Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 06/06/2025"Pessimism is Old World and reactionary." Upwingers: A Futurist Manifesto - FM Esfandiary, 1973 i loved the book Abundance. kind of a rehash of Upwingers & some older books (oddly Small is Beautiful by Schumacher). that said. read it. but read Chokepoints & When More is not Better at same time. 000
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 17/03/2025"everything has to do with everything else" 010
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 17/03/2025i sort of agree with this. how about try this. if you feel like a book is becoming a slog, skip to the last chapter and read it. if the last chapter opens up some possibility you didn't envision, the book is worth restarting. 000
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 13/03/2025"we're offering them something better" every democrat should write this on a notecard and carry it with them everywhere they go. if what they are saying, or doing, is not offering anything to make someone's life better, scrap it. 020
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 13/03/2025he's correct. this is also a secret businesses know, well, at least the ones who don't believe business is war ......... 000
Reposted by Bruce McTagueJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The tariffs will continue until morale improves. 1236365
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/03/2025USA @mcuban.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social 000
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/03/2025hmmmmmmmmmmm ... prices up for those seeking to buy aluminum. so, once again, the buyer pays for tariffs. 000
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 27/02/2025with all due respect to the hype cycle, this is reality .... 141
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 27/02/2025it sure seems like most of confirmed Trump cabinet members lied a lot in confirmation meetings (and they aren't even one month in). @podsaveamerica.crooked.com 010
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 27/02/2025am i the only one who remembers that stable genius, master negotiator, cut Afghanistan out of negotiations and dealt directly with the Taliban? @mcuban.bsky.social @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social 010
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 20/02/2025the question everyone should ask every time they read about something DOGE/Trump has "cut" is "does this make my life better?" 'cause i'm fairly sure even if you voted for Trump you didn't want to "make life worse again". 000
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 12/01/2025i have been wanting to introduce @graceblakeley.bsky.social and @aaronjbastani.bsky.social to @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev for quite some time hoping they would do a podcast. so here we go. 000
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 12/01/2025i just rewatched this Aaron Bastani tedtalk. his book, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, is fabulous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6aq...youtube.comA Socialist Perspective on the Pursuit of Happiness | Aaron Bastani | TEDYouTube video by TED 000
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 12/01/2025when @robmay70.bsky.social and i reconnected here after years on twitter, i thought i should reshare a great (smart) tedtalk he did. ignore the shirt and focus on the message. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpdc...youtube.comYour Human Firewall – The Answer to the Cyber Security Problem | Rob May | TEDxWokingYouTube video by TEDx Talks 131
Reposted by Bruce McTagueMarshall Kirkpatrick @marshallk.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Hell of a takedown of Zuckerberg on Rogan www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24...theverge.comMark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s faceZuckerberg even offers Republicans another target: Apple. 021
Reposted by Bruce McTagueKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I feel like my Burn Book was not burny enough for these toxic loons. Lucky the paperback comes out in March with some new scorching material. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ally-p...thedailybeast.comTrump Ally Peter Thiel’s Op-Ed Turns Heads for Being ‘Beyond Nuts’Thiel’s piece Friday in the Financial Times looked forward to a time of “truth and reconciliation” in the Trump administration. 821311165
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/01/2025"most of those regulations are good overall, many of them have been weaponized by bad-faith actors to block development on ideological grounds" i have met the enemy and it is I (let's quit always blaming govt) 000
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/01/2025you do not have to follow the advice, but suffice it to say anything @harper.lol and @jlaniersky.bsky.social have to offer about navigating the social media world is worth it. ponder. 000
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/01/2025"I had up to that point been pretty cynical about human nature." the truth is we Hope folk often glance off of hopelessness - others and our own - as we get bludgeoned with zero sum and individualistic attitudes. the trick is to recognize is is not just yuor battle to fight. 011
Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 07/01/2025yes. i always remember the story Don Henley says about living downstairs from Jackson Browne who would spend hours playing parts of songs over and over trying to get them right. that's writing. 010
Reposted by Bruce McTagueFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025They want us to memory hole tearing down the American flag to fly Trump’s. 30889353377