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Ben K.

@benjaminkabak.com
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Lawyer. Transit (@2avesag.as), baseball, politics, Yogi photos. Be loud for America.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3m
So what's going on with the polling for the MN Senate race? Or the race itself?
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 6m
I'm going to see this movie because I am a huge sucker, but this is turning into the most Try Hard/Please Just End This marketing campaign possible. In terms of basic IP movies coming out, my order of excitement is Spider-Verse and Dune 3 HUGE GAP This fan service disaster.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 50m
Surely a large part of this is the shift to remote work? My organization, for example, switched to a fully remote office in 2020 and never went back, so now I spend most days at home.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1h
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h
it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing
screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 2h
Michael Tracey and a bunch of immature out of control grown men are proving in real time why rape shield laws are necessary and should be strengthened.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 2h
This part. Senators and Congresspeople being completely unqualified and stupid is only funny if there are electoral and legislative consequences for it.
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Sky Kalkman @skykalkman.bsky.social · 2h
Politics, business, anything where you can every control -- THIS is why AI companies are pushing it so hard. You get to control the truth for people who use your products.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 2h
They reprogrammed the America AI for being honest. We are governed by insecure idiots.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 2h
The better complaint is that MLB scheduled their game for 4 p.m. on a workday. Do teams not do media training any longer?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
I assume the DNC is paying for this?
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 2h
There's absolutely no reason to report this with a straight face or to believe this is true or that any money will ever materialize
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3h
To me, it's an Occam's Razor explanation: A bad team that shouldn't be hosting playoff games facing off against a team its own fans expect to win the series in a game played at 4 p.m. local time on a Tuesday.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14h
The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h
It is actually completely clear from context clues.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h
I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversight
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Trump releases AI accord with tech executives
President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord ​on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by ‌him and tech executives that he met...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h
leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over.
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 4h
On the one hand, this person was incredibly naive, to put it lightly. On the other hand, you can see why all the narratives in 2024 about why hispanic voters would really love Trump's mass deportations were not gonna survive contact with reality.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h
This should be the end of Arbit's career in the Democratic party really.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h
What is The Times’ new TEATS section?
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 4h
Maybe not the right analogy to make in a Yankees +9 environment
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h
Joe Biden is in Delaware dying of cancer and hasn’t been president in two years. Do the idiots who watch Fox still believe this? Because polling indicates literally no one else does.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h
Yeah man. Everyone loves their cell provider and picking out plans. Let’s make everything as miserable as that. Great analogy from someone very in touch with normal people.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h
Ben Rice you guys
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 5h
Here's the thing to make this clear: I do not believe Zohran Mamdani is an anti-Semite. I believe all of these alleged lefties - who pay Elon Musk to get signal-boosted at the Nazi bar - are anti-Semites.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10h
your jewish friends are begging you to realize it is within your capacity to understand what’s happening here. begging.
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assbutt @nasboat.org · 5h
“Bari Weiss did what they paid her to do” I dunno I think a key part of propaganda is people have to actually consume it?
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 14h
When Ben Rice hits a grand slam off a certain Red Sox pitcher
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Minion Says Bello and Waves Hello
ALT: Minion Says Bello and Waves Hello
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 14h
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 14h
Liberty Biberty: Answering the question what if the Minions could speak English and were very annoying?
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 14h
On the one hand, Wells is 2 for 3 with an .800 OPS since Aug 1. On the other hand why is Stanton on the roster if not for right here right now?
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 16h
Idk what the civic equivalent of excommunicado is but i think we should make this frat completely humanis hostis generis
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 15h
I wonder how Walpole and Cohasset feel right now.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 15h
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River Ave. Blues @riveraveblues.bsky.social · 17h
Yankees vs. Red Sox, best-of-three, winner plays the Rays. It’s time for Yankees baseball.
Space ghost saying it's time to die ... this isn't so bad.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 18h
Of course she is. The loser responsible for Andy Buford leaving Transit.
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Tim @axiologist.bsky.social · 18h
46% of American women voted for Trump the second time around!
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 18h
I think a lot of people are reckoning with the question, "Can Chuck Schumer, visibly aging in public and forgetting important dates, lead loudly and effectively enough to put the brakes on everything rushing full speed ahead?"
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 19h
The difference, it seems to me, is that the new term implies that AI is inherently superior to human brainpower. Something approaching the divine, rather than flawed software that doesn't know how many fingers we have.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 19h
"appeared to"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h
it is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 20h
Constantly thinking about how Dana Rubinstein was one of the better reporters on the MTA and transit and now she spends her time writing hit pieces on Mamdani for The Times. This framing is uncomfortably anti-Semitic, tying in the safety of NYC Jews with discussing Israeli, for some reason.
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Matt Winkelman @mattwinkelman.bsky.social · 21h
It was the correct move, Don Mattingly made a correct bullpen move. He put his closer in for the 7th and 8th because it was the best chance to see the 9th. Duran piped a 99.9 mph fastball that got hit. There is a litany of managers who lost with their closer standing in the bullpen.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 21h
Just awful people.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 21h
*one minute later* Giancarlo Stanton has developed gangrene while walking back to the dugout from the batting cage. He will need to have his leg amputated.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 21h
Acuna botched fielding that ball twice and it was somehow scored a triple. I do not understand what outfielders need to do to get errors these days.
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The Toronto Ben Jays 🇨🇦⚾️ @benjayingly.com · 21h
If Randy Mastro fell into a giant pit, it would be the single best thing that could happen to New York City.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 21h
Setting aside legal arguments, this is morally abhorrent by the Supreme Court majority.
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