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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ezra Klein Effect: I'm known for X, let's try to diversity my portfolio by opining on Y

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WIRED @wired.com · 28/08/2026

California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare. www.wired.com/story/i-dema...

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I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead

California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's hard to blame people for using LLMs like it's Old Google, since Current Google is increasingly unusable I do wonder how much longer it will take LLMs to have Sponsored Content, etc

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think it's that the Establishment Left approaches politics as lawyers: what can I prove in a court of law And the Right approaches politics as motivational speakers: how can I get people to feel the way I want them to feel

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm not so sure that people who vote for Republicans will care what DOGE did or didn't do

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Unfortunately there's a lot more incentive for people to sensationalize than to explain

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Exactly. "Vulnerabilities" sounds scary to a layperson, but TV shows where someone "hacks through a firewall" in 20 seconds isn't real life

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is the "middle-schooler who didn't read the book trying to give the presentation to the class" of graphics

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

CUI roughly means "anything the government doesn't release to the public already." So this policy would pretty much exempt the Pentagon from FOIA requests

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Humor needs shared values to be funny, not just a setup and a punchline

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A wrestling match my senior year of high school led directly to a new rule being created that has been in place for over 2 decades

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Almost everyone I know in my industry who started a business could do so because their spouse had health insurance

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It also disincentivises starting your own company because you have to find and pay for insurance all on your own

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'm sorry, did a Republican just acknowledge global climate change

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A police officer and a metals salesman have a cup of coffee together while a man tries to reconcile with his estranged wife

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have every confidence they will succeed at the "single slice of white bread" part

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The data of hundreds of millions of people living in the US has been compromised and it will be years before we understand the full scope of it

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I've worked with 9 federal agencies over a 20 year period. There's about a dozen violations of law described in this article. A proper GAO audit and/or review of IT Authority to Operate (ATO) documentation would likely reveal dozens more

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

October is the best month for visiting DC. Late April is a close second

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Japanese guy that got poetic about the experience of free chips and salsa at a Tex-Mex restaurant. "Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived"

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Trump: "I want my legacy to last forever" Zeldin: **raises hand**

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

People who do not listen to the lyrics of songs they use are my favorite people

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Blockchain, now AI: tech companies want us to trust machines more than humans, despite these products undermining trust in both humans and machines

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Carl Hiassen's next novel is gonna be a banger

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What do you think "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" sounds like in that voice

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Love how "Casino Royale" predicted this 20 years ago

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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

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Elon Musk Is Playing God

The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.

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Seth M. Fisher @mgoseth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Give me your favorite moment and affix the corresponding basketball score as a donation to the edsbscharitybowl.com. Mine is holding a double-digit lead over Purdue all night at Mackey, then thanking their fans for making it feel like it never got past 2: x.com/ByAZuniga/st... #charitibundibowl

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's giving "it worked on my local" vibes

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 24/03/2026

It was 30 years ago today, at Munn, against the Gophers, to tie an NCAA tournament game, Mike Legg introduced the world to "The Michigan" www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TPk...

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Mike Legg - 'The Michigan Goal' - Full Sequence - March 24, 1996 (High Quality)

YouTube video by HockeyWebCast (Robert Söderlind)

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Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

bring back "software bug of the month" BYTE choose violence / named and shamed a broken FORTRAN binary search used by Turing Award winner Robert Floyd—a literal pioneer of program correctness imagine getting roasted in print and then having to wait 30 days for the magazine to publish the solution

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 06/03/2026

>let claude code fuck with production >no backups incredible.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/03/2026

One missing piece is that a total revolution has *not* occurred in the evolution of how people decide _what_ software features or solutions to build, which was always a social and not technical problem, and the conditions of which have been in steady and then increasing deterioration for decades.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 06/03/2026

Part of the disconnect is of course that techbros insist that a total revolution in the way that software is made is taking place, but anyone who uses software can observe that software continues to suck more than ever before

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

When you know where the water heater is, or how fast it's moving, but not both

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

How do you take out the game cartridge and blow on it, but for LLMs?

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Their episodes on "Nudge" were great. It was such a popular book under the first Obama admin

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Dave Pradko @pradko.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Exactly, my first thought was, these are the credit default swaps of shitty hot takes I started saying in about 2018 we were entering the Golden Age of Trolling. We haven't peaked yet

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