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Colin Weaver

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"Send him to the moon, that's just how I feel."

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13h
We should probably invest as country/society in more JD-PhD programs. Especially in the age of AI related litigation there’s gonna be a huge demand for a technically literate attorney population.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22h
In 1989 CEOs made 60x the average worker. Today it's 325x. I guess the corporate ladder is getting taller. With @svaneksmith.bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/10/2026
The current court majority isn’t remotely originalist. The only one of their major conservative decisions on the last several years that is even arguably originalist is Dobbs. The immunity case, the Muslim ban case, all the cases striking down the Voting Rights Act? Not a bit.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 02/10/2026
Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...
The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.For example, a senior director for Bass told the interviewers that the Inside Safe program uses an internal Google spreadsheet to manage its occupancy records and does not have access to the Homeless Management Information System, the countywide database that tracks street contacts with homeless people and housing placements
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Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NATALIE NAKASE FAINTED THEN IMMEDIATELY POPPED UP AND DREW UP A SERIES-WINNING PLAY??? women are legit superheroes
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Valks alive
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Colin Weaver @colinweaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Colin Weaver @colinweaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I heard a lot about this yesterday, but it's worse than I even thought. This is disgusting.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
7/ An expert explained that losers like me are the bettors that sports betting companies are most interested in. A small group accounts for a large portion of revenue. And what keeps losers loyal? VIP programs. The more you bet, the more you get: free bets/swag/fancy dinners.
Screenshot of article from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Headline reads: FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why did Seattle's former City Traffic Engineer sigh with exasperation in this tweet from 2019? 🧵
Dongho Chang: "Sometimes we agree to disagree, the best we could do here (sigh)"
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
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Michelle
A tribute.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026
Congress Passes $430,000/Hour Minimum Wage For Billionaires To learn more about America's gaping wealth gap, head to youtube.com/politizane.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump has made 28,700 stock/securities trades since returning to office - more than all of congress combined. Note that he is pushing for a stock-trading ban for lawmakers that wouod exclude him www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
Aside from the INCREDIBLE poster design, @sadiecollective.bsky.social annual conference for students and young professionals is happening in February 2027. 💜 A loud reminder: this conference includes a job fair with employers looking to hire people from UNDERREPRESENTED groups! #blacksky
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This thread asks why Trump saying “I'm going to try to cheat like hell..." isn’t getting as much media attention as his obviously farcical $5,000 proposals. They ignore it when he says crazy things that are true, and take seriously the crazy things he says that are not. Sanewashing. 
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Empty seats on both sides of me as I hear the president insist that the American Airlines Center is full and there are thousands of people outside. Nothing new to say, just... wow, 11 years of this, huh
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In NYC, Mayor Mamdani has launched the Office of Worker Power, designed to connect workers who want to unionize with education and resources. Former US Labor Sec Julie Su is overseeing the effort & the executive director comes from the UAW. "When workers can organize, everything changes," said Su.
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Mamdani Opens Office of Worker Power - The American Prospect
The new city agency intends to connect workers who want to unionize with resources and organizing contacts, and use worker stories of exploitation to inform policy.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
lol
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The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly betterThere are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. 

Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. 

(Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website 🤦‍♂️)
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
*When unions increase wages, who pays?* It's normally hard to answer this Q: unions don't behave randomly, they respond to firm conditions, & firm data is hard to get. Our setting in Norway tackles both... 🧵on our paper (@microsamonomics.bsky.social Alex Willen) academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Lake America" instantly just absolutely clogged with algae. Six uniformed National Guard guys standing on a beach dumping windex into it. It smells like a turtle tank.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
National Commission on Getting The Kids out of the House
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/08/2026
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/08/2026
Powerball By The Numbers theonion.com/powerball-by-the-numbe…
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First year women allowed to play Powerball
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
welcome to the United States, where, on account of freedom, you do not have to pay taxes for your healthcare instead, you will pay taxes for healthcare you CAN'T use, and also you will pay a corporation for your healthcare
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Any man who goes online today is apt to come across content telling him that he will never find a partner who will earn him the respect of other men if he lacks money and connections, if he is not bodybuilder-fit with a full head of hair, if he is not more than six feet tall. Online influencers who push this narrative have products to sell. They want you to buy their workout apps, their advice sessions, their investment plans. That’s just how a lot of advertising works: It makes you insecure so you’ll pay for a product in hopes of temporarily silencing your gnawing sense of inadequacy.Just as the manosphere and its galaxy of hucksters want you to fork over your cash so you can feel better about yourself as a man, Republicans want to make you feel insecure about your masculinity so that you vote Republican. Masculinity, in this sense, is a lifestyle product: one that comes with a set of political beliefs predicated on the subjugation of women, minority groups, and anyone else who men are told are their inferiors.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Trump and Elon Musk gutted the IRS so it couldn't audit and investigate wealthy tax cheats. In the process, it kneecapped IRS customer service, and now everyday taxpayers—the ones who aren't cheating—are deal with the infuriating fallout, as my colleague @smencimer.bsky.social reports.
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The IRS is imploding.
The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026
Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/07/2026
Today on Volts: the US pays more per mile of public transit than almost any country in the world, thanks in part to federal planning, funding, & contracting rules that practically mandate inefficiency. I discuss how to change that with two authors of the "Transit Abundance Playbook."
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The US is terrible at building public transit. Here's how to get better.
A conversation with Will Poff-Webster of the Institute for Progress and Stephanie Pollack of the MIT Mobility Initiative.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/07/2026
California is among the states suing to block Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a Hollywood mega-merger that would unite some of the nation's largest movie studios and TV newsrooms. n.pr/4peiT2k
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States sue to stop Paramount-Warner Bros blockbuster merger
California is among the states suing to block Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a Hollywood mega-merger that would unite some of the nation's largest movie studios and TV newsrooms.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I don’t think people need to be “crucified” for thinking Platner changed or whatever but I do think they should engage in serious self-reflection and humility, such as not referring to themselves as being “crucified”
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.
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Pablo Maurer @mlsist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Belgium head coach Rudi Garcia says that US forward Folarin Balogun approached him after the final whistle. "I told him it is not his fault, he’s not the one to blame. I really appreciate the intention and I appreciate this player."
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
everyone forgot the truest law of our known universe: trump ruins everything he touches
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
(everything he touches turns to shit, anyone who thinks this isn't cursed is fooling themselves, belgium by a million)
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 07/07/2026
The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The full explanation is "corruption." That's all, man. It's not any deeper than that.
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