Adam (aka Emjae)

@adam-m-jcbs

Former nuclear astrophysicist, current engineer of chaotic nature (devops, CI/CD, infrastructure, systems engineering, deep learning). An ever-aspiring + flawed anti-racist, leftist, lover of humanity. Welfare-liker. lgbTq+ crew. They/them 🏳️‍⚧️

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Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· 29d

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Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jul 14

what Dem bs we'll give you credit, but only if you find an impossibly cheap car.

a screenshot from a 2025 Kelly Blue Book report. it says the average price for a new EV is $57k. that's a national number that's a year old, so it's worse in California in 2026.

Newsom's credit is for vehicles that don't meaningfully exist.

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jul 8

write letters urging (demanding, even) Bay Area hospitals to resume the gender-affirming care for youth! CA law requires them to provide this care, and there's a federal injunction on the funding threats. They have no excuse and are harming our children and young adults.

a flyer for a letter-writing campaign, Letters for Care, put on by Blue Turn Indivisible and SBQS.

July 11 2026
5-7pm
Mountain View
RSVP for location: https://mobilize.us/s/5qTscn

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jul 8

the UK is a made up country, children-story-ass nation

screenshot of a Financial Times headline:
"Nigel Farage's unusual by-election opponent: Count Binface"

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jul 4

fuck the Washington Post fuck all of these papers gleefully and willfully fanning the flames of trans genocide deeply and truly: fuck you

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jul 4

we're about in the middle of 1846

a screenshot of the exuberant boom and bust of the railroad stocks from 1843 to 1850.

a starting around 1846, valuations stall, decline slowly, and by 1847 are in free fall. ultimately, by 1850, the value of railway stocks fall below all other companies, worth less than they were in 1843

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jun 27

not the article you wanna see in the Financial Times, not the readership you want to imagine in "sartorially appropriate" shorts

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jun 24

nice post

a screenshot of the replied-to post's metrics, revealing a pretty brutal ratio not even an hour after posted:

2 reposts
224 quotes
35 likes
8 saves
450 replies

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jun 24

i don't see an article, i see this

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jun 22

www.theguardian.com/inequality/n...

screenshot highlighting a quote from the linked Guardian article, reading:
"
As much as both parties have bent over backwards to validate the narrative that salt-of-the-earth blue-collar whites were driven right by a liberal agenda that catered to gender-inclusive pronouns over bottom-line suburban family finances, the claim of the economic angst-based Maga voter was empirically debunked by researchers almost as quickly as it was popularized by pundits. It was social, demographic and cultural status threat, not economic hardship, that sparked the white rage that fueled Trump’s rise.
"

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jun 19

playing w eye makeup and muggin', as a t-slur is wont to do 💅

a selfie of me from about chest up with some eye shadow and liner in front of a painting of Santorini. i'm doin' my best smize, resting my splayed fingers against my face.
i have some fun, sparkly ✨, dangly earrings

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jun 6

we have a district, too

A mobile screenshot of a Google Maps interface in satellite view mode. The map centers on downtown San Francisco, California, specifically focusing on the Transgender District. It displays a dense, top-down grid of city streets and rooftops, cut diagonally by a red-and-green transit line along Market Street. Visible text overlays label Union Square at the top, Powell Station in the center, and the Transgender District running along 6th Street.

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jun 6

Jackie Shane damn

A black-and-white portrait of soul singer Jackie Shane from the 1960s. She is a Black trans woman standing with her hands on her hips, posing against a metallic, diamond-textured wall. She wears a long-sleeved, dark satin top and matching trousers, accented by a large, dramatic crystal fringe statement necklace around her neck. She has stylized dark eyeliner and a short, voluminous platinum-blonde bouffant wig.

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Jun 4

Line graph by the Financial Times using US Census data showing the value of US private manufacturing construction from 2017 to early 2026. The chart is divided into three presidential periods: "Trump I" shows flat spending around $5 billion to $7 billion; "Biden" shows a sharp increase peaking over $20 billion; "Trump II" shows a decline back down to around $15 billion.

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· May 19

From a popular and quality newsletter on software engineering

3. Impact on codebase quality.

Codebase quality seems to be decreasing, but management at most places does not care. Meanwhile, maintenance duty is falling upon a shrinking number of engineers who still understand increasingly complex codebases.

