'viktor shtrum'
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Lover of trains, bikes, college football, and other stuff, too.
Jewish New Yorker. Thoughts are free.
Urban Studies MA student @ a CUNY school
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Jewish New Yorker. Thoughts are free.
Urban Studies MA student @ a CUNY school
"Read Marx!" - Lee Gregovich
Repost is not an endorsement, I just like pressing the button. Buttons are fun.
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I saw a guy the other day with a very light looking e bike and I asked and he said it weighed ten lbs! I told him mine is 60, but then he said he doesn't like now thin the wheels on his are. So I guess the grass is always greener on the other guys e-bike.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I saw a guy the other day with a very light looking e bike and I asked and he said it weighed ten lbs! I told him mine is 60, but then he said he doesn't like now thin the wheels on his are. So I guess the grass is always greener on the other guys e-bike.
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There are so many funny comedians working right now, man. Profiling Louis CK in 2025 is some intense loser shit. That writer doesn't know ball at all
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
There are so many funny comedians working right now, man. Profiling Louis CK in 2025 is some intense loser shit. That writer doesn't know ball at all
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The degree to which I'd rather know what's up with Demetri Martin right cannot be overstated
Demetri Martin has also been out of the public eye for a decade after being a popular comedian, but because he didn’t have a sexual misconduct scandal that’s just the way fame works so nobody’s editor would sign off on a giant puff piece about redemption.
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The degree to which I'd rather know what's up with Demetri Martin right cannot be overstated
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A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
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Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
never heard of this song before but it came up on YouTube, music video has lots of shots of 1980s Brooklyn youtu.be/5mJlcW3X4PQ
3rd Bass - Brooklyn-Queens
YouTube video by 3rdBassVEVO
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November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
never heard of this song before but it came up on YouTube, music video has lots of shots of 1980s Brooklyn youtu.be/5mJlcW3X4PQ
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when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
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Look, you can’t tell me that If Hitler made a nice pair of jeans you wouldn’t wear them
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Look, you can’t tell me that If Hitler made a nice pair of jeans you wouldn’t wear them
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Egg Bowl Facebook sounds like hell
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Egg Bowl Facebook sounds like hell
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
@alexkirshner.com was thinking about how CFB is kinda like European socceer in terms of transfer market and like inequality. Anyway, I had an idea, the NCAA should introduce 1 yr player loans, which would act as an additional yr of eligibility, like a new kind of redshirt. Figure they're into that
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
@alexkirshner.com was thinking about how CFB is kinda like European socceer in terms of transfer market and like inequality. Anyway, I had an idea, the NCAA should introduce 1 yr player loans, which would act as an additional yr of eligibility, like a new kind of redshirt. Figure they're into that
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someone graffitied the D. Boon bench in Fort Greene Park but is it something he would’ve found funny???
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
someone graffitied the D. Boon bench in Fort Greene Park but is it something he would’ve found funny???
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the egg bowl at 11 am is neighbors fighting in the front lawn the morning after a holiday they spent yelling at each other over the fence
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
the egg bowl at 11 am is neighbors fighting in the front lawn the morning after a holiday they spent yelling at each other over the fence
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Are any of the men in the press corps going to ask Trump to stop denigrating their colleagues or are they enjoying this?
".. the latest instance of Trump lashing out at the female journalists who cover him."
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Trump Snaps at CBS Reporter on Thanksgiving When She Questions His Comments on National Guard Shooting: 'Are You a Stupid Person?'
President Donald Trump snapped at CBS News' Nancy Cordes when she questioned him about something he said during a Thanksgiving press conference, asking, 'Are you a stupid person?'
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November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Are any of the men in the press corps going to ask Trump to stop denigrating their colleagues or are they enjoying this?
Are any university presses having black fridays sale? (It's like attorneys general)
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Are any university presses having black fridays sale? (It's like attorneys general)
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
Help me decided a non-FSU shirt to buy from Homefield. I have a Hawaii Rainbow warriors t-shirt I really like. Otherwise I am always afraid of being accused of stolen valor by someone for wearing a shirt of a school I am not affiliated with.
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Help me decided a non-FSU shirt to buy from Homefield. I have a Hawaii Rainbow warriors t-shirt I really like. Otherwise I am always afraid of being accused of stolen valor by someone for wearing a shirt of a school I am not affiliated with.
multiple ppl are doing "so you hate waffles?" to me but w/ Jews instead of waffles
to be fair - Jewish people invented the American concept of Christmas in the 1900s to sell Coca Cola and phonographic records.
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
multiple ppl are doing "so you hate waffles?" to me but w/ Jews instead of waffles
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the Palestinian movement repeatedly instructs us not to use AI; it diminishes real Palestinians who are actually surviving a genocide, and moreover gives the enemy material evidence to claim everything we're is saying is fake, backed up by AI-generated garbage.
we would do well to internalize that.
we would do well to internalize that.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
the Palestinian movement repeatedly instructs us not to use AI; it diminishes real Palestinians who are actually surviving a genocide, and moreover gives the enemy material evidence to claim everything we're is saying is fake, backed up by AI-generated garbage.
we would do well to internalize that.
we would do well to internalize that.
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My million-dollar idea: ABC/ESPN needs to have Jesse Palmer host a special mini-series about Lane Kiffin’s decision where he goes on dates with every college. He’s already the host of The Bachelor and a college football announcer, he’s perfectly qualified!
No one really knows what Lane's Kiffin's next move will be
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My million-dollar idea: ABC/ESPN needs to have Jesse Palmer host a special mini-series about Lane Kiffin’s decision where he goes on dates with every college. He’s already the host of The Bachelor and a college football announcer, he’s perfectly qualified!