7/2 is as good as this one could've gone

Vladimir, STOP!

it worries me when the narrative about trump is that “it’s dumbasses that don’t know what they’re doing”. they know exactly what they’re doing. peter thiel is a close ally of trump and owns JD vance. peter thiel is a believer in curtis yarvin thought, which is 100% in line with what’s happening

if you see people say “i voted for this, actually” they mean it. they are neo-reactionaries that want to destroy all governments and instead run the world on city-state like technocratic zones

you’re telling me that yet another one of these guys is a degenerate sex criminal? i’m shocked

i love when the vibe of the country is “extreme fear”

“Wall Street's main indexes fell on Thursday, led by a decline in chip stocks as Marvell's forecast fanned worries of slowing demand for Al infrastructure, while worries about a trade war unleashed by U.S. tariffs also weighed on sentiment.”

Good thing the U.S. is banking on $1/2 trillion+ private investment in AI infrastructure for our new “Golden Age” 🫠

I am learning that quite a few reply all listeners aren’t aware of Hyperfixed, so if you have any friends in your life that liked reply all, if you could say “hey did you know Alex has a new show called Hyperfixed?” That might be very nice!

A lot of people on here keep fantasizing about the moment Trump "fires" Elon Musk because Musk has stepped out too far in front of him and I'm sure that feels good, but after watching the last Musk/Trump presser I think it's worth considering that we are essentially watching a coup via elder abuse.

Yf tech billionaires reallye reade their Tolkien thei wolde knowe that it was the obsessive searche by Sauron for selfish immortalitye and individual power above all othir thinges that broughte disaster to Middle Earthe.

Elon Musk claims to have "deleted" the office in the IRS which has enabled people to file their tax returns electronically, simply, and for free.

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the art of the deal

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

funny that we’re starting to get an answer to “what explains the factions in alex garland’s civil war” bsky.app/profile/bubb...

Man who promised he would fly our economy into the side of a mountain is about to deliver

“Vote for me and you’ll never have to vote again.” Less than 2 weeks into his presidency, how do you now interpret this statement?

It’s pretty amazing that these guys are going with “Covid, which wasn’t a big deal, is the worlds greatest bio weapon, that we shouldn’t have cancelled school for a semester for, but also China did almost destroy the world, but don’t forget it’s also just the flu”

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

It’s worth noting that the president of the United States today made more racist comments than we’ve seen any president make publicly in, what, a century? More publicly racist comments than many presidents who were, with history’s eye, virulently racist humans, but ones who at least knew their role.

fwiw: we have already tried the "just let Manly Men fly the planes and everything will be fine" approach to aviation safety

and we discovered that said Manly Men would sooner run their airplane directly into the side of a mountain than admit they made a mistake
bsky.app/profile/quin...

lol, lmao even

Genuinely insane that a major newsroom isn't running a live post today trying to verify what is and what isn't being impacted by the federal funding freeze. Embarrassing how bad the media response is to this.

The last week and a half goes to show you how many things a Dem administration could have taken care of if they just stopped giving a shit about doing things "right" and took action. But instead we are now watching our rights disappear, EO by EO.

I am doom scrolling and doom reposting and I truly hate this.