Pylimitics

Simplicity rearranged

unmonetizable content since 1997


Immorality

  • Inept, faithless, and arrogant

    Steve Schmidt put it eloquently: “Donald Trump’s national security team has been exposed — and permanently unmasked — as moral degenerates. They are incompetent clowns, who beggar description because they stand peerless in the entire history of America as singularly inept, faithless and arrogant. Michael Waltz, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Stephen… Continue reading

  • Is it over?

    Now people are being disappeared here in the US by squads of thugs who think they’re empowered by authority. Mahmoud Khalil is now an overtly political prisoner here. We have political prisoners now. We disappear people now. Here are two sources of Khalil’s letter from the concentration camp:Document CloudGuardian US(Posting more than one link to… Continue reading

  • Pre-Automation

    Pre-automation is a business model. Probably a secretive one. The idea is that a massive organization, especially one aiming to be a monopolistic platform, might employ large, outsourced labor forces. Think “gig workers.” At the same time, the organization would invest in developing the tools to replace these workers with in-house systems and machines. Does… Continue reading

About Me

I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer (among other things) located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. No surprise, she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.

Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity. You can also find some of my minor software projects at GitHub. Nothing very impressive. I mostly write tiny utilities in Python.

I find myself suddenly de-corporatized (their choice, not mine). To help keep the lights on, buy me a coffee!