writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 20hIt is interesting to ask what the AI equivalent of original sin would be. And whether and how one baptizes a computer. Will there ever be an Anthropic Augustine or Aquinas? 110
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 21hEven his favorite low-information voters can read the price on a gas pump or grocery receipt. He should have stuck to lying about things people don't have their noses rubbed in two or three times a week. 020
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They make it look like a medical procedure so they can pretend that this "humane" style of execution is more civilized than a bullet to the head by a KGB executioner. It's not. It's much worse. 080
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm less worried that he will successfully steal the election than I am about how he will react to his party losing it. If he claims that it was invalid, the next logical step is to assert that the legislative branch is no longer legitimate. Where does that lead? 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm wondering when we'll see a new movie starring AI Humphrey Bogart and AI Lauren Bacall. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I happened to be looking at a guidebook page for a museum in Amsterdam and noticed that it was situated on President Kennedylaan. It would be nice to return to a time when a US president would be spontaneously honored in a foreign country. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mars University, Tharsis Region:, Star Date 2653-817 A panel has been added to the annual History of Earth Conference. Entitled "Trump: Was he Evil or was he Stupid - The unending controversy", it is inspired by well-preserved social media printouts uncovered during the "Natalie dig" of 2651. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I can afford to subscribe to a number of publications. When I look at the bills, I wonder how many "low-information voters" are low-information because of the high cost of information. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm not sure we should even talk about "Christianity", singular. There are lots of Christianities, and boy, are they different. 100
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Assuming the human race survives, the great "Was he stupid or was he evil?" debate will be the subject of panel discussions at academic conferences for centuries. 030
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm less worried about Trump stealing the election than I am about what he will do when he loses. Starting with declaring that all Democratic wins were rigged. And that could lead to declaring the House and Senate illegitimate, leading to L'État, c'est moi. 001
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You thought Poll Taxes had been made unconstitutional by the 24th Amendment? If you need to order a birth certificate or a marriage certificate to vote, the cost is a poll tax by another name. If you fail to calculate the lead time, you lose the right to vote. It's a Poll Tax+. That's no accident. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Even if Democrats clean up in November, getting the votes to both impeach and convict Trump seems unlikely. But I bet some of his cabinet members, like Hegseth and RFK Jr., are a lot more vulnerable. 010
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Is it a coincidence that every* appointment and policy initiative by Trump contributes to making the USA weaker, poorer, sicker, more divided, and/or friendless? Nobody could be this consistent by accident or through simple stupidity. Is this his revenge for 2020? * Did I miss an exception? 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't know about Xi, but the idea that Trump understands AI and the issues that should be addressed? Laughable. 010
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Do it online. Who would want to shake hands with Donald Trump? 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why not skip the transition and put up wind turbines and solar panels? Nobody can blockade the sun or sink the wind. I've yet to see evidence that it's cheaper to build any form of fossil fuel infrastructure as a supposedly temporary expedient. 110
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026No one could consistently make so many decisions that do so much damage to this country out of stupidity. He'd have to blunder into doing the right thing occasionally. Stopped clock principle. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Now here's the super secret part where all the military stuff happens." 030
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you had to choose between RFK Jr. flying your plane and a wombat pilot, which would you choose? 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The trouble with focus groups is that people will offer respectable excuses for stupid decisions. "I thoughtTrump - (with six bankruptcies) - would build a great economy," instead of "Vote for a black woman? No way!" Has anyone tried focus groups with every participant hooked up to a polygraph? 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Our ancestors had real guts. When the sawbones (no medical education) cut off a limb, they bit down on a stick to stifle the screaming and died nobly when gangrene set in. It built character - during the brief interval between amputation and death. 010
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Republicans can't think past keeping their seats to the consequences of convincing the American people that the government is illegitimate because intimidation and ballot tampering have invalidated the elections. 020
Reposted by writeon1 Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Taxpayers: If you're currently dropping coins in old coffee cans & kitchen drawers to pay for, say, gas or something you hope is actually beef, don't forget to add enough to pay your share of the $6 million Trump is spending on gold leaf for the vulgar ballroom he's thinking about instead of you. 28722248
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I foresee that after Trump is gone. Amazon will soon be out of stock of electric stone chisels and sandblasters. There will be a surplus of vacant plinths where statues once stood. 021
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The idea of boarding a plane and finding that it was being flown by a hamster would concern me. I would feel more comfortable if it were a flying squirrel. 140
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dear President Xi. I am going to use up my remaining high-tech ammunition on Iran, so please do not invade Taiwan for a year or two. Your admirer, Donald 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I wish this sort of thing had brought down Republicans long before the price of diesel began to spike. But I guess we are not that kind of people. 010
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Trump is threatening to commit one of the worst crimes against humanity in human history, which would put him in the same league as Hitler and Stalin. No wonder Marco Rubio wants to get rid of the International Criminal Court. 010
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"With Boats Getting Bigger, Money Is Flowing Into Marinas The private equity firm Blackstone now owns more marinas than anyone in the world." nyt But we definitely can't afford Medicare for All. Right? 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026So, offer to join the USA as the 51st through 60th states. That would get you 20 Senators and a bunch of House seats. Allied with Dems, you could transform the US into Canada South in a year. We'd get universal health care, and you'd never have to worry about lunatic US Presidents. (Just dreaming.) 100
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The US was on the winning side in WWII because it had superior industrial capacity and was allied with the Soviet Union and the British Empire. China has superior industrial capacity; we are low on ammunition stockpiles, and Trump is destroying our alliances. Steam catapults won't save us. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It will only have a fraction of the political impact of high gas and diesel prices. The mass deaths caused by destroying USAID had none at all, as far as I can tell. Promoting fossil fuels by killing off wind turbines didn't cause much outrage. Is this normal human behavior, or are we exceptional? 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Batteries may be more applicable to semi-lighter-than-air aircraft. They have such large surface areas that solar could be used to extend their range. And they don't need airfields. 100
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If a child kicked another child in the head in the street, sending them to the ER, should you call the league or the police? That is not playing too rough. That's battery. 001
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026How wonderful that the perfect place to store drones and station snipers just happened to be where he wanted his arch. Surely, the gods must favor our President. How clever of him to curry favor with Odin. (Christians, avert your eyes.) 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It takes less than a minute to look up the actual prices today, last year and 2024 on this day. Gas is bad; diesel is awful. Does he assume that MAGA doesn't know how to do a Google search? Or are so illiterate they can't read the prices at the pump? 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If it doesn't get reported, it didn't happen, because if it happened, it would get reported, so reporting about things that haven't happened is deceitful, and deceivers should be banned from the White House unless they live there. Clear now? 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026His legal efforts having failed, he is left with physical intimidation and attempts to seize the ballots. I am at least as concerned about how he behaves after announcing that the elections were rigged and invalid. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I suppose a supervised trip to the Senate could be considered occupational therapy. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When a politician's appeal is based on fear, ignorance, superstition, misogyny, racism, and greed, their natural constituency is large. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026After it's torn down and ground, it will be useful in road construction. 000
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There are new forms of white paint that are very effective at this. Expensive now, but bus shelters could offer a way to test them, especially against weathering. 020
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The film clip of him voting seems to show him voting no on a bill, then changing to yea after being prompted. That level of confusion would raise the question of whether he is mentally competent to vote and if his votes are valid. 010
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026And as an EU citizen, you will have the right to live and work in any EU country. 140
writeon1 @writeon1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Having heard this from the Pentagon, I am now absolutely certain that this vessel was or was not involved in the drug trade. For sure. 010
