John Refior

jrefior@hachyderm.io

Supporter of progressive economic policy. Aspiring small business owner. Volunteer lawyer. Amateur economist. Software developer. — <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BLM</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BoycottMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BoycottMeta</a>

Posts

Post #3360939
AI blooper reels are all around us, in this year of our lord 2025
Post #3360938
&quot;AP reporting into an Israeli attack on a Gaza Strip hospital that killed 22 people, including 5 journalists, raises serious questions about Israel’s rationale... Israeli forces struck a position well known as a journalists’ gathering point&quot; https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-strikes-hospital-journalists-75e79272f3acc37fa8acb653e45d564c
Post #3360937
&quot;In Massachusetts, Governor Maura Healey essentially wrote a prescription for COVID shots for every person in the state over the age of 5, a move that would blunt potential federal restrictions on COVID boosters.&quot; https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/metro/healey-covid-booster-massachusetts-trump-kennedy-vaccine-2/ #covid #massachusetts #vaccines #GoodNews
Post #3360936
“Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found.” https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88 #tech #technews #BigTech #fascism #communism
Post #3360935
“Decades of GOP efforts to defund the government, a corporate culture of pure self interest and zero patriotism and no accountability (survey responses are down), and now Trump’s war on the truth are the causes of insufficient staffing and reduced data collection at the BLS.”
Post #3360934
To say business spending on AI is now a disproportionate portion of our economy is extreme understatement. It’s recently become bigger than all consumer spending in the US.
Post #3360933
Tim Pope must have opened a gym ⌨️🏋️ #vim
Post #3360932
&quot;The family first learned of the shooting when they were called by an Associated Press reporter. They watched the video and said the man killed appeared to be their son. They then tried reaching out to officials in Minnesota. &quot;&#39;I can’t get any information from anybody,&#39; Michael Pretti said Saturday. &#39;The police, they said call Border Patrol, Border Patrol’s closed, the hospitals won’t answer any questions.&#39;&quot; https://apnews.com/article/s...
Post #3360931
PBS NewsHour evening news, live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LNf6GZAv5k
Post #3360930
&quot;Oracle America Inc., Redwood City, California, was awarded an $88,112,197 firm-fixed-price task order for the Cloud One program. This contract provides for Oracle Cloud service offerings&quot; https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4394525/contracts-for-jan-30-2026/
Post #3360929
This site down for you too? Supposedly &quot;the official public website of the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA),&quot; part of DoD. https://www.dsca.mil
Post #3360928
&quot;US military aid to Ukraine dropped 99% in 2025, report finds&quot; https://kyivindependent.com/us-military-aid-to-ukraine-dropped-99-in-2025-report-finds/
Post #3360927
&quot;A supervisor and three instructors with a Massachusetts State Police tactical unit were indicted in connection with the death of a recruit following a boxing match during training&quot; https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-police-recruit-death-boxing-4d0a968b62f2bf864fe15933c28b6042 #massachusetts
Post #3360926
&quot;A North Dakota judge has said he will order Greenpeace to pay damages expected to total $345 million in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline from nearly a decade ago... claims brought by Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access&quot; https://apnews.com/article/greenpeace-energy-transfer-dakota-access-pipeline-30bfb9939dea06f1e9763cd2d662ae73
Post #3360925
&quot;The many dangers LaFayette faced included an assassination attempt on the same night Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, in what the FBI said was a conspiracy to kill civil rights workers. LaFayette was beaten outside his home before his assailant pointed a gun at him...&quot; &quot;LaFayette grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he recalled trying to board a trolley with his grandmother when he was 7 years old. Black passengers had to pay at the front, then walk to the back...
Post #3360924
Barack Obama&#39;s full eulogy at Rev. Jesse Jackson&#39;s memorial in Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrxJ1dTnXE
Post #2070604
In 1773, Boston stood up to a tyrant who called himself king. Today, Boston did so again. #Boston #HandsOff #DefendTheConstitution #massachusetts