Michael De Santa
@michael-de-santas.bsky.social
Huge fan of GTA-V & RDR2
Also like philosophy, linguistics, math, and finance. Mostly here to lurk.
Also like philosophy, linguistics, math, and finance. Mostly here to lurk.
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Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
January 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
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Wall Street executives always portray themselves as masters of the universe, great forward-thinking stewards of the economy, but they are all rudderless chumps with a fraction of the principles or courage of everyday people protesting ICE.
Wall Street Chiefs Lay Low to Avoid Trump’s Trolling
Financiers are doing a careful dance to help clients navigate the president’s second term without provoking his ire
www.bloomberg.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Wall Street executives always portray themselves as masters of the universe, great forward-thinking stewards of the economy, but they are all rudderless chumps with a fraction of the principles or courage of everyday people protesting ICE.
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Oh man Rutte absolutely pulled one over on Donnie, looking forward to hearing what BS he offered up.
Dollar HOD on this and stocks ripping.
Dollar HOD on this and stocks ripping.
January 21, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Oh man Rutte absolutely pulled one over on Donnie, looking forward to hearing what BS he offered up.
Dollar HOD on this and stocks ripping.
Dollar HOD on this and stocks ripping.
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The world learned today that you absolutely have to bully this dumb old asshole as a collective. Better late than never for them, but we better get used to being aggressively humiliated for the next few years.
January 21, 2026 at 7:59 PM
The world learned today that you absolutely have to bully this dumb old asshole as a collective. Better late than never for them, but we better get used to being aggressively humiliated for the next few years.
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“I would pay no attention whatsoever to Elon Musk, he’s an idiot,” said Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary in a podcast late last week, sparking Musk’s rage. “Very wealthy, but he’s still an idiot.”
www.forbes.com/sites/martin...
www.forbes.com/sites/martin...
Elon Musk Suggests He Wants To Buy Ryanair
The Tesla billionaire asked the low-cost airline how much it would cost to buy it.
www.forbes.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:42 PM
“I would pay no attention whatsoever to Elon Musk, he’s an idiot,” said Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary in a podcast late last week, sparking Musk’s rage. “Very wealthy, but he’s still an idiot.”
www.forbes.com/sites/martin...
www.forbes.com/sites/martin...
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Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
January 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
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they’re going to need to impose consequences that are felt in a personal way by the people in charge
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
January 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
they’re going to need to impose consequences that are felt in a personal way by the people in charge
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
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no parking your superyacht in Monaco, Larry Ellison
Making it so no rich american allies of Trump can travel to Europe will 100% cause the phone lines to explode.
they’re going to need to impose consequences that are felt in a personal way by the people in charge
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family
they feel invincible, change their minds
January 19, 2026 at 5:06 PM
no parking your superyacht in Monaco, Larry Ellison
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Having compiled and run the web browser that Cursor built in a couple of weeks using mostly a giant fleet of coding agents I'm actually very impressed by it - there are rendering glitches but the renders it produces are surprisingly usable for a few-week-old project simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/...
Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …
simonwillison.net
January 19, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Having compiled and run the web browser that Cursor built in a couple of weeks using mostly a giant fleet of coding agents I'm actually very impressed by it - there are rendering glitches but the renders it produces are surprisingly usable for a few-week-old project simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/...
Claude code is amazing
January 19, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Claude code is amazing
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this one is especially encouraging because too few Dems have even been willing to acknowledge the all out Republican assault on higher education; going this hard on reversing the attacks on UVA immediately is extremely nice to see
January 17, 2026 at 5:44 PM
this one is especially encouraging because too few Dems have even been willing to acknowledge the all out Republican assault on higher education; going this hard on reversing the attacks on UVA immediately is extremely nice to see
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you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
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not a lot that can make me audibly gasp on the internet at this point but wow
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
not a lot that can make me audibly gasp on the internet at this point but wow
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huge congratulations to @froggyblink.bsky.social for absolutely nailing the assignment on the first-ever skeet to feature a functioning $TSLA cashtag
January 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
huge congratulations to @froggyblink.bsky.social for absolutely nailing the assignment on the first-ever skeet to feature a functioning $TSLA cashtag
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Look at this absolute queen
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Look at this absolute queen
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Another useful barometer. bsky.app/profile/evan...
January 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Another useful barometer. bsky.app/profile/evan...
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“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
January 11, 2026 at 7:10 AM
“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
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Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.
January 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.
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Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others.
(I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)
(I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others.
(I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)
(I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)
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My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
January 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
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This is a guy who has his dream job.
And there’s only one of those positions in the world.
Yet he’s still speaking out and risking reprisal.
Where are 90% of the others in entertainment, music, movies etc?
And there’s only one of those positions in the world.
Yet he’s still speaking out and risking reprisal.
Where are 90% of the others in entertainment, music, movies etc?
My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
This is a guy who has his dream job.
And there’s only one of those positions in the world.
Yet he’s still speaking out and risking reprisal.
Where are 90% of the others in entertainment, music, movies etc?
And there’s only one of those positions in the world.
Yet he’s still speaking out and risking reprisal.
Where are 90% of the others in entertainment, music, movies etc?
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A headline to sum up our times:
January 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
A headline to sum up our times:
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Aka, The Portman Principle
January 1, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Aka, The Portman Principle
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also, ppl who are mad about or afraid of data centers now when they didn't care before are not being stupid or whatever - it makes sense. if suddenly they started building mcdonalds the size of apartment buildings that increased your power bill by 200% people would be right to be mad about those too
December 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
also, ppl who are mad about or afraid of data centers now when they didn't care before are not being stupid or whatever - it makes sense. if suddenly they started building mcdonalds the size of apartment buildings that increased your power bill by 200% people would be right to be mad about those too