Nied
@nied.bsky.social
"They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it." https://linktr.ee/b_nied he/him
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Portnoy employs a legion of giant babies who make gobs of cash by throwing genuinely unnerving temper tantrums while also claiming they represent How Real Men Behave.
This is one Barstool personality's response to the Dodgers signing Edwin Diaz. Normal stuff. Definitely not a (literal) freak show
This is one Barstool personality's response to the Dodgers signing Edwin Diaz. Normal stuff. Definitely not a (literal) freak show
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Portnoy employs a legion of giant babies who make gobs of cash by throwing genuinely unnerving temper tantrums while also claiming they represent How Real Men Behave.
This is one Barstool personality's response to the Dodgers signing Edwin Diaz. Normal stuff. Definitely not a (literal) freak show
This is one Barstool personality's response to the Dodgers signing Edwin Diaz. Normal stuff. Definitely not a (literal) freak show
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There is currently one single type of aircraft flying in the US using the engine tech that Boom asserts it will develop by next year:
The F-22 Raptor.
The F-22 Raptor.
Incredible scenes here: Boom Supersonic is raising $300mm and pivoting to AI by signing a contract to supply its turbines as electrical power for data centers. They're even talking about converting turbines from simple to combined cycle via a "field upgrade". This is all deranged.
Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers | TechCrunch
Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting in 2027.
techcrunch.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
There is currently one single type of aircraft flying in the US using the engine tech that Boom asserts it will develop by next year:
The F-22 Raptor.
The F-22 Raptor.
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Seriously tho. Memo to the unitary executive crowd: who writes the laws that the president is supposed to take care for the execution of???
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Seriously tho. Memo to the unitary executive crowd: who writes the laws that the president is supposed to take care for the execution of???
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We didn't used to have autism, we just had military historians who wrote seven monographs on the same tactical engagement.
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
We didn't used to have autism, we just had military historians who wrote seven monographs on the same tactical engagement.
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and F-35 is cheaper or at least cost competitive with basically every existing 4th and 4.5 gen fighter on the market!
Nothing says "bespoke weapon" like a fighter jet that we've built 1200 of and plan to build +3000 total. Also "more time in maintenance than in the air" describes literally every military aircraft.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
and F-35 is cheaper or at least cost competitive with basically every existing 4th and 4.5 gen fighter on the market!
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Posters in good standing who write for the Times, the Nation, the American Prospect, Mother Jones, the Bulwark, Jacobin, Baffler, and even the Onion who are not now, at the present time (present time being 2024-Present) vociferous, vocal, active Democrats are explicitly pro-Trump.
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Posters in good standing who write for the Times, the Nation, the American Prospect, Mother Jones, the Bulwark, Jacobin, Baffler, and even the Onion who are not now, at the present time (present time being 2024-Present) vociferous, vocal, active Democrats are explicitly pro-Trump.
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Lmfao of course this little prick finds some way to claim the true point of collapse for the Trump administration is the woman.
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Lmfao of course this little prick finds some way to claim the true point of collapse for the Trump administration is the woman.
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Biden was the best we’re ever going to do on student loans because a very clear lesson there was that there is apparently absolutely no electoral benefit to moving heaven and earth to try and help student debtors
Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Trump officials move to end student loan payment pause for millions of borrowers
The Trump administration announced a proposed joint settlement with Missouri that would soon force millions of student loan borrowers into repayment.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Biden was the best we’re ever going to do on student loans because a very clear lesson there was that there is apparently absolutely no electoral benefit to moving heaven and earth to try and help student debtors
For a second there I was worried Arnett accidentally doxxed Conan's sister, but the address is the reading room at the Boston Public Library.
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For a second there I was worried Arnett accidentally doxxed Conan's sister, but the address is the reading room at the Boston Public Library.
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That’s the point. They don’t want a competent democratic government. They want kleptocratic autocracy.
New, from me: by embracing unitary executive theory, the Supreme Court is moving towards making all public employees fireable at the will of the President.
This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
At will? Whose will?
Removing independent agency heads is part of a broader assault on a nonpartisan government
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
That’s the point. They don’t want a competent democratic government. They want kleptocratic autocracy.
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And remember these supporters were one person who needed at least one pardon (Stone) and another who almost did (Gaetz).
He’s so easily manipulated by his various hangers on. Just say it was a rigged prosecution by political opponents and voila you get a pardon and you get a pardon and you get a pardon.
Q: "You pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández…he was convicted in of drug trafficking. How is that zero tolerance on drug trafficking?"
Trump: "I don't know him and I know very little about him."
Q: " Do you think it could send the wrong message to drug dealers?"
Trump: "No."
Trump: "I don't know him and I know very little about him."
Q: " Do you think it could send the wrong message to drug dealers?"
Trump: "No."
December 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
And remember these supporters were one person who needed at least one pardon (Stone) and another who almost did (Gaetz).
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People around pre-2016 I think remember this as just being the norm.
Honestly I think THIS is how Mamdani really represents the future of the Democratic party: Turning away from nasty primary fights for more collaborative "we're both on the same side in the end" mutual love-ins.
