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Not that kind of DJ. Resident circa '05: Science Humanism Philosophy Skepticism. Dogs. Transparency / Privacy / Art / Photo. Incessant Rambling, Arcane Minutia. Hotel guy, love economics, not much tech. Where I'm at! https://linktr.ee/unclefishbits

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I'm wondering if we have to accept that it's going to get way rougher and a couple of us might have to start taking a few risks.

16.10.2025 06:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Hey, everyone hates everyone, now govern them!"

There's a great line from the film Mindwalk, "An Italian premier, just was just after Mussolini, was asked, "Is it difficult to govern Italians?" He said, "Difficult. No, not difficult. Only useless."

16.10.2025 05:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Hey, everyone hates everyone, now govern them!"

There's a great line from the film Mindwalk, "An Italian premier, just was just after Mussolini, was asked, "Is it difficult to govern Italians?" He said, "Difficult. No, not difficult. Only useless."

16.10.2025 05:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a fantastic statement from the governor of Washington, but I can't get past the fact that the man who's standing up to the right-wing anti-immigrant machine is named ...

Bob Ferguson?

Seriously?

Does he have a daughter named Willa?

12.10.2025 22:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 754    ๐Ÿ” 161    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if itโ€™s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

16.10.2025 01:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 865    ๐Ÿ” 275    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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โš ๏ธUS job market continues to deteriorate The jobs report for September has not been released yet due to the government shutdown, but other data show a bleak picture of the labor market.

๐ŸšจThe US labor market is CONTRACTING.

US ADP Private Employment FELL -32,000 in September, far below the expected gain of +51,000.

August was revised DOWN by -57,000, to -3,000.

This rarely happens outside of RECESSIONS.๐Ÿ‘‡

16.10.2025 02:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

16.10.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16662    ๐Ÿ” 4574    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 386    ๐Ÿ“Œ 249
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I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

15.10.2025 02:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6211    ๐Ÿ” 1559    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 376    ๐Ÿ“Œ 117
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

12.10.2025 04:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9500    ๐Ÿ” 3734    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 217    ๐Ÿ“Œ 375

Trump said that San Francisco was one of the great cities 10 to 15 years ago.

Guess who was mayor and district attorney?

Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris.

A journalist simply needs to ask him why he loves Gavin and Kamala so much that he would say that and confuse him.

16.10.2025 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Comafields / Imaginary Festival, by Burial 2 track album

This is some of Burial's best work in 15 years...

Comafields
Imaginary festival
burial.bandcamp.com/album/comafi...

If you enjoy post dubstep atmosphere, someone said "he invented lonely winter nights", but walking back from the club at 3:00 a.m. when your ears don't work.

16.10.2025 01:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm worn down to a nub, so genuinely asking:

Do you think there will be Nuremberg, let alone elections?

After 700,000 dead Americans, Lincoln said "With malice toward none, with charity for all / let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds"

So, what happens here?

16.10.2025 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm worn down to a nub, so genuinely asking:

Do you think there will be Nuremberg, let alone elections?

After 700,000 dead Americans, Lincoln said "With malice toward none, with charity for all / let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds"

So, what happens here?

16.10.2025 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Help @quoteinvestigator.com! I can't find the source:

โ€œHalf the world's population are women. The other half are her children."

Efu Nyaki?

Branson said Graรงa Machel with this added: "Yet in many countries women still don't have equal rights.โ€

(& possibly but unlikely Purna Chandra Kanungo Deo)?

16.10.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Help @quoteinvestigator.com! I can't find the source:

โ€œHalf the world's population are women. The other half are her children."

Efu Nyaki?

Branson said Graรงa Machel with this added: "Yet in many countries women still don't have equal rights.โ€

(& possibly but unlikely Purna Chandra Kanungo Deo)?

16.10.2025 00:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Most US Growth Now Rides on AIโ€”And Economists Suspect a Bubble A Harvard economist says 92% of U.S. growth now comes from AI spending. The Bank of England says weโ€™re one โ€œpopโ€ away from pain.

Kai Ryssdal said The S&P 500 shouldn't be 500, it should be the S&P 490 and 10 AI adjacent companies.

