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King Bandit, The First of His Name

@kingbandit.bsky.social
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Software engineering manager 💻, neoliberal sellout 🌐, dystopia enthusiast 💣 - ♟️, 🏀, various rants.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Let me make a sort of orthogonal point: I don’t get the attacks on immigrants - that even I’ve experienced - that sound like “you came here from a bad place.” Yeah man I know. That was the whole idea of coming here. To come to a good place where you can make something of your life in freedom.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
once again, you're *supposed* to signal virtue, while also attempting to *possess* it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Remember that Republicans believe that the first spike there, caused entirely by Putin's invasion of Ukraine, is actually Joe Biden's fault while the second spike there, caused entirely by Trump's war on Iran, is also Joe Biden's fault.
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Blake Bortles @blakebortles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Like I said during the postseason, I've been a Knicks hater for *years* but this team is just too damn likeable.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
OOPS GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon The PAC boosting Collins is "absolutely furious" at the "ridiculous error" made by the buyer, which takes blame and has refunded the money. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon
An outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12/10/2026
In 1950, ~20% of US households did not own a refrigerator. mycentral.coop/through-deca...
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Through the Decades of Electricity | Central Rural Electric Cooperative
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
all the people who are like "the middle class was better off in the 1950s" have not reckoned with the census data that says 33% of American households used chamber pots in 1950.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Lol
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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The basic problem with this is that, from the outside - imagining you don’t know otherwise from the inside - it is not likely that AI is conscious, or pocket calculators … or humans. Because consciousness, back of the envelope, is pretty unlikely stuff around here [gestures at physical universe].
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farner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
men who sacrifice liberty for bibberty deserve neither
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zitron accidentally making his first good point about the downsides of AI.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 09/10/2026
Ditka called him the worst president we’ve ever had & said not running against him for Senate was “the biggest mistake of his life” & yet Obama does this. Such a kind human. So full of grace. Every day continuing to show us how to live & reminding us what we’re missing at the highest levels now. 😞
Barack and Ditka at the White House
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s a really complicated topic! Maybe read a book before Dunning-Krugering yourself?
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The number one thing that irritates me about AI consciousness discourse is that I’ve actually read a fair amount for a layperson about philosophy of mind and it’s quite clear to me most of the people making very confident statements about consciousness have not.
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🚲🕸️𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖘🕸️🚲 @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just can't keep up with all these new politically correct terms. Guys like me are constantly getting cancelled just for using terms that used to be acceptable
Screenshot of a Donald Trump TRUTH: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, "Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Also, the flawed Athenian democracy literally fell because a bunch of xenophobic dipshits insisted on unrestrained power for their homeland and had contempt for and felt free to abuse allied states. All while facing the challenge of another, even more authoritarian power.
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Clinton Reese @freeruckus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They *DO* know what happened at the Alamo, right?
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.
Trump nodding, Susan Dell emoting.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
John Urschel has his CV on his MIT professor page and if you scroll past 7 pages of his mathematics achievements and awards and theorems and theses it says, briefly, "former NFL (American) football player" math.mit.edu/~urschel/job...
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The environmental movement in this country is completely off the rails self-destructive. And I say this as someone who absolutely thinks climate change should be taken seriously. That's just not what they're doing.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Metro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Awesome.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brazil to US: "Anything you can do I can do better".
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I mean, school’s the exception specifically because of all the government backstopping and rules around bankruptcy discharging. Without that, banks would in fact not make these loans, which is why these guarantees were made in the first place.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
its another demonstration of something we've known from the start of his first term: Trump's weakness is actually more threatening to us than his strength
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
looks like a still shot from a movie about world war II ending ... differently.
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Never forget.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Booort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'd be super comfortable if I'd done a bunch of horrendous and/or illegal on behalf of my boss who now sounds like Horse_ebooks
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogging.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A hypothesis likely to make a lot of BlueSky mad: A large part of Mamdani’s popularity is that his bark is WAY bigger than his bite, and he actually hasn’t done (or been able to do) much that is really THAT radical, leaving his largely likeable persona.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/10/2026
Same energy.

@Sassafrass_84

I'll take $5,000 dollars over socialism.
It's not a hard choice.
Vote RED!
Jack Posobiec: What if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 03/10/2026
Tariffs Gulf War 3 mass deportation of productive neighbors
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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
ALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028
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White Plains Rich @whiteplainsrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
She can't tolerate living with this lying philanderer, but wants you to spend the next six years with him.  If that isn't the essential essence of the GOP, I don't know what is. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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As She Divorces Ken Paxton, His Wife Urges Texans to Vote for Him
In a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.”
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My father worked first in a meat packing plant then a truck factory. He’s thrilled I make considerably more money designing software and IT infrastructure. Romanticizing of physical labor is almost always done by people who don’t have to do physical labor.
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reminder to sports broadcasters regarding Deshaun Watson:
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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This creature was not built to withstand the scrutiny of being shown 5 times a day to viewers during a sport's playoff season
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Glad to see the right has it’s priorities clearly in order
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Time to ship him off to the ruins of Old Valyria.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 01/10/2026
If you carry out the torture chamber LLM experiments by doing all the matrix multiplications and whatnot with a pen and paper, and you produce, like, “ow ow that hurts”, what exactly is the entity that is being tortured?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And what real man wants to be on a platform filled with GIRLS?!?! EW GROSS
Geiger Capital: Officially deleted instagram.

An inherently female app. Zero benefit.

Elon Musk: Instagram is for girls.
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dude’s coming down with necrotizing fasciitis.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Superintendent: SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S
A MEMO THAT MAKES CLEAR IT IS LAWFUL FOR YOU TO JUST KILL PEOPLE IF YOU THINK THERE ARE DRUGS ON THE SAME BOAT?

Principal Skinner: yes

superintendent: May I see it?

Principal: no
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King Bandit, The First of His Name @kingbandit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anthropic just out here doing marketing for Z.ai is pretty funny. “Hey infosec people, this will do for you what we won’t!” www.anthropic.com/research/glm...
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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
there is a certain type of person who believes firmly that the United States is the worst country in the history of time and, like people who believe that the United States is the best country in the history of time, all of their other beliefs flow from that point.
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