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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump made it very clear that pay-for-play was the way to get attention but none of these leaders seemed to remember he's an inveterate liar.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The end of the paragraph is also in basically every article like this, wherein a bunch of mediocre people join together and believe they're being persecuted because others rightfully find them vapid and uninteresting.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every interaction I've had with an EA advocate has felt like some hidden camera TV but where someone is seeing how long you can go before you cry BS because nothing about the movement feels real. Just a bunch of people who want to be rich but not feel bad about it.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Largely agree, but I would point out that my dishwasher or clothes dryer doesn't require a subscription, is largely deterministic in its job, and the Whirlpool guys don't want me there's a 20% chance that my dishwasher is going to try to kill me.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i saw some commentary on here about how one never sees Charlie Kirk anymore in a serious context, and it made me feel the need to take y’all on a short walk through the halls of congress one year after his death i only made it past about half of their offices bc I only had like 40 mins at lunch but

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

These really are people who watched a couple too many Sci-FI channel originals and now believe that super powered vending machines are going to "fight back" in some undefined and illogical way.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I find it quite telling that the people in my Boston neighborhood who had Trump flags up around 2024 have Moulton yard signs now. He's such a chud who thinks winning his Trump-y House seat meant he had mass appeal.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The fact his ally uses the r-word in the next sentence highlights why this "op" is probably going to work. Vance is an unlikeable edgelord and while that works on Xwitter his in-person awfulness makes him a hard sell to even the goobers who find Trump endearing

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Text-based social media, almost by definition if not by practice, is going to be niche and a bit of an echo chamber.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have to assume one of his new friends is the owner of the Atlantic because otherwise this is negatively interesting to basically everyone else in the world.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Steven Cheung is always a massive POS but the vitriol in his response feels directly related to how bothered they are with the topics for Trump.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Beyond the strong "Russian mail order bride" vibes around this couple, the fact he claimed his wife came in via Trump's "big beautiful door" when she arrived under Biden's admin is a cherry on top of this stupid cake.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yeah, it's crazy when 1% of results are in and these reporters start extrapolating.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yeah, I just think polls have been getting progressively worse in some of these races so while directionally AES is still the favorite I never bought that he'd win by 10+. I grew up in MI and it has always been a bit idiosyncratic.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yeah, I don't have a dog in this fight and Stevens said she'd back AES if he won but talk of this being a blowout feels like another example of how online discourse doesn't usually match reality.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I can only assume that these same X tweeters will be pushing for RFK Jr to be trotted out in a couple of years to answer for various health crises under his watch.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The fact these drones are inevitably going to pepper spray random students and staff and prove ineffective in an actual scenario will be lost on whichever backwards "security consultant" was able to fleece these districts. If only there was another way to make guns less of a threat at schools...

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I was in law school in the mid 2000s and it was absolutely the accepted belief that the 2000 election was handled properly and that questioning the jurisprudence of SCOTUS was for people who didn't understand how law worked. It was insufferable.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just the worst people making the dumbest arguments.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The part where he basically blamed the publisher for not catching the fabricated quotes displays a level of hubris and lack of shame that needs to be studied.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We're looking for a used EV and I see a TON of 4-5 year old Teslas available with seemingly no interest as prices well below comparable vehicles. It does feel like the empire he built was on way more sand than originally believed.

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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 · 22/07/2026

