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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 8m

An additional trillion (T) dollars, or about 3% of the entire US GDP, is just now on pause from the government shutdown www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

www.statnews.com

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 2h

Perfect header image use, here.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 3h

"transplant class"

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 8h

It’s kind of incredible how badly every conservative in the city is filling their diaper with rage about Zohran over anything and everything. People struggling to get into a trendy restaurant? In New York? Must be communism!

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 3h

in 1971 they could only dream of forcing horror upon horror into the mind of one victim at a time. modern social media correctly assessed that the answer to "do you want to see the worst 500 things we can find today" is almost always yes. but it's fine and this has had no consequences for anyone

the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange undergoing the ludovico technique

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 4h

My second favorite is when it takes 20 minutes to load and I'm not sure if the process has hung or what.

Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 4h

By far my favorite constantly recurring bug in Borderlands 4 is how when playing alone in singleplayer mode, the game will somehow de-synchronize from itself and only load like 25% of any given area, and also despawn all of my guns.

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 5h

I am just never gonna get used to Baseball Pope.

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 5h

Terrible time to be alive, but also what an incredible time to be alive.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 6h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Sam @samlindauer.bsky.social · 7h

I don't know how many times i've said a version of this, but the yankees keep making it relevant. For a player the yankees hinged so much on in terms of the future of the team/roster construction, they have set Volpe up to fail at every turn. Add this handling of an injury to the list.

MLB Trade Rumors @mlbtraderumors.bsky.social · 8h

Anthony Volpe Undergoes Shoulder Surgery

Anthony Volpe spent much of the 2025 season playing through a partially torn left labrum, and the Yankees shortstop addressed the problem in the form of a surgical procedure yesterday, according to Joel Sherman and Greg Joyce of the New York Post. The exact timeline for Volpe’s recovery isn’t yet clear, but if everything goes…

dlvr.it

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 8h

The MLB playoffs so far, if every losing team had to adopt the colour scheme of the team that beat them

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 20h

Hope you set many PRs

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 21h

Why do bash “dead-beat” players for not being there for their teamss but we never question if the org has bad vibes? Or if they’re just unpleasant to be around?

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 23h

I liked Harkey and it seems like the players did too, but also this is probably one of those moves where the fans are gonna be far more upset than the actual effects will end up being.

Chris Kirschner @chriskirschner.bsky.social · 23h

Yankees have made two coaching changes to Aaron Boone's staff: Longtime bullpen coach Mike Harkey and first base coach Travis Chapman are out. More changes could come.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

Yankees make 2 coaching changes to Aaron Boone’s staff: Source

Mike Harkey had been the Yankees' longest tenured coach and was a favorite among players. Travis Chapman held numerous roles in the org.

www.nytimes.com

Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 23h

The sheer amount of aphorisms that got cut in half and reversed in meaning that have somehow become bedrock foundations of US culture is maddening.

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 23h

It's like doing $/WAR calculations except they're load-bearing for the entire economy.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h

Articles like this drive me insane. The amount of tokens being used is going up because they explicitly made it so that models use more tokens. This is the tech section of a globally-renown newspaper and it's an argument that's unmoored from reality or meaning.
www.wsj.com/articles/ai-...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 1d

I'm in awe, truly.

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 1d

Ok so are you confirming that these photos are of real people? I assumed they were made specifically to mock the type of person we're all talking about.

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 1d

And the other one is the #1 seed in baseball!

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Jaymes @jaymesl.bsky.social · 1d

“Nobody believed in us, not even me!” -Dave Roberts in two weeks after winning back-to-back World Series with the best roster on the planet

Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 1d

Incredible to watch two managers fight about "Actually my team is worse!" in the NLCS.

Jon Heyman @jonheyman.bsky.social · 1d

Dave Roberts calls Pat Murphy’s hype of Dodgers greatness an “act.” And it may be. But with mega stars Snell and Freeman starring in Game 1 there’s at least some validity to it @nypostsports.bsky.social

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 1d

Incredible to watch two managers fight about "Actually my team is worse!" in the NLCS.

Jon Heyman @jonheyman.bsky.social · 1d

Dave Roberts calls Pat Murphy’s hype of Dodgers greatness an “act.” And it may be. But with mega stars Snell and Freeman starring in Game 1 there’s at least some validity to it @nypostsports.bsky.social

‘That’s his whole bit’: The narrative that’s causing NLCS drama

Moments after PAt Murphy painted a sorry picture of his outclassed, ragtag, small-market Brewers, Dave Roberts accused him of trying to “Lou Holtz” the Dodgers.

nypost.com

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 1d

It's very funny to me that the MLBPA hasn't picked a different hotel for teams to stay at in Milwaukee.

rrovito.bsky.social @rrovito.bsky.social · 1d

#Dodgers OF Teoscar Hernández on the team staying at the rumored-to-be haunted Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. "I don't believe in ghosts." But Hernández said his wife might and doesn't want to stay there. Dodgers are in Milwaukee to take on #Brewers in NLCS.

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 1d

cool culture we've built here

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 1d

Still mad the Yankees didn't hire him when he left Houston.

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