Darren Gasser
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Tech guy who mostly rambles about politics and random news here.
April -- 2026 Drones are masters of Western Asia Only other drones stand before them Data centers are now battlefields
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I'm glad I'm not watching the damn speech, but even from the clips it's giving this vibe:
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encino man gives a motivational speech
YouTube video by Taran Axethorpe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD2CB-52I10
3 days ago
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This is why we will win.
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3 days ago
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Any company that can survive setting $80,000,000,000 on fire is too big to exist safely. Any company that retains the management team that did it is a menace to society and good taste.
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bedley smutler
6 days ago
win condition for the modal american civil unrest is “cause this picture to be taken”, not fire bomb a walmart or whatever
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Bryan Blessed
11 days ago
Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.
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"Buy the dip" and "line go up" only carry so far. Scary to think what might happen when this dynamic breaks.
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11 days ago
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One of those "wait, that can't possibly be right. can it?" stats:
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12 days ago
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Just peachy. Israel trying to trigger the escalation spiral on their own after the GCC and Wall Street guys talked Trump out of it.
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12 days ago
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This made me go look, and I'm happy to report the Bruce Schneier Facts site still exists:
www.schneierfacts.com/facts/100
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15 days ago
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Jacob T. Levy
16 days ago
Your revolution is over, Mr. Atreides. The bums lost.
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Good thread. “AI has destroyed the SaaS model” completely misses why the SaaS model succeeded in the first place. AI-assisted coding is a valuable innovation. It hasn’t eliminated the need for capable software engineers.
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21 days ago
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Tonight on HBO: Walton Goggins stars in…
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27 days ago
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Yikes. Although I'm sure increases like this in states that have gone out of their way to keep gas prices artificially low won't have any political ramifications, right?
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zatapatique
about 1 month ago
A noticeable share of the top of our decision-makers population developed visible physical aggro tendencies and some wild risk taking tendencies at the same time as they developed bodybuilding physiques, that's a weird coincidence, and I have no further questions
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Miranda Yaver
about 1 month ago
New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.
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It's going to be funny as hell when he either switches to Paxton or unendorses a day later after the inevitable right-wing freakout.
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about 1 month ago
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Sounds like they've got things under control. Nothing could possibly go sideways with this brilliant new plan. Especially in places like Turkey, Syria, and on the ground in Iraq.
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Robocop-ass country.
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about 1 month ago
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“ChatGPT: Do not, under any circumstances, illustrate this with a picture”
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about 1 month ago
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He also likes seeing things explode on the TV. Maddening. Stupid. And we inflicted it on ourselves.
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We had lots of indications this was what was happening, but it's still maddening to see it confirmed with detailed data. Federal judges need to shift gears and start putting some DHS leaders in jail for contempt.
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I hope everyone is happy with their current phone and doesn't need a replacement for at least 18 months:
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Asawin Suebsaeng
about 1 month ago
I’ve been thinking about doing a meta story on this for a while: the second trump administration is so pathetically, world historically psychotic that you likely don’t know what’s happening with his labor department. It’s a constant stream of scandals and excess Constant.
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Straight to the damn Hague!
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about 1 month ago
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It's probably not a healthy sign when you read headlines about the mad king starting a galactically bad regional war as soon as this weekend and your first thought is "well, at least F1 will be able to finish pre-season testing in Bahrain on Friday."
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Jonathan Cohn
about 2 months ago
"Donald Trump’s so-called Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Anthropic because it won’t help the Pentagon conduct mass surveillance on Americans or make fully autonomous weapons that the administration can use however it likes."
newrepublic.com/post/206631/...
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The Pentagon Just Sent a Terrifying Message to AI Companies
It warned Anthropic it will “pay a price” if it continues to demand its products have safeguards.
https://newrepublic.com/post/206631/pentagon-just-sent-terrifying-message-ai-companies
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With no coherent foreign policy process and all decisions contingent on which viziers have the ear of a mad king, we're slowly learning more about how the different viziers see the world. What a weird mix of Cold War Bircherism and colonial imperialism.
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about 2 months ago
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Ok, so it’s not just a US thing. Right wingers are allergic to learning history elsewhere, too.
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about 2 months ago
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Grady Booch
about 2 months ago
I do not fear the rise of superintelligence. I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.
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1 hard no, 4 prefer not. Several depends on how it’s prepared.
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about 2 months ago
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Mark Copelovitch
about 2 months ago
I’m also thinking about the time Bill Clinton was impeached for - no, really, you won’t possibly believe what Bill Clinton was impeached for given <gestures at everything happening fifty times a day now>
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Helen Kennedy
about 2 months ago
Seems like a big deal. Also, staggeringly stupid of Bondi to put it on paper.
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The energy I want from candidates heading into midterms, planning for 2027 and beyond:
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about 2 months ago
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The rest of the world thinks it's a bubble.
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about 2 months ago
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Post a banger that's not in English.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzyO...
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about 2 months ago
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We need to formalize this principle and design a test for it. A generic form of "you're not allowed to talk about autonomous robots and Mars colonies unless you can show you can make a basic consumer product that doesn't suck."
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about 2 months ago
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Ed Yetagain
about 2 months ago
The people who needed their own half time show are the same people who needed their own water fountains.
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Dr. Holly Walters
about 2 months ago
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I love the "some of" in the last sentence. "We're cool with a certain level of corruption and graft, but these guys took it a bit too far."
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hammancheez
about 2 months ago
Has he considered children walk in single file to hide their numbers
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A significant portion of a software architect's job is preventing this failure mode:
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2 months ago
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A literal implementation of quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Good for her, but distressing that this is necessary.
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2 months ago
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Between this and demanding the Senate eliminate the filibuster to pass vote suppression legislation it looks like that Texas Senate election and recent poll numbers really got him wound around the axel about the midterms.
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Julia Carrie Wong
2 months ago
DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
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Impeach her for gross violence against the English language in addition to all the rest.
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C. Robert Cargill
2 months ago
This is the drum I'm always banging. We don't have to change the hearts of diehard bastards to win. We just need the independents & we can win. Frustrated Republicans? Icing on the cake. Politics isn't two sides struggling to steal each other's members; it's a war of attrition over the independents
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Tiffany C. Li
2 months ago
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Craig Calcaterra
2 months ago
When you need a legendary rock star to do the absolute weirdest thing, accept no substitutes: make it Neil Young.
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It's Going Down
2 months ago
There's not going to be a White House press event about this. There's not going to be a media blitz about "domestic terrorism" around this incident. No one in the administration will tweet about this. All because white supremacist violence is encouraged by the state.
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