Robb Aley Allan
@robballan.bsky.social
Family office tech/retail/theatre investor. Heritage-brand business owner. Former science/tech writer/reporter for Newsweek/MacWorld/etc. Long-time Apple developer, database programmer, and incorrigible geek.
Came into JFK airport a week or two ago. There were no customs agents anywhere, at all. Customs inspection was closed. Now I know why. They all had been sent to Minnesota.
January 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Came into JFK airport a week or two ago. There were no customs agents anywhere, at all. Customs inspection was closed. Now I know why. They all had been sent to Minnesota.
Trump encouraged insurrection. The end.
January 7, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Trump encouraged insurrection. The end.
I’ve missed my family’s Charleston accent… it has long faded away in that city. So when my father died, I was arranging his burial in his hometown outside Charleston, and sexton of the church spoke to me with an ancient Charleston drawl — well, I recorded the conversation.
The Last Days of the Southern Drawl
By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.
www.theatlantic.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I’ve missed my family’s Charleston accent… it has long faded away in that city. So when my father died, I was arranging his burial in his hometown outside Charleston, and sexton of the church spoke to me with an ancient Charleston drawl — well, I recorded the conversation.
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BREAKING: ICE announces it has detained Santa Clause because he entered the country illegally and without documentation.
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
December 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
BREAKING: ICE announces it has detained Santa Clause because he entered the country illegally and without documentation.
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
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Holy shit - again, because of the lies and use of FBI / DOJ to obstruct (in writing, we have it) and this document alone -
Send em all to jail, or the appropriate for reason...
Bet we see more and more - if anything they have proven - it's horrible incompetence.
#resist
Send em all to jail, or the appropriate for reason...
Bet we see more and more - if anything they have proven - it's horrible incompetence.
#resist
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Holy shit - again, because of the lies and use of FBI / DOJ to obstruct (in writing, we have it) and this document alone -
Send em all to jail, or the appropriate for reason...
Bet we see more and more - if anything they have proven - it's horrible incompetence.
#resist
Send em all to jail, or the appropriate for reason...
Bet we see more and more - if anything they have proven - it's horrible incompetence.
#resist
With every passing day, we’re being reminded that businessmen make terrible political leaders.
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine — The Wall Street Journal
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
apple.news
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
With every passing day, we’re being reminded that businessmen make terrible political leaders.
apple.news/Af96_2kRQT1G...
apple.news/Af96_2kRQT1G...
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This doesn’t seem particularly reasonable. AI may be a creative shortcut, but it’s not necessarily inaccurate. In most cases, it’s a time-saving tool.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This doesn’t seem particularly reasonable. AI may be a creative shortcut, but it’s not necessarily inaccurate. In most cases, it’s a time-saving tool.
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The difference between a grande and a venti anxiety is staggering nowadays due to Trumpflation.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The difference between a grande and a venti anxiety is staggering nowadays due to Trumpflation.
What happens when a bridge-and-tunnel boy with no taste and a chip on his shoulder gets a charge card at Home Depot.
The current state of the Oval Office (recorded by Scavino)
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
What happens when a bridge-and-tunnel boy with no taste and a chip on his shoulder gets a charge card at Home Depot.
Never thought in my life that I would feel so betrayed by other centrists that I might now think of voting to support Bernie Sanders and AOC.
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Never thought in my life that I would feel so betrayed by other centrists that I might now think of voting to support Bernie Sanders and AOC.
You hear all the apoplectic handwaving by people who say they’re going to flee New York because a socialist just got elected? That, in reverse, is how I feel about Texas and Tennessee. If they want to be a right wing paradise, they can do so without my tourist dollars.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
You hear all the apoplectic handwaving by people who say they’re going to flee New York because a socialist just got elected? That, in reverse, is how I feel about Texas and Tennessee. If they want to be a right wing paradise, they can do so without my tourist dollars.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
I read about insurgencies on both left and right who feel that their moment has come to take over their parties because people are unhappy with current leadership.
But being unhappy with current leadership doesn’t translate into a hunger for something more radical. They want better moderates.
But being unhappy with current leadership doesn’t translate into a hunger for something more radical. They want better moderates.
The Totally Outlandish, Dead Serious Campaign to Defeat Nancy Pelosi and Transform the Democratic Party
Saikat Chakrabarti has audacious plans to change American politics.
www.politico.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I read about insurgencies on both left and right who feel that their moment has come to take over their parties because people are unhappy with current leadership.
But being unhappy with current leadership doesn’t translate into a hunger for something more radical. They want better moderates.
But being unhappy with current leadership doesn’t translate into a hunger for something more radical. They want better moderates.
One of the things that saddens me the most is how quickly and easily law-enforcement in this country adopted authoritarian tactics, not just towards immigrants, but towards citizens as well. It really shows how thin the veneer of civilization is.
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
One of the things that saddens me the most is how quickly and easily law-enforcement in this country adopted authoritarian tactics, not just towards immigrants, but towards citizens as well. It really shows how thin the veneer of civilization is.
This is a well-known story in New York real estate circles, and is just one of the reasons why the New York real estate community has always looked on Donald Trump with disdain.
If Trump’s East Wing demo shocks you, check out what he did to these priceless works
A young Trump took on development of a historic Art Deco building on Fifth Avenue in the late 1970s
www.independent.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a well-known story in New York real estate circles, and is just one of the reasons why the New York real estate community has always looked on Donald Trump with disdain.
This is one of the strangest headlines I’ve ever seen.
Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel
Tech billionaire claims in a lecture about religion that the devil promises peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation
www.thetimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is one of the strangest headlines I’ve ever seen.
Extremism.
The left denounces. The right denies.
The left denounces. The right denies.
September 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Extremism.
The left denounces. The right denies.
The left denounces. The right denies.
I used to be a science journalist. We got letters all the time from people who claimed to have solved antigravity, quantum physics, and perpetual motion machines. Now the loony kooks have podcasts and lots of gullible followers.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
The Rise of ‘Conspiracy Physics’ — The Wall Street Journal
Streamers are building huge audiences by attacking academic physics as just another corrupt establishment. Scientists are starting to worry about the consequences.
apple.news
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I used to be a science journalist. We got letters all the time from people who claimed to have solved antigravity, quantum physics, and perpetual motion machines. Now the loony kooks have podcasts and lots of gullible followers.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
It’s much easier to understand and predict what this administration will do when you keep in mind that, fundamentally, Donald Trump is a performance artist with a mean streak.
He’s the Don Rickles of American politics.
He’s the Don Rickles of American politics.
September 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It’s much easier to understand and predict what this administration will do when you keep in mind that, fundamentally, Donald Trump is a performance artist with a mean streak.
He’s the Don Rickles of American politics.
He’s the Don Rickles of American politics.
Imagine being an investor who just dumped a half million into Anthropic private equity to discover that the money went right out the back door.
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement
Lawyers said it’s believed to be the largest-ever settlement in a US copyright case, paying about $3,000 per book.
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Imagine being an investor who just dumped a half million into Anthropic private equity to discover that the money went right out the back door.
We are over 65 yo. We live in Florida. We were just denied Covid vaccinations because of new Florida policies.
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We are over 65 yo. We live in Florida. We were just denied Covid vaccinations because of new Florida policies.