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Todd Berkebile

@tberkebile.bsky.social
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Retired software engineer, day trader, small scale rancher and Master's student. Love is love. Empathy is the essence of humanity. Fascism must be stopped at all costs using any and all available methods. The Billionaire class is the enemy of freedom.

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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you ask a human to make up a telephone number, it's likely that number will match certain real world data. Like maybe you use your local area code, or a number you heard in some commercial. Ask an AI to make up a number, it's also more likely to use some number from it's actual training data.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Help save the Academy of Natural Sciences, the oldest natural science museum in the western hemisphere. At a minimum please scroll down and sign the petition linked on this page: save-the-academy.org
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Two years with House and Senate majorities and the most biased Supreme Court in history, and still convicted felon and child rapist Trump is so weak an ineffective that Biden's policies are still in control? Even Trump thinks Trump is pathetic, I guess.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 20 years or 200 year, however long it takes to develop actual Artificial General Intelligence, humanity will look back and laugh at how they once thought some AI chatbots were going to end humanity. Then AGI will actually end humanity because no one will believe the fear the second time around.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I suddenly find myself liking Maclamore and never wanting to hear Ed Sheeran's music ever again, or his pussy ass "middle ground a-political" response to genocide. You cannot "compromise" with genocide by only half murdering children or only killing half the children. Fuck the Israeli government.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Did Karolying Leavitt not like being left on Air Force 1 as a human decoy while convicted felon and child rapist Dementia Donny's diaper nurse and other aids so irrelevant we don't even know their names got to take the safer plane? ground.news/article/whit...
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White House Press Secretary Leavitt to Depart Role, Trump Says
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave that post by the end of August, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday. Leavitt is leaving “so she can spend more time with her beautiful youn...
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I bet convicted felon and child rapist Donald J Trump was HOPING that Air Force 1 would get attacked and even shot down in Turkey. It would be the sort of event he needs to justify declaring a "state of emergency", escalating the Iran war to full ground invasion and suspending midterm elections.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Why are we so afraid that AI will murder humans? Because we train AIs to do whatever they predict a human would do in the same situation. And humans murder each other by the thousands every day. We are teaching AI to be like us and we treat humans as disposable cogs in an economic machine.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
China and Russia are promising to help Iran if convicted felon and child rapist Dementia Don commits major war crimes. IMO, this INCREASES the chances he will carry out such a strike. If midterms look bad enough he will try to start WWIII to declare a state of emergency and suspend the election.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I am constantly amazed at how many people who grew up on the Internet are just know learning that the Internet has always required data centers. These kids seriously believe data centers are some new fangled invention just created because of AI when in reality we've had them since 1945.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is what is killing American democracy. There is nothing more important to democracy than overturning Citizen's United.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
America's unfettered capitalism has done a great job of turning billionaires into trillionaires, but is failing to meet the needs of literally everyone else. The GOP wants us to keep doubling down on this failing approach. The Dems want to maintain the status quo. It's time for Social Democracy.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There are only three people responsible for every US soldier and civilian death due to the illegal Iran war: 1. Convicted felon and child rapist Donald J. Trump 2. Genocidal war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu 3. Incompetent drunk Pete Hegseth They are all drenched in blood and belong in the Hague.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Proof we need term limits for Congress: Senators having to post "proof of life" photos of them holding a recent newspaper.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Which has more value to the US economy? Letting Elon Musk be a trillionaire or using that same amount of wealth to send 8,000,000 students through college? Or perhaps sending 50,000,000 students through trade school? Yes 8 million college degrees or 50 million trade school degrees cost $1 trillion.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Empathy isn't just caring or saying you care, empathy is fighting for the political changes that will remove the sources of harm that lead us towards the need to grieve for the state of others. It's important that ACTION lead our empathy, otherwise it's as meaningless as "thoughts and prayers".
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
MAGAt "logic": 1. We hate corruption in politics... 2. but we think all politicians are corrupt... 3. Therefore we don't care that our politicians are clearly and by far the most corrupt. Can America survive MAGAt levels of stupid?
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Republican priorities: 1. Murdering school girls in Iran 2. Murdering fishermen in the Caribbean 3. Murdering day laborers and citizens in the streets across America 4. Protecting Epstein-class billionaires like convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump 5. Destroying our right to vote them out
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just a reminder, the United States has arrested more people on trumped up charges for touching the Reflecting Pool that convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump destroyed than they have arrested for raping children on Epstein's island and ranch despite possessing actual proof of those crimes.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Lindsey Graham died from aortic dissection, apparently. I'm pleased to report that is a very painful and terrifying way to die, even though it's an unfortunately short time before death occurs.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Dear Lindsey Graham: Enjoy hell, there at least you can admit you're gay.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This happened about 30 miles from where I grew up: ground.news/article/atto...
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Strained Ohio County Seeks Help to Care for 16 Siblings From Squalid Home and Prosecute Their Family
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The discovery of 16 siblings who authorities say were held at a rural Ohio home for years in squalid conditions is straining the county’s resources as it works to prosecute their...
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hey convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump, is the "communism" in the room with you now? ground.news/article/trum... I guess he's too dumb (with a b!) not to know Communism and Democratic Socialism are unrelated?
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Trump extols America, rails at communism in July Fourth speech at Mount Rushmore
U.S. President Donald Trump called on Americans to protect the freedoms the ​nation's founders envisioned 250 years ago against what he has portrayed as the "communist" threat posed by ‌progressive De...
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
1/ Why so much AI enthusiasm? For a million years, global GDP growth basically matched human population growth. Then came Agriculture, and the growth rate quintupled. Then came Industrialization, and the growth rate tripled. Then came Computers, and the growth rate doubled. AI is the next scaler.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I guess convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump doesn't need that ballroom after all. ground.news/article/trum...
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Trump to return to hotel where potential assassination attempt was thwarted
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday returns to a famed Washington hotel for the first time since an armed attacker forced the postponement of the White House Correspondents' ​Association dinner in A...
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The time has come, time to start using BlueSky moderation lists. For now I am blocking MAGA via bsky.app/profile/matt... and muting AI Slop via bsky.app/profile/baja.... Any other good suggestions?
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Best way to defeat a Vegan cultist: even though humans are obviously evolved to be "omnivores", tell them humans are "carnivores". They will be so excited to correct you and insist we are actually omnivores. Then just thank them for the correction and for proving that humans are meant to eat meat.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Accuse your enemy of what you are doing, as you are doing it." - NAZI propagandist Joseph Goebbels (paraphrased) Political scientists call this "accusation in a mirror". Sigmund Freud called this "psychological projection", the term we still use. The Bible warned of this in Matthew 7:3-5.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
1/2 Now convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump is claiming vandals put "fertilizer" into the reflecting pool. Where does that claim come from? The truth: DC city water contains orthophosphate to prevent lead from leaching out of water pipes. Phosphates are fertilizer and cause algae to thrive.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is great news! Voters are finally forcing the Democrats to take progressive policies seriously: ground.news/article/clea... Voting is under attack by the Republican MAGAts precisely because voting still works! Vote in primaries, vote local, vote progressive. Vote blue no matter who in 2026.
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Mamdani-Backed Progressives Oust 3 Democrats in New York Primaries
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and key allies secured major wins in Tuesday’s congressional primaries as they looked to build on his 2025 victory by expanding the power and presence of the democratic s...
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Dear Anti-AI crowd: The best way to rebel against AI is to rebel against the entire online world (which all uses AI now). Go outside. Take a hike. Read a book. These activities are free, healthy and don't require any AI services.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In every conceivable way this deal leaves Iran far better off than they were before convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump's illegal war. Lifting sanctions, money from the US, Iran can charge tolls after 60 days, uranium/nuke issues deferred. www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...
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Read the full text of Trump's preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement to end the war
Here is the text of the memorandum of understanding that was signed Wednesday by President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, as well as Pakistan's prime minister.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Convicted felon and child rapist is giving Iran 14 times more money than Obama, it will be fun watching MAGAts struggle to be okay with that. Further Iran gets to keep refining uranium. And it's not clear if any monitoring will happen. This is worse than Obama's deal in every possible way.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Extremists on the right: voted MAGA, got what they wanted. Extremists on the left: either don't vote or threw away their votes, don't realize that is what allowed MAGA to win. If you think you're a "revolutionary" then grab your gun and prove it, otherwise you're just helping MAGA end democracy.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Wow, that's a real post from convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump. He's so economically ignorant he thinks that's a good thing! This moron will make us all poor. www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years in November
The U.S. trade deficit widened by the most in nearly 34 years in November amid a surge in capital goods imports, likely driven ​by an artificial intelligence investment boom, which could prompt econom...
