Charles Wiltgen
@wiltgen.net
Tech product and marketing goblin.
ProTip: Occasionally, ask your LLM for an analysis of how your skills, agents, and references can be better. #vibeengineering #vibecoding #aicoding #claude #claudecode
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
ProTip: Occasionally, ask your LLM for an analysis of how your skills, agents, and references can be better. #vibeengineering #vibecoding #aicoding #claude #claudecode
It's like, how much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark.
Cadbury's Bournville advert | Talking Retail
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November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It's like, how much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark.
This is absurd, bordering on a Bitcoin-level grift. If you’re looking for evidence that the AI bubble is on the cusp of bursting, here’s Exhibit A.
Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3B 5 months after its previous round | TechCrunch
Cursor plans to use the capital to continue developing Composer, the AI model the vibe-coding startup released in October.
techcrunch.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is absurd, bordering on a Bitcoin-level grift. If you’re looking for evidence that the AI bubble is on the cusp of bursting, here’s Exhibit A.
Our President is less and less woke every day.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Our President is less and less woke every day.
Mike Johnson simply doesn’t know. Why would he?
Mike Johnson doesn't know
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November 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Mike Johnson simply doesn’t know. Why would he?
Trump is doing what Osama Bin Laden could not.
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Trump is doing what Osama Bin Laden could not.
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I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
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Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
October 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
TFW an AI coding agent reviews the code it just generated
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
TFW an AI coding agent reviews the code it just generated
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Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”
October 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”
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Absolutely brutal.
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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October 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Absolutely brutal.
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So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?
October 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?
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ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began
ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began
WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murde...
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October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2
September 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2
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About to be the family that owns TikTok.
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
About to be the family that owns TikTok.
Interesting: The digital version of the HBO logo is a bit off (with receipts).
🤷🏻♂️“Who. Cares? Unfollowed” This is how a *lot* of people responded to my post about the mistake in the HBO logo. For those that didn’t see it, the H and the B of the logo don’t line up at the top ...
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September 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Interesting: The digital version of the HBO logo is a bit off (with receipts).
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So:
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
September 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So:
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
“I knew that one day that I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down…I just didn’t expect them to be such losers.”
Paris Paloma - Good Boy (Official Music Video)
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September 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“I knew that one day that I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down…I just didn’t expect them to be such losers.”
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Wouldn’t it be wild if Kimmel ended up becoming our Zelenskyy
September 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Wouldn’t it be wild if Kimmel ended up becoming our Zelenskyy
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Attorney Matthew Segal on the Kimmel story: “In my opinion, when companies or institutions cave to Trump despite the law being on their side, they are not misunderstanding the law. They are making educated guesses that the U.S. is heading in a direction where, in practice, the law won’t matter.”
The Easy Way
The end of American exceptionalism.
thedispatch.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Attorney Matthew Segal on the Kimmel story: “In my opinion, when companies or institutions cave to Trump despite the law being on their side, they are not misunderstanding the law. They are making educated guesses that the U.S. is heading in a direction where, in practice, the law won’t matter.”
Page 1 of the February 4, 1939 New York Times: “Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”.
In case you were wondering where we are on the descent-into-fascism timeline.
In case you were wondering where we are on the descent-into-fascism timeline.
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
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September 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Page 1 of the February 4, 1939 New York Times: “Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”.
In case you were wondering where we are on the descent-into-fascism timeline.
In case you were wondering where we are on the descent-into-fascism timeline.