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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · 10h

Cost.

Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · 1d

I think at some point there was the possibility it would remain open because some people in Federal Gov’t / US Military claimed it would be 100% safe, and they didn’t want motorists to be alarmed by the sounds of artillery fire.

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · 1d

Gov. Newsom and California officials are looking pretty good right now for proactively closing I-5…

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · 1d

Hot water heater has died again as of yesterday, and all I want to do is take a nice shower. I guess I am getting a hotel?

Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · 1d

So how am I only learning about the No Kings Protests now, while I am doom scrolling because I can’t sleep? I would have totally gone to a few in Los Angeles…

I haven’t been totally under a rock the past two weeks, and somehow I didn’t hear anything about them. What the hell?

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just checked the bad place and can confirm they’re losing their fucking minds

Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · Jul 12

Is it really the case that MAGA is falling apart over Epstein?

Honestly I will never understand how this works.

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · Jul 5

So if your Nintendo Switch 2 invite got filtered by GMail and expired before you saw it, are you just fucked?

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · Jul 3

Super happy for him because of reasons, but man super-bummed for myself. 😞

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · Jul 3

My partner in crime decided to quit a few weeks ago, and I collaborate with nobody else locally. But company has RTO policy, and so I have to do 90m LA commute 3d/week each way to be alone / on a VC.

I’ve felt a lot of emotions in my 15 year career; this is the first time I feel sad every day.

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · Jun 23

US generally is on an every other week pay schedule.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jun 3

Apparently Marge didn’t read the bill before she voted for it.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · Jun 1

Day 1193 of my 3 day war. Several billion dollars worth of Russian aircraft were destroyed by several thousand dollars of Ukrainian drones.

I remain a master strategist.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · Jun 1

Aircraft carriers of the world
USA
UK
France
Ukraine

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · May 28

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · May 19

Pretty sure I just watched a murder of crows letting a hawk know “you’re in the wrong neighborhood motherfucker”.

Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · May 9

Oh, definitely not. That said I’m sure there is a way some PR person could try and spin it.

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · May 8

At a minimum Trump gets to claim he made a deal, and as we’ve seen with him that _could_ mean Starmer is now on his good side.

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · Apr 27

That sounds dope. Are there any videos?

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · Apr 13

Sorry, what? My whole point wasn’t invalid, because in some states private party sales are not permitted

Even the site says the statement in the OP is mostly false. 🤦‍♂️

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · Apr 13

That’s not accurate, as licensed dealers are required to do background checks which require ID. Private sales are a different story: www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

Fact-checking a meme on ID requirements for guns, voting

After a teenage gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., Americans of all political persuasions flock

www.politifact.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Apr 13

"I didn’t become a universally beloved paragon of good decision making by heeding the unanimous consensus of experts."

I, Famously Good President Herbert Hoover, Am Imposing Tariffs to Bolster Domestic Manufacturing

“President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tarif...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · Apr 13

In Search of Sunrise

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Tim Heckman @t.heckman.io · Apr 13

Rivers don’t carve their way through bedrock overnight.

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · Apr 12

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.

Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

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