Marc
@schoenen.bsky.social
Rewards professional, father, Phillies fan. Bay Area and outdoor enthusiastic. <slow> jogger
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social is this for real? This seems absurd even in an enclave where many trivial absurdities are routinely overlooked
x.com/bowtiedbrazi...
x.com/bowtiedbrazi...
BowTiedBrazil on X: "A Chinese nepo baby in Palo Alto who redesigned his entire house to only take Evian water for all water (shower, tap) in his house and somehow had a direct contract with Evian for some absurd amount of deliveries Don’t even understand how (like is someone filling a water tank w" / X
A Chinese nepo baby in Palo Alto who redesigned his entire house to only take Evian water for all water (shower, tap) in his house and somehow had a direct contract with Evian for some absurd amount of deliveries Don’t even understand how (like is someone filling a water tank w
x.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social is this for real? This seems absurd even in an enclave where many trivial absurdities are routinely overlooked
x.com/bowtiedbrazi...
x.com/bowtiedbrazi...
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This presidency has fully devolved into a series of Make A Wish situations staged for an addled, dying man
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This presidency has fully devolved into a series of Make A Wish situations staged for an addled, dying man
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In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
Must read via CN
"The reason we still call OpenAI and a handful of rivals “labs” is because they were born as research organizations that were indifferent to commercial imperatives .... Ten years in, hundreds of millions of people now use tools every day that in 2015 would have qualified as sci-fi"
"The reason we still call OpenAI and a handful of rivals “labs” is because they were born as research organizations that were indifferent to commercial imperatives .... Ten years in, hundreds of millions of people now use tools every day that in 2015 would have qualified as sci-fi"
When OpenAI was founded, it was most afraid of causing catastrophe. Today it seems more afraid that users will churn. I wrote about the company at 10: www.platformer.news/openai-10-no...
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Must read via CN
"The reason we still call OpenAI and a handful of rivals “labs” is because they were born as research organizations that were indifferent to commercial imperatives .... Ten years in, hundreds of millions of people now use tools every day that in 2015 would have qualified as sci-fi"
"The reason we still call OpenAI and a handful of rivals “labs” is because they were born as research organizations that were indifferent to commercial imperatives .... Ten years in, hundreds of millions of people now use tools every day that in 2015 would have qualified as sci-fi"
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This year has had the highest layoffs since 2020.
December 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This year has had the highest layoffs since 2020.
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Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
The cruelty is the point
This administration has turned unlawful murder, lacking due process, into a video game, harvesting karma on socials. The sheer depravity. Words fail me
This administration has turned unlawful murder, lacking due process, into a video game, harvesting karma on socials. The sheer depravity. Words fail me
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The cruelty is the point
This administration has turned unlawful murder, lacking due process, into a video game, harvesting karma on socials. The sheer depravity. Words fail me
This administration has turned unlawful murder, lacking due process, into a video game, harvesting karma on socials. The sheer depravity. Words fail me
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Lidar stopped being prohibitively expensive 5 years ago but Elon kept lying about it because he made a bad decision and people refuse to stop repeating the lie.
December 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Lidar stopped being prohibitively expensive 5 years ago but Elon kept lying about it because he made a bad decision and people refuse to stop repeating the lie.
This just seems like blatant, unwarranted cruelty. Truckers make so little $$$ as it is - why are they attacking an industry that no one is talking about - no one is focused on? This will just increase inflation and prices for consumers. @#)(*#$@~
The U.S. Transportation Department is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools, part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on industry.
Thousands of U.S. trucking schools could lose accreditation under DOT crackdown
The U.S. Transportation Department is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools, part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on industry.
n.pr
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This just seems like blatant, unwarranted cruelty. Truckers make so little $$$ as it is - why are they attacking an industry that no one is talking about - no one is focused on? This will just increase inflation and prices for consumers. @#)(*#$@~
The enshitiffication broadens!
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The enshitiffication broadens!
Burry: $TSLA is ridiculously overvalued
"The Elon cult was all-in on electric cars until competition showed up, then all-in on autonomous driving until competition showed up, and now is all-in on robots — until competition shows up."
www.businessinsider.com/michael-burr...
"The Elon cult was all-in on electric cars until competition showed up, then all-in on autonomous driving until competition showed up, and now is all-in on robots — until competition shows up."
www.businessinsider.com/michael-burr...
