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Once called “a real pro.” Technically, I was paid. Formerly @sportsverbs at the old place.

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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t spell Kim without K #Braves
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Pitching Ninja (bot) @pitchingninja-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chris Sale, Resting Pitch Face. 🐦 x.com/PitchingNinja/status/21050175…
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/08/17/n...
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Missed shifts were costly to this McDonald's. An app has fixed the problem
Unexpected absences can cost employers tens of thousands of dollars a month. An app that helps workers with last-minute transportation, food and childcare is making a difference.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
nytimes.com
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Should We Be Afraid of Our Food?
America's food-safety system is being methodically dismantled by the Trump administration.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
nytimes.com
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/08/2026
The unemployment rate for young adults with new degrees is higher than the rate for all workers, according to the New York Fed. Is AI the problem, or is it more complicated? n.pr/4gk2wNQ
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Many recent grads say AI is making it harder to get a job. Economists aren't so sure
The unemployment rate for young adults with new degrees is higher than the rate for all workers, according to the New York Fed. Is AI the problem, or is it more complicated?
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.polygon.com/the-odyssey-...
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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey rivals the action thrills of Lord of the Rings in just 3 hours
Nolan puts away his trusty tools to shape cinematic history with his bare hands
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...
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Under a new federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.wired.com/story/diarrh...
wired.com
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The death of the stick shift is almost here www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
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The death of the stick shift is almost here
Driving a manual vehicle is a lost art. Hopes of a revival have fallen flat. With the rise of EVs and autonomous vehicles, only a few die-hards hold on.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
washingtonpost.com
In the ‘repair cafe’, it is not just appliances that are broken
A repair cafe in a town recovering from a devastating storm helps to mend broken belongings and rebuild a community's resilience.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It is a wonder how these things have gotten more complicated, not less. At the same time technology should make this easier, universities have become more bureaucratic. Universities ask faculty a precise allocation of their time on different projects, but also treat that time as having zero value.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Let’s admit it: The United States is never going to win a men’s World Cup www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
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Let's admit it: The United States is never going to win a men's World Cup
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Column | How to stop ChatGPT from ruining how you think
Studies show that using AI can lead people to “cognitive surrender.” But with the right approach, it can also elevate your thinking.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy anniversary to Republicans getting mad at NPR for tweeting the Declaration of Independence on Independence Day.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/07/2026
celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
thedispatch.com/article/birt...
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Birthright Citizenship Serves American Power
The Supreme Court affirms a pillar of U.S. strength.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...
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Police must obtain a warrant when seeking sweep of cellphone location data, Supreme Court rules | CNN Politics
The high court on Monday ruled that the use of a “geofence warrant” to capture location data from cell phones in search of a robbery suspect constituted a search for Fourth Amendment purposes.
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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Great read! Here's my favorite paragraph.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026
HISTORY.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If you’re a fan of a sports team A good team A bad team A team that can’t get out of their own way A team that seems like god has cursed them Keep being a fan of that team
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Honestly this should be the headline of every single sports section tomorrow
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Ronald is Ronalding
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Home Depot is understaffing their stores (the same as CVS) and that's why they do this. Starbucks closed unionized stores in Santa Monica and Brentwood and blamed crime. Big corps send pressers to newspapers who copy and paste them into the CMS and do zero original reporting. Ask me how I know
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Stephen Colbert's legacy? Demanding truth, not truthiness www.npr.org/2026/05/18/n...
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For 20 years, Stephen Colbert distinguished truth from truthiness
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ends on Thursday. Here's how he has evolved to meet the moment.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
How short form video "clippers" are overrunning the internet www.npr.org/2026/05/12/n...
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The clipping economy: How short-form video 'clippers' are overrunning the internet
Short-form clips of long interviews and shows are taking over the internet. But behind the sea of social media clips are marketplaces offering freelance clippers money per view.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Trump’s AI Jesus Might Be the Messiah We’ve Been Looking For - Christianity Today
Perhaps this blasphemous image can expose what we’ve become—and, ironically, lead the way back to what’s real.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Star Trek Enterprise scene. 🎶ITS BEEN A LONG ROAD🎶
Ok, so, we're in one of those scenes where people are in a dreamlike state or maybe a liminal space between realities. Entirely white, misty foggy type backdrop, no other imagery or people or anything, just white. We see a scaley skinned flat snakey nose looking lady with no hair and some odd shaping to her noggin. (She's like a slightly reptilian humanoid alien lady) We see her in two views, soap opera style, one blurry in the background, and then her in focus face up close. Closed caption reads, "The favorable timelines continue to diminish."
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Andy Serkis's 1984: Julia and Winston end the movie locked in a loving embrace under the watchful yet benevolent eye of Big Brother
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Star Trek Voyager scene. Captain Janeway, with her hair up and bouyant this season is standing in her ready room. Someone is facing her but we can only see the back of them half off-screen. Janeway has one hand on the hip and the other hand raised up to her ear and is looking down like she's irritated or thinking hard. Closed caption reads, "I don't even know where to start."
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...
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Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
How the digital world is becoming more accessible. www.npr.org/2026/04/06/n...
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These blind students say their college blocked their education. A new rule could help
Higher education is especially reliant on computers and phones, but accessibility for people with disabilities has often been forgotten. A new federal rule could change that.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
DOJ delays disability online access rule for schools www.npr.org/2026/04/22/n...
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Trump administration delays rule aimed at improving disability access in schools
Schools, colleges and other public institutions originally had until this week to make online content accessible to people with disabilities. Now, the Justice Department has delayed that deadline.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
More like Rake Baldwin amirite #Braves
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Tim Williams Art @timwilliamsart.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I don't know what to tell you. I voted for the two smart women.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This entire clip down to the "Trump Orders McDonalds" crawl at the bottom feels like a fever dream, you couldn't recreate the cultural and societal trajectory that created this moment if you tried for a thousand years
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This is not going to be fixed anytime soon, folks.
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
BREAKING: Iran cannot fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz because it "cannot find" some of the mines it placed in the waterway and lacks the capability to remove them, per multiple US officials cited by NYT.

