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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 26/09/2026

Also feels crazy to do a fictional one first

Then share a photo or the exact wording of a sign. Review unclear details, surrounding signs, and local rules before relying on the explanation.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 26/09/2026

Not the first use case I would advertise

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 22/09/2026

Working on a new little project

All the links between Justin Sun and the Trump Family

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 21/09/2026

Not the collab I expected

MrBeast Workshops are ON at Lowe's.
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Your kids can build a toy at a special MrBeast Workshop for just $14.98.
New toys drop each month.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 15/09/2026

U.S. Senator Lummis shocked that politicians are doing politics

U.S. Senator Lummis says
Democrats won't quit asking for more on crypto Clarity Act
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 10/09/2026

I don’t love this frame!

Michael Lewis
Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State
Top New Release
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 10/09/2026

It was not enough for them to know that they now ruled a third of the world…they wanted to forget that there ever had been…any other civilisation at all. There was so much beauty they had not made, so many books they had not written, so many records of wars in which they had not fought

Hermann muttered something inaudible, but the Knight took no notice. "As I was saying, the shadows of these old ideas and of these vast old Empires still hung over Germany, reminding Germans that Empires rise, and fall, reminding them also of their own small beginnings. It was not enough for them to know that they now ruled a third of the world, that in them rested the only true and holy civilisation; they wanted to forget that there ever had been, in Europe, any other civilisation at all. There was so much beauty they had not made, so many books they had not written, so many records of wars in which they had not fought, and so many ideas of human behaviour which were anathema to them. Socialism, for instance, was absolutely smashed, practically, but the idea was still there, in men's minds. No, Alfred, I will not stop to tell you what Socialism was. You can read it in the

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 10/09/2026

You're proud of having had an Empire, are you?…Look at that poor clod…there—he daren't face anything, believe anything, he hardly dares to hear anything, he's a shrinking, shaking coward, not so much because he believes in Hitler, not so much because he's a German, but because he's got an Empire!

"Ha!" cried Alfred, springing up. "There were old Empires, then? You and the Japanese weren't the only ones? It's all lies, lies!"
"The Assyrian, the Babylonian, the Persian, the Egyptian, the Greek, the Roman, the Spanish and the British. In colonial possessions-_"
Alfred interrupted him. "The British!
And you tell us all those English-speak-ing races were just disconnected savage tribes! As if anyone but an idiot could ever believe it. You liars! You fools!" The Knight rose to his feet also, and Looked at Alfred with controlled but passionate condemnation. "You're proud of having had an Empire, are you? Proud of being an Englishman for that reason?
Look at that poor clod Hermann there
— he daren't face anything, believe anything, he hardly dares to hear anything, he's a shrinking, shaking coward, not so much because he believes in Hitler, not so much because he's a German, but be

cause he's got an Empire! You ought to be ashamed of your race, Alfred, even though your Empire vanished seven hundred years ago. It isn't long enough to get rid of that taint."

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 10/09/2026

I do not think this level of paranoia is healthy

The best way to casually discover where the flocks ar
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I have noticed my hearing aids will briefly stop working when I drive past a flock camera. And that's scary because for a few minutes I can't hear anything..while driving.
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They messed up bad and it's going to backfire because it's gonna catch people in authority doing weirdness
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THATS WHY my music keeps skipping????
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My CarPlay always acts up and then I look up and it's the damn flock cameras. Glad it's not just me, it was making me crazy
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We went on a roadtrip this summer, and I kept getting annoyed that my Apple Music was skipping. Every few minutes, the sound would drop out for just a second. I learned later that it was probably flock cameras connecting to my phone
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This video just explained why my radio pauses at the same spot every day! Ewww!
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As someone whose computer speakers used to announce a text before my phone..... believe it
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flock pulls bluetooth data for tracking. yes they are actually connecting to your phone for a split second via bluetooth and logging your info from your phone
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 08/09/2026

Five decades of “real” concerns

1975: Is Modern Food Full Of Rubbish? |...
@BBCArchive 3.2K likes 176K views 3mo ago ...more

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 01/09/2026

What a fascinating advertisement

Claude Fable 5.1 is now available
Included for up to 50% of your Max plan usage.
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Sticks to what you asked for and asks when it's unclear
Creates finished spreadsheets and checks each number as it goes
Shows its sources and separates what's known from what's estimated

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 01/09/2026

This is the best gender book I read in 2026, because it showed that men can do incredibly destructive politics in service of gender

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 01/09/2026

Pro cooking tip: don’t drop a cast iron Dutch oven on your foot

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 01/09/2026

It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used.

engines. The enormous destruction of machinery that occurred in the English manufacturing districts during the first 15 years of this century, chiefly caused by the employment of the power-loom, and known as the Luddite movement, gave the anti-Jacobin governments of a Sidmouth, a Castlereagh, and the like, a pretext for the most reactionary and forcible measures. It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to distinguish between machinery and

its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used. 113

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 30/08/2026

Teller was like: that’s cool, it even has a note from 1938, and then I pointed out the author signature and then he double-checked the price lol

