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Mike in Cleveland

@mikeincleveland.bsky.social
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A Florida Man in Cleveland. I like riding my bike, playing with my kids, and science (occasionally).

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
T.Rexes are closer in time to smartphones than to Stegosaurus
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Mike in Cleveland @mikeincleveland.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LinkedIn is Facebook a decade ago for millennials and gen Xers today. It's a mix of people posting about meaningful career moments and slop. I'm happy you found a new job, but I don't need to read some BS motivational post.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 08/07/2026
Shoutout to CHEF LIU FANG. Abundance Culinary in Cleveland Heights was the best Chinese meal I have had in my life.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Remembering the legacy of the #Florida Highwaymen, a group of Black artists who sold their vivid landscape paintings from the trunk of their cars. Their work now fetches high prices from collectors. www.tcpalm.com/story/news/l...
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Florida Highwaymen leave lasting legacy of paintings by Black artists
In the 1950s, they sold their paintings of Florida landscapes for as little as $25 each. Today, their artwork is worth tens of thousands of dollars.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/04/2026
People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
One of my favorite “history fun facts” I often share in class is that Notre Dame is called “the fighting Irish” because in 1924, UND students beat the shit out of a local Klan that tried to harass them for being Catholic. stories.nd.edu/stories/a-cl...
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A Clash Over Catholicism
It was May 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan wanted to showcase its power and cement its sudden grip on Indiana politics by holding a picnic and parade in South Bend, the most Catholic area in the state. Abo...
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
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Mike in Cleveland @mikeincleveland.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Crossing my fingers for a Sean Strickland loss tonight, primarily from a spectator perspective but also he’s a terrible person so there ya go.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
one thing you can say about jeffrey epstein is that he simply loved emailing
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Mike in Cleveland @mikeincleveland.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
@pierremcmanus.bsky.social I feel like you mentioned a while ago that you know someone who lived with Andy Dick in Cleveland. Is it this dude? youtu.be/5k9w3PjkvRo?... I noticed the Bone Thugs poster while watching this and it crossed my mind.
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The Horrifying Downfall of Andy Dick (Hollywood to Crack)
YouTube video by Patrick Cc:
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
4/ Unfortunately, it’s becoming harder to find bioinformaticians who can double-check results, question their data, and say, “Wait, does this make sense biologically?” instead of rushing to fit the latest deep model.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 20/11/2025
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/10/2025
This is another 10,000 word opus - I break down the entirety of OpenAI's finances, and explain that they're just another boring AI startup trying to build products on top of their models. Sora 2 is a mirage - an unsustainable marketing tool. Anyway, subscribe at the discount link below.
OpenAI Is A Boring AI Startup Making Novelty Products That Lose Billions Of Dollars
One argument against this piece is that Sora itself represents a kind of innovation, when the truth is that it’s the result of infrastructure and theft. While there is some innovation with regards to post-training and the actual model itself, OpenAI’s moat is that they have the largest amount of available AI compute in the world and the resources to train massive models. 

They also intend to release the Sora 2 API, though it’s unclear how much it’ll cost (other than the fact it’ll be very, very expensive) and who might use it.

In any case, OpenAI is kind of proving my point. Sora 2 is free - it doesn’t drive any revenue unless you consider the knock-on effects of people paying to access it, except you don’t get access to Sora 2 by paying for ChatGPT Plus, and still have to wait in line like everybody else. While theoretically opening up signups might increase the revenue driven by this product, it is still fundamentally a very expensive viral marketing tool, and every user it attracts is a chance to burn whatever revenue they may or may not bring in.

And that, fundamentally, is the problem OpenAI faces. Even with a “viral hit” (if you can call it that) like Sora 2, one that’s got the entire tech industry talking, they still haven’t found a way to make a product people like or will actually pay for.

The Sora 2 app is a clunky, ugly feed of slop, its generations unreliable and expensive, interesting not based on value or utility, but in the novelty of making something that sort-of-kind-of looks real, not that you can actually do anything with it as a result. 

OpenAI, just like its API customers, is stuck trying to work out how to make products that people want and will pay for, let alone enough to cover their horrifying costs. 

Sora 2 is legally-questionable, financially-reckless, and a terrifying act of desperation by a company that already spent at least $2.60 to make $1 in the…
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
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Mike in Cleveland @mikeincleveland.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The pacing for UFC 318 is dogshit. It's midnight, and they're just starting the sizzle reel for the co-main. #ufc318
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows. Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries, but the US has resisted calls to regulate it. www.theguardian.com/environment/... via @us.theguardian.com
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Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows
Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries. The US has resisted calls to regulate it
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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
14/ Key takeaways: High-dim data creates false signals Multiple corrections aren’t optional Simpler is safer Always validate Replication is king
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Mike in Cleveland @mikeincleveland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Am I the only one who was bothered by the bathroom opening outward in the wrong direction, allowing Milchick to get blocked in? You can see once he gets out, that the door opens inward like it actually should. #Severance
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 21/03/2025
new track on our great lake greatest hits album 🔊
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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Mine in today’s @newyorker.com
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Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
An interesting data point worth exploring. 20 bucks a year. That’s it. That’s a couple Dunkin Donuts coffees. Seems like heck of an investment. To save an allied nation. Against a sworn enemy of the U.S….And the American people allegedly have “war fatigue?” Really? Weak sauce.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
#Florida developers score big tax breaks with ‘Rent-A-Cow’ loophole www.bradenton.com/news/local/a... via @bradentonherald.bsky.social
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Sarasota, Bradenton developers score big tax breaks with ‘Rent-A-Cow’ loophole
A state loophole is costing Sarasota and Manatee counties millions in lost revenue.
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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The current landscape and emerging challenges of benchmarking single-cell methods www.biorxiv.org/content/10....
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/02/2025
I see amazing bravery, generosity, and leadership from folks illegally fired NIH and NSF jobs. Then we have toadies doing what Jeremy highlights. Yes. Sex is a biological variable. Gene expression, and endocrine environment, and reproductive physiology, and fuck why do I even have to type this?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/02/2025
"I can’t tell you what the market is going to say, because I don’t know how quickly it’s able to assimilate reality....Because the reality is that tariffs are the least of our problems." Monday's Triad from JVL out now: www.thebulwark.com/p/follow-the...
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨ tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Certainly all the people who were up in arms about Biden not visiting North Carolina immediately will criticize the president’s “fuck you not my problem” attitude to disasters now
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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Every year I wait for a truly revolutionary piece of tech coming from CES and every year it's just "this $5,000 bidet now has a RBG strip lighting around the rim of the seat and for $25.99 a month you can buy a subscription to AI module that allows you to customize the colors."
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Mike in Cleveland @mikeincleveland.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The amount of people on the site who hate fireworks on NYE is genuinely astounding. It's one night people, you're fine, I promise.
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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
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Tomàs Montserrat Ayuso @tmontsay.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Not checking nuclear markers like MALAT1 or intronic reads in your scRNA-seq data?🚨 We show their power to flag low-quality cells—even in top public datasets. It’s time to prioritize better QC for cleaner, more reliable genomics research! Read more: bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/8
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High content of nuclei-free low-quality cells in reference single-cell atlases: a call for more stringent quality control using nuclear fraction - BMC Genomics
The advent of droplet-based single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) has dramatically increased data throughput, enabling the release of a diverse array of tissue cell atlases to the public. However, we...
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
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