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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · 3d

Is anyone running year-over-year stats on international attendance at big US tech conferences? I'm curious to see what the dropoff looks like. People I talk to in Europe and Canada are either not buying tickets or cancelling their tickets to major events.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18d

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · 17d

Boarded, masked, and ready to go on leg one to Copenhagen and Future Product Days!

YVR 🛫👨‍💻🛬YUL 🛫🍿🛬 CPH

If you see me in the next 5 days, come say "Hi" and let's have a conversation about the future!

#futureproductdays #linkedinlife #linkedinlearning #unboxingmcp #keynotespeaker #braggyhashtags

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Dorothee V. Plessis @dorotheevplessis.bsky.social · 23d

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Aug 16

Our backyard weather station in Burnaby, BC measured 76 mm of rain in 24 hours on August 15, 2025. The rain event started at midnight and this reading was at 11:30pm the same day. #bcstorm #metrotown #burnaby

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Aug 16

Anyone being surprised by this has not been paying attention for the past decade. Putin's Man in the White House does Putin's bidding. Always has.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 16

FOX REPORTER: “The way it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say, got his photo next to the president, then left.”

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Aug 16

The heat of Republican fury if Biden met with Putin in Alaska would have created its own weather system.

Instead we watch the abdication of a nation to a tyrant, delivered by the weakest man who ever lived.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Aug 16

tangentially related, but one argument I have been trying to put together for a while is how the far right's embrace of AI kitsch is something which differentiates it from classical fascism, and not a clear-cut case of continuity.

onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 15

rightwingers love to make fascist art with ai generators, ai image generation is the aesthetic of fascism

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Aug 16

It's all coming apart because the people causing the collapse and profiting from it tell us the collapse can be avoided if we just give them more money and power.

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Aug 16

The only reason you're not feeling the teeth of the meat grinder is because you're standing on those being crushed.

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Aug 16

Chokehold Capitalism has severed financial value from experienced value, while the meteoric re-emergence of far-right authoritarian leaders has severed humanity from dignity.

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Aug 16

Movies, TV, and books habituated us to expect societal collapse to be sudden, all-encompassing, and caused by others. In reality, it is slow, unevenly distributed, and caused by the very people we look to for leadership.

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Aug 16

The reason you feel like it's all coming apart even though everything seems normal is because it's all coming apart and everything we consider normal is the reason.

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · Aug 16

The only thing in the way of everything Trump 🇺🇸 and Putin 🇷🇺 want is Canada 🇨🇦 😬.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Aug 15

"The world is a white Bronco and the highway never ends." -- THEY KNEW (2022)

Excerpt from book THEY KNEW
Www.sarahkendziorbooks.com

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c-a-m @cad6711.bsky.social · Aug 15

"There is no crueler task than to have to document one’s own demise and there is no more selfless act than to leave a record. That is what Palestinian journalists gave as their lives were stolen. Anas Al-Sharif was 28 years old."

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Aug 14

New article! On the murder of Palestinian journalists and the genocide in Gaza: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/on-palestine

On Palestine

My articles on the Gaza genocide.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Jul 15

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Jul 14

How to sound tough but do nothing: Impose tariffs on a country where we already impose sanctions.

A 100% tariff on almost nothing will do almost nothing.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Jul 14

How to sound tough but do nothing: Impose tariffs on a country where we already impose sanctions.

A 100% tariff on almost nothing will do almost nothing.

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Jul 15

This is what fascist propaganda looks like. We learned about how to spot it in 7th grade history class in Norway.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 14

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is 100% correct. NO ONE can sit at home and collect Medicaid checks.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · Jul 14

I don’t want to say I immediately had a visceral reaction when I saw the DHS post but … yeah… I did …

Right on cue with the fascism.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Jul 14

Grok refusing to answer questions unless X users upload blood tests to prove the purity of their DNA

Since so many of the kind of people X does not want Grok interacting with have stayed on the site despite all of X’s efforts to drive them away, they’ve settled on blood tests.

www.thebeaverton.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Jul 15

Good evening

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Jul 15

One-Trick-President who promised to end the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine in 24 hours (it's been 194 days) claims zero percent success rate tariff ploy will end the Russian war of aggression in the Ukraine in 50 days:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Trump sets 50-day tariff deadline for Russia to end war in Ukraine | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States will impose "very severe tariffs" on Russia in 50 days if there is no deal to stop the war in Ukraine.

www.cbc.ca

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10.com · Jul 14

I love how the team just casually move around him so he disappears in the background.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · Jul 13

Trump was shown to leave the stage but wasn’t visibly willing to go as Chelsea lifted the trophy

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