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Chs Yank

@chsyank.bsky.social
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Software/IT guy for 50+ years, Wrote 1st program 1967. Started 4 software/IT companies. Woodworker/Cook/Hiker/Runner. Anti-war Vietnam - Iraq now Iran. Born NYC, New England for most of my life. A liberal living in forest in Charleston area

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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What going on with Walmart thinking. A floor cleaner zamboni moving around the store. But not with the usual driver, but no one driving. So less labor I guess. Progress? Except they had to have an employee walk in front getting people out of the way. Not progress.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
reading the economic state in Sept. Why is the US importing so much gold? Going into Trump's pockets? Americans have zero wage growth, in real terms, since Trump returned into office Prices in the past years were 3.7 percent higher Higher fuel costs driving up airfares 22.4 percent
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The article writer today about Collins in the NYT has not done their homework. They say she is centerist and moderate. Her voting record with Trump suggests otherwise. Lets go Mainers. Vote her out in a few weeks.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump and Rubio weigh firing US envoy to Greece after reports mount of improper conduct. In the end they asked here to resign. Is there a differece to her, maybe some long lasting insurance or pay? Or were they just being "nice"?
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The SC is protecting Trump again. Need to get rid of these guys and quick. Find some way to lessen their impact as they seem to think they area the Kings of the US. apnews.com/article/supr...
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Supreme Court sides with Trump administration in lawsuit seeking records on Elon Musk’s DOGE
The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration and agreed to hear arguments in a watchdog’s lawsuit seeking public records about trillionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency...
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I just saw that Omar has posted a rebuttal on X. Why, why are they still using X to communicate to US folks. Sane folks are not on there. Get off.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly why we cannot give any AI a job and just let it go about its business. Chat AI I guess is safe (maybe not for unstable person perhaps) but we need to stop AI from doing tasks that we cannot provide any real fences to what it cannot do. apnews.com/article/arti...
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Anthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case
An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is a thriving industry for all those who have nothing better to do, plus the media that want more stories to run.. www.bbc.com/news/article... . At least 4 a year that will show you the EXACT place of her demise. Sure guys.
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Expedition hopes to find aviator Amelia Earhart's plane on remote island
The team en route to the suspected crash site aim finally to solve the mystery of her 1937 disappearance.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The SC super pacs sure have horrible ad on YouTube these days. They tell you that Dem senate candidate Andrews is just short of Hitler with the horrible things she supposed to to have done. Don't watch broadcast tv so maybe on there as well. Get all big money out of elections.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My belief is that the press should just resign from any pool duty and let the right wingers have it. What Trump says doesn't really matter. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And still people don't think Trump is under the influence of Putin/ Russia what with the diesel deal Is this deal actually real? Based on reports from the Ukraine Russia war, Ukraine is doing a destructive job on Russia's fuel world. I doubt there is "extra" diesel that Russia would let go.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I watched the first Kennedy - Nixon debate live, but with the Repbulicans canidates just lying all the time, I can't listen to them. They prove nothing other that they can lie.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So far the best line in the debates was Jackson " We don't eat rock salt"
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is Trump in a rage that he did not wind the Peace Prize?
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't no about you but I do not answer calls from numbers I do not know. If it is a true call for me, they leave a message. Otherwise I'm assuming it was a spam call like these from a robo caller. BTW of course it is a right wing org that wants this. apnews.com/article/fcc-...
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FCC considers allowing more political robocalls before midterms, including those created with AI
The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with AI-generated voices.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why ... just Why is any country researching this... the plague in a research institute in Siberia . The question is Is the US doing the same? China? North Korea, Iran? who knows.. apnews.com/article/russ...
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A Russian report says a worker at a Siberian plague institute fell ill and died of an unknown cause
Russian authorities say a staffer at a plague research institute in Siberia contracted pneumonia of an unknown cause, and local state TV reported the woman died last week.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They just do not care about what is allowed, legal or moral. Only money counts. Ukraine, screw them. Russia and Putin, what ever he wants. We have to get these guys after Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Trump, Putin, Ukraine and an Oil Deal: 5 Takeaways
A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign poli...
