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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 1h

Digging into this dude a bit, the flight of fantasy predates the LLM craze, but I'm guessing it hasn't helped

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My man's got the soul-less patch.

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nashvilleaintborin.bsky.social @nashvilleaintborin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This post has *everything*: a quirked up Italian nerd, a Michigan grad living on a stolen island, the Winklevoss twins, and a Bay Area polycule cult-- and they all gave thousands to Marsha!

"MARSHA: BOT & PAID FOR"
$250,000 from Anthropic to the ”Tennessee Freedom Fund”, the same Super PAC Marsha used to siphon federal funds into her state campaign
(photo of Dario Amadei looking smug at a robot emoji making a kiss face)

*TFF is also pushing their no-rules school voucher scam
to defund our education system

$52,202 from executives at Oracle, the Tiktok software giant founded by Larry Ellison pushing for AI mass surveillance so citizens will be “on their best behavior”
(photo of Larry Ellison looking smug at a robot emoji)

"MARSHA: BOT & PAID FOR"
$21,200 from the Winklevoss twins of “The Social Network” fame, whose private equity firm invested in Elon Musk’s xAI now burning Memphis (but the photo is Armie Hammer playing the Winklevoss twins in "the social network")

$141,500 from 15 Anthropic employees, “AI safety” boosters and “effective altruists”, including associates of crypto fraudster
Sam Bankman-Fried
(*search “effective altruism polycule cult” for more on them...)
Illustration of various robot mashup emojis with hearts and things like that

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nashvilleaintborin.bsky.social @nashvilleaintborin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Early preview for the Bluesky crowd: we dug into Marsha Blackburn's finances and, for all her talk about regulating the tech industry, we found out she's "bot and paid for" by the AI lobby!

"MARSHA: BOT & PAID FOR"
Marsha says she wants to regulate Big Tech, but did you hear she’s made some *new friends* in artificial intelligence?
She’s taken thousands from big AI donors,
including some names you might know...

"MARSHA: BOT & PAID FOR"
We’re shining a light on
Marsha’s shady AI cash because
TENNESSEANS DESERVE BETTER!
(decidedly amateur illustration of a robot emoji handing Marsha a bag of cash while a flashlight shines at it)

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe they move the corporate registration and C-suite, but I get the impression if they actually tried to move most of their people here, they'd sink the whole thing. I worked for a company that moved from LA to Nashville and 2/3 of them straight up refused to go!

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nicely done! My wife used to bake professionally and croissants always seemed like a lot of effort, but damn they were good!

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Threads is the zoo where I holler at the animals, Bluesky is the zoo where the animals holler at me

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jim Bakker and another pastor lured Jessica Hahn into a hotel room, drugged her, and assaulted her. The "encounter" was not an affair or a "dalliance", it was a premeditated crime committed by a predator. Hahn described to Larry King in 2005 how she was assaulted. transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/dat...

transcripts.cnn.com

CNN.com - Transcripts

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This guy donated $5,300 to Marsha Blackburn, someone should ask her about it!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just one day after another of cartoonish villainy

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there’s no reason for the death penalty to exist

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is morally repugnant. I'm tired of this state burning my tax dollars to torture people out of sheer malice and incompetence.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just finished the episode of @killthecomputer.com about BBM and hot damn, what a follow-up

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That was deeply satisfying to watch, Go Dawgs

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We're all stuck on the "Eternal September" side quest

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have already vowed if It Happens while he's there I will take back every bit of slander I have committed against the rest of the SEC (except for Texas)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everyone is trying to do twice as much work and knows half as much about what they're doing, so they give it to the robot. The robot spits out double the text to make it look good, so no one checks the work, except maybe another robot. Everyone is at work, no one is working, nothing is working.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The quality of the tools has improved, but they've taken that as license to automate *everything* they can, and the result is more errors that proliferate quicker but are harder to catch and correct. A slip of the tongue on one call now enters the collective body of knowledge as a fact unchecked.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They sit on calls all day, but no one takes notes-- the robots do it! Does anyone read the notes? No, the robots do it! Does anyone read their email or their chats? Why bother, the robots do it! Last year they were using LLMs to outline documents, but now it's all AI with some *very light* edits.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm watching a company sink under the weight of AI adoption because everyone has outsourced their not-fun work to their AI agents. They are all named Jarvis, they all suck, and they're burning a bajillion watts a day doing it. Everyone has lost the plot and no one wants to admit it.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My man looks like he's about to try to vaporize Blast Hardcheese

