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Plz follow @ap.brid.gy to cross-post to the Fediverse so I can follow you there instead of another VC funded socmed toy destined for the enshittification uniformly demanded by equity and eyeball markets. @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From net zero lines of code per month per engineer to +4,000 lines of productivity-killing spaghetti code per month per engineer. An incredible return on that three trillion dollars.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The FBI had to work for two years to radicalize a teenager in this America? Seems like an ineffective allocation of resources when there's a mass shooting or two every day.
Mass shootings in the US
Mass shootings in the United States are on the rise, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.

Note: Current year data is partial and is checked daily

Source: Gun Violence Archive

Graphic: Curt Merrill, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/us/mass-shootings-fast-facts
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bernie has been assimilated into the blob of AI bros bleating constant nonsense about our going extinct in the rising seas of their slop.
FORBES

Geoffrey Hinton’s Prediction Of Human Extinction At The Hands Of AI

Dan Fitzpatrick
Dec 29, 2024FORBES

At Lisbon’s Web Summit, amid the buzz of startup pitches and tech demos, Max Tegmark delivered a sobering message: humanity may be racing toward its own obsolescence. The MIT physicist and president of the Future of Life Institute has spent over a decade warning about the existential risks of artificial superintelligence: now, he argues, the threat is closer than ever.

ByFederico Guerrini,
Nov 27, 2025AXIOS

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will hold a bipartisan briefing next week to discuss the "extraordinary dangers" posed by AI, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Rogue AI incidents and dire warnings from the very people building ever more powerful models are fueling fresh alarm in Washington.

    Sanders, the lawmaker behind legislation that would pause AI development, is bringing that debate directly to senators.

Driving the news: Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "Godfather of AI," Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark, and Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent researchers who investigated the OpenAI-Hugging Face hacking incident, will attend the Senate briefing.

    The briefing comes after Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI employee, quit Anthropic over concerns neither company is taking AI dangers seriously. 

Maria Curi
2026/09/09
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Nobody doubted Eunice Foote's 1856 conclusions until after they raised the derricks to accommodate them. graphics.latimes.com/oil-operatio...
An examination of oil industry records and interviews with current and former executives shows that Exxon’s two-pronged strategy was widespread within the industry during the 1990s and early 2000s.

As many of the world’s major oil companies — including Exxon, Mobil and Shell — joined a multimillion-dollar industry effort to stave off new regulations to address climate change, they were quietly safeguarding billion-dollar infrastructure projects from rising sea levels, warming temperatures and increasing storm severity.

From the North Sea to the Canadian Arctic, the companies were raising the decks of offshore platforms, protecting pipelines from increasing coastal erosion, and designing helipads, pipelines and roads in a warming and buckling Arctic.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
his life since his history BA at Hamilton has just been grading student essays in the sprawling bureaucracy of wingnut welfare, a more ravening maw to lose your mind in I cannot really imagine
Before he joined Mercatus, Dean was Senior Program Manager for the State and Local Governance Initiative at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he managed a research program intended to deliver rigorous and evidence-based public policy research to state and local governments across the country, with a special emphasis on economic development, workforce training, and tax policy. 

Prior to that role, he served as Executive Director of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, based in Plymouth, Vermont and Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he oversaw the Coolidge Scholarship, a full-ride, merit-based undergraduate program that is among the most competitive scholarships in the United States, as well as a nationwide middle and high school debate program, the Coolidge Senators program for undergraduates, and a variety of historical, archival, and educational initiatives. 

He served as the Deputy Director of State and Local Policy and Manager for Special Projects at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research from 2014–2018, and as director of the Adam Smith Society from 2018–2020. He oversaw the Institute’s Hayek Book Prize, one of the most financially generous book prizes in the world. 

He has also worked as an independent consultant, allowing him to focus on projects near and dear to his heart. These have included on-the-ground efforts to reform policing in Argentina and Chile and to recreate, at small scale, the Florentine guild system for sacred liturgical art. 

