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David Loukidelis
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This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.

AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
December 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
spyr0s.bsky.social
loukidelis.com/2025/12/18/f...
Frontend State Beyond useState
A breakdown of different strategies for managing state in client-side code.
loukidelis.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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theonion.com
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
spyr0s.bsky.social
No platform but youtube has the popularity of Facebook ten years ago
pewresearch.org Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 5d
Teens turn to a variety of online platforms, but YouTube continues to stand out. Roughly nine-in-ten teens report ever using it. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the next most widely used platforms.
A line chart showing that A majority of teens continue to use YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
i doubt it means anything in the long term but i never thought there was anything he could say or do that would make the maga psychos start doing po-faced "this is not. who. we. are!!" stuff after they all gleefully cheered on the AI ghibli ICE cartoons and the airplane dumping dooky video
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
spyr0s.bsky.social
The endgame of any “smart” device in your home is to show you ads. It might not show you ads when you first get it, but it someday will
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Nov 13
Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.
A stainless-steel, side-by-side refrigerator with a built-in touchscreen display on the right door. The screen shows a bright yellow Apple TV+ advertisement reading “WE’RE SORRY WE UPSET YOU, CAROL” for the series Pluribus. The left door includes a water and ice dispenser. The fridge is in a modern kitchen with small appliances visible in the background.
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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theophite.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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gaius.bsky.social
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23d
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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transmetropolitanr.bsky.social
lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
spyr0s.bsky.social
“As AI continued to disrupt the labor market” as if this isn’t a completely speculative narrative. How about the disruption caused by your dear leader??
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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unusualwhales.bsky.social
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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marcofoster.bsky.social
New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻
March 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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atrupar.com
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
spyr0s.bsky.social
Perfect Hackernews Discourse
November 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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theathletic.com
Canadian connection 🤝

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walks into #WorldSeries Game 7 sporting a Marie-Philip Poulin jersey.

📸: @torontobluejays.bsky.social

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/676...
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
spyr0s.bsky.social
Everyone can see right through this, right?
unusualwhales.bsky.social Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · Oct 30
Banks like JPMorgan, $JPM, and Goldman Sachs, $GS, are "already using AI to hire fewer people," per CNBC
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Just disgusting.
A screenshot of a post on X that reads: Cuomo, talking to conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg this morning: "God forbid, another 9/11—can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" Cuomo asks. "He'd be cheering," Rosenberg says. Cuomo paused and chuckled before saying: "That's another problem."
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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volts.wtf
Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.
originalsp.in Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · Oct 15
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
spyr0s.bsky.social
If you’re seeing this, do yourself a favour and watch this: youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg?...
Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer
YouTube video by Joe Lynch
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October 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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loukidelis.com/2025/10/08/b...

My thoughts on Devil Take the Hindmost
Book Review: Devil Take the Hindmost
A reflection on the history of speculation by Edward Chancellor
loukidelis.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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katie0martin.ft.com
Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI - on.ft.com/4o3RheA
Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI
Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble
on.ft.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM