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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno

@tzraick.bsky.social
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Columbia Sociology & Sustainable Development… Fan of math, science, evidence based practice & nuance… Pragmatic realist & autodidact… R/ts are NOT endorsements, all standard disclaimers apply.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 03/10/2026
🚨NASA CERES satellite data shows another 4-year average record for global Absorbed Solar Radiation. Earth's Energy Imbalance has more than doubled over the past 20 years. We've been trying to warn about this and the impacts for years, but few seem to care.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 9h
As badly as I need a new phone, I looked at the new pros and….i just…didn’t like it. So then I see this big shiny thing with no Face ID and a huge screen I might actually be able to see and I was like… Hmmm… But… a foldable? A very, very expensive foldable? Something tells me I’m Gonna drop it.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 9h
Am I insane for actually wanting a duo solely bc it has Touch ID? For context, I’m still rocking an SE that’s halfway in the grave. Like, I can see clear through the broken back glass into the internals of the phone. The mic doesn’t work. The battery lasts like 2 hours of heavy use. It’s done.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h
like, if gaddafi had declared that all apples are now oranges and that all libyans calling them apples were internal enemies, it’d be covered in the press as a wacky but dangerous move from an unserious and dangerous clown dictator
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22h
Congrats again to the New York Times on its long form journalism
NYT "The Interview" with Curtis Yarvin
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 9h
Jesus fucking Christ this guy & his sugar daddy give the term “useful idiot” new depth. Elons a walking counter intelligence nightmare. He should be treated as compromised, if not actively working as an asset of the prc & likely Russia too.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 9h
I hear this a lot, sadly.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 9h
I seriously considered just such a program but then I took a grad natsec seminar and my classmates were friggin idiots with bougie credentials. The dumbest one went to work for palantir. The only intelligence in that room was coming from the handful of Vets. JHU this was not, but still.
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Patrick Meyers @pmeyers7.bsky.social · 12h
The funny part is that ASU spent $420K lobbying the Hill last quarter (and has spent considerably more than that each quarter over the past few years). Personally, I would be pissed if I spent all that money lobbying and still had the VP targeting me for BS reasons on TV.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 9h
This will be the final straw that begets the Butlerian Jih*d. The cool kids are all actual luddites. We’re so close.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 9h
Of course it was Ezra friggin Klein. Brb, I’m gonna go rip up my copy of Abundance and strategically wipe my ass with every page he ever wrote, while leaving the ones Derek Thompson wrote just sadly hanging out of the binding… It’ll be better this way, and I get to wipe my ass with smug. Win win.
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
not to defend data centers, but, this is what crowd out looks like:
crowd out
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Ghoulish Bambino @parasouthern.bsky.social · 14h
Super Incelligence
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 10h
I love that the company which is like "a mass causality event is fine if it means we get AI out of it" is the one selling an AI personal assistant to consumers. I would not trust an OpenAI dot.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 07/10/2026
there’s also a good deal of software out there that functionally acts as a liability and regulatory cushion so that if something goes belly up, you’re not the only one hung out to dry
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 9h
Soooo… he just read off the to-do list on his extortion racket. My school paid that ransom & immediately cut financial aid for 1st gen & low income students. The first & only hard rule with extortion is DONT PAY. Hold fast & keep your poker face. Once you pay, you’re trapped. They’ll never stop.
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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I hate the passive mode here. It should be: "Republicans in triage mode as the actions of Trump and the Trump Administration continue to tank their election hopes."
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"One national Republican strategist, granted anonymity to speak freely about the party’s predicament, said the GOP could wind up facing even worse losses than in President George W. Bush’s disastrous second term."
politico.com
Republicans enter triage mode as their election hopes continue to dim
Top Republicans are giving up on races in purple territory and racing to save seats in deep-red states.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 11h
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 11h
youtu.be/pWRlDIBoQW4?...
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How the US created an ambulance crisis
YouTube video by Vox
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 11h
www.ems1.com/response-tim... The NYC EMS system is on the verge of collapse & experiencing increasing breakdowns of basic service. The reason is simple & yet widely ignored. The pay is terrible. Fucking terrible. An fdny emt can work 90 hour weeks and go home with $12/hour.
