@cuibonobaby.bsky.social
Lapsed Catholic, lapsed lawyer, leftist.
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You'd be hard pressed to find him saying anything of substance that's literally new these days, as in reflecting an awareness of recent events and things he's been told in recent days and weeks. All he can call up is the long-term memory of things he said years ago. Forming new memories is shot.
December 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
You'd be hard pressed to find him saying anything of substance that's literally new these days, as in reflecting an awareness of recent events and things he's been told in recent days and weeks. All he can call up is the long-term memory of things he said years ago. Forming new memories is shot.
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(8) Ben Ansell examines the political feasibility of wealth and inheritance taxes as potential funding sources for progressive housing and social policies. Inheritance taxes are particularly unpopular, but wealth taxes with credible promises to spend revenues on public investments can be popular.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
(8) Ben Ansell examines the political feasibility of wealth and inheritance taxes as potential funding sources for progressive housing and social policies. Inheritance taxes are particularly unpopular, but wealth taxes with credible promises to spend revenues on public investments can be popular.
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wealthy. He understood what could rip the countries apart. Division. Brexit and the US election 16 was just the start.
I do wonder if he realised just how easy it would be? America got Trump 2.0, so it seems the UK will get Brexit 2.0 with the reform party with the lying scum that is Nigel Farage.
I do wonder if he realised just how easy it would be? America got Trump 2.0, so it seems the UK will get Brexit 2.0 with the reform party with the lying scum that is Nigel Farage.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
wealthy. He understood what could rip the countries apart. Division. Brexit and the US election 16 was just the start.
I do wonder if he realised just how easy it would be? America got Trump 2.0, so it seems the UK will get Brexit 2.0 with the reform party with the lying scum that is Nigel Farage.
I do wonder if he realised just how easy it would be? America got Trump 2.0, so it seems the UK will get Brexit 2.0 with the reform party with the lying scum that is Nigel Farage.
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I truly believe Vladimir Putin has done an astounding job on destroying the West. Particularly the USA and UK.
I think if one person truly understood these countries, it was Putin.
He always believed the West was built on propaganda. The truth being, that they were the colonizers run by the
I think if one person truly understood these countries, it was Putin.
He always believed the West was built on propaganda. The truth being, that they were the colonizers run by the
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I truly believe Vladimir Putin has done an astounding job on destroying the West. Particularly the USA and UK.
I think if one person truly understood these countries, it was Putin.
He always believed the West was built on propaganda. The truth being, that they were the colonizers run by the
I think if one person truly understood these countries, it was Putin.
He always believed the West was built on propaganda. The truth being, that they were the colonizers run by the
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When ChatGPT first went public I played around with it a bit, and there was a very short but lovely period where it was just “Wow, this is really impressive, neato” before the insane self-destructive hype cycle took off.
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When ChatGPT first went public I played around with it a bit, and there was a very short but lovely period where it was just “Wow, this is really impressive, neato” before the insane self-destructive hype cycle took off.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Preemptive surrender.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Preemptive surrender.
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How do you suppose the NYPD interprets @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social leaving 1 Police Plaza to its current leader? As a reasonable gesture that shows he's someone the police can do business with? Or as a de Blasio-esque surrender that shows Mamdani is starting out afraid to challenge the NYPD?
Mamdani's NYC Can't Afford NYPD Commissioner Tisch
With ICE on its way, how can we expect an ICE collaborator to protect New Yorkers? Here's a compromise: make Tisch sanitation commissioner again
www.forever-wars.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
How do you suppose the NYPD interprets @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social leaving 1 Police Plaza to its current leader? As a reasonable gesture that shows he's someone the police can do business with? Or as a de Blasio-esque surrender that shows Mamdani is starting out afraid to challenge the NYPD?
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Trump claims he personally redesigned Coast Guard ships because he’s a “looks” person
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Trump claims he personally redesigned Coast Guard ships because he’s a “looks” person
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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This is the frustrating thing about "AI" arguments for me. There are some fascinating use cases, but the big names are largely using it to push fraud on a hitherto unknown scale and its biggest proponents are grifters. The backlash is real and justified, but poisons any nuanced debate on real use!
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is the frustrating thing about "AI" arguments for me. There are some fascinating use cases, but the big names are largely using it to push fraud on a hitherto unknown scale and its biggest proponents are grifters. The backlash is real and justified, but poisons any nuanced debate on real use!
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If someone read the Communist Manifesto and applied its concepts as directly as possible to every political scenario they posted about, they'd have a pretty good hit rate for good takes. Marxists, unfortunately, do not do this.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
If someone read the Communist Manifesto and applied its concepts as directly as possible to every political scenario they posted about, they'd have a pretty good hit rate for good takes. Marxists, unfortunately, do not do this.
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Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
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BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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My first instinct when we learned who the shooter was and who he'd supported for operations in Afghanistan was to simply view him as a veteran likely suffering from PTSD. If you know what some of them did with numbered task forces & the KPF, you'd have few doubts.<
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Suspect in National Guard shooting served alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan, relative says
The Afghan man, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, came to the U.S. in September 2021. “I cannot believe it that he might do this,” a relative told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
My first instinct when we learned who the shooter was and who he'd supported for operations in Afghanistan was to simply view him as a veteran likely suffering from PTSD. If you know what some of them did with numbered task forces & the KPF, you'd have few doubts.<
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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*Kafka turns in his grave*
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
*Kafka turns in his grave*
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Putin: “When Ukrainians troops withdraw from the territories they hold, then we will cease hostilities; If they don’t leave, we will achieve this by military means “
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Putin: “When Ukrainians troops withdraw from the territories they hold, then we will cease hostilities; If they don’t leave, we will achieve this by military means “
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Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
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The stunning thing is that after this screaming incompetent prosecution hit the rocks Fani Willis got reelected. The more incredible fact is that her office isn’t the most dysfunctional one in the Fulton country judicial system. That dishonor belongs to probate court.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The stunning thing is that after this screaming incompetent prosecution hit the rocks Fani Willis got reelected. The more incredible fact is that her office isn’t the most dysfunctional one in the Fulton country judicial system. That dishonor belongs to probate court.
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So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.
Stablecoins are no more a replacement for dollars than Mexican or Argentine pesos were a replacement for dollars in the 1980s or 1990s. They're the equivalent of a fixed exchange rate peg with ever-present credibility/reserves questions.
Stablecoins are no more a replacement for dollars than Mexican or Argentine pesos were a replacement for dollars in the 1980s or 1990s. They're the equivalent of a fixed exchange rate peg with ever-present credibility/reserves questions.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.
Stablecoins are no more a replacement for dollars than Mexican or Argentine pesos were a replacement for dollars in the 1980s or 1990s. They're the equivalent of a fixed exchange rate peg with ever-present credibility/reserves questions.
Stablecoins are no more a replacement for dollars than Mexican or Argentine pesos were a replacement for dollars in the 1980s or 1990s. They're the equivalent of a fixed exchange rate peg with ever-present credibility/reserves questions.
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A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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