thepavel
@thepavel.bsky.social
a human in portlandia
grew up in kharkiv. decades in pnw. a mossy ukrainian. recovering full-stack eng. impostor. wannabe musician. father. well-wisher.
grew up in kharkiv. decades in pnw. a mossy ukrainian. recovering full-stack eng. impostor. wannabe musician. father. well-wisher.
still not watching. for the same reasons as the past two.
it's clearly not for me.
it's clearly not for me.
2018, Russia: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I'll just wait four years."
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
still not watching. for the same reasons as the past two.
it's clearly not for me.
it's clearly not for me.
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
it's wild how many Americans are ok with "arrest first, ask questions later"
not a deal breaker at all for tens of millions of people in this country
not a deal breaker at all for tens of millions of people in this country
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
it's wild how many Americans are ok with "arrest first, ask questions later"
not a deal breaker at all for tens of millions of people in this country
not a deal breaker at all for tens of millions of people in this country
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i watched pluribus and highest compliment for a show: i did not skeet even one time. or even dick around on my phone. rhea seehorn is a genius actress
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
i watched pluribus and highest compliment for a show: i did not skeet even one time. or even dick around on my phone. rhea seehorn is a genius actress
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Me: Not sure I can keep going times are tough for real
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Me: Not sure I can keep going times are tough for real
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
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Like every time you think, we’re selling F-35s to the bone saw guy, you gotta remember we’re also selling F-35s to the 9/11 guys. Same guys.
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Like every time you think, we’re selling F-35s to the bone saw guy, you gotta remember we’re also selling F-35s to the 9/11 guys. Same guys.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
perhaps the whole thing would be easier to swallow without the blatant homophobia pushing it along
probably won't matter in red-hatted america anyway
probably won't matter in red-hatted america anyway
hey I think maybe someone needs to say out loud that actually sucking another man’s dick is literally fine whereas raping children is instant death, like are we maybe not doing this one *just right*?
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
perhaps the whole thing would be easier to swallow without the blatant homophobia pushing it along
probably won't matter in red-hatted america anyway
probably won't matter in red-hatted america anyway
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🧵 ⬇️
I am currently in Newport, OR for a public hearing at city hall to listen to resident concerns on a potential ICE facility that officials are considering putting in town. The room is completely packed, the hallways are packed, there and tons of people protesting ICE outside and
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
🧵 ⬇️
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And of course this is the cause of the real split on him in the MAGA movement. They're all pro-paedophile and pro-eugenics, but some of the eugenicists think Ashkenazi Jewish people count as a superior race because of IQ scores, while the other half think they're blood-drinking reptiles.
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
And of course this is the cause of the real split on him in the MAGA movement. They're all pro-paedophile and pro-eugenics, but some of the eugenicists think Ashkenazi Jewish people count as a superior race because of IQ scores, while the other half think they're blood-drinking reptiles.
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An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3
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I lost my job, my kids have measles, and it is now clear to me that the President of the United States is a pedophile. But at least I know that the Cracker Barrel logo won't be changed any time soon.
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and it is now clear to me that the President of the United States is a pedophile. But at least I know that the Cracker Barrel logo won't be changed any time soon.
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
every company in 2025
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Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
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I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
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Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
in a just world, no one would be food insecure.
since we don't have that, i won't oppose starving these motherfuckers if that were to come up as an option.
since we don't have that, i won't oppose starving these motherfuckers if that were to come up as an option.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
in a just world, no one would be food insecure.
since we don't have that, i won't oppose starving these motherfuckers if that were to come up as an option.
since we don't have that, i won't oppose starving these motherfuckers if that were to come up as an option.