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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Your argument about AI in general. I’m simply being practical. OSS utilities, small programs, require constant updates for new services, hardware, technical drift. AI is VERY GOOD at finding security loopholes. Like it or not, as long as AI is around, most developers will need to use.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

we want the same things. reality is there will be no choice. The same amazing individuals must turn to AI, at minimum for security analysis. It also helps with maintenance and growth of features, as needed. To be clear - I donate to OSS every year.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Rather than doing a (tired) social media dunk, do you want to explain? I’ve been worried about the underlying frailty of open source software for awhile, and the thankless job these amazing individuals do who maintain great OSS projects.

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

If the adobe clone works out, and early reports are promising - ideally HUGE opportunity to have AI- with strong guardrails- make this so much easier for stability, resilience and security. And it will be needed, considering g the power of L hacking

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

The concern is the normalization of corruption, the sheer demonstration of power no consequences. Trump and his cronies can make these corrupt, sweetheart deals, disobey the law - no consequences. But they get to use the law to manufacture guilt and fake consequences. Ethically bankrupt.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Deep venal corruption and crimes. All news services should only talk bout this all day every day

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

Josh, I have spent hudreds of hours reading or contemplating awesome things written by the TPM team. And yes, I am a happy and willing subscriber and have been for years. You have simply stated the obvious about economics. From my perspective, I’m happy to pay to subscribe, even thankful!

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

Sad to see the show go. You did a great job for the niche! I say that as someone who has watched Tom pick and choose stats to slander my favorite player for years. 😀 doing a good job when a listener half the time has an axe to grind, but listens anyway. 🤣 Thank you for hours of great listening

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The authoritative book that describes exactly why corruption of the highest order became “it’s okay if you are Trump”. Some very moral friends of mine who are moderate to liberal in their views, will equate “Hilary’s emails/Hunter Biden”,with what Trump is doing. It is maddening.

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

certain policies that sound good can be unworkable . It is true the CA billionaire tax proposal isn’t well written. What infuriates me is if you say that - then use 80 % of your article on it to show how EFFED UP it is that tax rules penalize W-2 workers. Pass-through, inheritance vs lottery, etc.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A nitty gritty chat with Google Gemini about this: the pros and cons:. Note: not my area of expertise, so please check for hidden assumptions and hallucinations. Still worth reading. share.gemini.google/qCLspUb5h8qR

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‎Gemini - direct access to Google AI

Created with Gemini

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Name and shame” gone wrong, everywhere, all the time, on social sites.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thank you for sharing this - great song.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

his timeline is too optimistic on what AI will do, when. Success in programming and language is not success in the “real world”- which is “spiky” in difficulty for AI. But - I’m not in the best labs. And “self-improvement” - models training models - is a WILD VARIABLE. May well be hyper exponential!

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

It may be great. I personally like the idea. Though eff no, not spending 2K on it 👀

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just wrote this in response to acJosh Marshall post. bsky.app/profile/john...

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very important! I submitted this question to Gemini. Any “solution” has be multi-layered. While this list of Gemini’s looks cogent to me, not my specialty. Still: de-financing public life, broad based coalitions, and militant democracy missing in the U.S. gemini.google.com/share/68a83d...

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‎Gemini - direct access to Google AI

Created with Gemini

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Flock. an “idealized use argument” that works. I’m one of those San Francisco users that see petty theft go down because “opportunistic” thieves regularly hanging around tourist areas have reduced. Balanced against misuse by authorities. “Needs of many” vs “isolated harms”? Use nuanced analysis.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There pretty much is never good “progress” that happens in comments. A shame, since - in theory - the good knowledgeable comments can add context, flavor, more info. But you end up wading throug mostly unproductive stuff

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Damn! You criticize this, only adding to the exposure. Well-played!

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ridiculous. And yet he will suffer no consequences from this - but we the citizens will.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thank you. Was coming to write same comment.

