Steve Baer
@stevebaer.bsky.social
bit rotator by trade. ongoing supporter of the basque space program. opinions my own.
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1/ Something which I don't think gets articulated clearly often enough is that a system where countries generally respect international sovereignty and territorial integrity is not pure charity or morality by the United States, but in its direct interests.
Despite it being the strongest bear.
Despite it being the strongest bear.
January 17, 2026 at 10:24 AM
1/ Something which I don't think gets articulated clearly often enough is that a system where countries generally respect international sovereignty and territorial integrity is not pure charity or morality by the United States, but in its direct interests.
Despite it being the strongest bear.
Despite it being the strongest bear.
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My take: AI can enhance expertise but cannot replace it. You have to know what good looks like.
January 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
My take: AI can enhance expertise but cannot replace it. You have to know what good looks like.
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If this person who burned a synagogue had cited the Quran in defending their antisemitic attack, we'd be reading dozens of news stories about Islamic extremism. Since he cited the Book of Revelation, the media really needs to connect this to extremist forms of white Christianity.
The FBI says that a suspect in the arson fire at the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, admitted to targeting the institution because of its “Jewish ties.”
Court documents say 19-year-old Stephen Spencer Pittman called the historic house of worship "a synagogue of Satan."
Court documents say 19-year-old Stephen Spencer Pittman called the historic house of worship "a synagogue of Satan."
Suspect in Beth Israel Burning Called It a ‘Synagogue of Satan’
A suspect in the arson fire at the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, allegedly admitted to targeting it because of its “Jewish ties.”
www.mississippifreepress.org
January 12, 2026 at 11:33 PM
If this person who burned a synagogue had cited the Quran in defending their antisemitic attack, we'd be reading dozens of news stories about Islamic extremism. Since he cited the Book of Revelation, the media really needs to connect this to extremist forms of white Christianity.
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If the old robber barons like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan had a stock ticker showing them nonstop insults from the hoi polloi they too would send the Pinkertons into random Midwestern cities to get into fights with locals.
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
If the old robber barons like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan had a stock ticker showing them nonstop insults from the hoi polloi they too would send the Pinkertons into random Midwestern cities to get into fights with locals.
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one thing i don’t see talked about a lot is the psychological aftereffects of exposure to AI “for work”. i actually don’t know if we know what they are.
i don’t mean psychotic episodes it triggers in some or the delusions etc.
i feel like i get some kind of… hangover of uncanny. like i ate plastic
i don’t mean psychotic episodes it triggers in some or the delusions etc.
i feel like i get some kind of… hangover of uncanny. like i ate plastic
January 11, 2026 at 1:13 AM
one thing i don’t see talked about a lot is the psychological aftereffects of exposure to AI “for work”. i actually don’t know if we know what they are.
i don’t mean psychotic episodes it triggers in some or the delusions etc.
i feel like i get some kind of… hangover of uncanny. like i ate plastic
i don’t mean psychotic episodes it triggers in some or the delusions etc.
i feel like i get some kind of… hangover of uncanny. like i ate plastic
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European bond traders are discovering Project 2025 for the first time.
![Screenshot of a BI Global Rates & FX chat on Bloomberg
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03:21:51 only plan master is project 2025, worth keeping that in mind as it has big implications for policy (google project 2025 observer for a live tracker)
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03:24:09 GM!
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03:24:48 Wow I didn't know they wanted to get rid of Finra, lol
03:25:25 "Consider if the FTC should enforce antitrust "or even continue to exist""
03:25:33 Interesting stuff, thanks for that 738
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04:41:30 738, thanks for that, this objective is interesting: "abolish the Federal Reserve..."
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04:45:23 Return to the gold standard: The plan advocates reviving commodity-backed currency—a gold standard—as opposed to modern fiat money. [blog.uwsp.edu], [econbrowser.com]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/bafkreic3xkl65ajvme3j4wfo22x55tcrrxqqkygccrx5kz3sx4axdslrpm@jpeg)
January 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
European bond traders are discovering Project 2025 for the first time.
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For anyone interested, this is the report the graph is from:
www.aei.org/research-pro...
www.aei.org/research-pro...
January 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
For anyone interested, this is the report the graph is from:
www.aei.org/research-pro...
www.aei.org/research-pro...
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Cris Moore and @cbo.bsky.social stake out the AI Luddite label as the nuanced, humanist position.
Abstinence From AI Is Not the Answer
Opinion | Refusing to use AI won’t protect society. Responsible resistance must include gaining knowledge about it.
undark.org
January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Cris Moore and @cbo.bsky.social stake out the AI Luddite label as the nuanced, humanist position.
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The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.
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Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
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"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
(Published Oct. 2025)
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
(Published Oct. 2025)
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
(Published Oct. 2025)
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
(Published Oct. 2025)
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important message to all bluesky users
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
important message to all bluesky users
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A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
![Excerpt reads: "Prioritize your neighborhood
Neighborhoods drive our happiness (or unhappiness) more than we think.
When Lina Martinez, director of POLIS, the Center for Wellbeing Studies at Universidad Icesi in Colombia, studied the happiness of households in the city of Cali, she couldn’t find much difference between poorer and richer areas. “Their happiness is pretty much the same,” she said. But that changed when she isolated neighborhood conditions, such as access to transit, health care and parks. “The conditions of the neighborhood affect happiness,” she said. “I can’t link that to the space where [people] live.”
That aligns with findings from a 2023 study of the Vancouver metro area: Researchers found no significant differences in well-being between people living in single detached homes, duplexes, townhouses, laneway houses and apartment buildings (basement units smaller than 300 square feet were the only negative exception). What did people say they missed most in their neighborhood? Affordability, proximity to family and friends, and a sense of community. Home design was eighth on the list."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreicapfknasylzk2lqzaxxeb5mchgnru75obggn45dusda6j5zogvuu@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 4:29 AM
A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
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One underrated thing Mamdani has going for him is that he has always known he is ineligible for the presidency
The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have
The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have
January 1, 2026 at 9:08 PM
One underrated thing Mamdani has going for him is that he has always known he is ineligible for the presidency
The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have
The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have
The Avalanches.
If band names were literal, what would be the worst concert to attend?
December 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The Avalanches.
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The entire history of software engineering is one of rising levels of abstraction.
This is as it was, is now, and always shall be.
x.com/karpathy/sta...
This is as it was, is now, and always shall be.
x.com/karpathy/sta...
Andrej Karpathy on X: "I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become" / X
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become
x.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The entire history of software engineering is one of rising levels of abstraction.
This is as it was, is now, and always shall be.
x.com/karpathy/sta...
This is as it was, is now, and always shall be.
x.com/karpathy/sta...
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Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other
country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million
more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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I’m naive, I’m a sucker, I’m all those things, but I really don’t think Bill Clinton is a childfucker
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I’m naive, I’m a sucker, I’m all those things, but I really don’t think Bill Clinton is a childfucker
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especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
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legitimately love this guy.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
legitimately love this guy.
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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If people are this upset by one guy killing 11 people because of the victims’ ethnic identity, wait until they hear what an entire army has been doing the last two years in Palestine.
Oh. Huh. That’s weird.
Oh. Huh. That’s weird.
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If people are this upset by one guy killing 11 people because of the victims’ ethnic identity, wait until they hear what an entire army has been doing the last two years in Palestine.
Oh. Huh. That’s weird.
Oh. Huh. That’s weird.
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Jerome Powell revealed that staffers at the Fed think the government could be overestimating the number of jobs created by 60,000 each month.
The true numbers could be closer to a loss of 20,000 jobs a month. trib.al/LkIDjaL
The true numbers could be closer to a loss of 20,000 jobs a month. trib.al/LkIDjaL
December 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Jerome Powell revealed that staffers at the Fed think the government could be overestimating the number of jobs created by 60,000 each month.
The true numbers could be closer to a loss of 20,000 jobs a month. trib.al/LkIDjaL
The true numbers could be closer to a loss of 20,000 jobs a month. trib.al/LkIDjaL