Bruce Barnett

@45PedroMartinez My first home run. Ball went in the concession stand window and landed on the banana taffy. Pee Wee All Star.

What’s one baseball moment that still gives you chills? Go! ⚾

@MichelleMaxwell Me-✋

Raise your hand if you had better and less expensive insurance before Obamacare. Me-🤚

@jstewartIndy Did he support redistricting?

Relax liberals, Trump only endorsed progressive Indiana Senator Ron Alting because he knew it would make him lose progressive voters. It’s called 4D CHESS!!! /s

My two cents: The Right isn’t splitting, it’s being split. Lincoln warned: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” But he also identified the deeper threat, factions who’d destroy the house rather than lose control of it. That’s the Fracture Factory. Donor networks blocking their own party’s legislation. Legal fronts suing their own side’s trade policy. Think tanks manufacturing crises to protect relevance they’ve already lost. The old consensus didn’t collapse on its own. It was dismantled by people who’d rather fracture the coalition than admit the base moved on without them. Fracture over irrelevance. That’s always the play. Lincoln saw it 165 years ago. The faces change. The strategy never does.

Where is all this “grifter money” I keep getting accused of having? Because honestly… that’d be great. My only regret is giving my time and effort freely to help build Kash’s online persona (work he paid others significant money to do) because I believed it was the right thing to do. I don’t fly on taxpayer-funded jets. I buy my clothes on sale while being attacked by people dressed in outfits that cost more than my mortgage. I paid my own way to DC to help in the midterms, splitting a cheap hotel room with my friend because I couldn’t afford the $3,000/night blocks some people treat as normal. And that’s the difference people need to start seeing. You’re being influenced by individuals who have elevated themselves into a kind of political celebrity where optics matter more than outcomes, and status matters more than service. They thrive on drama because drama builds their brand. But drama doesn’t knock doors. Drama doesn’t win elections. Drama doesn’t teach people how to actually navigate and fix the system. I’ve given years of my life to doing the real work, time, energy, and time away from my kids to make an impact. If that’s less appealing than the show… then that says more about what people are choosing to follow than it does about me. And honestly? That’s the part that’s hard to watch

@Matt_Pinner US Chamber of Commerce

Delete one thing from Earth ! What are you deleting?

@ThrillaRilla369 Stretch Armstrong

Age yourself with a Toy from your childhood that today's kids wouldn't know.. 🤔

@Julius_Kim Who is MAGA?

Do you think MAGA is starting to realize that Trump and his family are using the White House as a giant grift yet?

@NoahKingJr Play Ping Pong 🏓

TELL ME SOMETHING YOU CAN DO THAT CHATGPT CANNOT

@Matt_Pinner Government

What...?

@stephenasmith That wasn’t a deal. That is like Harden on minimum deal. Check details…

Sorry! We know I won’t hesitate to blame the Dems for much these days, but you can’t put it on them when even The Republicans went to Trump with a deal to fund DHS and he refused unless the Dems push the SAVE ACT! Thats not about the Dems. That’s not about the GOP. That is about POTUS.#CarryOn

@jstewartIndy @indystar Great use of AI: Estimated data centers touched 60-80 using the pothole vehicle. I guess it is time for me to build an estimate tool for data centers touched and usage. I created this via WhatsApp text to my agent. Once hosted I will send you the link.

Indianapolis REFUSES to take accountability for their many potholes when they DAMAGE your vehicle. When people don’t report potholes, it gives them an out. Indy should use AI to detect potholes BEFORE they WRECK your vehicle. Read my latest for @indystar below 👇

@BillyM2k Kim Komando

i used to like tech podcasts but now they’re all basically converging into “if you don’t use AI the right way in the next two months, you’re probably going to die a horrible death, and everything you know now is worthless” and it’s just depressing

@brockpierson 7z

What was your extraction tool of choice back in the day? (There is clearly one correct answer here)

I have an answer to this. I have seen first hand agent research data returning with prompt injection attempts mingled with the data. I am no one so it was ignored. I am now treating agent output channels (HTTP requests, API calls) with the same suspicion you’d apply to user input on the inbound side.

Have we seen an “Agent” DDOS attack yet ? Isn’t it inevitable ?

@TylerMitchellIN @WTHRcom Jesus

This happened over the weekend. What fixes this? Money, police, faith in the home, fathers, jobs? What is it? @WTHRcom

@jstewartIndy Yes: Rockets 🚀 up then Floats like a feather 🪶 down. They are grabbing margin. Uncapped floating Sales tax is insane. @Tesla is looking good right now with that EV supplemental registration fee in Indiana $230 vs the death spiral use tax.

Oil prices are FALLING but gas is still OVER 4.00/GALLON in Indianapolis. Are we being gouged at the pump?

@TiffanyFongEtc @TiffanyFong This

I just ubered to the wrong airport like a fucking retard, so I just booked a new flight because another uber was roughly the same price. Now I’m stuck at the airport for over 3 hours. What should I do ???

@jstewartIndy 24 to be exact 🤣

@1337secure Did you use a data center to write this response?

Indianapolis leaders tried and FAILED to stop data centers. The state isn’t interested, but data centers are too big for them to stop, too. That’s why we need a FEDERAL MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS. Read my latest for @indystar in the comments 👇

@jstewartIndy Yes

This IndyStar piece on data centers uses a “race to the bottom” frame that sounds convincing until you notice it’s doing what every moral panic has done since Salem, just swap “witchcraft” for “megawatts.” The argument: communities competing for data centers are sacrificing themselves for tech progress, and the ones that lose the bid still eat the costs. Heads you lose, tails you also lose. Convenient if your conclusion is “only Congress can save you.” But a rural county with a dying tax base and excess grid capacity isn’t making the same bet as a crowded suburb fighting over water pressure. Lumping them together is like saying every town that bid for a transcontinental railroad stop was getting swindled. Some were. Some became Denver. The article calls developer promises about jobs and revenue “misleading.” Sometimes, sure. Towns gave away everything to lure GM plants in the ‘80s too. The fix wasn’t banning factories. It was learning to read a term sheet. And here’s the quiet trick: if competing is bad and not competing still hurts you, local decision making is meaningless by design. That’s not analysis, that’s Prohibition logic. If one saloon ruins the town and no saloon kills commerce, guess we need a constitutional amendment. We all remember how that went. Important question in my mind: The actual useful question nobody wants to do the homework on: which communities came out behind, which ones negotiated well, and what made the difference?

Indianapolis can’t stop data centers. Congress must. indystar.com/story/opinion/…