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🏝 JD Lasica

@jdlas.bsky.social
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Thriller author 📚 | Co-founder, Cruiseable, Authors AI, BingeBooks 🚢 | Traveler ⛱ | Photographer 📷 | Art lover 🎨 | Tech pioneer 📱 | International jewel thief 💎 | I ❤️ democracy

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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@chuckrocha.bsky.social I'm a moderate Dem and most Dems think it's common sense for a candidate to just say the obvious: There are two sexes. And trans athletes should compete against each other but not in women's sports. My Texas GOP friends won't vote for a "crazy," so tell James to get it right.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@chuckrocha.bsky.social Chuck, just watched you on Katy Tur and saw James on Lawrence last nite. If you're advising James, you should tell him to stop changing the subject when it comes to gender issues. Many, many Texans will vote against their self-interest if they think a candidate is too woke.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Are AI agents about to put you out of a job? Not so fast. Here's what some leading technologists have to say about the problem with agentic AI. theedgeoftomorrow.substack.com/p/are-ai-age...
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Are AI agents ready to displace humans?
Agentic AI is supposed to provide a tireless digital labor force.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
@craignewmark.bsky.social You need to watch 60 Minutes tonight ... a full block on pigeons!
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I will never, ever visit the AskAngel.ai website after they spent a bajillion dollars to flood the Olympic airwaves with the same lame-ass ad.
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Redirecting...
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Pam Bondi, you are a disgrace to your office and a massive embarrassment to the United States of America.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
On the latest Wordslinger podcast, I discuss AI, ethics and fiction writing with Kevin & Alessandra. Here's a summary: theedgeoftomorrow.substack.com/p/ai-and-eth...
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AI & ethics in writing fiction
Authors need to decide for themselves where to draw the line
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Good Lord. They have an authenticity problem over at X. Wash Post: From July to December 2024, X suspended 335,675,897 fake or spam accounts — nearly 2 million per day. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | A ‘great unmasking’ on X is arming Americans with digital borders
The social media platform’s move to show users’ location is a great step toward online transparency.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
BlueSky is one of the few websites that are not offline at the moment. Apparently Cloudflare is down. Perhaps a denial of service attack?
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The FAA has issued a temporary flight restriction off Puerto Rico for “special security reasons” effective November 1. Anyone else think this sound like a ground run for an invasion of Venezuela? Any Defense Dept. journalists out there? Worth looking into. defence-blog.com/pentagon-ord...
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Pentagon orders temporary flight ban in Caribbean zone
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), acting under the direction of the Department of Defense (DoD), has issued a new Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) establishing temporary flight restriction...
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Fun to watch Netflix’s “A House of Dynamite” and see mentions of the secretive Raven Rock nuclear bunker, which was the primary setting in my high-tech thriller “Firefall.” (BTW, not the greatest ending for that movie.)
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This is appalling ... and illegal. And no one is lifting a finger.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Will AI agents spur the next mass protest movement? open.substack.com/pub/theedgeo...
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The next protest movement: No Overlords
Will AI agents provide the impetus for the next grassroots uprising?
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Yeah, baby! Proud of all my fellow Americans who stood up to make their voices heard today!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This is how it's done, America. Jair Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
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Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Left, right or center, political violence is always wrong. Full stop. As a nation we don't want a return to the '60s-'70s era of political assassinations. Those who stoke hatred and mistrust of institutions are partly responsible for this heinous act. Tragic to hear that Charlie Kirk is dead.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Ah, opening day Sunday, when the dreams of millions of NFL fans have not yet been crushed.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The eye of Hurricane Erin is about 200 miles north of us here in Puerto Rico, and it’ll miss us. But we’re already starting to get a whipping from the rain and winds! Batten down the hatches!
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
How AI is decimating the Web's business model - my new post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/theedgeo...
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How AI is decimating the Web’s business model
The old Internet bargain is dead: For decades, publishers traded content for traffic. Now AI companies are taking the content and killing the clicks.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Just watched the umpteenth remake of "The War of the Worlds" on Amazon Prime. It's god-awful, riddled with laughable, absurd plotlines. Learn knitting. Play a game of chess. Plenty of better ways to spend your 90 minutes.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Ready for some beach reads? Soak up the sun with summer reading fun at BingeBooks - list created by my friend Jen: bingebooks.com/article/soak...
