Jonas Persson
@BishopBlougram
Immigration attorney, Dad, Gadget-loving Luddite. Board-certified Pollyanna. Tumbler down rabbit holes. Swedish transplant in the U.S. Midwest.
How do you become one of those? I don't want to go full Twister but being paid to sit by the window with a book, rain tapping against the pane... And when you see a brewing, you make a phone call, earn your paycheck.
State-of-the-art AIs are still cosplaying at reasoning. New piece from me. medium.com/@Blougram/groo…
We are creating savants with no robust understanding of the world whatsoever. New piece from me. medium.com/@Blougram/amon…
Laura Loomer is like Trump's Rasputin, but not as grounded and normal as the mad monk.
NEW: Gen. Haugh ousted from NSA after Laura Loomer called for him to be fired in Oval Office meeting Thursday. nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/…
DoorDash QA: The wording is unambiguous; this is idiot proof. Me: OK, so let's enter the address of the restaurant here and see what they have on offer. (And yes, I accidentally had my order picked up at the restaurant and "delivered" to the same restaurant.)
Vaccine "skeptic"? What the...? Both CNN and the Grey Lady. Apparently the euphemism du jour for deranged antivaxxer.
The Grauniad is at it again. This is not a quip; it is not an aperçu, nor trenchant or mordant social commentary, not a repartee, or a riposte to his critics... It is a deranged rant.
This is truly frightening. DOGE is an advisory executive body. They obviously have zero authority to interfere with agency business, personnel, and resources. I certainly hope the USAId officials called law enforcement on them. This is Warergate in broad daylight.
3 sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information. cnn.com/2025/02/02/pol…
Truly Orwellian. But it begs the question: will the administration also take the ax to anyone and anything influenced by Opus DEI, such as Project 2025? theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
I remember coming across this AP wire five years ago. apnews.com/article/00c78d…
Every time I report a post by Elon Musk for flagrant violation of the Twitter rules, I get zero feedback. Not even a perfunctory "Thanks for you report." I know Twitter is broken. But is it so broken that the manchild in charge has exempted himself from review?
If you invoke good god almighty, He might say "No!" And get all smite-y #anyonebutbidenorbust
I, for one, am not going to be complicit in providing Biden access to the nuclear codes for four more years. We need a good rank-and-file slogan to counter the idea that, whike we want him to step down, we'd still vote for him. How 'bout "anyone but Biden or bust"?
Some -- perhaps the almighty Heavenly Father himself -- took out this billboard in St. Paul in 2018 after Bachman told a reporter that she'd run again unless god told her not to. Perhaps Mr. Ineffable Deity could do a Biden version? Just saying.
Major Hering's Question Revisited: On Biden and the Nuclear Codes; medium.com/@Blougram/majo…
Biden told everyone back in 2019 that he was just a "bridge." I wonder if he got it confused it with "pier"?
What people do not understand is that there is the powerful check of mild partisan rebuke. Can the president assassinate an opponent? Of course. But what will happen then is that the House brings articles of impeachment later tossed out by the Senate. Game over, Mr. President.