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@goosend.bsky.social
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Cancer Biologist. Microscopist. State College to ND to Houston to San Diego to DC.

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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Love Hypothesis
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dog how is penn state this bag at stopping the run
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good seats available in the 900 million dollar "palace"
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everyone involved with this, except a dozen or so already very wealthy people, will lose.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026
what percentage of americans are ever in a frat? I never went to a college with them and I've never heard "there are a few bad ones but the institution is important" from a politician, which is an impressive level of untouchability given every time they make news it's something stupid or monstrous
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dog cowboys just got 7 seconded
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Steve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
what are we doing
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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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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Fun fact: They banned chemtrails in Florida and weeks afterward, DeSantis was still getting angry tweets from his constituents online because they were "still seeing chemtrails." Genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen, straight-up appealing to the dumbest possible people
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks for the sign that I should turn the fuck around and eat somewhere else
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Pat Shaughnessy @pbshaughnessy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
IMO it’s pretty obvious that Anthropic and OpenAI are burning cash at unsustainable rates so they want to collude under the guise of safety regulations, cut down on research costs, prevent new more efficient competitors from entering the market, and split LLM demand between them.
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bad 2 point play washington
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Man U an hour up a man and still gonna lose
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 08/09/2026
Lack of replay is awesome. Was the call right? Who gives a shit, move along
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thats absolute bullshit
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.
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Jared Dubin @jadubin5.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
PA 15yrs TX 13 IN 6 CA 4 MD 2 On my second stint in MD if you count as a baby but still the bottom of this list (for now)
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gramp @grahamputation.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Blow Paterno
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Len Damico @lendami.co · 13/08/2026
new first-ballot Bootlicker Hall of Fame inductee just dropped
theatlantic.com
In Defense of Flock
Police cameras can help make the criminal-justice system both fairer and less punitive—if we let them.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If the Democrats really want to run on an anti corruption platform (and i think they should), this means coming out against prediction markets, crypto, and sports betting, all of which are either directly corrupt or facilitate corrupt acts.
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
God hes such a piece of shit
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Someone explain this to me
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Matt Damon at the end of The Odyssey [getting in his boat]: I Odyssey about a girl.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 07/08/2026
using generative AI to create an ad for your small business tells me several things about you as a small business owner, all of which leave me much more disinclined to patronize your business than i would've been if i didn't see the ad.
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Back of the envelope math says 41, though Im surely missing a few Penn State opponents from when I was a kid but cant remember
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A venn diagram about car companies

The three circles are labeled:
1. Founded by antisemitic lunatic
2. Has made cars that were infamously unsafe to drive
3. Founder was coke-up out of his gourd

Ford (Henry Ford) is 1 and 2
Volkswagen (founded indirectly by Hitler) is 1 and 3
DMC (John DeLorean) is 2 and 3
Tesla (Elon Musk) is 1 2 and 3 right in the middle of the venn diagram
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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
twitter is your bank. yahoo is your doctor. delta airlines is your divorce lawyer. your child goes to daycare at northrop grumman
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
deleting linkedin again when this job hunt is over will be one of the great pleasures of my life
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/07/2026
you know, at least U.S. business journalism spent a lot of time making it very clear this IPO was a fraudulent lie only made possible because the country is too corrupt to have functional regulators
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Wall Street Races to Sell SpaceX-Linked Products as Stock Sinks
Wall Street is racing to roll out complex investment products tied to SpaceX shares that aim to shield buyers from future losses amid a sharp selloff following its market debut.
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Max Greenfield (Schmidt) Dry Heaving
ALT: Max Greenfield (Schmidt) Dry Heaving
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I have empathy for them, but fundamentally you're agreeing with people who think my kid is a mistake, and no one here is a mistake
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 18/07/2026
Let me get this straight. Your plan is to tell everyone that the most enduring story in human history, when adapted by the blockbuster director least likely to miss, becomes a movie that belongs to your enemies? Good luck
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
this is you in meta’s pervert glasses
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
from all we know taco bell did everything right. they caught it early, pulled any possible products, and were way ahead of both the government and the supplier whose fault it actually was. but it’s getting pinned on them
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 17/07/2026
Open the schools
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
10 months ago.
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 12/07/2026
Back-to-back World Cup games held at 40 and 50-year-old stadiums, one of which was privately built. Remember that the next time a politician tells you they need a new taxpayer-funded stadium to attract world-class mega-events. It's bullshit.
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Egypt and Norway absolutely robbed. The var reversals are absolutely out of control.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 11/07/2026
Thank you as always to Soccer Computer for making the cool thing not happen retroactively
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Harry Kane looks like he just took off a football helmet that was too tight
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Goose @goosend.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ope
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YankeeGunner @arsenalvisionpodcast.com · 11/07/2026
FIFA geniuses putting a QF in Miami in July during the middle of the day. 👏
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