This is a problem:

"Harvard economist Jason Furman recently said that AI investments accounted for nearly 92% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025" finance.yahoo.com/news/most-us...

15.10.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
1997 MTV's Zoo TV predicting Youtube, AI content delivery, AI designed digital ecosystems, CRISPR & Epigenetics, Digital Ecosystems, and more. - Uncle Fishbits In 1997, a subversive, transgressive, prescient show aired on MTV. From what I recall, it aired randomly. 3 thirty minute episode that aired on non successive weekends on either Saturdays or Sunday, a...

1997 MTVโ€™s Zoo TV predicting Youtube, AI content delivery, AI designed digital ecosystems, CRISPR & Epigenetics, Digital Ecosystems, and more. unclefishbits.com/1997-mtvs-zo...

15.10.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Chasing AGI: altruism, self-interest, capitalism, libertarian technologists, and a different existential threat for the human race. - Uncle Fishbits Will technologists chasing artificial general intelligence (AGI) allow AGI to say, โ€œBillionaires are a large part of the overall problem for humanity & we shouldnโ€™t have them?โ€ & how do we prevent par...

Chasing AGI: altruism, self-interest, capitalism, libertarian technologists, and a different existential threat for the human race. unclefishbits.com/chasing-agi-...

15.10.2025 23:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

LOVE DINNER PARTY HORROR:

The Invitation
Coherence
The Dinner Party
The Feast
Await Further Instructions
Krampus
You're Next
The Menu
It's a Disaster
Would You Rather
Krishna
The Perfect Host
Who Invited Them?

also The Gift, Mother!, Ready or Not truly fits!
TCM's dinner scene
Hitchcock's Rope

15.10.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

LOVE DINNER PARTY HORROR:

The Invitation
Coherence
The Dinner Party
The Feast
Await Further Instructions
Krampus
You're Next
The Menu
It's a Disaster
Would You Rather
Krishna
The Perfect Host
Who Invited Them?

also The Gift, Mother!, Ready or Not truly fits!
TCM's dinner scene
Hitchcock's Rope

15.10.2025 22:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

86'd Facebook 2012, Twitter circa Mid 2023.

I've 2 "legacy" Instagram (DJ, personal), but never really used (don't get settings, just found DMs lol).

I'm in email, text, bluesky, imgur, & reddit, mainly. Strava.

It's not only wild how many place we exist, but where we're *expected to also exist*.

15.10.2025 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Soft spoiler for the Boyle Garland Zombie film:

The ending of 28 Years Later, nodding to the fact that 2002 and everything after it would not have happened (trends, pop culture, crimes, metoo, etc), and the Jimmy Savile gang is the most bonkers out of left field thing, and it was absolutely WILD.

15.10.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For the masses, why should you not run it unsupported?

I know that's a stupid question, but if it's simply "security issues", that's fine for me! =)

15.10.2025 21:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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They arrested a giraffe.

15.10.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7147    ๐Ÿ” 2895    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 571    ๐Ÿ“Œ 181

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

15.10.2025 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 707    ๐Ÿ” 266    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is serious. JD Vance just confirmed Trump is considering invoking the Insurrection Act โ€” deploying troops on U.S. soil against his own people.

๐Ÿ’ฐ Heโ€™s using OUR tax dollars for HIS power grab.

๐Ÿ‘‘ But in America, we donโ€™t do kings.

On Oct 18, we rise. Peacefully. Powerfully. Together. #NoKings

15.10.2025 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 89    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

UPSHOT: Is it soil? Plant based, especially pea protein = worst offenders. It's still not that simple.

But, YIKES-
"Federal regulations also donโ€™t generally require supplement makers to prove their products are safe, and there are no federal limits for the amount of heavy metals they can contain."

15.10.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

UPSHOT: Is it soil? Plant based, especially pea protein = worst offenders. It's still not that simple.

But, YIKES-
"Federal regulations also donโ€™t generally require supplement makers to prove their products are safe, and there are no federal limits for the amount of heavy metals they can contain."

15.10.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a HUGE deal.

15.10.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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