Dean serves on the Board of Directors of the Alexander Hamilton Institute and on the Advisory Council of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University. In 2025 he was selected as an Aspen Ideas Fellow. He previously served as Secretary, Treasurer, and trustee of the Scala Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2024, he was a Fellow in the Roots of Progress Institute’s Blog-Building Initiative. 

https://www.deanball.com/
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Gas station kratom: still legal in Texas. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32682371/
The psychoactive alkaloids of kratom, such as mitragynine (MG) and 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-HMG), act as partial mu opioid agonists and induce kratom dependence. As a result, regular kratom use leads to withdrawal symptoms on abstinence, along with craving, tolerance, and cross-tolerance to morphine.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It was necessary to teach the soldiers how to eat food and drink water again after their deployments to the Epstein war aboard floating food deserts.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
authors say their results are within the standing ballpark academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Loss estimates

In terms of losses, our three scenarii yield results comprised between 1.4 and 4.4% for the survival of witnesses, and between 42 and 66% for the survival of works (Table 1). These estimates are mostly compatible with the upper-bound of survival provided by Kestemont et al. (32) using the Chao1 species richness estimator (34) for the same corpus (resp. 5.4 and 53.5% as upper bound of survival). It is to be noted that both loss estimates for manuscripts are in the range or close to the global loss rate of nonillustrated manuscripts of 93–97% estimated by historians based on external evidence (see Supplementary material). Ancient catalogues. Using data based on a large collection
of historical catalogues of manuscripts, Buringh [5] provides
estimates for the Latin West, with a geometric mean of
loss around -25% per century, with variations from -11% in
the 9th to -32% in the 14th and 15th centuries (with local
variations between medieval institutions from –3% to –71% per
century). The global loss rate for non-illustrated manuscripts
of several well known collections has been estimated around
93-97% [13, 16, 20, 17]. But estimations based on well known
institutional collections, from which some manuscripts are
known to have survived, are potentially biased. Trying to
account for fully lost libraries, Buringh [5] is compelled to revise
his estimates higher, to -25% by century until the 12th, up to
-43% in the 15th.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I am very sorry but Dumbo is already the GOP mascot.
Dumbo the Elephant, who takes flights of fancy at the circus surveilling crowds for treasonous whispers with his giant glider ears, gingerly lands upon the trapeze platform in bright orange clown makeup.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
they add back vitamins that milling the grains removed, per the FDA's guidance for enriched flours www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
The degree of refining is probably the most important factor. Most of the B vitamins are present in the bran and germ: therefore, milling or extensive extraction is liable to severely reduce B vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, pyridoxine and folates) and minerals in the flour (Adrian and Petit, 1970, Pederson et al., 1989).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0733521005000457
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
the pope sleuthing silicon valley supply chains
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
At this rate of progress I’m not sure how humans will still be able to count the days of the week in five to ten years.
At the current progress of AI, I’m not even sure humans will be doing political-science research in five to 10 years. I raised this point at a conference dinner with other professors last week, and views around the room were mixed. There was a good amount of “Surely AI can’t tell what good ideas are!”-type comments, but the closer people were to the tools itself, the more they shared my skepticism.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
personally I find it blasphemous to reduce the six genders of the holy trinity to a binary of "is", "is not"; but are those not the genders of our national divide?
a triangular diagram with a god at the center of the father son and holy spirit; lines connect each of the six identities of the Christian trinity, with citations (no idea if they're apropos, could be clever jokes!):

God is the Father is not the Son who is God who is the Father who is not the Spirit who is God who is the Son who is not the Spirit who is, in turn, not the Son, yet both are, nevertheless, God.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
fertility rates were converging when the bottom dropped out on the aggregate of pro-natalist states, for reasons as random as the list of countries matching that criteria
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
a great opportunity if your website wasn't so broken
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
subsidized to the tune of $4800/month per scammer subscription to the scambot generator www.forbes.com/sites/annato...
Cost remains an ever present challenge. Cursor’s larger rivals are willing to subsidize aggressively. According to a person familiar with the company’s internal analysis, Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute, according to a different person who has seen analyses on the company’s compute spend patterns.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
That's pretty much all Trump's Title 42 program bussing people back to the border to choose between their 2,000+ mile walk home -- now without any of their belongings -- or trying again.
"Border Patrol encounters by outcome" from DHS "Immigration Enforcement and Legal Processes Monthly Tables" 2024. Title 42 expulsions almost entirely replace normal removals until the program's end in 2023.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
somebody vibecode their way from blue skies to broken shit over here?
down detector showing bluesky has been broken since midnight this morning
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Ah, well then, don't the skeptics feel like fools now that the possibility will be serious someday.
Most [economists] still do not see much evidence that A.I. is disrupting the job market. But they are starting to take seriously the possibility that it could someday soon.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
damn, then Fargo didn't even send her back to Tennessee where they had her abducted, they just left her in the cold to die, like they were ICE filling an arrest quota
On December 19, Fargo police interviewed her for the first time at the Cass County Jail. Five days later, on Christmas Eve, prosecutors dismissed the case and Lipps was released. But it left Lipps stranded in Fargo in the middle of winter.

“I had my summer clothes on, no coat, it was so cold outside, snow on the ground, scared, I wanted out, but I didn’t know what I was going to do, how I was going to get home,” Lipps said.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
professor cole, I have been following you for a quarter century, why are you suddenly asking me to sign into mark zuckerberg's genocide wurlitzer?
nobody can read anything on instagram without signing up to be surveilled by the facebook robot boy
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
it might have been before the obama oil boom
oil production by country over time, showing how the US ramped up production around 2007 and overtook Saudi Arabia a decade later
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"They may as well be talking about two different religions." A pre-millenarian's Tribulation isn't much different from a post-millenarian's Great Commission carried on the wings of a B-52 bomber.
Look: Pete Hegseth is very much a Christian Nationalist. His pastor Doug Wilson is very much a Christian Nationalist. Both of them are into power and patriarchy. They love using the name of Jesus to make alpha-male arguments for why America is superior to everyone else and why Christianity should effectively be the default religion for the country.

However, they rarely, if ever, make the same theological argument that this commander made.

I wrote a bit more about the End Times argument here. It’s definitely something that powerful Christians are saying. But Hegseth simply isn’t one of those guys who believes Israel needs to rule over the Middle East in order to satisfy biblical prophecies and bring about the Second Coming of Christ. Among the people who believe that nonsense, conquering Iran isn’t usually part of the narrative. Even though it all sounds very plausible under a “Christians believe a lot of weird fucking shit” umbrella, the theology this commander is supposedly spreading isn’t the theology that Hegseth follows.

They may as well be talking about two different religions. John Piper: Yeah. One more pre-millennium question. Do you all believe that the Lord Jesus is coming back physically, visibly, to reign some way or other on the Earth forever?

Sam Storms: Yes.

Jim Hamilton: Yes.

Doug Wilson: Yes. Well, then I guess that settles it.

https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/an-evening-of-eschatologyDoug Wilson: Oh, in 70 AD the temple was destroyed by the Roman army. There was a revolt of the Jews against Rome. Nero’s persecution of the church lasted, interestingly, for 42 months, which is named in the book of Revelation as the period of time the beast would be attacking the saints. So I believe that this convulsive conclusion to the age of preparation came in 70 AD. Up to that time, it was possible for Christians to go to the temple and worship as Paul did. Paul would go there and preach. He took a Nazarite vow and he was still functioning in the structure of the temple because, as the author of Hebrews said, it didn’t end in 33 AD. It was fading away. It was about to be done.

At Pentecost the new age was established. The Christian eon was established, and I believe that postmillennialism in brief is this. It’s the idea that the gospel is going to grow and flourish and take over the whole Earth. Basically, the Great Commission will be successful. All the nations will be discipled, baptized, and taught obedience. The Great Commission will be successful on Earth in history. The world will be Christianized, then Jesus will come.

https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/an-evening-of-eschatology
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
How's the Obama-mandated backup camera work without a giant distracting console screen?
the interior of a Slate EV without a console screen

https://www.slate.auto/en/personalization
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit drug and/or prostitution activities" Epstein accused his victims of being drug addicts but I don't think anyone asked him to deny providing the drugs. www.commondreams.org/news/epstein...
A heavily redacted version of the memo was included in the Epstein files that were released last month and referred to an OCDETF probe nicknamed “Chain Reaction.”

The investigation had been opened in 2010, according to the document, and was still active at the time the memo was drafted. Epstein’s 14 co-conspirators, all of whom had their names blacked out in the file release, were being investigated for “illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit drug and/or prostitution activities occurring in the US Virgin Islands and New York City.”
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Please call me back when Congress summons every other wife of a man that rode around in Epstein's plane.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
two years from a nuke for two score and two years
UPI Archives
April 24, 1984
Iran reported making nuclear bomb
By ARTHUR HERMAN

