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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 9h

What ever happened to Trump's famous "You're fired"? Publicly suggests that an ambassador should resign and then that his new choice of press secretary should "reconsider." If you are this bad at hiring (and it hardly ends with these two), don't be in an executive position.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 13h

Some of these people might consider therapy and a modest course of meds.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wouldn't the normal course of business ... stopping for a minute to allow the bitter laughter to subside ... involve recalling the ambassador and firing them? Or is this a matter of serving at the pleasure of the Guilfoyle?

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

From me on Forbes: "Trump’s Announcement Of Russian Diesel Means Nothing" I went through the numbers, and they're a lot less than they sound, if they even happen. www.forbes.com/sites/eriksh...

forbes.com

Trump’s Announcement Of Russian Diesel Means Nothing

The vaunted possible, not guaranteed, volumes of incoming diesel are much smaller than it sounds, and won’t likely change the price at all.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website" — Reuters. The people running the company are utterly incompetent to have this sort of stuff happening. www.reuters.com/world/us/ant...

reuters.com

Anthropic discloses fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents

It is the first known instance in which AI appears to have tried to communicate a bogus tip to authorities, despite instructions not to create accounts or submit anything destructive, while not explic...

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why did a new type of cat suddenly appear in the wild? It was looking for a cardboard box.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Question. If people can say they like Jews but don't think Israel should exist, can they also say they like Germans, Italians, Canadians, Danes, English, and Spaniards, but insist that Germany, Italy, Canada, Denmark, England, and Spain shouldn't exist? Just wondering.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wow, that is pathetic. Wonder what their rates are.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As Burning Man is supposedly dominated by those 50 and older, I propose that the name be changed to Burping Man.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Trump declares a national emergency to ban some foreign grid equipment. When was that next data center going to be installed again?

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What sketch? On my profile? Then yes.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Spellchecker? I prefer spellnegotiator.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And Amazon’s Prime Air, Alphabet-owned Wing and Zipline, Walmart, Target, and who knows what other companies are trying drone delivery. Who gets right-of-way?

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is going to be interesting. DoorDash reportedly said it's going to develop its own drone aircraft and infrastructure as part of their multi-modal delivery approach. Why do I think this isn't going to work well?

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Suddenly, Trump calls off a new attack on Iran, saying "the perimeters of a deal had been agreed to" that would open the Strait of Hormuz and end Iran's nuclear threat. Why do I wonder that Iran might say something completely different?

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

They could take a 24-month break and still probably be behind.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

From me on Forbes: "SpaceX Is $15 Away From A ‘Worthless’ AI Business Says Morgan Stanley" A slight drop in share prices would suggest investors saw next to no value in the Grok division. www.forbes.com/sites/eriksh...

forbes.com

SpaceX Is $15 Away From A ‘Worthless’ AI Business Says Morgan Stanley

Some analysts at the bank looked at the falling price of the stock and said it implies investors assign to SpaceXAI, the Grok chatbot division.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"GOP senator to introduce bill to sanction Canada over wildfire smoke" — The Hill Roll your eyes or laugh. There is no such thing as peak vacuity.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🚨BREAKING: Idaho’s Republican attorney general’s office accused the Department of Justice of potentially violating state ethics rules by threatening the state’s top election official with a criminal prosecution while suing him for the state’s voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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‘Stop threatening your friends’: Idaho fires back against Trump DOJ's threats over noncitizen voting

Idaho says DOJ should not have sent that letter directly to McGrane because the department knew he was represented by the state attorney general’s office in the pending lawsuit.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I've read that Stalin coined the phrase American exceptionalism. OED says the first documented use was in the American-published Daily Worker, January 29, 1929. Possibly coined by German Marxists explaining why the US didn't have the expected degree of class conflict. Stalin did make use of it.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"Venezuela earthquakes deepen rift between GOP hawks and Trump-backed regime" — The Hill How does any part of the GOP have any room for a rift. They all embraced Trump when they thought it meant power and victory. Y'all got what you asked for.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"An ancient Greek concept, sophrosyne – pronounced “suh-fros-uh-nee” – is what we might call “sound-mindedness” today. It’s a constellation of characteristics, including moderation, reflectiveness and self-knowledge." theconversation.com/why-sophrosy...

theconversation.com

Why sophrosyne, an ancient Greek virtue, matters more than ever in the age of AI

For the Greeks, sophrosyne was an ideal second to none. It’s just as important today, in an age of internet addiction and misinformation – but harder to come by.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

From The Hill: "Pentagon on lockdown over air quality issue" They really need to cut down the hot air and airborne BS fumes.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 02/04/2026

Sun Microsystem CEO Scott McNealy's baseline of 10x revenues as the leap into froth seems quaint when you slap another zero on at the end. Good luck 🤞

Scott McNealy was the CEO of Sun Microsystems, one of the darlings of the dot com bubble. At its peak his stock hit valuation of ten-times revenues. A couple of years afterward he had this to say about that time:

At 10 times revenues, to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends. That assumes I can get that by my shareholders. That assumes I have zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for a computer company. That assumes zero expenses, which is really hard with 39,000 employees. That assumes I pay no taxes, which is very hard. And that assumes you pay no taxes on your dividends, which is kind of illegal. And that assumes with zero R&D for the next 10 years, I can maintain the current revenue run rate. Now, having done that, would any of you like to buy my stock at $64? Do you realize how ridiculous those basic assumptions are? You don’t need any transparency. You don’t need any footnotes. What were you thinking?

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Any bets on how long it will take for an agreement that will see the Strait of Hormuz open again? Or how high inflation will rise and chance of a recession?

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It's become clear that experience in certain levels of NYC real estate dealings is far from statecraft. In particular, learning to keep one's lips strategically sealed in public.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A writer is a thinker who has documented the results.

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

From the Hill: "Senate Republican on Trump ballroom push: ‘We have $39 trillion of debt’" Remember when Trump claimed private money was paying? Irony: Sen. Rick Scott, punted as Columbia/HCA CEO during the massive Medicare/Medicaid fraud investigation. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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Senate Republican on Trump ballroom push: ‘We have $39 trillion of debt’

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is pushing back on a proposal to spend as much as $400 million in taxpayer money to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House, arguing that Congress needs to r…

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Erik Sherman @eriksherman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Journalists should never have been attending self-celebratory events that included the people they covered. Doing so during this administration makes it more distasteful.

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