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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ezra Klein saw this post and said "hold my beer"

EZRA KLEIN
Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk's Soul

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”

Screencap from Casablanca "shocked, shocked" scene

Caption - I'm shocked, shocked to find industrial-scale AI theft in this industry

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Yeah Carville is scary, thanks google

gmail notification

James Carville
This should scare the hell out of every De...

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Democrats were mean to Bondi and now /s

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

In honor of Twin Peaks, I'll release this to the Internet today: I want a #Swarovski Log

Agent Dale cooper driving into Twin Peaks, tells his voice recorder that it's February 24th

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

don't know how to use a computer? AI maximalists can barely feed themselves after somebody else cooks

somebody using AI to pick food at a buffet

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

suckers, I got my useless email summary machine for free

Gmail message, "By Gemini; there may be mistakes. Learn more."

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Gmail is putting this and a summary above emails when I open them. No google, you first

"By Gemini; there may be mistakes. Learn more"

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Check out this rock tuya youtu.be/_6TRkIWP9UI

diagram of a lava flow rising beneath ice

Tuya = a flat- topped, steep-sided volcano formed during a subglacial volcanic eruption whe

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"Good" ????? nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/john-catsi...

Alyssa Katz
There’s no regulation that demands this information.

John Catsimatidis
You grew up too rich. You know that? I grew up on 135th Street.

Josh Grenman
Nobody knows how anyone grew up here.

Alyssa Katz
My mom was a Holocaust refugee and my dad was an immigrant from Israel. He had very little money.

John Catsimatidis
Good.

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

and so what if somebody else does do that

Simpsons screenshot. Man looking suspiciously at presidential candidates Clinton and Dole holding hands. Dole says
"We are merely getting likes. If you can think of a simpler way I'd like to hear it."

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

a 50+ year old electric ~vehicle that has no tablet, no plastic, almost no electronics, some wood, hopefully no asbestos, a manual transmission (speed control is even weirder than that), the original tires, and is still running. Wild youtu.be/bdtxmd8ze7E

screencap of two electric tractors and a youtube comment from the daughter of the original owner describing its use over 50 years

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Geologist dismantles dating methods? The earth is the new manosphere.

Video preview for "a geologist dismantles dating methods"

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

the Simpsons teaches kids, always look for the help bears

Maggie Simpson riding on a bear as it walks off the left side of the screen, as a disgruntle looking man yells "All bears off the set"

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

his tweets need an editor, is he for or against nonviolence because this is just the same thing being repeated

successive ezra tweets
first one says "...too little to just say we oppose political violence"
second one says "...we are going to have to live here with each other"

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

letthemfight if elon is dunking on klein and the Abundance crowd for not caring about sustainability

screenshot of a Tesla video titled "Master Plan Part IV | sustainable abundance"

with some more or less real vehicles and a impractically shaped robot

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

@acollierastro.bsky.social reminded me of how you described your initial interest in Star Trek. Enable people to work together on better things by solving everything stressing them out now. newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Platner told me that Star Trek’s optimism had inspired his earliest interest in policy. “This brings us back to Star Trek,” he says to wrap up his philosophy on culture war issues. “You have to solve scarcity. I believe that if you solve scarcity issues, no one gives a fuck about these other things.”

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

fair but if we're discussing activism and electoral strategy there are bigger failures in this thread than burning one flag

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I'm so sad about the juxtaposition between the Wired article about cancelled government funding for cancer treatment followed by a profile of the wanna be immortal tech bro talking about how, aside from his expensive medical "care", his Bryan AI is already trained on every dumb thing he's ever said

NIH Cancer funding by year, showing consistent growth from 2014 to 2024 across different types of cancer. This is all threatened.

graph of annual appropriations to the national cancer institute, with Trump's preferred cuts going back to below nominal 2014 levels

Bryan Johnson speaking to wired:

So that's extension. But we also have the ability to begin moving ourselves to com- putational systems. So currently, in a very crude form, I have a Bryan AI that has digested everything I've ever said.

You do currently have this?

I do.

OK.

And that Bryan AI is pretty good. As the technology gets better and better, the most prized asset is going to be exis- tence; immortality as we thought about it before, through accomplishment or through offspring or the afterlife, will be devalued relative to existing. And that's my fundamental bet on the future.

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

These idiots buying cars for a mid life crisis (yet too cheap to pay for track time) are so close to understanding how pathetic their vroom vroom engines are in a world with cheap base model EVs

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/porsches-best-daily-driver-911-the-2025-carrera-gts-t-hybrid-review/

Screenshot of a car review, highlighting that the "electric" turbocharger gives "almost instant" throttle response

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

this has been a rough week for zero cool

Three screenshots from Hackers with captions

First: I've got a record. I was Zero Cool.

Second: Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history.

Third: Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

does anybody have their number? I'd like to offer a seat

Picture of a driver holding their phone with both hands, taken through a bus window

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

with over 70 people injured, in a civilized society this would be legislation not a chyron on some obscure podcast #bancars www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scene of a street where a driver had injured over 70 people. Many police officers standing. A few cop cars and ambulances.

Chyron on the bottom states: I DON'T THINK IT'S OVERREACTING TO SAY BAN ALL CARS NOW

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

yeah sure buddy, people are foregoing children and relationships so they can live alone and listen to your podcast

Douthat: The coupling crisis writ large seems to be linked somehow to technology, right?

Evans: Yes, that’s what I think. Certainly. I think we can say there could be locally specific factors that go on in each place. Each place has its own cultural idiosyncrasies and I don’t want to ignore that. But yes, absolutely. The big shock that’s occurred everywhere all at once is we’ve seen vast improvements in personal online entertainment. So we know, for example, in the U.S. —

Douthat: Podcasting. You know, I mean — [Chuckles.]

Evans: Yeah. All these charismatic podcasters.

Douthat: That’s right.

Evans: So people are spending more.

No, but I think that’s the thing. I mean, no offense, Ross, but I do blame charismatic people like you. If people want to socialize, to listen —

Douthat: This is a new podcast. It’s played no role at all, yet — yet —

Evans: Oh, OK. You protest your influence. OK

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I heard Biden was paying some Democratic ghouls to do PR for his garbage legacy. Just found this pic I took at a bookstore four years ago, maybe he could pay to distribute copies.

front cover of a book titled "Hot Cup of Joe" with a creepy drawing of joe biden holding a cup of coffee

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

@equalityalec.bsky.social thank you for helping me be able to read this story critically Why Do More Police Officers Die by Suicide Than in the Line of Duty? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

Jennifer got to know a founder of the group, Karen Solomon, who had been collecting data on police suicides since 2016. Solomon, who is married to a police officer in Massachusetts, had become frustrated by negative sentiment toward cops after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Solomon believed the shift in public opinion was taking a huge toll on officers.

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

good for the NYT for putting air quotes around this reasoning from the DOJ

George Santos Is Sentenced to More Than 7 Years in Prison
Federal prosecutors wanted Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, to receive a lengthy sentence to “protect the public” from future fraud.

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

what happened to code is law? absurd that digitally taking crypto from some dumb bro entails harsher prison terms than a violent kidnapping They Stole a Quarter-Billion in Crypto and Got Caught Within a Month www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/m...

Shortly after the call with the supposed Google agent, the same D.C. resident, whose identity remains concealed in federal court documents, received a second call from someone who said they were a security-team representative from Gemini, a prominent cryptocurrency exchange. Like the supposed Google employee, he had the man’s personal information; he explained that his Gemini account, which held about $4.5 million worth of coins, had been hacked and that the man needed to reset his two-factor authentication and transfer the Bitcoin in his account to another wallet to keep it safe.

The person on the phone then suggested that the account holder download a program that would provide additional security. The man agreed, not knowing that he was downloading a remote-desktop app, which would give the caller access to his computer — and access to a second crypto account, exposing him to an even more staggering theft. It turned out that the D.C. resident, an early investor in cryptocurrency, had more than 4,100 Bitcoin in total. Ten years ago, that much Bitcoin was worth about $1 million; that day, it was worth more than $243 million.

Within minutes, it was all gone.

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weedramatic.bsky.social @weedramatic.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I support urbanism and reducing driving for everyone's benefit, but when I see a child hold their hands to their ears because one of these cretins is driving by with a painfully loud exhaust I wish for their car specifically to be crushed and their net worth to be transferred to a charity #waroncars