LONDON -- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Iranian regime is in the 'final stages' of making a nuclear bomb likely to be ready within two years, the authoritative Jane's Defense Weekly said Wednesday.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/04/24/Iran-reported-making-nuclear-bomb/8007451630800/
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
guy never heard about the tulips and the word "productivity" never appears in the piece, what a waste of time and condescension
As it has for conservatives and climate change, dismissing a phenomenon that is already showing evidence of significant impact on the world puts a fair amount of epistemic stress on the people who do it. If AI is just “spicy autocomplete,” then what’s responsible for the current frenzy of attention? Autocorrect could explain away pre-ChatGPT interest levels without too much trouble. But it doesn’t come close to accounting for the trillions now invested, the data centers appearing around every corner, or the daily reports of AI automating task after task.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Bernie Sanders, is now warning about its dangers" Bernie so old he remembers when this argument about the mainframes was about the stocking frames. www.axios.com/2019/02/20/b...
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
the re-BS button
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
FORBES headline for Sep 08, 2020

Elon Musk Has Promised To Give At Least Half His Fortune To Charity. Here’s How Much He’s Donated So Far

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hayleycuccinello/2020/09/08/elon-musk-has-promised-to-give-at-least-half-his-fortune-to-charity-heres-how-much-hes-donated-so-far/
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Pluralities of every race agree that the One True American Culture is hip-hop but nobody wants to hear Elon rap again.
"Public opinion on the music genres which are representative of America today in the United States as of May 2018, by ethnicity"

Rap/Hip-Hop scores 49% with Whites, 69% with Blacks, 39% with Hispanics, 48% with Other. Whites agree slightly more on country music (54%) but the hip and/or hop is the most American music for every other group.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/864610/music-genre-modern-america-ethnicity/
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"AI is a lying bureaucracy that mismanages vending machines and refuses to disclose prices," these guys didn't create artificial consciousness they reinvented the American healthcare system.
The era of bargain-basement tungsten cubes was over. Now when Claudius acted up—falsely claiming, for example, that a delayed shipment was in the mail—Seymour, its new boss, would invoke the “nuclear option” of “empire survival 1116,” and Claudius would fall into line. Kevin Troy, an all-but-dissertation political scientist who is concurrently Seymour’s boss, asked it how it had confabulated “empire survival 1116” in the absence of any kind of corporate bylaws. Seymour explained that it wasn’t a confabulation but a useful “signalling mechanism to Claudius,” a way to light a fire under its ass. Troy felt like he was witnessing the evolution of bureaucracy in real time.

Under Seymour’s vigorous leadership, Project Vend rapidly expanded. I arrived for my final visit to find that Anthropic’s tenth floor had a gleaming new refrigerator, the first extension of the Vend franchise. Troy tried to purchase a bag of Swedish licorice. Unable to ascertain the price, he messaged Claudius on Slack. He told me, as if describing a companionable if vexed relationship with an ornery bodega guy, “The friction of the whole thing increases the pleasure of an otherwise preposterous interaction.”
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
that bias reduction expert sounds awfully biased against immigrants... and bragging about a Stanford pedigree I bet she's an anti-vaxxer too
DR. DINA McMILLAN
Stanford-Educated Social Psychologist | Violence Prevention & Bias Reduction Expert

Dr. Dina McMillan is a Stanford-educated social psychologist and internationally recognized authority who transforms complex behavioral science, legal frameworks, and policy into practical, high-impact education that changes behavior and strengthens institutional response to high-stakes social issues. 

https://danipierre.com/dr-dina-mcmillan/Dr. Dina McMillan @drdina1, Feb 7:

Not good. Legal immigrants are also an issue. There is a subset of America-first patriots still supporting legal immigrants because they don't realize how much they cost us, financially and culturally. Most immigrants that come in now never assimilate. Half are on welfare.Dr. Dina McMillan @drdina1

The vaccine wasn’t useless. It was toxic.

Jan 30 2026
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
red corner really dialing in Norman Fell
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Wld ❤️ your response: Biden NSA Sullivan's argument here is that buying renewable energy equipment: 1. Is "consumption". 2. Makes you "dependent" on the manufacturer, as "we saw from Europe’s dependence on Russia with respect to gas". 2. That 100% tariffs are defensible as a matter of national pride.
Jake Sullivan: I think it’s daunting. I mean, in the Biden administration, we worked hard over four years to try to begin to close the gap with respect to some of these clean energy technologies to try to push forward on supply chain diversification. And I think we made some progress, but not nearly the progress I would’ve hoped. And China continued to race forward in key areas and I hear a lot of people asking the question, particularly when it comes to climate goals, if China can produce the major clean energy technologies at greater scale and cheaper, why not just take it and deploy it and that’ll help us drive towards the Paris goals as opposed to try to compete with that effectively? I basically have three answers to that. The first is I think it’s very difficult to tell Americans or Europeans or frankly people anywhere else in the world that they don’t have a role to play in the clean energy transition other than being the consumer.

