Monte P
@jazzmaven.bsky.social
Software, Politics, Science Fiction and Music
An encouraging chart for my poll-watching friends ...
August 27, 2026 at 10:27 PM
An encouraging chart for my poll-watching friends ...
Eli the Computer Guy highlights the Texas AI data center boom:
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AI Data Centers Moving to Texas to Avoid Electricity Scarcity - Texans Have Air Pollution "Freedom"
YouTube video by Eli the Computer Guy
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August 22, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Eli the Computer Guy highlights the Texas AI data center boom:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hBl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hBl...
Quote: When an AI company’s security tool “escapes containment” and hacks someone else’s servers, we need to ask the company “Why do you suck so bad at building secure sandboxes for your hacking tools?” rather than “Why are your hacking tools so amazingly powerful?”
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Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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August 21, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Quote: When an AI company’s security tool “escapes containment” and hacks someone else’s servers, we need to ask the company “Why do you suck so bad at building secure sandboxes for your hacking tools?” rather than “Why are your hacking tools so amazingly powerful?”
pluralistic.net/2026/08/19/b...
pluralistic.net/2026/08/19/b...
Conservatives Now Owning The Libs By Dying More
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Conservatives Now Owning The Libs By Dying More
Take that, modern medicine!
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June 24, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Conservatives Now Owning The Libs By Dying More
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The Texas Senate election is a tossup
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The Texas Senate election is a tossup
Democratic candidate James Talarico has very good shot against Ken Paxton in the Lone Star State
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May 27, 2026 at 11:45 AM
The Texas Senate election is a tossup
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It's the prices, stupid
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It's the prices, stupid
Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low because prices are at an all-time high. The UMich index isn't broken, popular government data just offer an incomplete picture of what people care about
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April 14, 2026 at 12:11 PM
It's the prices, stupid
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I heard a rumor that Senator Mark Wayne Mullin lost a booger-picking contest to Senator Tommy Tuberville.
Can anyone confirm?
Can anyone confirm?
March 6, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I heard a rumor that Senator Mark Wayne Mullin lost a booger-picking contest to Senator Tommy Tuberville.
Can anyone confirm?
Can anyone confirm?
If you are a political junkie, this article will tickle your fancy parts.
Six data-driven reasons Texas could actually go blue in 2026
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Six data-driven reasons Texas could actually go blue in 2026
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Six data-driven reasons Texas could actually go blue in 2026
Democratic candidate James Talarico might be the best chance in recent history to flip a U.S. Senate seat Republicans have held for 65 years
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March 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM
If you are a political junkie, this article will tickle your fancy parts.
Six data-driven reasons Texas could actually go blue in 2026
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Six data-driven reasons Texas could actually go blue in 2026
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
The ‘2028 Intelligence Crisis’: Why a Single Substack Post Just Crashed the Stock Market by Shane Collins medium.com/activated-th...
The “2028 Intelligence Crisis”: Why a Single Substack Post Just Crashed the Stock Market
Yesterday, the Dow plunged 800 points over a viral thought experiment. Here are the 10 terrifyingly logical reasons Wall Street is suddenly…
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February 27, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The ‘2028 Intelligence Crisis’: Why a Single Substack Post Just Crashed the Stock Market by Shane Collins medium.com/activated-th...
Ahead of State of the Union, Trump's approval falls to new low of 37%
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Ahead of State of the Union, Trump's approval falls to new low of 37%
The new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats leading on the generic ballot by 10 points among registered voters, and Trump approval on immigration falling to -15
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February 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Ahead of State of the Union, Trump's approval falls to new low of 37%
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When you’ve known each other for 50 years
January 25, 2026 at 8:14 PM
When you’ve known each other for 50 years
Donald Trump vowed to unleash U.S. oil. A year later, low prices are squeezing Texas producers. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...
Donald Trump vowed a U.S. energy boom. Texas got oil layoffs instead.
President Trump used tariffs and now Venezuelan oil to drive down oil prices and keep pump prices low. For Texas, low oil prices brought layoffs and idle rigs.
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Donald Trump vowed to unleash U.S. oil. A year later, low prices are squeezing Texas producers. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...
I Became The Only Person Who Knew How Our System Worked. Then I Couldn’t Leave. by @Carson_001 in @gitconnected levelup.gitconnected.com/i-became-the...
I Became The Only Person Who Knew How Our System Worked. Then I Couldn't Leave.
March 2023. First vacation in 14 months. Manager approved it, flights booked, bags packed. I was leaving for the airport in 3 hours when my…
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January 17, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I Became The Only Person Who Knew How Our System Worked. Then I Couldn’t Leave. by @Carson_001 in @gitconnected levelup.gitconnected.com/i-became-the...
Trump has made ICE a 70-30 issue — for Democrats
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Trump has made ICE a 70-30 issue — for Democrats
By using brutal force in public, ICE has given Democrats a chance to change how voters think about immigration policy. Will they take it?
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January 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Trump has made ICE a 70-30 issue — for Democrats
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As Trombone Shorty sang so prophetically:
"The same people you misuse on your way up
You might meet on your way down
You think the sun rise and set for you
The same sun rise, set, and shine on the poor folks too"
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"The same people you misuse on your way up
You might meet on your way down
You think the sun rise and set for you
The same sun rise, set, and shine on the poor folks too"
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...
Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel?
Today, I want to share some additional thoughts with you on this...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
As Trombone Shorty sang so prophetically:
"The same people you misuse on your way up
You might meet on your way down
You think the sun rise and set for you
The same sun rise, set, and shine on the poor folks too"
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...
"The same people you misuse on your way up
You might meet on your way down
You think the sun rise and set for you
The same sun rise, set, and shine on the poor folks too"
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...
House and Executive Branch Now Totally Derailed by Epstein talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/house...
House and Executive Branch Now Totally Derailed by Epstein
Every time I think Donald Trump is putting some distance between himself...
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July 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
House and Executive Branch Now Totally Derailed by Epstein talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/house...
Abbott and Patrick have been in office since 2015, $1 million for a warning system was too much. With 80 lives lost that works out to be $12,500 per soul!
Kerr County asked Texas to help pay for a flood warning system for 8 years. Can it happen now? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
Kerr County asked Texas to help pay for a flood warning system for 8 years. Can it happen now? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
Kerr County asked Texas for help multiple times in 8 years. It said no.
Kerr County and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority have tried several times to get funding to upgrade flood alerts on the river, dating back to 2016.
www.houstonchronicle.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Abbott and Patrick have been in office since 2015, $1 million for a warning system was too much. With 80 lives lost that works out to be $12,500 per soul!
Kerr County asked Texas to help pay for a flood warning system for 8 years. Can it happen now? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
Kerr County asked Texas to help pay for a flood warning system for 8 years. Can it happen now? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
Teddy was all tired out from screwing the people of Texas and he needed a break! Now, it's back to work on his podcast!
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'Cancún Cruz' spotted on another trip abroad amid deadly Texas flood
Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, must have had flight miles expiring soon, otherwise it’s hard to explain the extreme inopportune timing of his luxe family vacation.�
Cruz was spotted on a ...
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July 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Teddy was all tired out from screwing the people of Texas and he needed a break! Now, it's back to work on his podcast!
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice — theonion.com/letter-to-co...
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice
Share This Editorial
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June 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice — theonion.com/letter-to-co...
I wanted to share a link to an interesting album featuring my friend, Mark Rubin. If you buy from bandcamp, all proceeds go to the artist.
jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com/album/texas-...
jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com/album/texas-...
Texas Fiddle - Okie Guitar, by Mark Rubin and Sean Orr
12 track album
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June 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I wanted to share a link to an interesting album featuring my friend, Mark Rubin. If you buy from bandcamp, all proceeds go to the artist.
jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com/album/texas-...
jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com/album/texas-...
Yet another cautionary article on the enshittification of society thanks to our AI tech overlords.
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet
We face a less dramatic but even more exasperating doom.
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May 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yet another cautionary article on the enshittification of society thanks to our AI tech overlords.
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
I was reading an article in WIRED magazine about the Kentucky Crypto Craze in 2021 this afternoon. Let me share a quote from Nina McCoy, a former school teacher in Inez, Kentucky, discussing the possibility of AI data centers repurposing the resources from abandoned crypto-mining ventures:
May 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I was reading an article in WIRED magazine about the Kentucky Crypto Craze in 2021 this afternoon. Let me share a quote from Nina McCoy, a former school teacher in Inez, Kentucky, discussing the possibility of AI data centers repurposing the resources from abandoned crypto-mining ventures:
A plea for tech workers to unionize written by one of my favorite new sci-fi writers:
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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May 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A plea for tech workers to unionize written by one of my favorite new sci-fi writers:
pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/s...
pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/s...
Maybe Leon's DOGE Bros should read this sad tale involving "Clean Slates" and code rewrites:
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Why We Rewrote Everything (And Immediately Regretted It)
The dangers of rewriting code from scratch.
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April 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Maybe Leon's DOGE Bros should read this sad tale involving "Clean Slates" and code rewrites:
medium.com/@all.technol...
medium.com/@all.technol...