JRF
@frostjr.bsky.social
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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Millenials watching on in horror as their lifetime has witnessed the internet went from a hopeful new frontier of endless possibility to in large part "societal rot accelerator operating at the speed of gigabit ethernet"
August 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Millenials watching on in horror as their lifetime has witnessed the internet went from a hopeful new frontier of endless possibility to in large part "societal rot accelerator operating at the speed of gigabit ethernet"
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Tech has entirely turned on the customer
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
May 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Tech has entirely turned on the customer
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
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Despite the narrative that Biden's economy was bad for working people, it was the first time since the 70s when organized labor had leverage in negotiations, and the government took anti-trust regulations seriously.
It's perhaps not a coincidence that tech, media, and finance elites revolted.
It's perhaps not a coincidence that tech, media, and finance elites revolted.
April 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Despite the narrative that Biden's economy was bad for working people, it was the first time since the 70s when organized labor had leverage in negotiations, and the government took anti-trust regulations seriously.
It's perhaps not a coincidence that tech, media, and finance elites revolted.
It's perhaps not a coincidence that tech, media, and finance elites revolted.
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APOLLO:
* consumer sentiment collapsing
* US tourism collapsing
* new orders collapsing
* cost pressures UP 🇺🇸
* consumer sentiment collapsing
* US tourism collapsing
* new orders collapsing
* cost pressures UP 🇺🇸
April 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
APOLLO:
* consumer sentiment collapsing
* US tourism collapsing
* new orders collapsing
* cost pressures UP 🇺🇸
* consumer sentiment collapsing
* US tourism collapsing
* new orders collapsing
* cost pressures UP 🇺🇸
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The Trump administration's "firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Trump administration's "firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
April 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
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"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"
Backing the truck holding all Americans' private info up to the dock for pillaging...
bsky.app/profile/josh...
bsky.app/profile/josh...
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
April 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"
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Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89
https://www.ft.com/content/1c647a9f-ee1c-428f-8ef6-ca0e7bb1aa4f
https://www.ft.com/content/1c647a9f-ee1c-428f-8ef6-ca0e7bb1aa4f
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89
Writer and public intellectual won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010
www.ft.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89
https://www.ft.com/content/1c647a9f-ee1c-428f-8ef6-ca0e7bb1aa4f
https://www.ft.com/content/1c647a9f-ee1c-428f-8ef6-ca0e7bb1aa4f
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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
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now *this* is the anecdote of the day
April 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
now *this* is the anecdote of the day
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I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
April 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
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God our Father,
grant that Christians
will prove brothers & sisters to the sick;
show them the features of #Christ your Son
in the faces of those who suffer.
~ May your kingdom come in all its justice.
#Vespers #EveningPrayer #PrayerfortheSick #PrayeroftheChurch #JesusChrist
grant that Christians
will prove brothers & sisters to the sick;
show them the features of #Christ your Son
in the faces of those who suffer.
~ May your kingdom come in all its justice.
#Vespers #EveningPrayer #PrayerfortheSick #PrayeroftheChurch #JesusChrist
April 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
God our Father,
grant that Christians
will prove brothers & sisters to the sick;
show them the features of #Christ your Son
in the faces of those who suffer.
~ May your kingdom come in all its justice.
#Vespers #EveningPrayer #PrayerfortheSick #PrayeroftheChurch #JesusChrist
grant that Christians
will prove brothers & sisters to the sick;
show them the features of #Christ your Son
in the faces of those who suffer.
~ May your kingdom come in all its justice.
#Vespers #EveningPrayer #PrayerfortheSick #PrayeroftheChurch #JesusChrist
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In Mexico City there are 185 museums, the first one was opened in 1790. It’s in the top-3 of cities in the world with the most museums. Here is the complete list of all museums in the Ciudad de México CDMX. mxc.com.mx/2019/03/23/l...
La lista completa de todos los museos de la Ciudad de México
La totalidad de los museos en esta megalópolis ofrece recintos para todos gustos, intereses y personalidades de sus habitantes o visitantes.
mxc.com.mx
January 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In Mexico City there are 185 museums, the first one was opened in 1790. It’s in the top-3 of cities in the world with the most museums. Here is the complete list of all museums in the Ciudad de México CDMX. mxc.com.mx/2019/03/23/l...
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The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words
"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
April 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words
"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
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We don’t have to let Trump wreck our economy with tariffs—that’s a choice.
The Constitution gives trade authority to Congress, not the President.
Congress delegated tariff powers to the President and we can take them back.
We have the bills (one is mine). We just need enough support to pass them.
The Constitution gives trade authority to Congress, not the President.
Congress delegated tariff powers to the President and we can take them back.
We have the bills (one is mine). We just need enough support to pass them.
April 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We don’t have to let Trump wreck our economy with tariffs—that’s a choice.
The Constitution gives trade authority to Congress, not the President.
Congress delegated tariff powers to the President and we can take them back.
We have the bills (one is mine). We just need enough support to pass them.
The Constitution gives trade authority to Congress, not the President.
Congress delegated tariff powers to the President and we can take them back.
We have the bills (one is mine). We just need enough support to pass them.
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traveling in and reporting on the Nordics has really soured me on American style subcultural bohemian leftism. actually existing egalitarian institutions rely on a lot of dutiful, virtuous, boring ass bureaucrats
April 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
traveling in and reporting on the Nordics has really soured me on American style subcultural bohemian leftism. actually existing egalitarian institutions rely on a lot of dutiful, virtuous, boring ass bureaucrats
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All of my advisors say, please sir, don't touch the stove sir. You'll burn yourself. But if I'm not supposed to touch it, why is it so red and glowing and, frankly, attractive?
So we're gonna touch it. We're gonna touch stove maybe harder than anyone's ever touched it.
So we're gonna touch it. We're gonna touch stove maybe harder than anyone's ever touched it.
April 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
All of my advisors say, please sir, don't touch the stove sir. You'll burn yourself. But if I'm not supposed to touch it, why is it so red and glowing and, frankly, attractive?
So we're gonna touch it. We're gonna touch stove maybe harder than anyone's ever touched it.
So we're gonna touch it. We're gonna touch stove maybe harder than anyone's ever touched it.
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This is injecting bleach for the entire global economy. And he's not just floating the idea: he's holding the syringe.
April 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is injecting bleach for the entire global economy. And he's not just floating the idea: he's holding the syringe.
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I keep hearing pundits saying that various Trump crimes & follies "aren't landing with the American people." I can't believe we're still talking like this.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
March 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I keep hearing pundits saying that various Trump crimes & follies "aren't landing with the American people." I can't believe we're still talking like this.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
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There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
March 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
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Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk's politics, because his identity is rooted in being an underdog fighting against the real power, but as the world's wealthiest person, who is deeply politically connected, he needs a definition of elite not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.
Once again, Musk claims that George Soros controls the government. A classic antisemitic trope, as well as hilariously ironic considering his buying his way into the government.
March 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk's politics, because his identity is rooted in being an underdog fighting against the real power, but as the world's wealthiest person, who is deeply politically connected, he needs a definition of elite not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.
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"The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies."
-- Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 6, lines 126f (tr. Dryden)
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies."
-- Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 6, lines 126f (tr. Dryden)
March 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies."
-- Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 6, lines 126f (tr. Dryden)
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies."
-- Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 6, lines 126f (tr. Dryden)