Politics
Apparently, there is a wing of Never Trump Republicans that really think they will be relevant in the post Trump ecosystem. Ain't it cute that they think that MAGA is going to allow them back into leadership...
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The NY Times once again platforms a fucker. Get a load of this pile of horse-shit.
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A transition, a fresh start, and a look to the future
Music
Take Five has become one of those bellweather pieces of music. Always worth listening to, and an iconic groove. Kenny Banks Jr. delivers a superb interpretation for solo piano.
Tech
AI is coming for the jobs, or is it? We are at a turning point, and there needs to be a public policy reckoning that will prevent economic collapse.
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I posted on this two days ago, but then the revelation of the raid on Twitter in France, and the implications sunk in for me, and the irony is delish...
Tech
The merger of xAI and SpaceX makes no sense for what we are told. It is really a way to use SpaceX to help fund the cash bonfire that is xAI.
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January 2026 is in the books, and it was the longest month that I can remember having lived through, period. We talk Tesla, David Brooks (for the last time, I swear), and how Substack is enshittifying itself. Strap in, it's gon' get bumpy!
Politics
Needing a quick distraction, the DoJ sloppily dropped almost 3.5M files and documents from the Epstein trove. It's not all of it, but it will drive a lot of news cycles.
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Why do farmers vote Republican? Is it a kinship, a belief in hardy conservative values? Nah, it's because Republicans give them more $$$
It may seem like what we are experiencing is unprecedented, but it isn't. The temperance movement culminating in Prohibition is remarkably analogous to what we are experiencing today.
What a fucking shitty day to be alive in America. And for once I am not pissed at French after reading him, but at what he wrote (that is sadly true). We are well and truly fucked...
The murder of Renee Good was horrifying. What is worse is hearing my fellow citizens say that the agent was right to pull his weapon because his emotions were running high. That is dangerous thinking.
A killer new guitar, a bit out of my comfort zone, but damn, is it amazing.
It has become exhausting to just exist with all the fuckery happening. But last week something good did come out of the Trumpian chaos.
Adam Kinzinger is the fucker of the maxiamal fucking fuck, his political sensibilities is on par with his shitty courage after he bolted instead of fighting for his seat. A fucking coward.
What's in the Epstein files must fukkin' terrify Trump and his coterie, because distraction theater is ramping up. A round up
Guitarists are snobs, but our snobbery is a mere fraction of the nuttiness of the audiophile ecosystem. The myths are sticky, but real data and tests are good at busting them.
I got scammed. Alas, AI is democratizing spear-phishing, and you should be really wary of the risk.
AI is increasingly being perverted to create non-consensual adult material, and even CSAM content. Most model owners "try" to gate it, but one seems to flaunt all common sense restictions. Additionally, the predictions about AI at the beginning of 2025 turn out to be dead wrong.
Sixteen years ago today, I was going to die. Luck, a quick thinking wife (who was panicking) and a lot of hard work got me here.
