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MV
@suzerain.bsky.social
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At heart, a problem solver. Most often that manifests in my work in software engineering, but I like thinking about anything. Interests: music, media, running, technology, programming, game theory, geopolitics, design, art and the future.
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People rarely talk about just how much the world discriminates against night owls.

It’s a lot more than you might think.
For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.

So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
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Following Hurricane Melissa's devastation, Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build financial resilience will be tested. Its $150 million catastrophe bond, triggered by a storm’s low pressure and path, will provide quick relief. Jamaica’s model may serve as a guide for other climate-vulnerable nations.
Jamaica invested heavily in climate disaster insurance. It looks about to pay off | CBC News
Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — an...
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Before and after: Satellite images reveal hurricane devastation in Jamaica (verified)

…entire communities wiped away

This isn’t just “natural”

It’s the cost of global climate inaction, and the silence of leaders is deafening

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Before and after: Satellite images reveal hurricane devastation in Jamaica - BBC News
The images reveal how the Category 5 hurricane caused devastation in some of Jamaica's communities.
www.bbc.co.uk
This gift is more than a little bit subversive.

Well played, President Lee. #korea
#MusicChallenge
#TheTwen2ie5

HM 4

Woman
– Little Simz • Cleo Sol
📍London 🇬🇧🇳🇬🇯🇲
2021

Aside from creating an uplifting track that grooves, kudos for rhyming “pepp-uh” with “leath-uh”.

youtu.be/zHGf6tmnLYE
It exposes that so many of them inspire nothing and they don’t like that.
Ask him if he’s authorized to make any decisions without Trump’s input.
#MusicChallenge
#TheTwen2ie5

HM 3

Anti-Hero
– Taylor Swift
📍Nashville, TN 🇺🇸
2022

Clever pop music, from an album with a great concept.

youtu.be/b1kbLwvqugk
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Obvious to say this, but the actual function of the smear job isn't to make us ask about his aunt, it's to show us the words "hijab" and "9/11" in a headline with his photo.
This made me chuckle, because my father’s cousins were “aunts” and “uncles".

Me, the pedant: “Well, *actually*…they’re cousins once removed.”
My family: “They’re aunts and uncles.”

(My white New England family has American roots tracing back to the 1600s.)

#mamdani
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From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
About the only thing Democrats have going for them at the moment is that Trump is unliked and overreaching. His endeavors aren’t bearing fruit, except in a few areas.

That might be enough to deliver them a slim victory, but just look at the costs we are all paying for their impotent strategies.
Basically, this says “emphasize stuff that polls well and moderate positions on stuff that doesn’t”.

It completely ignores that leaders LEAD.

True leadership means articulating a North Star and convincing people that’s the path forward in order to shape (not follow) public opinion.

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This shows why Democrats lost the country.

Put quite simply: they don’t lead, they follow. Of course we see this with how they allow the opposition to dictate the narrative (always), but to see this weak tea laid out in bullet points makes it clear.

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i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away
#MusicChallenge
#TheTwen2ie5

HM 2

From The Start
– Laufey
📍Reykjavík 🇮🇸🇨🇳
2023

A delightful bossa nova-inspired pop tune from the Icelandic/Chinese chanteuse.

youtu.be/lSD_L-xic9o
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ohtani’s walk out song being michael buble covering nina simone might be the most insane thing about him
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
My objection is with the term “free-market”, not that the article isn’t worth writing.

Journalists shouldn’t parrot Milei’s free market talking point when he relies on socialized investment. His experiment has ceased to be free market with this move, and journalists should point this out.
It may be a tradeoff. Decentralization benefits probably come at the cost of higher latency (meaning: how quickly a message is transferred).

A more passive platform like Bluesky can tolerate lower speed than a real-time chat platform where expectations are that messages arrive almost instantly.
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NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.

The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
This @apnews.com article made me laugh out loud.

“…strengthens his ability to carry out his radical free-market experiment with billions of dollars in backing from the Trump administration.”

Yes, $40 billion from another country’s taxpayers is “free-market”.

www.npr.org/2025/10/27/g...
Milei triumphs in Argentine midterm elections closely watched by Washington
President Milei won in key districts in an election widely seen as a referendum on his past two years in office. Trump had appeared to condition billions of dollars in backing on a good showing for Mi...
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