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Spencer Pratt lost, but just barely. And in an area with about 1/3rd Republican voters. To me this means voters haven't learned anything from convicted felon and child rapist Trump. They will still support utterly incompetent, reality TV, FAFO, "burn it all down" candidates. Democracy is doomed.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
1/4 The human brain is an expectation calculating machine. Brains are expectation maximization functions. They seek to minimize surprise and correct any departure from the learned baseline. It can return to expected by invoking action but can also update what is expected to maximize expectation.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Oh no, convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump is afraid Iran will assassinate him and his family! Boy, I hope Iran doesn't know he golfs every weekend at low security golf courses or that Mar A Log could easily be attacked by drones launched from boats. Nobody show Iran this post!
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump started a war. A pointless needless war. Yet all he cares about is ballrooms, reflecting pools and building monuments to himself. Imagine the response from the right wing if Obama or Biden did any of that? They'd storm the Capital (again).
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Hahahaha, convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump has now cancelled his "Freedom 205" birthday propaganda event. Failure is all Taco achieves at every single thing he does. Protest works, opposition works, speaking up works, boycotting MAGAt businesses and events works. Keep it up.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Peter Thiel financed the MAGAt movement, helped it take over the government, and now his own candidates and policies are so bad he's planning to flee America. Bye Felicia. ground.news/daily-briefi...
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Ground News - Peter Thiel Relocates Family to Argentina
The PayPal and Palantir co-founder bought a $12 million Buenos Aires mansion and met with President Milei, the New York Times reported.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I would be boycotting CBS now that Colbert is gone, but I honestly haven't watched any CBS show for decades. I used to have Paramont+ but cancelled that a while ago. I watched Colbert only through the show's YouTube channel so any revenue I generated was directly attributed to the show itself.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
At some point if a community is this ignorant you just have to let them kill themselves off and call it Darwinism. Traditions around the handling of corpses significantly contribute to the spread of Ebola. Ancient religions belong in the past, especially when they kill. ground.news/daily-briefi...
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Ground News - DR Congo: Residents Burn Ebola Treatment Center as Anger Grows
Protesters in Rwampara, in eastern DR Congo's Ituri province, set fire to an Ebola treatment center on Thursday after authorities refused to release the body of a man believed to have died from the vi...
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Christian" America: we can take total control of a woman's body to protect a fetus. The fetus is more important than freedom. Also "Christian" America: we can't force parents to vaccinate their children or give their child life saving medical care. Freedom is more important than children.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Anyone remember "100 deals in 100 days"? Well it's over a year later and so far there are between 4 and 19 deals depending on what you're willing to consider a "deal". Failure follows convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump everywhere.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Politicians in both parties support low corporate taxes, saying we have to race to the bottom to globally compete. I say bullshit. Impose reasonable corporate taxes and ban imports from and exports to any nation that doesn't follow suit. We have the power to reset global corporate tax rates.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Don't you love it when someone comments without READING the thread they commented on? And then claims everyone else is stupid? Gives us a taste of X here on BlueSky. In a thread where anti-AI folks said AI has no benefit I pointed out a benefit then he says I'm the one "bundling all AI together". 🤣
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Yes actually, see Verily Life Sciences, Calico Labs, Isomorphic Labs, Fitbit and Google Health. Alphabet has multiple entire divisions dedicated to applying AI to medical research. Why do people raise complaints like this without even trying a Google search first? They let their hatred blind them.
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Todd Berkebile @tberkebile.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The Republican party is deeply unpopular right now, and for good reason. Their racism and fascism is on full display and they are protecting convicted felon and child rapist Taco Trump above America. So they are trying to gerrymander themselves into power, if they succeed democracy is dead.
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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