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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social And Kushner, who is acting as a diplomat while grifting for himself.

Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social Musk has too much power, but on this issue I don't think he is going against the US government (or, at least the executive branch). Trump seems be turning strongly against Ukraine. I don't think Musk is acting independently of that.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Today I did a hike in Castle Rock State Park, a favorite of rock climbers. But this was a Tuesday afternoon so I had this spot, at Goat Rock, all to myself (at least for a bit, a group of three young guys came by shortly after this). It's a beautiful place, not […] [Original post on sfba.social]

A 60-something man with a salt and pepper beard, a green cap and a flannel shirt, taking a selfie on top of a sandstone rock formation. The rock behind him to the right has pits caused by erosion (tafoni). Behind him is a blue sky and several tree-covered mountain ridges, fading into the distance where a low marine layer of clouds can be see.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@heidilifeldman I guess they judge-shopped for a MAGA judge willing to sign off on this, but I wonder what the warrant says, what they were looking for. Would they have to give a copy to Rep. Omar? Will we find out?

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@samstokes Yes, I really wish I never gave any campaign my phone #. Emails are bad enough.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social Probably it happened this way: She proposed to just say "unilaterally". Trump said "no one knows what that word means", because he doesn't. So she changed it to "unilaterally, all by himself".

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@sundogplanets They say they have to do 1000 evasive maneuvers per day. I would guess that as the number of manuvers needed would go up as the square of the number of objects, since every satellite has to avoid every other one. If so, if they make their fleet 10x larger which is less than they […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social When I was young I wondered why everyone wouldn't just know who the princesses are, how many of them could they have? But the German speaking parts of Europe were split into several hundred tiny mini-kingdoms in the Middle Ages, I learned later, so there was plenty […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@GottaLaff @stux I think it is a bridge problem. It should either treat a bsky quote as a quote that has permission, or a link if the quoted person hasn't enabled the bridge. The "pending" status s ridiculous and it was a mistake that Mastodon ever created that limbo setting.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@Leszek_Karlik The traditional IT daemons are little programs that run in the background and do what you want in a predictable way. So maybe we can call the LLM agent variety chaos daemons.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

LLM-based agents don't have to be super-intelligent to cause massive damage. After all, the Black Death killed 1/3 of Europe and no one thinks it was conscious. It suffices to have large numbers of agents pounding away at the Internet, powered by millions of dollars in compute power, trying to […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@Holberg As a Californian, I can assure you that they blame Newsom, not Trump, for the price of gasoline. That is just how they think.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@Holberg The explanation for the contradiction is that a family of four does not need an income of $248k to live comfortably in Nevada, unless the authors are defining "comfortably" to mean "living the lifestyle of the top 5%".

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@wjmaggos It appears that YouTube is carrying the trailer, they just are refusing to accept paid ads for it. Which means that few people will find it, but we can share it. It's trending now.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@skinnylatte A lot of people think of SF as a leftist city, but it has been largely taken over by tech billionaires. They run as Democrats, but they have been captured by the big money.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social These are the three conservatives who sometimes vote against him when he gets too crazy even for him. Notice that he didn't invite Thomas or Alito.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@skinnylatte I did that climb a long time ago. I have enough acrophobia that I did not look down and stayed as far as I could from edges at the top, but I did manage to do it, thanks to friends. It was a dry November and before social media so very uncrowded that day.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@png Yes, no matter how much data you have, it all fits.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@lowqualityfacts That is what they train LLMs to do, except that instead of gaslighting they say sorry and spout out the second opinion that pops into their "head".

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@ifixcoinops If there is a Nigel, there has to be an innit.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@ianRobinson CS Lewis straight up said that Aslan is Jesus. But yes, Greta Gerwig is great, so I am wondering what she will do with it.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@mattblaze That is, we can see it but can't take an accurate digital photo of what we see.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@mattblaze Recently I learned that there is a quite substantial range of colors, generally cyan, that computers and digital photos cannot display because no RGB combination will match; you would need negative red.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social I am not a fan of this kind of forced choice problem (trolley problems and the like) because the real world is more complex than the limited choices given. In this case, I would try to find some way to help my friend get justice or to otherwise fix the damage, and […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@Nonilex I wonder if these women might be the people he was talking about here: "These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls — they want to be safe, and they come... Mr. President, may I speak to you? Thank you, sir. Thank you... because a year and a half ago, I was afraid to leave. I was […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@skinnylatte I love geocaching. We have quite a few folks who have, shall we say, different ways of perceiving the world.

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I assumed that Fediverse could really be an open, progressive environment where to discuss ideas and grow up, with different points of view. But what I'm finding lately, is something different. Narration going from "pro AI / glasses" to "no AI / glasses" so if you don't maintain a position, you […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@Nonilex Has anyone explained to him the relationship between inflation and the Fed's interest rates?

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@cdarwin The article says that the third project still has money but has been relocated from Maryland to Iowa, and all of the scientists have declined to relocate, so it is dead as well.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@moira I am completely familiar, which is why I said voters need to check their registration status.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@moira This is bad if those 1 million names were actual Texas voters. But if many of them are people who moved elsewhere or died, it doesn't matter. Either way, every Texas voter needs to check their registration status.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@BashStKid @futurebird But supposedly the Pythagoreans killed a guy for proving that the square root of 2 is irrational; they had thought that ratios were key to the harmony of the universe. No idea if this is actually true though.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

@spocko Utah votes 100% by mail, and if I understand correctly they are refusing to cooperate with this scheme and haven't handed over their voter rolls. I don't think they are participating in the lawsuits though.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@the-downballot.com The AP website is fresher than what is on X. And this is how it should be! The kind of laziness that's led too many political journalists to just hang on X, and perhaps BlueSky, and expect all the news to come to them that way needs to end, especially with a partisan running X.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@the-downballot.com Let's stop using X as the way to get and report news. The AP has a web site, and their calls for today's primary races are all there. If they choose to deemphasize X, good for them. See apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/… for today's […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@phocks By 1996 things were already starting to get expensive (though not nearly as bad as now), so the dad must have had a good union.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social See the comment on this one that empty wheel acknowledged was a good point. Her name might appear in the metadata just because she converted and printed the doc for Trump as part of her role as "human printer".

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@futurebird Content creators aren't that significant economically. The real damage would be to all the companies that have tried to replace workers with LLMs, for example to handle the bulk of the customer support calls. And then there are all the shops full of people who have become deskilled […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@ianRobinson But Incredibles 2 was bad. Really bad, other than the Jack Jack scenes. All that time and that is what they came up with? Given that failure, despite the fact that the original Incredibles might have been the best thing Pixar ever did, doesn't give me hope that 3 will be any good.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

@VeroniqueB99 I have seen this one going around, but how did the old guy save $800 per month, back when money was worth 7x as much as now. It would be like saving $5000 a month or more. Sorry, the boomer dad did not save $800 per month.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117099… How could this be? Donald Trump insists that magnets don't magnet when they get wet. Fake news!

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

[US Pol: Imperialism] @futurebird A lot of US power is economic: international trade is largely in dollars and US debt is in dollars; the payment systems are US controlled as is the Internet. This allows the US to run huge debts relatively cheaply. None of that is really enforced by military […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social People who aren't native speakers feel pressure to sound fluent in written communication, so I am not surprised that many are attracted to using an LLM to write for them.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

@Holberg Trump was in charge, but his first term appointees were mostly "normal Republicans", people who had some bad ideas but who were competent and experienced at running organizations, veterans either of the Bush administration or corporations and not Trump loyalists. So it wasn't a disaster […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@sarae @ProPublica @propublicaguild I have been waiting for this; now I can contribute to @ProPublica again. Thanks to all.

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@hacks4pancakes I am a left handed American, and I use the most efficient approach for me: fork in left hand, no switching. The "right" way was pointed out to me when I was young and I just ignored it. I suggest just continuing to use the style of eating you grew up with. People might notice and […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

@Nonilex But: Minnesota? A state that Trump is at war with? Seems he and Hegseth would have more motivation to covertly attack Minnesota than Iran would. Why wouldn't Iran attack some place Trump likes?

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

@Nonilex We need to win the Senate by 2 (since Fetterman is a lost cause). Tough, but possible.

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