For Judge Francis S. Wilson
Whose early association with Altgeld and whose own career in the history of Chicago makes it a special pleasure for the author to inscribe this book with [unclear] and in esteem — Sincerely, Harry Barnard November 21,1948

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 30/08/2026

One of my coolest used book store finds, long out-of-print and this specific copy is from the first printing and signed by the author; something the teller at the used book store did not fully realize, he had caught that the text said it was a gift, but missed that it was a gift from the author

Eagle Forgotten: The Life of John Peter Altgeld
by: Harry Barnard

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 27/08/2026

Not the most comforting thing Fable has ever said: Go to bed, Bennett - the machine remembers everything now.

command, with a receipt on every line. Go to bed, Bennett - the machine remembers everything now.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 25/08/2026

Justin Sun launched his JUST NFT fund and predicted, “NFT-backed artworks ushers NFT-based art into a new, spectacular chapter of human art history with JUST NFT Fund being the prologue.” When we checked in on his NFT platform in February, we found that it had $6/day in trading volume.

Justin Sun hails ‘spectacular’ chapter of art history

In 2021 Justin Sun launched his JUST NFT fund and predicted, “The emergence of NFT-backed artworks ushers NFT-based art into a new, spectacular chapter of human art history with JUST NFT Fund being the prologue.”

When we checked in on his NFT platform in February, we found that it had $6/day in trading volume.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 24/08/2026

he described the United States as a "post-Marxian phenomenon" with a White "working-class aristocracy." … "Instead of a horizontal division of classes, there was a vertical fissure, a complete separation of classes by race, cutting square across the economic layers,"

not an old theory, convinced Du Bois it was time to break ground on the ideology of antiracist socialism. In one of the 1933 articles, he described the United States as a "post-Marxian phenomenon" with a White "working-class aristocracy." At the end of the decade, Du Bois would expound on his antiracist socialism in Dusk of Dawn (1940).
"Instead of a horizontal division of classes, there was a vertical fissure, a complete separation of classes by race, cutting square across the economic layers," Du Bois put forward. The vertical cutting knife was constructed of centuries of racist ideas. "This flat and incontrovertible fact, imported Russian Communism ignored, would not discuss!"

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 24/08/2026

I believe the pogroms of November '38 made less impression on the nation than cutting the bar of chocolate for Christmas.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 24/08/2026

No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea that makes a revolution, but privation that causes it to break out. And once under way, it deviates from the idea.

For my Curriculum even more than for my Eighteenth Century I am forced to reflect again and again: No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea that makes a revolution, but privation that causes it to break out. And once under way, it deviates from the idea.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 23/08/2026

Only White scholars apparently could be "sufficiently restrained" to write on race: only racist studies reflected scholarly truth." From: Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Other reviews of the book, which was first released in 1883, were also favorable. But one critique from the Magazine of American History-saying that Williams was "not sufficiently restrained"-signified the conundrum that many Black revisionist scholars would face in future decades. When Black revisionists chose not to revise, then they seemingly allowed racist studies excluding or denigrating Blacks to stand for truth. When they did revise racist scholarship, they apparently lacked objectivity. Only White scholars apparently could be "sufficiently restrained" to write on race: only racist studies reflected scholarly truth."

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 21/08/2026

Fräulein Gump said nothing would get any better until we had a jewish state somewhere in the world. Certainly that is pure Nazism and just as odious to me as it is to her.

entry and exit permits. But Frau Hirschel speaks with great warmth of Aryan friends who are looking after both her and also her husband in Paris. [...] Eva was intensely annoyed because Fräulein Gump said nothing would get any better until we had a jewish state somewhere in the world. Certainly that is pure Nazism and just as odious to me as it is to her. But as things stand, I would nevertheless like to grant Fräulein Gump extenuating circumstances. She is very attached to German culture and passionately felt herself to be German.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 21/08/2026

I believe Natalie Harp has agency

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 21/08/2026

"Who are they? Why are they running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone is so fond of?" From: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

they be French?" He looked at the approaching Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful that he could not believe his eyes. "Who are they? Why are they running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone is so fond of?" He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. "But perhaps they may do it!" For more than ten seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. The foremost

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 21/08/2026

Whatever may happen politically, inwardly I am definitively changed. No one can take my Germanness away from me, but my nationalism and patriotism are gone forever.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 20/08/2026

Cas is right that this should never have been used, but I was curious what better models would do. Opened up Claude Code and asked it: can you help me generate a map of the united states for a classroom handout with state boundaries, capitals, major cities, and landmarks This is what it created:

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 20/08/2026

Claude Cowork gave a slightly simpler and cleaner version:

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 20/08/2026

Okay, curiousity sated, this is what Claude Code gives you if you give it the prompt: can you help me generate a map of the united states for a classroom handout with state boundaries, capitals, major cities, and landmarks

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 20/08/2026

Polymarket and Kalshi love to talk about how accurate their predictions are, but when you look at a chart like this which single point in time do you use to judge whether it was an accurate prediction

Chart of the Polymarket market for the FLorida Democratic Senate Primary Winner which showed chaotic trading prices for most candidates until february when Vindman took a commanding lead, until basically it was called and Nixon suddenly surged to 100%

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 18/08/2026

Why don’t regulators act? When regulators act: Many locals were stunned. They rose in anger against the blue-suited government bureaucrats and their "Gestapo-like tactics." Someone spray-painted "Auditors Go Home" in huge letters on a building within sight of the bank.

