Ben Schumacher
@benschumacher.com
Father. Bike commuter. Internet privacy & security advocate. Wannabe woodworker, 3D modeler, electronics and home automation junky, etc.
Appreciate the video, especially the last 20 minutes. Thanks for taking a stand. ☀️
February 10, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Appreciate the video, especially the last 20 minutes. Thanks for taking a stand. ☀️
Aren't these the same folks that argue that attempting to hire for diversity and inclusion is discrimination should be illegal?
He's taking both sides of the argument!... discrimination is good if it means more white men get hired, but bad if anybody else is?
He's taking both sides of the argument!... discrimination is good if it means more white men get hired, but bad if anybody else is?
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Aren't these the same folks that argue that attempting to hire for diversity and inclusion is discrimination should be illegal?
He's taking both sides of the argument!... discrimination is good if it means more white men get hired, but bad if anybody else is?
He's taking both sides of the argument!... discrimination is good if it means more white men get hired, but bad if anybody else is?
Just to be explicit, I love my @home-assistant.io-managed GDO! It works great and gives me a lot more flexibility and control beyond what MyQ offered.
Amazing to see RATGDO creator get a profile in @nytimes.com. Does this mean the anti-cloud backlash is going mainstream? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...
Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Just to be explicit, I love my @home-assistant.io-managed GDO! It works great and gives me a lot more flexibility and control beyond what MyQ offered.
Amazing to see RATGDO creator get a profile in @nytimes.com. Does this mean the anti-cloud backlash is going mainstream? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...
Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Amazing to see RATGDO creator get a profile in @nytimes.com. Does this mean the anti-cloud backlash is going mainstream? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...
Gah. That's seriously gross, but I hope you take this as a signal that you should keep doing what you're doing.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Gah. That's seriously gross, but I hope you take this as a signal that you should keep doing what you're doing.
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every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Subtweet of Ross Douthat? I think yes.
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Subtweet of Ross Douthat? I think yes.
Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
And the governments of these countries are complicit or supportive of this, because it is more important to them to perpetuate the hoax than have lower health costs and a more productive workforce?
September 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
And the governments of these countries are complicit or supportive of this, because it is more important to them to perpetuate the hoax than have lower health costs and a more productive workforce?
... wut? Let me see if I can unpack this. Energy costs are artificially inflated by $somebody to perpetuate a global warming hoax and, therefore, people can't afford to turn on their air conditioners, and ultimately suffer from heat stroke. Did I get that right?
September 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
... wut? Let me see if I can unpack this. Energy costs are artificially inflated by $somebody to perpetuate a global warming hoax and, therefore, people can't afford to turn on their air conditioners, and ultimately suffer from heat stroke. Did I get that right?
Also (and I will work this into all feedback and reviews) please keep up The Simpsons references!
September 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Also (and I will work this into all feedback and reviews) please keep up The Simpsons references!
Really appreciated this episode. I had this little twinge of not quite buying the thesis when I heard the coverage of this on The Daily, but I didn't dig any further into it myself. My mistake! Thank you for laying it out clearly.
September 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Really appreciated this episode. I had this little twinge of not quite buying the thesis when I heard the coverage of this on The Daily, but I didn't dig any further into it myself. My mistake! Thank you for laying it out clearly.
Recall when Trump & pals were decrying so-called "cancel culture"? And we have the supposed "free speech absolutist" who owns the bird app. apnews.com/article/kirk...
After Kirk's killing a growing chorus of conservatives wants his critics ostracized or fired
Some conservatives are targeting people and organizations they believe disparaged Charlie Kirk after his death.
apnews.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Recall when Trump & pals were decrying so-called "cancel culture"? And we have the supposed "free speech absolutist" who owns the bird app. apnews.com/article/kirk...
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Is this what Ezra Klein meant when he said Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way?
September 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Is this what Ezra Klein meant when he said Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way?
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
theonion.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
Thoughts and prayers to all the victims of the school shooting at Utah Valley University?
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Thoughts and prayers to all the victims of the school shooting at Utah Valley University?
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There has never been a better argument for physical media
Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website
Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...
Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...
Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.
www.404media.co
August 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
There has never been a better argument for physical media
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If you send someone something that an AI created and you haven’t already read, understood, and made useful, you are doing two things:
1. disrespecting your peer’s time and offloading your work to them.
2. proving to everyone that you could be replaced by an AI.
Don’t do it.
1. disrespecting your peer’s time and offloading your work to them.
2. proving to everyone that you could be replaced by an AI.
Don’t do it.
July 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you send someone something that an AI created and you haven’t already read, understood, and made useful, you are doing two things:
1. disrespecting your peer’s time and offloading your work to them.
2. proving to everyone that you could be replaced by an AI.
Don’t do it.
1. disrespecting your peer’s time and offloading your work to them.
2. proving to everyone that you could be replaced by an AI.
Don’t do it.
We all know who blinked, President TACO. #TrumpAlwaysChickensOut
May 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We all know who blinked, President TACO. #TrumpAlwaysChickensOut
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Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309
May 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309
This wanna be emperor has no clothes. There is no strategy to these tariffs, and he continues to use dumb justifications to see what sticks -- tax revenue, manufacturing jobs, etc.
This is no surprise, but naturally, luxury goods makers get exempted from tariffs. The thesis is that you couldn't(...?) build these in the US is dumb when really all it does is protect the super wealthy from this tax increase. www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/b...
Trump floats 100% tariff on Barbies while his UK trade ‘deal’ shields super-luxury cars like Rolls-Royce | CNN Business
Even as President Donald Trump pushes a message of self-sacrifice when it comes to how many dolls American children should own, his administration’s first trade “deal” includes a carveout for cars – l...
www.cnn.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This wanna be emperor has no clothes. There is no strategy to these tariffs, and he continues to use dumb justifications to see what sticks -- tax revenue, manufacturing jobs, etc.
This is no surprise, but naturally, luxury goods makers get exempted from tariffs. The thesis is that you couldn't(...?) build these in the US is dumb when really all it does is protect the super wealthy from this tax increase. www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/b...
Trump floats 100% tariff on Barbies while his UK trade ‘deal’ shields super-luxury cars like Rolls-Royce | CNN Business
Even as President Donald Trump pushes a message of self-sacrifice when it comes to how many dolls American children should own, his administration’s first trade “deal” includes a carveout for cars – l...
www.cnn.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is no surprise, but naturally, luxury goods makers get exempted from tariffs. The thesis is that you couldn't(...?) build these in the US is dumb when really all it does is protect the super wealthy from this tax increase. www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/b...