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Ben O
@benof.bsky.social
Human factors specialist, dad, different timezone, generally confused, living in the enshittocene
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.
October 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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My dearest wife,

It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
March 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Cyclone Alfred taking its time. #Alfred
a man and a woman are sitting in a vehicle with the man holding a steering wheel
ALT: a man and a woman are sitting in a vehicle with the man holding a steering wheel
media.tenor.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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SIMPLY HAVING A
December 14, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Instead of retweeting, what is it on Bluesky? Rebleeting? Reskying? Reblueing?
November 27, 2024 at 11:33 AM
With #enshittification being chosen as Macquarie’s word of 2024, a reminder from the guy who coined it, #doctorow that
We're living in the #enshittocene
November 27, 2024 at 11:21 AM