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For as much as I've criticized @analogue.bsky.social over the years for marketing decisions and inability to reliably stock products, they're not a party to war crimes. While that's a low bar to clear, their primary competitor amazingly does not.

This week has been utterly exhausting and it's only Tuesday morning.

the mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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this site is still ticking, btw... isaiprofitable.com

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In hindsight, that should have been obvious, but it was 10 PM and it’s the first time I can recall someone not referring to him either by his last name or full name.

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I realize this is a flimsy argument, but does the SEC still have fangs, and if so, can it operate independently, without undue influence from… other parts of the government?

Candidly, I have no idea who Cory is, my complaint was with Laurie’s rhetoric, which you’ve given an exceedingly generous explanation for. I’m somewhat discouraged from commenting directly on the works of other analysts, so I won’t attempt to engage in a point by point defense of Zitron.

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The Churchill reference is just rhetorically bad. They have no commonality other than Zitron being vaguely English. Churchill was a drunk with a temper, Zitron… has one image meme that he paid someone to draw.

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Nothing in Zitron’s writing is extreme, and comparing one guy’s excessively long (and, notably, meticulously well-cited) to AI doomsday cults vastly overstates the influence of one guy, and vastly understates the damage that cults can have on members and society at large.

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This post, and your original post, are genuinely terrible false equivalencies.

James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 28/09/2026

Epicenter: Southern Ibaraki Prefecture, Magnitude 4.9, Depth approximately 50km There is no risk of a tsunami from this earthquake. www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 28/09/2026

Epicenter: Southern Ibaraki Prefecture, Magnitude 4.9, Depth approximately 50km There is no risk of a tsunami from this earthquake. www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/

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TechInsights Inc. @techinsightsinc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TechInsights is heading to SEMICON West, Oct 13–15 in San Francisco. Our analysts will cover manufacturing analysis, materials analysis, and sustainability data across the semiconductor supply chain. Book time with the team before the show fills up ➡️ bit.ly/4yfejVi

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 28/09/2026

I’ve had this, multiple times, and it’s… fine. Can’t really taste a difference. Couldn’t swear to it having an effect, but I was also way more fit living in Japan because I was biking everywhere.

Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Imagine being so wrapped up in your tiny corner of the world that when you learn there are people who don’t live in that corner, your first thought is that they must be posturing.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup. None of these people were appointed by the Congress to do any of these acts; it was a criminal coup.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Agree with Greg‘s general point. But let me ask the hard question about moral hazard: if the likes of Zuck or Jensen (or Dartmouth or Paul Weiss) pay no price for having kowtowed to Trump, won’t they end up looking smart for having done so? And if we want to curb this moral hazard, what must we do?

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 25/09/2026

On a related note, today is an excellent example of "I absolutely need to remember to take Vitamin D supplements living here."

James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 25/09/2026

I didn't win that debate! 😅 I'm using Ghost for my personal blog, but unfortunately the only way I could convince my employer to let me re-publish part of a 5-figure annual subscription product for free is if we used this. Ghost, on the other hand, supports tables, which would have been... nice.

I am once again soliciting suggestions for weird (but, safe for work) things to put on my bookshelf to mess with my coworkers (and others) on work calls.

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very very very fun news (from me) next week

TechInsights Inc. @techinsightsinc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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🆕 TechInsights is expanding its analysis into robotics and drones. We’re getting our first hands-on look at the 2024 Unitree G1 humanoid robot. 🤖 Explore our latest robotics research and follow updates to the Unitree G1 teardown 👉 bit.ly/4xMxZ1R

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There’s all sorts of peculiar goings-on, but it’s news to me that STH has one. I’m not certain if Huawei Cloud is any more restrictive than any other service that essentially requires a Chinese domestic phone number, but I haven’t bothered with this sort of thing recently.

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If you wind up with sharable access to some Kunpeng hardware, I’ve got an interesting plan for it as well. :)

Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Perhaps the biggest tragedy with the current state of both PlayStation and Xbox on a cultural level once you get past the bloodbaths—and you shouldn't, to be clear—is just the sheer disinterest they share in maintaining any sense of a cohesive, healthy ecosystem, both internally and externally.

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 19/09/2026

The power of magnets is awesome!

Asif Anwar @aanwar-sa-ads.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Infineon Technologies' planned sale of its NOR Flash and F-RAM business to Winbond would transfer a market-leading automotive NOR franchise to an established memory specialist. TechInsights addresses immediate questions around this deal. library.techinsights.com/analysis-vie...

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Stephen Foskett @stephen.fosketts.net · 16/09/2026

For fuck's sake if someone wants to be taken seriously take your work seriously!

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Skellyton 🦇 @infinitefinite.blog · 01/11/2025

You can pry the Oxford Comma from my cold, dead, and third adjective hands.

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Cilantro @cilantroll.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Millennials love us a doofus

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 15/09/2026

I'm sorry, but with the typo of "Sports Report," I'm just imaginging Nintendo making a video game version of "SportsNight" as some mashup of Switch Sports, Tomodachi Life, and Good Job!.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

LLMs are interesting. They’re helpful in some cases. When I clean up an audio transcript, I no longer have to do a bunch of find-replace/delete commands; Gemini usually gets it mostly right by the third pass. But it’s not magic. None of this is magic or intelligence in any form.

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 11/09/2026

You can extrapolate this experience to practically every Facebook group.

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 10/09/2026

“The tag must to be hiding after folding. The width of fold should same all after folding and alignment of front of shelf also.”

A plastic placard at MUJI.

The text reads:

The tag must to be hiding after folding.
The width of fold should same all after folding and alignment of front of shelf also.

MUJI
無印良品
MENS

Eric Smith @esmithtech.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Noteworthy that on-device AI is front and center for the #Apple event today. "Intelligence" being listed before performance and battery

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 08/09/2026

The “Silk the Rich” was at Uwajimaya, a local Japanese grocery store. The “Milk the Rich” was probably at an Aeon Mall. 😅