jdotson.bsky.social

California native. Relocated to Ky. Alive for the polycrisis.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

In an Ebola outbreak, the virus itself isn’t the only killer. When communities fear that health facilities or services are disrupted, deeper challenges arise. In the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak, more people died from malaria because the health system shut down than from Ebola itself. That's what's at stake. The goal isn't just stopping Ebola—it’s also keeping health systems from collapsing around it.

[Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @KrutikaKuppalli]

Wow does anyone understand how insane this is

We have an entire system of biocontainment units where they have planned and prepared for over ten years for this scenario

Now we are sending PHS staff who have been training for three days, many without clinical expertise to staff a unit in another country for high risk American #Ebola patients.

This is going to have awful consequences

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 JUST IN: Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is refusing to resign despite direct pressure from Pete Hegseth

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

I have read a statement
that “a whole civilization
will die tonight,
never to be brought back again,”
and as I read that statement
and as I reread that statement
I cannot shake the feeling
that the civilization
from which that statement comes
is one that is already dead.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator.

The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization.

Congress is on recess.

This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

[Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix]

A C-17 (RCH869) took off from the Middle East, with a stopover in Germany, and landed earlier this evening at Joint Base Andrews. About two hours later, a convoy of specially equipped medical ambulances, called Patient Evacuation Vehicles, along with an ambulance bus, departed with a large police escort, taking the Beltway to Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda. Though unconfirmed, these likely are some of the first injured soldiers from the US attack on Iran being brought back to the United States for medical treatment.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

“Can I bring my baby to the interview?”

The message came in at 11 PM:

“Hi, I have an interview with you tomorrow at 2 PM. My childcare fell through. Can I bring my 8-month-old? I understand if you need to reschedule.”

Old me would have rescheduled.
Unprofessional. Distraction. Red flag.

New me replied:
“Absolutely. See you tomorrow.”

She showed up with her baby on her hip.
She apologized three times before even sitting down.

Ten minutes in, the baby started crying.
She tried to soothe him while answering questions.
She apologized again.

I stopped the interview and said:

“Hey. You’re managing a fussy baby, answering complex questions, and staying calm under pressure. That’s literally the job. Handling chaos while staying professional. You’re already proving you can do it.”

Her eyes filled with tears.

We hired her.

She’s been with us for a year now.
The most reliable team member we have.

Why?

Because when you’re used to handling a screaming infant at 3 AM and still showing up to work the next day, workplace stress feels like nothing.

Working parents, especially mothers, are some of the most organized, efficient, and resilient people you’ll ever hire.

Yet we lose them because our hiring processes are built for people with zero caregiving responsibilities.

If your interview process can’t accommodate a parent facing a childcare issue, you’re not filtering for professionalism.

You’re filtering for privilege.

[The FAA ✈️ @FAANews]

UPS Flight 2976 crashed around 5:15 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Nov. 4, after departing from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 was headed to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu. The FAA and NTSB will investigate. The NTSB will lead the investigation and will provide all updates.

This information is preliminary and subject to change.

[Marc Weinberg @MarcWeinbergWX]

This is a huge piece of ash that just fell out of the sky near the airport. There is ash falling all over the place.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Reports of a massive explosion and resulting fire, possibly the result of a crash involving a cargo plane with UPS Airlines, near Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

This the beauty of America. You can be the son of a drug dealer. Reject his evil ways and end up a Senator by beating a 2nd rate newscaster that never got promoted to a national news desk.

[GeoInsider @InsiderGeo]

BREAKING: The Ukrainian Air Force has officially confirmed that Russian drones have entered Polish airspace and are moving west toward the city of Zamość.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Italian Air Force airborne early warning aircraft up from Estonia and moving south, as Russian drones reportedly cross the Polish border.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

You fucking idiots took emails of Hillary Clinton ordering pizza and turned them into a child trafficking scheme, but you’re perfectly fine with Donald Trump being best friends with the most notorious sex trafficker of our time.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

At least three “Shahed” attack drones have reportedly been downed within the last few minutes over Eastern Poland, with additional possibly heading in the direction of Rzeszów and Zamość. Both the Ukrainian Air Force and aircraft with the NATO Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) are working to track and shoot down any remaining drones launched by Russia against Poland.

[Emad @EMostaque]

@elonmusk

[jdotson.bsky.social @uncrown87]

I used to work with a 'county EM' whose budget was blown for the FY after buying much needed tires for his truck. He tried... That was the county's contribution.

I've also had to wait for the 'emergency manager' to finish cutting the grass before we could talk about plans.

[Kelly McKinney @kellymnyc]

Over half of local EM agencies have one or fewer full-time permanent staff

Many of these agencies operate in rural areas and rely on part-time or volunteer directors who juggle multiple professional roles, limiting dedicated emergency preparedness time https://t.co/ttDfKBj514