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surprise, the fruit companies and intelligence agencies and paramilitaries that helped overthrow the governments in those "banana republics" were all american!
every fucking time
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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microsoft ceo satya nadella claims to use copilot to get through podcast episodes, so by the transitive process i suspect mr. nadella is going to hella
Pope Leo’s advice extended past book reports, too. “Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth,” he told the students. “Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.” He finished by saying that “AI cannot ever replace the unique gift that you are to the world.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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in the letter, BR exec armando senra makes no reference to the specific demands made by lander and refers instead to BR's climate and decarb plan... which is laughably weak. it uses amazon as a case study.

as lander notes, looking only at $$ is what got us here!

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
BlackRock has scaled back “climate engagement in ways that put our investments at risk needlessly,” Lander said in a phone interview. “Climate risk is financial risk. You can see it all around you in increased number of flash floods and wildfires.” In response, BlackRock Managing Director Armando Senra wrote in a letter to Lander that he is alleging that the firm is “abdicating its financial duty and putting New York City’s pensions at risk. These statements are another instance of the politicization of public pension funds, which undermines the retirement security of hardworking New Yorkers.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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it’s rusting industrial shit that kids keep falling off of. so obviously we need to hire a consultant.

jesus christ these people suck butt
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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"AI is the smartest, most capable technology ever invented."

this is a weird thing to claim given:
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, acknowledged in its own research that large language models will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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fucking WHAT
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...
"child sexual predators are always a problem and never an opportunity" is just not that hard to say!
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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do you think they asked the people this actually affected or the middle managers who needed to justify their existence
just gonna guess that all the coders at microsoft and amazon would probably rather have the option to work in pajamas
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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wait this is just teaching. this was just my job as a teacher. you don’t need a computer for this.
large language models are software designed to predict what the user *wants* them to output so personalized lesson plans etc. are sort of the antithesis of what it’s designed for. over time i would expect any llm to spit out a reflection of its user, not any students. you know who can do that? teachers! the translation thing is cool but we already have that, you still don’t need an llm for that
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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if you must drive, please carpool like regina george
suck it blethen family
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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not sure where they got this figure (since @wsj.com does not cite sources like a real paper), but i found a local market report noting the overall vacancy rate is 27.3%, so first of all they're just lying?
kidder.com/market-repor...
As of the end of Q3 2025, the vacancy rate for multi-tenant office properties exceeding 10,000 SF—excluding owner-user buildings—rose by 20 bps to 22.7%. This marks the fifteenth consecutive quarterly increase since Q4 2021, when the rate stood at 12.1%. Among submarkets, Seattle recorded the highest overall vacancy rate in the region at 27.3%
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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lots to hate about the @wsj.com editorial about katie wilson, but i'll focus on this claim:

(response in 🧵)
Seattle’s office vacancy rate is now above 33 percent. Major employers like Amazon, which was founded by Post owner Jeff Bezos, have relocated thousands of workers from Seattle to Bellevue, right across Lake Washington, because it’s safer and friendlier.
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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this isn't from a far-left source - anger towards the tech economy and the companies/executives driving this industry is absolutely becoming more and more mainstream
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
Indirectly, of course, things look quite different. A sharp contraction in tech would put tens of thousands of people out of work, vaporize trillions of investment dollars, torpedo retirement and education funds, obliterate life savings, and ruin lives. It would be a violent shock to a system that’s already under strain. Of course, one of the reasons the economy is under strain is the massive concentration of wealth in the hands of a small number of oligarchs, and those same oligarchs would like to use AI to replace the human labor force—likely putting tens of thousands of people out of work, vaporizing non-oligarchic wealth, obliterating savings, etc. It may be better for the world for the bubble to pop, whatever damage is done.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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what exactly am i looking at here

second image from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_fi...
However, the disclosure of a $912mn bet against Palantir’s shares by famed hedge fund manager Michael Burry appeared to unnerve some of the investors who have driven the stock higher this year. May 19, 2005: Fund manager Michael Burry closed a credit default swap against subprime mortgage bonds with Deutsche Bank valued at $60 million – the first such CDS. He projected they would become volatile within two years of the low "teaser rate" of the mortgages expiring.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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this is your stock market now sickos
a tomato-man hybrid sits astride a horse who clearly didn't sign up to be part of this
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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lolololol

DrOp ThE sToRy MaGgIe
matt mercer's actual headshot from his actual linkedin page, apparently this is the image he wants to put into the world
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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my brother in christ there are whole fields of study devoted to lying with statistics. i can't help it if you're too fucking stupid to understand that
rob saka claims that "data doesn't lie" in the context of increasing SPD funding, apparently laboring under the delusion that more police hiring simply results in increased public safety (it doesn't, and there are decades of studies backing this up)
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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holy shit 👀👀👀
a screenshot of a poll result showing that responses of "strongly oppose" harrell's reelection outnumber "strongly support" by nearly a 2 to 1 margin
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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murphy v ncaa (2018)

no surprise, but what an incredibly specific swing and a miss from sam alito

that fucking goon
The legalization of sports gambling is a controversial subject. Supporters argue that legalization will produce revenue for the States and critically weaken illegal sports betting operations, which are often run by organized crime. Opponents contend that legalizing sports gambling will hook the young on gambling, encourage people of modest means to squander their savings and earnings, and corrupt professional and college sports.
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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from the new york times, 11/13/14

some interesting thoughts on sports gambling from adam silver, just a few years from losing all personal integrity and respect from the public
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the N.B.A. is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives.
October 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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fact check: a lot of us are, though!

also, mark alan smith was also the name of a serial killer, so, uh, washington state not beating those allegations
“A lot of people in Seattle are not necessarily angry at Harrell,” said Mark Alan Smith, a political scientist at the University of Washington, “but they’re absolutely angry at politics.”
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
turtlyburtly.bsky.social
top priority: vending. better underline that. let's clarify that we know there's both legal and illegal vending. did we talk about vendors? list it again. make sure to add a note that only some vendors are "designated". add another note to emphasize that they need permits. yeah, that's it.
a brainstorming chart apparently created by a bunch of elementary schoolers with crayola markers making it very clear that whoever is in charge of planning the streets around lumen field and tmobile park have no idea what it feels like to exist in an actual metropolitan city
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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yes yes this is absolutely true in the context you're thinking of but also this is just cop shit and i can't help but think of seattle's idiot mayor bruce harrell announcing huge raises for cops while failing to gain any meaningful accountability or oversight. again.
gwern.net/doc/politics...
"...state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes."
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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it’s a perpetual motion machine i promise
a chart of funding and purchasing in the llm fever dream space
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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also - and this is possibly way more important - i read the entire sermon, and it's just straight up political speech. rabbi cosgrove doesn't endorse a candidate, but he spends the entire sermon talking about the mayoral race. this contradicts their (presumed) 501c3 status:
Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violating this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise taxes.
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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first, i seriously doubt a single rabbi of a conservative synagogue in the upper east side can speak for all of NYC. this might just be stephens' rabbi. and this is an EXTREMELY WEALTHY neighborhood:
October 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM