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Eric Wilson

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Programmer, dad, nerd, DIY hobbyist, lapsed runner.

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"I am proudly ignorant"

07.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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three cartoon characters are standing next to each other and smiling Alt: GIF screenshot from the "Metaverse" where avatars famously have no legs, because that was apparently too difficult for a trillion-dollar company to figure out

Has he been talking to Zuck again?

07.03.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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World’s Richest Added a Record $2.2 Trillion in Wealth This Year Just eight billionaires accounted for about a quarter of 2025’s gains

If it's "missing," may I suggest we start the search here?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

06.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People Magazine becoming a more credible source of unvarnished truth than The New York Times and The Washington Post seems like some Demolition Man shit

06.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man laying on the floor with a nbc logo on the bottom Alt: GIF from Parks and Recreation: Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe) grabs his stomach and falls over after contracting food poisoning from bad calzones.

After eating that burger, probably

05.03.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a green shirt is saying my goal is to run to the moon Alt: GIF from Parks and Recreation: Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe) says "my goal is to run to the moon" and takes off running.

Today I learned that the McDonald's CEO runs 50 miles a week and I realized who he reminds me of

05.03.2026 04:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I got a hedge-fund manager and a Fetterman in the Senate and an election denying car dealer in the House πŸ™ƒ

05.03.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jesting, McCain Sings: 'Bomb, Bomb, Bomb' Iran Republican presidential contender Sen. John McCain (AZ) joked about bombing Iran this week during a campaign appearance in Murrells Inlet, S.C.

In retrospect, I think this may have been one of the major reasons John McCain didn't become president.

Republican voters clearly don't particularly care about an ignorant, incompetent pick for VP (or pres).

(from 2007) "Jesting, McCain Sings: 'Bomb, Bomb, Bomb' Iran"

www.npr.org/2007/04/20/9...

03.03.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mark Zuckerberg makes awkward appearance on Prada front row in Milan Mark Zuckerberg made an unlikely appearance with his wife Priscilla Chan on the front row at the Prada show during Milan Fashion Week on Thursday.

When I need fashion inspiration, I always ask myself, "what would Mark Zuckerberg wear?"

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

02.03.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That sounds like a lot of work when they're literally making war plans at Joe's Stone Crab and executing them at Mar-a-Lago

01.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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01.03.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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01.03.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Starting to wonder if I should make a second account just for posting excerpts from _1984_ that exactly parallel current events...

01.03.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Highlighted excerpt from 1984, by George Orwell:

...whom he did not know. In fact he had not been aware that there was any war.

β€œI don’t remember.”

β€œOceania is at war with Eastasia. Do you remember that now?”

β€œYes.”

[begin highlight]
β€œOceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Since the beginning of your life, since the beginning of the Party, since the beginning of history, the war has continued without a break, always the same war. Do you remember that?”
[end highlight]

β€œYes.”

β€œEleven years ago you created a legend about three men who had been condemned to death for treachery. You pretended that you had seen a piece of paper which proved them innocent. No such...

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1984
George Orwell
https://books.apple.com/us/book/1984/id1602697097

Highlighted excerpt from 1984, by George Orwell: ...whom he did not know. In fact he had not been aware that there was any war. β€œI don’t remember.” β€œOceania is at war with Eastasia. Do you remember that now?” β€œYes.” [begin highlight] β€œOceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Since the beginning of your life, since the beginning of the Party, since the beginning of history, the war has continued without a break, always the same war. Do you remember that?” [end highlight] β€œYes.” β€œEleven years ago you created a legend about three men who had been condemned to death for treachery. You pretended that you had seen a piece of paper which proved them innocent. No such... Excerpt From 1984 George Orwell https://books.apple.com/us/book/1984/id1602697097

01.03.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
A page from 1984, by George Orwell:

ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left.
For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. [begin highlight] It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week.
Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [end highlight]
Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passion-ately, with a furious desire to track

A page from 1984, by George Orwell: ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left. For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. [begin highlight] It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [end highlight] Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passion-ately, with a furious desire to track

He'll just say that "gas prices have come DOWN to $7 a gallon this summer"

28.02.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Image from Blade Runner (1982): Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) sits at a table in front of the Voight-Kampff test equipment

Image from Blade Runner (1982): Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) sits at a table in front of the Voight-Kampff test equipment

Just found myself daydreaming about buying some kind of robotic "sheep" for my border collie to herd...

and then I got an alert on my phone that my Voight-Kampff test is scheduled for Monday at 9:30 AM.

28.02.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wouldn't be too surprised if they pivot to "beef is expensive, but Soylent Greenβ„’ has all the protein and nutrients you need, for an affordable price!"

27.02.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It sounds like he's saying people should just eat dog food... but have you bought canned dog food lately? It's not cheap either!

Also, if you eat liver as your main protein source and you eat as much protein as he recommends, your skin will fall off from vitamin A poisoning.

27.02.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Death by Nutrition How an antarctic scientific expedition turned deadly thanks to an unlikely source: dog liver.

Given the amount of beef that Americans generally eat, it doesn't seem like it would be healthy to replace it with liver... you'd think the guy who went to a dog barbecue would have read this particular story at some point:

www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disa...

27.02.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If Americans ate as much liver as they do beef...

Does RFK Jr. know what happens if you get too much vitamin A by eating liver all the time?

www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disa...

27.02.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I always thought Elliot Carver was Rupert Murdoch, but the Ellisons might be an even better match. Plus we have Hugo Drax now too.

26.02.2026 23:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

James Bond villains weren't over the top β€” they were prescient.

26.02.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/bill...

26.02.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What the Defense Production Act Can and Can’t Do to Anthropic The legal answer depends on what the government is actually demandingβ€”and the statute's ambiguities cut both ways.

It's the apostrophe β€” it has to be replaced with %27 in the URL:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

26.02.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) from The Office (US version) looking straight at the camera

Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) from The Office (US version) looking straight at the camera

Trudeau looks like Jim from The Office there

26.02.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What the Defense Production Act Can and Can’t Do to Anthropic The legal answer depends on what the government is actually demandingβ€”and the statute's ambiguities cut both ways.

It should work if you replace the apostrophe with %27:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

26.02.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What the Defense Production Act Can and Can’t Do to Anthropic The legal answer depends on what the government is actually demandingβ€”and the statute's ambiguities cut both ways.

Looks like bluesky doesn't like the apostrophe in the URL "what-the-defense-production-act-can-and-can't-do-to-anthropic"

26.02.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
#386: 06-26-03 LARGEST HEALTH CARE FRAUD CASE IN U.S. HISTORY SETTLED HCA INVESTIGATION NETS RECORD TOTAL OF $1.7 BILLION

Maybe they should ask Rick Scott if he knows anything about fraud...

www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...

25.02.2026 22:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Altman has a kid now... doesn't sound like he's going to have a fun childhood

22.02.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
"Is this butterfly" meme with the captions:
- DOGE Bros
- NEH grant
- Is this DEI?

"Is this butterfly" meme with the captions: - DOGE Bros - NEH grant - Is this DEI?

22.02.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0