dean
@bigdeaner.bsky.social
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Verso end of year sale going unreasonably hard as is tradition
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Verso end of year sale going unreasonably hard as is tradition
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Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
That birds eye view of the swift TD was sweet. Really cool to see the tight ends come through and open the hole
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
That birds eye view of the swift TD was sweet. Really cool to see the tight ends come through and open the hole
The FanDuel "pass the leg" ad with the tagline "this holiday season bet together like never before" is one of the more depraved pieces of media I've seen on TV recently
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The FanDuel "pass the leg" ad with the tagline "this holiday season bet together like never before" is one of the more depraved pieces of media I've seen on TV recently
Mr. white hoodie is a DAWG
A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Mr. white hoodie is a DAWG
Lots of things seem crazy when you have 0 understanding of monopolies or macroeconomics
I don't know what to say other than that this is a grave factual error on which to base your analysis. it's fucking ridiculous
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Lots of things seem crazy when you have 0 understanding of monopolies or macroeconomics
If you pretend to be ignorant to Trump's appeals to those exact issues then yeah this is really confusing
"We finally understand the truth: that capitalism is picking our pocket, housing costs are unsustainable, the welfare state should be expanded. Also, simultaneously, approximately half of us have fallen behind the likes of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump" - I think maybe this is not very plausible
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If you pretend to be ignorant to Trump's appeals to those exact issues then yeah this is really confusing
Will doesn't want to help people in need so he's desperate to find ways to downplay the state of things so as not to feel obligated to help in a substantial way
This is a subtweet. Many progressives desperately want people to be miserable about the economy for [longstanding progressive critiques], so they're equally desperate to find ways to argue that the public's sudden, inexplicable economic negativity represents the public somehow waking up to reality.
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Will doesn't want to help people in need so he's desperate to find ways to downplay the state of things so as not to feel obligated to help in a substantial way
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a jubilee video where i'm surrounded by 20 of my friends and we're drinking beers and hanging out and talking about music and what's going on in our lives
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
a jubilee video where i'm surrounded by 20 of my friends and we're drinking beers and hanging out and talking about music and what's going on in our lives
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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Doesn't matter what field they work in - anytime someone entertains the notion that AI is conscious is doing advertising for the industry.
It's just a program doing its best to put letters in order that we interpret as the language of our choosing that tries to guess what we're looking for
It's just a program doing its best to put letters in order that we interpret as the language of our choosing that tries to guess what we're looking for
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Doesn't matter what field they work in - anytime someone entertains the notion that AI is conscious is doing advertising for the industry.
It's just a program doing its best to put letters in order that we interpret as the language of our choosing that tries to guess what we're looking for
It's just a program doing its best to put letters in order that we interpret as the language of our choosing that tries to guess what we're looking for
Such a good point:
Nobody appreciates the art of a good troll anymore. It's all just industrial-scale agitation slop. Could be replaced with AI.
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Such a good point:
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Nobody appreciates the art of a good troll anymore. It's all just industrial-scale agitation slop. Could be replaced with AI.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Nobody appreciates the art of a good troll anymore. It's all just industrial-scale agitation slop. Could be replaced with AI.
"all things require resources therefore all resource consumption is unproblematic" isn't a compelling argument actually
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"all things require resources therefore all resource consumption is unproblematic" isn't a compelling argument actually
BREAKING: data centers consume 0 water!
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
BREAKING: data centers consume 0 water!
This suggests you don't understand things like the water usage behind ai
this is a bluesky bubble opinion. 800M+ people use chatgpt every week. I hate Facebook and Instagram and I wish they didn’t exist, but 3B and 2B people use them every month, respectively. it’s very hard to picture a mass or even a niche left backlash against them
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This suggests you don't understand things like the water usage behind ai
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Jesus fucking Christ
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Jesus fucking Christ
Reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao and the bit about Bill Gates saying he won't be impressed until OpenAI has a model that can ace the AP Bio exam so OpenAI goes to Khan academy and just inserts the answers into the training data and it blows Billy's tits off is so fucking funny
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao and the bit about Bill Gates saying he won't be impressed until OpenAI has a model that can ace the AP Bio exam so OpenAI goes to Khan academy and just inserts the answers into the training data and it blows Billy's tits off is so fucking funny
Someone should write a piece about the pitfalls of the constant appeals to the median when it comes to political policy
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Someone should write a piece about the pitfalls of the constant appeals to the median when it comes to political policy
Dude in the white hoodie is a legend
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Dude in the white hoodie is a legend
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i asked the sao if the cuts to the felony review unit were related to the new "expedited felony review" policy. matt mcgrath, o'neill burke's communications director, never responded.
none of the 20+ (soon to be 30+) people in the sheriff's policy & comms office responded to my emails either 🤷
none of the 20+ (soon to be 30+) people in the sheriff's policy & comms office responded to my emails either 🤷
Cook County law enforcement agencies get more money in 2026
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved large investments in policing and prosecutions, over objections from advocates.
chicagoreader.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
i asked the sao if the cuts to the felony review unit were related to the new "expedited felony review" policy. matt mcgrath, o'neill burke's communications director, never responded.
none of the 20+ (soon to be 30+) people in the sheriff's policy & comms office responded to my emails either 🤷
none of the 20+ (soon to be 30+) people in the sheriff's policy & comms office responded to my emails either 🤷
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
You ever notice these guys spend more time talking about how it's "important" to "recognize" some trivial distinction in the conditions rather than about the conditions themselves and how to solve them? Keeping the left in check by perpetually haggling in the margins
Okay this one irritates me so I’m gonna say something! I have never ever said “Move to Cincinnati.” I have just insist that we need to recognize that MOST AMERICANS live in places like Cincinnati or Minneapolis, not NYC, which is important if you’re going to talk about conditions in America.
Arguably you could say his takes on how you should move to Cincinnati are transphobia in practice but like that definition makes like 50% of urban liberals transphobes and imo dilutes the definition. He probably would respond saying you could also move to MSP
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
You ever notice these guys spend more time talking about how it's "important" to "recognize" some trivial distinction in the conditions rather than about the conditions themselves and how to solve them? Keeping the left in check by perpetually haggling in the margins