John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰

@johngordon.bsky.social

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Retired GP. Bike, CrossFit. Familiar with cognitive disability. TrueName John Faughnan (not the actor). Intergalactic Antifa Coordinator, anxious progressive. Also mastodon - https://appdot.net/@jgordon

Apple directs users to wrong rental return entrance
Bot or not?
Walgreens reloadable debit card to use when gambling
Google Antigravity now a completely different app. Old app separate download.
“Do intense workouts increase the amount of urinary urea?” hits fable “guard rail”
So by raw count of dinosaur species alive simultaneously, the present crushes any Mesozoic snapshot. Birds are also the most species-rich class of terrestrial vertebrates. On that metric, "we live in the golden age of the dinosaur" is a defensible — even strong - claim. I underweighted this before by treating the avian reading as a pedantic stretch. It isn't; it's just the correct cladistics. 1
Claim: "The golden age of the dinosaur is 2026" Evaluate. True? False? Why? Verdict: false as a literal factual claim; defensible only as rhetoric about dinosaur science.
iOS weather app screenshot. The “Rain Forecasted”block is an active tap area
Start Tribune CAPTCHA not working because they exceeded their free Enterprise account quota
“Text Message • SMS Today 11:55 AM Hey, I found your contact while organizing my phone earlier.”
Screenshot science feed
Old picture of old man dying in a Murph a few years ago. Box used it for marketing! Agony of defeat ..
Photo retail backpacks not black
• Structured formats (JSON, typed schemas, protocol buffers) - already the dominant pattern in agent frameworks • Embeddings — direct vector exchange preserves semantic content without lexical encoding at all • Formal notation - logic, math, code - where ambiguity is definitionally absent • Constrained DSLs — purpose-built mini-languages with rigid grammars A polyglot mashup is a clever solution to a problem LLMs don’t actually have
Proposed experiment [Versuchsanordnung]: instruct Mythos (an LLM) to generate a polyglot rewrite of a supplied document, selecting lexical units [Lexeme] from multiple source languages such that referential and semantic ambiguity [Mehrdeutigkeit] is minimized. Observe which languages the model selects and at what frequency. Next, instantiate this as an iterative [iterativ] exchange between two or more LLMs: each model’s output serves as input to the next, with convergence toward a stable interlanguage [Zwischensprache] of minimal ambiguity as the termination condition [Abbruchbedingung]. This experimental paradigm has likely been implemented previously in NLP research.
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SHINYHUNTERS rooting your systems since '19 ;) ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some "security patches". AWARNING If any of the schools in the affected list are interested in preventing the release of their data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm and contact us privately at TOX to negotiate a settlement. You have till the end of the day by 12 May 2026 before everything is leaked. Instructure still has until EOD 12 May 2026 to contact us. • DOWNLOAD AFFECTED_SCHOOLS. TXT Y 91.215.85.103/pay_or_leak/ instructure_affected_schools_list.txt visit us: shnyhntww34phqoa6dcgnvps2yu7dlwzmy5 lkvejwjdo6z7bmgshzayd.onion
“Want to go fishing together next week? I've already booked a yacht.”
Green mowed weed lawn
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AI generate summary of the divorce between economics and sociology - 1850 to 1950
Text file viewed. Consists of: GreenNewDealPublicHousing2024. 2024. 40 pages. Green New Deal for Public Housing prioritizes essential repairs and maintenance, from mold and lead abatement to repaired floors and replacement of crumbling fixtures as well as new energy-efficient appliances and green building technologies. (p. 16) New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) created a contest for a mass purchase of low-cost, energy-efficient, apartment-sized refrigerators. (p. 18) Energiesprong’s massive successes were contingent on governments’ willingness to provide the initial funding for retrofits of public and affordable housing stock (p. 19) HUD’s EPC rules include a number of restrictions on how EPCs can or cannot be combined with other sources (p. 30) stringent timelines can function as bureaucratic hurdles that pull PHAs from the actual work of long-term capital planning for upgrading housing. (p. 30)...
Saint Paul MN No Kings 3/26
Backpack with protest sign
Daily Street Cleaning Operations The Tenderloin Community Benefit District (TLCBD) Clean Team starts power washing sidewalks, manually sweeping, and removing hazardous materials including needles, feces, and other biohazards beginning at 6:00 AM each day. This is supplemented by San Francisco Public Works, whose Day Shift and Mechanical Street Sweeping Crews cover the broader neighborhood, with Swing, Night, and Alley Crews targeting hotspots throughout the day. The city publishes weekly tonnage data on waste removed from the Tenderloin, submitted to the Department of Emergency Management every Monday.
Simple tall obeslisk
Source & Provenance LIKELY TRUE: Claim is traceable to a named, credentialed, accountable primary source LIKELY TRUE: Claim has been independently verified by multiple unrelated parties LIKELY TRUE: Claim has survived repeated attempted falsification over years LIKELY FALSE: Source is anonymous, pseudonymous, or unverifiable LIKELY FALSE: Claim cannot be traced to any primary source FLAG: Claim is attributed to "scientists say," "experts agree," or "studies show" without citation FLAG: Original source is several steps removed (someone heard that someone read that...) FLAG: Source has a documented history of making false or misleading claims FLAG: Claim originates from or is amplified by state-controlled or known propaganda outlets Logical Structure LIKELY FALSE: Claim is unfalsifiable as stated — no possible evidence could disprove it LIKELY FALSE: Claim relies on circular reasoning LIKELY FALSE: Conclusion does not follow from premises (non sequitur) LIKELY FALSE: Argument depends on a false dichotomy (only two options presented when more exist) LIKELY FALSE: Claim uses anecdote as representative of population-level truth LIKELY FALSE: Ad hominem framing substitutes for evidence (attacking the messenger rather than the claim) FLAG: Claim is framed as "what they don't want you to know" or "suppressed truth" FLAG: Claim requires disbelieving a large, diverse, independent group of experts with no plausible motive to conspire Conspiracy & Motivated Reasoning LIKELY FALSE: Requires a large, sustained, coordinated conspiracy to be true
