Daniel Waites

Daniel Waites

@danielwaites.bsky.social

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ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

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MICKEY: I used to do an act with a goat. Cranked its tail like a phonograph. You couldn’t do that anymore. Not with the way the culture is now. ROGAN: Totally. MICKEY: And what they did to my buddy Br’er Rabbit. ROGAN: Insane. MICKEY: (ripping a vape) Like, we can’t even celebrate heritage anymore?

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“I think in reality, what socialism actually means in the American context is lug nut squirrel biscuit meow meow papa was a rolling stone.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

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Replying to @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Trump will obsess over these idées fixes* as he draws his last breath, gasping "Greenland…tariffs" as he tumbles from his golden toilet, coronary arteries bulging as he strains to pass a half-digested Big Mac, only a viscous paste of rectal mucus and Diet Coke to lubricate that unyielding bolus. 33

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Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."

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Replying to @tedunderwood.com

Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.

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this is about whether drones randomly blowing up while someone is working on them is a good or bad thing (adam is unsurprisingly on the pro-explosive mishap side of the column)

Brian Kerg@briankerg.bsky.social

Three cheers for that classic military leadership principle, "Do not kill your men."

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Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

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you can get to say slurs or you can have freedom of navigation, but it's one or the other boys

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social

Oil company executives are reaching out to the White House, Sec State Rubio and VP Vance to protest allowing Iran to charge tolls through the strategic Strait of Hormuz as a condition of peace talks, said one industry consultant granted anonymity to discuss relations with the administration.

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Replying to @radiofreetom.bsky.social

I dunno a few weeks of “maybe I will nuke a bunch of places maybe I won’t depends on how I feel” will help focus people

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This always happens and then Trump tweets something like “The Prime Minister of Persia (GREAT rugs) came to me in a dream and he’s close to making a deal” just before the opening bell. And he somehow gets the geniuses on Wall Street to pretend like everything is normal for another day.

David Faris@davidfaris.bsky.social

Dow futures down 400 points since The Speech

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NYT quoting AOC when she says “um”: This dumb girl can’t talk NYT quoting Trump after sticking a fork up his nose into his brain and rambling about sharpie pens: Doth thine lion howl with instincts known not learned by man, or sound his sonorous roar as prophecy to gaze back upon history itself?

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Replying to @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

It's a system of infinite reflection: the markets looking at Trump looking at the markets looking at Trump looking at the markets. The markets have chosen not to panic and so Trump is experiencing less pressure to cave and thus so far the markets are *making themselves wrong.*

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The Trump WH is starting to reap what it has sown in terms of screwing over counterparties: -Iran can't trust a negotiated settlement so why reach one? -Ds in Congress can't trust Trump to follow the law so why bargain w/him? -Universities see past deals leading to future shakedowns so why make one?

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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

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Oh, we're all off Discord now. I use Witchhazel now. Lindworm doesn't let you stream your screen. Paprika is actually a foreign surveillance app. Dude, send me your Dingo. I can't sign up for Jester Plus. I don't like the UI for Cabinet's mobile app. Just toss me your Spork. We're on Spork now.

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Replying to @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

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If you haven’t tried Twilight Struggle or Labyrinth I deeply recommend them.

GMT Games@gmtgames.bsky.social

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We'll see, but I don't think the apparent TACO on Greenland will last long. It's just another case of "last person he talked to," and that won't be the Europeans once he's back at the West Wing / Mar-a-Lago. For their own anti-NATO reasons, too many in the inner circle are determined to push this.

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Replying to @ndhapple.bsky.social

Any owner of CBS should be hiring CBS News executives with one mission: Putting pencil to paper trying to figure out how to export 60 Minutes success to the rest of the division, not denigrating *the* flagship broadcast for the network.

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Replying to @paleofuture.bsky.social

I'm guessing this explains the lying about Trump's posts. Whatever feed this bot is pulling from (First Squawk on X has the same tweet) is spreading disinformation for crypto dipshits.

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What folks need to realize about "peace talks" is that this is all theater for Washington. Ukraine knows that Russia has no intention of stopping the war, and the Russians know the Ukrainians know that. So this is just all a performance for Trump, hoping he blames the other for the lack of peace.

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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea