Someone tell DOGE a way that the gov't could have been more efficient, by not building a stunt concentration camp... RE:
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Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social)
So.... 1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz" 2) It opened in early July, christened by T...
By the way, it's a bit of a funny thing, but as lots of people are reasonable dumping on this guy... there's a real possibility Bluesky would not exist without him. In 2019, he found my Protocols, not Platforms paper and started promoting it. The next day Jack Dorsey contacted me about it. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
If you want to hear how out of touch with reality this is, it's this podcast: https://podcastnotes.org/a16z/balaji-srinivasan-on-how-tech-truly-win...
How out of touch with reality does a tech dude need to be to say this at the same moment half of tech is excitedly talking about how AI is going to put most of humanity out of work? RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
OMG. It gets worse as I listen to more. He claims the pinnacle of journalism is Watergate and the pinnacle of tech is SpaceX meaning the best thing...
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
Have to admit I have only vaguely been aware of Matt Yglesias for years as some random blogger columnist and have never paid much attention to him beyond knowing people here dislike him. But my goodness this is stupid. Do people take this guy seriously? RE:
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Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
I’m sorry, what???
Again a ton of people were suggesting this from the very start of this administration and the Dems only interpreted it as "but who should go on the weekly shows." It's not like they don't have plenty of other govts around the world to look at to see how it's done. RE:
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Angus Johnston (@angus.bsky.social)
The DNC actually did set up a "shadow cabinet" back in April. It was just a list of people available to be interviewed, who weren't assigned to a...
Henceforth @npub1z65j...ywmm shall be known as "this random Karl" who was obviously and easily more right than [@rokhanna.bsky.social](
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Ro Khanna (@rokhanna.bsky.social)
New Economic Patriotism: Good Jobs, Low Costs, No Dumb Wars. 21st century Marshall Plan for America. M4A. $10 day childcare. Tax ultra wealth. Tex...
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Karl Bode (@karlbode.com)
it is I, "this random Karl" (?) https://youtu.be/jrEQlmLU6OQ?si=8dp4m9XzeLBR_x_S&t=1231
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Sure, sure, the state may be on fire, but we can't have any undocumented people helping to put it out... Incredible. Their infatuation with whether or not your documents are in order over all else is just beyond crazy. RE:
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Constantine (@ajaxsinger.bsky.social)
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Quality framing of the eephus pitch here RE:
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CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social)
lmaooooooo
Had a great chat with [@rudyfraser.com](
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 ) about how Blacksky and the community built around it is a great example of why open social media protocols are so important. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Techdirt Podcast Episode 428: Blacksky Demonstrates The Promise Of Open Social MediaΒ Protocols Support us on Patreon Β» The goal of Bluesky and t...