Matt Loar

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Former software engineer for big tech companies, current in-house privacy counsel for a slightly smaller tech company, future subsistence farmer

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Lots of stuff sucks right now so I'm putting this bit of nonsense I just came across into your time line in the hopes it brings joy. Snoop Frogg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxsG...

Snoop Frogg (Kermit sings "Gin & Juice")www.youtube.com A.I. vocal model: Kermit/Jim Henson Get a peek at my A.I. process here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D8Wl0ioXlc8

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Justine Musk tried to warn us

Early on when I was assigned to follow Tesla (as the only public BEV pure play), I stumbled onto Justine Musk's 2010 Marie Claire article. I initially dismissed it - of course an ex will paint a bad image after a nasty divorce - but no, it tells everything needed to understand Elon archive.is/mn98S

archive.is

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WSJ has fired Hong Kong-based journalist Selina Cheng after she was elected chair of a local journalism union. She was told advocating for press freedom “would be incompatible with my job.” Cheng’s full statement (posted via twitter):

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Remember when Dorsey, Zuckerberg and Pichai were repeatedly hauled before Congress over allegations of liberal bias? Now we have a major social platform solely controlled by one of Trump's biggest backers. I wrote about what it means for X and the election. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | What Musk’s Trump support means for Xwww.washingtonpost.com Conservatives long accused Twitter of liberal bias. What happens now that its owner openly backs Trump?

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I think the legitimate worries about Biden's age are great cover for rich brats primarily angry about lina khan antitrust reform efforts

Guess my priors have been confirmed at least

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it’ll never cease to amaze me that 90% of citizens just wanna live their normal silly little lives and that remaining 10% says hey let’s pool all our evil money and try to make them miserable, pt 2

From here and not a single anonymous source in sight www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/u...

Megadonors Are Plotting to Change Biden’s Mind With Money. Will It Work?www.nytimes.com They’re calling politicians. They’re dangling money to members of Congress. But major Democratic donors who want President Biden to step aside are also learning the limits of their powers.

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So, a couple of weeks after the debate, and the polls have steadied at Trump +2ish, with some brownian motion, so we now know, pretty incontrovertibly, that it was just a two point debate bounce. That's what presaged this entire weeks long replace the candidate furor. Two points.

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Honestly it's pretty funny that proudly publishing all their goals and plans may be the thing that gets a good chunk of people to realize how batshit they are. Like they could have just... not published it... and then tried to do all that stuff anyway.

A local church here in Salem, Oregon just contacted me and asked me to give a presentation on Project 2025. This is why the Trump campaign and the GOP is trying so hard to distance itself from this document produced by people in the vanguard of their movement.

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i was on the airport security line at o’hare yesterday and the guys behind me were talking about the shooting and one goes “honestly, i was mostly worried about how it’d impact the markets.”

holy hell

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In my mind, the girl with the itsy bitsy, teeny weenie, yellow polka dot bikini and the one eyed one horn flying purple people eater are part of the same extended universe.

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Jonas Bieber

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Pundit brain teaches people that when Dems announce support for something that polls at 90% popularity (including 50% of Republicans), the smart thing to do is to dismiss it as “pandering to their base”

It's weird how often I see leftists sneer at politicians who announce popular policies in order to gain more support. That's how it's supposed to work!

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Faine Greenwood

Hey remember which former Senator from Pennsylvania wanted to privatize the NWS to benefit his bros at AccuWeather? Yeah, it's this guy, Rick Santorum in 2005: www.washington.edu/news/2005/05...

Plan to privatize most forecasting would cripple weather service, expert sayswww.washington.edu Legislation now before Congress would prevent the National Weather Service from providing information that the private sector is supplying, or could supply, to the public.

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let's fucking go

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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🛸clyde bruckman's final repost🐈‍⬛

Thor's Hammer and The Torment of Tantalus are also kind of important for setting up the Asgard and the Four Races.

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we're living through a generational, life-changing technological revolution and it's getting almost zero attention compared to AI spambots

Some nice copy here …apparently California now has batteries roughly equivalent to 5 Diablo Canyons (in capacity, not run time…)

brb, solving GDPR concerns by building a 24/7, follow-the-sun SOC in France

That myth about how you're never more than ten feet from a spider is actually about France.

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Mostly agree except on reflection I feel like the three-day combo of the shooting, the Cannon decision, and the Vance pick was a powerful reminder of how miserable and exhausting it was to live with one goddamn thing after another when this guy had the spotlight for four straight years

I think Trump getting shot and being photographed with a defiant fist in the air, bloodied and unbowed, will actually lead to zero changed votes. He might be the only person in the universe that would be true of.

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Just learned that Fox News is trying to go after me for using the word "war" in a column, which they allege is inappropriate rhetoric. This is sort of like being lectured on anti-semitism by Hitler.

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If you believe it's impossible for someone to hold any kind of institutional power and also be on your side, then you're condemning yourself to a dark road of irrelevance. Sorry. This is how the game is played, and has been since our ancient ancestors first started swimming the primordial seas.

getting mad at everyone on this website with any form of institutional power is not going to do anything to help bring about the political outcomes we want

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Mike Johnson also walked off the convention stage when his teleprompter fritzed. These are the same guys saying Biden should resign because he uses a teleprompter.

You can’t make this up

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From the other place:

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Huh, looks like someone in the Avery marketing department had a good idea today

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Trump-Vance isn't designed to win over more voters, but ensure the next coup attempt proceeds more smoothly

The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

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Nobody wants to work anymore? Bro, nobody I know even wants to LIVE anymore.

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

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Helen Kennedy

Not the main point, but using religious terms like “devout” when talking about politicians creeps me out don’t worship your representatives, folks

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Like a harbinger of doom, Liz Truss has arrived at the RNC.

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JD Vance 2016: Trump is America's Hitler (pejorative) JD Vance 2024: Trump is America's Hitler (complimentary)