acdc.bsky.social
Assorted thoughts across tech, regulatory, campaigns/influence, investing, other stuff. All posts are the opinions of my employers and they are legally liable for everything I say.
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Very powerful, thank you Bryan
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On the topic of English prime ministers, I do say that England’s greatest prime minister was Lord Palmerston
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Truly, I am excited for what else 2025 may bring
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I thought maga420 was better than this
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Very happy for you!
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How could you wish that on your dear followers
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What game is this?
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Maybe you can create some NFTs, that’d be great
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Just got one, forgot you were here
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Wait she was 17 in that movie? Getting married? What a seriously weird casting
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Yeah that’s what I’m thinking
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I’m trying to steelman but I’m struggling
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Yeah we still don’t have maplecocaine’s main character thing here and until we do I just don’t feel we’ve really made it
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I also started disengaging from Twitter in 2021/2022 so lost the thread of a lot of online discourse
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Ah ok. I missed that pivot. Thanks
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Thanks
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The concept of intellectual variety sounds nice but considering the state of conservatism in the US is currently led by Trump in reality I don’t see a rational academic falling into that category
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Yeah I actually enjoy it here now. Tried moving when Twitter became too painful last year but there wasn’t much. Now it feels like early twitter.
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What’s the TLDR on why Brianna Wu is so hated? I feel I have missed a few steps there. I seem to remember several years ago she was Good but now she’s Bad? Is it just the Israel thing or is there more to it?
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Sounds pretty gross tbh
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It’s not the guy. But also that’d be hilarious if they’d totally run out of leads (which it’s kind of looking like) so they try to trap him with a lookalike prize
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I think you know it’s not just you nor is it a far left position: “protecting the NHS” in the UK is a bipartisan stance. The rest of the developed world has far simpler systems that don’t result in this exploitation.
The US system is fundamentally broken and people mistake it for “the free market”.
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I think he should keep using the term actually
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Ok
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Holy shit you’re right
The different backpack would only make sense if you were changing outfits, which is clearly not what they’re suggesting here.
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Posts change lives
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Usually because they think they’ll be able to ride a pump and sell to a greater fool. The occasional person convinces themselves that there’s some intricate narrative they can ride. Eg this one on pictures of cartoon rocks x.com/degenharambe...
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Why not?
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Love that for her!
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I’m sorry, her first name is spelled “Haliey”? What the fuck?
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Cobie = cryptocobain, a long time shitposter. The post is a troll/joke.
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Yes, someone else will do it who didn’t make that choice. They are a bad person. They will also stop doing it when it becomes distasteful enough. That’s how societal change happens.
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The world is a big complex system with lots of interconnecting parts that ends up like it does because everyone just follows their immediate incentives. For many people, it’s money. But that doesn’t mean you have to. You have agency! Part of a shitty system? Leave it!
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Guarantee someone presented this at a tech conference as one of the breakthrough ways UHC were “leveraging the power of AI”
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Aren’t silencers legal in most states (what Google tells me)?
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I was with them. Tbh US healthcare is so fucked it’s hard to unpick what is them versus the hospitals versus the pharma companies vs the prescription companies, but yeah I’ve had several thousand held up for years several times. Can see how someone might snap