Paul B. 🎳
@pb317.bsky.social
Indianapolis, but not Indiana. Never a hoosier. Ever.
I like to partake in sim-racing and pickleball and other worthwhile endeavors that I'm honestly not very good at doing.
I like to partake in sim-racing and pickleball and other worthwhile endeavors that I'm honestly not very good at doing.
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There are 1000 reasons to hate generative AI, but the one that goes undetected is the complete and total destruction of humanity's core epistemological understanding of the world. Everything else is downstream of that, and the consequences are only going to get more horrifying if this isn't stopped.
October 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
There are 1000 reasons to hate generative AI, but the one that goes undetected is the complete and total destruction of humanity's core epistemological understanding of the world. Everything else is downstream of that, and the consequences are only going to get more horrifying if this isn't stopped.
I very much enjoyed this.
Mike Tomlin’s ‘Minecraft’ city is a delight: defector.com/mike-tomlins...
Mike Tomlin's 'Minecraft' City Is A Delight
When former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin revealed that he had been working on a Minecraft city for 12 years, I brushed it off. The idea of an NFL coach—a Super Bowl-winning coach who…
defector.com
October 5, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I very much enjoyed this.
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republicans: we are nazis
media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
new wolfenstein looks like shit
October 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
republicans: we are nazis
media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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I've always marveled at how the satanic panic took place without social media's help. Traditional media was all aboard the stupid train.
Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time.
It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice.
This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice.
This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.
October 4, 2026 at 1:41 PM
I've always marveled at how the satanic panic took place without social media's help. Traditional media was all aboard the stupid train.
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A lot of liars really like to reference common sense.
Too many cars driving too much in your city because of #CarDependency is the opposite of common sense.
Polluting your air and fuelling #ClimateChange while limiting choices in how we can get around in cities is the opposite of common sense.
Too many cars driving too much in your city because of #CarDependency is the opposite of common sense.
Polluting your air and fuelling #ClimateChange while limiting choices in how we can get around in cities is the opposite of common sense.
Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic!
Everything they’ve been doing is common sense.
They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
Everything they’ve been doing is common sense.
They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
October 2, 2026 at 2:42 AM
A lot of liars really like to reference common sense.
Too many cars driving too much in your city because of #CarDependency is the opposite of common sense.
Polluting your air and fuelling #ClimateChange while limiting choices in how we can get around in cities is the opposite of common sense.
Too many cars driving too much in your city because of #CarDependency is the opposite of common sense.
Polluting your air and fuelling #ClimateChange while limiting choices in how we can get around in cities is the opposite of common sense.
Hanlon’s Razor still undefeated.
Yeesh.
Yeesh.
October 2, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Hanlon’s Razor still undefeated.
Yeesh.
Yeesh.
Racer Blue CC1 restocked and in my size?
Don’t mind if I do!
Don’t mind if I do!
October 1, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Racer Blue CC1 restocked and in my size?
Don’t mind if I do!
Don’t mind if I do!
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“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians.
Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.”
Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.”
Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2026 at 5:44 PM
“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians.
Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.”
Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.”
Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
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Why did Eric Schmitt fuck up his gotcha moment so badly?
No one involved considered the possibility that Jack Smith attended a women’s basketball game.
A MAGAt undone by misogyny.
Not at all surprising.
No one involved considered the possibility that Jack Smith attended a women’s basketball game.
A MAGAt undone by misogyny.
Not at all surprising.
September 29, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Why did Eric Schmitt fuck up his gotcha moment so badly?
No one involved considered the possibility that Jack Smith attended a women’s basketball game.
A MAGAt undone by misogyny.
Not at all surprising.
No one involved considered the possibility that Jack Smith attended a women’s basketball game.
A MAGAt undone by misogyny.
Not at all surprising.
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kinda bullshit whenever the fever score 98. like come on. no it’s not
September 30, 2026 at 12:46 AM
kinda bullshit whenever the fever score 98. like come on. no it’s not
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Just helping with editing here.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
September 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Just helping with editing here.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
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Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
Remarkable: An Iowa right wing radio host just leaked word that GOP polling shows House Rs in peril even in districts Trump won by +10. The culript? Trump and the war.
On the pod, Iowa Dem chair Rita Hart explains why the conditions are ripe for big Dem rural gains:
newrepublic.com/article/2158...
On the pod, Iowa Dem chair Rita Hart explains why the conditions are ripe for big Dem rural gains:
newrepublic.com/article/2158...
MAGA Radio Host Humiliates Trump by Leaking Truly Brutal GOP Poll Data
As an Iowa-based pro-Trump personality drops a midterm bombshell, the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party discusses whether Democrats are about to regain major ground in rural America.
newrepublic.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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They are playing in our faces
September 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
They are playing in our faces
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Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...
September 25, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...
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INSURANCE HOW DOES IT WORK
Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
September 22, 2026 at 4:34 PM
INSURANCE HOW DOES IT WORK
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If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
September 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
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I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
September 21, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
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This was predictable and predicted. An entire chapter in my book The Privateers discusses this.
It didn’t have to be this way. But when you design policy as a private school subsidy masked as student opportunity—and with no income caps—this is the exact result.
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
It didn’t have to be this way. But when you design policy as a private school subsidy masked as student opportunity—and with no income caps—this is the exact result.
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
Indiana school voucher use has flipped from low-income families to more high-income families
Participation shifted toward families making over $100,000 even as overall growth slows.
www.indystar.com
September 20, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This was predictable and predicted. An entire chapter in my book The Privateers discusses this.
It didn’t have to be this way. But when you design policy as a private school subsidy masked as student opportunity—and with no income caps—this is the exact result.
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
It didn’t have to be this way. But when you design policy as a private school subsidy masked as student opportunity—and with no income caps—this is the exact result.
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
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1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day.
2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."
2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."
September 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day.
2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."
2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."
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No one in national politics seems to even acknowledge that full system reformation is required, they can't see that the republic has already been lost, and as such they are the nails in its coffin. Ironically the only case for US restoration would be a sewer socialist campaign at fed level
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
September 20, 2026 at 4:29 AM
No one in national politics seems to even acknowledge that full system reformation is required, they can't see that the republic has already been lost, and as such they are the nails in its coffin. Ironically the only case for US restoration would be a sewer socialist campaign at fed level
That Aston Martin sounds so nice!
September 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM
That Aston Martin sounds so nice!