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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Feels like it's a pretty major hobby for a lot of them.

Ken Klippenstein being weirdly obsessed with smoothgroins

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

What are we even doing here? This sounds basically like "MAHA - the journal" and I fully expect them to be *shocked* in the future when RFK Jr. and co. don't do anything productive.

Another striking study found a possible association between ultra-processed food consumption and dementia in older adults. (The study has several important caveats, including the fact that surveys that ask people to recall what and how much they eat are notoriously imprecise, and that dementia was assessed based on a test rather than a clinical diagnosis.)

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The algorithm remains undefeated.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Also, the article says CS graduates have some of the highest unemployment rates of college grads, then links to a Fed page...that shows CS grads have an 84% employment rate, which is the 5th highest of all majors. Oh, and really high starting salaries. God the NYT is awful at this stuff.

List of unemployment rates by major and CS is one of the lowest, not the highest like this stupid NYT article claims.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Literally every post from Xwitter:

Meme about how people say Charlie Brown had hoes.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

That's not really what the 21% says. The report asks if they ever use these apps, which is immensely vague. If you click through a link to a tweet from a sports team that's "using X" but not really engaging with it like YouTube or Instagram, most likely. Stickiness matters.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

He's apparently from England, which makes the fact he's calling ICE on immigrants simultaneously make more and less sense.

Picture of Segal from BU site saying his hometown is London, England.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This article about Platner was one I saw and at some point the version of leftism they trade in has ripped the mask off enough times that we need to stop taking them seriously as people.

Jacobin article where they make excuses for Platner having a Nazi tattoo for 20 years.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Again, I'm old enough to very much remember how Romney was portrayed in 2012 and it was as an empty suit plutocrat. Santorum ran on a ton of culture war issues and got traction, but the legacy GOP was just able to win out with Romney. But combined with Sarah Palin you could see the turn coming.

A tweet about how people on here will tweet anything, like Charlie brown having hoes.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It's like clockwork with these guys.

Previously I lead up community marketing efforts with Dogecoin, and was the director of marketing for a Canadian Bitcoin exchange which grew to >50% of the Canadian market. I continue to consult with crypto companies and invest in the DeFi space.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

His parents basically said the quiet part loud here with their decision not to come.

(The parents of the groom, Alex Dickson, were invited too but they declined, saying they would have come if the couple chose another location like the South of France.)

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

In no world is the late Henry Kissinger someone who should be listened to for technology policy or understanding what AI can and can't do. This article reads like someone pushing a book or an IPO, not a thoughtful analysis.

Yes, I read the newspapers — especially the science section. And I’ve also been discussing this issue for the past year with my friend and A.I. adviser Craig Mundie, the former head of research and strategy for Microsoft and a co-author, with Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt, of the A.I. primer “Genesis.”

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

And then leads to inevitable posts like this one where they act like people earnestly pointing out how they were dickish is somehow "offending" people. Again, not every post on the internet is directed as you but when you inject yourself you can't assume you'll always get a standing O.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

And shoelaces were sentient creatures that defied the laws of gravity, possibly because they were surrounded by enough neon gas-powered lights to cause a rip in the ozone.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The fact this farm's website has, at the top of the home page, with a disclaimer basically saying they're forced by law to not officially sell their milk to consumers as drinkable by humans gives away the ghost. It's just performative nonsense for gullible buyers.

As required by the Federal Pasteurized Milk Ordinance and Florida Statute 502.091,
which forbid the sale of unpasturized milk products for human consumption,
our products are labeled:
"Not for Human Consumption" and sold as "Feed for Calves."

We are LEGALLY REQUIRED to include these statements on our product labels.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

They really are the most Edgelord guys you can imagine. www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

"It was more or less like an opportunistic approach to, you know, what is already trending," he said. "Where is there already controversy and how do we intercept some of that attention?"

The man, who uses Lt. Daldo Raine as his username on X -- a nod, he said, to the Brad Pitt character in the movie "Inglourious Basterds" -- kept his camera off and refused to give his name or age during the call with ESPN. The group, he said, wants to reclaim the creative and community aspects of the crypto world.

"We wanted to really make memes funny again," he said.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Like, I get you have to use tools around you and while the reality of AI is less impressive than the marketing around it, it's really depressing that its misuses are so obvious they have to spell it all out.

The training also points out ways Democrats shouldn’t use AI and discourages candidates from using AI to deepfake their opponents, impersonate real people, or create images and videos that could “deceive voters by misrepresenting events, individuals, or reality.”

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This is Williams's entire journalistic output distilled down to two (succinct) sentences.

He styles himself as casting a plague on both American political houses, bemoaning “the ill-conceived identity politics of the left” and “the spiteful populism of the right.” In fact, though, he fixates on mere blemishes dotting the house to his left and too often neglects the unmistakable stench of decay emanating from the house to his right.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What's funny is the next paragraph absolutely explains why Trump is losing ground despite "winning" (that link to his other accomplishments is just a press release by the WH that is full of lies) because people realize his actual actions aren't, in fact, good things

This paradox is unfolding in what could be the very best chapter of his presidency, before tariffs push prices higher or midterms pose risks to his GOP majorities.

