Agent Double-O-Soul

No it won’t. It will drive more people to podcasts.

Trump’s Crypto Venture Divides the Industry He Aims to Support (Gift Article) The president’s promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick that undermined the industry’s credibility.

Gary Gensler Wraps Up His SEC Term As Banquo’s Ghost www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...

Most business books are dreck and few women writers, esp if you don’t count “How To Woman In Business” books. There’s gotta be MBA school case studies on scaling early stage companies. Interviews with people like Sara Blakey might be relevant.

1 Dead After a Cybertruck Explodes Outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas (Gift Article) At least seven people were injured, the authorities said. Videos posted to social media appeared to show a vehicle engulfed in flames outside the lobby’s entrance.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/u... what’s weirder? OTOH guy who chose Trump hotel out of all the hotels in Las Vegas hears “loud popping” and of all the things you might do on the 27th floor, hops right in the elevator. OTOH 2 NYT reporters don’t notice this is exactly what to N! O! T! do

Never heard of this JS guy whom all the brouhaha is about before Bluesky. Totally willing to believe he’s spreading hate. Why is it not enough to block him and trust that most others who see hate from him will block him and he’ll get bored and leave? Like other trolls? Why is a mod needed?

Folks before dunking on every person employed by UHC please remember many — my quick medium-informed guess is over half — are frontline workers in the contact center listening to people yelling all day or processors making hourly wage. These are basically assembly-line jobs in the service economy.

Is Trumpism an American Peronism? I got this idea from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Safe Terrain Let's finish a de-mining project in Ukraine

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In my time and place class and culture divisions were wild. Wouldn’t surprise me if no one on westside had to recite pledge but across the river everyone else did. State flag though, I never heard of pledge to that even at Outdoor School the great equalizer,

I went to public school in Tigard 3rd - 4th grade 1970s then Portland through 8th. Certainly no pledge to state flag! Maybe a thing in other parts of state. No pledge to anything at other schools.

“I want to spend my money as counterproductively to society as possible so I paid for a sign discouraging charity”

Hello Santa, thank you for sticking your neck out. Imagine if there were no Santa Claus! Why it would be as dreary as if — oh NVM. Happy Christmas.

This could all turn out to be a panicky overdo, but Occam’s Razor supports it.

American Recordings - YouTube

Oh sweet child! A great adventure awaits you

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It’s all like a dark vintage Warner Brothers. “Which way did he go? Which way did he go?” BEEP BEEP

I really hope you’re right and it’s more like when the Wall fell than when the Cubs finally won the World Series and we danced in the street banging pots and pans because anything was possible, a woman president, healthcare for all, anything. Early November 2016

Coleridge’s carping about Othello the Moor being a Black guy hangs like an albatross around the neck of his legacy.

Where does Long Black Veil go? It’s like Lily Of The West except if the narrator wasn’t the real killer.

Great thought exercise:

“Thinking about AI as a political project that happens to be implemented technologically in myriad ways“

The only good life is one where you die with a clean conscience. Not that that’s comfortable.

Per email we are strongly invited to come by the office, which I have done twice since March 2020, for “Ugly Holiday Sweater Lunch.” All norms of office attire shattered. Ordered this. They didn’t say which holiday.

A DB Cooper for our time

Probably also thinks Taylor Swift should shut up and sing, and Swifties are sheeple who will do whatever she says

100% if you’re not reading at least TPM’s free stuff, you should. Consistently pithy independent analysis never losing a sense of humor. Top of my list for 20 years.

The folk hero is a huge component of America’s internal narrative and its mythology. It’s shocking to me that we haven’t gotten to this point previously,but if people feel the rule of law no longer applies because of the incoming president and what they see as rampant corruption this may be the norm

Still confused why I share things to Bluesky from YouTube and Amazon but no preview appears. Here is screenshot. Finally I got the reference. Yay me.

After a day of Google and ChatGPT giving me the runaround, I finally deciphered the allusion.

Delay Deny Defend--paperback a.co/d/hbTFsE4

If this is working like it’s supposed to, then you could block or snooze the meme-posters who are annoying you. Instead of waiting for social pressure to do it for you, which doesn’t usually work online.

Often, people need to be more specific about who "we" is.

I can think of 5 women who authored books on how ai reinforces and is shaped by bias.

Computer scientist Dr. Joy Buolamwini was speaking about this as a doctoral student 5 years ago, anf Ruha Benjamin, etc

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YouTube video by Buddy Rich - Topic Uptight (Everything's Alright) (Live At The Chez Club, Hollywood, CA/Remixed & Remastered/1995)

Buddy Rich - Uptight (Everything's Alright) (1967)
#jazz, #live, #drum, #cover
Live At The Chez Club, Hollywood, CA
Remastered (1995)
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