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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: As mentioned here, there should be regulations around service EOL for IoT devices. The monitoring situation would be better even if it deterred the SunStrong acquisition, since their updates to disable cellular seems to have broken WiFi quite badly. bsky.app/profile/jmoi...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This company can charge they want for running this service, but for a them to buy out service contracts, invalidate them, install firmware updates without consent, and update terms to make using your device without their app illegal is pretty ridiculous. Seems like it shouldn't b...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I don't keep a close eye my solar system, because I got decent data the past few years on how much headroom we have for more electrification (about +5000kwh/yr). However, I'm still interested in tracking long term performance of the panels, so I just noticed this rug pull.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: If history is any judge, not only should you expect sanction for thought crimes like "Gaza sure seems like genocide" for the foreseeable, but after moods inevitably shift, even the unrepentant goons responsible for this mess will not have their power or prestige diminished in any...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: What got rehabilitated? The people who built a case for war on obvious lies got rehabilitated. Journalists like Judith Miller and Jeffrey Goldberg, but also officials like David Frum, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and, somehow, George W. Bush himself.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: A scarier aspect to this is that the positions that the media ecosystem turned against in the lead up to Iraq are still not really rehabilitated, 20 years later. Hell, at no point since the 2nd Red Scare in the 1950s has being a socialist of any kind become accepted at large.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This time around, things are demonstrably worse, as even a very soft negative position on what Israel is doing is dangerous in a way being ant-Iraq war wasn't. It's grounds to get your food co-op investigated by the federal government, and it can get you deported. www.newyorker....
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This is notable because the ISM and movement felt big to me. I was supportive but not directly involved. The news of Rachel Corrie and then Tom Hurndall was devastating. The injustices perpetrated by the Israeli govt 20 years ago sadly pale in comparison to what's happened in th...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The primary "How can things be this stupid?" aspect of the lead up to the Iraq war was definitely the corny and embarrassing jingoism, which you can hear in "Proud to be an American", but reached its highest expression with "Freedom Fries."
@jmoiron.bsky.social Related to the linked article here, and the "Was Iraq this stupid?" post going around, one thing that feels very similar is how suddenly positions that are fine (eg. "the UN is good" or "regime change is not a valid pretense for war") became deeply stigmatized even in the mainstr...
@jmoiron.bsky.social A real downside to watching soccer in the US is to occasionally cross paths with this hateful idiot. I suppose "diversity" is also to blame for the 5 Olympic gold medals and 4 world cups that the USWNT has won? www.on3.com/pro/news/ale...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Wanted to mention that NYC has had a mayor younger than Zohran. In 1888 NYC elected Hugh Grant (not that one), who ordered the utility companies to bury the power grid in Manhattan in response to a terrible blizzard, and then had the utility poles chopped down when they didn't ...
reposted @theophite.bsky.social: i think the thing people don't really understand is that it's not search which has gone to shit, not entirely. it's the internet.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Point taken, but fighting against regressive internet policy and not jackbooted thugs kidnapping people off the street seems like a privilege in this moment.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The themes explored in Macross+, Gits, Patlabor, et al. are more relevant every day. An interesting miss regarding Sharon is that Hatsune Miku debuted in 2007; we have 18 years of evidence that people don't care about the emotions that Sharon lacked. Bad portents for AI art.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Coco's done it! What an incredible match. I have tickets to the Wimbledon Ladies Semis; so hyped for that right now.
@jmoiron.bsky.social The tennis has been brilliant, but the best part of TNT's Roland Garros coverage is definitely the unnecessarily sexy toilet commercial.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Yeah, the Trail of Tears came to my mind, especially in light of Trump's adulation of Andrew Jackson. I knew this wasn't our first rodeo, but I wanted to state plainly what these plans are.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: all the other stuff only makes sense if you assume a high level of operational incompetence
@jmoiron.bsky.social The "Kill The Boer" xAI stuff is another hilarious display of "author_is_elon" level pettiness and incompetence, but it's still a cautionary example of how AI systems can be manipulated. Future attempts are not guaranteed to be this transparent or clumsy.
by jason moiron, 2026