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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i've been listening to Stevie Wonder for like four days straight so I'm i a very straightforward and emotional space, but If it is not fundamentally about love in one form or another then you're doing it wrong, and that includes what you do on Saturdays and Sundays

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we just hosted a WORLD CUP

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the best thing about upstate/western NY (and, by extension, northern PA) is its sandwich culture. lot of places around here don't use premium boars head cold cuts and artisanal bread for subs and they know you need to remain warm in the winter so every sub weighs 35 pounds and costs $4.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People who call the polio vaccine a "fraud" are not "skeptics" toward vaccines, they are people with fixed views toward vaccines! (The name for that fixed view is "denial.")

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Human Stochastic Parrot: The machine is not a stochastic parrot!

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One thing I am learning from this whole stupid slow-rolling debacle is that not enough people have seen Derrick Henry’s high school tape

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

they’re building houses for the soldiers to stay in but not the people who sleep at the fountain

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hockey bear dot space @hockeybear.space · 27/08/2026

this is for @samrosewatson.bsky.social

Dr. Doom is canonically Romani and should not be played by Robert Downey Jr.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I remember watching an interview with her and they asked her why her imagination library sent books to all children, even those whose families could afford books. She explained that all children should get the same opportunities and means testing was expensive and inefficient.

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The “Just Happy To Be Here” Corsican @mfiorina.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social was ready to buy my sweat towel this morning but looks like preownedairboats.com might’ve been hainted?

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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Good story here -- I've been thinking lately that any discussion about whether AI insights or LLMs are helpful with writing/research in any way misses the point, because even if they are, to use them contributes to the downfall of the whole profession. www.theringer.com/2026/08/04/t...

theringer.com

The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It

For years now, Google has been tweaking its search formula to prop up AI and bury actual links. Now it’s rounding into its final form—and changing the internet forever.

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The “Just Happy To Be Here” Corsican @mfiorina.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Might not be its full intention, but also find this a beautiful summary of parenting! Or what I imagine it to be like

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The “Just Happy To Be Here” Corsican @mfiorina.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In reference to Pentagon use of scripture on social media. Beautiful

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Coates is just incredibly on point in this. No one in his cohort of big ticket intellectuals has met the moment anywhere near as well as he has. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZrX...

youtube.com

"Palestinians are wholly excluded from the room" w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates

YouTube video by Makdisi Street

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“In that way, ICE acts as the drain filter at the absolute bottom of the American violence industry, catching, hiring, and deploying as a paramilitary force otherwise unemployable degenerates.” Another @albertburneko.bsky.social heater. defector.com/ice-brings-t...

defector.com

ICE Brings The Occupation Home | Defector

On Monday, in the city of Biddeford, Maine, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in an SUV rammed the passenger side of a civilian vehicle and, after the vehicle stopped, approached i...

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

a fun example of what happens when real data slams into an anecdotal narrative pushed for political propaganda

Washington state just collected
$1.53 BILLION
from the tax on capital gains nearly tripling the previous year's collections and doubling this year's expected revenue.
Institute

Every dollar collected from the capital gains tax is earmarked for education for Washington state kids.
And the number of payers has gone up every year!
10,000
8,000
6,000
4,000
2,000
9,050 payers
3,625 payers
2022
2023
2024
2025
Joportunit
Institute

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

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The “Just Happy To Be Here” Corsican @mfiorina.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Saw some posters advertising “44: The Musical” (yes it’s about Barack Obama) and couldn’t resist looking up the setlist. Now you get to see it too

44: the music setlist, Act 1. "M.F.O" – Company
"Just Ask Joe" – Joe Biden & Ensemble
"Red States Blue States" – Barack Obama & Ensemble
"My Turn" – Hillary Clinton
"How Black Is Too Black?" – Barack Obama & Ensemble
"First Lady" – Michelle Obama
"Change" – Barack & Michelle Obama
"Drill Me Baby" – Sarah Palin
"White House Love" – Barack & Michelle Obama
"What Would Liam Neeson Do?" – Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama
"M.F.M." – Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama & Voice of the People
"Obama Cares" – Company

“44: The Musical” setlist, Act 2. "Welcome Back To 44" – Voice of the People
"Filibusters" – Mitch McConnell & Ted Cruz
"No Matter What" – Barack & Michelle Obama
"Oh, Herman Cain" – Herman Cain
"We Got Bin Laden" – Barack & Michelle Obama & Company
"Amazing Grace" – Voice of the People & Barack Obama
"Remember Me" – Barack Obama
"F.U.T.C." – Barack Obama, Joe Biden & Herman Cain
"Get It Together" – Barack & Michelle Obama
"M.F.O. (Reprise)" – Barack Obama & Voice of the People
"Brother Abe Lincoln" – Brother Abe Lincoln, Barack Obama & Ulysses S. Grant
"44 Is Back" – Company*
*As of 2025 off-Broadway run, as listed in program.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/03/2026

One other note from today's newsletter: I'm worried about over-use of LLMs in software engineering. If people aren't reading (or are barely reading) code they ship, "writing code fast" becomes a liability. It also can stop you from learning to solve problems. www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-s...

I also want to be clear that I am extremely nervous about how many people appear to be fine with not reading code. I am currently (very slowly) learning Python, and every new thing I learn reinforces my overwhelming anxiety that there is a lot of software being written today by people who don’t read the output from LLMs and, in some cases, may not have understood it if they did. While I’m not saying all or even many software engineers might do this, I am alarmed by the idea that it’s becoming more commonplace — and even more alarmed that the reaction appears to be “ah it’s fine who gives a shit, it works.”