On September 1, the OCC declared the bank insolvent and the FDIC moved to take control. Many Locals were stunned. They rose in anger against the blue-suited government bureaucrats and their "Gestapo-like tactics." Someone spray-painted "Auditors Go Home" in huge letters on a building within sight of the bank. Most townspeople couldn't believe that their hometown bankers had done anything wrong. "These are good people, the kind that will do anything for you," said a former teller at the bank. "I just don't believe there is fraud here."

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 17/08/2026

Contempt and disgust and deepest mistrust with respect to Germany can never leave me now. And yet in 1933 I was so convinced of my Germanness.

I do not really mind doing it, I can no Longer get rid of the thought that it makes no difference at all how I pass the rest of my life: I no longer believe in any political change, nor do I believe that a change would be of any help to me. Neither in my circumstances nor in my feelings.—Contempt and disgust and deepest mistrust with respect to Germany can never leave me now. And yet in 1933 I was so convinced of my Germanness.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 16/08/2026

the man is quite unaware how much of a National Socialist he is

heat, is coming to an end. Recently a conversation with Weller brought both of us almost to the brink of despair.
The man, discriminated against by the Nazis, a bitter enemy of Kalix, of Zörner and many others, not unintelligent, not a Jew hater, expresses ideas that in form and content are pure National So-cialism. About the necessity of the community of the people, of distinct races, of the identity of law and power, of the unquestionable superiority of the new German army over all attackers (since we do not want to attack, of course, and only want peace), of the need to fight off Communism (without realizing that here we have a more hypocritical form of Communism), etc. I said to Eva, the man is quite unaware how much of a National Socialist he is, and Eva com-

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 15/08/2026

My house of cards had collapsed! The bubble had busted! I had lost! Lost everything! Millions of dollars. Credit. Happiness. And even my liberty! Everything, except my courage. I needed that to take my medicine like a man. To meet the future. Unquestionably, I was licked. For the time being.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 15/08/2026

When the zeppelin was destroyed I felt sad: Poor people! But everything that weakens this government's prestige is to the benefit of Germany.

the Catholic Church. When the zeppelin was destroyed I felt sad: Poor people!
But everything that weakens this government's prestige is to the benefit of
Germany.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 15/08/2026

The second deuce was the Hanover Trust Company. The bank had, at that time, easily $5,000,000 in negotiable securities and plenty of liquid cash. [They] were not mine. They were the bank's. But I had access to them.

The second deuce was the Hanover Trust Company. The bank had, at that time, easily $5,000,000 in negotiable securities and plenty of liquid cash.
There were not mine. They were the bank's. But I had access to them.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 15/08/2026

Assuming I earned two cents on each coupon, l should have had to handle over 250,000,000 of them! It was absurd. There were not that many in the world. There had never been that many. And it would have taken months to print them!

People must have thought I had discovered the buried treasure of the Incas. Or Alladin's lamp.
If they gave a thought at all to the coupons, they must have got dizzy figuring how many of them I needed to justify what I was doing. In fact, my visible resources then were in excess of $5,000,000. Assuming I earned two cents on each coupon, l should have had to handle over 250,000,000 of them! It was absurd. There were not that many in the world. There had never been that many. And it would have taken months to print them!
The long and short of it is that, for some time, I had not been getting any coupons at all.
In fact, after the first lot, I had not been able to buy any more.
Except in small quantities. For no other reason than the existing supply was not sufficient to meet

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 15/08/2026

In rapid succession, I bid on the Lawrence Trust Company, of Lawrence. On the Carney Building, in Tremont Street…I bought myself a house in Lexington. One in Winthrop. A small apartment building in the West End…I even bought myself the Napoli Macaroni Company. So that I wouldn't run out of spaghetti

In rapid succession, I bid on the Lawrence Trust Company, of Lawrence. On the Carney Build-ing, in Tremont Street. And other properties. I bought myself a house in Lexington. One in Win-throp. A small apartment building in the West End. I took a half-dozen mortgages here and there.
Purchased a substantial interest in the C. & R. Construction Com-pany. A few in the Fidelity Trust Company. In the Tremont Trust Company. I even bought myself the Napoli Macaroni Company. So that I wouldn't run out of spaghetti at home.

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