David Ralin, Cognitive Amplifier
@davidralin.bsky.social
juman with volvo 240 Stockholm syndrome, anarchisht, macaroni art peacenik, ellipsometry tinkerer
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Falling Skies: what if two opposing species of galaxy-crossing aliens were both bogglingly stupid?
February 14, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Falling Skies: what if two opposing species of galaxy-crossing aliens were both bogglingly stupid?
Genocide there and fascism here and economic & climate sabotage all over and one missing elderly lady is half the news.
February 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Genocide there and fascism here and economic & climate sabotage all over and one missing elderly lady is half the news.
This is a farked up mess.
But on the other hand mylar balloons really do need to be burned out of the sky asap by any means necessary.
But on the other hand mylar balloons really do need to be burned out of the sky asap by any means necessary.
Man, I didn’t think there was a way for this story to get dumber but…
“DoD loaned the high-energy laser weapon to DHS, who promptly shot down some mylar balloons with it without telling anyone, resulting in the FAA closing airspace and disrupting air travel nationwide”
…sure did the trick
“DoD loaned the high-energy laser weapon to DHS, who promptly shot down some mylar balloons with it without telling anyone, resulting in the FAA closing airspace and disrupting air travel nationwide”
…sure did the trick
What is going on???
February 14, 2026 at 5:29 AM
This is a farked up mess.
But on the other hand mylar balloons really do need to be burned out of the sky asap by any means necessary.
But on the other hand mylar balloons really do need to be burned out of the sky asap by any means necessary.
Most divorced album ever
February 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Most divorced album ever
Is curling just shuffleboard with a huge facility capital expenditure?
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Is curling just shuffleboard with a huge facility capital expenditure?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
“Firing guys for not keeping track of my blanket”
“Firing guys for not keeping track of my blanket”
MAGA is a cult of personality who worship celebrity and ostentatious wealth and all its vulgar trappings. Every Trump appointee is living out a jet-setter fantasy, traveling around the world on private jets with a retinue of bodyguards and valets carrying their shopping bags.
February 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Where do you see yourself in five years?
“Firing guys for not keeping track of my blanket”
“Firing guys for not keeping track of my blanket”
“Fadel” me through her on-air name pronunciation the years:
Falden
Fahddle
Fahl-din
Fah-dih
Falden
Fahddle
Fahl-din
Fah-dih
Leyla shifted the way she sars her name. Again!
February 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
“Fadel” me through her on-air name pronunciation the years:
Falden
Fahddle
Fahl-din
Fah-dih
Falden
Fahddle
Fahl-din
Fah-dih
Leyla shifted the way she sars her name. Again!
February 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Leyla shifted the way she sars her name. Again!
If I’d grown up in a Southern California beach town I’d no doubt be a snow sports champion.
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 AM
If I’d grown up in a Southern California beach town I’d no doubt be a snow sports champion.
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If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 AM
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
Zero.
Haven’t had snails or oysters or limas yet this year.
Haven’t had snails or oysters or limas yet this year.
February 12, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Zero.
Haven’t had snails or oysters or limas yet this year.
Haven’t had snails or oysters or limas yet this year.
The freeze on his smile after “white culture is simply better” is priceless.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 11:11 PM
The freeze on his smile after “white culture is simply better” is priceless.
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Was looking for info on one of my all time favorite noise rock bands and found this - enjoy if you love Scratch Acid like I do! www.austinchronicle.com/music/the-gr...
The Greatest Gift
When Scratch Acid scorched the earth, an oral history
www.austinchronicle.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Was looking for info on one of my all time favorite noise rock bands and found this - enjoy if you love Scratch Acid like I do! www.austinchronicle.com/music/the-gr...
Torn between staying informed and blocking the “Iran’s gov is good, actually, the riots are western imperialism” guys.
February 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Torn between staying informed and blocking the “Iran’s gov is good, actually, the riots are western imperialism” guys.
Nick’s mom is still proud of her little man.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Nick’s mom is still proud of her little man.
Does Nick Fuentes even have that dream where his dad says “I love you, son” or what?
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Does Nick Fuentes even have that dream where his dad says “I love you, son” or what?
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Economists seem to assume that expensive cities have a high proportion of college-educated workers because they attract a lot of them. They don't. The high proportion comes from less educated workers moving away because of housing.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Economists seem to assume that expensive cities have a high proportion of college-educated workers because they attract a lot of them. They don't. The high proportion comes from less educated workers moving away because of housing.
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A misguided letter from the SF Fed.
GIGO from the San Francisco Fed
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
GIGO from the San Francisco Fed
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
GIGO from the San Francisco Fed
I recently highlighted a really interesting new paper that provides some interesting insights about housing in spite of the blind spots about the current market among economists.
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:55 AM
A misguided letter from the SF Fed.
GIGO from the San Francisco Fed
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
GIGO from the San Francisco Fed
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
A guy with one “top ten on the adult contemporary” chart in the 90s.
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 6:04 AM
A guy with one “top ten on the adult contemporary” chart in the 90s.
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RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
Gravel Influencer blocked me for being mean to Bob Dylan?
For the record I’ve always appreciated their posts, we’ve had some fun exchanges, sincerely interested in following them, and would love to patch things up so long as I don’t have to dial back my Bob Dylan indifference.
For the record I’ve always appreciated their posts, we’ve had some fun exchanges, sincerely interested in following them, and would love to patch things up so long as I don’t have to dial back my Bob Dylan indifference.
February 12, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Gravel Influencer blocked me for being mean to Bob Dylan?
For the record I’ve always appreciated their posts, we’ve had some fun exchanges, sincerely interested in following them, and would love to patch things up so long as I don’t have to dial back my Bob Dylan indifference.
For the record I’ve always appreciated their posts, we’ve had some fun exchanges, sincerely interested in following them, and would love to patch things up so long as I don’t have to dial back my Bob Dylan indifference.
Medical pricing is wild. When Kaiser sent me my “not a bill, this is what it actually costs to do this but we got ya” statement for my colonoscopy a year ago, it was not even $1500. In a high-cost market.
Love how colon cancer keeps killing people under 50 and yet insurance doesn't cover colonoscopy without cost-sharing until age 45.
I just paid $1,584 out of pocket for mine thanks to my deductible and copays
I just paid $1,584 out of pocket for mine thanks to my deductible and copays
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Medical pricing is wild. When Kaiser sent me my “not a bill, this is what it actually costs to do this but we got ya” statement for my colonoscopy a year ago, it was not even $1500. In a high-cost market.
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Love how colon cancer keeps killing people under 50 and yet insurance doesn't cover colonoscopy without cost-sharing until age 45.
I just paid $1,584 out of pocket for mine thanks to my deductible and copays
I just paid $1,584 out of pocket for mine thanks to my deductible and copays
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Love how colon cancer keeps killing people under 50 and yet insurance doesn't cover colonoscopy without cost-sharing until age 45.
I just paid $1,584 out of pocket for mine thanks to my deductible and copays
I just paid $1,584 out of pocket for mine thanks to my deductible and copays
Why should they know who he is? He is an inertia act, who hasn’t done much for half a century, and can’t seriously be critically explained without a lot of shrugging.
February 11, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Why should they know who he is? He is an inertia act, who hasn’t done much for half a century, and can’t seriously be critically explained without a lot of shrugging.
Lot of posts get deleted, usually the wrong ones.
When someone mentions that they saw me delete a post
February 11, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Lot of posts get deleted, usually the wrong ones.