#huckster — Public Fediverse posts

3/🧵Hardly a day goes by without Trump’s telling us that no president has amassed a political movement like his or accomplished as much in such a short time or built such a rich economy or worked harder. Me, me, me. Best, best, best. He can’t find enough hours in the conventional workday to proclaim his glory adequately, so he has been known to spend the wee hours strutting on Truth Social, as he did from 9 p.m. to midnight on the first day of December, in a narcissistic meltdown of more than 150 posts.

About six hours later, as he reflected on what terrific fun that was, he awarded a superlative to the platform designed to accommodate his superlatives. “TRUTH SOCIAL IS THE BEST!” he wrote. “There is nothing even close!!!” Exclamation points are like pluses. You can’t have just one. —Frank Bruni, NYTimes #Trump #Huckster #bragging #Republicans #TrumpRegime #USPol

From an article I read today:

"... but absolution is the realm of priests and other con artists."

<slow-clap>

#ConArtist #huckster #fraud

This article (which is what we used to call actual idea-containing blog posts), called "The Rise of Whatever", has been making the rounds over the last few days.

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

It is, frankly, excellent. It is closer to my own feelings about "AI" / LLM than anything I've seen written by anyone else. I have despaired over the last couple of years as I saw the number of people I respected who somehow started accepting what this article refers to as the beige sludge that LLMs produce.

If you're an engineer or software developer, it's a must read. Or if you use "AI" in your own work, or in your own personal time. Or if you listen to the hucksters selling "AI", which you must be doing, because it's bloody impossible to go a day without hearing some fucking stupid thing that Sam Altman has shat onto the internet and called it wisdom.

Basically, everyone should read it. Unless they're actually three LLMs in a trenchcoat.

#LLM #AI #whatever #RiseOfWhatever #SamAltman #huckster #fraud #hype #bubble #NotArt #NotWriting #wisdom

"There’s the totally phoned-in Trump video sales pitch. There’s the fact that a non-negligible number of Americans find a sales pitch like that (and seriously, go watch it) spiritually meaningful. But we don’t have the time or the space, so we’ll just say: If you want one, you can buy it here!"

#Trump #ChristianNationalism #bible #sacrilege #grift #huckster #HolyWeek #suckers
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"What a rich vein this is, if only we had the time and space to dwell on it! There’s the insane civil-religious chutzpah of literally putting the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the lyrics to 'God Bless the USA' in the Bible. There’s the delicious fact that the company selling this Bible bills it as 'inspired by Lee Greenwood’s hit song.'”

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump #bible #sacrilege #grift #huckster #HolyWeek #suckers
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https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/trump-makes-billions-thumps-bible

“Today, Trump began to hawk Bibles for $59.99, plus shipping and handling, with a video message saying ‘Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country, and I truly believe we need to bring them back…. That’s why our country’s going haywire—we’ve lost religion in our country.’”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #ChristianNationalism #bible #sacrilege #grift #huckster #HolyWeek #suckers
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https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-26-2024

My thoughts exactly. #shill #huckster

@IanMoore3000 😂 Love that #shill word, tis not often used these days, so I must use it more...apparently it may have originated c. 1900 from #Shillaber, meaning carnival #Huckster or similar and I am a regular user of the #H word esp when requiring synonyms for the #Trump person who I am hoping is a dying species, despite numerous progeny--they too suffer from the #GOP #Republican #Defunding of #Education and staunch support of #Sycophancy. 😍