Thomas Jerome
@thomasjerome.com
"Irredeemable low-Anglo country party tyrannophobe." Not actually named Thomas Jerome.
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(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important
September 17, 2026 at 11:10 AM
(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important
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i've worked at places that were really strict and secure and would never let something like this even into developer builds, but also i've worked at a places where everyone in the department shared a single login to cloud services because the company was cheap
September 17, 2026 at 1:12 AM
i've worked at places that were really strict and secure and would never let something like this even into developer builds, but also i've worked at a places where everyone in the department shared a single login to cloud services because the company was cheap
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a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world
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What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.
What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.
September 17, 2026 at 1:09 AM
a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world
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skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
September 17, 2026 at 1:47 AM
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
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i'm going to withhold judgment on this until somebody with at least eight flags in their bio tells me that everything since 2016 is personally my fault and to go and fuck myself
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on Wednesday discouraged Democrats from engaging in the same political gamesmanship over Supreme Court nominees as their Republican colleagues if the party wins the majority in November. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/durbin-pours...
Durbin pours cold water on Democratic hopes for SCOTUS hardball
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said that any future Supreme Court nominees should get a vote, regardless of which party controls Congress.
www.courthousenews.com
September 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
i'm going to withhold judgment on this until somebody with at least eight flags in their bio tells me that everything since 2016 is personally my fault and to go and fuck myself
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obviously trying to stake out social problems as "addiction" is part of a process of medicalization that's not always helpful but fucking come on taylor, these are products explicitly designed to be compulsive and they haven't been about "chatting with your friends" for years
Can social media be addictive?
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no.
“You wanting to communicate and chat with your friends every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.”
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no.
“You wanting to communicate and chat with your friends every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.”
September 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
obviously trying to stake out social problems as "addiction" is part of a process of medicalization that's not always helpful but fucking come on taylor, these are products explicitly designed to be compulsive and they haven't been about "chatting with your friends" for years
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Good writing in my view - while some commentary on here has framed Sheeran's justification as a demonstration of the hollowness of "neutrality", as a professional moral philosopher it is also what we in the business refer to as a "lie" and it may be helpful to refer to it as such
September 16, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Good writing in my view - while some commentary on here has framed Sheeran's justification as a demonstration of the hollowness of "neutrality", as a professional moral philosopher it is also what we in the business refer to as a "lie" and it may be helpful to refer to it as such
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Circling back here
Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Circling back here
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For posterity, I think it's bad to do genocide denial using an elementary level fascist talking point
September 16, 2026 at 7:34 PM
For posterity, I think it's bad to do genocide denial using an elementary level fascist talking point
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"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!
Less shocking to me was reading this bit at the end, where Erickson - whose entire day-to-day job is just wanking out a bit of punditry once or twice a week - has handed much of that over to AI.
September 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!
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It’s Peter Falk’s birthday.
My favourite Columbo episode was when he came out of retirement to catch a 10yo murderer.
My favourite Columbo episode was when he came out of retirement to catch a 10yo murderer.
September 16, 2026 at 6:27 AM
It’s Peter Falk’s birthday.
My favourite Columbo episode was when he came out of retirement to catch a 10yo murderer.
My favourite Columbo episode was when he came out of retirement to catch a 10yo murderer.
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<wake up>
<see this headline/byline combination>
<go back to sleep>
<see this headline/byline combination>
<go back to sleep>
Here’s the kiss of death from the asshole that’s not been right about a single fucking thing in the past 30 years. Way to weigh in Bret Stephen’s you AI bedbug. The only thing missing is the dumbest motherfuckers Don Luskin and Jim Cramer predicting AI is safe
September 16, 2026 at 11:15 AM
<wake up>
<see this headline/byline combination>
<go back to sleep>
<see this headline/byline combination>
<go back to sleep>
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the chicken that dances at the end of Stroszek has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
September 16, 2026 at 5:46 AM
the chicken that dances at the end of Stroszek has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
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"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US
September 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US
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“You’re still going to be monitored 24/7. We’re just not going to use the one people are mad about.”
September 16, 2026 at 12:01 AM
“You’re still going to be monitored 24/7. We’re just not going to use the one people are mad about.”
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When Richard Scarry is the patriarch of your yakuza clan
so i've never paid attention to ed sheeran which means i'm now learning a lot of things such as HAVE YOU ALL SEEN HIS UGLY TATTOOS
September 16, 2026 at 1:51 AM
When Richard Scarry is the patriarch of your yakuza clan
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The FBI bestiality thing is definitely that some rich guy's son had a fucked-up hazing experience and that was the context in which they even realized that was in the recruitment rules, right
September 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
The FBI bestiality thing is definitely that some rich guy's son had a fucked-up hazing experience and that was the context in which they even realized that was in the recruitment rules, right
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True story.
BREAKING: Wyld Stallyns will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
September 15, 2026 at 11:47 PM
True story.
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It’s a sex cult because these people are all fucking each other
September 15, 2026 at 8:21 PM
It’s a sex cult because these people are all fucking each other
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The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
September 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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what's weird to me is how frequently people use AI to reproduce things that you can already easily obtain for free. like how many human made separation of powers infographics were already freely available on the internet via a 5 second google search?
Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class.
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“Watergsstate Impreachment
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September 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
what's weird to me is how frequently people use AI to reproduce things that you can already easily obtain for free. like how many human made separation of powers infographics were already freely available on the internet via a 5 second google search?
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PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it
KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal?
P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them
K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal?
P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them
K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
September 15, 2026 at 2:18 PM
PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it
KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal?
P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them
K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal?
P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them
K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
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People held their nose and voted for Biden so hard that he’s the only person since Eisenhower to get more votes than “did not vote”, despite getting completely fucked over. This is the thanks you get for doing that
"why are liberals so on edge about voting abstention?"
because bernie-or-bust was a real thing & it cost us 2016
because bernie-or-bust was a real thing & it cost us 2016
September 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
People held their nose and voted for Biden so hard that he’s the only person since Eisenhower to get more votes than “did not vote”, despite getting completely fucked over. This is the thanks you get for doing that