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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 4d

Well, dancing seems to mean something to him.

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 5d

In the future, there might be academies that support citizen scientists. No academic affiliation required. Faculty/masters are generously paid with public funds, of course.
These academies are nodes in an ecological system that borrow and share their work, immediately successful/applicable or not.

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 5d

Oof. This one is a dagger.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5d

"Our AI will write your final performance review with compassion ('Crushed it, but tragically, we no longer value that') and ping you every thirty seconds with gentle reminders to remove your shit from the office."

A Clarification on AI from Your CEO

"Elijah Clark, a consultant who advises companies on AI implementation, is blunt about the bottom line. ’CEOs are extremely excited about the oppor...

buff.ly

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 6d

Palantir? Lockheed Martin? Elon?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

Trump claims that a mystery friend has donated $130 million to pay troops (it would cover a fraction) but we can’t know any details because he “doesn’t want recognition.”

I appreciate anyone willing to give $130 million to our troops but I’d still like to know more about this.

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 6d

This post + comments are a Futurist's gold mine.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 6d

Below. All valet parking of course.

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 8d

Throne room

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 8d

North Carolina - the Perennial Disappointment

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 8d

Aw man. Kenny Loggins will wait while you catch up on his greatest hits. It's going to be okay.

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 9d

Nope. Song lyrics amended for the purpose of commentary.

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 10d

He's alright.
Nobody worry 'bout him
Why you got to give him a fight?
Can't you just let it be?

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 11d

Now that the US pulled off a second fabulous #NoKings demo, it's high time to work on the YES vision.

If not going back is consensus, what does going forward look and feel like? Not just ideals. Visions. Lots of them.

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 11d

Just putting this fabulous reference here for future access. publish.obsidian.md/disruptively...

Table of Contents - Obsidian Publish

This archive contains real-world information, software, a 3D part library and documentation for small-scale off-grid open-source, closed loop infrastructure, as well as a library of Speculative Non-F…

publish.obsidian.md

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 11d

It's now decades later (insured to the max btw). I am unimpressed with that company's necktie-wearing animal mascot. Spare me the cutesy ads.
Do not screw people over when they are young. The $$$$$ losses are exponential. @libertymutual

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 11d

I questioned that, and got a milquetoast response. And I was exhausted. So the car was repaired, but I've not forgotten how that insurance company lied to me.

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 11d

Their reply said no, it's not totalled. The paper showed a fully-loaded car: sunroof, air conditioning, radio, leather seats, fancy tires - everything the car could have had but didn't. So they said the car was worth more than the damage.

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 11d

A few weeks of ownership in, the car was t-boned. I sent a claim into the other guy's insurance company. The car is totalled, right?

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 11d

When I was in my 20s and struggling, I bought my first new car because the interest rate (13%!) was much lower than for a used car. + I had had enough of super old cars.
It was completely feature-free. Not even a radio.

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 11d

US law claims that corporations are people. You know what they say about people: they remember how you make them feel.
So here's a message to corporations: people you screw over when they are young will never forget it. /1

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 11d

The Santa Fe New Mexican, Sunday, October 19, 2025. #NoKings

"'A few thousand' people March along the Old Santa Fe Trail...". No official estimated count offered in the article and online comments ridiculed the paper for downplaying the actual vast crowd.

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Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 13d

So now he's commoner Andrew, right?

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 13d

"increasingly distrustful"? Maybe when they are talking out loud.

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 13d

Define the difference for us. Is, for instance, authenticity performative at this point?

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 16d

Tonight's double feature of contrasts, both fighting fascists. Casablanca and Children of Men.

Susan Wilhite 🧪 @getresilient.bsky.social · 17d

Assuming he's that competent

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