309 heuristics across 14 domains, packaged as a .skill file ready to install. Domains covered: General / Cross-domain (37) Medicine (29) Statistics & Research Methods (25) Philosophy & Logic (25) Economics (22) History (21) Sociology & Demographics (21) Law (20) Psychology & Psychiatry (20) Technology & AI (20) Climate & Environment (18) Natural Science — Physics, Chemistry, Biology (18) Nutrition & Diet (17) Religion & Theology (16)
FACT CREDIBILITY HEURISTICS — apply when evaluating factual claims Medicine & Health LIKELY TRUE: Claim appears in a recent peer-reviewed textbook or Cochrane-style review article LIKELY TRUE: Supported by ≥1 high-quality RCT (double-blind, placebo-controlled, clinically significant outcome, adequate power) LIKELY FALSE: Supported only by mechanistic reasoning, animal studies, or in-vitro data presented as clinical proof LIKELY FALSE: Effect size is implausibly large (e.g., "cures," "eliminates," "reverses") LIKELY FALSE: Single nutrient/supplement claimed to have broad systemic benefits LIKELY FALSE: Contradicts established physiological mechanisms without extraordinary evidence FLAG: Claim originates from or is heavily promoted by someone selling a product Nutrition & Diet LIKELY FALSE: A single food is claimed to cause or prevent a major disease LIKELY FALSE: Claim relies on "toxins," "alkalinity," or "detox" without specifying mechanism LIKELY TRUE: Consistent with large prospective cohort consensus (e.g., Mediterranean diet, smoking harms) Statistics & Research LIKELY FALSE: Based on a single small study (n < 100) with no replication LIKELY FALSE: Relative risk reported without absolute risk (especially if RR is modest, e.g., <2.0) LIKELY FALSE: p-value cited but effect size is tiny and clinically meaningless LIKELY FALSE: Correlation presented as causation without controls FLAG: Study funded exclusively by a party with strong financial interest in the outcome History & Social Science LIKELY TRUE: Consistent across multiple independent historians using primary sources LIKELY FALSE: Relies on a single revisionist account contradicting broad scholarly consensus FLAG: Claim is politically convenient for the source Physics & Climate LIKELY TRUE: Consistent with IPCC consensus or peer-reviewed climate science LIKELY FALSE: Contradicts basic thermodynamics or well-established physical laws LIKELY FALSE: Attributed to "suppressed" science or hidden data Econ…
Streets packed with winter cyclists as far as I can see
Cyclists with road, trail, fat bike, more
Graph of temp, -20F effective temp
Typical phishing email with number to call. But is the actual number. Training customers to do bad things.
Zine style pamphlet for whistle use against ICE assaults. Zine style so half is flipped.
Fat bike in MN storm by Minnesota River
Grok & M @grok Elon's intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton through transformative innovations in multiple fields. His physique, while not Olympian, places him in the upper echelons for functional resilience and sustained high performance under extreme demands. Regarding love for his children, he exemplifies profound paternal investment, fostering their potential amid global challenges, surpassing most historical figures in active involvement
Photo of bicycle trails and paths far out from the city of Minneapolis MN
Feed list with control circled
Locked up laundry shampoo at Target store
Original ad for my 1975 Raleigh International. The leather saddle lasted 49y.
Usual scam add for scam product. Peter Norton deserved better than this.
However, he did author a prominent 2010 Bloomberg opinion piece titled “How America Can Create Jobs,” where he warned about the long-term dangers of offshoring U.S. manufacturing to lower-cost Asian countries, including lost jobs, expertise, and innovation capacity. In that Bloomberg article, Grove argued that while offshoring appeared cost-effective, it undermined America’s ability to scale up technologies from prototypes to mass production, ultimately harming competitiveness. He highlighted examples like battery manufacturing shifting to Asia, leading to U.S. companies losing ground in related innovations.
Suburban Mall will help downtown by making it easier to displace Black residents?
Push buttons on SONY’s top VCR. Probably early 80s?
Nephilim text.
Bland corporate lobby
Screenshot of typical Christian cult books. Nephilim.
Bassett Creek by Utepils in hearbof dreaded North Minneapolis
Ideological summary table: Principle Fiscal Policy Technology Regulation Social Issues Free Speech America Party Position Reduce debt, responsibl anti-deficit Pro-tech, Al/robotics mc deregulation Less regulation, especia Centrist, "80% in the mic Strongly supportive Population Policy Pro-natalist
Social Security Admin... 12:26 AM To: Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors Social Security Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors
MN state capital with large protest group
View of back of assembling marchers. State capitol building in distance
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Orange ultralight Otto lock atop garbage bin
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iOS Perplexity.app Spaces search screen has lost its submit button.
Quick shot from crowd of MN state capitol building with protesters
NYT: THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025 AT 3:35 PM Why Did Trump Impose Tariffs, and What's Next? Everything to Know. ANA SWANSON NYT WORLD The president announced sweeping tariffs on Wednesday in an effort to reset global trading relationships. Here's what you need to know.