Reposted by @athavale.aiNBC Sports @nbc-sports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The celebration is ON! 🍾 Ashley ShahAhmadi catches up with Ray Kerr and Chris Sale after the Braves punch their ticket to the NLDS. 021
Reposted by @athavale.aiSecrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🚨Exclusive🚨: I have exculpatory evidence in what is easily the dumbest congressional oversight episode of the year...maybe the decade. I was at the Iowa v. MD game & just looked at my pics & sure enough, someone who looks like Jack Smith is sitting in Sec 109, Row 1. Complete & total vindication! 371222222
Reposted by @athavale.aiMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel. 21434715
Reposted by @athavale.aiChristiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Hi Elizabeth, this popped up on my timeline. We actually did a deeper dive into this strike here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...nytimes.comIn Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy (Gift Article)The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said. 14717
Reposted by @athavale.aiDuckDB @duckdb.org · 26/08/2026.@ducklabs.com is joining Amazon Web Services (AWS), expected to be effective by early Sept. This move gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring #DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and orgs – while keeping our commitment to OSS Read the full announcement here:ducklabs.comDuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open SourceDuckLabs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers. 22414
Reposted by @athavale.aiRobin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026If you want to know what markets think of Treasury buy-backs, look at what gold's doing today. Buy-backs are admission that: (i) rising long yields are a serious problem; but (ii) the US isn't willing to get the deficit - the real issue - under control... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-return... 419356
Reposted by @athavale.aiJamie Smyth @jamiesmythft.bsky.social · 14/08/2026US nuclear negotiator Ernest Moniz: ‘Iran has home-court advantage’ - he outlines a plan to prevent an arms race in the Middle East and warns about Trump's very dangerous "anti-science" agenda as.ft.com/r/fbe72ee4-2... @financialtimes.comas.ft.comUS nuclear negotiator Ernest Moniz: ‘Iran has the home-court advantage’The architect of the 2015 deal with Tehran on how to prevent a new arms race in the Middle East 194
Reposted by @athavale.aiGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 05/08/2026"Jeff Dean, one of Google’s earliest employees and an architect of its artificial-intelligence strategy for the past 15 years, is leaving the company to launch an AI startup focused on scientific discovery."wsj.comGoogle’s Chief Scientist Is Leaving After 27 Years—to Start His Own AI CompanyThree other longtime Google scientists will join Jeff Dean to launch Discovery Loop, which will apply automated AI research to drug design and other challenges. 3367
Reposted by @athavale.aiOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026NYT model has El-Sayed winning with +1.4 but you can see how the race has tightened over time. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1368
Reposted by @athavale.aiGiovanni Staunovo @staunovo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Charts on US petroleum inventories in million barrels - EIA #oott 1225
Reposted by @athavale.aiNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Elon Musk is calling for the execution of the Economist editor who interviewed him. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem. 303336567
Reposted by @athavale.aiBest of Twitter @enchilando.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I watched Trump's speech at the Correspondents' Dinner last night. It's hard to articulate how sad it made me. Sad and embarrassed and exhausted. Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can't tell one. 14017
Reposted by @athavale.aiIvan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The pushback this "reporter" gave Trump is astounding. Astounding, as in non-existent. This is basically a stenographer drawing conclusions from a transcribed monologue.axios.comExclusive: Trump "close" to decision on "massive attack" on IranThe president hasn't given himself a deadline on restarting attacks on Iran. 3355
Reposted by @athavale.aiSam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Well, it's been two weeks and we have already basically forgotten about Platner. And, the first survey's out: 711714
Reposted by @athavale.aiSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Dude's got nothing. No intelligence. No coherent theory of the case. No information that he has shared in a classified or non-classified setting. Just the slowly dawning realization that no one loves him. This is not the time for fear. Kick him while he's down. Cue the Mortal Kombat GIF. 820030
Reposted by @athavale.aiJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Blanche concedes he talked with Trump about the slush fund/release agreement after it was "dead." Dem Senators: Follow up and ask for details. He probably won't reveal them, claiming privilege, but at least ask why we should have confidence he represents the people, not the president, in this. 561958552
Reposted by @athavale.aiShipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Don’t think this is the public statement the US is asking for…. 861696
Reposted by @athavale.aiJM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Paraguay 0-1 France 70'- Kylian Mbappé (PEN) 28930
Reposted by @athavale.aiLumo @asklumo.proton.me · 30/06/2026AI knows more about you than any other technology. Most mine your data to train their models and profile your behavior, which later gets sold to advertisers. Lumo doesn’t. And it just got a massive upgrade. Here’s Lumo 2.0, the world’s most-private AI ⬇️ 🧵 1/6 2715732
Reposted by @athavale.aiTechmeme @techmeme.com · 18/06/2026An in-depth look at Meta's AI-fueled rampage through its engineering organization, reassignments of engineers on core teams to data labeling, and more (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink 0103
Reposted by @athavale.aiTechmeme @techmeme.com · 15/06/2026Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink 0247
Reposted by @athavale.aiAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2026TRUMP: I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz TRUMP 1 HOUR LATER: The strait will open on Friday 51649401084
Reposted by @athavale.aiPablo Torre @pablo.show · 07/06/2026James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell 783625977
Reposted by @athavale.aiRobin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 30/05/2026One of the reasons oil prices didn't spike to $200 is because temporary supply buffers played a big role in plugging the shortfall in the global oil market. Those supply buffers are depleting fast. @econharris.bsky.social and I lay out a timeline in this blog post: www.brookings.edu/articles/the...brookings.eduThe timing of the impending crude crisis | BrookingsWith the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and reserves depleting, Robin Brooks and Ben Harris estimate a timeline of increasing oil prices. 5295117
