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๐Ÿ JD Lasica

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Thriller author ๐Ÿ“š | Co-founder, Cruiseable, Authors AI, BingeBooks ๐Ÿšข | Traveler โ›ฑ | Photographer ๐Ÿ“ท | Art lover ๐ŸŽจ | Tech pioneer ๐Ÿ“ฑ | International jewel thief ๐Ÿ’Ž | I โค๏ธ democracy

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Pentagon orders temporary flight ban in Caribbean zone The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), acting under the direction of the Department of Defense (DoD), has issued a new Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) establishing temporary flight restriction...

The FAA has issued a temporary flight restriction off Puerto Rico for โ€œspecial security reasonsโ€ effective November 1.

Anyone else think this sound like a ground run for an invasion of Venezuela?

Any Defense Dept. journalists out there? Worth looking into.

defence-blog.com/pentagon-ord...

01.11.2025 01:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Taxes on whom? That's the real choice.

31.10.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well done!

31.10.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fun to watch Netflixโ€™s โ€œA House of Dynamiteโ€ and see mentions of the secretive Raven Rock nuclear bunker, which was the primary setting in my high-tech thriller โ€œFirefall.โ€ (BTW, not the greatest ending for that movie.)

26.10.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is appalling ... and illegal. And no one is lifting a finger.

22.10.2025 00:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The next protest movement: No Overlords Will AI agents provide the impetus for the next grassroots uprising?

Will AI agents spur the next mass protest movement?

open.substack.com/pub/theedgeo...

18.10.2025 23:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, baby! Proud of all my fellow Americans who stood up to make their voices heard today!

18.10.2025 21:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and heโ€™d still have a job.

18.09.2025 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67584    ๐Ÿ” 16223    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1193    ๐Ÿ“Œ 539
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Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

This is how it's done, America.

Jair Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

12.09.2025 00:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Left, right or center, political violence is always wrong. Full stop.

As a nation we don't want a return to the '60s-'70s era of political assassinations. Those who stoke hatred and mistrust of institutions are partly responsible for this heinous act.

Tragic to hear that Charlie Kirk is dead.

10.09.2025 20:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah, opening day Sunday, when the dreams of millions of NFL fans have not yet been crushed.

07.09.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The eye of Hurricane Erin is about 200 miles north of us here in Puerto Rico, and itโ€™ll miss us. But weโ€™re already starting to get a whipping from the rain and winds! Batten down the hatches!

16.08.2025 21:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How AI is decimating the Webโ€™s business model The old Internet bargain is dead: For decades, publishers traded content for traffic. Now AI companies are taking the content and killing the clicks.

How AI is decimating the Web's business model - my new post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/theedgeo...

11.08.2025 20:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just watched the umpteenth remake of "The War of the Worlds" on Amazon Prime. It's god-awful, riddled with laughable, absurd plotlines.

Learn knitting. Play a game of chess. Plenty of better ways to spend your 90 minutes.

10.08.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ready for some beach reads? Soak up the sun with summer reading fun at BingeBooks - list created by my friend Jen:

bingebooks.com/article/soak...

25.07.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Watching the program now, since we can't make it to New York to see it on Broadway. Remarkably well done.

Will today's news media stand up to the latest authoritarian power grabs in DC? Good luck to us all.

08.06.2025 01:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Read-It-Later Pocket App Will Shut Down on July 8 Mozilla says it's focusing on 'projects that better match [people's] browsing habits and online needs.' You have until Oct. 8 to export your Pocket data.

Well, crap. Just heard that Pocket, one of my longtime favorite apps, is shutting down on July 8.

Anyone know of other bookmark apps that are trustworthy?

www.pcmag.com/news/pocket-...

07.06.2025 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thank you to the 1,148 entrants who entered my giveaway for the high-tech thriller "The Golden Relic." We have sent the ebook to the 100 winners, and another 1,061 readers added the title to their Want to Read list on Goodreads. Awesome!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLWSJCG3

03.05.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.

Important article from my friend Eric about bot farms leading the disinformation assault on social media.

www.fastcompany.com/91321143/bot...

26.04.2025 01:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ElevenReader: Biohack Listen to a preview of this read or download the app to play the full read.

Listen to my high-tech thriller 'Biohack' with an audiobook narrator of your choice: Maya Angelou, Jerry Garcia, John Wayne,Laurence Olivier.

elevenreader.io/app/reader/a...

#elevenlabs #audiobook

19.04.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I've heard several news commentators - like Katy Kay of Morning Joe today - refer to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as "Garcia."

This is incorrect.

His paternal surname is Abrego. So the only correct second references are "Abrego" or "Abrego Garcia."

18.04.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why is transcribing "the worst"? That's what AI does, quickly and accurately.

17.04.2025 03:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi Alex, we've built our own model, Marlowe, focused strictly on the writing sector. We're not an LLM.

15.04.2025 18:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The trouble with Bill Maher gushing about his pleasant dinner with the โ€œrealโ€ Trump and his call to make peace with the MAGA movement is that they have absolutely no interest in doing the same.

If there was ever a time for resistance and NOT moderation, that time is now.

13.04.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How digital are you?

The fine art of decluttering and reinvention.

theedgeoftomorrow.substack.com/p/how-digita...

12.04.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice. Keep it up New Yawk!

06.04.2025 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kamala Harris: There were many things that we knew would happen.. Iโ€™m not here to say I told you so

04.04.2025 02:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21352    ๐Ÿ” 4541    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1102    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1149

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy.

Third timeโ€™s the charm, I guess.

03.04.2025 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44483    ๐Ÿ” 10112    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1480    ๐Ÿ“Œ 478
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Book giveaway for The Golden Relic (Lance Manning & the Rogue AI Series, #1) by J.D. Lasica Apr 02-May 01, 2025 Enter to win one of 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 02-May 01, 2025. We're giving away 100 free ebooks of The Golden Relic by intern...

Hey, if any book lovers here are still on Goodreads, I have a Giveaway starting today for my new thriller, The Golden Relic!

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

02.04.2025 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AI & fiction: Where to draw the lines Every author will make their own decision โ€” hereโ€™s where I landed

AI & fiction: Where to draw the lines when AI can write books.

theedgeoftomorrow.substack.com/p/ai-and-fic...

24.03.2025 19:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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