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Tech, SF, APIs, coffee and beer and the chocolate biscuits. Caution may contain opinions. Quality of opinions varies. I write SF, buy my books :) Trunk Line - the series - https://amzn.to/4lAURez

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · Aug 19

One man, one summit, a bunch of AIs and a LOT of delegates who don't like each other - what could possibly go wrong!

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 16m

The problem I have with this is it would require a degree of organizational skill and planning I don’t think they are capable of.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 10h

To be entirely fair he’s also nosing at the government trough too.

His moon lander is government funding AND he sued Musk to get some.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 10h

He does.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 10h

He’s been on about it a bit.

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Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Reveals Plans to Colonize the Moon

The eccentric billionaire Jeff Bezos spoke about his plan for a moon colony at the International Space Development Conference.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 10h

That’s his starting thing but he claims he really wants to do the moon. See ‘Blue Moon’ and his space station side gig ‘Orbital Reef’

He’s got a whole ‘Amazon to the moon’ thing. He’s just quieter than Muskrat

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 11h

Bezos is sorta.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 12h

I like High Potential but a plot McGuffin that involves food being left on tables in a cafe by a beach where you can hear seagulls?

Have you ever seen food left out where there are seagulls?

No. Nobody has.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 12h

His thesis on why the US was able to buck trends that hit European nations for so long is the best I’ve seen and so far I’ve not seen anybody counter his position that it was down to low property prices.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 13h

I feel there are some Catholics there who should find their access to communion and the sacraments of the church curtailed. @popeleoxiv.bsky.social

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 13h

Trump signs memo claiming power to do things he has no constitutional authority to do www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/trum...

Trump signs memo claiming power to do things he has no constitutional authority to do - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Classic “the subhed is fine, the headline is not”: President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum significantly expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay mem...

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 13h

Note: I haven’t ‘studied’ economics at any level in over 30 years but I still read about it out of morbid curiosity.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 13h

You’d never catch them doing what Thomas Pikety did and analyze returns on capital and the impact on wealth over centuries like he did.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 13h

All based on a firmly held belief but utterly ungrounded in any actual data.

See also the people who believe the recent inflation wasn’t supply chain shocks but over supply of money.

You can only fail monetary theory it cannot fail you :)

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 13h

The other side tends to model things, see how those models perform and review if they stop working. You can see that with Keynesian theory stuff and how it has evolved.

Contrast to stuff like the article of faiths they have about bond vigilantes or ‘crowding out’ of private money.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 13h

If you read a bunch of academic papers from Austrian school free market types they lean heavily into micro-economic theory and their firmly held beliefs on people always doing stuff in their own best interest. That last one is resistant to empirical evidence.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 13h

Seattle sports fans could give France a run for their money at turning on your sports teams when they do badly.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 14h

Risotto.

I *could* spend the next hour stiring lovingly and adding stock to rice. OR I could bang it all in the Instant Pot and have it done in 20 minutes.

You know what I’m going to do.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 16h

I’m finding it effective to ask people defending his behavior to cover my share then because I don’t think I owe him a cent. It’s not much but they can round up to the nearest dollar.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 17h

There is a weird quirk with any of the ardent followers of Austrian style economics that they don't really believe in empirical testing - so they can only be let down, they don't ever need to adapt nor change the model because it clearly doesn't work.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 17h

OH! BOOM! Right

a pixel art of an explosion on a white background .

ALT: a pixel art of an explosion on a white background .

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 17h

I was assured that their economy was going to boom thanks to Libertarian economics. Boom I say!

Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 17h

$20 billion to prop up the peso, $20 billion to help it make foreign debt payments.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21h

What the fuck are we doing?

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 18h

Lie flat beds in business class or better :)

😂

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 20h

Dad in my case, I was late, he joined young but for sure. Not a joking matter.

My mum had a lot of German Jewish refugee school friends. She was not big on jokes like that either.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 20h

Ignoring for a moment their ages (I believe ‘young’ does not apply except relatively) - as a former young man if I had said things like this both my (conservative) parents would have quite forcefully made me stop.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose my other strongly held conviction is the ‘will of the people’ isn’t always correct. There’s a reason for representative democracy over rule by plebiscite.

I find the Venn diagram of people who complain about mob rule but only if they don’t get what they want is a circle.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

A hedge fund guy and some guys with ‘odd’ links to some well connected oligarchs in Russia.

Shocked. You’re shocked aren’t you.