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thanks in part to mother nature, it will never rain again - it should do wonders for the GNP doing a math ms somewhere or other current project: inference and expectation in keynes ⚾️🎥🐕🎶

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · Feb 19

math is when you go from big snek to little snek

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1h

If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 2h

The average protester has been doing expert-level escalation management and the average ICE officer is threatening to murder ambulance drivers.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1h

One of my more annoying but sincerely held beliefs is that a left-wing case for capital can and must be made very urgently

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1h

Anybody who can crack the nut of what to do about large city police forces will go down in history like Eliot Ness

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1h

Capital simply abandoning large swathes of the country is a frightening prospect

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1h

Given what we know about De Blasio’s relationship with the NYPD we don’t talk enough about the bravery Mamdani is showing in making this run

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foucaultshi.bsky.social @foucaultshi.bsky.social · 3h

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 2h

I miss his ones about pop punk but this is the classic

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

Quite famously, Joe Biden ended the forever war in 🇦🇫 that everyone said for years they wanted, & he did not receive his Leni Riefenstahl moment on front pages & magazine covers:

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 14

A reminder that Joe Biden destroyed his presidency by doing the thing everyone said for years that they wanted but really didn't.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · Aug 14

Reminder that if Joe Biden hadn't acted the US would still have troops deployed in Afghanistan, taking casualties year after year after year.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 3h

A lost generation for American science and letters: another gift from the Republican Party to you

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 3h

“Please do my homework for me. Pinky swear you won’t make anything up. No takesy-backsies.”

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 3h

“Never invent data” is sending me.

People should have their degrees or professional certifications revoked for admitting to doing this

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 8h

🤔 hmm

Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 8h

"Agencies where racial minorities and women were a majority of the work force, such as the Education Department and the USAID, were targeted for the largest work force reductions or complete elimination."

Kicking away the ladder for the Black middle class.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11h

Heritage president Kevin Roberts, in a truly revealing passage of his Foreword to the Project 2025 policy agenda, states that the project of “dismantling the administrative state” is not about the actual size of government at all:

The goal is to cut “the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 9h

certified banger film

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The Darkest Samurai Film Ever Made: Toshio Matsumoto’s “Shura” | Far Flungers | Roger Ebert

A Far Flunger looks at the masterful "Shura," aka "Demons."

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 9h

100% shook

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 10h

Shook

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 21h

They’ve got medication for that now

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 22h

*CHINA'S WANG SAYS TRADE FACES RISING UNCERTAINTY, DIFFICULTIES

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 22h

This isn’t very good

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 22h

Me (watching “Burnt Offerings”, nudging date): those are the burnt offerings

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

This guy has more confirmed kills than Chris Kyle

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

🎶Gotta know when to hold em
Know when to fold em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

We are going to win

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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