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

When authoritarian regimes try to suppress/manipulate ballots,effective pushback combines data & mass mobilization: • Parallel vote counts (NAMFREL, Philippines '86; Chile '88) • Auditing paper/digital trails to force court reruns (Kenya '17; Ukraine '04) • Massive turnout to outpace fraud margins

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

deck is stacked. Must be strategic coordination between diffeeent camps. 1. Rich to large degree have bought media. 2. Across all media rage bait favors right wing populism. 3. Parallel info realities. 4. False equivalence. Centrists/liberals left must be tactical/coordinated. Near impossible.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Completely an icon. Even from few years ago, still putting out great stuff (with help) Faith with Mr. Probz (electronica) is great.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You can’t criticize him for those series. Warriors would have won again if hadn’t lost Durant and Thompson. Lakers - #1 defense in bubble, won the title, Russ hurt. Harden’s play? OUTSTANDING. Counter: even average, he hasn’t played as well in playoff as regular season. True - but don’t play bad.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For the past playoff. 1. Basketball team game, can’t blame a single player for losing. Harden hasn’t lost a series oddmakers expected Houston to win. 2. Law of averages and cherry-picking. Don’t ignore the GREAT playoff games based on one bad one. Average it out. 3. Look at JH 2019 and 2020.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

1. Given his age, in the last few years, what was is your expectation? He is 3rd highest player on team. 58th highest salary in league. Regular season - IF he plays as well as he did last year, this year salary is worth it. 3rd year of deal? That will be a problem. Cavs are paying for “win now”

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As a Harden guy, I’m happy he is on track in this year to get to 30K points, 9K assists, 7K rebounds. He may get to 30K points 10 assists. That’s The two James in that rare air? Lebron James and James Harden.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I got off of X, mainly because of all the spam, and wanted there to be enough interesting and leading edge content here to read here. There is enough content now, but the leading conversations still happen on X. In sport and tech, at least.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sigh. Didn’t see this, instead wrote a post in similar vein. 😀

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“a major theme of Red Star’s politicking is attacking AOC as a capitalist running dog who has exploited DSA for careerist ambitions.”. LOL. Far enough to the left to attack AOC in those terms, you and your 3 friends need to join the People’s Front of Judea. (Ref: Monty Python) Splitter!!

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This guy needs to be thrown out of office. We know this. We live in a corrupt age.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The slop point? true. also producing revolutions in higher math, REAL dangers and benefits in genes/virus studies. I would say SLOW DOWN! we don’t want COVID 2.0 - end of civilization. But China is already running LLMs near level. How do you stop them? Powerful tech, can be used for good and bad.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The water point is no longer true. . New technology is reducing water use Modern hyperscale operators increasingly deploy: * closed-loop liquid cooling * hybrid cooling * dry cooling * free-air cooling * reclaimed or recycled water The claim is less than a golf course, but I need to see studies

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

China - true over last 20 years - will use state capacity to forge ahead, use dominance as cudgel. Ideally, we could do similar. would require a national sense of shared purpose, sacrifice by the “tech titans” which won’t happen. people will pursue narrow interests.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Everything written on AI economics, leadership, and economic capture are true. What is left unsaid, is the risk of slowing down AI, ceding the progress to China - who already have both Kimi and Qwen as near-frontier models. Just as in rare earth metals, a priority national security issue.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

this the definition of betraying the interests of the country you are elected to lead.

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Cost of education + %student debt/earnings + default rate.. Yes, worse for humanities. Main problem is COST of college I know people who have serviced their debt loan for 20 years. It’s crazy and I hate it. Financially shackled from 20-35.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026

Rep. Himes: "The president was setting the basis for him to turn around on election night and say, 'I warned you that the Chinese were doing x, y, and z. It happened tonight. I'm deploying federal officers from DHS to 7 states. They will be seizing ballot boxes.'"

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johnbud.bsky.social @johnbud.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Well written!. To further you point - the current leaders have been there forever, and have prospered on this “balancing act” of the different members of the coalition. That means the old leadership is not up to this moment. So new leaders from ONE MEMBER of coalition, stepping up with their priors.

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

I’m think the interesting thing is, my post acknowledges your point. 😀 this why I’m drifting into the bushes…

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

Not exactly. That is why it was a drive by comment. I do believe we need to do the nuanced deep dive, but not in the name of “reasonable and savvy”. Fuck that. Just being smart, rather than purist.

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

Really Tom. Stop watching sports all the time, get off your ass and start reporting! 🤣

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