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry says Tesla is 'ridiculously overvalued'
"Tesla's market capitalization is ridiculously overvalued today and has been for a good long time," Burry wrote.
www.businessinsider.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Burry: $TSLA is ridiculously overvalued
"The Elon cult was all-in on electric cars until competition showed up, then all-in on autonomous driving until competition showed up, and now is all-in on robots — until competition shows up."
www.businessinsider.com/michael-burr...
"The Elon cult was all-in on electric cars until competition showed up, then all-in on autonomous driving until competition showed up, and now is all-in on robots — until competition shows up."
www.businessinsider.com/michael-burr...
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144 and 441 are mirror images of each other. A fun fact is that the same is true of their square roots 12 and 21.
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
144 and 441 are mirror images of each other. A fun fact is that the same is true of their square roots 12 and 21.
my goodness-
@fivefourpod.bsky.social love to hear your hot take on the increasing prevalance of this incompetence
@fleerultra.bsky.social @aywarhiannon.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
@fivefourpod.bsky.social love to hear your hot take on the increasing prevalance of this incompetence
@fleerultra.bsky.social @aywarhiannon.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
my goodness-
@fivefourpod.bsky.social love to hear your hot take on the increasing prevalance of this incompetence
@fleerultra.bsky.social @aywarhiannon.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
@fivefourpod.bsky.social love to hear your hot take on the increasing prevalance of this incompetence
@fleerultra.bsky.social @aywarhiannon.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Waymos on South Court?! What's next? High-rise housing? #NobodyAskedForThis
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social
www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social
www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...
'Nobody asked for this': Waymo cars flock to quiet Palo Alto street
Palo Alto resident Ben Baum rose like normal before sunrise on Saturday morning, coffee in hand, and watched from his window as a driverless Waymo drove by. Then a second. Then a third. In total, Baum...
www.paloaltoonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Waymos on South Court?! What's next? High-rise housing? #NobodyAskedForThis
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social
www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social
www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...
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you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces
Lovely word I learned at work today:
Schnickschnack
From our German colleagues - said in the context/sense of "cut the crap"
Schnickschnack
From our German colleagues - said in the context/sense of "cut the crap"
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Lovely word I learned at work today:
Schnickschnack
From our German colleagues - said in the context/sense of "cut the crap"
Schnickschnack
From our German colleagues - said in the context/sense of "cut the crap"
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles."
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
“.. Tesla’s current Robotaxi crash rate .. is about 2x higher than Waymo’s, despite in-car supervisors that prevent an unknown number of crashes.”
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/11/17/t...
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/11/17/t...
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles."
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.
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Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
Think of your favorite celebrity, whether they’re an actor, musician, athlete, whatever.
They’re probably pretty well-off, financially. But they are still closer to auctioning off their possessions to cover medical bills than they are to being a billionaire.
They’re probably pretty well-off, financially. But they are still closer to auctioning off their possessions to cover medical bills than they are to being a billionaire.
James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Despairing and unsurprising. Tyvm @aywarhiannon.bsky.social for drawing attention to her plight.
This cruel administration. Forsaking process for tariffs, spending, extrajudicial killings, etc. while relying on process and bureacracy to detain Leqaa for months despite judicial demands for release.
This cruel administration. Forsaking process for tariffs, spending, extrajudicial killings, etc. while relying on process and bureacracy to detain Leqaa for months despite judicial demands for release.
This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide.
open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
“What’s at Stake is Everything”: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
open.spotify.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Despairing and unsurprising. Tyvm @aywarhiannon.bsky.social for drawing attention to her plight.
This cruel administration. Forsaking process for tariffs, spending, extrajudicial killings, etc. while relying on process and bureacracy to detain Leqaa for months despite judicial demands for release.
This cruel administration. Forsaking process for tariffs, spending, extrajudicial killings, etc. while relying on process and bureacracy to detain Leqaa for months despite judicial demands for release.
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jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
The number of local parents I have met that fits into this category is maddening. (Even more so w/my partner, who is a teacher for which this math-centric madness is often the norm, rather than the exception)
Shitty parenting from the Silicon Valley set. Never occurred to me to tell my math gifted son that he could be an asshole since he was good with numbers.
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The number of local parents I have met that fits into this category is maddening. (Even more so w/my partner, who is a teacher for which this math-centric madness is often the norm, rather than the exception)