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Tad Askew

@jack0renstein.bsky.social
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sad Starbucks Food is back! Read the latest news, and revisit greatest hits: @sadstarbucksfood.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sadstarb...
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Sad Starbucks Food | Jack Orenstein | Substack
Celebrating the bland corporate awfulness of Starbucks food. Click to read Sad Starbucks Food, by Jack Orenstein, a Substack publication. Launched 11 days ago.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Great start on the new job, John Ternus.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
@raistlin71.bsky.social Saw your post about torrenting. I’m also fed up with “legal” sources of media. What is your advice on how to torrent safely? I’ve tried in the past and gotten dinged by my ISP. Is a VPN sufficient protection?
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Tailscale is magical, and free for my very limited usage.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Gonna start a gofundme to raise $2,000,000, to be donated to the first reporter who pushes back when insulted by Trump. It would at least that much to compensate for the loss of career and security.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#NoKings Boston
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Something like 800 of the most senior US military leaders were present for today’s lunacy. I’d love to be a fly on the wall when they go out for a beer afterward.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I built a boat!
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Ghoulish Oligarchs Party
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"We choose to kidnap brown people and send them to concentration camps. We choose to kidnap brown people and send them to concentration camps in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard;
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Apropos of nothing, the worst cover of all time was Sympathy for the Devil, performed by Blood Sweat and Tears.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off, Boston edition.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Audrey. That place on Rt. 1? It’s Kowloon’s, not Calhoun’s.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
2010: Tried to get baristador accepted as the masculine form of barista. 2025: Trying to get everyone pronouncing DOGE as doggy.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
PSA: Don’t buy into Musk’s marketing. DOGE is pronounced as either dog-E, or doggy, depending on which syllable you choose to stress.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The Google Maps app on the iPhone now shows “Gulf of America” as the name of the Gulf of Mexico. I’ve deleted the app. (And DuckDuckGo has been my default search engine on all of my devices for quite some time.)
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Everything is fine. arxiv.org/abs/2412.12140
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Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line
Successful self-replication under no human assistance is the essential step for AI to outsmart the human beings, and is an early signal for rogue AIs. That is why self-replication is widely recognized...
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
DeepSeek is very impressive. But a bit touchy on certain topics. Take a look at its discussion of two different protests.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Murray Rosenbaum has also left Facebook. IYKYK
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
David Lynch lives on in my daily carry. Cell phone wallpaper and keychain.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
RIP David Lynch. I’m sure he is in the White Lodge.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I support Pete Hegseth, as the ultimate DEI hire.
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Tad Askew @jack0renstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Buh bye, Facebook!
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