Matt
@tiredgenerally.bsky.social
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Tech is good, actually.
20th century liberals and progressives used to understand this before falling victim to the manly blue collar voter cargo cult.
bsky.app/profile/chro...
20th century liberals and progressives used to understand this before falling victim to the manly blue collar voter cargo cult.
bsky.app/profile/chro...
Broke: Political polarization as an inhibitor of AI adoption
Woke (2.0): Political polarization as a driver of AI adoption
Woke (2.0): Political polarization as a driver of AI adoption
Katie Miller: classical liberal democracy is woke leftist ideology
Anyway, get a Claude subscription.
Anyway, get a Claude subscription.
February 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Tech is good, actually.
20th century liberals and progressives used to understand this before falling victim to the manly blue collar voter cargo cult.
bsky.app/profile/chro...
20th century liberals and progressives used to understand this before falling victim to the manly blue collar voter cargo cult.
bsky.app/profile/chro...
ok which staffer? if you’re going to blame a patsy, at least give us a head to chop.
POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
ok which staffer? if you’re going to blame a patsy, at least give us a head to chop.
kind of him to suggest JD Vance is worth any amount of drugs
where is the lie, I ask you www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...
JD Vance should have been sold by his mother for drugs, NYT columnist says
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie suggested Vice President JD Vance's mother was reasonable when attempting to sell him for drugs during his childhood.
www.foxnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:59 PM
kind of him to suggest JD Vance is worth any amount of drugs
tbh i think that republicans are calling it racist gives them license to say there’s some kind of bipartisan consensus on its content, which is integral to how the NYT interprets reality
I don’t know if this counts as a watershed moment or whatever but it is significant that even the NYT has to drop the pretense and call it what it is.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
February 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
tbh i think that republicans are calling it racist gives them license to say there’s some kind of bipartisan consensus on its content, which is integral to how the NYT interprets reality
i really am worried that the next admin is going to have a bunch of staffers who cooked their brain on bsky and want to eliminate transformative use on copyright law or have nhsta effectively ban self driving taxis
one area where i really diverge from people on here is that i have neutral to positive views on automation overall
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
i really am worried that the next admin is going to have a bunch of staffers who cooked their brain on bsky and want to eliminate transformative use on copyright law or have nhsta effectively ban self driving taxis
one area where i really diverge from people on here is that i have neutral to positive views on automation overall
February 6, 2026 at 4:45 PM
one area where i really diverge from people on here is that i have neutral to positive views on automation overall
that is not at all what was said. the headline in this article is insanely deceptive.
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
that is not at all what was said. the headline in this article is insanely deceptive.
just run for governor, my god
kamala harris's 6-7 themed zoomer digital marketing group has already changed its name after getting made fun of. for some reason they changed it to "68." we're witnessing a level of political instinct never before imaginable
February 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
just run for governor, my god
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place themselves at odds with our responsibility to represent the electorate and the views of the majority of Americans, who find the genocide in Gaza an appalling affront to American values and do not want to see US taxpayer funded weapons used to perpetuate it.
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
place themselves at odds with our responsibility to represent the electorate and the views of the majority of Americans, who find the genocide in Gaza an appalling affront to American values and do not want to see US taxpayer funded weapons used to perpetuate it.
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New podcast alert!
For this week's edition of The Economics Show, I interviewed Tyler Cowen on the economics of food, though the conversation ended up a bit broader than that.
Links to listen here:
www.ft.com/content/4c85...
For this week's edition of The Economics Show, I interviewed Tyler Cowen on the economics of food, though the conversation ended up a bit broader than that.
Links to listen here:
www.ft.com/content/4c85...
February 6, 2026 at 10:07 AM
New podcast alert!
For this week's edition of The Economics Show, I interviewed Tyler Cowen on the economics of food, though the conversation ended up a bit broader than that.
Links to listen here:
www.ft.com/content/4c85...
For this week's edition of The Economics Show, I interviewed Tyler Cowen on the economics of food, though the conversation ended up a bit broader than that.
Links to listen here:
www.ft.com/content/4c85...
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I think the problem with this approach is the power of US money rapidly makes them the only ideological show in town on the right, and then regardless of domestic opposition to MAGA, you are one bad economic run from them getting power.
No reason to get too worked up about this.
