Chs Yank

Chs Yank

@chsyank.bsky.social

Software/IT guy for 50+ years, Wrote 1st program 1967. Started 4 software/IT companies. Woodworker/Cook/Hiker/Runner. Anti-war Vietnam - Iraq now Iran. Born NYC, New England for most of my life. A liberal living in forest in Charleston area

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OK I voted in SC. Hope this pushes the Dem slate over the top to success. Now maybe the calls, text message can stop. No chance of course of that until Tuesday.

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I heard a guest reporter on msnow last night say diesel was only a rural problem in try to expain why some rural folks are going the Dem way. What! How about every large truck and pickups that power transportation, local delivery and construction, etc. all over the country, in cities

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Trump has Roberts saying "You are free from all laws" while Trump gives pardons or will pardon all the lesser folks. So Mr. Robert are you proud of your work? All crimes Trump or his admin who are lawless every day will never be held accountable. I hope you don't sleep at night Mr. Roberts.

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How the Rs in Congress are a sorry lot of people. They are letting Trump ruin the US, the world order, and just about anything that is good about America. Trump wants to rename the oceans. I suprised that he has not said "The earth shall be named Trump world from now on"

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I guess I'll have to do some write in candidates this year. For some reason the Dem party decided not to have democrats oppose the Rs slate. Why of all years not to try to bust the year over year of electing the same people. Even if they are bad, they are, no one was put up to oppose them.

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Question. Why would Muslims back Trump? They must have had some particular item that Trump would/could give them. Bc they knew he was an anti-Muslim person. Of course Trump never gave them anything except grief. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u... Looking the other way get you nothing....

nytimes.comTrump Asked Muslim Voters to Trust Him. Now Some Feel Used.Some Muslim voters who backed Mr. Trump in 2024 say they believe he pledged his support when it was politically convenient, only to alienate and scapegoat them once he won the election.
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Question. I'm getting a lot of text messages, about 2 to 1 in favor of the Rs. Do they really help? I just either mark them spam, the R ones or delete the D ones.

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Here we go. the first of many attempts to stop/kill the election. I have no problems with lower courts but the SC will side with Trump on any issues. Trump administration asked a federal court on Friday to block certification of the Senate election in Alaska if the Republican incumbent loses.

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I wish journalist would stop saying that the president is the leader of the Free world. He's not even a leader. No less of the Free world. I would put him on par with the leader of Haiti if there is one right now

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The Republican world is all about playing dirty. Nothing has changed. Vivek play dirty. hope it does not work. It did once for George W. Bush's Swift boat lies ad that sank Kerry who had Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts and the Bush campaign said it was all made up and lies.

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is Jenny Costa Honeycutt worried? I recieved 4 mail pieces yesterday all for her. All different. Plus a few stray phone calls/ texts that I did not answer I'm in the Charleston SC 1st district, the one that got gerrymandered to get Nancy Mace elected a few cycles ago

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Two things to notice from this. Trump will not come to the Charleston area, he wanted to stay in the upper part of SC, a real red area away from more Dem areas. Secondly, Trump has instilled volience in his followers, and ICE by the way.

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In these days I don't dare do anything that might piss off MAGA faithful. Never sure here if they are with gun. Like the time in the tire shop waiting area. I turned off Fox News and the TV. Almost got attacked.

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These guy use the same excuse that I bank robber would like to use: We are only testing the security of the bank vault. There needs to be some way to make these guys pay for what they did. Making up election poll numbers.

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Wedgewood released a statement acknowledging that the vast majority of its polls were not based on genuine survey data. The group said it wanted to demonstrate how easy it was for a new polling outfit to gain credibility with media organizations and polling aggregators.

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I guess I'm on my ranting mode today. I take digital security very seriously. You should to. To all those who do these, shame on you.. - Use the same poor password over and over again - Have a bunch of browser extensions that can read everything you interact with, every site. more...

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I use one browser for all my online work that requires a login. No extension, no nothing. Just the browser. I use Bitwarden a password manager that runs outside the browser. I generate 20+ digits of mixed characters for passwords to my sites

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I use three email accounts. 1) for my secure & private business 2) one for my every day work that is not secure 3) a "i don't care" email account when I not sure of the site what it is. What I do help but still it is not a perfect world

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I guess I'm on my ranting mode today. I take digital security very seriously. You should to. To all those who do these, shame on you.. - Use the same poor password over and over again - Have a bunch of browser extensions that can read everything you interact with, every site. more...

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- Don't backup your lifetime of photos you took - Don't use 2fa (look it up) - click on every email that has a link on it without thinking and being sure it is real - Run a virus and some program that help defend you Ok here is what I do to prevent the best one can to not get hacked

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My PSA that I'm going to say as oftern as I can. I spent a lifetime in software and built large complex applications. Please use AI chat for questions if you must. Do Not under any situations use AI to automate your digital life. AI has no sense of right. Only bad things will happen.

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The military / industrial complex is now out of control once again. Did we not have this conversation 70ish years ago?. To few companies and too many billionaires.

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So far the Charleston SC area I blocked and reported spam for least 30 Republican text messages over the past several weeks. Could we Dem transplants actually get some Dems elected? Maybe. On the flip side there were almost no Dems on the Berkeley county races. What were they thinking?

