#sotu — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sotu, aggregated by home.social.
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Weekly output: teens + AI chatbots, Android updates, Trump on data-center energy use, Archer + Starlink, balcony solar, customer feedback, CDA 230 + AI, Bluetooth updates
BARCELONA–It’s a treat to be able to start off a post with this dateline. This is the 13th trip that’s afforded me that opportunity and the 12th involving MWC. But this trip isn’t like the ones before it in one way; on my way across the Atlantic, my country started a war of choice because the president felt like it. The world is better without Iran’s worthless, murdering theocrat Ali Khameni, but I have little confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to do the right things for that long-suffering country.
In addition to the links you see below, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me in which I shared lessons learned from more than 10 years of booking Airbnbs.
2/24/2026: Most Teens Use AI for Homework Help. 10% Let It Do Everything, PCMag
Getting an advance copy of this new study from the Pew Research Center gave me a chance to note a new student-understudy chatbot called Einstein and quiz the CEO behind that app.
2/25/2026: Android Update Puts Gemini AI In the Driver’s Seat for Ride-Hail, Food Orders, PCMag
I have somehow become PCMag’s Android-updates guy. This report included a little testimony about Google’s call-scam-detection feature misfiring for me, an important bit of context to include in a post telling readers about Google bringing that tool to Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 series of phones.
2/25/2026: As Energy Costs Soar, Trump Pushes AI Giants to ‘Produce Their Own Electricity’, PCMag
I didn’t watch the entire State of the Union address because self-care is an important thing, but after reading about President Trump’s call for data-center operators to pay for their electricity and power infrastructure, I knew I’d have to write about that initiative.
2/27/2028: Archer Aviation Taps Starlink for Air Taxi Connectivity, PCMag
I still don’t quite get the point of adding Starlink connectivity to aircraft that won’t fly longer than 15 minutes or higher than 4,000 feet above major cities, but this was an easy post to crank out Friday morning before heading to Dulles that afternoon to start my journey to Spain.
2/28/2026: After Years of Shining in Europe, Balcony Solar Comes Out of the Dark in the US, PCMag
This story had been in the works for literally months–I took the photo you see at the top of the piece on the afternoon that I arrived in Berlin for IFA in September–but the policy picture has also changed dramatically, and for the better, over the intervening months.
2/28/2026: What’s the Best Way to Get Customer Feedback in 2026? Hint: It’s Not Email, PCMag
Two weeks after the customer-experience firm Medallia had me at its annual conference in Vegas (with my hotel covered upfront and my airfare to be reimbursed), PCMag ran my recap of what I learned there.
3/1/2026: Online Platforms Are Not Liable for What Users Post. Should That Include Gen AI?, PCMag
I spent Thursday at the Cato Institute for this enlightening conference marking the 30th anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 act that bars you from suing an online platform for something that one of its users posted.
3/1/2026: Bluetooth Is Getting an Upgrade. Here’s What It Means for Your Devices, PCMag
I took almost all of the notes for this at CES in January, but I needed more time to confirm some details and then write the post, after which its lack of a news peg left it easy to set aside for a bit.
#AIChatbots #android #ArcherAviation #balconySolar #Barcelona #Bluetooth #Catalunya #CatoInstitute #CDA230 #ces #customerExperience #customerSatisfaction #cx #dataCenters #eVTOL #GeminiAI #IFA #LasVegas #Medallia #MWC #PewResearchCenter #plugInSolar #PresidentTrump #RatepayerProtectionPledge #SOTU #Spain #Starlink #StateOfTheUnion #travel #TrumpEnergyPolicy #Vegas -
Aside from the continued #coverup of #TrumpEpsteinFiles, #corruption, & a record-setting #SOTU #lie- fest...
Reports of a new #ExecutiveDisorder draft to cancel elections due to a (2020 #election - based) "national emergency"
> BREAKING: Trump White House staffer gets EXPOSED as the man secretly operating a shockingly racist MAGA account with nearly 300,000 followers.
https://x.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/2026781032809124022?s=20
👉 #HatchAct
#propaganda #disinformation
#Epstein #emoluments #truth #accountability #Bondi #cult -
#TrumpVirus #media 'news'
Aside from the continued #coverup of #TrumpEpsteinFiles & #corruption, & record-setting #SOTU #lie- fest...
Reports of a new #ExecutiveDisorder draft to cancel elections due to a (2020 #election - based) "national emergency"
> BREAKING: Trump White House staffer gets EXPOSED as the man secretly operating a shockingly racist MAGA account with nearly 300,000 followers.
https://x.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/2026781032809124022?s=20
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Absolutely! #Truth to #TrumpVirus
Refreshing.Here's a thin-slice (and the whole response was in an eye blink, short, concise, reality-based, compared to Sir's #WordSalad and using popular people as props with which to avoid the actual #SOTU
#TrumpEpsteinFiles #Epstein #Fraud #Emoluments #sedition #GQP #coverup ##psychopathology #ExecutiveDisorder
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I do not know how anyone tolerates listening to #Trump speak. He is manifestly stupid: seriously, objectively stupid, while speaking as if he's the smartest guy in the room, talking down to everyone.
