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See the paid-off local bottom feeders passing themselves off as leaders kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows open for business like a cheap bordello

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IMF dirty MF takes away everything it can get always making certain that there's one thing left keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

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North south east west kill the best and buy the rest it's just spend a buck to make a buck you don't really give a flying fuck about the people in misery

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Sinister cynical instrument who makes the gun into a sacrament -- the only response to the deification of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations' idolatry of ideology

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Who rob life of its quality who render rage a necessity by turning countries into labour camps modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Padded with power here they come international loan sharks backed by the guns of market hungry military profiteers whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared with the blood of the poor

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Yes: "Part of our task in the face of [GenAI] is to make an argument for the value of thinking–laboured, painful, frustrating thinking...the student skipping those steps is costing themselves experience & expertise in problem solving, crucial abilities for living, not to mention working or studying"

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

But there is measurably better visibility driving forwards from between two cars than backwards, so…

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I assume there was glue in this. 😬

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Repost w/ the five shows you would be happy to rewatch over and over again for the rest of your life, as your sole TV diet. This is awfully tough, but today I’m going with: Frasier The Great British Baking Show Law & Order Cracker with Robbie Coltrane Star Trek: Voyager

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Most eLearning is incomplete.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 24/05/2025

NYT state of journalism, 2025: “Our reporting doesn’t make racist generalizations because we only wrote a racist generalization we heard other people say. And it’s okay because an author made the same racist generalization on a podcast where they claimed other people will say it too.” 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Young Chinese women have small fingers, which is why TSMC can produce 3nm chips while Americans, with our big fat sausage fingers, can’t seem to get past 7nm. But to reach the next generation 2nm process size, we’ll need smaller fingers yet, which is why the US and China are rivals to buy Lilliput.

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Good shows, watched blurry, is not ideal.

Our BBC, CBC, is still quite poor. There is no 4K option, which I would gladly pay for.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

💯 We are saddled with Crave in Canada which offers notoriously awful quality at an unspecified bit rate and is the only legal way to stream HBO. I read a couple of years ago that AppleTV+ offers the highest bitrate and every release is 4K. Here’s a recent chart with some detail.

A chart of streaming services and their average 4K bandwidth in Megabits per second (Mbps).

Apple TV+ leads with the highest average bitrate at 29 Mbps, followed by BBC iPlayer at 25–30 Mbps.

Netflix and Disney+ both average around 17 Mbps.

Max (formerly HBO Max) ranges between 16 and 22 Mbps, and Amazon Prime Video averages approximately 15 Mbps.

Several services—Hulu, MUBI, Crave (Canada), ITVX (UK), and All 4 (UK)—do not publicly disclose average bitrate figures.

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welp I sent an email

Hi Tripp,
I'm a reporter with the Guardian US, based in New York. I hope this finds you well.
I'm reaching out about your most recent article and its inclusion of the claim, "Young Chinese women have small fingers." What is the source of this information? The full sentence attributes the claim that such small fingers make them "nimble" and therefore "valuable" to iPhone manufacturing to unnamed "supply chain experts", but it's unclear whether those same experts are the source of the claim that young Chinese women have small fingers in the first place. Are they? How do they know? Is there a study you can cite? And are we talking length? Circumference? Is it question of muscle strength? Or bone density? What is the normative range for finger size, to what extent do young Chinese women fall outside of it, and how do you - or your sources - know this?

Incidentally, how are you defining "Chinese" in this sentence? As I'm sure you and your supply chain experts know, China is a large country with dozens of ethnic minorities. It is hard to imagine that hand size is a trait linked to national identity, but the lack of specificity leaves the question open. Did hand size among Han Chinese living in Taiwan vs the PRC diverge after the civil war? Could this be a function of political economy rather than a genetic trait? So many questions. Relatedly, how are you defining "young"? Do Chinese women's fingers grow as they age? Or is size not actually the meaningful characteristic? It's hard to tell from the information you provided!
I ask all these questions because unless you have answers to them, I am afraid that you may have portrayed racist pseudoscience as if it were fact in an article for the New York Times. If that wasn't your intent, I hope you will reflect upon the long history of certain forces using race science claims to attribute suitability for certain types of labor to certain types of people, and amend your article.
Best,
Julia Wong

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

That is a tough point to make, particularly in the US where local TV news is owned and operated at scale by agenda-driven conservative conglomerates. 😬 youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?... I would think this would largely drown out hyper local community news publications. I’d love to be wrong about that.

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Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It’s sold out but maybe some tickets available closer to. I saw them with @eatsomefood.bsky.social a few years ago at the Phoenix and the first half of the show was more recent ear-splitting-guitar metal monotony and then the last half of the show was joyously spectacular nuanced classics.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

FYI…Ministry @ HISTORY May 18 playing synth pop hits. www.bandsintown.com/e/106446530?...

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Ministry @ HISTORY

May 18, 2025 - Toronto, ON

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Ruby Ryder ❌️👑 @rubyryder.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

“...we use the healthcare system to treat the consequences of poverty, and we do it in an inefficient and expensive way,” she says. “We wait until people live horrible lives for many years, get sick as a consequence, and then we go in all guns blazing to make things better.”

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’m glad to see this article is not, in fact, against personalised learning, but rather highlights how approaches to personalized learning (and AIs role in enabling it) cannot focus on oversimplifications of one-size-fits-all programs, learning at your own pace, and reducing a teacher’s workload.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I gotcha. Just thought of them because you had the Butt Monkeys. Lots more heavy stuff out there that would tilt the playlist, for sure.

Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And this from 1993 (incorrectly labeled on streaming services as 2024): open.spotify.com/track/6vpkXF...

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Move On

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Also, Rainbow Butt Monkeys morphed into Finger Eleven: open.spotify.com/track/3MRJ9t...

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Above

Finger Eleven · Tip · Song · 1998

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

“It’s not a left-right crisis; it’s a right-wrong crisis.” @booker.senate.gov wrapping up the most important speech of my adult life.

Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Get into good trouble. Necessary trouble. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @booker.senate.gov continuing to share John Lewis wisdom and so much more.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Absolutely remarkable. Approaching 24 hours and @booker.senate.gov is still standing up for others, literally and figuratively.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Hey, a quick note that this looks like a very promising approach. Happy to share more if we can incorporate this in our eLearning project in the coming weeks.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

“Laurene Powell Jobs is a stalwart and brave publisher at a time when cowardice rules the day.” ~ @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social Thank goodness for that. America needs more patriots and fewer cowards in positions of power and influence. h/t @gruber.foo at daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

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The Atlantic Has an Owner Committed to the Cause: Laurene Powell Jobs

Link to: https://www.status.news/p/atlantic-jeffrey-goldberg-signal-texts-war-plans