Ultranationalist transnationalism is not an easy thing to pull off — and the trademark „MAGA-funded“ might hurt European forces more than help on balance.
Ultranationalist transnationalism is not an easy thing to pull off — and the trademark „MAGA-funded“ might hurt European forces more than help on balance.
February 6, 2026 at 2:11 PM
I think the problem with this approach is the power of US money rapidly makes them the only ideological show in town on the right, and then regardless of domestic opposition to MAGA, you are one bad economic run from them getting power.
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There’s Always A Tweet (Getfiscal Edition)
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
There’s Always A Tweet (Getfiscal Edition)
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ask yourself: does the mainstream media’s coverage accurately reflect that this is the president’s state of mind and the kind of stuff he’s focusing on?
Democrats erupt in fury over Trump demanding Schumer help rename Dulles, Penn Station
"There is no point in yielding to his ever-changing ransom demands," said one Democrat.
www.axios.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:15 PM
ask yourself: does the mainstream media’s coverage accurately reflect that this is the president’s state of mind and the kind of stuff he’s focusing on?
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wow too much for tim scott is saying something
Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, had this to say:
February 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
wow too much for tim scott is saying something
im sorry what
r/AskSocialists was overtaken by the American Communist Party (ACP), which is MAGA communists. There are other subreddits that are actually socialist
February 6, 2026 at 5:48 AM
im sorry what
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the Forrest Gump of American decline, everyone's saying it
February 6, 2026 at 1:50 AM
the Forrest Gump of American decline, everyone's saying it
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Me, in a meeting [society is collapsing]: hey! how is everyone doing? let's do a quick check-in
February 5, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Me, in a meeting [society is collapsing]: hey! how is everyone doing? let's do a quick check-in
man it is crazy how rich this country is
If your household, not you, all of the income earners in your household, make over $130,500/yr, you are better off than 60% of American households.
Read theory
February 5, 2026 at 3:52 PM
man it is crazy how rich this country is
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so i think the og wikileaks theory that you could panopticon your government until it died was true, it just turns out julian sucked
curtailing the power of the police by subjecting them to a permanent hostile panopticon is certainly novel though
February 5, 2026 at 8:19 AM
so i think the og wikileaks theory that you could panopticon your government until it died was true, it just turns out julian sucked
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curtailing the power of the police by subjecting them to a permanent hostile panopticon is certainly novel though
February 5, 2026 at 7:59 AM
curtailing the power of the police by subjecting them to a permanent hostile panopticon is certainly novel though
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very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
February 5, 2026 at 12:06 PM
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
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voters have incoherent beliefs and preferences about immigration. they, of course, literally voted for this. they also did not understand anything about it, so they actually hate it. and the hard part is getting them to think that the thing you are doing is the (nonsensical) thing they want.
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:02 PM
voters have incoherent beliefs and preferences about immigration. they, of course, literally voted for this. they also did not understand anything about it, so they actually hate it. and the hard part is getting them to think that the thing you are doing is the (nonsensical) thing they want.
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you best start believing in interregnums
February 5, 2026 at 3:27 AM
you best start believing in interregnums
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Let’s do some amateur analysis:
Marco Rubio—deep inner life, knows he is consciously doing wrong, justifies it to himself on the grounds that he may end the communist govt in Cuba
Kristi Noem—impoverished inner life, basically the instincts of a jackal with a thin veneer of human sociability
Marco Rubio—deep inner life, knows he is consciously doing wrong, justifies it to himself on the grounds that he may end the communist govt in Cuba
Kristi Noem—impoverished inner life, basically the instincts of a jackal with a thin veneer of human sociability
He really is a viscerally repulsive human being. like most of the Trump cabinet, I think he’s morally worse than Trump, because I believe he has an interior life in a way that Trump does not
Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?
Vance: For what?
Vance: For what?
February 4, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Let’s do some amateur analysis:
Marco Rubio—deep inner life, knows he is consciously doing wrong, justifies it to himself on the grounds that he may end the communist govt in Cuba
Kristi Noem—impoverished inner life, basically the instincts of a jackal with a thin veneer of human sociability
Marco Rubio—deep inner life, knows he is consciously doing wrong, justifies it to himself on the grounds that he may end the communist govt in Cuba
Kristi Noem—impoverished inner life, basically the instincts of a jackal with a thin veneer of human sociability