jimray.bsky.social
I used to be good at this.
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Cuban made several thousand lifetimes worth of money from about three years of work during the most irrational bubble of our lifetime then parlayed that into Business Geniushood by linking up with the guy who rehabilitated Trump. I think we’re good here, man!
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It’s clear what Russ Hanneman here wants from Bluesky isn’t engagement but the kind of unquestioning boosterism he’s been the beneficiary of his entire career.
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I don’t necessarily disagree I just have some follow up questions
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Supercannes being your intro post-9/11 and then going through the whole back catalog hit very hard. Great listen thank you!
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"The techbro fascists may hate the liberals they live next door to, but at the end of the day, they're still part of the urban, atheistic, educated class that the MAGA movement demonizes. "
www.salon.com/2025/06/06/f...
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There’s a lot going on at the moment just wanted to chime in to say I’ve queued this one up and I’m excited to listen to a favorite unpacker of [all of this] chat about one of my all time favorite writers.
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The biggest lie we were told as kids was all we had to do was expose the bad guy and the system would take care of it. Turns out that doesn’t work when the bad guys run the system!
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(Obviously the real plan is to give about a billion dollars a year to left of center media to do whatever the hell they want without a need to turn a profit or even be self-sustaining since that's exactly what the right has done for 40 years)
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It was the best of fiscal quarters, it was the worst of quarters (before interest, taxes, and amortization)
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“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years”
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A database of that tracks the activities of every person in earth is, at its core, fascistic (sorry friends that means Instagram, too). Leave it.
If I'm hopeful of anything about all of this, it's how blindingly obvious it is now.
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There's a straightforward solution to this: robust consumer protection. The tiny agency that was doing the best they could just got dismantled by the architect of Project 2025.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-stop-work-russ-vought
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The surveillance state created by Facebook that so many of us have warned about for decades only to be told we were being hysterical is about to be weaponized by the absolute worst people.
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…while teaming up with a glorified arms dealer who read Ender's Game when he was 11 and figured he could do better
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/29/meta-us-military-technology-defense-contract/
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Naturally, the company that has done the most to turn the internet into a superfund site is going to finally wash its hands of even the barest minimum of responsibility they begrudgingly took on.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5407870/meta-ai-facebook-instagram-risks
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Seems like the total audience for this book was the host of every podcast he appeared on, who got a free galley proof two weeks before publication.
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“Sir, Palmer wants another meeting about Project Ender’s Game”
“I think I’m a no… hang on, can we pose together for a photo?”
“Absolutely, shall I get your statement necklace ready?”
“Nah, he’s still doing that facial hair thing right?”
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Yeah, and Ben of all people understands that Facebook sells *access to* their massive cache of data. Classic bit of misdirection we see in politics all the time. “Oh you think the ‘AR’ in ‘AR-15’ stands for ‘assault rifle’ you’re clearly a woke gun grabbing idiot. Guns don’t kill people!”
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(And I’ll just add that I wish smart writers like Max and Patrick weren’t franchisees of Substack, the internet’s Chic-fil-A.)
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This pairs well with @patrickwyman.bsky.social’s “American Gentry” which looks at how the offline petite bourgeois distorts American politics, especially locally but increasingly at the national level.
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