Kalgan from the MST3K riff of"Space Mutiny" with Mike and the bots

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's not addictive like a drug but it is habit-forming. Social media has one KPI: time-on-device. Revenue comes from ad impressions and click-through, and time spent scrolling feeds is *critical* to both. They emulated video poker and slots to maximize TOD. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Social media copies gambling methods 'to create psychological cravings'

Methods activate ‘same brain mechanisms as cocaine’ and leads to users experiencing ‘phantom’ notification buzzing, experts warn

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you make a thing that induces addictive behavior, then that thing is addictive. It might not work exactly like a chemical dependency, but it's still habit-forming. Y'all already covered this! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Social media copies gambling methods 'to create psychological cravings'

Methods activate ‘same brain mechanisms as cocaine’ and leads to users experiencing ‘phantom’ notification buzzing, experts warn

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Here's a free story idea for anyone who's interested: why did a group of "AI safety" experts & effective altruists dump $100K into Marsha Blackburn's gubernatorial campaign fund in one week in late June? 🧵

Table with donation data:
Donor - Employer - Date - Amount
Elizabeth Edwards Appell - Anthropic - 6/23 - $5300
Daniel Ziegler - Anthropic PBC - 6/23 - $10600
Matthew Fisher - Adobe - 6/24 - $10600
Jan Leike - Anthropic - 6/24 - $10600
Tao Lin - Anthropic - 6/25 - $10600
Peter Lofgren - Anthropic - 6/25 - $10600
Chana Messinger - 80,000 Hours - 6/25 - $10600
Brian Chen - Anthropic - 6/27 - $5300
Scott Siskind - Lorien Psychiatry - 6/28 - $5300
Howard Lempel - Secure AI Project - 6/29 - $10600
Eli Lifland - AI Futures Project - 6/29 - $10600

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

404media.co

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nashville is becoming Hadestown with less culture

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/09/2026

Peter Thiel—the Palantir billionaire who created JD Vance from a bag of Cheetos and a bucket of eyeliner—is giving his Antichrist lectures in #Nashville. I just bought a ticket… What would Dolly do?

Peter Thiel Antichrist Lexture Nashville poster

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Inland Imperialist @inland-imperialist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Nashville Antichrist Lectures sounds like a @themountaingoats.bsky.social album title.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My wife just introduced me to this, fun concept!

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.

forever-wars.com

Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore

Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Everyone is baking it in, even if they're not saying so. But! If you're buying from overseas for prototyping, you can get those items entered duty-free; you just have to promise to not sell the product after import. I've set this up for corporate clients but no reason individuals couldn't use it.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yep! At least some of the Crown Royal for the American market is bottled in the US. No such luck for liqueurs and cordials, though.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think it's (partly) to preempt any attempts at tariff engineering; they might cover unlikely things so crafty consultants like me can't create a workaround.

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The single biggest imported product affected is actually "liqueurs and cordials" ($523M in imports since Jan '25) and apparently that's targeting Malibu rum, which I learned today is made in Canada, is not connected to Malibu, and is not legally rum according to CBP

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The single biggest imported product affected is "liqueurs and cordials" and apparently that's targeting Malibu rum, which I learned today is made in Canada, is not connected to Malibu, and is not legally rum

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Jack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As a Georgia grad I must note: the single biggest product affected is actually "liqueurs and cordials" ($523M imported since Jan '25), mainly Malibu rum blended in Canada. Pour one out for the thirsty state school kids who will have to make do with mixers this football season.

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James Miller @reelmiller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Obligatory

a picture from the NY Post titled "today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around.

Now with special guest Jimmy Barnes from the "cowboy in the sky screaming" meme.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.

Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In
order of magnitude,
antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir-
atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews
. In contrast, demographic variables (including
education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev
f variance. Conclusions: These data help
identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem.
Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can we normalize art theft?

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georgiaontap @georgiaontap.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I tell ya, grabs collar, I don't get no respect.

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