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Watching the program now, since we can't make it to New York to see it on Broadway. Remarkably well done. Will today's news media stand up to the latest authoritarian power grabs in DC? Good luck to us all.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Well, crap. Just heard that Pocket, one of my longtime favorite apps, is shutting down on July 8. Anyone know of other bookmark apps that are trustworthy? www.pcmag.com/news/pocket-...
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Read-It-Later Pocket App Will Shut Down on July 8
Mozilla says it's focusing on 'projects that better match [people's] browsing habits and online needs.' You have until Oct. 8 to export your Pocket data.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Thank you to the 1,148 entrants who entered my giveaway for the high-tech thriller "The Golden Relic." We have sent the ebook to the 100 winners, and another 1,061 readers added the title to their Want to Read list on Goodreads. Awesome! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLWSJCG3
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Important article from my friend Eric about bot farms leading the disinformation assault on social media. www.fastcompany.com/91321143/bot...
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Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment
Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Listen to my high-tech thriller 'Biohack' with an audiobook narrator of your choice: Maya Angelou, Jerry Garcia, John Wayne,Laurence Olivier. elevenreader.io/app/reader/a... #elevenlabs #audiobook
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ElevenReader: Biohack
Listen to a preview of this read or download the app to play the full read.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I've heard several news commentators - like Katy Kay of Morning Joe today - refer to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as "Garcia." This is incorrect. His paternal surname is Abrego. So the only correct second references are "Abrego" or "Abrego Garcia."
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The trouble with Bill Maher gushing about his pleasant dinner with the “real” Trump and his call to make peace with the MAGA movement is that they have absolutely no interest in doing the same. If there was ever a time for resistance and NOT moderation, that time is now.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
How digital are you? The fine art of decluttering and reinvention. theedgeoftomorrow.substack.com/p/how-digita...
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Nice. Keep it up New Yawk!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Kamala Harris: There were many things that we knew would happen.. I’m not here to say I told you so
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/04/2025
We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy. Third time’s the charm, I guess.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hey, if any book lovers here are still on Goodreads, I have a Giveaway starting today for my new thriller, The Golden Relic! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Book giveaway for The Golden Relic (Lance Manning & the Rogue AI Series, #1) by J.D. Lasica Apr 02-May 01, 2025
Enter to win one of 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 02-May 01, 2025. We're giving away 100 free ebooks of The Golden Relic by intern...
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
AI & fiction: Where to draw the lines when AI can write books. theedgeoftomorrow.substack.com/p/ai-and-fic...
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AI & fiction: Where to draw the lines
Every author will make their own decision — here’s where I landed
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Yes, there are progressive TikTok stars. Go Kat!
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Image 2: A home with contemporary stylings perched on a cliffside along the California Coast. So far Grok hasn't done a great job reinterpreting photos I've uploaded. But it has done an admirable job of whipping up images from text prompts.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Did you know that Grok from xAI now generates images? Just ask it to draw. It's a worthy addition to Ideogram.ai and Pika.art ... and faster, too. Image 1: Odysseus and his crew in their ship. #grok #aiimages #ideogram #pika
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Where were you 20 years ago today? A new era in media was being born: theedgeoftomorrow.substack.com/p/20-years-a...
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20 years ago, a new era of media was born
Ourmedia.org helped usher in an age of grassroots media ... and all that followed
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I agree with this. If newspapers disappear, we are all screwed ... even more than we already are. Do better, Sling TV. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | This Sling TV ad made me really mad
Does a streaming service benefit from making fun of paperboys and kicking a down-and-out industry?
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Ted Lasso is coming back for a fourth season … and he’s got a new (women's) team to coach. Nice. We need some respite from the madness.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Now we have to choose sides?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
God help us.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is pretty brilliant: an 8-minute video from political commentator Jan Bohmermann on the Germans' angst about their past: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...
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Opinion | Germany’s Far-Right Comeback
Germany’s attempts to “remember away” its Nazi past has instead paved the way for an extremist resurgence.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Here’s a headline I never thought I’d read: Lasers, Waffle Fries and the Secrets in Pterosaurs’ Tails www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...
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Lasers, Waffle Fries and the Secrets in Pterosaurs’ Tails
Scientists identified new structures in the tail vanes of the prehistoric flying reptiles.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Matt Damon-David Beckham commercial for Stella Artois was a home run ... er, a goal. #SuperBowl
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Nice. Keep it going.
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🏝 JD Lasica @jdlas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Any authors in the house? I put together this SuperGuide to author conferences in 2025: authors.ai/author-confe... #amwriting #authors #conferences
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