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Eric Schmidt
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I like big ideas: Open borders, charter cities, libertarianism, minarchy, ancap, futurism, AI x-risk. Software engineer. UNIX man. Comedy fan. 🇺🇸🗽🌐🇺🇦
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keubiko.bsky.social
Not "free". Probably an H1-B hostage being given no choice.
June 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Total clown show of a country. I'm sorry.
May 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Nerding out a bit here. This is M2 and the vast majority of increase is retail money market funds. Narrower M1 is still well below 2022 levels. and Fed Balance Sheet as a % of GDP has been heading straight down. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
May 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Fascist Barbie Eva Blonde has quite the mean streak. It seems only 2 of the 40 people had a criminal record and most, if not all, were working. Fine to enforce laws and even deport people, but the glee these people show in human misery is a bit sick, IMO.
May 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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niedermeyer.online
Elon Musk is bragging on X that Tesla has been testing driverless Model Ys in Austin for "several days," and seems to be proud of the fact that there haven't been any crashes yet.

Buckle up, Austin!

www.reddit.com/r/teslamotor...
From the teslamotors community on Reddit: Musk: "For the past several days, Tesla has been testing self-driving Model Y cars (no one in driver’s seat) on Austin public streets with no incidents. A mon...
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May 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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niedermeyer.online
The total lack of a launch event, or even vetted influencer content, tells you a lot about the situation here. Elon desperately needs some good news from one of his companies right now, and Tesla's tiny "robotaxi" fleet is all he has... but too much attention will expose the massive risks involved.
May 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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niedermeyer.online
Musk is running the same basic scam he has been since Tesla got into driving automation: demonstrations "proving" that its systems are "capable" of automated driving. What matters in this technology is not capability, but a level of reliability you can trust your life too. This fleet won't get there
May 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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niedermeyer.online
It sounds as if Tesla's Austin "robotaxi" fleet is tiny, and likely limited to a relatively small operating domain in a specific portion of the city. That should give them a few weeks of relatively limited risk in which to build up hype, but as they scale up the crashes will start coming fast.
May 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
“dogefather” will be so sad to see this
stephenjacobsmith.com Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · May 31
“This summer, [Waymo is] planning to launch in Atlanta. Next on the list are Miami and Washington, D.C. The cars are now mapping Boston, Nashville, New Orleans, Dallas, Las Vegas and San Diego. This past week, the company announced that it’s testing Orlando, Houston and San Antonio.”
It’s Waymo’s World. We’re All Just Riding in It.
Google’s driverless-taxi company just cracked 10 million rides. If you haven’t taken one, you will soon.
www.wsj.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
💪🇺🇦
June 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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realdanodowd.bsky.social
Tesla FSD 13.2.9 will still run a kid down while illegally blowing past a stopped school bus with red lights flashing and stop sign extended.

Elon Musk how many kids does FSD need to run over before you fix this?

I warned about this danger at the 2023 Super Bowl!
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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yasharali.bsky.social
The President and First Lady of Ukraine had a private audience with Pope Leo today.
May 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Analysis by Aaron Blake: It’s not just Wall Street worried about the tariffs; Main Street is clearly very worried.
Analysis | Trump’s economic numbers turn dismal
It’s not just Wall Street worried about the tariffs; Main Street is clearly very worried.
wapo.st
April 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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snipy.bsky.social
All true warfighters have makeup studios at their job.
April 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
can't warfight without foundation
April 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Imagine trying to run a $6 Trillion organization with Elon Musk in the back chewing on the wires.
February 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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simko-bednarski.bsky.social
The unelected South African oligarch tearing apart American civil service is calling the international aid-and-soft-power apparatus started at the height of the Cold War to counter the influence of the Soviets a “viper’s nest of radical-left marxists.”

Wont anyone read a book?
February 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Can you imagine if Biden had let George Soros or Bill Gates send in some goons to take over the Treasury Dept? Civil war.
February 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Buying fertilizer that you can’t produce in the U.S. is unfair and probably woke. Buying discounted Canadian oil, refining it, and re-exporting the refined product at large profit is unfair and certainly woke. But 43 pounds of Fentanyl gets across a 5,000 mile border per year, so shut it all down.
February 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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nosunkcosts.bsky.social
China is one of the biggest winners from a Trump Presidency

This guy is now going to be at a top post in the State Department
February 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
No, but some 19-year-old tech bro sent an email.
ajbauer.bsky.social A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Feb 3
Has congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961?

Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional?

Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.
February 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Yeah but robots and
February 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
The Creep State™️
andreashopf.bsky.social Andreas Hopf 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 @andreashopf.bsky.social · Feb 3
Not a clown show, I'm afraid, but early innings of a dark new era.
February 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM