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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @buermann@mastodon.social

Gotta inquire with the NY Fed about hunger in this economizing golden age because the USDA stopped tracking it a year ago. Food in bellies filches figures from the accounts of the affluent, may the rich never diminish in their glorious raiment nor their elective unregulated hormone replacements. https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/americans-going-hungry-new-york-fed-says/

Fortune

More Americans are going hungry now than during the pandemic, as people face a 'remarkable' rise in

A higher percentage of households report dipping into savings and skipping meals than during the pandemic in 2020.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Aug 04, 2026

A $2 trillion deficit -- 6% of GDP! -- to pump technofascist stock tickers is, everybody agrees, truly the bedrock of this economic golden age. https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/palantir-lifts-guidance-as-revenue-nearly-doubles-f4d79fa7

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Jul 10, 2026

perhaps police shouldn't be allowed to stalk random women and threaten their families using the full leverage of state and corporate mass surveillance without an iota of oversight https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-met-on-a-tv-set-after-surveilling-her-with-a-license-plate-reader

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Jul 06, 2026

Mitch McConnell may or may not be conscious or even alive, nobody knows why his wife is spending his hopsitalization abroad meeting with the vice president of China, but that's nothing compared to the cover up of Joe Biden's age.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Jun 06, 2026

Replying to @BenAveling@infosec.exchange

@BenAveling@infosec.exchange @draNgNon@hachyderm.io @grammargirl@zirk.us The AI is generating language from some matrix algebra that regurgitates transforms of the test data or mirages of it. Only users can hallucinate and believe the mirages are real while a whirring vortex of vectors can't believe in anything.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026

"The Trump team said the economy was in a secret recession because it was dependent on health care jobs. Stephen Miran of the CEA and Secretary Bessent argued at the beginning of 2025 that “73% of all jobs created [during the Biden years] were due to government-adjacent sectors like [...] education and health care"... during the first 10 months of their administration... private education and health services were responsible for a comical 255% of all job growth."

https://newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/the-irony-of-a-jobs-pickup-that-ends

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026

Self-driving tech going so well I'm seeing billboards advertising at women to get into long haul trucking, a career with year after year 100+% turnover because working conditions are too miserly for the self-driving humans.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026

"I’m beginning to regret having lived so long — because we’re going downhill."

https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/stanley-plotkin-profile-godfather-of-vaccines-worried/

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026

Found myself calling a hotel to make a reservation yesterday when none of the websites could complete one, like the stack of bugs running the industry finally swallowed its servers.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026

Replying to @gavi@bagel.ing

@gavi@bagel.ing That's my first response whenever I see someone wearing a cross.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

The lab leakers are such vindictive blockheads.

https://www.science.org/content/article/guns-and-bulletproof-vests-how-federal-agents-arrested-fauci-aide

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

It's kind of funny how much despair people can knot themselves up into without observing the elementary stripping of publishers' liability for promoting harmful speech.

Would this resurgence of orality be so awful if people with terrible things to say weren't being promoted as ubiquitous authorities? The race to the bottom of the discourse has been unhindered by consequence in novel, disregulated ways. It was a choice that Candace Owens became a public health authority.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

mar-a-lago face is for masking the ideological inbreeding of the master race

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

An incomplete catalog of Trump's projects to turn Washington DC back into a swamp.

https://www.readtangle.com/the-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-corruption-story/

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

"The 15 largest hospital systems charged an average of 282 percent more than the Medicare rate, the study found, resulting in $22 million in profit per hospital per year."

https://prospect.org/2026/05/08/corporate-hospitals-bilking-americans-gop-destroys-health-care/

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @buermann@mastodon.social

Generating flimsy pretexts for wars from chatbot hallucinations is a more humane way to start them than torturing guys like Ali al-Fakheri until they tell you what you want to hear. The suffering aside the processes are otherwise indistinguishable.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @buermann@mastodon.social

"Garlasco... recommended 50 strikes on senior Iraqi leadership... None of the 50 killed its intended target. Two weeks after the invasion, Garlasco left the Pentagon for Human Rights Watch, went to Iraq, and stood in the crater of a strike he had targeted himself. “These aren’t just nameless, faceless targets,” he said later. “This is a place where people are going to feel ramifications for a long time.”" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @buermann@mastodon.social

"The benchmark was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where roughly 2,000 people worked the targeting process for the entire war. During Scarlet Dragon, 20 soldiers using Maven handled the same volume of work. By 2024, the stated goal was 1,000 targeting decisions in an hour. That is 3.6 seconds per decision, or from the individual “targeteer’s” perspective, one decision every 72 seconds. The Maven Smart System is the platform that came out of those exercises." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net

@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @codinghorror@infosec.exchange It's pretty funny that the more successful radio operator paying rent to the failure not to broadcast is the optimal market outcome in the original thought experiment, and somebody thought that was a generalizable argument for self-regulation?

