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Courtney Nguyen

@fortydeucetwits.bsky.social
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I watch a lot of tennis. Read: forty-deuce.ghost.io Join: discord.gg/exEqHUGkgM Support: ko-fi.com/fortydeucetwits/tip

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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 33m
Is Bartunkova the best 20 and under outside of Mirra. Discuss.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 54m
Czech Off's (Young) Gun. is this a thing.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 57m
well damn, Tunky!
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 2h
There is a group of student journalists from University of Missouri and the Communication University of China here at China Open doing the on the ground reporting and they're crushing it. You can check out their coverage on the CO website. Loads of stories. www.chinaopen.com/en/channels/...
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 17h
Beijing QFs: Zheng-Svitolina Mertens-Swiatek -- Alexandrova-Andreeva Muchova-Bartunkova
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 19h
"VAMOOOOOOOS!!!!" -- Zheng Qinwen in Beijing as she makes the QFs at China Open. i love tennis.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That feels like a big win for Iga. I can't explain it. But it feels it.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
sinner shutting his season down on the same day that carlos and novak win titles is also very funny scriptwriting.
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Amadeus Mozart
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
21 consecutive seasons with a title is a pretty stupid tennis statistic if we're being honest.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely surprised Novak didn’t do the Fed finger wag. We used to have culture.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I LOVE HER SO DAMN MUCH.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally caught the Oasis doc and I convulsively wept the whole time, like the earnest Gen Xer I am. Really well done. Don’t look back in anger indeed. Dudes rock.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
especially in the gig economy
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
imagine stealing ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE MILLION DOLLARS in WAGES
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
San Frans Opera demanded a 5-year wage freeze for its musicians while the General Director's salary jumped from $424k to $729k. 30 minutes before opening night, the orchestra packed up and walked out to join the picket line for the first strike in the opera’s 100 year history.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
also i cannot say this enough times: KANOPY IS FREE. AND GOOD.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm looking forward to watching it, but....
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
y'all parents need to stop using disney and just go buy like 100 bucks worth of used disney/looney tunes/WB/pixar/dreamworks/ghibli DVDs and there's your 7 years of content done.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#libraries
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
um ok so are you gonna flock your employees so i have proof they're shorting me on barbacoa or is this just a one-way thing don't answer that i know the answer. tools. also holy cow you guys i simply cannot emphasize enough how much chipotle SUUUUUUUCKS. newrepublic.com/post/215501/...
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We Regret to Inform You Chipotle Is Now Working With Palantir
Guacamole is extra, but a side of Palantir is free.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
being anti AI, anti data center is a SLAM DUNK across party lines. absolute losers who love losing so they can sell their books and go on CNN to say oop this is why we lost fam. parasites. until the consultant class realizes winning is doing what the voters LOUDLY want, stfu about a twitch streamer
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Culture.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For my Terence Atmane story I did for OPEN, Terence said one of the reasons he wants to move to Japan is because he doesn’t feel safe in France because of his collection.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Was going through old photos and was like what is this and why did I hastily take a pic of it. Then realized that’s Fogna.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/09/2026
Lina Khan tells @cwarzel.bsky.social that AI leaders are warning of their products’ potentially catastrophic effects while preparing to take their companies public. If that behavior were applied “to every other industry, we would think that was ludicrous,” she says. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #taf26
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We love newspapers.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
She’s an Emmy winner!!!
@katiedippold tweet:

TBT to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

(Image of Katie in full babadook costume and makeup surrounded by people in casual clothes)
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15/09/2026
Matthew Rhys jokes about his partner Keri Russell after winning two Emmys for his roles in "Widow's Bay" and "The Beast in Me." #MatthewRhys #KeriRussell #WidowsBay #TheBeastinMe #Emmys
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Carli Boo-locci 👻 @carlivelocci.com · 14/09/2026
The fun of journalism as a whole right now — not just games — is that everybody is starved for work so execs can get away with underpaying freelancers. That's how content mills like Valnet stay in business. Then those freelancers will be laid off and others will take their place at lower pay
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Out of concerns about antisemitism, I’m joining my friend Robert Kraft in banning Israel critic Macklemore from my stadium. Here’s a link for Kanye West tickets at that same stadium. by Jerry Jones
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 15/09/2026
We need a list of every man in this room
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Defector @defector.com · 14/09/2026
Robert Kraft allegedly called Ed Sheeran to tell him who was allowed to open his shows. defector.com/robert-kraft...
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Robert Kraft Now Decides Who Tours With Ed Sheeran | Defector
On Monday morning, the rapper Macklemore posted a lengthy Instagram statement alleging that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and other NFL owners pitched a hissy-fit to get him dropped from…
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megan. @twointheschink.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
don’t forget to cancel your espn unlimited packages today my babies
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That’s pretty cool for US Open Girls champ and junior No.1 Sun Xinran. Made three junior finals this year: RG, W, USO.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Kevin Gamin @medi-nerd.com · 13/09/2026
This 2012 Sports illustrated article by @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social is also a great read about what happened. www.si.com/tennis/2012/...
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Taylor Townsend dispute: USTA cuts funding until No. 1 junior loses weight
Taylor Townsend, 16, is the world's top-ranked junior, but the USTA is threatening to cut off support until she loses weight and focuses on her fitness. (Getty
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Rene Denfeld @renestance.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We love to see it.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fork in kitchen.
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Bronwyn Jones @bronwynjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
peterbodo.substack.com/p/the-us-ope... really good piece here in how tennis is changing not for the good.
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The US Open, Hurtling Toward the Abyss
A farewell to tennis, Part 1
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Does HOPE have the best sounding gunfire since HEAT? Yes. Yes it does. Go see it in the cinema. It rocks.
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Maeeiba Crying with Dolphin Filter
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Jason @hurleytennis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You might be asking how Graf did this because she was #1 so much. Well (and this is kiiiinda off the top of me head) ASV was briefly ahead of her in 1995, including at RG, and Graf beat her in the final. Graf then beat Seles in the US Open final when they were BOTH ranked co-No.1 after Seles’ return
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Autistic Tennis Fan 🎾 🏳️‍🌈 @autistictennisfan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Our 2026 WTA Major Champs AO: Elena Rybakina RG: Mirra Andreeva W: Linda Nosková USO: Elena Rybakina
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Grand Slam Finals (Active Toop 100, multiple appearances): Swiatek: 6-0 Osaka: 4-0 Sabalenka: 4-5 Rybakina: 3-1 Gauff: 2-1 Krejcikova: 2-0 Keys: 1-1 Kenin: 1-1 Muchova: 0-2 Anisimova: 0-2 Paolini: 0-2 Pliskova: 0-2
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Aryna in finals (now 24-21, 4-5 at Slams) is truly a mind-blowing stat. Even with a conservative estimate, it's crazy how many titles -- major or otherwise -- she's left on the table.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
lol, Sharapova
Elena Rybakina and Maria Sharapova on stage taking a picture with the US Open trophy and Maria has her hand out palm flat pointed at the trophy
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OptaAce @optaace.optajoe.com · 12/09/2026
2 - Since the WTA rankings were first published in 1975, Elena Rybakina is just the second player to defeat the World No. 1 in multiple Grand Slam finals in a season, after Steffi Graf (Roland Garros and US Open) in 1995. Coronation. #USOpen | @wtatour.bsky.social
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