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Victor Klien

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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Something a little more upbeat than our current Secretary-of-War-Crimes timeline: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Altadena resident stunned by bear living under home: ‘It roared from underneath the house’
63-year-old Kenneth Johnson was paid a visit by a fuzzy bear. Now he wants it to go away.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Washington Post: Secretary of War Crimes Hegseth orders "kill them all": www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Image from article shows relative sizes of Statue-of-Liberty, etc. compared to planned 50-megawatt twin turbine. "The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Will Smash Previous Records" www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Next Saturday is #NoKings Day. Stand up for democracy before it's too late. Find a protest near you at nokings.org.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100 percent convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job,” futurism.com/future-socie...
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Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse
Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Please consider donating to endpresidentialrevenge.org "The legal defense fund to end presidential revenge [by Trump] against Miles Taylor & other whistleblowers". Below is Legal AF's background on this: youtu.be/JtZcnWSJMZ8?...
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Insider BLOWS WHISTLE on Trump’s Secret Revenge Plan
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Economist (USA cover): "MAGA's assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm":
The Economist (USA cover): 
"MAGA's assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm":
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I like living in a country with the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Counting down to the end of the nightmare.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
From a YouTube comment: "Dear Americans, whatever you wish more Germans would have done in 1933, do that NOW!"
Screen capture of YouTube comment: "Dear Americans, whatever you wish more Germans would have done in 1933, do that NOW!"
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Actually, for a really deep dive, with lots of pictures and engineering details, I'd recommend the 43 page (!) PDF "IM-2 Mission Press Kit". I could probably avoid half a day's work, reading it: 97e97b55-dd53-4bc9-92cd-8e2cbfc75af8.usrfiles.com/ugd/97e97b_5...
Close-up image of IM-2 lunar lander, from cover of 43-page PDF "IM-2 Press Kit".
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I just followed both "The Associated Press" and Wired here on Bluesky: @apnews.com @wired.com They are standing up for American democracy. We don't want to become the next autocracy like Hungary.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The comment section to Eric's piece about Elon's latest pronouncement seems, understandably, about ready to do to Elon what the January-6 "protesters" wanted to do to Mike Pence: arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP
“There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to Mars.”…
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is just remarkable and shocking for an American of my age, who thinks about Republican foreign policy in terms of Ronald Reagan: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
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Musk and the Right Co-Opt the Left’s Critique of U.S. Power
Suspicion about covert operations and soft power used to be mostly the purview of the left. No more.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"Nine countries currently have nuclear weapons, but perhaps 40 additional states are technically advanced enough to build nuclear weapons if they chose to do so." Trump's "every man for himself" foreign policy will likely drive nuclear proliferation: fas.org/publication/...
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Don’t Let American Allies Go Nuclear
Looking the other way at the spread of nuclear weapons is not in America’s interests anymore today than it was in the 20th century.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
@gtconway.bsky.social Russian state media commentators express enthusiasm for president Trump's dismantling of US government, because it will lead to the "destruction of the current American system". Trump is doing their work for them, and they love it! youtu.be/7kGgCQJayp4?...
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Karen Shakhnazarov praises America's current direction
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
One happy note: So far the $TRUMP meme coin price continues to drop. He's never had a gift for building value, but he is pretty good at destroying things and sowing chaos.
Price of $TRUMP meme coin has continued to fall in price since it was introduced 2 weeks ago.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Intel's Gelsinger was OK, board is not: "The [board's dumb] decision to fire Pat Gelsinger, put in charge a CFO + career sales and marketing leader, and cut spending on fabs in favor of a renewed focus on x86 is an example of the incompetence that will end Intel." semianalysis.com/2024/12/09/i...
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Intel on the Brink of Death | Culture Rot, Product Focus Flawed, Foundry Must Survive
Intel’s board is incompetent and its horrible decisions over the decades are going to push it towards death. The decision to fire Pat Gelsinger, put in charge a CFO + career sales and marketing lea…
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Final image from the Mt. Harvard webcam near Pasadena, California, before the Eaton fire reached it yesterday 2025-01-08. From: cameras.alertcalifornia.org?pos=34.2200_...
Red and orange flames fill entire frame of webcam image.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Coming soon: U.S. Army assembles before Der Führer Trump, as we prepare for invasion of territory formerly known as "Canada". Then on to "Greenland" which will be renamed Trumplandia in honor of our supreme leader! God bless Trumperica! Based on: www.dezeen.com/2017/01/31/n...
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Watching mountains above Altadena, California burn, via the Mt. Wilson webcams: cameras.alertcalifornia.org?pos=34.1362_... Ugh.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
"My experience with tariffs is it just makes your indigenous industry lazy. The gap becomes even bigger" www.businessinsider.com/godfather-of...
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The 'godfather of EVs' explains why China is winning the race to go electric — and why hybrids are a 'fool's errand'
Former Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer told BI that automakers ditching EVs for hybrids risked falling even further behind their Chinese rivals.
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Filip Piekniewski @filippie509.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Prompt "engineering" is merely providing a vague probabilistic context to a linguistic lotto machine that nobody really understands. Far cry from giving specific and precise instructions to a flawless computation engine we call a computer. Funny how we went back to voodoo.
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
@newscientist.bsky.social Please feel free to post here to Bluesky. You could post links to your articles. Unlike Twitter and Threads, Bluesky's algorithm apparently is friendly to posts with links (it won't demote them like Twitter and Threads). See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4gh...
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Twitter (and Threads) Have Made a HUGE Mistake
YouTube video by hankschannel
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I have covered both Musk and Alex a lot, and only one of them is a useful idiot for Putin and also a heinous person. The other is a patriot who did his job with distinction and is a very good man. Guess which is which: thehill.com/policy/techn...
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Musk accuses Trump whistleblower Vindman of ‘treason,’ says ‘he will pay’
Elon Musk on Wednesday suggested retired Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman “committed treason” and “will pay” after the former Trump impeachment witness accused the tech billio…
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Victor Klien @vicklien.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Just deleted my Twitter account (started the deactivation process based on www.yahoo.com/tech/done-x-...). I'd been using Twitter since 2010 (14 years). The last straw was Musk retweeting dangerous lies about the patriot Alex Vindman @avindman.bsky.social.
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Done with X? How to delete your Twitter account in a few easy steps.
Elon Musk's recent appointment to a new Trump administration department is prompting some to delete X, formerly known as Twitter. Here's how to do it.
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