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We have people in position of power that never get tossed out of office even when they are bad. The Rs just vote for Rs no matter what. Only way they change is to age out. Even a Dem can hold office for a long time. When Dems ruled SC Riley was elected to Charleston's mayor for 40 years.

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GOP PACs have plenty of money and some are spending it. Guess who is not, the pac for someone who can't run anymore. Trumps is hording his millions, around $400mm. want to make a bet he keeps this when he transfers it to a personal account on the way out. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comRepublican National Committee Moves $50 Million to Help Midterm Candidates in Huge Cash TransferThe party apparatus is taking advantage of its enormous war chest, as well as a Supreme Court campaign-finance ruling this year, to send tens of millions into congressional races.
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Trump is on a path to totally separate from the EU over the dispute over Starlink. We already have Canada looking away. He partners with Putin. Soon we will have no allies and it will be Trump that has done that in less than 2 years. www.ft.com/content/d1e2...

ft.comUS threatens European companies over Starlink restrictionsAmbassador Andrew Puzder warns about ‘devastating’ retaliation if Brussels goes ahead with plans to limit spectrum access for non-EU companies
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Imagine.. we have gone from a leading voice in the world to one that every country is saying "no thanks" don't need you" Trump thinks Putin and China are his friends... they are not

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Reading some of the election stores today. Are reporting always going to say "all races are getting closer" bc that is what they always say. So much bias goes into these articles with the words they use. In the era of people not taking any calls on their phones how accurate can polls be?

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If the Dems by some chance win the Senate look for Alito, Roberts and Thomas to be bought out with some large millions to retire. Then the Rs in the Senate find 3 MAGA young , really young lawyers to be added. So long as they are true MAGA and young experience does not matter.

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What going on with Walmart thinking. A floor cleaner zamboni moving around the store. But not with the usual driver, but no one driving. So less labor I guess. Progress? Except they had to have an employee walk in front getting people out of the way. Not progress.

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reading the economic state in Sept. Why is the US importing so much gold? Going into Trump's pockets? Americans have zero wage growth, in real terms, since Trump returned into office Prices in the past years were 3.7 percent higher Higher fuel costs driving up airfares 22.4 percent

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I would say the average person who votes for MAGA or R candidates is either a millionaire or does not shop, or fly or pay rent or eat out or ... Most likely they are under the spell of one Donald J. Trump, unlikely as it is that someone can be that devoted. That is Jim Jones territory.

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The article writer today about Collins in the NYT has not done their homework. They say she is centerist and moderate. Her voting record with Trump suggests otherwise. Lets go Mainers. Vote her out in a few weeks.

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Trump and Rubio weigh firing US envoy to Greece after reports mount of improper conduct. In the end they asked here to resign. Is there a differece to her, maybe some long lasting insurance or pay? Or were they just being "nice"?

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The SC is protecting Trump again. Need to get rid of these guys and quick. Find some way to lessen their impact as they seem to think they area the Kings of the US. apnews.com/article/supr...

apnews.comSupreme Court sides with Trump administration in lawsuit seeking records on Elon Musk’s DOGEThe Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration and agreed to hear arguments in a watchdog’s lawsuit seeking public records about trillionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency...
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I just saw that Omar has posted a rebuttal on X. Why, why are they still using X to communicate to US folks. Sane folks are not on there. Get off.

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This is exactly why we cannot give any AI a job and just let it go about its business. Chat AI I guess is safe (maybe not for unstable person perhaps) but we need to stop AI from doing tasks that we cannot provide any real fences to what it cannot do. apnews.com/article/arti...

apnews.comAnthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide caseAn Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said.
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After 50 years of writing software and seeing what a human could do with mistakes in software there is no way I'll let an AI written program without serious review by humans. Could AI have written the Apollo lunar landing software as pefect. I think not.

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And it is not that I have not been around AI before now. I first ran across it when I was thinking of a PHD and Yale had a area that was looking at AI back in 1970.

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This is exactly why we cannot give any AI a job and just let it go about its business. Chat AI I guess is safe (maybe not for unstable person perhaps) but we need to stop AI from doing tasks that we cannot provide any real fences to what it cannot do. apnews.com/article/arti...

apnews.comAnthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide caseAn Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said.
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Let AI go off and it will find something that a human would never do. We can never dream up all the necesary guardrails that fence in an AI bot. We humans use our logic and think "no one would ever do that". But AI bots are not human and have no "this is not normal" rules.

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I for one do not have any AI run any process, None, Never will. I wrote a backup program to perform exactly what I want. I could have used an AI bot, but then I might wake up one day and find that it deleted my entire store of data. Imagine running an AI bot that could do real damage to people.

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The SC super pacs sure have horrible ad on YouTube these days. They tell you that Dem senate candidate Andrews is just short of Hitler with the horrible things she supposed to to have done. Don't watch broadcast tv so maybe on there as well. Get all big money out of elections.

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And still people don't think Trump is under the influence of Putin/ Russia what with the diesel deal Is this deal actually real? Based on reports from the Ukraine Russia war, Ukraine is doing a destructive job on Russia's fuel world. I doubt there is "extra" diesel that Russia would let go.