J.J. Ammerzs
I write words occasionally -- went on a bit of a hiatus, but am back at it. Will hum that song you hate so it gets stuck in your head for free.
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- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsSPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsThe Grok thing is a perfect lesson, really, about how ai "tools" will absolutely reflect and echo the ideological priorities and weird obsessions of its owners
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsThis is the list of Democrats who voted to confirm Noem: Fetterman, PA Kaine, VA Kim, NJ Peters, MI Shaheen, NH Slotkin, MI If your senator is on the list, please call them up and tell them to atone by denouncing Noem as a fascist and demanding her resignation. Find your senators here: reps.fyi
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- Reposted by J.J. Ammerzs🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”
- The wheels on the... what's the name of that vehicle again? I can't remember, I just know their wheels go round and round. It occasionally beeps as well. bsky.app/profile/tech...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsBERNIE SANDERS: Is healthcare a human right? RFK Jr: It's not a right of a kind that we otherwise enshrine in the Constitution ... the objective is to get Americans the level of healthcare they want SANDERS: They don't want the choice to be uninsured or die
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsTurning the greatest republic in the history of the world into a shitty little personality cult dictatorship at breakneck speed.
- Reposted by J.J. Ammerzsapparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
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- Now would be the time for Cinemax to announce they will be the ones to call themselves Max.
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- Reposted by J.J. Ammerzstheres a prevailing mentality in this country where a majority are willing to make their own lives worse if it means taking away benefits from those deemed “undeserving”
- Ah yes, the guy known for doing anything for money, such as peddling crappy vodka, crappy steaks, fake universities, crappy board games, ghost-written books, putting his name on random crap, etc, doesn't want the money this time. bsky.app/profile/atru...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsWOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsBREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
- This is how he wants to get your attention. By being the shitbag a lot of us knew he always was. Thanks for letting the rest know. bsky.app/profile/scho...
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- Now when they make the new one, you'll have to watch a 3-hour cutscene to catch up before you're able to play any of the actual game. bsky.app/profile/wari...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsBreaking news: A hotline connecting air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport and their counterparts at the Pentagon had been “inoperable” since March 2022, a Federal Aviation Administration official confirmed Wednesday.
- Anywho, I've been calling it HOBO this entire time. bsky.app/profile/wire...
- ... ... ... it's decisions like these-- this is why David Zaslav gets paid the amount he gets paid. What an innovator! bsky.app/profile/popb...
- Reposted by J.J. Ammerzs"Hey Grok, is Max Scherzer really making $72 mil not to play this year?" Grok: "The claim of "white genocide" in South Africa is highly debated."
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsSpeaker Johnson must have missed this Page One NYT spread:
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- What's his job title again? bsky.app/profile/atru...
- Younger people are smarter than ever especially technically. Creatively, there's going to be a hit. Use it or lose it. That's at least my fear. Stagnation. There's also a self awareness - but you're young and any shortcut that you can get away with, well... bsky.app/profile/lexi...
- I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsChilling final paragraph and editor’s note.
- I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
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- I hate listening to books but I at least appreciate the voice acting that goes into some of these performances. This AI bullshit will make me hate listening to books even more. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsFrom @mehdirhasan.bsky.social : “ICE has become Trump’s private militia… why can’t timid Democrats call for the abolition of ICE, which was created only in 2003 by Bush?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsSBWU is not getting as much coverage as it did at first, but they are role models in many ways: Continuing to organize under a hostile government, backing up their demands with strikes. This is what labor power is gonna look like as the NLRB gets gutted. It can be done.
- The twist is he's actually interviewing himself. bsky.app/profile/theo...
- Reposted by J.J. Ammerzs"I could explain Hasan Piker’s politics to you, but that’s entirely irrelevant. The bold, all caps, underlined point is that a high profile, US-born American citizen was detained on Sunday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for, it would seem, the crime of speech."
