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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Due to unforeseen circumstances in the Eastern European data center environment, the beatings will be on temporary hiatus. Your cooperation with regard to improving morale anyway is be appreciated.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’d rather they go after the agency heads, crooked judges, elected officials, and actual criminals. This is not a “when they go low, we go high” situation, but retaliation by deporting more people is only going to escalate to a wider blast radius.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It’s insane that these aren’t prosecuted as hate crimes to make clear that it’s not something people can do with impunity. Ugh.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In retrospect, it seems kinda obvious that data centers are highly visible, extremely immobile, and difficult-to-harden single points of failure

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I went to the Lucas museum with my family this evening. What a surprisingly diverse and fantastic collection of contemporary art.

A Cartier-Bresson black and white photo of a boy, maybe 7 years old, carrying two bottles of wine home from the shop in early 20th-century france. So c

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Could you not? Fuck’s sake

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That’s how you know where to turn off for Los Fezil

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The oppo research operation really knocked it out of the park on this one

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was being sarcastic. They raised VC, so they'll pursue an exit of their own at some point. The point being that the real issue is relying on any emerging software platform creates the same dependency risk. BTW Miro, which I learned about from you and we still use, was also acq. by Bending Spoons.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fair play for Softr, though. I suppose their plan is to become a customer-owned coop?

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was sad about Evernote and enjoyed the schadenfreude of the pile-on at the time, but that company had been going downhill for a while despite their “forever independent” mission. Bending Spoons have raised prices but been a better custodian of and have added useful features to the product.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes or even just trying to get restaurant reservations at someplace hot, or tickets to a high-demand act. It’s not as if some artisanal, 19-century manservant mentality prevails at the front desks of Manhattan hotspots.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

this isn't some abstract argument either: all of our decades of experience with large, complex safety-critical systems shows that building a safety culture is the only way to manage and mitigate risk responsibly... and that's impossible to reconcile with a longtermist utilitarian perspective

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not whitewashing anyone but in the earlier days of Twitter there was a tremendous amount of investment and care in trust and safety. They didn’t get every policy or situational call right, but they were making an effort. Musk fired a lot of those people and it was clear he was going to.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will never forgive the founders and significant shareholders of Twitter for letting this happen. Selling it to a Nazi oligarch was entirely avoidable. I hope they all sleep poorly on their beds made of money.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When Lake Mead’s turbines start shutting off, let’s see if it’s our A/C or the data centers that get throttled first

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We’re all just Victorian londoners breaking up the furniture and burning it for fuel

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I guess we’re at the stage of civilization where cutting down statues for the bronze salvage value is a choice people are making

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Supreme Court has at least a couple of candidates on it

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me when my friends are talking about going to Dodgers playoff day games

Image of a tv weatherman pointing at a map of Los Angeles that's covered with a large swath of pink and red colored areas labeled "HOT"

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Have we tried just turning it off and then on again?

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why yes I did go all the way down this rabbit hole this morning thank you very much

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m a big believer of parking on the streets of echo park, or ride-sharing to the neighborhood, and walking and/or scootering in from there. I used to park in Elysian too.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mortgage rates just hit 7%. I can't even imagine being in the position of trying to buy a first home today. Housing is such a factor in cost of living, and the only way to lock down housing costs is to buy. But the math is just really tough at these rates. Good luck everyone, I guess.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Veg (we have some snacks for you) Green Herrings Katie’s Fries / Charlie Frites East St. Louis Noodle Stew The Boiled Spam

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What we should have done was impeach him and put him in jail

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is 100% what he is going to do to himself after he gets out of office, assuming he does so in his lifetime. He’ll say he was cheated out of a 3rd term, call Mar a Lago the real Whote House, and fly around in quatAir Force One.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, clearly Donald Trump is all the Latinos’ fault

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hard to disagree with the premise that something doesn’t seem right here. It wouldn’t surprise me if some number of male applicants got tripped up on this because of fraternity hazing rituals or their drunk-and-rowdy rural equivalents. I assume they still use lie detectors to verify truthfulness.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We’ve got a spot that was a find I f you need suggestions. I don’t think i can DM you?

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Underneath its blunt-force message, connecting the dots between Flock, AI data centers, gun rights, and “fuck the man” is a very savvy play and could end-run an easy-win progressive policy position. Especially if Dems are ankled by compromise positions on privacy laws, LE, etc. Watch this space.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kennedy getting through this testimony like he is trying to choke down a pint of Huel. You can see the skepticism and the first signs of cracks in the death cult… and then we resume regular business.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I completely agree with this take, but much of the time, people like this DO get away these stances, because no one holds them accountable. The most interesting part of this whole discourse is the solidarity among the support acts, and their showing how little it takes to expose this for what it is.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good post. I was curious about the “view publication” button too; turns out all I had to do was continue reading!

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At this point it’s at least as much about the power artists have to make a statement with their actions about what’s acceptable by way of limiting expression. Sheeran’s openers are making clear how much leverage they have, and making him look feckless, which he is, for not doing something himself.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Ed Sheeran pile-on is exactly what happens to politicians who build their whole careers on avoiding positions that can be held against them later One day the middle ground falls out from under them, they have no strength of character, and they're blindsided by their inability to meet the moment

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What do you call a large number of crows trained to peck at the lenses of cameras? A murder flock.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I almost came to blows with a copy editor who insisted on World Wide Web.

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tapper’s response is worse for not shredding him

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Greg Cohn @gregcohn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A running gag should be that they’re all aware of their neurodivergent tendencies and working on it, asking for understanding, accommodations, etc.

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