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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The new third rail of American politics is that you can’t criticize this culture.

hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

what I would really like to know is how this utter dipshit (a) became a millionaire and (b) got onto a Presidential debate stage

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

something I can pretty much guarantee about these is that corners are being cut somewhere, it’s endemic to Chinese manufacturing. they’re just too new on the scene for it to necessarily be apparent where corners were cut, but whew buddy when people hit 75k miles on these things.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

to be clear this is also happening on the left. there is a reason why normie politicians of the 2000s/2010s era are out of vogue on both sides.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of the real negatives of the Trump era is that most of the Bush-era GOP has simply been erased from existence, like it might as well be irrelevant that it hasn’t been 20 years since they tried to privatize Social Security and wrecked the global economy.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This kind of doomering has always been cope, going back to Bush v. Gore.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lina Khan was ahead of her time. Not enough people saw the very obvious slippery slope from allowing Uber to declare “we’re a rideshare, not a taxi service” and make regulations surrounding taxi services not apply to them.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s weird how they never seem to talk about what exactly the benefits are but they’ll spend all day telling us how much this is going to fuck up everyone’s livelihood and possibly kill everyone.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People thought Musk was a genius because the original Teslas were the first EVs that had any appeal to anybody who didn’t specifically want to advertise that they were driving an EV, and it says negative things about legacy automakers that they did not see this first.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AI has made me not respect a lot of pundits I used to respect.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Democracy is inefficient,” says man who would be hanged, drawn, and quartered as a threat to the king in any medieval kingdom, instead of merely being told he can’t build a data center.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

judging from political ads I see during the MLB playoffs, Republicans’ only argument is “trans people are freaks”

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trump pumping out AI slop might well be turning people against AI faster than any pronouncement from Altman or Amodei ever could.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They have never supported a colorblind meritocracy.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“It’s totally self-defeating and irrational” — this belief among the Silicon Valley AI set is about 90% of why middle America hates their guts.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Brin might have to sell his Google stock to pay it and in the process lose control of Google” yes that is the fucking point you fucking morons, like why do we allow Silicon Valley moguls to dip into people’s retirement funds and also maintain despotic control over the company?

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have had a “do not click” policy on Ezra Klein long before that. His conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates was really the last straw for me. He is a guy who thinks his personal platform for politics is more important than the outcome of politics in real life, for other people. Lost the plot. Unworthy

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I keep seeing these ads saying Gina Hinojosa is gonna raise your property taxes and it just feels so weak sauce that this is all they’ve got on her.

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Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that AI people keep constantly trying to force it on us when we say "no thank you" does not speak well of their intentions, to be charitable.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What a lot of irreligious people don’t want to admit is that the religious arguments against AI are much, much better than the secular ones. The Pope doesn’t have to pretend that AI slop has any value to society.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

we need to talk about men’s refusal to participate in the modern economy.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“You can’t buy a house because we gotta build the fucking data centers” is certainly a winning political message

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the AI doomers sound suspiciously similar to the climate doomers of five years ago.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reactionary backlash because the Indian tech support guy can afford a house in the burbs while the white perpetual fuck up who got kicked out of the army for a heroin addiction cannot, the war of the unemployable on the employed continues

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh my. The AI bros are showing their ass.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Man these guys know a Dem Congress is about to fuck them raw and it’s going to be glorious.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They talk about using AI to help with parenting in an attempt to sound relatable and instead they come off as the weirdest freaks who have ever walked the earth I legit don’t think Alexandr Wang understand how fucking *bizarre* it sounds to hold off on having kids until he can microchip them.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a dreadful play by Bryce Harper.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

legitimately, the Democrats should be running ads telling voters that this is who Republicans want running the world. just the absolute worst, most despicable people whom God has ever shit onto planet Earth to breathe air and not get stuffed in nearly enough lockers.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30/09/2026

sometimes fairly, sometimes not, the dems get criticized for being too cautious, sober, and boring compared to their republican counterparts, but the best time to run a FUCK THESE GUYS campaign was 2024 and the next best time is now, and rolling into october, it looks like that’s where we are headed

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was a time when Democrats would have considered running this ad to be off limits, but now they correctly do not view Republicans as people with feelings.

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Republican attack ad: "This Democrat loves transgender surgeries for minors" Democratic attack ad: "This worthless sack of shit let a pedophile walk free and called you a stupid asshole"

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

add America.gov to the list of things for the next Dem administration to end on day one.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can’t decide who is more despicable: AI accelerationists or AI doomers.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one thing that the AI "revolution" has shown is that the big tech companies are all completely and utterly awful, and the only difference is the degree of awfulness.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

except that nobody will vote for a candidate whose campaign is using AI once they find out they’re using AI.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They only served 60 days because the judge wouldn’t accept the plea deal for one day.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s funny how much Todd Blanche just gave the dumb person version of the Silicon Valley AI agent pitch. “I know you think you don’t, but it’s not all bad”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The people who spent 15 years saying that society was George Orwell’s 1984 because rappers could say the N word but you can’t are now saying you must love the great machine that knows all of our wants and desires

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is “I don’t listen to country music” to MAGA what “I don’t listen to rap music” is to a certain brand of annoying Zoomers?

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When did people become such pants-wetting scaredy cats about road fatalities that they want self-driving cars so badly?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

am curious why Albanese accepts Altman's explanation and not, you know... charge him with a felony

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

yeah, no, I am not interested in treating "AGI," whatever the fuck that means, as a peer

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Leaving this aside, the obsession with building self-driving cars, like the obsession with building AI, is very stupid.

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hillcat98.bsky.social @hillcat98.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I, too, would decline to be named if I were hyping this (or Muse in general.)

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