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Daniel Suarez
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NYT Bestselling Author. Writes high-tech / sci-fi thrillers: Daemon, Freedom™, Kill Decision, Influx, Change Agent, Delta-v & Critical Mass (Δv Book2).

✍️ Writing (Welcome BSky friends, I'm offline more often now but will still check in weekly).
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For a quick timeline cleanse, it was raining this morning so I did my morning walk in the afternoon where the windy weather created this pretty carpet of autumn leaves on a neighbor's lawn. Tap for full size. I hope you have had a great day!
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."

The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.

And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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It's time for Chuck Schumer to read the handwriting on the wall. We need new blood in Democratic leadership. He needs to GTFOOTW and make room for someone who will actually fight for the people. 👎
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.

Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.

I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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If you are impacted by the furlough/shutdown and need food in the San Diego area, here are two options: (1) feedingsandiego.org/free-food-du... and (2) www.jfssd.org/government-s...
Where to Find Free Food during the Government Shutdown – Feeding San Diego
Feeding San Diego is providing free food during the government shutdown to federal workers, members of the military, and their families.
feedingsandiego.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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A surveillance state is not preferable to China "winning," and its also a false binary. America should be America; any descent into authoritarianism would be conceding defeat
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Trump's White House: the walls of this classic Federalist style building have now had polyurethane ornaments manufactured in Taiwan and spray painted with gold pain glued to them. The appearance is repulsive, gaudy & entirely to Trump's taste. These ornaments are available at Home Depot, BTW
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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It seems like so many people on the right should be aligned with so many people on the left over the doomsday existential threat of AI and robotics in the hands of a handful of greedy oligarchs. But they have succeeded in pitting us against each other with culture war drivel.
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The midterm elections next year are democracy versus fascism. The working class versus the oligarchy. People versus money.

I know what side I am on.
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Oh yeah you're gonna be swimming in Cosmic Crisp this year

WA orchards usually do a lot of exporting to Asia. Soooooo yeah
Cosmic Crisp are the cheapest apples on the shelf for most of the year here, but I live in WA

Like, that's my go-to cooking apple
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.

Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.

American capitalism is off the rails.
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Emdash as an indicator for AI text astounds me. Basically every writing program converts -- into – and --- into —. Have you people literally never written anything before
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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50% of workers can't afford healthcare.

People are using buy now, pay later apps to go into debt to buy groceries.

GoFundMe has 250k pages for medical bills and 40k for tuition.

… and Elon Musk gets a $1 trillion pay out.

And people think moms getting SNAP are the problem.
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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If anyone needed another reminder of how deeply unpopular the Trump-MAGA Republican agenda is, tonight was the night.

But we cannot relent and we cannot become complacent.

The midterms are right around the corner.
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Reminder: Election closing times. Please make sure to vote and remember, if you’re in line when the polls close, you still have the right to vote. Don’t get out of line!
- 7 p.m. ET - Virginia
- 8 p.m. ET - New Jersey
- 8 p.m. ET - Pennsylvania
- 9 p.m. ET - New York City
- 8 p.m. PT - California
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Turnout in the NYC mayoral election: the highest since 1993.

Give people something to vote for (or against) and apathy falls away.
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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A court said food stamp benefits must be provided to recipients. Trump is simply saying, not until the government reopens. We are soon going to find out if he can get away with it.
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I posted this, then went to get a bagel and ran into Curtis Yarvin. Life remaining very strange as I finish my book!
Meet Rockbridge, the secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future.

It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.”

It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics.

gift link:
wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
wapo.st
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM