#zuck #orion #ar #vr #glasses #Groucho #meme #tech #meta
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2025-09-13 22:07:36 UTC

A lot of people seem unaware of who charlie kirk was in fact, not just fantasy.
Perhaps this can help.
Murder is bad, and violence is never a good answer.
(sources follow in comment)
#USpol #kirk #CharlieKirk #hate #bigotry #StocasticTerrorism #HateSpeech
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2025-09-13 16:16:34 UTC

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

2025-09-09 17:36:05 UTC

#economics #recession #USpol
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2025-09-07 00:29:50 UTC

The Pentagon is so clean on OPSEC that I’m learning National Guard in DC is canceling hotel reservations there to move to Chicago and Baltimore _from the protestors planning to meet them_.
#USpol #Chicago #Baltimore #WashingtonDC

2025-09-06 06:21:07 UTC

From a Metropolitan Police Officer in Washington DC:
“I can’t say how this will end, but I can say what I will do in the meantime. I won’t be intimidated into silence about the failures and dangers posed to the country by the federal police takeover of the city. I will quit my job before I ever help Trump’s goons kidnap some random person for the crime of not being white enough.”
https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-dc-police-officer-heres-what
#USpol

2025-09-05 20:32:08 UTC

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sadly, terribly, presentably.

2025-09-05 18:08:31 UTC

#health
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2025-09-04 04:02:40 UTC

Individual sailors and soldiers who destroyed boat Tuesday may have committed war crimes.
"'…zero evidence of self-defense…Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea,' according to Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at…Washington Office on Latin America. 'Even if…drugs aboard…not a capital offense.'"
Lethal force against civilians in international waters 'is a war crime if not in self-defense,” according to Isacson."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-venezuela-drug-boat-attack-video-b2819566.html
#USpol #Venezuela #WarCrimes #law

2025-09-04 03:46:49 UTC

"Mary Ellen O'Connell, an expert on international law and the use of force at the University of Notre Dame, said Tuesday's operation 'violated fundamental principles of international law.'"
'The alleged fact that the attack was on the high seas is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the U.S. had no right to intentionally kill these suspects,' she said."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-says-more-operations-against-cartels-coming-2025-09-03/
#USpol #Venezuela #law #murder

2025-09-04 02:07:00 UTC

If Texas guardsman enter Illinois without IL authorization, & so are not legally a military force to the state of Illinois, & if they emerge from Great Lakes base carrying a gun that’s properly of the TX NG’s arsenal, do they both break law by not being licensed in IL to carry a firearm arm _&_ is the firearm itself contraband to & in state of IL, so could guardsman be charged, as any civilian would be, both w/some sort of illegal possession of a firearm arm _&_ possession of an illegal firearm?

2025-09-02 19:32:33 UTC

President wants-to-gerrymander-the-gop-into-permanent-power says _Democrats_ cheat.
Every accusation really is a confession.
#USpol