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Ben Bellbeast
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sociology phd 👥🎓 data engineer 📉🧑🏻‍💻 american soccer analysis ⚽️ up the fucking pids
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Like those are hash bricks yeah?
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one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion
The chinooks be chinooking
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When they say "Jesus" they mean an entity which authorizes and sacralizes their violence, an entity which they happened to name after an unrelated crucified rabbi
I simply can’t wait for the American Unexceptionalism movement
No you are not the greatest country in the world and no you are not the worst country in the world, like most countries you are just kinda mid and it is way past time to grow up and accept this
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It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"
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More than 7 million protested. You can’t forget the millions fighting from their homes.
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
I only use AI for coding when I’m truly drawing a blank and need an idea from scratch. It helps like 25% of the time lmao
(5) Perceived vs. objective performance

I can speak from experience that GenAI does not assist with my coding tasks. There's a lot of bad advice in the training datasets.
metr.org METR @metr.org · Jul 10
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
This reminds me of the four Colorado seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.
There are three seasons: summer is coming, summer, and Thanksgiving is coming
Wonder what that mega church member who yapped at me thinks about duly electing whatever this is
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
They’re all cartoon Nazis
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
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Dave Matthews band didn’t dump shit on those people on a boat, those people had an interaction with an opaque liquid of indeterminate origin.
Who can say who was at fault?
President Trump posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media showing him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. He shared the video on Saturday, the same day that protesters participated in mass “No Kings” demonstrations.
Trump Posts Fake A.I. Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters
President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.
nyti.ms
I feel like I’m slowly losing my mind
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
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Yeah he looked like a winger trying to play the 10 tbh, and also like he needs a preseason to gel with his teammates’ styles.
Something that was glossed over with the events in last night’s presser:

Paxten Aaronson revealed it “took some time to get used to” playing in the 10 spot with the Rapids. Said he played deeper at Utrecht last season and was able to create more as a late arriver.
Who robbed the Louvre right answers only
Was reading the declaration for protest inspo and folks do not skip seasons 1 and 2 of Mike Duncan’s Revolutions, they really are essential for understanding our moment and liberalism’s defining innovation of politics and the foundations of our modern order
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings
We can’t help but root for people that humiliate the powerful, like yeah enjoy the L, legacy of the French Empire
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Put out a middle of the pack product, expect coverage that reflects that. For Armas to pick this moment to publicly bash Burgundy Wave was unprofessional and it was much nastier than any coverage BW has offered the club. Matt is as good as it gets.
Chris Armas on his future being out of contract, after being snarky and attacking our coverage as always being negative and wondering how many people read us:

"It's fresh. It just ended (the season). We'll have discussions."