The mines were laid quickly by small IRGC boats, and some have since drifted from their original positions.

NYT also reports that Araghchi's earlier "technical limitations" comment on reopening was specifically about the mine removal problem.
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It was amazing watching Artemis II successfully return to earth. I realize we've had countless other successful landings but I was a school aged child during the Challenger disaster, so hyped up space missions have made me nervous ever since. It was glorious to see them land safely.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 31/03/2026
How is this not the Onion headline
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
CA’s $20 fast food minimum wage raised fast food prices by only 3%. The reason minimum wage increases keep not reducing employment and barely increasing prices is monopsony power. www.nber.org/papers/w34990
The Effects of California's $20 Fast Food
Minimum Wage on Prices
Jeffrey Clemens, Olivia Edwards, Jonathan Meer &
Joshua D. Nguyen
WORKING PAPER 34990
DOI 10.3386/w34990
ISSUE DATE March 2026
We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage (Assembly Bill 1228), enacted in September 2023 and implemented in April 2024, on consumer prices using the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Indices for food away from home across 21 metropolitan statistical areas. Food away from home prices in California's four in-sample MSAs increased by 3.3 to 3.6 percent relative to 17 control MSAs through December 2024. Our estimates are stable across a number of specifications. Placebo tests on price indices for goods and services that were not affected by the policy, including food at home, show no differential increases in California's MSAs.
The price increases we estimate likely arise in part from spillovers to the full-service sector, as well as changes in the production functions and product quality choices of limited service restaurants.
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
There’s no better day than NO KINGS to reflect on the words of General Mark Milley “We don’t take an oath to a King”…
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Uncomfortably Dumb @bahamut502.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...
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Opinion | There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Given that most major media and nearly every social media company is owed by people pushing fascist agendas and AI is rampant, we all have to be extra careful to practice media literacy. Slow down. Don’t share what you haven’t read. Be wary of confirmation bias. Check the source. Verify.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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NPR @npr.org · 22/03/2026
Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.
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Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.
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