Zirk
@grooverchris.bsky.social
Tech Addict. Knowledge Worker. My views are my own.
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Idk if this is the quintessential Onion headline but I've thought of this at least once a week for almost a decade
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Idk if this is the quintessential Onion headline but I've thought of this at least once a week for almost a decade
Watching Pluribus has me thinking of how an organic super intelligence system is supposed to work. How much of this series is going to be about the system breaking down or reducing the population because it was “inefficient” to keep older or genetically diverse people alive?
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Watching Pluribus has me thinking of how an organic super intelligence system is supposed to work. How much of this series is going to be about the system breaking down or reducing the population because it was “inefficient” to keep older or genetically diverse people alive?
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Feels like it's getting close tbh. More and more financial warnings about.
Wondering how widespread the contagion will be.
Wondering how widespread the contagion will be.
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Feels like it's getting close tbh. More and more financial warnings about.
Wondering how widespread the contagion will be.
Wondering how widespread the contagion will be.
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if there’s serious risk of financial contagion here, maybe *maybe* we stabilize the banks/fin institutions and then do some countercyclical spending. i dont care if the AI companies go under, they employ like forty people and produce little of value.
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
if there’s serious risk of financial contagion here, maybe *maybe* we stabilize the banks/fin institutions and then do some countercyclical spending. i dont care if the AI companies go under, they employ like forty people and produce little of value.
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Trump in July: "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”
“I absolutely love that Colbert' got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Trump in July: "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”
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Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.
분노로 쓴 美구금일지…B1비자 근로자에 "노스코리아" 조롱도 | 연합뉴스
(서울=연합뉴스) 박영서 이동환 김준태 기자 = 미국 조지아주 배터리 공장 건설 현장에서 일하다 7일간 구금된 근로자들에게 '인권'은 실종된 단...
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September 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.
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South Korea’s president says the country's companies will struggle to maintain direct investments in the United States unless the visa system for Korean workers is improved.
South Korea president says Korean companies will hesitate to invest in US without better visa system
South Korea’s president says that South Korean companies will likely hesitate to maintain direct investments in the United States if the U.S. fails to improve its visa system for Korean workers.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
South Korea’s president says the country's companies will struggle to maintain direct investments in the United States unless the visa system for Korean workers is improved.
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U.S. immigration authorities are preparing to send more than 300 South Korean workers home on a chartered flight from Atlanta, a week after detaining them for allegedly working illegally.
South Koreans arrested in U.S. immigration raid being sent home
U.S. immigration authorities are preparing to send more than 300 South Korean workers home on a chartered flight from Atlanta, a week after detaining them for allegedly working illegally.
n.pr
September 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
U.S. immigration authorities are preparing to send more than 300 South Korean workers home on a chartered flight from Atlanta, a week after detaining them for allegedly working illegally.
It’s cold. Heater now constantly on 24hrs. Not good.
June 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
It’s cold. Heater now constantly on 24hrs. Not good.
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My mistake. -6 degrees celsius
June 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My mistake. -6 degrees celsius
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You've got a mandate, fucking use it
May 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
You've got a mandate, fucking use it
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Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
May 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
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The ALP have won. Remains to be seen if the rest of us have.
May 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Australia should produce as many pharmaceuticals domestically as possible. Secure the supply chain
April 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Australia should produce as many pharmaceuticals domestically as possible. Secure the supply chain
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You can’t destroy the entire supply chain and labor workforce and expect to find food on the supermarket shelves
April 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
You can’t destroy the entire supply chain and labor workforce and expect to find food on the supermarket shelves
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So that sounds like a great way to convince 7 million people to stop paying their taxes. What could possibly go wrong?
🚨 SCOOP 🚨
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants
The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So that sounds like a great way to convince 7 million people to stop paying their taxes. What could possibly go wrong?
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"You will survive without the board game on our shelf or without the new set of dice; you won't make it without food in the cupboard"
The US has tied literally a third of the value of its stock market, to the discretionary expense of a plagiarism machine that lies to you and gets shit wrong.
The US has tied literally a third of the value of its stock market, to the discretionary expense of a plagiarism machine that lies to you and gets shit wrong.
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April 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"You will survive without the board game on our shelf or without the new set of dice; you won't make it without food in the cupboard"
The US has tied literally a third of the value of its stock market, to the discretionary expense of a plagiarism machine that lies to you and gets shit wrong.
The US has tied literally a third of the value of its stock market, to the discretionary expense of a plagiarism machine that lies to you and gets shit wrong.
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Speers ‘interviewing’ Angus Taylor
Didn’t Clarke & Dawe do all this better already?
Didn’t Clarke & Dawe do all this better already?
March 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Speers ‘interviewing’ Angus Taylor
Didn’t Clarke & Dawe do all this better already?
Didn’t Clarke & Dawe do all this better already?
RTX 5070 — 4790K Performance
March 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
RTX 5070 — 4790K Performance
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Unsurprisingly, the WankPanzer driver doesn’t know you need a special licence to drive a bus
July 24, 2023 at 7:55 PM
Unsurprisingly, the WankPanzer driver doesn’t know you need a special licence to drive a bus
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Pretty psychopathic puff piece justifying Australia's wholesale adoption of America's deadly oversized trucks. RAM exec literally laughs at concerns.
Aus' meagre electric vehicle efforts being obliterated in emissions data by this trend. Gov't is failing badly.
https://tinyurl.com/22mzmjp8
Aus' meagre electric vehicle efforts being obliterated in emissions data by this trend. Gov't is failing badly.
https://tinyurl.com/22mzmjp8
July 24, 2023 at 7:40 PM
Pretty psychopathic puff piece justifying Australia's wholesale adoption of America's deadly oversized trucks. RAM exec literally laughs at concerns.
Aus' meagre electric vehicle efforts being obliterated in emissions data by this trend. Gov't is failing badly.
https://tinyurl.com/22mzmjp8
Aus' meagre electric vehicle efforts being obliterated in emissions data by this trend. Gov't is failing badly.
https://tinyurl.com/22mzmjp8
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Hi, former White House intern, DNC communications staffer, and re-election team partner here:
One does not ‘slip’ into the Oval Office. Does not. Period, ever. That’s not a thing.
One does not ‘slip’ into the Oval Office. Does not. Period, ever. That’s not a thing.
Someone from Russian state media just slips into the Oval Office?????
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Hi, former White House intern, DNC communications staffer, and re-election team partner here:
One does not ‘slip’ into the Oval Office. Does not. Period, ever. That’s not a thing.
One does not ‘slip’ into the Oval Office. Does not. Period, ever. That’s not a thing.
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Anyway. Congratulations to Russia on winning the Cold War. The long game worked.
March 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Anyway. Congratulations to Russia on winning the Cold War. The long game worked.
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Just a little rant today: please stop telling me to be nice to the Nazi sympathizers once they claim to stop sympathizing
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No, I Will Not Welcome Ex-MAGA to the Resistance
As I’ve mentioned here before, I am on BlueSky, and overall I quite like it. Friendly interface, effective tools for curating your feed and/or blocking and muting people, and most of the people I l…
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February 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Just a little rant today: please stop telling me to be nice to the Nazi sympathizers once they claim to stop sympathizing
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