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@gtuck5.bsky.social
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Interests: #futurism #science #skepticism #privacy #scifi #space #crypto Politics: #forward Dislikes: political ideologies, political propaganda, virtue signaling “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 7h
I really thought Trump had no cards left to play, but he had two and just spent one of them. I have no idea what he bought for it, but perhaps it’s something like a golf course and country club somewhere in Crimea.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A rare article from a mainstream source about critical thinking. A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back. (Gift Article)
In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anthropic's CEO published a proposal for an AI slowdown, and rival leaders have backed it. I am cynical about their intentions. I am skeptical that even the rational voices backing a reevaluation of AI development will successfully shape the conversation.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Happy that my college education is worth so little now. (Known that for decades , but new MIT study makes it official.) futurism.com/artificial-i...
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MIT Warns That AI Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model
A new report from MIT's ad hoc AI committee warned of AI's disruptive effects on education and campus life.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Betteridge’s law of headlines successfully deals with this one too. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/w...
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Should Letting Children Play Alone Outside Be a Crime? (Gift Article)
Some parents have been surprised to find themselves in the legal system’s cross hairs.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@theverge.com captures my sentiments perfectly. #fda #science #maha
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
For the love of all humanity, please pass this bill. House Votes for Permanent Daylight Saving Time www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...
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House Votes for Permanent Daylight Saving Time (Gift Article)
House Republicans and Democrats united in favor of a bill to eliminate semiannual clock-changing, but it faces an uncertain fate in the Senate.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Russo Ukraine war won’t come to Russia using tactical nukes. Japan, Germany, Poland, and likely Ukraine would all come out as nuclear states within six months of the attacks. Emperor Xi would disallow Russia’s use of nukes.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Another gift share. Anyone can accuse anything in a lawsuit, but this one feels like it’s true. New York Times Accuses Federal Employment Agency of Retaliation www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...
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New York Times Accuses Federal Employment Agency of Retaliation (Gift Article)
A May lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims the newspaper discriminated against a white male employee who did not get a promotion.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is the article over which the Trump Administration is attempting to intimidate journalists. So I make it one of Gift Articles. - New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
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New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say (Gift Article)
Experts said the lack of such capabilities poses a potential risk when the president travels overseas. The White House defended the aircraft’s safety.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Russia may finally be calling their "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine a war. It is either a signal of desperation or represent a genuine escalation. #ukraine geopoliticalfutures.com/a-strange-ar...
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A Strange Article From Tass - Geopolitical Futures
We normally never publish articles written by others, but we must make an exception in this case. The BBC Monitoring service reported on an article
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Here is the report detailing how Trump siphoned public funds from the non-partisan America250 to his shadow Freedom250 organization and hijacked the 250th anniversary celebrations. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.
Image of a TI-99/4A computer
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Just rewatched War Games (1983) and was shocked at how well it aged. Naturally language interfaces, Agentic AI, feedback loops, and adversarial networks. Go check it out if you haven’t lately. #ai #llm #agentic
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Is anyone else bored with the constant coverage of Reflecting Pool algae? NYT covers it daily and it consumes half my SNS feed.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Yay, a conspiracy theorist just blocked me. Their skins are so thin…
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Strongly recommend joining me in supporting @malcontentnews.bsky.social on Patreon. Excellent distillation of open-source intelligence on the Russo-Ukraine war and allied efforts. Check out the latest report available for free.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Watching @malcontentnews.bsky.social for continued updates. Little will come of this in the short-term: NATO will assess if the drone was redirected by Ukrainian jamming; NATO stocks are already thin. Doctrine will likely shift towards more proactive destruction of Russian drones over allies.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The effectiveness/cost ratio of US-made weapons are very low and Trump is unreliable, Taiwan is better off developing their own drone program, or finding new security partners. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Dealing with a toxic activist on social media was a good reminder that a healthy lifestyle demands completely avoiding all social media interactions. I can no longer distinguish the left from the right. Their toxicity is exactly the same.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
@malcontentnews.bsky.social Thank you for your unswerving dedication to the truth. Summary: the Trump administration misrepresented China's position in the Strait of Hormuz in their readout of the Trump-Xi summit. x.com/Malcontentme...
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Malcontent News on X: "I'm tired, boss. Which is the point of all the lies. Every day, day after day. Our team enjoys the days the administration isn't focused on Ukraine. On days when someone in Trump's circle says something about Ukraine, it creates hours of work. Phone calls. Signal chats. Just" / X
I'm tired, boss. Which is the point of all the lies. Every day, day after day. Our team enjoys the days the administration isn't focused on Ukraine. On days when someone in Trump's circle says something about Ukraine, it creates hours of work. Phone calls. Signal chats. Just
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 15/05/2026
U.S-based Axiom Space revealed Thursday that it will establish a wholly owned Japanese subsidiary, as the company seeks to deepen ties ahead of its planned commercial replacement for the International Space Station. 👉 ebx.sh/C6G7cw
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Last night I had a nightmare that my laptop bag caused warping of my beloved MacBook Neo. This morning I checked my Neo as I packed it up to head out to the gym, relieved that…
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Meta is dying according to NYT. Not a moment too soon, if it's true. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...
