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Oh man, you just missed the Legion of Doom era of the Flyers. I hated them but they were really fun to watch.

Next year, we are gonna hang at Celebration LA!!!!

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

I didn't see any Warso quotes on Smith, but was he intentionally line matching Smith to the Roberts line? Or were the Blues trying to exploit that line? It felt like a huge maturation game for Smith to round out his game and be more than a good passer.

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Everything changed once this dog put on his jersey!

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I am going to change the game's mojo because I put my dog in his Sharks jersey (and I gave him a chew)

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How Much Do Streaming Platforms Pay Per Stream in 2026

Spotify does not pay artists but does take money from ICE. Almost every other music streamer pays higher rates than Spotify. (I also recommend buying merch or MP3s from one of your favorite artists every month to keep them afloat) fwdmusic.com/en/news/how-...

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Compare streaming royalty rates in 2026: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Tidal, Amazon, Deezer, Beatport. Real pay-per-stream numbers and how to maximize earnings.

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Come on, Tim (and Tim's comms team), what's with the AI slop? This is like the most basic "template + text" shit ever.

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It's not super intelligence if it can't figure out the answer to a basic customer service question

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I thought this was Mass Effect news and then I remembered your cat and then I got sad

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Gen X, millennials, Gen Z - I need more of us to sign up to be election workers. I'm at election worker training right now and I am the youngest here by at least 20 years. I'll be 46 at the end of this month. Remove me and the median age is probably 70. You want change? Get tf involved.

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Don't they have spellcheck on their chyron? "Phisical"

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 08/10/2026

The Bay Area is really excited for @pwhl-sanjose.bsky.social and also that email about jerseys went out way too early this morning

All the PWHL San Jose jerseys are marked as sold out in the team store

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YouTube hasn't paid out music streaming earnings to Distrokid for almost two months with no communication, so my income has been cut in half just for fun. It's a startling reminder that the entire streaming ecosystem could just go away overnight because a tech company lets it. Buy albums if you can.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trigger warning that this article opens with a very graphic description of what happened.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Congrats to you and all the authors!

CalMatters @calmatters.org · 07/10/2026

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Uihlein’s involvement and that of other deep-pocketed Republican donors is a signal that conservatives view Prop. 39 as a test of support for future battleground states in the broader push by President Trump to tighten voter restrictions. cal.news/4hBioxe 📸 Noam Galai &I ULine

From left, Cameron Winklevoss and Richard Uihlein. Photos via Noam Galai, Getty Images and Uline Corporate Video

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"What struck me about (title) is..." I've just marked enough of them as spam that the spam filter is starting to assign them to that folder. Weaponizing old-school machine learning against the AI scammers!

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A new Annalee Newitz book is gifted into the universe today, and that means that while a lot of stuff is really shitty, our world is richer and smarter thanks to this!

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BSG is one of my nerd blind spots, and every time I think about finally watching it, I'm deluged with opinions ranging from "stop early" to "just know the last season is a letdown" to "just rewatch DS9"

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If we told these same guys to stare at 80s arcade games because the demos before inserting a coin are "powered by AI", they would totally do it.

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We found out a friend was transitioning their gender identity tonight and it was shockingly easy to respond with "got it, I'm glad theyre happier now", ask name/pronouns to use down the line, and go on with our night

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My wife was looking up a recipe and it just told her to microwave an aluminum pan.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026

His team has to be tanking him with this. There's no other explanation.

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it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026

There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We actually did a stocking stuffer of scotch tape rolls one year. I think kiddo was about 7. I'm pretty sure it's from that realization of being able to attach things and put stuff up. It's like a discovery of a super power.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I highly recommend Froomkin's Salon piece.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It gets really wild when the tape phase overlaps with the box phase. Silver lining, it's early STEM construction thinking?

In one of my group chats, we landed on the goal of career longevity rather than "big contract" or "enough money to quit the day job" or "made into a movie" or any of the other things commonly associated with success in our industry.

And while I didn't have student loans, my wife and I paid down her absurd student loans over 20 years, so I saw those absurd trapping interest rates up close. We didn't benefit from the forgiveness but we sure as hell wanted it for others.

Yes, people who it actually impacted remembered it. I'm saying large swatches of the left who made it their "die on this hill" goal for a short while just moved on to new topics and forgot that it happened.

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This is confusing to me, because I am pro elimination of student debt and agree that it's a stupid classist system. My only point was OP claimed it's easy to wipe out. It's not, Biden approached it from multi angles and cut 7.5b via pushing boundaries of legal means in a hostile system.

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This is the worst way to prove that 20 years of Imperial propaganda could make the galaxy forget the Jedi Order except as mythological villains.

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Yeah, it really comes down to "we hate people not like us because we never learned empathy" and that's it. 25% of the country is just that and never changing. On the rest of that thread, a big point was "you can't win them back but shame them into being pariahs again" and that is 💯💯💯

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This seems like a tangent to my original point of OP claiming that wiping out student loan debt is easy. Also, as someone with extended family in China's CCP police state, you don't want their policies, even though they allow for fast movement. It's everything we're actively fighting.