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The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Orange Guy standing at a stall with a sign that says “Shit Sandwich, £500”
Pink Guy walks up to the stall, Orange Guy gestures excitedly at the sign.

Panel 2:
Pink Guy continues walking past the Shit Sandwich stall. The Orange Guy looks dejected

Panel 3:
Orange Guy says “Wow. That guy can’t read”

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wrapping up the last couple of days at my current client. It feels so weird to condense 3 years of serious impact into ~8 bullet points on a resume

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, I said you could call or text. I never said that I'd answer

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Please, for the love of everything decent, just stop.

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Professional interviews I have had: * In an occult shop (unplanned. conversation just lead there) * a pair programming interview in an office after being offered a beer * a day long interview where I walked out with the offer of a date by one of the staff (aided and abetted BY THE RECRUITER)

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*looks at tracking information for a package* "Out for delivery" Normally this would be a positive development. The issue is that it is "Out for delivery" in Clovis, California. I am in Ohio...

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4 million trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. Mamdani just made them pay $131.5 million in wage theft settlements to 264,000 delivery workers. This is why they fear working class solidarity. It comes with accountability.

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean, to be fair, he /does/ know roughly as much about AI as he does about economics...

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How is it that Idiocracy was amazingly optimistic? Does anyone else miss "covfefe"? I miss when it was much lower stakes stupidity

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

STOP LISTENING TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANT CLASS

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do it. You know you want to. Hell, WE want you to 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026

So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

LLMs are not sentient They will not become "1000x smarter" than people by 2040 Stop believing the BS. The worst part is that it is "experts" (either self-serving or out of touch) that are trying to spread some of this garbage. If you encounter it, the best course is to tell them to shut up

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today,

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/09/2026

it’s okay though. the top tenth wealthiest people only own about 90 percent of the stock market

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Schumer's daughter works for OpenAI. Gillibrand's son founded a new crypto exchange backed by billionaires. In case you were wondering why things are the way they are.

@polltracker2024 on X:
Politico: OpenAI hires Senator Chuck Schumer's daughter to work for the artificial intelligence corporation.
6 Sep 26

Politico: Crypto billionaire among dozens to back startup from Gillibrand’s son
Chris Larsen, John Griffin and Mark Ein are angel investors in a new financial exchange led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s 22-year-old son.

7/2/2026

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reminder: When Ukraine asked Israel for help and access to its Iron Dome technology in June 2023, Netanyahu — on record — cited his good relationship with Putin as reason he could not do so.

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Did OpenAI build AGI?" Short answer: No. Long answer: No. Altman is a con artist and has been for his entire career (the rest of the LLM bros are too, but Altman is well known as one). Even if AGI were ever to happen, it won't be created with an LLM. Stop believing the hype and bullshit.

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I really dislike the first ~week of September. You'd think that it wouldn't hit this hard after so long, but over 25 years on and it still does

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 04/09/2026

Personal growth: when I see someone well-respected by my friends posting destructive, braindead bullshit like "trans rights are AI rights," I simply block them and move on instead of picking a fight that will consume my entire workday with someone who clearly has literal AI psychosis

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The White House website now has "arcade games" like "Protect the border from the coming horde" and "Border Patrol along the Rio Grande". There are cruel, insane children running the country. www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/

Screen capture from "Border Patrol along the Rio Grande" games

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Between things like this and companies removing digital items that people have already bought, it's starting to cause a genuine resurgence in physical media. That's not necessarily a bad thing

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 31/08/2026

White Dems expect me to be horrified by how ICE treats immigrants, but OK with how cops treat me. 🙂🙃 I don't understand that. But the answer is no. White Dems see the GOP as evil fascists, but themselves as good and just, for doing the exact same things. I don't understand that either.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

To be clear everyone involved in this should go to prison. This is not some petty "but the golf course was so nice beforehand" shit, this is "you are in open and flagrant violation of the law in that you lied to the court about your intentions and timelines" territory people.com/dozens-trees...

people.com

Dozens of Trees Quietly Toppled in D.C. Without Court Approval Ahead of Trump’s New Golf Course Makeover: Report

Over 60 trees were removed at East Potomac Golf Links before official approval for renovations was granted, the Washington Post reported Friday, Aug. 26. Preservationists argue the plans violate a law...

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Things that the internet has given us which would be unlikely to happen otherwise "Answering a question from user MeowMeowFluffyBottom" 🤣

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dear LLM bros, We are not "in the singularity" (which has no meaning) and we have not achieved AGI. You can not emulate a system that you do not understand. Cognition is not understood. Go. The. Fuck. Away.

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Keith Walsh @ktwalsh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We're approaching peek bubble bullshit time. So of course the hype will keep becoming ever more grandiose, until it all falls down.

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ever notice how the same people that say "$x is inevitable. You need to just go with it" are the same people who say "I always knew $x wasn't going to work" when $x fails spectacularly? Well, $x is well on its way to failing. Yes. This is a post about tech.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/08/2026

It's scary to accept this, but know that the vast majority of people believe that AI is the next big thing because a bunch of rich/powerful people spent a lot of money, and the media repeated their plans as if they were already complete because spent so much money.

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If I hear one more "AI expert" claim that we're going to have agi or superintelligence within the next 2 years, I am going to scream

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Using a hand crank coffee grinder on the ultra fine setting to make spice blends will give your arm a bit of a work out. End result is totally worth it though

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We're going to send the military to regulate bond yields?

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So apparently Oracle has banned the use of LLM generated assets (code, docs, etc) from Open JDK Talk about irony. Building data centers for LLM slop, but banning it in your own products. Maybe this should tell you how things are going to end...

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 16/08/2026

someone should do a poll of the AI CEOs now and ask them if they're more afraid of Roko's Basilisk or of the next Luigi Mangioni... just to plant the thought in their heads like

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There is only one possible response to concentration camps: abolition. If you claim that this can be "reformed" you either refuse to see what it actually is or you support abduction, assault, torture and trafficking - at least to some degree.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The drive of people to create isn't about the end result - it's about the journey. It's why we do "pointless" things. A vast majority of the time, the end result *doesn't matter*. The things we learned, the struggles, and the experiences are the important part

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Giving a double meaning to "backend stuff"...

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Are they also going to make them wear a patch on their jacket? Also, taking their passports? So they don't want them in the country, but they want to prevent them from leaving the country? Makes you wonder "why," doesn't it? (Yes, we already know why)

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My small British company was bought by Americans. I have just been formally reprimanded for sarcasm and sardonic commentary. I told the disciplinary panel I was grateful for the opportunity to reflect on my attitude going forward and would be certain to bear it in mind in future.

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So now LG smart tvs and monitors install spyware and count as wiretapping/eavesdropping devices because they listen to literally everything? It's past time to start dragging execs into the street and setting them on fire. FFS

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

*sighs as I exit the time machine* I'm here to stop a children's book.

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James Hollingshead @bladesjester.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

All I can think is how bad an idea that is. A lot of, if not most, bears carry trichinosis... You basically need to cook bear the same way that they used to tell you to cook pork

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

huh wonder why people are rebelling against this technology oh well guess we’ll never know

Business Insider headline:
Meta CTO says employees should use Al productivity gains to do more work
- not take more time off

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