@jamestalarico.bsky.social sent this video to his 10,000 volunteers:
“We will make the case for why we are best positioned to win this race — but we will always treat Congresswoman Crockett with the utmost respect. She is my colleague and she is a leader in our state. She deserves nothing less.”
“We will make the case for why we are best positioned to win this race — but we will always treat Congresswoman Crockett with the utmost respect. She is my colleague and she is a leader in our state. She deserves nothing less.”
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
People around pre-2016 I think remember this as just being the norm.
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I've said something to this extent before and noted how much that contrasted with the "stabbed in the back," grievance centered politics that Platner was very clearly centered as his ethos, even before the nazi tattoo shit.
Honestly I think THIS is how Mamdani really represents the future of the Democratic party: Turning away from nasty primary fights for more collaborative "we're both on the same side in the end" mutual love-ins.
@jamestalarico.bsky.social sent this video to his 10,000 volunteers:
“We will make the case for why we are best positioned to win this race — but we will always treat Congresswoman Crockett with the utmost respect. She is my colleague and she is a leader in our state. She deserves nothing less.”
“We will make the case for why we are best positioned to win this race — but we will always treat Congresswoman Crockett with the utmost respect. She is my colleague and she is a leader in our state. She deserves nothing less.”
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I've said something to this extent before and noted how much that contrasted with the "stabbed in the back," grievance centered politics that Platner was very clearly centered as his ethos, even before the nazi tattoo shit.
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They still do it to this day!
December 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
They still do it to this day!
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I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
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We all knew this was coming, but the end of SAVE plans is going to be one of the most devastating long term developments to come out of this White House. Every other repayment plan involves massive amounts of compounding interest, and we're just going to wind up in MUCH worse shape in a few years.
Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Trump officials move to end student loan payment pause for millions of borrowers
The Trump administration announced a proposed joint settlement with Missouri that would soon force millions of student loan borrowers into repayment.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We all knew this was coming, but the end of SAVE plans is going to be one of the most devastating long term developments to come out of this White House. Every other repayment plan involves massive amounts of compounding interest, and we're just going to wind up in MUCH worse shape in a few years.
Honestly I think THIS is how Mamdani really represents the future of the Democratic party: Turning away from nasty primary fights for more collaborative "we're both on the same side in the end" mutual love-ins.
@jamestalarico.bsky.social sent this video to his 10,000 volunteers:
“We will make the case for why we are best positioned to win this race — but we will always treat Congresswoman Crockett with the utmost respect. She is my colleague and she is a leader in our state. She deserves nothing less.”
“We will make the case for why we are best positioned to win this race — but we will always treat Congresswoman Crockett with the utmost respect. She is my colleague and she is a leader in our state. She deserves nothing less.”
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Honestly I think THIS is how Mamdani really represents the future of the Democratic party: Turning away from nasty primary fights for more collaborative "we're both on the same side in the end" mutual love-ins.
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the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
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“Wait you mean it will require skilled technical operators and increase productivity but not change org charts or headcount very much and be in many/most cases more trouble than it’s worth like every other new form of automation ever?”
one reason the framing as "AI" is so bad is that it makes people think "interact with this like a person" when in fact the only way to make it remotely useful is "interact with it like an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface"
This is really a huge part of why upper management is so in on AI. They think it will let them manage computers the way they currently manage the people who make the computer work. It will not.
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Wait you mean it will require skilled technical operators and increase productivity but not change org charts or headcount very much and be in many/most cases more trouble than it’s worth like every other new form of automation ever?”
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I'm waiting for somebody to jump in with "but people are already an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface" and not to get ahead of myself but congratulations, notional jumper-in, you are neurodivergent in the direction of tremendous ongoing economic utility in the LLM era.
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm waiting for somebody to jump in with "but people are already an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface" and not to get ahead of myself but congratulations, notional jumper-in, you are neurodivergent in the direction of tremendous ongoing economic utility in the LLM era.
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one reason the framing as "AI" is so bad is that it makes people think "interact with this like a person" when in fact the only way to make it remotely useful is "interact with it like an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface"
This is really a huge part of why upper management is so in on AI. They think it will let them manage computers the way they currently manage the people who make the computer work. It will not.
I'm just saying I had someone tell me I had to hold the AI accountable and and no no I don't. That was not the effective way to coax it into doing the thing I wanted
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
one reason the framing as "AI" is so bad is that it makes people think "interact with this like a person" when in fact the only way to make it remotely useful is "interact with it like an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface"
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
I literally came into the living room when this play started & ended up on the floor laughing.
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I literally came into the living room when this play started & ended up on the floor laughing.
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I’m not an angel, I don’t have wings that could carry me to the heavens, I’ll cheat a little on the last one in a set, but the abominations these fashy, CrossFit-adjacent weirdos call pull-ups are an affront to God, society, the architecture of the human shoulder, etc.
December 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I’m not an angel, I don’t have wings that could carry me to the heavens, I’ll cheat a little on the last one in a set, but the abominations these fashy, CrossFit-adjacent weirdos call pull-ups are an affront to God, society, the architecture of the human shoulder, etc.