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Lambert Strether

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"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 · 22h
Musk too.
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Musical interlude: youtu.be/OKb6OJSAHIE?...
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White Girl
YouTube video by X - Topic
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
How much is that DOGE in the window? thejackpot.blog/node/Howmuch... • DOGEbags Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor founded Cathedral, backed at $1.4 billion Not bad for a few months wrecking government under ketamine-addled turkey baster-wielding Elon Musk I wish them the success they deserve!
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yep
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Did the White House Staff Butcher Copyright on their GOTV Mailing? thejackpot.blog/node/WhiteHo... Is it possible that Trump's staff just can't handle Mailchimp? Or are there darker scenarios?
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today's Water Cooler, 2026-10-12 thejackpot.blog/node/TodaysW... Because data centers employ so few people, the capital invested in data centers will employ roughly ten million fewer workers than that capital would have employed if invested elsewhere.” --Paul Krugman
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Today's Water Cooler, 2026-10-12
(1) “Will AI Crowd Out Jobs?.” • Yes, and in an interesting way. (2) “Monopoly Round-Up: AI Cockroaches Scurry Out from Under Nvidia, the Most Valuable Company in the World.” • Ugh. (3) “Live: Ilhan Omar accuses Trump of weaponizing government against her in raid.” • Now do Sam Altman. (4) “Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed.” • Ugh.
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is there a Nobel Prize for @assh0lery? If not, why not?
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is a great site. Consumer tips!
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Former Amazon driver?
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Executive summary: DOGE was an experiment in direct rule by an oligarch using Signal.
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I have been working hard on this topic. A few links: thejackpot.blog/node/DOGEIsN... thejackpot.blog/node/Michael... thejackpot.blog/node/Michael... thejackpot.blog/node/NewTyle... Plus a searchable archive of past media coverage I'm working to make more exhaustive than it already it
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I am at least working on understanding what DOGE is, as an institution: thejackpot.blog/node/Michael... thejackpot.blog/node/Michael...
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tea Sunday Supplement, 2026-10-11: Teatime thejackpot.blog/node/SundayS... With a recipes for spaghetti carbonara.
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Jerri-Lynn Scofield, Sunday Supplement at The Jackpot Blog ❝ If the East India Company's scheme was successful, the largest multinational corporation in the world, would enact the greatest theft of trade secrets in the history of mankind. 👇
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today's Water Cooler at The Jackpot Blog (M-F 2:00pm) thejackpot.blog/node/TodaysW... Plus bird songs, 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 · 09/10/2026
❝The structural advantages Republicans counted on to protect them from big losses in this election — a favorable Senate map, redistricting wins, and a huge financial edge — are no longer holding. —Cook Political Report 👇 Full post at The Jackpot Blog
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
By any chance is your work Creative Commons-ed? I would love to have your permission to reprint it on The Jackpot Blog. Thanks!
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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 · 08/10/2026
What does Lewis think the "Muskrats" were DOING on Signal? Calling Mom? Party planning? Ketamine buys at Logan Circle? Je répète: DOGE was an experiment in direct rule by an oligarch using Signal.
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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
Internet Traditional Friday Cat Blogging (at The Jackpot Blog, 7am F) thejackpot.blog/node/FridayC... 👉Jackpot Blog community now open for free comments without registration. Bot-less, too!
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Friday Cat Blogging, 2026-10-02
🎶 Felines, nothing more than felines 🎶
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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
Deep dive from humble blogger. NOTE There are TWO typos in voluntary safety accord, not just “Unites States” for “United States." See footnote 2 here: thejackpot.blog/node/TrumpAI...
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Trump AI Luncheon: Don't—Don't—Don't—Don't Believe the Hype
“Suckers, liars, get me a shovel.” —Public Enemy, Don’t Believe the Hype
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Indeed! Trump AI Luncheon: Don't—Don't—Don't—Don't Believe the Hype thejackpot.blog/node/TrumpAI...
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Trump AI Luncheon: Don't—Don't—Don't—Don't Believe the Hype
“Suckers, liars, get me a shovel.” —Public Enemy, Don’t Believe the Hype
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Even AI can spot when Trump is lying Trump AI Luncheon: Don't—Don't—Don't—Don't Believe the Hype thejackpot.blog/node/TrumpAI...
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Trump AI Luncheon: Don't—Don't—Don't—Don't Believe the Hype
“Suckers, liars, get me a shovel.” —Public Enemy, Don’t Believe the Hype
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the more fun examples: Trump AI Luncheon: Don't—Don't—Don't—Don't Believe the Hype thejackpot.blog/node/TrumpAI...
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Trump AI Luncheon: Don't—Don't—Don't—Don't Believe the Hype
“Suckers, liars, get me a shovel.” —Public Enemy, Don’t Believe the Hype
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To trust america.‌gov, I have to trust this Administration. I also have to trust Son of DOGE, NDS. Then I have to trust the Silicon Valley oligarchs that both service. That’s three big asks.
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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 · 29/09/2026
These guys just steal whatever they want. It's not just Trump, it's his backers in Silicon Valley
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also so the White House can drive people toward its malware infested, data-Hoovering app
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Small scale harm, but Republicans descrating the flag, that's a turn up for the books. And the whole site is sloppy and bad. Makes you wonder about the america.gov rollout today
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks. Because I loathe the Son of Doge, the National Design Studio, so much: thejackpot.blog/node/Nationa...
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National Design Studio DOGE Gooners Desecrate the American Flag on Americabydesign.gov
“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” —Luke 16:9-11And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks! I am now in BlueSky in addition to the Twitter. Because I loathe the National Design Studio so much: thejackpot.blog/node/Nationa...
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National Design Studio DOGE Gooners Desecrate the American Flag on Americabydesign.gov
“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” —Luke 16:9-11And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You might like this too? thejackpot.blog/node/Nationa...
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National Design Studio DOGE Gooners Desecrate the American Flag on Americabydesign.gov
“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” —Luke 16:9-11And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm honored. Thank you. And because I'm a blogger looking for links + I want so bad to p*ss all over the america.gov shindig tomorrow, this: thejackpot.blog/node/Nationa... Thanks again.
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National Design Studio DOGE Gooners Desecrate the American Flag on Americabydesign.gov
“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” —Luke 16:9-11And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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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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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Infect thy neighbor as thyself," said Jesus never.
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Truth 👇
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
See at The Jackpot Blog thejackpot.blog/node/DOGEMet... thejackpot.blog/node/TodaysW... As always with Trump, we'll have to look at the detail....
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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
Not to blogwh*re, but maybe you can take this idea and run with it: thejackpot.blog/node/IsGoogl... Unless you already did and I missed it :-( Thanks for your amazing work.
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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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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hey, X-cretors is funny. Yours, or just part of the vibe?
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Social media work is work. No
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Lambert Strether @lambert-strether.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
BlueSky is liberal, not left
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