Guess what! It doesn’t always work. Amazon Web Services had multiple recent outages caused by use of its Kiro AI coding tool, and while it insists that AI isn’t to blame, it also convened an internal meeting to discuss this specific issue, and The Financial Times reported that Amazon now requires junior and mid-level engineers to get sign off on AI-assisted changes to code. However you may feel about Amazon as a service, its engineers are likely indicative of corporate engineering on some level, which is making me wonder if we’re not going to have some real problems in software development in the next few years as a result.

What does the software industry look like if nobody is actually reading their code? How many software engineers are comfortable doing this? I’m sure somebody will read this and get terribly offended, but to be clear, I’m not accusing you of copy-pasting code you can’t understand and being happy if it works unless that’s exactly what you’re doing.

To be explicit, allowing LLM to write all of your code means that you are no longer developing code, nor are you learning how to develop code, nor are you going to become a better software engineer as a result.

This isn’t even an insult or hyperbole. If you are just a person looking at code, you are only as good as the code the model makes, and as Mo Bitar recently discussed, these models are built to galvanize you, glaze you, and tell you that you’re remarkable as you barely glance at globs of overwritten code that, even if it functions, eventually grows to a whole built with no intention or purpose other than what the model generated from your prompt.

I’m sure there are software engineers using these models ethically, who read all the code, who have complete industry over it and use it like a glorified autocomplete. I’m also sure that there are some that are just asking it to do stuff, glancing at the code and shipping it. It’s impossible to measure how many of each camp there are, but hearing Spotify’s CEO say that its top developers are basically not writing code anymore makes me deeply worried, because this shit isn’t replacing software engineering at all — it’s mindlessly removing friction and putting the burden of “good” or “right” on a user that it’s intentionally gassing up.

Ultimately, this entire era is a test of a person’s ability to understand and appreciate friction.

Friction can be a very good thing. When I don’t understand something, I make an effort to do so, and the moment it clicks is magical. In the last three years I’ve had to teach myself a great deal about finance, accountancy, and the greater technology industry, and there have been so many moments where I’ve walked away from the page frustrated, stewed in self-doubt that I’d never understand something.

I also have the luxury of time, and sadly, many software engineers face increasingly-deranged deadlines set by bosses that don’t understand a single fucking thing, let alone what LLMs are capable of or what responsible software engineering is. The push from above to use these models because they can “write code faster than a human” is a disastrous conflation of “fast” and “good,” all because of…

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

this has been knocking around my head for a while, but for real: Sports get people prepared for the bullshit of politics like few other things can channel-6.ghost.io/everything-y...

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS YOU ALREADY LEARNED WATCHING SPORTS

Sports fans already know how to translate the language of power into the truth. They don’t, most of the time, but they can.

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The “Just Happy To Be Here” Corsican @mfiorina.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

DC Cybertruck with a “Mad Max” license plate. Nightmare Madlibs

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The “Just Happy To Be Here” Corsican @mfiorina.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The way I started this, happily found 45 pairs, was surprised when it wasn't done, realized I needed to find FORTY-FIVE COMBINATIONS OF FORTY-FIVE AND THAT I COULD SCROLL RIGHT, and immediately closed that tab...

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"In all, for each $1 spent on online sports betting, net investments ⬇️ by 99 cents. In other words, basically all of the money people spent on sports betting didn’t replace other leisure activities or discretionary income, but ended up in less money in retirement accounts or other investments."

sltrib.com

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says sports betting on Kalshi is ‘destroying lives.’ The data is on his side.

Prediction markets have created a loophole that has effectively legalized gambling in Utah. There’s plenty of research to show the downsides.

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Kieran Meadows @kieranbluesky.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Immigration is a net good. It improves the lives of the people who immigrate and the people in the areas the immigrate to. Supporting immigration is both morally and economically sound and a good government would encourage and facilitate it instead of making it as difficult as possible

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

All the lies they're telling about Renee Good are in service of an even bigger lie: that individual human lives have no intrinsic worth and are therefore theirs to dispose of. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...

publiccomment.blog

The Poison Always Drips Through

On Renee Good and George Floyd

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

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Secret Base @secretbase.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

feels weird to post this after a win but if folks are asking youtu.be/Lx_ORMhpmoU?...

youtu.be

Does anyone know how to throw a football? | The History of the Atlanta Falcons, Part 1

YouTube video by Secret Base

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I'll add that as someone who not that long ago spent many frantic nights looking for information on sleep training, feeding, etc etc--by far the most valuable internet resource was reddit, the only place with human advice. Everything else is basically useless at this point.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

here's Bolts: bsky.app/profile/bolt...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

another Lizza article is circulating, which reminds me to tap the sign reminding you to please support independent, worker-run, billionaire and felch-free news outlets when and how you can. if you can spare some $, here's some w/NewsMatch, which will 2x your donation through the end of the year!

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

GDP is a measurement of money spent in an economy. It has no bearing on the actual quality of life or standard of living of its citizens. A person with no health insurance getting hit by a car is a great day for GDP. Taking a second job to pay for your gambling addition is great for the GDP.

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The “Just Happy To Be Here” Corsican @mfiorina.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

First day as a #learnedleague rookie, definitely feeling the nerves! Can already tell that I'll take way too much time on this, hoping I settle in soon enough

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

There are more of us than there are of them.

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The “Just Happy To Be Here” Corsican @mfiorina.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Six fighter jets flying back and forth over Columbia Heights here in DC. No clue what's going on

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