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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 2d

This may be the most important thing I've ever written. Or not danablankenhorn.com/2025/10/tech...

Tech’s Frightful Turn - Dana Blankenhorn

Marc Benioff’s turn to the Dark Side completes a frightening picture. I haven’t written about it before because, as I admitted after the election, I was wrong about so much in American history. It doe...

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 5d

The dude is already looking older. Hard job, poping. Not for me, thank you.

danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 5d

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The AI Disconnect - Dana Blankenhorn

The economics of AI are not sustainable. Ways must be found to redistribute its wealth that don't wreck the system.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 5d

The AI Disconnect. If all the wealth goes to the top, the rest of us will destroy the technology's benefits. danablankenhorn.com/2025/10/the-...

The AI Disconnect - Dana Blankenhorn

The economics of AI are not sustainable. Ways must be found to redistribute its wealth that don't wreck the system.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 7d

For under $2,000 you can run away from ICE. For a little more they can run after you. danablankenhorn.com/2025/10/e-wa...

E-Walking - Dana Blankenhorn

We are still at the e-bike stage of exoskeletons. But for under $2,000 you can walk further and faster than ever before.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 7d

E-bikes and electric cars don't have to be more expensive all the time. Here's why they are danablankenhorn.com/2025/10/forc...

Forced Inflation - Dana Blankenhorn

Next year's e-bikes will be faster, more comfortable, and more like motorcycles than what we have today. Are you ready?

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 9d

Stop doomscrolling for a moment and pick up on some positive change danablankenhorn.com/2025/10/opa-...

Opa Fiets in the E-Transport Revolution - Dana Blankenhorn

My latest Kindle book covers me, a nation reinventing itself, and the most important urban change of our time.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 13d

Here is what I wrote today. danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/they-are-s...

They Are Stupid is One Weird American Trick

Losing My Religion, Patriot Edition

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 13d

No one is pro-abortion. It's a lie too many religions tell their followers to feel comfortable with their anti-woman bigotry. Might as well be Afghani men.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 13d

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They Are Stupid is One Weird American Trick

Losing My Religion, Patriot Edition

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 13d

The origins of Trumpism lie in your church danablankenhorn.com/2025/10/they...

They Are Stupid is One Weird American Trick - Dana Blankenhorn

It is as hard for those caught up in Trumpism to leave as it is for followers of a religious sect, which is how the right wants it.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 15d

Some are, some aren't. Those that are must now watch their backs against those that aren't. This is the first step in a purge

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 15d

Gary Marcus criticisms of LLMs are only sending the AI hype cycle into overdrive danablankenhorn.com/2025/09/worl...

World Models and the AI Hype Cycle - Dana Blankenhorn

The belief world foundation models will save LLMs from themselves is keeping the AI hype train chugging along.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 15d

The man has nothing to say. He's an Uber Shill. But that's what you want. Because you can buy an Uber Shill and make it say anything.

danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 16d

Don't teach me what to think, or how to do something. Teach me how to think. danablankenhorn.com/2025/09/what...

What is Wrong with College Education? - Dana Blankenhorn

If a college isn't giving you the tools to think for yourself, if it's just giving you job skills, it's wasting your time and money.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 19d

danablankenhorn.com/2025/09/the-... Cities must evolve, intelligently

The State of the E-Transport Revolution - Dana Blankenhorn

The E-Transport Revolution is here. Cities must adapt or die. That means supporting a third way of getting around.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 20d

Jimmy Kimmel isn't Lenny Bruce, y'all. But it made great strategic sense to go after Shelley Berman

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 20d

danablankenhorn.com/2025/09/look... The only question is when, and your guess is as good as mine.

Looking Over the AI Cliff - Dana Blankenhorn

We know an AI stock crash is inevitable. The only question is when it will happen. Your guess is as good as mine.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 20d

No one got "shredded." Our use of verbs to describe criticism has undergone enormous inflation

danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 21d

danablankenhorn.com/2025/09/the-... Cities need to deal with this. Now

The Rise of E-Motorcycles - Dana Blankenhorn

Cycling advocates have warned for months that “Class 3” motorcycles, which can go 30, 40, or even 50 mph, are dangerous. We’ve been ignored. The new e-motorcycle era is the result. Strap in. Manufactu...

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 22d

A command economy is a recipe for economic disaster. danablankenhorn.com/2025/09/comm...

Command Economies Suck - Dana Blankenhorn

When policy is set by the whims of the leader, economies suffer. China has learned that. America is about to.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 26d

My suggestion. Go to one and cough

danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 26d

danablankenhorn.com/2025/09/the-... The meaning behind Andrew Jackson's portrait in the Oval Office

The Fourth Jackson Administration - Dana Blankenhorn

The current Administration is leading us to a Jacksonian world of oligarchs, slavery, and puritan absolutism.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 26d

The rise of fast e-bikes will create a bikelash against all cyclists
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The Coming E-Bike War - Dana Blankenhorn

America's e-transport revolution is not ready for the growing number of fast Class 3 bikes now filling our bike paths.

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danablankenhorn.bsky.social @danablankenhorn.bsky.social · 27d

If you're incompetent and drive out the competent you're still incompetent