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DJT economics: - Paying for anything is bad (you lose money) - Selling things is good (you get money) - Borrowing is good (you get money) - But high interest is bad (see #1) No concept of a fair trade or win-win.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 06/10/2026

I just read his earlier book 'The Fifth Risk' on the non-transition know-nothings of the 45 admin. So infuriating how this regime operates.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Palmer sold his Oculus Rift VR setup to Facebook in 2014, and made a good chunk of money - a small portion of that was given to a pro-Trump group in 2016, and he has since given to many Republicans.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Newton also wrote one about the South winning the Civil War battle at Gettysburg.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Newton has written quite a few books - including one called '1945' - an "alternate history" book where the U.S. only fought Japan (i.e. did not fight Nazi Germany).

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Good energy on the air!

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

The money swirl reminds me of a toilet.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Also an Imperial summer palace that is fairly modern and quite nice.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Newton is 83 years old, Elon 55, Palmer 34. Three generations of dudes pulling off the public teat. I suspect Palmer's Anduril defense tech co. will come out all right from this special project.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

I suspect they've all read a bit too much science fiction.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Remember that news about how weirdos Elon, Palmer and Newt will be figuring out the future of warfare or something?

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Gotta make a few (trillion) bucks!

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Blame it all on Colin K! Nice work, Fox.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

Will Pete put all the troops in DJT wigs?

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 05/10/2026

So rare when he tells the plain truth.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 04/10/2026

Is it the endgame for the 'everything is information' thesis?

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 04/10/2026

New Tom McCarthy novel out this week!

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 03/10/2026

Agree - often the humbleness prevents them from having the visibility up the chain.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 03/10/2026

Pretty cool to get personalized billboards! Free publicity from people who are afraid.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 03/10/2026

I found it was rare for 'management' to really know who are the high-performing devs. I doubt it's gotten any easier now with AI in the mix. But for sure generating a lot of code is a pretty bad metric of quality.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 03/10/2026

Can JD just stay in Alaska for a few decades?

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 02/10/2026

Entire GOP supports it.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 01/10/2026

What does this even mean? "the epicenter of 'power' is not Washington, D.C., but Heaven"

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 01/10/2026

That's got some Kamala 2024 energy, I'm sad to say.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 01/10/2026

They know what's best! And they know they know!

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 01/10/2026

Every day I wake up in amazement that so many Americans put their trust in an obvious con man and grifter.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sam Altman's malicious hacking collective keeps doing malicious hacking things. "We don't have the legal tools to stop this unprecedented hacking," wail officials who very much do have the tools. www.ft.com/content/1150...

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OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches

New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/10/2026

It’s kind of neat to compare the donor and trustee reaction to some students holding signs that say “stop the genocide” with their reaction to the tenured former Bush official responsible for widespread torture advocate for firing squads.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 30/09/2026

I block at least half of new followers, when they show signs of being non-human.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 30/09/2026

Pete going for the 'Patton' vibes.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 30/09/2026

Between Schmitt and Leavitt's 360 it was a real banner day for the GOP braintrust.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 30/09/2026

Agree - the texts on the posterboard were very generic, wasn't clear at all why they thought it was damning on its own. Schmitt and co. assumed their way into the story, and you know what that does...

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 29/09/2026

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here we are.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 29/09/2026

So articulate, that Senator. He can say 'dirtbag'

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 29/09/2026

A real class act, this Senator.

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Curt Gardner @perival.com · 28/09/2026

Belatedly reading Michael Lewis's book 'The Fifth Risk' on DJT's first admin and their incredibly incompetent know-it-all attitudes toward government. Frightening, and obviously the second term is even worse.

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