Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 2h"Police surveillance tools" aren't the root of the problem; Big Tech's total reliance on constantly surveilling you is. End individual data collection and sale -- for advertising and most other purposes -- and both problem are significantly diminished. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American people. 010
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's totally Jill Stein's, Sanders's, and AOC's fault, not any candidates we put forth or their horrible campaign "strategies." 030
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Did they ask her why she allowed her 15-year-old to be downtown over an hour after curfew? Did they at least cite her? 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Correct - all my music is on my phone with no streaming. I don't rent music. 010
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A system that relies on a good person to lead it is not a good system. Dems have no plan for systemic changes, just as they didn't when Biden won. Yes, Nuremburg II should happen. But it won't actually fix anything. 010
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 04/10/20261st night setlist: Man, I wish I were there. 2nd night setlist: Well, at least they played Sanitarium. Glad I didn't get tix, tho. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sad to see such promising work go unfinished. Clearly it's long past time for whales to team up with sharks. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In 10 years, anyone who wants any game will ask a locally run AI to make it for them. It's not shocking that game companies are desperate to cash in on cheap labor (in the form of AI) now. (And if I could have AI recreate F.E.A.R. or Alien vs. Predator 2 with modern graphics, I wouldn't hesitate.) 001
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You can always spot the criminals who've never seen an episode of Law & Order. Step #2 in getting away with murder is proper disposal of the murder weapon. (Step #1 is to destroy the body, if possible.) 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As an avid toy collector (most recent purchase: NECA B&W Vincent Price figure), I don't trust anyone who collects Funko Pops. Good figures should be judged on the quality of their sculpts; Pops are unsculpted trash. You might as well buy a blob of clay with a label on it. #nerdfight 010
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No Dem I can vote for has shown interest in preventing anyone from harvesting my data, sadly. Just the opposite, in fact. Real privacy protection would end Big Tech, and no one is even discussing it. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026... says the guy desperately trying to undermine trust with bullshit non-specific accusations of corruption. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No one could have predicted this ... except everyone. Everyone predicted it. 080
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cut taxes & massively increase spending. It's been the Republican platform for over 4 decades, and the Times rarely mentions it. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Given that 700 OpenAI agents also hacked Hugging Face, Sam Altman will get 700x this guy's sentence, right? 001
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also the Foxconn $10-billion factory that would employ 13,000 people in Wisconsin, and that Trump in 2018 called "the 8th wonder of the world." State & local governments spent $400-million and got nothing. (Apparently it's now going to be a data center someday.) 120
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This article pretends to be about MS being evil (and it is), but it's actually about how totally ineffective the government is at every level. None of this should take an "agreement" with MS. Just tax them appropriately. Problem solved. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The media needs to stop constantly reporting on Trump" says outlet that constantly reports on Trump, in yet another article about Trump. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The best part is that the WHOLE POINT of Muse is to take as much of your information as possible, sell it to as many people as possible, and use it to show ads for stuff you don't want or need. Doxxing on FB Marketplace isn't even the tip of the iceberg that these people are happy to cruise into. 0210
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It would be great if people stopped calling this "government funded" and used the more accurate "taxpayer funded" instead. It makes it more clear what a fucking waste it is. 041
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just saw this ad, and thought it was a pro-Dem ad until the very end. Trump - having made far more money for Saudis, UAE, and China than the US - whining about globalists is hysterical. 010
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I suspect McConnell is currently living in Dead Silence, rather than Final Destination. 120
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026On the rare occasions I hear the name "Sinema" these days, I find myself wondering if she still lets an 8-year-old dress her every morning. 050
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Harris had a shot and blew it with a terrible campaign. Newsom is every billionaire's best friend. Pritzker is a billionaire, and should therefore be on the menu, not the ballot. 001
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is Dems trying desperately to torpedo their current *excellent* standing in the midterms by releasing a poll of which unpopular mediocrity gets the next presidential nod. Never underestimate the ability of Dems to snatch defeat from the hands of victory. 030
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So this is your first merger settlement, then? These conditions go into the trash immediately, and no one (Dem or repub) ever enforces them or holds anyone accountable. Newsom knows this. 180
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Given the quality of both of my Dem Senators, the less they say on-camera, the better for all of us. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Note that we didn't actually defeat the communists OR the Islamists. We DID defeat the Nazis, tho. Strange that Whiskey Pete didn't mention that one. 020
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Which Chinese-made device did you use to write this post? How many Chinese-made devices (switches, routers, servers) did your post pass through before anyone could read it (answer: dozens). This laptop being made in China is hardly worth mentioning, given that our entire infrastructure is Chinese. 100
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And yet more people work hard and die with nothing than work hard and retire early. I grew up on welfare and retired at 53, and it wasn't because I worked hard (in fact, when working hard I made little $$). It's because I'm good socially and made contacts who got me great, easy jobs that paid well. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Meanwhile, RFK Jr. is still fellating Trump on the regular, while murdering children. Let's not give "the Kennedy family" too much credit. It sounds like only one of them isn't a total POS. 010
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026He didn't wipe his phone; incompetent government agents did (as TFA explains). If they had cause, they could have seized the phone and gotten the data. Instead, they wiped it by stupidly requesting the password and entering it. It was a Barney Fife move by DHS, and has nothing to do with his job. 010
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Our software is committing crimes, and since no one is being held accountable we'll totally start policing ourselves." Every politician at every level of government is asleep on this. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Anyone who calls Newsom "left-of-center" has their head firmly up their ass. Harris and Newsom are both relentlessly center-right by any rational view of poli-sci. And while obviously superior to Trump, neither are a good choice, particularly since Harris already lost to a rodeo clown once. 220
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Massie, like all Republicans, magically discovers some semblance of balls on his way out the door, instead of when it might have made a difference. 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Guy who's never wiped his own ass, let alone sent his own email, has important ideas regarding AI regulations." 000
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Lots of people would have gone to Atlantic City instead of Vegas. Hell, *I* went to AC on a vacation and I live in Vegas. Trump's casinos were shit, even by AC "standards." AC didn't suck because Vegas was good or cheap; it sucked because the casino owners made no effort to clean up the place. 010
Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Truth. Parties at my school had the sexes actually mixing, talking, dancing, drinking and doing drugs, and hooking up, all as god intended. Then again, frat parties - even back then - did tend to be a bunch of shirtless dudes acting gay-adjacent. I didn't go to many of those. 010