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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 10h

Weird that the guy who seems really likable and personable in his videos is also likable when you talk to him

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h

Key power brokers attacked Zohran Mamdani and raised millions for his leading opponent in the Democratic primary. But a surprising thing has been happening when he gets behind closed doors with New York’s elite. They are finding themselves, unexpectedly, charmed.

Mamdani Seeks to Charm New York’s Most Powerful Capitalists

Key power brokers attacked Zohran Mamdani and raised millions for his leading opponent in the Democratic primary. Now many are talking to him behind the scenes.

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 12h

How is any side that can call on Gyorkeres and Isak in this position?

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 12h

Sweden have gone 1-0 down to Kosovo. Fisnik Asllani has scored for the away side.

As it stands, Jon Dahl Tomasson's side will have one point from four games in their World Cup qualifying group.

Reposted by Lee Savage

Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 14h

I continue to think that while "LLMs aren't actually that world-changing" is a risk people have at least started paying attention to, "good-enough LLMs are going to be cheap and ubiquitous and those $1B data centers are going to become a liability rather than a moat" is an equally serious problem

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14h

Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 13h

I'm guessing half the schools in the North East were signed up to the same provider so we all got the same experience. The golden age of outsourcing

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine what they could do with that money. Deposit on a nice place to live. Capital to start a business. And if they're smart they'll be fine at state school anyway

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 14h

I remain utterly convinced that if you're not sending your kids to, say Eton, where they would benefit from future networks, parents would be doing their children a big favour by taking the £100k+ they would spend on school fees, etc, and sticking it in the bank to give to them at age 21

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 20h

Antonia, might there just possibly be a reason why the parents of 93% of children in the UK aren’t making the same kind of brave sacrifices you made?

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 14h

My school did the exact same trips. I'm sure the ski trip was over £300. Enough to be made clear that I wouldn't be going

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, I think so. Affective polarization is a good shout. Because I've worked on CEE, backsliding feels like it's always been around

Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks Florian! The Valentim book was on my list already but I hadn't come across Creating Partisan's yet

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 18h

Can anyone recommend recent (say, last 5 years) poli sci research in which the main contribution is a new theory rather than a novel test of an existing theory or a clever research design?

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 21h

A big plus of leaving Twitter is that I never even hear about the UK Gobshite Cinematic Universe. People like Owen Jones, the strict headteacher, Bastani, and the various ex-Guide Fawkes hacks are never mentioned here. But I still see loads of posts about the NYT-adjacent US gobshites

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22h

Gonna start a thread of articles I re-read every time I have an excuse, because after this thread I am thinking a lot about @cormacmccafe.bsky.social‬'s "No Yanks on the Thread" piece.

Feel free to add your own.

I Should Be Able to Mute America

The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss

www.gawkerarchives.com

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

Is this bad? It looks really bad. Like, criminal investigation, bad

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010 Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein in an email “we are in this together” after a picture of the British royal with his arm around a teenage Virginia Giuffre was first published in 2011. The email will pile further pressure on Duke of York and the royal family as he previously told the BBC he had ceased contact with the paedophile financier by that point. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

Blew up a bit in the last 3 miles, 2:02.23. he looked about as broken at the end as I've ever seen from an elite so he didn't leave anything out there

Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

Don't look now, but there's several men on pace for a marathon WR in Chicago, including Jacob Kiplimo. Might even be the first legit sub-2 hours...

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

30km in and on for 2:00.16 for Kiplimo. It's getting real now

Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

Don't look now, but there's several men on pace for a marathon WR in Chicago, including Jacob Kiplimo. Might even be the first legit sub-2 hours...

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

Don't look now, but there's several men on pace for a marathon WR in Chicago, including Jacob Kiplimo. Might even be the first legit sub-2 hours...

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

Holding onto the ball way too long. He's got open teammates asking for the ball while he turns into another two defenders. He'll need to sort that before getting near the first team

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of those little wins the government could take. It's a relatively easy problem to solve and would particularly help younger people. I'm not sure why they aren't fixing it

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘£850 to skip the queue’: how scammers are exploiting driving test delays

Criminals claim there are ways to get a licence without exams. Accepting puts you at risk of identity theft and even prison

www.theguardian.com

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like this is one area where Jesus and the Devil would find common ground

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

Bold move for an autocrat to not look after the military

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

Bruh

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

It's made drinking out so much better for me. It's the only non-alcoholic drink I've had which is as satisfying as a real pint

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome news for all those universities that have already (Oxford) or are lining up expensive contracts for pro versions of ChatGPT. Can't wait for all those anti-woke assignments to come rolling in

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 2d

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 2d

He'll come good eventually, but he could have made it easier by just training during the summer. It turns out that actions have consequences. His world cup hopes look shaky as well

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 3d

I forgot that the doctor's response was: "so I'm Harold Shipman?!"

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 3d

The best is still when they banished a doctor in the last series entirely because "it just makes sense. You save people by day, kill by night."

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