Family office tech/retail/theatre investor. (Twitter investor. Yes, really.) Former science/tech writer/reporter for Newsweek/MacWorld/etc. Long-time Apple developer, database programmer, and incorrigible geek. Now a late-night sys admin.
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Does anybody remember “Katie Johnson” (pseudonym)? Really? “She filed lawsuits in 2016 claiming that, as a 13-year-old aspiring model in the early 1990s, she was lured to parties at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, where she was allegedly raped by Trump and Epstein”
“terminally ill with internet poisoning” — what great phrase
He’s right. The government should own all business. Let’s call this the People’s Republic of the United States.
Preparing for the declaration of martial law.
This is the kind of pollyannish magical thinking that causes kills entire industries. Americans are already flooding the London real estate market, and Florida is full of relocated New Yorkers. France and England have long experiences with tax expats. The past does not predict the future.
No, they removed the barrel. But the crackers are still going there.
Those crackers will get mad at anything.
It’s not a “threat” to democracy, so much as it is an abuse of democracy for political advantage. But we can all play that game. Break a norm, and you risk others doing so, too.
Covfefe
IOW: Trump has no cards. This is all theater.
Erin projected to become a monster-sized storm by next week.
The Force is deep in these people.
Bet those corporate CEOs are raising champagne glasses to their brilliance for supporting “pro-economy” Trump.
Friends of mine are trans. This isn’t about trans. It’s about making a distinction between art and the artist. The world can’t be divided into nothing but friends and enemies.
Do you feel “told off”?
Watch for the hidden cryptocurrency purchases by the USG of Trump-owned coins, using these revenues.
My prediction: sometime in the near future, we are going to learn that Donald Trump is having the Treasury use these extorted revenues from American taxpayers and companies to buy cryptocurrency that he owns. It is a gigantic theft from the American taxpayer.
Too bad people can’t separate the art from the artist.
I’m feeling so “who cares” about the poor, pierogi-deprived Alan Dershowitz right now …
An absolutely classic example of Newspeak.
Carbon dioxide is toxic to human beings.
The essential purpose of these tariffs is to kill imports into the United States from targeted countries, under the delusion that American companies will start making identical products here and American customers will buy them. Can you spell “champagne”?
This is of course nothing but political theater.
Otherwise known as dismantling the American government.
Oh, Abbott should absolutely remove all the Democrats from the Texas legislature and prosecute them as criminals. Absolutely. Then we should watch as Texas comes to a standstill from protests, boycotts, and statewide strikes.
Deliberate nonsense from those who want to reshape America to serve themselves. Economic revisions are by definition updates to incorporate newer, more accurate information. Calling them evidence of “rigging” is sheer propaganda.
Also, “I know nothing about this, I haven’t read anything about it, no one‘s ever talked to me about it, it’s not in the newspapers every single day, so therefore I have no particular opinion. Although I am in charge and have experts working for me.”
Next, he’ll be suing a bakery for refusing to make a wedding cake for his – oh wait a minute.
Those of us who actually believe and invest in free markets see this for what it is: anti-competitive, anti-capitalist protection behavior designed to maximize profits to the US government at the expense of its citizens
What a flatulent old fool.
We aren’t adding any more to our scholarship at Columbia while there’s a risk of that money being used for payments to the Trump administration.
I’m sick of both the woke and the wack.
Such organizations should now incorporate overseas in countries where such meritless lawsuits aren’t so easy to file.
All over Charleston SC too. Great trees.
Actually it is. Read Krugman today, and the GM earnings announcement yesterday. But it is temporary.
We’re agreed, then: anyone who falls for this is as dumb as an English setter.
This is beyond ridiculous, and anybody who falls for it has the brain power of a small dog.
Prepare to learn that Trump’s administration has destroyed records in the Epstein files.
We have moved on from voodoo economics to voodoo medicine: the government is now the source of disinformation, and Americans will pay the price in degraded health for years. I predict medical tourism will skyrocket — if not outright expatriatism.
No. “Bipartisan”. Agreements. Anymore.
"What Sam Altman is saying is that his plan for solving global warming is to build a machine that nobody knows how to build and can’t even define and then ask it for three wishes."
Already Grok is taking over
...or, perhaps, the numbers reported are not what they seem.
“He hasn’t got the balls to be a border patrol agent. This guy lives in his mother’s basement…I guarantee you he sits down to pee.” Spoken like a man compensating for a small…hand.
The first two classes of people to leave in such a circumstance would be the wealthy & the educated, either to protect assets or to find employment opportunities without ideological pressure. At some point regimes try to ban such flight. Watch for travel and financial restrictions.
The banality of evil.
Foreign leaders probably aren’t in the business of gambling their nations’ futures on a bet. American citizens have demonstrated twice that they prefer a crypto-fascist as their leader. That’s enough for friends of mine abroad to conclude that America is unreliable as an ally.
