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Jim Prosser
@jimprosser.bsky.social
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Pretty good cook, middling guitar player. Founder and Principal, Tamalpais Strategies. | Marin County, CA | https://tamstrat.com
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November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The reverse angle of the photo
October 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Blessed be the pepperoni
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Rollin’ into Portland with the crew
October 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Trump wants his own Iraq war, by the sound of it
September 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Yes - @kyla.bsky.social hits the nail so squarely on the head in this piece kyla.substack.com/p/whos-getti...
The traditional solutions - fact-checking, media literacy, content moderation - assume we're dealing with a content problem when we're actually facing an infrastructure problem. You can't fact-check your way out of a system designed to reward misinformation. You can't educate your way around algorithms optimized for polarization. You can't moderate your way past economic incentives that make confusion profitable. Recognizing this as a market structure problem rather than an information problem changes everything. Instead of focusing on individual bad actors or specific false claims, you start thinking about the underlying systems that make manipulation both profitable and scalable.
September 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Right-wing men: women are too hysterical to be in politics.
Also right-wing men:
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Yesterday in Person Familiar, I posited a new litmus test for corporate values and activism: would your CEO march for it?

Values aren’t free anymore, if they ever were. They come with costs, trade-offs, and very public tests of commitment.

More here: personfamiliar.substack.com/p/corporate-...
September 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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@pablo.show Prob a completely unrelated, pre-planned Reddit ad campaign that coincidentally happens to feature him
September 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I'm sorry, what?
A new company will be created to operate TikTok, with U.S. investors holding a roughly 80% stake and Chinese shareholders owning the rest, the report said. The company would also have an American-dominated board, with one member designated by the U.S. government.
September 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Say it with your chest
Charles James Kirk, 31, died on Wednesday from a gunshot to the neck at a Utah Valley University campus event just as he was trying to deflect a question about mass shootings by suggesting they were largely a function of gang violence. He died with a net worth of $12 million, which he made by espousing horrific and bigoted views in the name of advancing Christian nationalism. The foundation of his empire was the group he cofounded and led, Turning Point USA, which is a key youth-recruitment arm of the MAGA movement. Kirk was able to launch Turning Point at the age of 18 because he received money from Tea Party member Bill Montgomery, right-wing donor Foster Feiss, and his own father, also a prolific right-wing donor. He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. He had children, as do many vile people.
September 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Girl out here grinding for that pardon harder than a Magic City dancer
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Even though Cracker Barrel rolled back their logo redesign, it’s clear the damage is done. Americans - REAL Americans - need a new restaurant brand who sees them, their values, and reflects them back.
August 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Pod yesterday made me flash back to Taylor coming to Google back in September 2011 (in Charlie’s, the main cafeteria). She seemed spectacularly famous *back then* which seems quaint now.
Taylor Swift on stage in the cafeteria at Google HQ in Mountain View, CA.
August 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Anybody want to see a dead body?
"Meta is the Washington Commanders of tech companies. They massively overpay for okay-ish AI scientists and then civilians think those are the best AI scientists in the world because they are paid so much." An Al startup founder
August 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Sorting all kinds of old stuff from my childhood. One of my proudest moments as a kid: conning my mom into pulling me and my brother out of school to go to comic book legend Jack Kirby’s memorial service because it was just down the freeway
August 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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GNX tour is an all-timer. Felt like the entire Bay was out last night.
May 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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May 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Experimenting with CineStill 400D for night shoots. The halation off of neon (but really any strong light) is something special. Probably underexposed a bit too much, but lessons learned.
Scene out in front of the Silver Peso bar, Larkspur, CA. A lonely man stands out front under a glowing neon sign.
May 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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April 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Having a fun time on LinkedIn fomenting an emdasher's rights movement in the face of so many AI-speak accusations and slander. #SmashDashHate
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Soviet propaganda-style artwork of a woman with glasses defiantly gripping a red emdash in her closed fist in the air. Below it in Russian is the caption "Emdashers of the world, unite!"
April 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Portra 400 film + Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin County Civic Center were made for each other
Upward-angled photo of Marin County Civic Center, looking up from ground level toward the massive skylight above.
April 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Hard for musicians to “thrive as entrepreneurs” when their music isn’t protected.
Block Inc. investor relations boilerplate. Key sentence: “TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs.”
April 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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A central fallacy in the coverage of manufacturing reshoring: it conflates manufacturing infrastructure with manufacturing *jobs* when clearly the aim of Musk et al is to use robots/automation mostly, if not entirely.
Anakin/Padme meme with Anakin saying, "We're going to bring manufacturing back to America." Padme repeats, "Using human labor and not just robots, right?"
April 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM