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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 19h
They're Republican burners, many of them anyway.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Before he became a liability for el-Sayed and everyone decided he was a nobody, hell yeah most of the far left was crawling up in supplication. There were accounts predicting he’d run for President in 2028. Don’t memory hole it.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Call me a cynic, but why do I think that if the AI industry weren’t a several trillion dollar thing that insiders can carve out healthy portions of if they have the right resume and connection and pub, they’d be singing a different tune?
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In six months he’ll have completely different loyalties.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Unlike Iran, Russia’s not gonna contradict him publicl.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Or a six-month relaxing of the filibuster rules.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do the Republicans really have over $1B cash ON HAND in mid-October? What's up with that? They should have bought TV time with that weeks ago.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not just unified government, but also no filibuster of course.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Probably a mistake.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think you’re not hearing a lot about AR and LA because DC Dems aren’t talking about or funding them, and for a good reason (the National Dems poll at like 5% favorability in those states). But they know, and they’re gonna be very close. I would guess closer than FL.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Add to the list for the Oversight Committees next year. Won't be hard to suss out. Man I hope they staff up and basically hold hearings round the clock.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And somewhere his former wife gets at least a little bit of satisfaction. I'm good with that.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's a day and a half of U.S. consumption, by my math.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Diesel fuel is about 280 gallons per ton. So this amounts to about 84 million gallons. The U.S. uses about 123 million gallons A DAY. So this is about a day and a half's worth.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Right. Precisely when the shit starts hitting the fan with their contractual commitments to Oracle and the neo-clouds. I wonder if those two things are connected?
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think Ossoff's crack about Natalie Harp stung them good. They think this kind of thing is payback.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's generally a better idea (you can achieve your goals faster) to engage with people who challenge you with new ideas, rather than acting like a middle-schooler. Study some of the people who have actually effected change, like MLK and Gandhi, and you'll learn something.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wonder if "... aren't sure ..." in this quote is the equivalent of the journalistic trope "it was unclear that ...", meaning "we all know they can't attract enough rev but it's not our job to say so."
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Aside from everything else, I can’t imagine a less likely place to start a race war than Minnesota.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The revolt has already started.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Like many attitudes toward political issues, it’s an emotional reaction toward the stance taken by the American Left, which tends to exalt and idealize the person being executed no matter how horrific their crime was.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It doesn’t make it Ok, but it is important context that we on the left infuriatingly discount.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whatever. Talk to you in January.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I always end up putting this in the comments whenever ultra-orthodox anti-Zionism comes up. It's for obscure scriptural reasons having to do with the coming of the Messiah, and has nothing to do with Palestinians. It's a very tiny splinter group based almost entirely in NYC.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Honestly that's overthinking. It's rare for a sitting senator not to campaign for the nominee of her party. She likely just thinks he's a good candidate. He's proven to be FAR less left wing than his core supporters thought. That she preferred his primary opponent is water long under the bridge.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not the best mini-haiku I've ever read, but it fits the zeitgeist.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Did he mean Smaugy? This is a Hobbit reference! Has to be!
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I dunno. Columbia conspicuously absent.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This piece is dead on, I'd say, but I find it fascinating that so many people are grappling with "what is intelligence" and "what is consciousness," and what those imply about morality, questions that have hounded philosophers for hundreds of years since the answer stopped being "God" for so many.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh crap they're leaning into the "Claude has rights too" thing now. I really think it is important that the vast majority of normies out there push back hard on that particular illness.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The key is "annualized revenue," which can be calculated on any basis the company wants - one month times 12, one week times 52, hell even one day times 365. So it can change wildly without any lying, fraud, or even error. Never ever rely on annualized anything. It's used to present a positive face.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm assuming this comes from Natalie or others in his orbit, who are imagining a huge payday from AI companies post White House.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Been waiting for them to give up on GA. Trump probably made them wait, but it's been pretty hopeless for a while. Interesting that it goes to SC, which is a race only because of the extreme delta in candidate quality. They must be very worried about R turnout for Graham.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Luckily you can't believe anything he says.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dunno but the advantage Dems have gotten lately before election day comes almost all from early in-person, not mail (2020, when Trump told his voters not to vote by mail, excepted). People get that wrong all the time. LOTS of Republicans vote by mail, because they're older or rural.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Interesting that the best two candidates they chose, in Iowa and Florida (which isn't on this list) are women.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That's an attempted extortion if every I saw one. And I'm sure Microsoft will see it exactly as that and pay up.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
True. And this isn’t some novel moral debate. We’ve made things before we may not be able to control if they’re released out into the world. So we try really hard not to. Actually a physical virus is a LOT harder to control than something you can blow up, like a data center.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What else possibly could have happened?
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was clearly not a home run.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why would they give up all their leverage before negotiating?
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What does one have to do with the other?
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I guess Christmas is, too.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And what you want to do if you're planning a false flag attack is leak it beforehand ...
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Actually quite good advice.
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's always a weird tactic when you attack a candidate for a private event that actually humanizes her or him, which is what Ramaswamy is doing. She had a bad argument with her husband after a drink, they resolved it. I mean, is that really all they have on her?
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What’s with crazy eyes in the red dress? Who is that?
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today in "something that if written 20 years ago everyone would have responded by asking if you're OK."
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penguins18.bsky.social @penguins18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Man the eyeliner on that one.
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