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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
always important to remember that this country pioneered the idea of the “confidence man”
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@regalpastry.bsky.social
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The confidence man is a part of the nation's DNA. And a lot of people fall for their scams. The more legit they make themselves sound, the more get fooled.
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Devin
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PhD level intelligence 🙄🙄🙄
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@blvckscience.bsky.social
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Reading “Fantasyland” by Kurt Andersen and the extent to which Americans are predisposed to the grift is unsettling.
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Matt D.
@tomorroejones.bsky.social
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Kurt Andersen’s “Fantasyland” is a great read on this topic. It predates America the nation, just like slavery, and is just as essential to its founding.
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Marla 🏳️⚧️
@desperatemarlas.bsky.social
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A confidence man? Sounds like someone who tells it like it is. Where do i send the check?
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Kat
@kat86.bsky.social
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Ugh. And stop acting like just because someone has money it means they’re smart
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aa-ron
@aaron916.bsky.social
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These last few years, I've been pondering how much we LOVE to get taken by a con or grift. It's really looking like a defining feature of our culture. Just look around and see all the fanboys vigorously defending their chosen PT Barnums of the moment. Don't you dare try to break the illusion!
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Doc Beechler
@docbeechler.bsky.social
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“Hustle” is the most American word
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Lorin Rudin-Rush
@iggs44.bsky.social
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Ignoring any issues related to how society deems an individual intelligent… I don’t know if there’s a level of intelligence that prevents someone from getting a PhD
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Flakey Foont
@flakyfoont.bsky.social
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What could possibly go wrong? "You can trust me! I'm a doctor!"
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Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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Confidence-suites
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@staceynycdc.bsky.social
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PT Barnum in khakis and a Patagonia fleece. 🫠
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Orgrim Doomscroller
@californiascroll.bsky.social
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As an elder millennial, I do not think the majority of us and our Gen-X counterparts (certainly those in leadership) have realized how much and how fast the entire industry went from plucky quirky folks who are part of the solution to The Problem
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StealthBadger
@stealthbadger.net
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And while Trump definitely brought about the heyday of the bullshit artist, that time is not over yet.
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Mike Lewinski
@wildernessvagabonds.com
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Real-estate cons especially. No surprise that Don the Con is a real estate developer.
forty-five.com/papers/pan-a...
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John Wm. Houghton
@numenor001.bsky.social
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Though we shouldn’t ignore the UK’s spectacular contribution in Lord Gordon-Gordon. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Go...
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
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(blasting the lee greenwood song)
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JC
@maxjes.bsky.social
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Truly nothing more Americana then the last decade of tech NFTs as those Name a Star Scams Crypto as Company Scrip AI as Snake Oil
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Ron Cox
@monkyhead.bsky.social
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the c-word
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Harry Finch
@harryfinch.bsky.social
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I understand how AI might possess PhD level data and know how to spew it out in a comprehensible form. But without years of human experience to filter it you cannot call it intelligence.
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Jellicoe Cats
@jellicoe-cats.bsky.social
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John Holbo
@jholbo.bsky.social
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It seemed silly in "The Matrix" that the machines would need us. The battery thing? Pfft. But it turns out AI does need something that only humans produce. 'Confidence', that point where fluid, flowing bullshit finds its level and stabilizes.
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A Farmer
@afarmerinohio.bsky.social
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A nation built on hype in all facets of life.
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[TLB] Klaus
@tlbklaus.bsky.social
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...Connecticut's nickname of "The Nutmeg State" comes from peddlers selling wooden nutmegs instead of real ones.
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PROTOOOOON CANON
@protoncanon.bsky.social
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They need to use the word "claims" in headlines like this more often.
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M. O’Lybdenum
@perchorin.bsky.social
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There was a great biography of Charles Ponzi came out a few years ago. Poor guy sincerely thought he was on to a way to help get his friends and neighbors get rich.
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@rosarymia.bsky.social
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Wtf is PhD level intelligence? I guess now they're stealing dissertations?
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Leger-Felicite Snorlax
@segatape.bsky.social
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it's totally coincidental that this product will be released far enough in the future that you shouldn't expect a return this fiscal year on the VC funding we're asking for but also near enough in the future that you should give us VC funding to finish it
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@newdealer.bsky.social
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“Right this way, folks, step through this door and see the Egress.”
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