Jeff

Retired computer dude, current RV and Jeep nerd.

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@KESQ So heartbroken for Eric’s family. Proud of Eric’s father Werner for speaking out for his son on the dangers of the narrow and twisting Hwy 74.

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

Earthquake - shook for a good long time on the 6th floor of our Cancun hotel!

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@worldflood1 @mhmck Why was this post listed as potential spam?

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry”

“If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence”

“If we don’t release inflation data, there’s no inflation”

“If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases”

You see what’s happening, right?

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@Sgt_Mac87 And how does that compare with other states in the same years?

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@AGPamBondi @USAttyHabba Interesting that you don’t seem to have a problem with “politically minded judges” on the Supreme Court…

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@MollyJongFast @lindayaX @elonmusk @grok Grok:

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@its_The_Dr @Pissed__Patriot Good! They probably don’t want you there anyway!

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@JudiciaryGOP As measured by… what?

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@POTUS @ResisterChic ISWYDT

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Ending the year with a bang

📷: @DanTVusa

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@thepointsguy Butchart Gardens in British Columbia (common cruise ship excursion) and the Bahá'i Gardens in northern Israel.

[Notoriousham4life @Notoriousham4l1]

@KariLake What is the Republican solution that will cause deflation - or are you promising to put us into a recession? What is the plan? Republicans are really good at complaining about problems, not good at ALL solving them. Please tell us.

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: The Charlotte Observer, the second largest newspaper in North Carolina, is BLASTING Trump for spreading lies and conspiracy theories about the federal response to Hurricane Helene. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this and hold Trump accountable for his lies.

[James Connor @toJamesConnor]

You can read the evidence Jack Smith has assembled for yourself. 👀

https://t.co/EiBQgUwEL6

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@Reuters This is the headline after Vance refuses to admit that Trump lost the election???

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@WillRollinsCA Palm Desert Greens, that is, and Let’s Go!

[Jeff @SVLJMP]

@BlueOC1981 “Why” by Fleetwood Mac is some powerful stuff…