Monte Ward
@sacate.bsky.social
Husband, father, grandfather, surfer, cyclist, farmer, community leader, grateful.
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In the 1970s, factory robots hammered blue‑collar jobs and made cars cheaper for professionals. Many white‑collar folks shrugged. Now AI threatens office work, making services cheaper for blue‑collar consumers. Same movie, different cast. Fairness means seeing both sides.
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In the 1970s, factory robots hammered blue‑collar jobs and made cars cheaper for professionals. Many white‑collar folks shrugged. Now AI threatens office work, making services cheaper for blue‑collar consumers. Same movie, different cast. Fairness means seeing both sides.
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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Really getting sick of welfare queens like Mike Johnson sitting on their asses and refusing to work while I pay for it with my hard-earned tax dollars.
#EpsteinShutdown
#EpsteinShutdown
November 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Really getting sick of welfare queens like Mike Johnson sitting on their asses and refusing to work while I pay for it with my hard-earned tax dollars.
#EpsteinShutdown
#EpsteinShutdown
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The trouble with social media: The good ones aren't big, and the big ones aren't good.
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The trouble with social media: The good ones aren't big, and the big ones aren't good.
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The media standard HAS TO be “Evidence or GTFO” — not “Claims have been made (and we are hereby amplifying them), evidence maybe pending”
October 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The media standard HAS TO be “Evidence or GTFO” — not “Claims have been made (and we are hereby amplifying them), evidence maybe pending”
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A simple truth about hugely wealthy people.
They may have learned the Golden Rule when growing up, but you don’t qualify.
Unless of course you’re hugely wealthy too, in which case you do qualify
They may have learned the Golden Rule when growing up, but you don’t qualify.
Unless of course you’re hugely wealthy too, in which case you do qualify
September 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A simple truth about hugely wealthy people.
They may have learned the Golden Rule when growing up, but you don’t qualify.
Unless of course you’re hugely wealthy too, in which case you do qualify
They may have learned the Golden Rule when growing up, but you don’t qualify.
Unless of course you’re hugely wealthy too, in which case you do qualify
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Yes I do see the problem and I’m working on a solution.
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Yes I do see the problem and I’m working on a solution.
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Lots of Americans, particularly those motivated not to believe otherwise, think fascism means “murder camps.” So they hear Trump described as a fascist and thik you’re saying he is doing Auschwitz.
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Lots of Americans, particularly those motivated not to believe otherwise, think fascism means “murder camps.” So they hear Trump described as a fascist and thik you’re saying he is doing Auschwitz.
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There is a clutch of pundits who treat the world like it’s an Ivy League seminar course, mostly because that’s the environment in which they emerged. They think debate and white papers are the pinnacle of political action. They fume at anyone who approaches politics in any other way.
September 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There is a clutch of pundits who treat the world like it’s an Ivy League seminar course, mostly because that’s the environment in which they emerged. They think debate and white papers are the pinnacle of political action. They fume at anyone who approaches politics in any other way.
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Just a gentle reminder that generative AI is a technology that is capable of doing little more than very efficiently averaging the past creative work of humans.
It literally can't discover things that are beyond the capability of the humans it plagiarised from.
It literally can't discover things that are beyond the capability of the humans it plagiarised from.
September 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Just a gentle reminder that generative AI is a technology that is capable of doing little more than very efficiently averaging the past creative work of humans.
It literally can't discover things that are beyond the capability of the humans it plagiarised from.
It literally can't discover things that are beyond the capability of the humans it plagiarised from.
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Guys, I'm beginning to think that Trump hangs around with unsavory people, mistreats women and girls, and lies about stuff when confronted.
September 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Guys, I'm beginning to think that Trump hangs around with unsavory people, mistreats women and girls, and lies about stuff when confronted.
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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“AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. Projects that claim to “democratize” AI routinely conflate “democratization” with “commodification”. ” - @ali-alkhatib.com
ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...
ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...
Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI
ali-alkhatib.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. Projects that claim to “democratize” AI routinely conflate “democratization” with “commodification”. ” - @ali-alkhatib.com
ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...
ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...
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Exactly. And that it’s programmed to fool us.
"”The danger isn’t that AI becomes sentient. It’s that humans persist in treating it as if it were.”"
