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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 2h

Our kid does this too! Usually when playing with toys. Her current favorite thing though is pulling herself up on one of our legs and.. it can only be described as twerking if either one of us start singing

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depose schumer @glosson.bsky.social · 5h

lmaooo

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 16h

I was twenty in 2009 and I hoped and prayed that we would get a soft CPI print and we didn't for a half decade and I watched my friends lose their careers and their skills fade to the point that like idk half of my friends changed careers wholesale, and always down

Talman smith "As someone who was 24 when the pandemic hit I can assure you that the vibes were somewhat off"

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 1d

The NY Times is a very high quality newspaper. Extraordinarily talented and rich in resources. But sometimes the high-level editors and management get on strange political obsessions. Like Hillary Clinton’s emails. Their commitment never to cover prominently any “No Kings” protest is astonishing.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 1d

while not dignity:
Trump

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Panda Bernstein @j4years.bsky.social · 1d

One of the things I miss most about pre-Trump America is the concept of dignity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 1d

a man dressed as a king is sitting on a stool holding a cane .

Alt: a man dressed as a king is sitting on a stool holding a cane .

media.tenor.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

so, on the one hand this is true. on the other hand there is no one more insane on this issue than rural red state liberals themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2d

One cool thing about the No Kings branding is that it's negatively polarizing Trump and his supporters into just saying out loud that they want him to be king

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

David Sacks is currently posting AI content of Trump as a king and Dems kneeling if you were wondering where his brain is at

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◥◤CDFI, Frankenstein @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 2d

Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News.

For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 2d

If a candidate endorsed by Elizabeth Warren had gotten caught posting about how black people don't tip at restaurants their'd be immediate demands for them to step down and page long screeds about how this shows the moral degeneracy of liberals

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 2d

the second richest man alive simply cannot afford to pay you and bari weiss at the same time

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Paramount Skydance to cut 2,000 US jobs starting week of October 27, Variety reports reut.rs/4qijAb2

Paramount Skydance to cut 2,000 US jobs starting week of October 27, Variety reports

Paramount Skydance will begin mass layoffs the week of October 27, eliminating around 2,000 U.S. jobs as part of a $2 billion cost-cutting plan under new CEO David Ellison, Variety reported on Saturday, citing company sources.

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 2d

They could've saved characters and said "Libertarian"

skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 2d

now that's a headline

Armed man wearing 'non-offending pedophile' sign storms stage at NYC Wikipedia conference

The man pointed a gun at the ceiling and threatened to kill himself before being tackled by conference organizers, according to police.

www.nbcnews.com

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 3d

It's why the "path to next action" is always more frictionless than the path to the answer.

It's why sites like this one will allow terrible people to be platformed.

It boots attention.

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 3d

The KPI of attention is how you have algorithms that prioritize ragebait.

It's the reason why click bait titles exist.

It's the reason why pages take paragraphs to get to the point.

It's why push notifications exist

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 3d

I think that the fall of our society will be traced, in part, to the decision to treat attention as a core KPI.

I think the impact of this metric is to the digital economy as Reaganomics is to the physical one.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 3d

Peaky Blinders meme: No fighting with regime-run accounts. No fucking fighting with regime-run accounts!

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine being so pathetic that the government you run is shut down and instead of a paycheck, your boss tells you troll people online... And you do it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

Remember our mantra:

Don't Engage, Just Block.

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 4d

Coding is amazing because you can be running into a wall trying to brute force a problem and someone will be like "what about this brand new thing" that you never considered as a solution and suddenly your progress leapfrogs.

Today i learned about Levenshtein while trying to brute force with REGEX

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Asher Langton @asherlangton.bsky.social · 4d

Sure, buddy. That’s a real thing that definitely happened.

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 4d

This reminds me when I made some offhand comment about hospitals denying medical procedures due to faith had issues and used example of a place refusing to do blood transfusions and just.. had mentions full of JW arguing with me that I was attacking their faith.

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 4d

As Philly’s rate of violence plummets to near-historic lows, police are also solving homicides at the highest rate in recent memory.

The homicide clearance rate this year is around 90% — the highest in 40 years.

Philly detectives are solving homicides at the highest rate in 40 years as violence plummets and tech improves

Still, nearly 800 killings between 2021 and 2023 have yet to result in an arrest, according to an Inquirer analysis.

www.inquirer.com

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 5d

This is the one use case I've (personally) found for it. I think if you know enough about code to get the logic of it, LLMs are a much faster version of StackExchange

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