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Written by Brian Fung on 2025-01-31 at 11:26

Trump may have actually done more this week to create the Deep State he fears so much than at any point in either of his two terms.

“As others have said more succinctly, I am now operating on pure, unadulterated spite.”

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Written by Brian Fung on 2025-01-29 at 12:31

A whole lotta people have recently been discovering the thing where, when Musk talks about something you happen to have experience in, his expert persona falls apart

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Written by Brian Fung on 2025-01-23 at 21:01

The great @gene.meme just now: "DEI is actually a very capitalistic endeavor"; you'd expect corporate execs to embrace it, because it's about trying to expand your customer base and reaching broader audiences.

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Written by Brian Fung on 2025-01-22 at 12:22

Still thinking days later about how they implemented DOGE by simply taking over and renaming the US Digital Service, a groundbreaking agency that actually made government more efficient by fixing Healthcare.gov and creating Login.gov, among other important things

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Written by Brian Fung on 2025-01-19 at 04:16

How it started / how it’s going

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Written by Brian Fung on 2025-01-18 at 01:31

Just in: TikTok says it plans to shut itself down Sunday unless Biden publicly pledges non-enforcement. TikTok wants everyone to be sure Biden is to blame, which conveniently also curries favor with Trump.

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Written by Brian Fung on 2025-01-17 at 20:02

Characteristically on-point by @mmasnick.bsky.social: "The Court’s deference to Congress on matters of national security, at the expense of First Amendment scrutiny …. opens the door for the legislative branch to run roughshod over civil liberties, using national security as a convenient excuse."

SCOTUS: TikTok’s China Connect...

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Written by Brian Fung on 2025-01-17 at 13:30

Hot take: Maybe it’s time to stop using Musk’s verbiage of “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”

It’s cute and clever but feeds the misguided perception he’s a technical genius. Just say what really happened (or happens, often): His ship blew up. It blew up.

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Written by Brian Fung on 2024-11-27 at 20:46

Let’s be real: This is a subsidy. The people who hate public spending have invented a massive government subsidy for a technology that has still yet to find a broad-based practical application 15 years after its debut

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