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Denit Trust Professor, The George Washington University School of Business. Live in Leucadia, California aka "Funky Leucadia". I study people's relationships with smart things. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IK6_rNQAAAAJ&hl=e
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Features to hide likes and other public Bluesky metrics have been proposed but not implemented. I wish you could hide likes and other engagement metrics. If Bluesky wants to be different, it should come up with a way to measure post quality that doesn't involve likes. github.com/bluesky-soci...

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Just another day in Oceanside!

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If the universe is a computer simulation, this would go a long way toward explaining why things are so screwed up in the US. We’ve arrived at a very dark and annoying level of the simulation game. Maybe the next level will be better? www.sciencealert.com/the-universe...

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HBO changed its name to HBO Max in 2020. Then to Max in 2023. And now it's going back to HBO Max in 2025. I'm not max impressed with the branding geniuses behind all this.

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I realy like Slowdive's "Everyone Knows." But I wonder if they wrote it today, the lyrics would be "take me from America" rather than "take me to America".

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A day that begins with Deary’s vinyl EP arriving in the mail from the UK is a good day!

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I am convinced that dryer balls are a portal to alternate realities. I put 4 balls in the dryer, but only 3 came out. This has now happened twice. The missing ball is surely in another reality. There is another version of me who put in 4 dryer balls, and 5 came out of the dyer.

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MAHA and MAGA are just code for soft eugenics. Let the old and sick die. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Aloy in NYC in the style of Horizon Forbidden West, courtesy of Gemini Veo 2.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Not content with trivializing human interaction, Meta now turns to trivializing our interaction with AI. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

ChatGPT o3 deep research predicts new Deary LP in 2025. "Based on Deary’s release history and the typical progression of a new band, we can expect news on a debut LP or at least new singles in the coming months." #deary #dreampop #shoegaze Full analysis: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gbaff...

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PublicSquare is a MAGA shopping directory. I use it to identify local businesses I will NEVER visit. This includes: Pannikin Coffee, Ironsmith Coffee, Maurizio Trattoria in Encinitas Invita Cafe, Carlsbad Aaron Chang Gallery, Solona Beach What a public service www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

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RFK Jr is unqualfied beyond belief and should never have been confirmed. 52 Republican senators voted for him and 46 Dems, Bernie, and Mitch McConnell (WTF?!) voted no. His actions are going to kill many people. The only question is how many. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘Nobody has been harder … about Donald Trump than me,’ Maher says after fellow comedian compared his meal with US president to meeting Hitler. Now Maher is talking like Trump. No wonder the two got along. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Using ChatGPT o3 for $20/month. After flailing around with deep research, not quite getting what I'm looking for, it tells me I'm almost out of deep research for the month. So sign up for the $200/month service. I feel like I'm in the Black Mirror "Common People" episode w/ the Rivermind service.

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The one thing alumni are looking at today as they think about their future contributions is how their school is responding to the assault on higher education. My undergrad school, Oberlin College, signed the AACU statement. My grad institution, UNC, did not. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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President Donald Trump’s head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he wants to see the deportation process look like "[Amazon] Prime, but with human beings." WTF? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

There were some questionable times in American health care.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

In 1942 the salute to the American flag resembled a Nazi salute. Congress changed it to placing the hand over the heart. How long until someone in Congress gets the bright idea of changing it back? www.visitthecapitol.gov/artifact/sch...

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Wet Leg is back! Finally! pitchfork.com/news/wet-leg...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Just had to listen to a Space X sonic boom landing up the coast in Oceanside. It's the audio equivalent of the visual disgust I feel looking at a Cybertruck.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

US has 54% tariffs on China. China just imposed a 34% tariffs on US goods. But I'll be ok buying Herman Miller furniture, since that's a high design product that's from the US, right? Ummmm... www.hermanmiller.com/en_au/press/...

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Error of the day from Social Security. "Bad"?

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Tariffs are supposed to lead to new US factories to make the products produced in the rest of the world that are now too expensive. But Americans will just stop buying stuff they don't need because they have no jobs or money. So we're not going to need or have new factories. Just poor Americans.

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Here's the Social Security Website today.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

“More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia and the United States war in Afghanistan combined.” !!! www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

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Oh dear. Always heard that my town, Leucadia, was named in the 1870s by free thinking English spiritualists escaping persecution. But this article says it was named in a marketing campaign by 1880's land developers, one a con man. Talk about bursting my bubble. scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

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Question: Why do so many liberals remain on X? Reasons given include network effects, maintaining your brand, or fighting misinformation from within. If the U.S. is on the threshold of a fascist takeover, will these pragmatic justifications for staying on X look naive or complicit in hindsight?

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

The three words Sonos owners most dread. "New app update" But maybe... this time it's better?

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America is becoming a land of educated liberal women and uneducated conservative men. “That creates a mismatch, because people prefer to date in terms of comparable education or income.”  One woman said,...“If I need companionship, I volunteer at the dog shelter.”  apple.news/APi_gmIjOR8G...

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Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West are good sources for non-mainstream names for girls and boys.

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