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Lambert Strether

@lambert-strether.bsky.social

"Live all you can. It's a mistake not to." Old-school blogger: Eschaton, Corrente, Naked Capitalism, now The Jackpot Blog. Rebuild the blogosphere c 2003-2003!

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 18h

Michael Lewis, Blockers: Why DOGE's Use of Signal Matters (Although Not to Lewis). With Charts. ❝If you want to run a parallel government, like DOGE, in secret, that doesn't need to obey or even consider the law, then do it via a matryoshka of group Signal chats thejackpot.blog/node/Michael...

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today's Water Cooler, 2026-10-07 • Reddit just axed RSS, it says to reduce AI scraping (thanks, AI gooners!) That's a bad precedent for those who rely on RSS to provide a window into the discourse NOT dominated by social media thejackpot.blog/node/TodaysW... 👉Jackpot Blog: Bot-less. No AI slop!

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Michael Lewis, Blockers: Why Does Lewis Neglect DOGE's Use of Self-Deleting Signal's Chats? "The whole [DOGE] operation has always been done on Signal" —DOGE's Sahil Lavingia "There is one (1) occurrence in Blockers of 'Signal'" —lambert, who indexed the book thejackpot.blog/node/Michael...

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday Cat Blogging Friend of the blog BLCKDGRD writes: Rest in Peace, Stanley (after Elkin). As long as we kept the lid up and the bathroom door open he never used the litter box (he would if we left the lid down or accidentally shut the door) until his rapid decline in his old age this past year

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump AI Luncheon: Don't—Don't—Don't—Don't Believe the Hype thejackpot.blog/node/TrumpAI... There are TWO typos on the "morally binding" safety agreement. 👇

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

National Design Studio DOGE Gooners Desecrate The American Flag on americabydesign.gov They butchered the stripes in their waving flag background animation, thereby violating "4 USC 1: Flag; stripes and stars" 👎 thejackpot.blog/node/Nationa... Enjoy!

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump to usher in ‘golden age’ of American tech with DC bash showcasing powerful new tool This "tool" was built by DOGE (now National Design Studio). Therefore, it's designed to steal data, have backdoors, and punish people seen by Trump as enemies foxnews.com/politics/tru... 👇

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Trump to usher in ‘golden age’ of American tech with DC bash showcasing powerful new tool

Trump and JD Vance will unveil America.gov, a new AI tool designed to be a one-stop shop for navigating federal government services.

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

❝They handed the keys to all the DOGE boys. You think they gave them back? --Atrios As I've been saying. thejackpot.blog/node/TodaysW... And much more, including bird songs and the daily Plantidote 👉Jackpot Blog community now open for free comments without registration. Bot-less. No AI slop!

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday Cat Blogging, 2026-09-25 ❝As cats often do, Jinn found me, not the other way around. He announced his imminent arrival in a dream 👇 Full post at the Jackpot Blog thejackpot.blog/node/FridayC...

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dad Joke of the Day: What did one ocean say to the other ocean? Words of the Day: • Stakeholder. • Clan. • Gen. * Nothing. It just waved. 👇 Words of the Day at The Jackpot Blog (M-F 10:00am) thejackpot.blog/node/Wordsof... 👉 The Jackpot Blog. Bot-less. And no AI slop!

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Words of the Day, 2026-09-24

Dad Joke of the Day: What did one ocean say to the other ocean? Stakeholder. Clan. Gen.

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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is Google "AI Overspew" Like a Nigerian "419" Advance-fee Scam? Yes. thejackpot.blog/node/IsGoogl...

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