July 12, 2026 - The Week in Review

A day late, sorry, Saturday got out of control for me.

Sunday, July 5th: A read on the perennial argument (often fronted by the Never Trump crew) about the Can, vs. Will in the context of winning. This was pre-planner meltdown:

Will Win vs. Can Win

Ron Johnson tried to hand fake electors to Mike Pence. The Democratic establishment’s real fear that cycle? Mandela Barnes’s parking tickets. The electability model doesn’t need to be right. It just needs to never be tested.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

Monday, July 6th: Not only my first day back from a week's holiday, but the Billionaire Victims Club continued apace with a piece about Sergey Brin:

TFG: Sergey Brin

Brin named his $450 million superyacht after Google’s secret project to build a censored search engine for China. The man comparing a 5% healthcare tax to Soviet communism literally named his boat after helping communists suppress the internet.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

Tuesday, July 7th: The night before, Graham Platner's senate bid was all but dead, and that caused me to resurrect a draft that had been in my backlog about women, misogyny, and the (erroneous) perception by people like Matt Stoller that DEI increased the ranks of women in the professional classes without merit. I compare my experience at SJSU in the early 1980's (the physics department) and the current gender balance for CCNA holders, and the truth is that all this hype about DEI, and "Woke" is hogwash. I also discuss the Gamergate and how the rise of social media has enabled some really fucked up behaviors:

The Hate Was Never New, Just the Bandwidth

Kathy Sierra got doxxed and death-threatened in 2007, seven years before Gamergate, with none of today’s algorithmic muscle. The hate wasn’t invented later. Someone just built better plumbing for it, and found out outrage pays the bills.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

Wednesday, July 8th: More Billionaire Victims Club, this time, I dive into Mark Zuckerberg:

This Fucking Guy: Mark Zuckerberg

Meta’s employees named their internal AI status leaderboard ‘Claudeonomics.’ Not Llamanomics. Claudeonomics. Zuckerberg spent billions building a frontier AI model his own people won’t use, while paying a competitor to power his flagship AI product. The acquirer can’t sell to his own staff.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

Friday, July 10th: Another from the cornucopia of Billionaire fuckery, this time I get to one that had he not aligned so closely with Trump, purchased TikTok, and funded the CBS/Paramount/Disney and now Discovery/HBO/WB mergers this his repo fails, David Ellison, he wouldn't have risen to earn one, but fuck him, time to look at Larry fuckin' Ellison:

This Fucking Guy: Larry Ellison

ORACLE stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison. He started with a CIA contract, named the company after it, and told investors citizens will be on their ‘best behavior’ once we’re all constantly recorded. He didn’t disrupt the system. He built it.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

Saturday, July 11: In the aftermath of the tepid affirmation of the 14th amendment case by the SCOTUS, David French took to his "Newsletter" to dive into the Republican's infatuation with blood and soil nationalism, with some blinders on. The gold though came from the comment section:

Magic Blood, Magic Dirt, and the Party That Never Says Sorry

David French gets oh so close, but then he has to put his blinders on. But the real gem comes from the comment section.

Sweaty's CornerGeoff Anderson

I am going to avoid dunking on Lindsey "Lady-G" Graham who passed away at 71 suddenly on Saturday evening, but I am enjoying the notes I am seeing.

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