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Josh Blazek

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"For decades, we've provided election coverage that's based on in-depth political reporting by an experienced team of journalists backed by commentary from political leaders. But now we're throwing that aside so we can tell you what some of the most irredeemable uninformed gamblers are guessing."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Shehan Jeyarajah @shehanjeyarajah.com · 25/09/2026
They gave him $200 billion to make the "I don't even know where I am right now" machine
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 23/09/2026
Jon Stewart gets to the bottom of why Trump is so gung-ho about AI
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ran⚡ @randall.gobirds.online · 20/09/2026
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Josh Blazek @joshblazek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lane Kiffin with the Weekend at Bernie’s energy tonight #LSU #OleMiss
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Nick Juskewycz @itssked.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Chris Simms my GOAT. He's 100% spot on here
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The dumbest goddamn student I ever had" —William Kelley, ProfessorWharton Business School
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interesting that they don’t apply “we’re not smart enough to regulate this” to, for example, abortion.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kinda funny that almost all of sports TV is about DEBATE But a piece of federal legislation — something which is, almost definitionally, meant to be debated about — gets presented uncritically as Good
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
Okay so if you remove billions and billions of dollars of costs Anthropic had a profitable quarter? Who cares send the blog to the hogs
Anthropic's gross margins are above 80 per cent before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including
Amazon, and the cost of training its models, according to two of the people.
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Harry Lyles Jr. @harrylylesjr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
College football is the greatest sport on the planet
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 13/09/2026
BROCK SPACK’S REDBIRDS TAKE DOWN NIU 28-24 FCS OVER FBS HIT THE MUSIC
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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is truly a Theodore Cruz special
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Sara, no H @syntherella.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Genuinely Ted Cruz attendance at games should be affecting the betting line at this point
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Josh Blazek @joshblazek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Duke-Illinois game recap
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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@ Dan Lanning and Oregon
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Bronny James Reacts to 'Yo Chain Fake' Comment
ALT: Bronny James Reacts to 'Yo Chain Fake' Comment
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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They don't call Mina the GOAT for nothing
Mina Kimes in WIRED on why Bluesky is great and Twitter sucks shit: 

"Favorite social network: Bluesky
I post everywhere to try and get my work out there and get it seen and read. But I would say the one that I use the most is Bluesky. While it has its flaws, there's definitely the occasional sports ball person in my mentions. I’ve found the interactions on there are the most like interactions I have with people in the real world, which is a rarity on the social internet these days.

Least favorite social network: Twitter
Everyone says Twitter, right? Which is a bummer because it used to be really fun and essential for news. When breaking news was happening, it was a place you'd go to get on-the-ground impressions. You could meet friends, you could find new writers and comedians, and all of that feels lost just because Elon completely killed the vibe. And I say that because obviously he's done things far more serious in terms of poisoning the discourse, and the place is a cesspool for racism and misogyny and misinformation, but it's also just, like, a terrible fucking hang. Everyone either seems miserable or is determined to make other people miserable.
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Jordan Middler @jordanmiddler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know that Death Stranding 2 cost 80 squillion and only sold okay, but when you’ve completely lucked in to being the default console for GTA 6, I feel like you can give Kojima the money to hire Robert Pattinson or whatever the issue is here. Huge change is needed at the top of PS Studios.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 09/09/2026
We are trying to make Ultron, and the only way to stop that is to give us even more money, in which case we will make something that surely nobody else will try to turn into Ultron. Money please
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spookily scarily pitt girl 👻🎃👻 @opg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
also Michigan fans I love you but also A) this is bullshit B) why are you rushing the field after a win over western
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ted Cruz attempting to push the biggest piece of college legislation while not knowing arguably the biggest rivalry in college sports is just too on the nose.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 24/08/2026
P.S.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.
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Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com · 13/08/2026
And now, a lesson on CEO-ing from Matthew Karch, CEO of Saber Interactive:
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Josh Blazek @joshblazek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Bar of the month: Magneto mixed with paid in full and y’all can play the fool
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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
me in my aunt's above-ground pool after 7 Modelos and 4 hot dogs
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it.
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Jelly Pumpkins @jellyzedsy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I cannot stop laughing at this. They were so close to cracking lmao #InfoWars #MAJA
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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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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/07/2026
Optimization culture has led people to believe that only outcomes matter, “so anything that isn’t focused on a future goal feels like it’s not worth doing”—but not every experience fits that idea, @ibogost.com tells @cwarzel.bsky.social. Watch Galaxy Brain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Va_...
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
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New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say
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april @april-now.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
kenny omega forever 🙏✨
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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If what we're reading "could be worse," just imagine what the memo isn't telling you. It certainly is worse. Worth asking what independence actually cost the teams who have it, and what's actually happening in the studios not implicated in the bad-news letter. I hope those who can ask hard Qs.
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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Imagine waking up, dressing like a dork and being anti-American. When you could do the cool thing, eat some waffles, have some cold brew coffee and smoke a cigar while watching Barry Bonds highlights.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
nothing in the US is getting better until we start start treating this kind of thing as what it is: a form of bribery
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/06/2026
"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"
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Kinda Funny @kindafunnyvids.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Xbox has no vision for the future.
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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We’d solve so many problems by making edits of offensive and defensive linemen instead of positions that don’t matter, like QB
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026
While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
Verge headline: The world's first trillionaire is a killer
by TC Sottek

Image of Elon Musk doing a "fascist salute" in the form of an oil painting on a wall
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Fuck this guy and fuck you if you voted for him.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
BREAKING: Xbox is planning major layoffs next month, Bloomberg has learned, as new CEO Asha Sharma confronts a bleak picture and plans what she calls a "reset" of the business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as It Transforms Under New CEO
Asha Sharma’s first major cuts will arrive in July
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