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Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg Is Running Meta Into the Ground - The New York Times
Meta has commenced a long, slow slide into irrelevance.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It’s better to be a humble superpower and thought in decline, than to lose a war and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
China once welcomed visits from senior US officials as moments of global validation. From his upcoming trip to China, it is Trump, not Xi, who needs the validation. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump Shouldn’t Expect Much From His China Trip - The New York Times
China no longer looks to an erratic America as a model to emulate, but as a distraction to be managed.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I started to compose an input to an LLM and got distracted mid sentence. "What is the business model". For the life of me, I can't now recall what is the rest of the query or what I wanted to know.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Reposting your own content to increase “engagement” seems pretty lame to me. I have decided to unfollow the influencers or content creators (or whatever they call themselves now) who repost themselves regularly.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Human review of AI generated code is now characterized as “a massive bottleneck”. That was fast. The transition from using experienced human programmers to review AI code to automating it away needed only a few weeks.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
www.patreon.com/posts/156551...
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It seems the anti-vaxxer community has made up a new term—turbo cancer. It’s an act of complete fiction that onboarded Joe Rogan, an amateur at medicine and science.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The WSJ opinion page is dancing on egg shells to admit what is just obvious to everyone else—Trump is losing his war with Iran.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I can imagine there’s little that Trump would hate more than for a Japanese politician to take credit for brokering a peace between US and Iran.
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@japantimes.co.jp on Bluesky
Japan has launched a new "International Peace Mediation Unit" in an effort to play a more active role in mediating deescalation of the Iran war. https://ebx.sh/hEGL50
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"I thank @POTUS for taking decisive action to defend America from the Iranian terroristic regime responsible for the death of thousands of U.S. soldiers." x.com/i/status/202...
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Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) on X
The United States has been in a forever war with Iran since the late 1970s. What we're seeing now is the beginning of the end & I thank @POTUS for taking decisive action to defend America from the Iranian terroristic regime responsible for the death of thousands of U.S. soldiers.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's going to get real ugly real soon flailing to deal with a problem we had years to prepare.
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@malcontentnews.bsky.social on Bluesky
Opinion: The West ignored Ukraine's warnings about drones as the Middle East burns Middle Eastern nations are already running out of ballistic missile interceptors, and Iranian Shahed drones are a much bigger problem than mission planners assumed. This was preventable. https://malcontentnews.substack.com/p/opinion-the-west-ignored-ukraines
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Because the mere declaration of “belief in the Bible” provides unqualified inclusion and protection among the community of followers, even (or especially) in the absence of any behavioral standards.
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@peterbakernyt.bsky.social on Bluesky
The self-declared “president of PEACE” has chosen to become the president of war after all, unleashing the full power of the U.S. military on Iran with the explicit goal of toppling its government. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/trump-peace-president-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It’s possible to believe conflicting narratives at the same time. Most thinking people do. 1. The Ayatollah is/was evil and deserves any harm he receives. 2. Regime change can work. 3. Most of the time regime change from top down does not work.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Healthcare in particular was an odd vector for Trump to use to attack Denmark ever GL. A) The American healthcare system is famously broken. 2) The hospital ships in question aren’t even ready to provide the proposed services.
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@en.afp.com on Bluesky
'No thanks': Greenland, Denmark reject Trump's offer to send Naval hospital ship. Trump said he was sending "a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there." Greenland has a free public health care system u.afp.com/S6bS
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I'm dismayed how much new coverage of Iran focused on Trump's unilateral actions against the regime, and nothing on what has Congress authorized.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
No, not going to let myself get sucked down the rabbit hole of toxicity that is 90% of #nostr on #science.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Trying to see the big picture. What I see is Russia has failed to achieve its objectives in Ukraine. For that it Putin has already sacrificed its global ambitions as well.
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@joniaskola.bsky.social on Bluesky
Ukraine continues to control all 23 regional capitals and special-status cities it held at the start of the full-scale war. 23/23! Russia is losing strategically
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Support for military conquest of Greenland is indistinguishable from noise or polling error. Maybe literally 5 people pretend to think it’s a good idea. Or maybe it just a negotiation tactic. But support for purchasing it is not much higher.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Had to disable Touch ID on my MacBook Pro M1 because it proved so unreliable. I am pretty sure 2FA based on fingerprints is dead, gone, and buried. Good riddance.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
From Politico (credit where due).
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
State sanctioned murder of innocent citizens. Official denials that clearly contradict video evidence. Bureaucratic foot dragging to prevent accountability.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The streets of this Tokyo suburb are still much deader than I expected on Sunday morning at the end of the New Year’s holidays. This gym is also nearly empty.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
With all due respect to the skills of the US armed forces, who professionally disabled Venezuela’s air defenses and captured Maduro with minimal losses, decapitation was the easy part.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ I know the US Constitution is of little relevance lately, but: Section 8 "The Congress shall have the power... To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;"
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U.S. Constitution | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The original text of the United States Constitution and its Amendments.
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The Maduro regime is evil, amd the world will be better without him. However, Trump’s military operations in Venezuela have not been authorized by Congress are illegal. I strongly oppose this illegal and illegitimate use of military force. #venezuela #usa #trump
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Signal & Skeptic @gtuck5.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
My country seems determined to revive diseases that have already been eradicated. It's very bizarre, but because the effects are delayed, the perps in administration in charge of this fiasco won't have to deal with or be held accountable for the unnecessary future deaths.
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