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Swopa @swopa.bsky.social · 23h

Also, looking at the rest of the roster, he falls into the "our best hope for the future" category, which probably earns him a little extra consideration.

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Swopa @swopa.bsky.social · 1d

Why do you have to curse him like that... 😆

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Swopa @swopa.bsky.social · 2d

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Swopa @swopa.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone who's worked in the corporate world knows that multiple-hour meetings are useless by definition.

Swopa @swopa.bsky.social · 7d

I don't follow baseball much anymore, but to the extent I do, I'm a Dodgers fan, and even so I felt terrible for that pitcher. Does Southwest still do those "Wanna get away?" ads anymore?

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 9d

“New Enron: The Smuggest Guys In The Room”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Swopa @swopa.bsky.social · 9d

K. Perkins may not be the most reliable source, but my memory is that it wasn't just the money; Harden/Russ weren't a good fit in terms of both needing the ball - e.g., James coming off the bench, but IIRC he ran the offense every play in the 4th quarter www.si.com/nba/clippers...

James Harden's Thunder Teammate Reveals Untold Story of Leaving Kevin Durant

James Harden, Kevin Durant, and Russell Westbrook will forever be known as one of the biggest 'what-if' scenarios in NBA history. The three MVPs were arguably t

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Swopa @swopa.bsky.social · 15d

The deal is close enough to what GS offered in July that I suspect they already had a trade partner/target in mind, and that's why they didn't budge much in negotiations

Swopa @swopa.bsky.social · 15d

Re: podcasting for 45 minutes on the Kuminga deal, a reference that I doubt (hope?) no one will get:
"You think that's an accomplishment? I think that's something you're sentenced to."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16d

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 16d

While there was a lot of crazy and a lot of threats in this meeting (because Trump is a dementia sufferer surrounded by fascists), nearly all of it was aspirational and abstract.

But telling the US military that the opposition party is their enemy is immediate impeachment stuff, abstract or no.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18d

I am so sick of people gushing over Erica Kirk forgiving the assassin at the memorial service because I got her fundraising emails where she was baying for revenge. It's all an act.

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 21d

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 23d

Whether it's Covid, inflation, or hunger, the Trump refuses to manage by refusing to measure.

Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key data report with no explanation

There is heightened concern about the future of key government statistics, including politicization and accuracy.

www.axios.com

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Swopa @swopa.bsky.social · 24d

a basketball player is making a funny face and says `` that 's pretty interesting '' .

ALT: a basketball player is making a funny face and says `` that 's pretty interesting '' .

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 24d

Last week was a watershed moment where Donald Trump dropped pretexts that are standard even for dictators. He openly announced that TV networks aren't allowed to criticize him personally, got Kimmel fired, and order his AG to prosecute his enemies without evidence.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25d

really hoping they're right about Tuesday being the Rapture because a world without Evangelical Christians sounds like a literal paradise

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 27d

Cancelled my Disney+/Hulu subscription. In the “please tell us why you are cancelling” filed, checked the “Other” box, wrote in “Kimmel.”

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 29d

There's no constituency for "we're like republicans but sane." Democratic voters don't want republican policy and republican voters don't want sanity

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · Sep 14

I hate these backhanded Times headlines. Instead of "President Trump Sows Division" it's "Unity is Not Trump's Mission." Because somehow the latter is more objective.

natureofthesouth.bsky.social @natureofthesouth.bsky.social · Sep 14

Hard to imagine someone so ill suited to unifying in times of trouble. In actuality he is most often the source of that trouble.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 14

Free speech to them has always meant that they can say whatever vile disgusting racist misogynist thing they want with no consequences— but if you make fun of them online they have the right to sue.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · Sep 14

Makes you wonder when people will develop reasoning models. Not in an LLM, but in their actual heads.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · Sep 13

One day, American "educators" will learn that machines cannot actually comprehend what they read, much less process it via critical principles. But that day is not today.

Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · Sep 13

Oh my God. A contractor for the state of #Massachusetts used AI to score MCAS standardized tests. It resulted in incorrect scores on about 1,400 tests, which had to be rescored.

#mapoli

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · Sep 13

They've called for vengeance without knowing the shooter or his motives, which proves it was a pretext all along. They want to crush the left and they'll take any excuse to do it.

WIRED @wired.com · Sep 13

Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence

Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

wrd.cm

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 13

hoping to see more charts like these enter the discourse tbh

Philip Bump @pbump.com · Sep 13

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · Sep 13

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

Alayna Treene
@alaynatreene
Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops to help with local law enforcement (without buy-in from the state’s governor) could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN

Now he’s going to Memphis

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@HBRabinowitz
https://cnn.com/2025/09/12/politics/chicago-memphis-trump-national-guard

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