Reposted by @athavale.aiSteve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 27/05/2026So just like the Obama deal but more money for Iran and depleted stockpiles of missiles and several Americans dead 041
Reposted by @athavale.aiJack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026It's amazing how little interest our president has in being a president. Dude just wants to post. America's future is senile ADHD addled AI brained Presidents with a cabinet full of youtubers and brocasters. 38981196
Reposted by @athavale.aiJack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Hearing incoming from multiple sources that something appears to be fixing to pop off this weekend. 113684117
Reposted by @athavale.aic0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 20/05/2026This bird probably speaks French. It has strong opinions about the work of Salvador Dalí. Let's meet the Inca tern (Larosterna inca), so-named because their native range matches the area of the Inca Empire. We're going to HAVE to talk about that mustache first... (📷: San Diego Zoo & Safari Park) 1333860
Reposted by @athavale.aiKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 19/05/2026NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying" 235100911731
Reposted by @athavale.aiRory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Love that US respondents to this Reuters poll 1) broadly believe that Trump failed to explain the goals of the Iran war 2) broadly disagree that the US strategy in the war is clear 3) are nonetheless pretty sure Trump will achieve his [unknowable] goals No notes. 1510415
Reposted by @athavale.aiTom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com · 12/05/2026🤖 I've just released Sentence Transformers v5.5.0! It's headlined by a new `train-sentence-transformers` Agent Skill: let your AI coding agent train & finetune embedding, reranker & sparse encoder models for you. Plus more, here's a thread with highlights 🧵 2275
Reposted by @athavale.aiJomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Miguel Rojas wore custom Jordan cleats on his bobblehead night and replaced the Jumpman logo with a silhouette of his home run swing from Game 7 of the World Series 0162
Reposted by @athavale.aiPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Third day in a row that NOTHING has gone through the Strait of Hormuz. 23709184
Reposted by @athavale.aiAnil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Sam Alito, a week ago: "vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South.... '[T]hings have changed dramatically' in the decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act" #SegregationSam #JimCrowJohn 24651244
Reposted by @athavale.aiHiren Thakore @hirenthakore.bsky.social · 08/05/2026AI dev tools are crossing from autocomplete into operations. The winners won't be the flashiest agents — they'll be the ones that leave clean diffs, reproducible traces, and boring rollback paths. Autonomy without auditability is just expensive guessing. 012
Reposted by @athavale.aiJohn Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026SCOOP: A confidential new CIA analysis delivered to policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least 3 to 4 months before facing more severe economic hardship, a finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse 🧵 723252991
Reposted by @athavale.aiSam @samd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now 1245078831
Reposted by @athavale.aiTrita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026A @WashPost investigation shows that Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the region - far larger damage than what has been acknowledged by the USG. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...washingtonpost.comIran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images showImagery published by Iranian state-affiliated media and verified by The Post shows damage to at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites. 03616
Reposted by @athavale.aiAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2026Moulton: "Now he's begging. Trump is going to them, saying 'please negotiate with us so we can reopen the strait.' It's pathetic. It's not a good position to be in for our national security." 481470395
Reposted by @athavale.aiElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/05/2026EFF is helping the iPhone app ICEBlock sue the government for First Amendment retaliation and coercion. You can read about and track the lawsuit here: www.eff.org/cases/aaron....eff.orgAaron v. BondiEFF is helping represent ICEBlock in its First Amendment lawsuit. ICEBlock is a popular iPhone app that allows the public to report immigration activity in their communities. The company and its 315744
Reposted by @athavale.aiHN @hnws.bsky.social · 24/04/2026DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence L: huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek… C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478850… posted on 2026.04.23 at 23:07:54 (c=2, p=20) 031
Reposted by @athavale.aiJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/04/20261. A tiny California tribe, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, just donated $2 MILLION to MAGA Inc, Trump's Super PAC. I decided to find out why. It's an illustration of exactly how business is done in Trump’s Washington. Follow along for details. 🧵 28559317
Reposted by @athavale.aiNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026They think you're stupid. 286117843031
Reposted by @athavale.aiKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/04/2026California's power grid saw its lowest emissions since......I think at least this century, right? ember-energy.org/data/us-elec... 13814
Reposted by @athavale.aiHN @hnws.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Stop Using Ollama L: sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-usin… C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=477883… posted on 2026.04.15 at 23:35:11 (c=2, p=9) 011
Reposted by @athavale.aiFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/04/2026 Iran is America’s Suez crisis — and just as ridiculous ft.trib.al/wDhC0M3 | opinionft.trib.alIran is America’s Suez crisis — and just as ridiculousThe parallels with Britain’s disastrous Middle East adventure in the 1950s are impossible to resist 56512
Reposted by @athavale.aiJorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 12/04/2026🧵 Thread of European leaders reacting to Péter Magyar's victory and Viktor Orbán's defeat. Ursula von der Leyen: "Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger." 3357100
Reposted by @athavale.aiPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Yes, it’s true that oil tankers that otherwise would be full, from the Persian Gulf, are empty. And if they fill up with oil from the U.S. instead, what does he think happens to oil prices in the U.S.? This guy really can’t put two and two together. 62955169
