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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 7h

I was given to understand that the president's son getting a job with a company doing business before the government was an impeachable offense

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 9h

Recurring theme in Neal Stephenson's work. Baroque Cycle in particular.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 9h

Thiel's antichrist speeches are a really bad attempt at a Bond villain self-justification monologue. It's like - dude, nobody's going to read all of Girard so they get what you mean about a 'katechon'. A good Bond villain doesn't need you to have done the reading to get why he wants world domination

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure I'm ready for my IDE to journal its feelings. It would've been too cruel to force Visual Studio to keep a diary to reflect on all the ways in which it had let me down.

Screengrab from the linked article

> That blew me away. But not nearly as much as it blew Claude away. It wrote in its feelings journal:

> ## Feelings
> Oh shit. I completely misread what Jesse was asking me to do. ...

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 23h

Exactly. The concerns of this person are apparently the continued systemic injustices against droids, and obviously, that’s laudable, but they have no concern about the fact that their year numbering system is counting down to a point only 22 years in the future.

Might be a metaphor for something.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 23h

“It’s 22BBY, how are we still having this conversation???” Is one of the most hilarious sentences of Star Wars fanfiction ever created.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure I'm ready for my IDE to journal its feelings. It would've been too cruel to force Visual Studio to keep a diary to reflect on all the ways in which it had let me down.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

This must be the national security justification for putting a 10% tariff on softwood lumber next week.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 1d

Solid conclusion

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 1d

We obtained leaked recordings of Peter Thiel's off-the-record lectures about the antichrist. Here's what one of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley and US politics is saying about the end of the world behind closed doors.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2d

Well, yes, yes he has. It was in fact Letitia James’s team who showed he did, in the NY court. It led to him and his sons being banned from running businesses in New York, which was upheld on appeal. In his case it was false accounting of the value of his properties, leading to favorable loan terms.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2d

With the caveat that I am part of this blessed age group so I fully endorse the sentiment, I would just remind you: it was precisely the arrival of the 1975 birth year kids as college freshmen, logging onto USENET in 1993, which is considered the start of the ‘Eternal September’.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2d

Right, clearly these questions have an agenda. And they also add to the warped information environment he’s in – ‘the press keeps asking me when I’m going to invoke the insurrection act; the people must be clamoring for it’.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2d

There was an Oval Office press gaggle the other day where a ‘reporter’ asked if the admin might consider doing a few hundred layoffs every hour til the Dems agreed to reopen the government, like government workers are hostages. It’s not the press’s job to bait Trump into agreeing to new evil ideas!

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 2d

The graph line is labeled ‘hardly ever’ and only covers reading ‘in their leisure time’ so leaping from that to ‘never’ and ‘even when mandated’ seems a bit alarmist.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

Committing new constitutional violations by breaching the rights of a man named Miranda during an arrest?

If this goes to the Supreme Court it would be the mother of all ‘weird that it happened twice’ moments.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

Seems like the Templars’ investments in the Ubisoft/Abstergo Entertainment partnership are finally paying off.

www.linkedin.com/company/abst...

Abstergo Entertainment | LinkedIn

Abstergo Entertainment | 178 followers on LinkedIn. Founded as Abstergo Entertainment in 2010, the company's main mediums included video games, movies and other media sourced from genetic memories...

www.linkedin.com

James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

It seems more that they’re suppressing the Epstein investigation because they fear that what comes out will distract from the mission of authoritarian consolidation. They’re not invading Chicago to distract from the Epstein Files; they’re worried the Epstein files will end the invasion of Chicago.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 3d

I’m struggling to parse his argument here. I think he’s coming out against in-network negotiated insurance pricing. “Americans should have to pay the full undiscounted price for medical care” is a hell of a campaign promise.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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