And it's being aggravated by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, which has exposed rare cracks in Trump's decade-old MAGA movement.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I guess I'll need to check the old CNN archives to read about the fevered Facebook groups worrying about buying real estate a couple months ago.

Screenshot showing real estate deals failed more during Trump's tariff announcements than the primary week.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It's this meme, but because Biden didn't invite Musk to what was effectively a two-day business conference. If you're that close to adopting fascism, it's not anyone else's fault but your own if you make the leap.

Meme about forced Nazism because someone pointed out how bad Trump people are.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The fact he seemingly forgot the Internet and the personal computer were also created in the past century isn't a good sign of his comprehension skills given he's a (checks notes) historian of technology.

On the contrary, staggering transformations are in full swing. And yet, on campus, we’re in a bizarre interlude: everyone seems intent on pretending that the most significant revolution in the world of thought in the past century isn’t happening. The approach appears to be: “We’ll just tell the kids they can’t use these tools and carry on as before.” This is, simply, madness. And it won’t hold for long. It’s time to talk about what all this means for university life, and for the humanities in particular.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A big problem with the largely-unnamed "experts" quoted here is that they didn't attach their names so we can't mock them for being absolute idiots. On the other hand, the former Biden member who pointed out Trump doesn't care about any laws deserves a parade.

Screenshot quoting former Biden member saying you can't Trump proof a government where he doesn't listen to any laws anyway.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Tech bros continue to not beat the case that their aspirations and inspirations are just recreating tech they saw on TV and in movies growing up.

Image from seaQuest DSV where Roy Schieder is communicating with a dolphin

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The entire article can be broken down to this one paragraph, in which people who claim to care about politics and are engaged have different perceptions of the same actions by Harris. It mostly comes across as voters who had some personal bias against Harris but won't admit it's that shallow.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

And Daniel Hess just seems like a guy who wants to have kids and, per his MoreBirths Substack, cites Elon Musk as another "thinker" about birth rates and how it's definitely the greatest challenge to society. So yeah, totally normal and chill people.

A screenshot of MoreBirths about page where Daniel Hess talks about why Elon Musk and others are trying to solve the "greatest risk to civilization today"

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It's basically UVa vs. Furman in basketball.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This is a fantastic way for me to delete your morning email when you bothsides national security violations by comparing "her emails!" and Biden actively coming forward with incidental materials in his library to Trump taking boxes of things to his bathroom and WhiskeyLeaks.

NYT email bothsiding classified information violations by Dems and GOP as if what Hilary and Biden did was anywhere close to what happened with Trump and the Signal chat.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Just a breathtakingly stupid man, apparently. Ah yes, because the one thing I know about Putin is he keeps his word and definitely doesn't like to push his advantage.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

He looks like John Mulaney on the Seth Meyers show a month before he went to rehab for cocaine addiction.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Yeah, there's more Dems than I thought fulfilling the Shaq meme. It's quite welcome.

Shaq meme saying "I owe you an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game"

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Like, no shit Sherlock. "Unlikely to prove receptive" is the type of statement that a good editor throws into the trash, burns the whole can, then dumps a bag of salt on top of instead of allowing it to be published in a newspaper.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This article, like a lot of Economist articles, is a complaint in search of a cause, the fact they effectively just ran the covers of dissertations through a pretty simple algorithm that amounts to "big words and long sentences bad!" seems incredibly lazy. Especially when the Flesch test does this.

Flesch test having a -146.77 score for a line in Moby Dick.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm sure shoplifting plays a role but even in the article some of these same retailers admit their concerns are perhaps overblown.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

The 538 subreddit is so high on their own farts is sort of amazing.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

I'm interested to know how many of those oversized checks for photo ops were followed up with actual payments. The article doesn't make that clear, and I wouldn't be shocked if he plays fast and loose with the same "do your own research" yahoos who apparently believe this is true.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Ah yes, because the one thing we know about gamblers is they always act rationally and without bias.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

The professional wrestlers for Harris list is pretty cool as well.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Scientists couldn't create this stereotypical of a SV bro in a lab if they tried.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

This is such a weirdly nonsensical statement by the author. Yes, women who buck the trend of not having as many kids are...women who have more kids. That's definitely the opposite of people who have fewer children.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

I'm sure there's some of that but the article notes the largest shift is among young AA and Hispanic males.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

This section popped out at me because I wondered how this person's life was so much better under Trump. I looked up that name and noticed she was apparently the neighbor of a guy who was involved in a mass shooting in Brooklyn a couple years ago.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

This stuff drives me crazy. Yes, in a voting cohort of over 165M people you'll find individuals who vote differently than you think they should based on surface-level characteristics. But someone who likes RFK Jr and Trump isn't just anxious about money.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

These two paragraphs are part of an incantation that brings about a plague, I swear.

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