— Robert Saltzman
— Robert Saltzman
September 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Exactly. And that it’s programmed to fool us.
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i am watching clips from the kennedy hearing and one thing that comes across is his petulance at being challenged. he is like an overgrown baby (if that baby were a hot dog you grilled too long)
September 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
i am watching clips from the kennedy hearing and one thing that comes across is his petulance at being challenged. he is like an overgrown baby (if that baby were a hot dog you grilled too long)
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Map of the moment: The US states with smaller economies than the San Francisco Bay Area.
August 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Map of the moment: The US states with smaller economies than the San Francisco Bay Area.
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it is not some accident that the people suing charlottesville over its efforts to build more housing are retired university professors and their friends
college towns are absolutely fantastic, one of the great American concepts, and for unknown reason the people who live in college towns absolutely loathe them and want to ensure no one else can live there
August 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
it is not some accident that the people suing charlottesville over its efforts to build more housing are retired university professors and their friends
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CBS is now what became of Time and Newsweek.
People misunderstood my earlier post to not be as grim as it was.
People misunderstood my earlier post to not be as grim as it was.
this is an important point.
if you had asked a mathematician for advice on the supreme court ruling that money is speech, it was a totally foreseeable outcome that money would actually overwhelm speech, that the only speech would be money. we're right there now.
if you had asked a mathematician for advice on the supreme court ruling that money is speech, it was a totally foreseeable outcome that money would actually overwhelm speech, that the only speech would be money. we're right there now.
July 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
CBS is now what became of Time and Newsweek.
People misunderstood my earlier post to not be as grim as it was.
People misunderstood my earlier post to not be as grim as it was.
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This this this this this.
July 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This this this this this.
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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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me, explaining Epsteingate to the NYT: okay, so imagine a child rape victim is an email server…
Okay look I'm happy to see the Times showing an interest, but, this passage is insane???
No, that's not true, it doesn't raise "questions" about his judgment and character, it answers them. The questions it raises are about whether he raped children
No, that's not true, it doesn't raise "questions" about his judgment and character, it answers them. The questions it raises are about whether he raped children
July 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
me, explaining Epsteingate to the NYT: okay, so imagine a child rape victim is an email server…
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Perhaps if you'd raised a stink about some of the previous nominations that you voted in favor of, the GOP wouldn't think that it was so easy to get across anyone they wanted...
Emil Bove is up for a lifetime appointment. This is not a time to rush through the process, violate the rules, and end debate. But that’s what Republicans on the Judiciary Committee just did. I was the next to speak and they barred us from debating. So we walked out.
July 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Perhaps if you'd raised a stink about some of the previous nominations that you voted in favor of, the GOP wouldn't think that it was so easy to get across anyone they wanted...
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It would be REALLY useful if reporters helping Trump manipulate market w/tariff panic remind people that:
1) His tariffs have ALREADY been ruled illegal
2) The right wing has come out against them (CATO, Koch, AEI, right wing lawyers and economists, Chamber of Commerce)
3) Appeal hearing is 7/31
1) His tariffs have ALREADY been ruled illegal
2) The right wing has come out against them (CATO, Koch, AEI, right wing lawyers and economists, Chamber of Commerce)
3) Appeal hearing is 7/31
July 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It would be REALLY useful if reporters helping Trump manipulate market w/tariff panic remind people that:
1) His tariffs have ALREADY been ruled illegal
2) The right wing has come out against them (CATO, Koch, AEI, right wing lawyers and economists, Chamber of Commerce)
3) Appeal hearing is 7/31
1) His tariffs have ALREADY been ruled illegal
2) The right wing has come out against them (CATO, Koch, AEI, right wing lawyers and economists, Chamber of Commerce)
3) Appeal hearing is 7/31
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My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
July 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
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The failure of Bernie Sanders is explicitly about his inability to explain why white voters wouldn’t destroy everything if we were included, and how he would manage to include us if white voters insisted upon destroying everything. His answer kept being: a revolution. You can understand the issue.
Black voters will accept the furthest left policy that white voters won’t punish us for
July 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The failure of Bernie Sanders is explicitly about his inability to explain why white voters wouldn’t destroy everything if we were included, and how he would manage to include us if white voters insisted upon destroying everything. His answer kept being: a revolution. You can understand the issue.