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If your proposal for reform requires a constitutional amendment, or Republican votes, your intention is to block reform.

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It's free and easy. Go to the three major credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion online. Ignore all the marketing for other services like credit monitoring, you want the free govt-regulated Credit Freeze. Here's detailed instructions: www.experian.com/blogs/ask-ex...

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A Credit Freeze makes the credit industry work for you: they have to get your permission before any release of your data, or to create a new account or loan in your name. Someone could still steal your identity, but they can't do much damage without detection.

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Between this and other major security breaches, Social Security numbers are no longer the secret identifiers we've thought they were. Assume that anyone motivated to steal your identity can easily find it. One important defense: Freeze your credit file.

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Doesn't need insurrection act any more (given ice forces). Governors should stop worrying about that threat, and just oppose feds when necessary.

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So when the administration says, inevitably, that X% of GA voters were illegal, the election division and attorney general can say "You cannot know that without having committed a crime, which we are now investigating".

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Will be interesting to see what OpenAI does with its name.

Can you folks use these distinct tax repeal events to figure out how much of the taxes are ordinarily paid by reducing supply chain margins instead of simply adding to end user cost? How much of the repeal value is taken by suppliers?

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Interesting that one of their envisioned "challenges" is climate resilience.

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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Altman says he wants "intelligence" to be a utility, so treat it like one. Note, however, that even your water utility bears real responsibility for the safety of their product.

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This may be a good thing. Families with some wealth will understand that a 529 or Roth account is a much better move. Families without that wealth or acumen will benefit from the initial $1000 gift, but won't contribute any of their hard-earned money. www.savingforcollege.com/article/trum...

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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's puzzling that DoJ keeps seeking release of state voter data. They could accomplish their stated objective differently: give each state a list of voters (from the discredited SAVE db) that they want deregistered, and demand that they do it. Seems the data is more important than the result?

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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump wants Iran to erase the big L from his forehead. The IRGC is not going to do that, no matter the cost to the Iranian people. The war will continue, waxing and waning, as long as he's in power.

He's gonna hold the last piece hostage, isn't he? Hope you've got something good to trade.

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And Dean's argument is essentially that we already have legal tools to deter the people creating these agents, so we should use them instead of inventing new ones. The key is reinforcing that deterrence, even for rich white men hiding behind corporate law.

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The law has always been slower than bad actors, and relied on deterrence instead. Deterrence is the product of A) probability of punishment, and B) degree of punishment. In American justice, both factors have broken down for rich white men. That must be fixed.

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What does Congress need to do? Aren't there existing laws applicable? Is there State law you could use? Akamai is in your jurisdiction, and has threat exposure; if ai hacked them or their customers, or vice versa, is that actionable? Trying to stop the "somebody else should do something" bus.

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Just need to get the asteroid aligned with our values, we're almost there

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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So is any new legislation required here? We really can't trust Congress to pass anything more than two pages long without corrupt influence, and the current DoJ won't prosecute. Are the statutes of limitation long enough to support a tacit threat?

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Basically, don't try to "accomplish" anything, their job is maximal opposition. And make sure the electorate knows that, and isn't holding them responsible for "progress" by 2028.

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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

With one very notable exception...

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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just make sure they build all their own infrastructure and pay real prices with real currency for everything they import. No leeching off civilized society, and they still owe US taxes.

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No, his 70 years-young comms director typed it.

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What was their economic benefit from running ~50 2mw generators for a year unpermitted? That should be the minimum fine. Actually, these "temporary" generators need more serious deterrence: fine should start after 1 month and double every month thereafter.

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Straight out of Keynes: one team digs holes, another gets paid to fill them up. One builds Trump vanity facades, another tears them down.

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A desktop computer emits about the same heat as a human body, so you've got about 7 virtual people in there with you. The problem with a data center is the density: a single rack of AI-capable compute can dissipate >100kw, like 1000 people crammed into 10 sq.ft, times >2000 racks...

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So if you're black/brown you have to ask the ICE officer to please unlock the toothpaste display. That'll do wonders for business.

They can still pick up a few in the bargain bin, though

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When Arlington cemetery needs extension

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Good. We want to see the GOP candidates loudly pledging to finish building these monstrosities.

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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Defending DC from zombies. How far will we let these lunatics go in the next two years?

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He absolutely does not care about reducing the interest on the national debt. In fact the GOP wants to leave those payments as high as possible in 2029 to block Dem action. But he does view low interest rates, increased money supply, as a visible measure of economic success and his success.

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Pity we can't get the JCPOA back so easily.

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Supposedly ASML and TSMC have a "kill switch" installed in each machine, to disable them should they fall under Chinese control. But TSMC is effectively a sole source for the modern world. Without advanced chips: no gps, satellites, cars, planes, internet, ai, mobile phones, etc.

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IIRC, the political theory behind the Social Security cap was that if rich people's annual contributions weren't capped, they'd call the program a fraud or a scam and try to undermine it.

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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Seems like Social Security makes a good and useful example program to point to. Pretty simple and limited implementation of socialist principles.

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Cheap is always relative, and it's hard to be cheaper when the competition (solar+battery) has free fuel. Even if fusion R&D was complete and successful today, with capital and fuel costs it could only compete in situations where solar is not available.