Multiple times during the clip people grow and then lose little facial bumps and, in one spot, Odysseus has golden flecks on the back of his neck that are clearly just artifacts of the armor he wore a scene before. Again, this guy wants you to believe he can make autonomous robots and go to Mars.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think it's a real problem how common and ubiquitous gambling has become so I'm not doubting the thrust of the piece but I do think using loaded words like "habit" can make the pointer murkier for some groups.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Clicking thru it's a Morning Consult poll with 622 respondents, and while I didn't see the exact question asked I think it includes daily fantasy sports and similar services. I suspect with a sufficiently broad definition you get close to 28% but it's a single online poll with an okay sample size.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I heard Andy Fang speak years ago about DoorDash from a technology standpoint and let's just say that the fact he'd rather have robots talk to other robots and remove any human involvement totally tracks. The fact it'll hilariously fail multiple times doesn't remotely matter to him.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We truly do need to study the types of people who bet money on what Donald Trump will say and honestly believe that transaction is not rigged.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oster expanding her craft from dubious "data driven" analysis around pregnancy and child rearing to food-borne illnesses and government management is not totally unsurprising. Yes, this isn't the plague but this outbreak is a massive public health failure because the dumbest people are in charge.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The fact both of the Loveline guys turned out to be massive POSes probably shouldn't be a surprise.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Even for just small businesses, $24M isn't going to really do anything for shipbuilding.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The wildest part to me is that FanDuel didn't even contact him "officially" but via Cameo, the same app used by the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr. to help cover tax evasion penalties.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

You either maintain loyalty with some people you shouldn't for too long or you are Trump, who'll stab basically anyone in the back if he needs to unless you are a pedophile. Mamdani will have to figure out how to cull his pack but he's earned some time to figure it out.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Also, all the messaging seems to be "we didn't agree with him on much but he was in a lot of meetings so we talked and he wasn't awful". There isn't effusive praise coming out.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Nobody is saying we need a day of mourning or anything, but it's easier to be snarky and score internet points for someone you've never met and never will versus someone you knew for years.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Also, he was in the Senate for 23 years and House 8 years before that. He's undoubtedly just made friends over that time because they're work colleagues. All the Dem responses I've seen are "we didn't agree on a lot but we were friendly", which seems like a human response.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

When journalists complain about people holding the media in such low regard, it's because of people like Tapper.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Rule of 3 could do the funniest thing right now.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I was at a trail race once and a bear just walked across the road with close to a hundred people and nobody saw it coming and it didn't seem particularly surprised. This guy was just walking past a campground 100+ feet away and the bison was just agitated and went after him.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The documentary about OpenAI in 5 years that's just a series of examples where Altman's grifting and breaking laws costs his company will be quite expansive, at least.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In hindsight, perhaps the denizens of the Nazi bird site having "mixed" views around the abusive white guy with a Nazi tattoo didn't represent an accurate view of the situation.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

He's never shown any real contrition for his many missteps and the fact he basically tried to get thru a midlife crisis by running for the US Senate, and was enabled to do so by a bunch of craven consultants, highlights how he views the world.

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jdtechie.bsky.social @jdtechie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think the fact the modal Democratic voter is a woman of color drives a lot of people crazy because while they may profess to believe in equality and acceptance, they still want women to make a little less money and be a little more quiet than them.

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

Fetterman had that weird incident where he chased down a black jogger and held him at gunpoint while the mayor of some small town. The stroke obviously changed him but I do feel like a decent chunk of his turn was always in him.

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

What struck me talking to PR people is that it really isn't that hard to get these favorable non-stories/press releases published in major-ish publications. Especially on the Internet people have quotas and if you can give a writer 500 words and an angle they'll run with it provided low stakes.

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

And I recognize he's also gotten a lot of truly heinous targeting from the MAGA crowd, so I have sympathy for him as a person to a degree, but his natural inclination to just ignore massive red flags because of some canned rhetoric he agrees with hasn't served him remotely well.

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

A lot of them felt like guys who "support" women as long as she makes less than them and laughs at their pop culture references. He was basically a rich kid who said the R-word on Reddit and apparently that was aspirational to a lot of them.

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

He finally gave up his support (at least publicly) when more charges came out and Coleman also got busted for a DUI, but he fought so hard for this awful person because Coleman talked about some vaguely progressive views on taxes and government reform.

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

I remember years ago he interviewed Aaron Coleman, an awful state rep in Kansas who at the time had admitted to cyber stalking and revenge p*rn of a girlfriend, and Grim just kept making excuses for this awful person. Then it came out he physically abused another partner and Grim still held strong.

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

This is, by my count, the second partner abuser he's vociferously supported in elections since Trump took over, and I'll admit I might have forgotten someone. But yeah, the guy who outed Blasey Ford seems to have a really weird view of the dynamics between men and women.

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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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