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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 20m

LOL!

Ah yes, the "sir" stories.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 26m

I have yet to see one post about Nuzzi that even comes close to "slut shaming." Every post I have seen has been laughing at her ability to bounce from job to job, with apparently no problems, despite some rather unprofessional behavior in the recent past.

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 30m

That woman sure is blinking a lot. Is she trying to tell us to rescue her?

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting. I certainly think she's a bonehead for the stuff she has written & for her reaction to her friends' reactions, and watching the clips of her in the John Oliver show made me think that she's a Dunning-Kruger poster child. But I just don't feel she's so clueless as to merit any sympathy.

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 1h

So discouraging to be reminded how many people who are reasonably educated and considerably younger than me harbor such poisonous views.

But better to have them out in the light. I can only hope some of the fence-sitters and low-info voters somehow learn about this.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

In case you haven't yet watched ...

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 1d

Let me add another recommendation for the Last Week Tonight episode focusing on Bari Weiss.

Even if you've read a bunch of stuff, and there's been lots of good stuff, something about this really brings it home. (Maybe b/c it's my first time hearing her talk. Ick.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

In case you watched that great John Oliver show and thought, "Shouldn't more be said about Olivia Reingold?", @albertburneko.bsky.social is here to help!

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

Same.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

Happened across this a couple of days ago. Still snickering.

Screenshot of part of the Wikipedia page for Olivia Reingold, with an added arrow calling attention to the line "An editor has nominated this article for deletion."

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

I felt the same way: laughing while being scared.

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

From @pkrugman.bsky.social (partly behind a paywall):

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/technology...

Technology Bubbles: Causes and Consequences

What history can teach us about AI frenzy

paulkrugman.substack.com

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

From @davekarpf.bsky.social:

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 22h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

This is great. Short and sweet, scary and funny.

More bubble links in comments.

Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2h

Ok @davekarpf.bsky.social wins, I wrote about OpenAI and Enron again, with a nod to Lehman Brothers as well. The fire burns as AI bubbles.

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/dont-stop-...

Don't Stop Believin' in OpenAI

Or it all may collapse

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

Really good!

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

And thank for doing so. That was great.

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

Huh. Where oh where might we be able to find that kind of money?

bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/the-new...

The New Cost for 2025 Tax Cut Extensions - $4 Trillion | Bipartisan Policy Center

At the end of 2025, several tax provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)…

bipartisanpolicy.org

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 2h

@atrupar.com also has a clip where Mike's Johnson is using his most tired excuse for not having anything to say about Cory Mills: "I've been too busy."

I would love to see the Angry Goose at one of those press conferences: "Doing what?" "DOING WHAT?"

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 3h

Yup. And it's not a "college chat."

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 15h

Also, note the lie. The people in that Young Republican chat were not college kids.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 23h

Just look at these poor starving Young Republicans.

nysyr.com/2023/06/15/p...

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 3h

Possibly. I vaguely recall reading something not too long ago about how that wasn't going to work, either, thanks to Trump's antics, but I don't recall the details. Will have to check again, when I can find the motivation.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 3h

Seems ... almost ... somehow familiar.

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and

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 5h

Yup. Jumped right out at me, too.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 5h

What that Daily Beast (on Yahoo) article neglected to mention:

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 15h

Also, note the lie. The people in that Young Republican chat were not college kids.

bsky.app/profile/bjke...

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 23h

Just look at these poor starving Young Republicans.

nysyr.com/2023/06/15/p...

bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 5h

Yes.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 15h

You'll never guess which couchfucker immediately tried to counterspin the Politico story about the Young Republicans and their racist group chats.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 6h

I wish I knew some other place for my retirement savings than the stock market.

Maybe I should beat the rush and just start buying cans of cat food now.

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 6h

I always wondered what happened to him. I had a conspiracy theory in mind that when he started pushing his "liberaltarian" idea, Cato put him on a blacklist.

Seems to be happy think tanking and Substacking, though.

brinklindsey.substack.com/about

About - The Permanent Problem

the quest to "live wisely and agreeably and well". Click to read The Permanent Problem, by Brink Lindsey, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

brinklindsey.substack.com