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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 13m

I do have some selected 80s and 90s books that are starting to be fun artifacts.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 17m

So funny. Trump wanted more photoshop work. Or maybe he doesn’t have a mirror?

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 18m

Could make it easier to time vaccine for best effect.

Jean Fisch @jeanfisch.bsky.social · 21m

Forget the absolute levels on this chart: Testing levels and focus have changed wildly over time

But the "ups and downs" are a valid information and it shows how, suddenly covid waves
a) became much more in sync (2024)
b) seem to move to an annual pattern (2025) in west Europe

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 46m

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 41m

Funny. But there is a vast amount of global cash waiting to buy on an ai crash.

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 43m

“Like all corrections these days, the manifestation of risk is really just an opportunity to BTFD [buy the fucking dip],” said Carson Block www.ft.com/content/094e...

Short sellers blame retail investors for worst returns since 2020

Rally in heavily shorted stocks comes as AI hype and hopes of lower rates push S&P 500 to record highs

www.ft.com

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 8h

Adopted.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 8h

Even worse - a flat caused by a nearly invisible bit of wire barely poking into the tube. Took quite a bit of work to find it.

Also, ouch. That's expensive.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 8h

A dog year is 7 human years. An ai month is 24 human months.

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 9h

nanochat by Andrej Karpathy is neat - 8,000 lines of code (mostly Python, a tiny bit of Rust) that can train an LLM on $100 of rented cloud compute which can then be served with a web chat UI on a much smaller machine simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/13/...

nanochat

Really interesting new project from Andrej Karpathy, described at length in this discussion post. It provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM, including training, inference and a web Ui, that can be …

simonwillison.net

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 8h

Emily is watching a Korean drama that is one part political history, one part romance, and a very Korean seeming third part that is basically a series of tutorials on gourmet cooking.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 9h

Your reminder that the NYT hated Biden. (I no longer subscribe. After 40 years.)

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 19h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 10h

"I stand on solid rock and I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend, I will not capitulate, I will not give in, I will not give up."

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks out after being indicted by the Trump DOJ.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 9h

Those were our home phones. I am ancient.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 9h

Public Claude 4.5 appears to have extensive restrictions on interactions related to agency and ai identity.

I believe we are entering Von Neumann’s “technological singularity” now.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 9h

“if you read the system card, you also see its signs of situational awareness have jumped. The tool seems to sometimes be acting as though it is aware that it is a tool”

“are at the stage of “AI that improves bits of the next AI, with increasing autonomy and agency”.

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18h

This relatively short essay by Jack Clark (from OpenAI & Anthropic) is a good indicator of the attitude of many people inside the AI labs, and what they think is happening right now in AI.

You do not have to believe him, of course, but it is worth noting: importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-...

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Jonathan Baker @jonathan.boxcake.net · 11h

Great distraction from the real news which is the suspected theft of 1B customer records from Salesforce.

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Benioff says he's 'all for' National Guard in SF, drawing support from Musk

"We don't have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I'm all for it," he said.

www.sfgate.com

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 10h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 9h

Ahh, but did you have to use a pencil to force the dial around?

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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 9h

“They [MAGA] don't like America. They don't like the people that live in this country. They don't like our customs. They don't like our laws. They don't like our traditions. They don't like our constitution. They don't pull for us. I truly believe this.” Minute 4:30 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxkI...

James Carville on Politics Today, 2026, and 2028

YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol

www.youtube.com

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 9h

I’m not a baseball guy but this is great. The trick is the outfielder didn’t actually catch the ball!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 10h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, America is collapsing, but the MSP bike trails on both sides of the Mississippi are getting even more awesome. Several segments w/ public art and parks are being finished now for 2026..

Coon Rapids to Hastings, across the metro region, can be done all on bike trails soon.

#bikesky

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

madoccassia @madoccassia.bsky.social · 11h

Is there, like, an interregnum during which a book should be gracefully retired, until such time as it becomes "a classic, an artifact of its times"?

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h

I’m part of the problem because I completely forgot about this

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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