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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 21h

Ultimately, Congress has had the power to stop all of this. They’re just too chickenshit to stop ANY of it.

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 21h

They already are, but it’s a few years from operational

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Now THAT’S a father who’s never set foot in a delivery room (or a pediatrician’s office)

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

2/3rds of senate for removal seems extremely unlikely

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I honestly don’t understand why people in NC register for a party (unless they intend to run for something). There is no advantage to doing so.

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Statewide non-federal offices are typically dem, federal offices almost always R. Before 2010, the state legislature was reliably D, but then it got gerrymandered to hell.

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can’t believe they’re flying the Obama flag at a Trump rally!

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He also pretended to care about comprehensive immigration reform!

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Judges will say it’s not campaigning because he can’t run again. (And then inevitably Trump will say that of course he can, because no one can stop him.)

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hmmm “All through the 1980s, 1990, and most of the 2000s (ending with a home-and-home against Arizona in 2006 and 2007), Carolina would take a break midway through the ACC schedule to face a non-conference power. The 18- (and eventually 20-) game league slate brought an end to that tradition”

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a weird time in the season for a marquee out of conference game!

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Impeachment is not used for legislative branch members

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“But officer, the self-driving car ran over those pedestrians! I, the one who told it to get on the road without regard for pedestrians, am surely not culpable!”

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Being given the runaround to register at college in 2000 was formative for my political identity

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is what happens when private equity gets into kids’ sports. There’s almost no middle ground for kids who want to be on a team with a coach who knows what they’re doing without shelling out thousands of dollars per year

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t see how it wouldn’t result in war, justified or not.

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t see how that wouldn’t result in a lot of deaths and everyone worse off

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, definitely could be CYA

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Or this could be a “email the group instead of calling me”

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It could be like 4 people. There are definitely times when reply all reduces confusion/ headache.

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoo boy are you gonna be surprised by how a lot of things work….

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The chair is still on the board. Just not as chair any longer

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Further proof that people don’t understand the difference between magnitude and change in magnitude (also see: confusion over inflation)

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But then do they go down the photography rabbit hole?

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also, the format of most news sites is actively hostile to its readers

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Amiga 500 (I think? The release date makes sense)

Amiga 500 with keyboard, mouse and floppy drive

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nah, AI companies know they’re blowing smoke and want to cool things off before the bubble bursts even more violently

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, that’s ok. More talking about specific play is frowned upon unless praising what they’ve already done.

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He’ll most youth sports try to put the kibosh on that early. The rule of thumb that I liked was “as a parent watching a game, your only role is to praise things the players have already done”

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

I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine.

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cars last way longer these days than in decades past

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is there psychology to shying away from that message? Not wanting to say “we’re losers, vote for us!”?

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why should we trust anything OpenAI says about itself? They have every reason to want us to believe that their tools have some capacity to “think” and are super-powerful

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s an incredibly sad story and underlined needs for public safety and mental health resources (the killer and his family had sought treatment for him many times leading up to the stabbing)

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Under what authority and why?

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Its a good time. Pretty different from anything else out there

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

By whom? Under what authority?

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Mostly anti-AI, but have used it sparingly at work as a more specific stack overflow for scripting syntax questions

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This would explain the later books of the Expanse series

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JohnBoles @johnboles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No I’m saying we should probably further limit teens’ freedoms.

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