Mike Gustin
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Those who do learn from history are doomed to have people tell them they’re overreacting
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
October 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Those who do learn from history are doomed to have people tell them they’re overreacting
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Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.
October 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.
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tired: it's always DNS
inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight
inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight
September 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
tired: it's always DNS
inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight
inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight
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My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.
September 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.
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The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
August 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
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A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.
August 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.
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Just to "yes and" this point, it is useful to think of statements like these as being aimed at the market and investors rather than us proles. It is a message that says: keep pricing us like a growth stock and not like a shambling, stagnating zombie of a company!
Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer
Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...
sonjadrimmer.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Just to "yes and" this point, it is useful to think of statements like these as being aimed at the market and investors rather than us proles. It is a message that says: keep pricing us like a growth stock and not like a shambling, stagnating zombie of a company!
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Newsletter: Crypto bills have passed the House with “2, 3, 4 o’clock” phone calls from Trump to give “a little love” to Republican holdouts, $6.9 million in crypto lobbying, and a $141 million midterm threat. The bills feature few consumer protections and destabilizing loopholes.
Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat
Trump stands to profit from a $2 billion bitcoin bet as the crypto industry pushes through bills aimed at bolstering the sector
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July 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Newsletter: Crypto bills have passed the House with “2, 3, 4 o’clock” phone calls from Trump to give “a little love” to Republican holdouts, $6.9 million in crypto lobbying, and a $141 million midterm threat. The bills feature few consumer protections and destabilizing loopholes.
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Gotta tell ya, I don’t super love it when every historian I know suddenly has expertise that’s ✨relevant✨ to current events
June 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Gotta tell ya, I don’t super love it when every historian I know suddenly has expertise that’s ✨relevant✨ to current events
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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LLMs providing info on topics I don’t know: “wow this is brilliant!”
LLMs providing info on topics I’m expert in; “ugh this is so bad!”
Me: I’m sure there’s nothing I can deduce from these two observations.
LLMs providing info on topics I’m expert in; “ugh this is so bad!”
Me: I’m sure there’s nothing I can deduce from these two observations.
May 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
LLMs providing info on topics I don’t know: “wow this is brilliant!”
LLMs providing info on topics I’m expert in; “ugh this is so bad!”
Me: I’m sure there’s nothing I can deduce from these two observations.
LLMs providing info on topics I’m expert in; “ugh this is so bad!”
Me: I’m sure there’s nothing I can deduce from these two observations.
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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
May 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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A strange thing about being disabled is that everyone is my best friend when they're lonely. I am static, a strange oracle kept at the top of a high mountain. And if you are lonely, you always know where to find me.
When you aren't anymore, only one of us can leave.
So I sit, and watch you go.
When you aren't anymore, only one of us can leave.
So I sit, and watch you go.
May 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A strange thing about being disabled is that everyone is my best friend when they're lonely. I am static, a strange oracle kept at the top of a high mountain. And if you are lonely, you always know where to find me.
When you aren't anymore, only one of us can leave.
So I sit, and watch you go.
When you aren't anymore, only one of us can leave.
So I sit, and watch you go.
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I see that I'm in for another week of explaining that end-to-end encryption will not fix stupid.
April 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I see that I'm in for another week of explaining that end-to-end encryption will not fix stupid.
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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I’m not reposting anything with RFK Jr’s face on it out of respect for xour eyes but “autism epidemic” is like saying “freckles epidemic” or “cleft chin epidemic” it’s not a disease it’s just a way some people are and the thing we need to fix is a hostile societal framework.
April 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I’m not reposting anything with RFK Jr’s face on it out of respect for xour eyes but “autism epidemic” is like saying “freckles epidemic” or “cleft chin epidemic” it’s not a disease it’s just a way some people are and the thing we need to fix is a hostile societal framework.
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pleased to hear the penguins have won the trade bargains
April 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
pleased to hear the penguins have won the trade bargains
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great day for insider trading
April 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
great day for insider trading
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The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.
February 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.
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In this day and age, having basic human decency and an open heart is the biggest act of rebellion.
January 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
In this day and age, having basic human decency and an open heart is the biggest act of rebellion.
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I will not be claiming 2025 as my year.
I have never seen a year coming that I so clearly know is going to hurt me and all I can do about it is resolve to get back up, spitting blood.
I have never seen a year coming that I so clearly know is going to hurt me and all I can do about it is resolve to get back up, spitting blood.
December 3, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I will not be claiming 2025 as my year.
I have never seen a year coming that I so clearly know is going to hurt me and all I can do about it is resolve to get back up, spitting blood.
I have never seen a year coming that I so clearly know is going to hurt me and all I can do about it is resolve to get back up, spitting blood.