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reading a new aggregator site today and there are more "GOP to flip seats", "GOP going to win in blue states" articles from different places including Newsweek (did they tilt red?). Is this right wing PAC money trying to change the narrative?
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can someone please in the NYT tell them to stop making me close the bottom add for adding new subscriptions. I have one but making me close an ad all the time gets tired
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI has allowed more "stupid" stuff then should be allowed. The NYT had a story about "researchers" creating a AI bot that is suposed to be Keynes. Maybe real research and writing if that is what you want. Be ashamed Princeton economist Markus Brunnermeier. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Opinion | What Would John Maynard Keynes Say About A.I.? The Keynes Bot Told Us.
Nearly a century ago, Keynes predicted that technology would liberate us from work. To imagine what he would think of artificial intelligence today, a Princeton economist used A.I.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I saw this before in 1999 when 20 year olds had an idea for a web business and got millions for his idea. Just an idea, not a real product. Millions and millions to spend and just a dream. Investors were bad then and now today it is AI not the web. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...
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Troubles at Situational Awareness Point to Record Stock Market Leverage
A meltdown at Situational Awareness, an A.I.-focused investment firm, is raising tough questions about the Wall Street banks that lent billions to the upstart firm.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In America are we ever going back to a time when you can be embarrased? I guess Schmitt is not at that point yet with his fake and wrong outrage at Jack Smith.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I hate to say this but isn't much of this information out in the databases that collect data about people. I believe so. It does not lessen the fact that the FBI can't protect its own information. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Notice: Trump bans Canadian cold air from coming into the US. lol. He probably think about this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...
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US Hits Canada With Ban on Some Dairy and Liquor Products
An outright ban on certain Canadian products took effect Tuesday, escalating a damaging trade fight between the two North American allies.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I live the in the Charleston area. A developer just announced they area going to build 5500 homes. Worse than the traffic it will generate is that the builder aside from a few parcels of land will not pay for the 4 schools that need to be build and staffed, the 2 firehouses, the 30 police hires.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This AI company tendancies to claim amazing new knowledge when it was being used by real life researchers is never going to stop unless we tame the AI companies. Next will be the claim that Anthropic actually wrote Shakespeare's books. lol www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading about a site that tracked Flock cameras. It was forced to be taken done bc of copyrights They used the word Flock in the sites opening saying they were not affiliated with Flock. www.jalopnik.com/2271005/floc...
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Flock Forces Website Showing Camera Locations To Shut Down, Because 'Transparency Matters' - Jalopnik
The website may be down, but the internet is forever, and the Internet Archive has preserved the original site.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I live in a very rural red area near Charleston. But I get the sense with locals that voting R might not be their choice. Of course by habit some will vote for any R. If will be very lovely if a few Dems around here get elected.And yes people do talk to me even tho I'm a new englander/worked in nyc
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have voted for over 50 years always at the polling place on the day of voting. This year I am going to early vote in a near by town in October. Why? I don't trust Trump to bring ICE down on us or something similar on voting Day. He wants to prevent voting.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need to be careful what business processes are only ai. When the big ai blowup happens and only one or two are left, will your ai still be there to help run the business? If not do your employees know the drill?
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They guys have not idea what and how much damage their AI bots are doing. They need to stop immediately before they kill the Internet or latch onto some military system with horrible results. Better yet just shut themm down. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It feel like the vice of the Supreme Count and Trump are closing the window on our democracy. We just cannot let that happen. Not sure what we can do now that every red state will use the database for voters and we find out it is empty. I'm in a very red state. Wonder what will happen?
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Time for the states to ignore the SC rulings and their methods to kill democracy.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again the SC uses fictional laws to help Trump. When will they ever really use real US laws as a basis for their rulings. I would guess never. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Use of Trump Administration’s Expansive Database for Voter Screening
Critics of a citizenship database built by the Trump administration have raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When is there gong to be laws to stop these kind of devices on the US Meta's glasses. Society does not need these, not btw the Flock style cameras all over. roadtovr.com/meta-vr-glas...
