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Dr. East
@dreastish.bsky.social
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CompSci PhD, Researcher, Teacher, Husband, Father. A Calvinist whom Calvin would disown. A libertarian who despises Rand. And a whole lot of other contradictory ideas in one package.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14h
I miss DRPK_News.
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14h
What’s especially hilarious is that this is something competent tyrants have understood, and talked about, throughout history! This was more or less what the whole King-Canute-and-the-tides thing was about. Both Napoleon and Hitler went up against logistics and lost. Famously!
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 19h
Then we would be, by definition, progressive.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 23h
“I am the state.”
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 1d
Looks like we found the clash!
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 1d
This isn’t even normal king-went-mad-with-power weird. This is complete dementia weird.
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 6d
Soon as I saw the post, came looking for Ripper in the replies.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 7d
“If we wrote an opinion, it might empower a future Democrat.”
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 7d
What makes me sad is that it takes so FEW people like that to make the world that pit.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 7d
Invitations require specificity.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 7d
Y’know, I’m not a Marxist, but sometimes the capital class does let that mask slip a little too far.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 8d
To be fair, they think Trump is an instrument of God’s divine will. That designation would also apply to the antichrist. These dispensationalists would in fact welcome the antichrist in the same way, because be would herald the end times (when they think they’ll get to be god-kings among men).
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 8d
“Vibe coding unit tests.”
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 8d
Trump is dumb and foolish. Vance is just foolish.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 12d
Why are you such a slave to effective action, Tom?
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13d
Hilariously, those of is in the profession (my dissertation was all about ML) were already calling it ML instead of AI because of the LAST big AI bubble… in the 1970’s.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 13d
Ooh, I called this one! Wish I knew how to quote my old posts in new posts.
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14d
Only to be met, 99 times out of a hundred, with a quizzical stare and a “Never heard of him.” That day is certainly within the next hundred years, probably within the next fifty, and possibly within the next twenty.

The fact that that day will happen at all is a deadly and painful cancer to Miller.
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14d
I have been thinking about Stephen Miller. Not a lot, for he doesn’t deserve much attention, but it occurs to me that his entire existence can be explained thus:

There is a time coming when one will be able to walk up to any high school senior in the country and ask, “Who was Stephen Miller?” 1/
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14d
The “for the moment” at the end of the phrase is implied.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14d
This exactly. This is violence born of desperation, because it’s the only path they have.
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 14d
You mean, “Good fences make good neighbors?”
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Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 15d
Ecclesiastes 7:10

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 15d
Von Bismarck did not swagger. He strode!
Dr. East @dreastish.bsky.social · 15d
Or to non-voters, which is mote to the point here.