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Jim Teeth

@drjamesjteeth.bsky.social
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I enjoy history, economics, politics, foreign policy and technology. I’m actually fairly knowledgeable about some of it. Over educated but under-credentialed. I have a fondness for Existentialism and Judaism.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 3h
School of Fish : Father Figure
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School of Fish - Father Figure~
YouTube video by Roger Green
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 7h
Killer Mike’s set was tight.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 15h
NEW AD: Introducing SCANDUEL! The only betting app where you can parlay Ken Paxton’s scandals — and get paid! Here’s a tip: Always bet that he did the thing. 💰
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 8h
This is good.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 10h
A horrifying portrait of modern warfare in occupied Oleshky, where bombs threaten from above and below, and hunger worsens by the day. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/w...
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 8h
theguardian.com
Disney accuses Trump officials of ‘blatant violations’ of constitution amid FCC battle
Lawyers tell judge ABC being unfairly targeted as US regulator seeks review of network’s local TV station licenses
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 9h
Anything about the Voynich Manuscript is always interesting.
theguardian.com
A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 9h
dw.com
Germany shaken by an espionage and treason scandal
The former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, has been accused of spying for a foreign country. Never before has a German official of August Hanning's stature been accused of tre...
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 10h
If Dems get the trifecta in 2028 they should pass a law removing the Trump name from every Federal property and banishing its use for a hundred years.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 13h
Okay I've seen at least 2 posts today that describe Jim Bakker as "having an affair with his secretary" or "getting caught banging his secretary" and just...no. He got caught paying her off because he and another preacher *violently raped her*. That isn't an affair, or a simple "sex scandal".
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 10h
I’m looking at a $1,400 increase in the budget plan I just signed. It’s broken up into ten reminders of how expensive heat will be this year.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 11h
Trump weaponizing the DoJ against free speech.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 12h
UHG. They adopted GE management promciples.
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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 14h
Surefire sign a president is in denial about voter sentiment on the economy: He starts wearing Jos. A Bank.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 13h
I am old fashioned. Electric appliances don’t belong in the tub.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 13h
Electric shower? Seems risky.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16h
Also, when it's trivially easy to get an LLM to disgorge entire large chunks of pilfered text from its training data, the argument that other uses are "transformative" are, well, not the slam dunk you might think they are
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 13h
LLMs reading the piles of journal papers no one has time to read and cross reference would be useful.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 13h
I too like the Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 13h
Why is Ken Paxton going around pulling down posters searching for missing children?
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 14h
Warner Brothers is a poison pill. “But this time it’s different and I’ll make it work.” Ok, skipper. See you in two years.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 14h
Every company that has purchased Warner has run into financial problems and had to divest itself of Warner at fire sale rates. Most of the buyers ended up being bought themselves. The clock is ticking on Oracle.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 14h
Every company that has purchased Warner has run into financial problems and had to divest itself of Warner at fire sale rates. Most of the buyers ended up being bought themselves. The clock is ticking on Oracle.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 16h
He has ended the Iranian nuclear program like three times in the last year and declared peace in his war on Iran like forty times. No one man had delivered peace more in the last year.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 16h
I am so thankful that I still qualify for Cologuard.
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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 17h
I am reminded of General Hammerstein-Equord’s classification of officers
'I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent - their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy - they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent - he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 17h
Sigh www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-...
rferl.org
Exclusive: Russian Computers, US Phones, Hunter Biden’s Laptop, Cracked By Powerful Russian-Made Software. Who's Behind It?
Powerful phone hacking software built by Russian-owned Oxygen Forensics was used by dozens of US and European government agencies, including the FBI and the Secret Service. One former agent used it to...
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 17h
“Oxygen Forensics is in fact, federal authorities alleged, Russian-owned and Russian-controlled.“
rferl.org
Exclusive: Russian Computers, US Phones, Hunter Biden’s Laptop, Cracked By Powerful Russian-Made Software. Who's Behind It?
Powerful phone hacking software built by Russian-owned Oxygen Forensics was used by dozens of US and European government agencies, including the FBI and the Secret Service. One former agent used it to...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 18h
In the fight against cancer everyone needs a Colon Buddy! And now you know. And knowing is half the battle. Yo Joe!
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 18h
If you replace every corner except the upper right with “include them in the next layoff” this matches the corporate culture of the Fortune 5 company at which I worked.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 18h
paulkrugman.substack.com
AI Versus Everything Else
The hyperscaler boom is crowding out other investment
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 18h
Gasoline remains at $4.30 a gallon in my town. Diesel is now $6 a gallon.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 18h
Lab leak in Russia?
nbcnews.com
Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation
The female staffer at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died from a “pneumonia of undetermined” origin last week, according to a regional governor.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 19h
COVID broke out and Republicans invented the conspiracy of a lab leak in China. Here we have a likely lab leak in Russia and Trump and Republicans ignore it.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 19h
Dark Helmet: “So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.”
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 19h
I will never get over that the prospectus for SpaceX was essentially a science fiction story and Wall Street bought in. I would like to think they are all just running a scam to wring cash out of pension funds, but I think they believe the fantasy. Anyway the equity markets are a casino.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 19h
Trump is working hard at claiming Iran had weapons it did not possess. Iran had refined uranium, but no weapons and no indications of an engineering program to develop a weapon.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 19h
The price of diesel is about supply. Supply doesn’t meet demand. What Trump proposes won’t increase supply. Removing taxes will reduce prices for a short period, but will drive demand and new price spikes. And he proposes diverting supply from farmers and industry to use for transportation.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/10/2026
Millions of Americans are ready to get into election protection formation. Join us at the next No Kings Day to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the nearly 2,500 events planned for the next No Kings Day on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That’s how we ended up with Trump. Everyone in the Republican Party said “someone else will stop him.”
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Remember when NBC hired her?
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is the problem with idolizing CEOs.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
nytimes.com
Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In case you weren't aware, the only competent Republican speaker of the House in the modern era was also a child molester
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Republican Party has a long heritage of promoting child molesters to senior roles.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It always has and will strike me that Hastert's crimes were so terrible that the blackmailer apparently never faced consequences, at least not public ones, and his name has never come out.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
open.substack.com
America is Mine, and it Owes Me a Living
But ask me why and I'll spit in your eye
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