LETTER: To my supporters, this is our moment... The culmination of decades of preparation and experience have brought us to this imminent volcanic eruption of civic potential

This is the moment. I'll be your Frodo.
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See you there, George!
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Tax AI. Yes.

Elect Bob Helland to Congress. Good news, y'all, I'm 41 and work a day job.

I get it. Congress as is will not.

MINNESOTA NEEDS THIS: We have an 8 candidate democratic challenger forum in Duluth, MN at the UMD university campus, 4/23 Montague Hall @5pm We want to protect Boundary Waters from GOP Pete Stauber, impeach Trump,the good stuff.

This guy just wants to see Katy Tur at Summer House. (Not showing up)

I think the (my own) tongue-in-cheek punchline to the joke is: Nope, sorry, we're still fattening them up!

More of this, please! How do we boycott something we wouldn't buy? We need a vocal anti-consumer union to counter Big Gamble and we need to elect leaders like Bob Helland (hi, it me) to Congress. Please, please, and thank you.

Top 3 issue in my run for Congress with other hostile and speculative tech. Agreed. Can't watch with family.

#dadosphere here to ground the #manosphere and take away their allowance.

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a man with a beard is wearing a necklace and a ring and the word facts is above him ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a necklace and a ring and the word facts is above him

These are the facts!

Very much appreciate that, yes. That is the publicly available perception hands down. My conversation with voters and delegates is uncertainty around viability of *ALL* DFL candidates. My general state of race is: DFL has its Clinton-candidate identified in Trina. But NE MN hunger for Sanders-type.

Same period Stauber raises +300K and has $1.0M cash on hand vs $18K, over 50:1! Not sustainable, serious questions of viability. Jan highest raising, not Mar, expect momentum. Yet race saw three entrants after: Wendell, myself, Gulbranson. New eval: no frontrunner. UMD forum 4/23 *CRITICAL* for all

Candid questions:

Resume: DHS insider, 20% total money from DHS emps; DOGE retiree. Why not stay fight DOGE? Plan for DHS?

Funds: 55K raised, 33K spent. Metric of success?
WA-based consultants 11K. 60% to consultants. Trip to MD - for what?

Access: no social, no news since Jan. Digital reach?

Also appears to be an unusual degree of sensitivity (ie immediate threat to block) for observing and suggesting the very modern possibility that a user is prompting an LLM or is 'agentically' writing via LLM. Definitely dont think user is bot, just likely a dedicated AI-prompter. Turing Test sense

Very possible. I type effectively every word I post bluesky on a phone >> not efficient. The stylistic consistency and formatting of poster is strongly suggestive of using GenAI aka LLM to produce text/icons.

Which is fine, but looking for more conversation/opinion at times and less 'research'...

Yes, I will use citizen power for good, if they will have me.

I see Northern Minnesota as an Arrakis of Dune, rich in resource but hidden ecology upon hidden ecology, nested value of eons not decades and years. I see our citizenry as the rugged, feared Fremen.

We must cultivate #LakePower.

I ask because as an election candidate people expect you to say things in 50-150 words and offer guiding principles to the totality of constitutional government, human purpose, and the daily struggle of life.

That limitation kind of sucks!

Finally, bobbers.
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Curious if I may to your marketing tactics re: word count.

-Is it indication of time commitment to reader?
-Is it indication of value?
-Is it indication of HLM (human) vs LLM (machine) content output?

My economic/menu lens begs I ask: what would the expected consumption be if you said
8k vs 32k?

My eyes and ears! Yes, as mid-career professional who endured layoff and job hunt post-ChatGPT i have probably overvalued the AI awareness of early-career, late-career or retirees relative to my own. There's clear anti-demand to the products - people dont want it! But they might not know why even...

That was all I'm after, sorry to press. Understand if you feel i overstepped the boundary but I hope you understand my concern: we entering the golden age of AI impostors. We as digital consumers need new skill sets and detection where regulation and legislation are absent. This is a priority to me.

I guess the saying for Minnesota apples is "they dont fall far from the tree but they sure as heck roll around a lot!" Thanks for the human connection, glad yo meet you on Bluesky.

Much hoped, but much to test. By the time stamps of posts/replies and numbers of character.. you are quite capable typist! What kind of device do you use? Sometimes specific but often tangential response. Always emojis. "llm" in handle...

Here's a test: can you reply without a single emoji?

What does the Jode in JodeLLM represent?

Very grateful for those who offer daily courage during the course of this project: Linda, Wally, Pete, Glacier and a couple others. Small but scrappy. How do we get even scrappier, folks?

Am I viable?
Am I competent?
Am I caring?

Its not enough for me to know my character intimately and speak highly of myself. If other people don't find the courage to voice intense support for viable, competent, caring candidates seeking office... we may get more incompetence and ambivalence, right?

Pete Stauber cooked in Congress. Prediction: won't be on Nov ballot. Won't face possible defeat. Won't be at Farmfest. Won't file in May when period opens.

That said, some other toad would get a $1m GOP kiss to try to turn into a prince. We have to be more informed. I am viable, competent, caring

Trying like Helland perhaps? 😆

Hi, I'm Bob, and I've been preparing to be your next representative in the US House. Viability. Competency. Compassion. Charisma. My election wiuld be a huge pendulum swinging in Congress and a definitive victory against dark money, corporate campaigns.
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#WheresTrina

Goal getting in the race was to test our candidates, improve our candidates, and if I happen to best our candidates, I will accept the nomination and use all my power to evict Stauber.

The Swanson committee FEC filing must be tested: its really everything Northern Minns despise.

No, but if my tea leaves are right, hes going to vacate/quiet exit and not file to run when May 19 filing period opens in MN. Instead, GOP will look to hand off $1m to next toad they hope to turn into a prince. My pleasure, thanks for a human reply!

Appreciate that. Seems you found the most corporate, traditional playbook candidate somehow... which is odd because she's a ghost on Bluesky or other direct engagement platforms.

We've got some exciting potential in 9 candidates now and no one has interest in #Bwca Or water quality degradation

Solid raised? 0.05M to $1.47M, 33% DHS: no
Solid appeal? Avg donor $450: no
Solid spend? 66% on consultants, 35% to WA based consultant, 1.4K airfare/hotel MD
S1.7K credit card fees... umm, no

We have varying definitions of "solid" then yes?

She paid 10K for a broken DONATE button it looks like.