I started playing a #SOTU reaction YouTube broadcast and couldn't listen for more than about ten seconds. I cannot stand him or the honking sounds that come out of his cloaca of a mouth. #Politics #GOP #TrumpIsAnIdiot #TrumpIsAFascist
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Just watched Senators Wyden and Merkley on a virtual town hall. It was good, and they gave a shout out to the Portland Frog Brigade at the end! I think both of them are going to the State of the Swamp event next.
Here's news coverage (gift link) of the Portland Frogs in Washington, DC, today - from The Oregonian:
#USPol #ORpol #Oregon #Portland #FrogBrigade #SOTU #StateOfTheSwamp #Resist
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Just watched Senators Wyden and Merkley on a virtual town hall. It was good, and they gave a shout out to the Portland Frog Brigade at the end! I think both of them are going to the State of the Swamp event next.
Here's news coverage (gift link) of the Portland Frogs in Washington, DC, today - from The Oregonian:
#USPol #ORpol #Oregon #Portland #FrogBrigade #SOTU #StateOfTheSwamp #Resist
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Just watched Senators Wyden and Merkley on a virtual town hall. It was good, and they gave a shout out to the Portland Frog Brigade at the end! I think both of them are going to the State of the Swamp event next.
Here's news coverage (gift link) of the Portland Frogs in Washington, DC, today - from The Oregonian:
#USPol #ORpol #Oregon #Portland #FrogBrigade #SOTU #StateOfTheSwamp #Resist
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Just watched Senators Wyden and Merkley on a virtual town hall. It was good, and they gave a shout out to the Portland Frog Brigade at the end! I think both of them are going to the State of the Swamp event next.
Here's news coverage (gift link) of the Portland Frogs in Washington, DC, today - from The Oregonian:
#USPol #ORpol #Oregon #Portland #FrogBrigade #SOTU #StateOfTheSwamp #Resist
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Just watched Senators Wyden and Merkley on a virtual town hall. It was good, and they gave a shout out to the Portland Frog Brigade at the end! I think both of them are going to the State of the Swamp event next.
Here's news coverage (gift link) of the Portland Frogs in Washington, DC, today - from The Oregonian:
#USPol #ORpol #Oregon #Portland #FrogBrigade #SOTU #StateOfTheSwamp #Resist
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Says a man mired in his own sexual abuse scandals, how far up the ladder did he get by looking the other way on depravity and rape? Very high it seems for Gym Jordan
Yeah, we know about his shit in Europe.
#Trump #SOTU #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #USPOL #USPOLITICS #GymJordan #JimJordan #Abusers #Enablers
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Why are the US #Democrats so absolutely #useless?
"Oh, we might skip the State of the Union address to show our displeasure with the administration."
Are you #morons? That would be a gift to Dear Leader and his #lickspittle #Congress. The #SOTU would be Mango Mussolini speaking to a friendly crowd, all happy, applauding, not a contrary expression to be seen. He'll be happy, smiling, at his most congenial as he basks in the warm glow. You do not do this.
What you do is attend. Every #Democratic #house member and #senator. Every staffer and guest that they're entitled to bring. Everyone. You put them all in their assigned places.
And then, when Trump gets up to speak, every single one of them simply turns away from the dictator. Turn their back to him, and *stay* that way for the whole speech. The #optics are great; the cameras show half the crowd with their backs to him, in obvious #protest. The #tyrant has to look at it all through his speech. He's angry. He's spiteful. He puts on a display for the ages, goes off-script, airing every #grievance his Swiss-cheese mind can dredge up. His body language is hostile. #Media coverage shows the event for what it actually is: a #vengeful, #lawless #authoritarian trying to verbally browbeat the legislative branch into submission.
#DNC, I'm available for consulting if you'd like.
#USPol #DearLeader #dictator #StateOfTheUnion #MangoMussolini #Trump
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🔗 Katie Britt in national spotlight with response to State of the Union
Scripps went right to #agism and gave no pushback or fact check on what #KatieBritt said
This is going to be the late night and morning local news take for the many Scripps' local TV news station tonight and in the morning.
Disgusting #journalism
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why didnt i watch #StateoftheUnion speech?
1st, i know they will have joe on the good stimulants so he looks 'high energy' which is 80% of what the media will report in the morning, just vibes abt how in command he was #blahblahblah
2nd, i literally cant stand the sound of biden/trump's voice, have to get a transcript if i cared abt the substance, which i DONT b/ when biden had the power to do good things he didnt, & now he doesnt have the power, he is right back to promising great things #sotu -
#Huckabee’s response to #Sotu was strange on many levels, but here’s what stuns this #lawprof— citing the #LittleRockNine to support a call for sm govt and local ctrl. People, those brave children were escorted by FEDERAL troops authorized by #potus and #scotus. #HistoryMatters
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"’She is a rock star’: Rep. Zoe Lofgren says she will bring Dr. Tammy Ma, expert in fusion science and clean energy, to Biden's #StateOfTheUnionAddress https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/1623077516490539008?s=61&t=savCukkF4lRD_YZ5UoJEsA #SOTU #DrTammyMa #FusionScience #Biden