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsSpeaking of people using AI for college papers or work... WIRED surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job... The results amazed (and disturbed us). Read here: www.wired.com/story/how-so...
- Reposted by J.J. Ammerzsanyone reading this social post would erroneously conclude that she had said something anti-semitic, when she hasn't. Don't print lies in the newspaper.
- These next four years, due to brain drain and examples like this, we're going to miss out on a lot of innovative breakthroughs, most likely 10+ years worth, if we're lucky. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
- Okay, now this is just pathetic for all involved. bsky.app/profile/ones...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsWashington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.
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- This is stupid and reeks of desperation. Support independent journalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsWe need to promote these wins as much as we promote the hellscape.
- BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, holds that Florida’s anti-drag law is likely unconstitutional and upholds the injunction barring enforcement of the ban. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
- Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/... you
- Not wanting a target on your back are "personal reasons", sure. bsky.app/profile/thed...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsWhom amongst us
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsFor @msnbc.com, I wrote about the trans military ban and how trans people are riding an eternal transphobia carousel where our rights are determined by whether the blue or red team guy wins the White House. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
- Ryan Coogler is about to get his passion project check from WB. Kinda looking forward to what he'll do with it, even if ridiculous on paper. Let him cook. bsky.app/profile/ryan...
- SINNERS is now the biggest Hollywood original movie of any kind at the box office since 2017 when Pixar's COCO came out. To find a live-action movie that made at least $200M domestic, we have to go back much further. This is truly bananas. www.slashfilm.com/1857902/sinn...
- Reposted by J.J. Ammerzspeople need to bring this up more about reagan
- Who cares- we're currently being fucked by the other old asshole we call a president. bsky.app/profile/cnn....
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsThe contrast between the feeding frenzy over the misleading Biden wheelchair story & this is infuriating.
- Someone needs their binky ( most likely a $400 million dollar binky that will be provided by Qatar) and their diaper changed. bsky.app/profile/atru...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsThis isn't a racist dogwhistle. This is a stack of concert-quality speakers blaring racism into an arena.
- Reposted by J.J. Ammerzs"Faith Ministers are BLOCKING the entrance to the ICE Detention Center, Delaney Hall in New Jersey where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested last week." Posted by @scootercaster.com on "X" at 1:19 pm EDT
- He couldn't even accept a Lego set of a Qatari jet, though, to be fair, Lego sets are pretty expensive. bsky.app/profile/xor....
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- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsWho I feel sorry for is America’s homegrown racists, who have worked hard for decades only to be forced to compete with Afrikaners for their jobs.
- Oh hey, something I actually believe him on. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsNew from 404 Media: Republicans are trying to cram a ban on AI regulation into the Budget Reconciliation bill, which would stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years. www.404media.co/republicans-...
- No, that's still corrupt/corruption. I don't even know why any of us have to say this. Frankly, I feel cheated out of the time used to type this out, but sure, okay. bsky.app/profile/eric...
- How can you not think this man is a moron after hearing him speak at this point. bsky.app/profile/atru...
- "Welcomefest" sounds like a festival catered to those who want to show off doormats... actually, the more I think of it, the more fitting it is. bsky.app/profile/mari...
- This guy continues to suck. Fuck this guy. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsWhile America slept, House Republicans quietly unveiled their Medicaid plan. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it strips health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.
- Yep. 90 days before we're back to stupid. bsky.app/profile/ronf...
- Reposted by J.J. Ammerzs📢 If you’re able to get to Newark: Protest outside Department of Homeland Security office! 📢 620 Frelinghuysen Ave. Newark, NJ 07114 Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.
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- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsReuters: US JUDGE ORDERS US IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES TO RELEASE TUFTS UNIVERSITY STUDENT RUMEYSA OZTURK
- Reposted by J.J. AmmerzsThis is video of the Worcester ICE kidnapping I posted about earlier. This is utterly horrific.
- Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!