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· May 15

economist cosplays as a shock jock

Screenshot from the Financial Times, reading

"
Economists like to think of their discipline as a rational science. But might we make better decisions if we ditched some of our moral aversions? Specifically: would we make better choices if we learned to conquer moral repugnance? Alvin Roth, Nobel laureate, and author of the recent book ‘Moral Economics’, tells host Soumaya Keynes why a free market in kidneys and surrogacy makes economic sense, and what he makes of prediction markets.
"

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· May 14

Screenshot of a summary, reading:

High Valuation: The Schiller PE ratio is near all-time highs, comparable to the 2000 dot-com bubble and 1929

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· May 10

the tears of soulless ghouls 😋 waaaaaaaaaaaaah 😭

Screenshot of a financial times article heading

"
'It's shameful': New York's elite lash out at Zohran Mamdani's second-home tax

The city's wealthy property owners say they are sick of being vilified
"

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· May 6

lmao

a screenshot from a Financial Times article, reading

"Donald Trump hit pause on his plan to guide commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday just hours after the US president and top national security brass touted the benefits of the mission."

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Apr 26

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Apr 20

gender isn't binary AND NEITHER IS SEX! please stop saying incoherent shit like biowoman when you mean cis woman, i'm begging y'all www.instagram.com/reel/DXQD8nw...

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Apr 20

Stanford, Sutter, Kaiser. Oath-breaking cowards.

Screenshot from a linked article, showing Stanford Health as one of the cowardly hospitals that choose to stop offering care to children, in violation of CA law and anything like a Hippocratic oath.

Screenshot from a linked article, showing Kaiser Permanente as one of the cowardly hospitals that choose to stop offering care to children, in violation of CA law and anything like a Hippocratic oath.

Screenshot from a linked article, showing Sutter Health as one of the cowardly hospitals that choose to stop offering care to children, in violation of CA law and anything like a Hippocratic oath.

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Apr 17

@ryankenacts.bsky.social is freaking hilarious www.instagram.com/reel/DXPTnKD...

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Apr 15

investors are irrational and a menace to real ppl and the real economy there's no rational motivation to bet that resolution is coming, and even if the war ended tomorrow the inflation and damage wrought will require years of recovery to undo the bull market was killed and wishes won't revive it

Headline from the Financial Times
"US stocks near record high as investors pin hopes on end to war"

Headline from the Financial Times
"Iran yet to commit to further talks with US"

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Apr 11

“I don’t believe that the Democratic party, who I spent so much of my time working with, are quote ‘the good guys,’” she said. “I don’t think I’ve believed that for a long time. I see them as people who want to uphold and keep power, but in a different way that is not abruptly fascist …All respect to the people who still think it’ll work, but I don’t think it’s gonna work.”

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Apr 10

if you're a San José Public Library patron, in the Libby app you can get both the e-book and audio book versions of @chanda.blacksky.app's latest! it's popular though, already loaned and a few holds!

A screenshot from the Libby app as seen by San José Public Library card-havers. The audio book and e-book of Dr. Prescod-Weinstein's The Edge of Space-Time are both available!

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Apr 9

this grammar suggestion is awful, takes a correct meaning and turns it into an incorrect one please do not just follow the computer, be it an LLM or squiggly lines. you are human, yet. nourish and flex your brain!

screenshot of the post i'm replying to. it wants me to change "abide," as in tolerate, to "abide by," as in obey rules.

i meant what i said! and am correct

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Apr 1

for example, in the FT's article in Aretmis ii, moon looks so close!

a screenshot from a Financial Times article on NASA's Artemis ii mission. It illustrates the flight path from launch to landing. the perspective and scaling suggest the moon is much closer to Earth than it really is.

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Mar 23

the US government is so corrupt. flagrant insider trading is happening out in the open, it could only be from admin insiders, and nothing will be done about it

A plot from the FT showing a huge spike in oil market trading that started minutes before Trump made market-impacting statements, this was about half a billion in bets made before the public statements

Adam (aka Emjae)@adam-m-jcbs· Mar 12

war's going great