Daive Reed
@daivereed.bsky.social
Just a guy. Usually tired, occasionally smart, always covered in tiny kitty scratches
He/Him, Cishet
He/Him, Cishet
'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'
'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'
'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'
December 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'
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saw someone say the next dem administration should learn from trump & simply enact their agenda without thought to norms or procedure, & i hate to break it to that person but the dems already do exactly what they want with power. they don't try to do things & fail, they try to do nothing & succeed
December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
saw someone say the next dem administration should learn from trump & simply enact their agenda without thought to norms or procedure, & i hate to break it to that person but the dems already do exactly what they want with power. they don't try to do things & fail, they try to do nothing & succeed
Everywhere I look something reminds me of her.
December 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Everywhere I look something reminds me of her.
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in this house we cherish the holiday classics 🎄
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
in this house we cherish the holiday classics 🎄
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I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
strangers are fighting to the death in my menchies over this pretty innocuous take and slinging devastating counterarguments like “what if I had to run away from a murderer” and “I like speeding”
one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
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These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
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www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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It’s sort of infuriating to watch liberals all of the sudden be able to identify war crimes because Trump is doing them
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It’s sort of infuriating to watch liberals all of the sudden be able to identify war crimes because Trump is doing them
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Hm, seems like before sending a funding bill to this president, Democratic senators could have written some guarantees into the bill that the funding would actually get spent
The Republican govt shutdown is over, but Trump is still leaving our families in the cold.
With over 150,000 households in MA dependent on LIHEAP to pay their home heating bills in the winter, I'm joining @trahan.house.gov & nearly 100 Dems demanding Trump release these funds NOW.
With over 150,000 households in MA dependent on LIHEAP to pay their home heating bills in the winter, I'm joining @trahan.house.gov & nearly 100 Dems demanding Trump release these funds NOW.
Mass. families delay turning on heat as LIHEAP funds stall
Gov. Maura Healey urged the Trump administration to release delayed LIHEAP funds as Massachusetts families keep thermostats low, fearing winter heating bills.
www.wcvb.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Hm, seems like before sending a funding bill to this president, Democratic senators could have written some guarantees into the bill that the funding would actually get spent
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It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care
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If AI wants to be a truly worthy artist, we can start torturing it, blacklisting it, undervaluing it, pretending to be friends with it and then stealing all the money.
And after it is bullied into suicide by bricking its own data centers, then we can posthumously declare it *almost* a true artist.
And after it is bullied into suicide by bricking its own data centers, then we can posthumously declare it *almost* a true artist.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
If AI wants to be a truly worthy artist, we can start torturing it, blacklisting it, undervaluing it, pretending to be friends with it and then stealing all the money.
And after it is bullied into suicide by bricking its own data centers, then we can posthumously declare it *almost* a true artist.
And after it is bullied into suicide by bricking its own data centers, then we can posthumously declare it *almost* a true artist.
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THE FAILED CARTOGRAPHER (Palindrome)
Demand a hill, at solid nadir….
Damn it!
One morn,
I saw I was in Rome,
not in Madrid,
and I lost all I had named....
Demand a hill, at solid nadir….
Damn it!
One morn,
I saw I was in Rome,
not in Madrid,
and I lost all I had named....
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
THE FAILED CARTOGRAPHER (Palindrome)
Demand a hill, at solid nadir….
Damn it!
One morn,
I saw I was in Rome,
not in Madrid,
and I lost all I had named....
Demand a hill, at solid nadir….
Damn it!
One morn,
I saw I was in Rome,
not in Madrid,
and I lost all I had named....
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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it's not fair that people in charge can call in airstrikes against boats but you're not allowed to even whup their ass until they stop. you have to wait until november 2026 and fill out a form and that's all you can do, and meanwhile they blow up a bunch more boats. bring back ass whuppings
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
it's not fair that people in charge can call in airstrikes against boats but you're not allowed to even whup their ass until they stop. you have to wait until november 2026 and fill out a form and that's all you can do, and meanwhile they blow up a bunch more boats. bring back ass whuppings
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so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
This is the generous read. A more cynical one is Democratic leadership saw progressives win and are panicking.
Capitulating Democratic senators waited until after the election, indicating they know capitulation was a bad politics that bothers their voters and reduces their chances of retaking power.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is the generous read. A more cynical one is Democratic leadership saw progressives win and are panicking.
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The thing about right-wing cultural / entertainment / art is that it is so awful that even right-wingers don't really want to pay to see it. They want it to exist in a nebulous "own the libz" way; they want Lee Greenwood to be on the bill but even they won't pay to sit through Lee Greenwood.
EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover
Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The thing about right-wing cultural / entertainment / art is that it is so awful that even right-wingers don't really want to pay to see it. They want it to exist in a nebulous "own the libz" way; they want Lee Greenwood to be on the bill but even they won't pay to sit through Lee Greenwood.
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i don’t think this is conspiratorial at all. it’s not what the tech was designed for originally but the ruling class has clearly identified that it’s a useful application and has a vested interest in seeing it grow
my most conspiracy brained thought right now is “ai slop isn’t just out there to make number go up for people who are already rich, it doubly serves the purpose of lowering the availability of useful information transmission in a fascist state”
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
i don’t think this is conspiratorial at all. it’s not what the tech was designed for originally but the ruling class has clearly identified that it’s a useful application and has a vested interest in seeing it grow
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Media keeps reporting Israeli strikes "threaten to derail" ceasefire.
Um, there is no ceasefire if there are strikes and people are killed.
And will they undo the applause of Trump for doing basically nothing?
Um, there is no ceasefire if there are strikes and people are killed.
And will they undo the applause of Trump for doing basically nothing?
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Media keeps reporting Israeli strikes "threaten to derail" ceasefire.
Um, there is no ceasefire if there are strikes and people are killed.
And will they undo the applause of Trump for doing basically nothing?
Um, there is no ceasefire if there are strikes and people are killed.
And will they undo the applause of Trump for doing basically nothing?
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Be horrified by this blatant, gutter racism and - and! - make sure you never forget who lined up behind this guy.
The one positive to glean from trash like this is that it gives you a curated list of people never to listen to again, about anything. If you skip that part, they'll do it again.
The one positive to glean from trash like this is that it gives you a curated list of people never to listen to again, about anything. If you skip that part, they'll do it again.
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Be horrified by this blatant, gutter racism and - and! - make sure you never forget who lined up behind this guy.
The one positive to glean from trash like this is that it gives you a curated list of people never to listen to again, about anything. If you skip that part, they'll do it again.
The one positive to glean from trash like this is that it gives you a curated list of people never to listen to again, about anything. If you skip that part, they'll do it again.