Someone needs to explain to me how Harvard is 1) a bastion of white privilege for legacy students, while 2) Harvard is a bastion of wokeness privilege for non-white students.
Now a millionaire, thanks to his victimhood.
No.
Sadly, that is of no consequence. The mere fact that he was a viable candidate at all after January 6, and that he was reelected despite his 1st-term record, has made the reliability of the American people deeply suspect.
Confirmed by my conversations with friends in England and France. Europeans now feel that Americans can no longer be trusted to elect rational leadership, and that they’re going to have to separate their futures from ours.
The self-pity and victimization is astonishing, but consistent with much of the anti-“woke” crowd: wallowing in how their suburban upbringings were like living in a ghetto.
No, we don’t need to understand that.
Chasing people to their deaths is functionally equivalent to murder.
This Barbie goon of Trump’s is beyond stupid.
Man looks like he ran an Irish waterfront gang in Boston.
No, we. don’t need to understand that.
Thanks, bye
Dictatorships always use theatre to create a sense of drama and awe.
Which is why political polling is so dangerous a tool to use for public policy and campaigning. People have shallow opinions about things that are nationally important (climate change, Ukraine) and paradoxically strong opinions about peripheral things (chemtrails, Jeffrey Epstein).
How true. Whatever belief I once had that legal conservatism was independent of political conservatism has been long lost by this court. Now I just hope that America can survive it.
What we’re seeing (Stephen Miller being emblematic) is a spasm of rightwing grievance politics against everything & everyone they don’t like, rules be damned. At some point everyone else will get sick of it & strike back, which will just make rightwingers squeal even louder about their victimhood.
It’s only a matter of time before members of their own families begin to hate them.
“The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting,” one senior reporter told Semafor. Cheap reasoning. That’s the definition of social media. Not news. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
“Soros”! It’s a laugh riot out there in Muskville.
This is also known as “how to make humans dumber while machines get smarter”.
Isn’t this the moron who shut down USAID, threatened Social Security, fired thousands of government workers, decimated climate research, and locked out nuclear weapons safety officers? Sure, Dems would support that.
Not. In. A. Million. Years.
The emperor has no clothes.
They love America. They just don't love Americans.
If you think it can't happen here, you haven't lived here.
apple.news/A-6oQXSizQOu...
Friedman nails it. apple.news/AEe3Tm9hrRsS...
Driving as it used to be.
Sure, if you define “strengthen” as never spending a dime from Medicaid to help anyone.
The “death panel” turns out to be the US Senate.
For those who understand it, this is a big deal. For the record, I don’t understand it.
Actually, I already am. And I’ve already moved a chunk of our portfolio to Europe.
Well, if we don’t live in a democracy anymore, then we’re wasting our breath talking about taxes, and instead ought to be packing our bags to move to another country.
In the 1950s, the top tax bracket was 90%. It depends on who you elect. 
His “fair share” is what the government decides it is. So change the tax laws if you disagree with it. 
It’s sad that today the rights of an individual citizen are less important than the right of the government to take them away. What a sad perversion of the America we thought existed.
Imagine who pays for all this.
The cruelty is the purpose. Don’t let anyone tell you that this started with Donald Trump. Donald Trump merely enables this behavior from malicious people. And there appear to be a lot of malicious people in law enforcement.
The problem is that, despite being a signatory to the NPT, Iran was reported to be refining uranium to a degree of purity far in excess of commercial necessity. The NPT ultimately depends on trust. The US/Israeli strikes can be characterized as the expected response to a breakdown of that trust.
Stop reading the Post.
Right. Nothing like bad faith.
Like dance, it takes two to decide who’s at war.
Those of us who are ordinary white Americans, watching the behavior of police and ICE agents, who mask themselves and wear no identification, are concluding the police forces in America no longer feel accountable to the public, and are therefore a threat to ordinary citizens.
Quick, people, now is your chance to report all the Latin proud boys
Must have been written by an hallucinating AI system at Apollo.
I once saw Jesse Waters give a speech to a local crowd in my town. It was the most egotistical, self-centered, smart-ass speech I’ve ever seen. He is beneath contempt.
It’s clear that those of us who are pragmatic realists should adopt 2 credos for the next 4 years: 1. Nothing said by anyone affiliated with the current American government can be believed; 2. AI should be treated like social media: possibly right, probably dubious, and needs to be fact-checked.
Bluesky has arrived as a serious platform when controversial viewpoints from malaprops like Judy Vance begin to appear.
One of two possible outcomes: 1. Humans degrade their critical thinking skills to the point that AI functionally takes over (we cede our future to machines); or 2. AI becomes so distrusted that it sets the acceptance of the technology back 20 years. So far, #1 is prevailing.
“AI is a technology that works well enough for users to become dependent, but not consistently enough to be truly dependable.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Can you spell “model collapse”?
All hail Judy Vance.
Please. Let’s stop wringing our hands about how uncivil and impolite republicans have become, and recognize instead that they have become a dangerously toxic political force that needs to be defeated.