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Meta Launches $1M Developer Competition to Stock 'VR Glasses' with More Hand-tracked Apps
At Meta’s annual developer conference today, the company announced its next VR Start Developer Competition, this time slated to award a prize pool of $1 million to spark the community to get cracking ...
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We allow Netanyahu and Trump to speak at the UN, both war criminals in the eys of many but deny the Palestrinian. I bet they would have allowed Putin also. The world needs better leaders
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't understand this thinking that becasuse the attacker was not directly human it may not be a crime. To use Rommney thought "Companies are people too" apnews.com/article/ai-j...
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Autonomous AI hacks raise thorny questions of legal accountability
The Justice Department has a long history of investigating and prosecuting hackers who break into a private company’s network.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As a New Englander for most of my life I find it incredible that Collins is still ahead in the senate race polls. Really Maine ! It can't be all the best things they get from the Trump Admin. Like ICE, or diesel prices or food prices, or just what?
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reading once again how Ms. Harp has swayed Trump to cut off access to media. When Dems get cnotrol of the house, she needs to come before a committee and answer questions Such as " does she hold the security clearance " for the documents she sees? And the time when she had none. That is a crime
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Does Trump have any brain cells left? I think not. He thinks he is the King God of the US. Trump: "I could've banned fishing. The power of this office is crazy. I could've banned fishing. I think I'm gonna do that."
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A court rules that Trump cannot demolish the Kennedy Center. Trump says "watch me" as he demolished it. "What are your going to do to me?" Roberts and SC gave him immunity to everything. THere is no recourse to really stop him.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Closing the Kennedy Center is the essence of what MAGA and Trump are about. Not the the most important fight with Trump but it shows how much MAGA/Trump are lawless, totally without caring about courts or laws. We can only hope that MAGA goes away when Trump does www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...
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Kennedy Center Closes Its Doors Despite a Judge’s Order
The announcement came after President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the venue if his name is not returned to the building.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why would anyone serious listen to what Trump says these days. We need regulations in a hurry. China be dammed. What is China going to do that we can't already do. Not much. What in future? who knows? apnews.com/live/trump-m...
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump is destroying DC like no other. I've loved the capital before Trump has changed it. Never lived there, but since the first time driving around in a WWII Willys Jeepster in 1963, I love it. Business, pleasure or just driving thru it to avoid the jam on I95. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/a...
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Kennedy Center Warns of Bankruptcy Unless Trump’s Name Is Added
The caution, contained in a draft resolution to the center’s board, comes as a federal judge decides whether President Trump’s name should remain off the building.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Can't help it. A lot of stories this morning show how close Trump and family are buddies to Russia and Putin. Do I need to say more? www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump with his siding with Putin is once again showing how much he in Russia's orbit. He is against Urkraine and favors Russia. No more oil strikes. Sure Trump, you got elected by Russia's help the first time so you give back. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/t...
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Trump urges Ukraine to stop ‘knocking out’ Russian oil refineries as U.S. diesel hits record
U.S. diesel prices have surpassed $6 a gallon for the first time ever as the Ukraine and Iran wars drive broader energy supply concerns.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I fondly remember the Towers bfore 9/11. I did buisness there, loved the Windows on the World but not the elevators. I lost a few friends that day, so I will never forget them plus all the almost 3000 killed that day. What it also did badly for the US...
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump is on full graft mode . His convention in Dallas costs $25K to get in. 86K to take a picture with him. I think it will cost 750K to be honored to sit at the same table for a bit to eat (maybe big mac?)
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump has now killed me getting PI mussels and lobsters. I hate Trump. Coffee is expensive. But I guess I can get beef rejected by the EU, so there that. Oh. and my local shrimp is too expensive bc the local shrimp boats cannot afford the fuel to run them.
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Chs Yank @chsyank.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our mad dictator wantabe Trump continues to get more senile and strikes out at everyone. Congress... get him out of there before he tries to start an even bigger war than Iran. Or wants to change Washington DC to Trump DC. Going to be tough to take the next 2+ years.
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