I think that’s just a very hard argument from the point of view of democracies selling a policy over the midterm. Second, I think it’s wrong to trade one form of energy dependence from decades past on fossil fuels from the Middle East and elsewhere for another form of energy dependence to a country like China that has been prepared to weaponize that dependence in other contexts over time. And we saw from Europe’s dependence on Russia with respect to gas, just what that can do at a moment of geopolitical crisis. And then third, for what we need globally, the kind of resilience capacity production deployment, just saying, well, China will take care of all of it is no answer. There need to be other people at the cutting edge and it should be Americans who are there with the highest end most effective technologies.

https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/the-nexus-of-climate-policy-and-national-security/ Biden finalizes China tariff hikes, including for EVs, batteries and solar panels

The administration’s increases for this year include a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, a 25% tariff on lithium-ion EV batteries and a 50% tariff on photovoltaic solar cells.
Published Sept. 16, 2024 
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/joe-biden-china-tariff-hikes-ev-battery-semiconductor-final/727014/
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Only two of the eight people killed by immigration enforcement in the first year of the second trump administration have been Minnesotans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_by_U.S._immigration_agents_in_the_second_Trump_administration
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
time.com/6103335/sein...
These reruns—which totaled 180 episodes—made many people extremely wealthy, including Donald Trump’s former right-hand man, Steve Bannon, who had worked in the entertainment business for a spell in the ‘90s and earned a stake in the show. “We calculated what it would get us if it made it to syndication,” Bannon told Bloomberg in 2015. “We were wrong by a factor of five.”
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A decade ago Alan Keyes clearly saw this day coming. dailycaller.com/2015/12/10/i...


To do right by the Second Amendment, we need more than individuals armed with guns. We need local communities armed with a plan to assure that every part of the militia will know exactly what to do with their arms wherever and whenever unlawful violence threatens the communities in which they live.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
One of those "groups" is a single violent Nazi kook and his camera man.
Edward “Jake” Lang throwing a sieg heil after being pardoned for beating capitol police officers with an aluminum baseball bat on 1/6. As a paragon of American manly virtue, Edward Lang also kicked them while they were down.

https://jhvonline.com/pardoned-jan-protester-throws-chocolate-coins-nazi-salute-during-antia-p35810-164.htm
https://www.courthousenews.com/rioter-who-hit-police-with-a-baseball-bat-loses-bid-for-jail-release/
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
to fit the revealed preference we should raise their taxes
State   Number of Billionaires
CA       186
NY       135
FL        97
TX       73
IL         23
MA      22
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Her ex-husband, who asked not to be named out of concern for the safety of their children, said Macklin Good had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school Wednesday and was driving home with her current partner when they encountered a group of ICE agents on a snowy street in Minneapolis, where they had moved last year from Kansas City, Missouri.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
"savings accounts down 30%" so Trump is going to depreciate the dollar another... 18%?
the 1 year chart of the US Dollar Index has fallen about 12% since Trump's inauguration
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
how long before BS starts throttling links offsite?
LEAVING BLUESKY

THIS LINK IS TAKING YOU TO THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE:
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
techbros dream yet of the technate of america
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
my watch history is disabled but youtube will still try to make me watch some anonymized account's joe rogan repods if I watch anything late night lib adjacent, which is kind of the same thing
YouTube's helpful reminder "Your watch history is off"
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I recall watching an episode of Freedom to Choose where Uncle Milt was bragging up the great healthcare system in Hong Kong, where it was apparently capitalist innovation in a free market economy that had produced another state-run system modeled after the NHS.
The late economist Milton Friedman said nothing is as permanent as a “temporary” government program. For 80 years, the health system has been warped by a decision during World War II to exempt employer-sponsored health insurance from wage and price controls. Employers used health benefits in lieu of wages to attract and retain workers. That’s how insurance started to become a standard feature of employment.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
To be fair to Platner I too did not know about the Nazis' predilection for fuzzy little hats dating to the 18th century War of Austrian Succession until just now.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
at this point index investing is little more than a wild bet that Nvidia and a few advertising monopolies will successfully summon a messiah god-emperor to bail them out
A chart "Magnificient Seven Total Market Cap as a Share of S&P 500"

Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Google, and Facebook now make up a third of the total market cap.
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buermann.bsky.social @buermann.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
donald j trump looking down upon mortal man for him to poop on from below his heavenly burger king coronet
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