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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 08/01/2026

@tolin.ski I just listened to your episode on habits and resolutions. I think you might be in the ICP for a reminders agent I’m thinking about. A bit like a TODO list, but focused on the emotions of habits and helping you check off tasks you’ve been avoiding. I’d love to chat if you’re open!

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 04/10/2025

@coffeegeek.com have you been able to try the Breville Oracle Dual Boiler yet? I saw your first look on the Jet. I've had an Infuser for 10 years and it's been great, but it no longer pulls consistent volumes (despite repeated cleaning & descaling). Cost to fix = cost to replace, so looking...

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 16/09/2025

@xoruby.com I'd love to hang out in Napa on your way up the West Coast! LMK if you want to drink some great wine and eat some world-class food :)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 12/09/2025

@cloudflare.social @wpengine.com I was trying to access climateaistage.wpenginepowered.com/careers/?id=... and received a phishing attack that looked like a Cloudflare "we're having trouble verifying this request" page. More at gist.github.com/jamesarosen/...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Charles K. Harris, Scott Joplin, Maude Nugent or Howard & Emerson

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/09/2025

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

You guys see where this is going? Right?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Posting this story on Dem Mayors' effort to form a united front against Trump's invasions, bc it's the kind of story people will miss and then claim Dems never attempted to form a united front. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

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After Threats, Mayors of Blue Cities Seek United Front Against Trump

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/08/2025

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

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The Woke Ginger @thewokeginger.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

@target CEO is stepping down in February 2026, but don’t be deceived. It’s all semantics. #target #boycotttarget #dei #lgbt #blm

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 17/08/2025

@thorstenball.com I'm glad you're enjoying adventuring around the Bay Area! If you're into wine and nature, I definitely recommend coming up to Napa for a day. I'll happily show you around 😀

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 10/08/2025

This morning, the local police just visited my house. They were doing a wellness check on me because there were reports of suicidal ideation. They claim to have found my Facebook account with pictures of my daughter, so they were concerned for her. 1/4

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity. If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

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Where does the climate movement go from here?

In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 30/07/2025

@mbrozen.bsky.social on the recent Talking Headways podcast, you said something that sounded a lot like my current urbanism thesis: Every housing problem is a transportation problem, and every transportation problem is a housing problem.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

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Did The Rockies Lose? @didtherockieslose.com · 27/07/2025

I didn't write any code for The Rockies being down 17-0 but clearly that was an oversight.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2025

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 26/07/2025

Maybe the goal is to make flying so dangerous that nobody does it, thus eliminating 2.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions.

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 25/07/2025

@katef.bsky.social over the next month or so, I want to build a bunch of little demos and explorations on my website. If you have any fun ideas or things that you’ve built but that don’t yet exist on the web, please LMK!

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 25/07/2025

@syntax.fm @wesbos.com @tolin.ski in 922, you say as a person who works on the web, it’s your job to build great web experiences, not just the CSS part of the backend part. But what about sites that require DB ops? LLM training? Compiler design? 3D modeling in WebGL? Which specialization is OK?

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 24/07/2025

In about 1999 (plus or minus a couple years) some company produced a concept video for a smartphone-digital-assistant. It could book flights and read medical charts. It’s not the Knight-Ridder digital newspaper concept from 1994, though it’s similar. Anyone remember this?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

New capitalist horror unlocked: Hotels using an "algorithm" to charge guests a $250 or $500 fee for smoking

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/07/2025

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle. trib.al/W6lqYEu

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I find my cat annoying because she spends all day screaming, yowling, and begging for a pinch of Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend, but one day no one in this home will scream, yowl, or beg for Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend and I will be sad

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/07/2025

ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

how does one survive flexing this hard

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

1/ “We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.” @nlanard.bsky.social & @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social broke story Venezuelans sent to CECOT for innocent tattoos (like autism awareness). Now they chronicle their return: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"We were kidnapped"

On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

In the US we use bollards to protect what is important and valued (hint, it's not people walking or using bikes)

A small army of sturdy yellow bollards encircle a green electrical transformer box adjacent to a parking lot, photographed at night in a city

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 17/07/2025

John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice. Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how: By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Jan. 22, 2025

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It’s called hyper-normalization. It’s a dissociative reaction meant to shield you as a safety mechanism, but ultimately helps whatever is attacking you. Think closing your eyes as a train comes rather than jumping out of the way. Fascism will succeed if we continue to hyper normalize its presence.

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 15/07/2025

The absolute most unhinged thing I've seen on @dropout.tv -- and that's increasingly saying something. Jordan: you're an inspiration. Izzy & Erika: you're twisted. 🤣

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James A Rosen @jamesarosen.com · 15/07/2025

I'm so curious how many of the Rick & Morty staff are in on Izzy's butthole idea #gamechanger

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Nicolle Wallace @nicollewallace.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Happy 4th of July everyone- this is the most American thing I’ve read today - please read every word: Goodbye to All That www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

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Goodbye to All That

My resignation from the FBI. 

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill: 3M Altria AT&T Charter Communications Chevron Cisco Comcast Delta Airlines Door Dash Great Clips Hair Cuttery T-Mobile Uber United Airlines UPS Verizon

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