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Mike Brock 🇺🇸

@brockm.bsky.social
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Former tech guy. Writer. Standing somewhere. A circus, perhaps. From here, this is what I see. Observations here: notesfromthecircus.com

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 44m
I have serious questions about any member of the military who is ordered to intimidate voters and does so. I know many of my fellow Americans will wince at that believing they have no choice. But they do. Everyone does. It's a lie we tell ourselves otherwise.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 52m
Your brain has no software in it. Your brain is not a computing device. Computational functionalism — which is the general view of most STEM people — is obviously wrong on a scientific basis. Setting aside any other metaphysical objections.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1h
The thing is, people have this weird notion that Hitler was a more put-together guy than our contemporary fascists. He was actually a drug addict.
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🇨🇦 sophialarkrose.bsky.social @sophialarkrose.bsky.social · 1h
Every day he's there, the US haemorrhages global standing, wealth, and honour.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1h
If you’re waiting for a safer moment to stop helping Trump, someone else has to survive your delay. His eventual defeat will not make the time you gave him harmless.
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The Hands That Remain Still
On the people waiting for a safer time to do the right thing
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2h
Trump and MAGA will fail. They’ve lost control of the narrative, and the economy will get worse. The question is how many people they kill and how much they destroy first. The blood is dripping from the hands of those who could stop them and won’t.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2h
When the Democrats take Congress, they need to re-open the Congressional jail and be prepared to put people in it with the inherent contempt power.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 3h
It’s really funny when some young libertarian discovers the concept of “tyranny of the majority” and then they believe they have discovered a formal proof that democracy is bad.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 4h
Often when you tell conservatives that the whole world hates and reviles us due to Trump, their attitude is they don't care as long as they "fear and respect us". Which is really how you know conservatives are often just modern cavemen and cavewomen.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 7h
To inoculate Americans against right-wingers calling them "communists", Democrats should release a supercut of all the insane shit they said about Obama when he was running. And yes, they called him a Marxist extremist.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 7h
“I was protecting shareholder value” is no defense. You chose the money.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 8h
People giving the GOP a polling handicap in their head because of polling errors in presidential election years forget that Democrats over-performed their polls in the 2018 midterms. It is not a rule of thumb that you need to handicap Republicans.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 8h
AI researchers are materialist reductionists, almost to a person. Most wouldn't even recognize the term, which is the point: they hold a metaphysics they've never examined. So they treat intelligence as a scalar, when philosophers and scientists have never agreed on a definition that holds up.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 9h
I am not trying to lower the temperature around this administration’s conduct. I want the people responsible to feel increasing pressure until the harm stops and there is accountability, and I will oppose any Democrat who offers them a way out in the name of moving on.
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No, We Cannot Agree to Disagree
On what you are asking me to overlook
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you are going to use LLM technology to assist with nuclear threat detection, you might as well hook up the fire control to a random number generator.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well guys, we got to see what happens when the kinds of people who wore “Let’s Go Brandon” t-shirts to Disneyland run America. I hope you’re taking notes for the future.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/10/2026
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Hello Sam this is your lawer speaking.
I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if OpenAI and Anthropic died tomorrow, I don’t think it would have much impact on America’s “competitive edge”. Massive investment would switch the open-weight models by tech companies. Might actually be better in the end.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you smell that? That’s fear. The bad people are afraid. This is when one should push the initiative.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The humiliating end of Mitch McConnell is really satisfying, all things considered.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Billionaire Weenietown from South Park is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There will never be a $5k check for every American. The idea the treasury market will be cool with a $1T cash outlay that will supercharge inflation and explode the deficit, is an idea that can only sustain itself if you stop thinking after 2 seconds.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seriously, though. The GOP falling into the trap of trying to use Hasan Piker as the mascot of the Dems as their ace strategy this cycle just demonstrates how terminally online they all are. Nobody gives a fuck.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
According to polls, American voters don't seem to give a fuck about Hasan Piker.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TrUmP wILL fiX ThE eCoNoMY BeCAuSe He'S A BuSINeSS mAN!
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also, the sub-genre of welfare-dependent MAGA voters (a majority of people on welfare in America voted for Trump in 2024, btw) finding out they've lost benefits due to Trump and the GOP's cuts is also a deep chasm of pathos.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow, the sub-genre of MAGA voters crying on TikTok about how their families have abandoned them and they don't understand why their families don't respect them living according to their values is a deep chasm of pathos.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look, by November, we are going to be in an epic economic crisis due to the global diesel shortage. Democrats will be able to run on taxpayer-funded drag queen story hour, and they'll still win in a landslide. That's how bad the GOP is about to have it.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, they wanted to burn it down for change, and they are learning that "burning it down" doesn't make things better.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A lot of people in this country who voted for Trump because they wanted to smash the system said to themselves, "it's already so bad. How much worse can it get? Burn it down!" And the universe has now responded: "Oh yes, it can get much worse. And I will demonstrate for you."
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A lot farmers and truckers wanted Trump to burn down the whole system. Well, they got what they want. Now they're learning what "burn it down" means.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The diesel crisis is very January 2020 with COVID right now. People are aware of it. It's in the news. It probably should be the #1 story. It definitely will be in three months.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The US is actually going to be one of the least affected countries in the world — although we'll be affected badly. But this crisis may bring entire nations to their knees and spark more global conflict.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This diesel situation is so much worse than people realize. The prices are going so much higher. The US and Europe simply do not have enough reserves to offset the shortage for long. The GOP is going to have a fun November.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The diesel crisis hasn't even begun to hit yet.
youtube.com
The oil apocalypse is here
YouTube video by Max Fisher
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The best part of Katie Britt's horrified expression is that if you go back and see the look on her face as Schmitt was asking the question, her look was one of smug amusement. Because she's a shit person.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look, if you're a man and you feel like you need to have some full dominion over your domain, like some mini-feudal lord, you're not a man—and no this is not AI—you're a pathetic fool.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How's Trump's breathing?
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People forget that the death-knell (on top of Iraq) for Bush in his second-term among the base, was his attempt at bipartisan immigration reform. The GOP base was prepared to burn the country down before that happened.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Opinion polls in 2024 suggest there is a respectable sized cohort of American swing voters who simultaneously held that Trump was a corrupt criminal, and that he was best-equipped to bring down inflation, earning their vote. How do these people feel about that now?
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From a cosmic perspective is is VERY funny watching Trump trash the GOP's electoral prospects, while most of the GOP has to pretend like he's not doing exactly that. The humiliation looks so good on them.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're going to tell me that your tech as 10% chance of killing me and ending everything I hold dear, a strict-liabilty standard seems PERFECTLY REASONABLE.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For those who don't know: a strict liability standard is more than a negligence standard. It means, they're still guilty even if they did everything they could to prevent he harm.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The only regulation I’d support passing right now — honestly — is a strict liability law that says that company and its directors are personally are civilly and criminally liable for any harms their technology causes.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have received a few response to my piece calling out people who made piece with Trump in Silicon Valley that suggest "there are other ways to resist than what [I] did". And I just respond with this:
hmd.org.uk
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | First They Came – by Pastor Martin Niemöller
First They Came is a poem by Pastor Martin Niemoller
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-last-s...
notesfromthecircus.com
The Last Serious Contrarian
In memoriam
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The phenomenon of the post-left just needs to be understood in terms of the kinds of people these people are: opportunistic social climbers. If the liberal track pays, they’re liberals. If the fascist track pays, they’re fascists. It’s about who they always were. They didn’t “change”.
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