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NYC ambulance response times hit record high amid EMS staffing shortage
Life-threatening emergency response times have climbed from 9:34 in 2021 to 13:09 this fiscal year as FDNY loses about 10 ambulance units daily to staffing shortages, with officials pointing to the pa...
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h
amongst all the other reasons it’s bad, racism makes you stupid
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 11h
“…Soon after arriving in Jerusalem, Mr. Milstein began insisting on approving communications from the embassy section that handles Palestinian affairs, multiple officials with direct knowledge of the process said. The flow of cables plummeted from several a week to a few a month…”
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 11h
“…When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers’ efforts to gain information…”
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 11h
“Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light….”
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 11h
How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 16h
-AI bubble could burst within two years, triggering a severe market crash, strategist warns -Michael Novogratz: AI is in the biggest bubble of our lifetime @seekingalpha
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 13h
amoc2029.org
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When The Sea Slows
A future history of a new era in climate politics.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 14h
Aaaaannnddd comment. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
federalregister.gov
Music Streaming Fraud
Pursuant to a congressional request, the United States Copyright Office is soliciting information from the public regarding issues related to music streaming fraud.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 14h
The bill’s full language doesn’t look like it can even be accessed yet but should be available soon, considering ITS OPEN TO PUBLIC COMMENT til November 23. Sooo… Read it. Most people just use a vpn to limit how much data is harvested on us. This takes that away. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 14h
Darrel Issa introduced a bill to the house that would effectively ban VPNs in the US, under the guise of “protecting copyright,” by disabling geo-spoofing, a practice commonly used to access geofenced streaming content. The bill: “H.R.10364 - American Copyright Protection Act of 2026”
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 18h
Like, sure, we track short term issues post immunization, but who knows if the weird immune reaction you got after your suspicious virus was related ? How many rare neurological disorders are falling through the cracks?
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 18h
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... The trouble with running this little experiment in eugenics that is endemic covid 19 is that nobody’s tracking long term immunological events that *may* be tied to multiple covid exposures OR weird immunological isssues related to annual vaccine dosing.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 18h
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/introducin... This is really friggin cool. Don’t ever tell me GIS isn’t fun.
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Introducing the National Data Center Map
America is undergoing an enormous industrial buildout with remarkably little public visibility. So we built the map and tracker that should already exist.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But then I remember they would’ve screwed the pooch in like two generations of Muhammad Ali’s anyway.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Honestly, had they not been such profligate spenders AND had they not chickened out & took the loot from a bankrupt sublime Porte to stop their advance on Syria and further north, history might have ended *quite* differently. The thought of an industrializing developmentalist state is… warm & fuzzy.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The talking heads on CNN are discussing the firing squad "making a comeback" and it's one of those things where yeah, the guy they're shooting now probably deserves it but as a general rule, "The firing squad is making a comeback," is the sort of sentence that sets off your Spidey sense, y'know?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
God everything is so DUMB.
United States
Attorney's Office
Southern District of New York

PRESS RELEASE
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted
Music Streaming Fraud
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
this guy sounds like a minor character in legend of the galactic heroes
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it's not great, incidentally, that *both* China and America have lost a bunch of their key financial and regulatory talent in the last two years, albeit that the American damage is more wide-ranging and stupider.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Paper: Jacobson, Mark z. “Enhancement of Local Air Pollution by Urban CO2 Domes,” (2010), Environmental Sci. Technology, 2010, 44, 2497–2502.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Locally emitted co2 kills people locally,” argues Stanford’s @mzjacobson.bsky.social web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... “Bend it like Bessent” LMAO
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Bessent Keeps Trying to Talk Down Yields
Get caught up.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Rising Water Bills Have Added to the Squeeze on American Households
Water costs increased by 62% over the past decade, outpacing overall inflation and grocery prices, according to new research by Food & Water Watch.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And now we’ll all have the pleasure of dying of plague bc Americans can’t stand the thought of a mask. God forbid it makes them slightly uncomfortable. And, in return, we got a mass dissabling event that just… never stopped… The mortality rate jumped by like 3-5 sigma but everything’s fine.
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This Is Fine Meme
ALT: This Is Fine Meme
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