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net

@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @codinghorror@infosec.exchange public choice theory is a classic example of psychological projection

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2026

The director of the Pentagon’s new “Economic Defense Unit” helped train four of the Saudi bonesaw operators who dismembered Jamal Khashoggi.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/khashoggi-cerberus/

Responsible Statecraft

New DoD leader connected to firm that trained Khashoggi’s killers

George Kollitides is part of a cadre of Cerberus financiers brought into Pentagon budget and procurement over the last year

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026

Israel is always innovating in its efforts to control collateral damage. For instance consider this week's quadruple-tap strike in Mayfadoun, which managed to murder paramedics from three separate ambulance services as each attempted in turn to rescue the last first responders.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/israel-escalates-attacks-on-medics-in-lebanon-with-deadly-quadruple-tap

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io

@inthehands Just trying to share some good news in return, haha, well, somewhat less stupid and awful.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io

@inthehands https://mastodon.social/@buermann/116422930214573337

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @buermann@mastodon.social

@cwebber Weird to adjust historic spending on infrastructure projects by a consumer price index. This is better. https://x.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044985359281381690/photo/1

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @cwebber@social.coop

@cwebber What index did they use for the inflation adjustment?

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io

@inthehands I wonder what happened last year that I missed the good news.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @Spirit@cybernetic.monster

@Spirit @cwebber We can recycle the silicon and steel into the solar panels and wind mills we couldn't afford to build instead.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io

@inthehands Flint got clean drinking water? I thought Elon Musk bailed on that promise long before he illegally cancelled USAID.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @lerxst@az.social

@lerxst@az.social Looking forward to being reparented by an amateur taxidermist's hood ornament whale carcass this summer, myself.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

"Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence. Those kids are gonna have a chance to go [to one of my wellness farms] and be ‘reparented,'" Robert F Kennedy Jr explained on a podcast without explaining what "reparented" means, letting him off the hook two years later when a congress member asked him to explain it and he could blame his cocktail of toilet seat cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, and DMT.

https://www.al.com/politics/2026/04/terri-sewell-slams-rfk-over-black-children-on-adhd-meds-needing-to-be-reparented.html

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @EndlessMason@hachyderm.io

@EndlessMason @maxleibman More than adequate to the task

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2026

Boosted by

Darby Lines @angry_drunk@union.place

Replying to on mastodon.social

The monumental manpower manning the tech press -- seemingly the last large labor pool of reporters in the country, are they all on the silicon valley payroll? -- could easily stuff their pages full with tales from revolutions in healthcare and energy but all they ever want to blather about are murderous scammy chatbots that spawn spaghetti code and technical debt, blindly steal the efforts of artists, and flood the courts with endless fabricated citations.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @buermann@mastodon.social

Taxing foreign pharmaceuticals 100%, decriminalizing domestic fentanyl exchange 50%. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026

I guess Donald figures since he brought drug prices down by 1500% it's no big deal to increase them by 100%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/trump-pharmaceutical-tariffs-100percent.html

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Mar 16, 2026

"20-year-old student Abdul-Rahman al-Rawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in February 2024. At the time a top U.S. official said the strikes used AI targeting and the military later accepted al-Rawi was killed unintentionally – even sending his family a letter of condolence... CENTCOM’s chief technology officer, Schuyler Moore, declared the targets had been identified with support from [Palantir's] machine learning algorithms known as Project Maven."

https://airwars.org/the-first-civilian-confirmed-killed-in-an-ai-assisted-strike/?ref=forever-wars.com

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Jan 29, 2026

Boosted by

CM Harrington @octothorpe@mastodon.online

Tesla's quarterly net income is down 61% from a year ago, in which time frame our savvy investor classes have bid its stock up 9%. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tesla-annual-profit-plunges-lowest-level-pandemic-129651624

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Jan 24, 2026

Replying to @SeanCasten@mastodon.social

@SeanCasten@mastodon.social Republicans made Minnesota an open carry state, simply being armed is no pretext.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Oct 18, 2025

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop Living his best life. https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/387/house-on-hillside

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Sep 27, 2023

Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange

@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange A vast everything-belongs-to-the-cloud conspiracy against private data so they can surveil it into the advertising industry's universal spyware.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Sep 06, 2023

Replying to @mike805@noc.social

@mike805@noc.social @GeraldKutney@noc.social What about the phrase "while climate change is an important factor affecting wildfires over many parts of the world, it isn’t close to the only factor" sounds like "climate change isn't important" to you? Why do you think the decline in tree ring widths in regions plaugued by acid rain in the industrial era should be kept in the proxy record?

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Jan 07, 2023

Replying to @everywhereist@mastodon.social

@everywhereist@mastodon.social On special occasions this is what I do with my collectors' edition gold lamé plush ply Trump™️ toilet papyrus from the penthouse suite of one his bankrupt hotels.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Dec 13, 2022

Replying to @AriCohn@masto.ai

@AriCohn@masto.ai But he's introduced reform legislation for Section 230, the safe harbor provision that protects Twitter from liability for the words it publishes, how can he not know what it does when he's always banging on about it?

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Dec 13, 2022

Replying to @AriCohn@masto.ai

@AriCohn@masto.ai Why does he think he can sue Twitter if somebody on Twitter lies about him?

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Nov 20, 2022

Replying to @dx@social.ridetrans.it

@dx@social.ridetrans.it @randomwalker@mastodon.social Still works fine on Twitter, where the algo has never stopped trying to send me down a right wing rabbit hole any time I turn it back on.

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josh buermann @buermann@mastodon.social · Nov 07, 2022

Replying to @austinkocher@mastodon.social

@austinkocher @Gargron @Mastodon "named after an extinct type of mammoth" This is grammy award winning metal band Mastodon erasure. ♬ strong structures guide/building high and wide/minds that create make us feel more alive ♬

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