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  “…security apparatuses attract and promote the cognitive profile best suited to operating without conscience in environments that reward deception.’ https://medium.com/@steveo98501/the-shepherd-class-ff54a84e964c

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  “If you want a good ‘national AI strategy,’ try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models:“ —Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/#eyes-on-the-prize

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  Kawhi Leonard to the Spurs? No. Just no. https://article.wn.com/view/2026/06/28/Clippers_Kawhi_Leonard_was_the_worst_freeagent_signing_in_LA/

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  In my opinion, the Toronto Raptors will soon have reason to regret the trade the have made to get Kawhi Leonard.

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  LeBron James to Spurs as FA? Nope. Team first, no circus.

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  Stolen from Nadin Brzezinski: ‘A Russian man is waiting in line at the gas station. “I’ve had enough of this,” says the man to his wife. “Take the wheel, I’m going to go shoot Putin.” Two hours later, he returns and sits back in the driver’s seat. “Did you shoot him?” Asks the wife. “No, the line to shoot Putin is longer than this one!”’

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  My skepticism regarding Kawhi Leonard is validated: https://apple.news/AvJjLsxGdQ-eJClHmtZDaCA He’s poisonous.

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  “We are hitting a harsh ceiling where the raw compute cost of an autonomous digital worker is rapidly eclipsing the salary of the human it was supposed to replace.” — Tamay Bansal on Medium

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  In Florence in 1492-94, “Florentine day laborers earned enough to live on working three days in a week, so usually took off the other four to look at art or listen to people recite Dante (really!),” (Ada Palmer). This in a city controlled by Medici oligarchs. This might have been a time when oligarchs were still afraid of the people. Perhaps we can make them afraid again.

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  https://medium.com/@profgalloway/the-worst-acquisition-in-history-again-439c1adbc891

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  “It is better to be feared than loved, but you must at all costs avoid being hated.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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  @jalefkowit Try Dave Winer’s editor.

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  Hey everyone, let’s do this: https://www.buildthepromise.com/

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  “It's a good reminder of how badly crypto has failed on its own terms, delivering its biggest users into an existence of fear and physical peril that rivals the plight of even the most hunted dissidents in the most repressive societies.“ — Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/28/we-live-in-a-society/#rubber-hose-cryptanalysis

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  “Truly, Trump's a machine for creating stranded assets at scale.” — Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene

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  Nope.

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  Commander TACO.

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  “History should be studied for what it tells us about the background and origins of our present. Past events should be analyzed as a set of examples, to be compared to present circumstances in order to help plan actions and predict their consequences.” — Ada Palmer, in “Inventing The Renaissance”

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  So last night we learned that the Russians built a backpack weapon that has likely been used to attack US government officials and their families; today we learned that the Russians are providing information that is being used to attack US military personnel, and President trump is lifting sanctions on sales of Russian oil. Could this be treason?

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  Someone needs to tell Michelle Norris of MSNOW that it is pronounced “Bear” County.

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  Bates numbers do not lie.

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  I think there are very few human beings more likely to release Skynet on the world than Pete Hegseth.

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  I learned something new in reading this article: https://onchainjournals.medium.com/i-bought-the-wrong-bitcoin-no-one-told-me-about-this-differences-8e22798c2155

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  Wow. https://medium.com/@liena.dreams/the-illusion-of-matter-cf8b9a044d63