jmoiron plays the blues

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I am skeptical when it comes to the supposed inevitability of improvement for AI tools, but this does represent a pretty big shift from where we were last year.

@jmoiron.bsky.social This is what Bannon called "flooding the zone", a central pillar of Project 2025. If your lawlessness is brash and constant, institutions can't/won't keep up and you establish new norms. Trump's own communication is the same, a Gish gallop of complete nonsense.

@jmoiron.bsky.social I'm seeing articles about how the narrative around Pretti's gun shows ideological inconsistencies on the left and right. The only inconsistency is in who gets to enjoy 2A rights without the immediate threat of lethal government retaliation and who doesn't. jmoiron.net/blog/abo...

@jmoiron.bsky.social To be fair, how is Tom Suozzi expected to know that his constituents have standards when they elected Tom Suozzi as their representative.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Classic "I didn't think anyone would notice" apology.

@jmoiron.bsky.social It was their final, most essential command.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: You can always count on Schumer to do the right thing after he's tried everything else.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Maybe? jmoiron.net/blog/strawbe...

@jmoiron.bsky.social Huge benefit to spending January in Asia is being able to watch the Aus Open at a reasonable time.

@jmoiron.bsky.social "No one follows us, or I kill myself and then her."

@jmoiron.bsky.social 25% of Americans are fascists. A further 23% of Americans conditionally fascist, depending on how white the people you plan to brutalize are. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/15/p...

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "Worst Criminal Illegals in Minnesota" the rhetoric is really disgusting these days. The kind of thing you'd cringe at if you overheard it at a pub, that marks a stranger as someone to avoid, a headline broadcast by a "major news network."

@jmoiron.bsky.social Hong Kong is such a good place for a hike.

@jmoiron.bsky.social I took the east rail line route to Shenzhen a couple days ago. You can clearly see the Wong Fuk buildings from the train as you roll into Tai Po station. Very heartbreaking.

@jmoiron.bsky.social Restrooms in every subway station would go a very long way. I'm tired of having to collect accessible bathroom locations like they're the knowledge of the ancients. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/n...

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Definitely necessary, though. "Record" gained some generic overlap with "album" during its heyday (we still call releases LPs and EPs), so after CDs became dominant and vinyl became niche we needed a new term that lacked ambiguity.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: If you can't find a way to lead a coalition of "fascist secret police are bad" after they murder a woman in cold blood and try and make off like she was a domestic terrorist, then whatever you are good for is not useful right now, and you need to get the fuck out of the way.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: But I can't help it. I want Chuck Schumer and Jeffries and other D leadership to eat shit over this. Go and visit this murdered woman's wife, who saw her love's head blown apart, and tell her that these ICE raids are just a distraction from kitchen table issues.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I don't want to only do that thing where someone on the left treats the Republicans who are largely responsible for this tragedy as some force of nature without agency. Noem and Miller and others belong in prison, and I will support candidates who credibly voice such a position.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Abolish ICE is an old movement. Arguably, it predates, ICE, starting as "Abolish DHS", a GWOT era agency designed to codify the governments ability to violate the rights of its citizens. The problems inherent in ICE and its remit were clear from day one.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The immediate attempt to paint the victim as a "domestic terrorist" is yet another disgusting demonstration of their depravity. They don't believe in truth, responsibility, anything like that. They only believe in power and their right to wield it.

@jmoiron.bsky.social Abolish ICE. The stupidity and inevitability of the shooting in Minneapolis make it no less of an outrage. My heart breaks from a world away for these women, their child, and their families. I can't even begin to imagine the horror.

@jmoiron.bsky.social Oh we're doing "greeted as liberators" again are we.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: To clarify my original post a little, I was also against the Iraq war after it started and while it continued. At no point was I in favor of the Iraq war, and this will be no different.

@jmoiron.bsky.social Guess it was obvious this would come up again. Obviously we should not be doing this and I wish to register in the strongest possible terms my reaction of "fuck this." Extremely minor silver lining is the utter beclownment of Infantino and FIFA. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...