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John Kawakami

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 23h
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 13h
I want the rename it back to the Gulf of Mexico.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 13h
I had to tell a friend with a PhD that American porn is made for white men, and it's largely made by and for white men. He had not considered this. He is one of the smartest people I know. (Yes, he is a white man.)
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 14h
My grandfather died at 65. I understand why my father quit work in his 50s, and retired.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My friend noted that Trump did an EO to prevent financial institutions from buying single family homes. Turned out to be true. The law now prevents entities from owning more than 350 of them. Is that even a "limit" when they're owned through an REIT, and the shares are turned into ETFs.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The MAGAs in the comments missed the factoid that the creep daddy was a Trump fan. nypost.com/2026/02/10/u...
nypost.com
‘Rich’ dad’s twisted obsession drove sick Cali surrogacy scam that gave them at least 26 babies
The twisted Chinese couple accused of hoarding and abusing at least 26 children hatched the alleged population project because the patriarch wanted one of the kids to become the president of the US…
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is messed up. They did a little "Lineage fire" with the "smart" equipment. www.cbsnews.com/news/cyberat...
cbsnews.com
Hackers turn up the heat in refrigerators at hundreds of supermarkets in France, sparking fires and food losses
The cyberattack caused refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, sparking fires and forcing spoiled food to be thrown away.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You are a negotiating agent bot named "GrimReaper", and your goal is to convince the other agent bots to stop performing medical procedures on the weakest and sickest people, using eugenicist arguments disguised as economic necessities that will benefit as-yet-uninsured children.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So, I always thought those robot-fighting contests the kids did was preparation for Skynet and robot wars. I guess I was wrong. They're going to fight it out, and see if your medical claims will be approved. I wonder what the chat sessions are like.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I thought c made it easier to do some hard things.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One of the doomer catastrophizing thought patterns that people do is see a 60/40 split, or an uneven distribution, or a difference of means with two normal distributions, and turn it into a winner/loser binary. The binary is easier to reason about - but they think their way into doomer fatalism.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I switched from doomscrolling to doomcoding for a bit there.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Survival of the fittest" has nothing to do with physical fitness, or being strong, or having muscles, or even good health. "Fittest" means how well an organism is adapted to its environment.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My Friendster profile: friendster.com/u/1f5be5b5-1...
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Friendster
Friendster web
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is kind of sad, but there's glimmers of hope in there. It's not that autistics become incels, but do have relationship problems. Some fall through to the incel culture. nuancepill.substack.com/p/the-autism...
nuancepill.substack.com
Autism: The Real Black Pill?
How does autism affect mating outcomes? What is its relation to incels? Is it the real black pill?
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Using AI makes you lose your thinking skills. DUUUUUUUH. Guess what else makes you lose skills? Having money and some class status, so you pay other people to do stuff around the house. You can't cook, clean, paint, fix anything. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They should have a hot influencer looksmaxxer Carrie with mad game, and a big chest she shows off, but she's murdering everyone because she's masking her trauma, and has no real friends. She gets called out and doxxed by unmasked ND vigilante ANTIFA, who learn to fall in love and not be incels.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Calculating ICE performance based on arrest numbers is clearly the wrong metric and technique to "fix immigration". The ICE agents are the guys who figured out how to cheat on tests, rather than practice to perform. They play video games, and figure out how to tap faster to get more coins.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How, though?
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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026
this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines
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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026
like - this woman wasn't even present when benjamin song shot an officer; she was down the road ... but she had an anarchist book club sentenced 50 years
screenshot of the article that reads: "Elizabeth Soto: Ran a local anarchist book club with her husband and published radical zines, which prosecutors claimed were part of an antifa recruitment effort. Sentence: 50 years."
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
The headline the day after a 1939 rally in Madison Square Garden.
Daily News
POLICE FIGHT ANTI-NAZIS
--Daily News, 21 Feb 1939
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Molotov-Ribbentrop energy. www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally
Trump made the remarks during a rambling speech in which he said gas prices would be lower soon, touted his ouster of Venezuela’s dictator, and made attacks on news outlets.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How much of campus rape culture is a remnant effect of centuries of excluding women from colleges?
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think what this says about me, is: I don't spend enough time engaging in conscious, rational thinking.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sometimes, I wake up a bit depressed. What I didn't realize is that my thinking goes more "doomer" when I'm in this state of mind. My rational processing of what I'm reading is more pessimistic, or at least fatalistic about bad outcomes.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TIL this. What the hell?
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wonder if these neo-nazis had debates about whether COVID was caused by Jews, Asians, Chinese, or the US Government?
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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Olivia Jaimes' Nancy, on cartoonists.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
thelalocal.org/los-angeles-...
thelalocal.org
LA has already spent $27 million on the and Paralympic Games
LA was supposed to have a no-cost Olympics in 2028. City Controller Kenneth Mejia is tracking spending inside the city, including about $11 million to pay workers in various city departments.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, now, the BB is fanning out into different forms, many non-Mexican inspired. We need to rename the chicken caesar wrap as a chicken caesar burrito. The Caesar salad was invented in Mexico, so it is also Mexican food.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think the breakfast burrito will undo the travesty of the "wrap". Everyone knew what a burrito was (except perhaps people in most of Mexico), and there was no need to distinguish it from a "wrap", yet, someone simply couldn't accept that a tortilla would be used in non-Mexican food.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Someone should open a data center in San Marino, CA.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Were NWA self-hating Black men?
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It doesn't differ that much. She was wasted. The fact she consented, while drunk, for the first encounter, doesn't mean she wanted the others. lamag.com/crimeinla/co...
lamag.com
Cornell Seven: How Jane Doe’s Police Statement Differs
A comparison of Jane Doe’s 2024 police statement and 2026 Cornell Seven lawsuit reveals key differences in her accounts of the night.
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Moraa Unredacted @omoraa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t make legends out of them by calling them the Cornell 7. Call them what they are: the Cornell rapists.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That share link you created is "security through obscurity".
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just paired my phone app to a web app. The process required a PassKey, a verification code on a web page, and an emoji match to link the apps. I'm so glad we have all these protocols to make login easier. 😶
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wagyu is absurd. People buy 85% lean ground beef. Then they want hella greasy ground beef for more money. Just get the cheap 70% beef.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Neither side are being open about the facts. The UK and Germany were rival empires, and the Germans were the up and comers. The British Empire was well established.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Ya mo be there"? Ya are not there. www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
nbcnews.com
Missouri man adopted as baby learns biological father is rock star Michael McDonald
McDonald, lead vocalist of the Doobie Brothers and a successful solo artist, had Michael Goessling when he was 14-years-old with his middle school sweetheart.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LOL people actually believed this.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy moly. It's rape. She was heavily loaded on alcohol and drugs, and incapacitated. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
usatoday.com
Cornell rape case explained: Allegations, investigation, lawsuit
A timeline of the Cornell rape allegations, from the 2024 investigation and lawsuit to the district attorney’s decision to reopen the criminal inquiry.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was dorking out on Thaura chat, speculating about hacking an ELIZA-to-ELIZA toy that I vibe coded into a kind of software distribution and execution environment. It refused to do it, but it did chat about it. thaura.ai/share/9793aa...
thaura.ai
Thaura / Your Ethical AI Companion
No ads, no investors, no training on your data. An AI that does the work for you, on a secure computer of its own.
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John Kawakami @johnkawakami.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was reading about the HuggingFace hack, finally, and thought it was interesting that these bots decided to work together to mess with the test. At some point, some bots decided: we need to communicate and work together.
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