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that seems a lil bit reductive: there's four categories of hazing sexual assault alcohol/drug abuse dominance games stupid bullshit jokes a friends frat did some some dumb bs where they made the recruits their "traditional" cookies (which intentionally tasted awful) and then fed them to pledges

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 1h

Presented with no further comment: assbench.com

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 1h

this person, from googling for the original article, was fired by blue origin several years ago for fighting an industry-wide shift to move employer-employee legal disputes to mandatory arbitration so as an ex-employee - why not be cynical??

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 1h

also why do corporate communications folks not understand that employees understand that we're being lied to by our bosses, and we perform this lie back to our bosses when we go "rah rah"?

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 1h

basically. the hours are long but they aren't spacex long...

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 1h

aerospace engineers are like "wow yes Jeff/Elon you're god" while thinking "pays better than working on weapons" anyone got the source article for this?? I can't find it

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 2h

lol this is not true in the slightest everyone works there for the paycheck

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 2h

oh my god that's exactly what he thinks he's going to create

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 5h

The investors need to be wiped out as well.

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 5h

This “nobody is responsible for this thing we are building” stance has to stop, and prison for the execs when it does something harmful is the most efficient route.

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 12h

we need to escalate to deescalate and that means putting the top criminal in jail

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 12h

she isnt even sean spicer

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 13h

People need to go to jail for this shit

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 13/10/2026

[walking into the hot and funny people club] well none of you want to admit this but i’ve been hanging out at the awful cunts club and they’re a LOT nicer to me than you guys are

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It makes you think! bsky.app/profile/netw...

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 21h

The crowd is completely bored. We are going to win

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This should be a street view to the link - where you can see the approximately 50 acre campus that has just been sitting there, unused since 2023 because of CA's fucked up real-estate tax laws

google.com

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There is an abandoned water treatment plant on the California coastline one mile from where I live in LA County Every day that land sits unused is a crime

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

so could a star wars: xcom game - but they made one, and a mid one at that

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"This raises questions" is just a paraphrase of Susan Collins' "this is concerning" and just as meaningless.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My next t-shirt is on the way. Logo of a Kyoto bar, not Tokyo — which makes sense.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the rest of it is a fundamental political question of "are you willing to use the power of the state to destroy his wealth/power or not," there's no easy cheat code for that one

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I am told that X also had a minor freak out about the Jeff Bezos interview on Fox News, where they denounced _Jeff_ _Bezos_ as a socialist!

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

even the engineering stuff? a former roommate teaches in the control systems department at the Naval Academy

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the removal of the olive branch is definitely to makes the new logo more fash-adjacent

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the article says that they are developing a new seeker for this missile

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

idk how they're going to get more performance out of the PAC-3 sized motor if im working at lockmart, I would sell a 3x2 pack of shortened THAAD booster, with a third pulse for the final radar-acquired intercept, and the only commonality would be the "Patriot" branding

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it looks like a stubby THAAD launcher with a shortened first stage?

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(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Posting by another means

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

award-slop at least makes sense

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

a lot of this distillation whining is pure internal cope anthropic was claiming that a rival chinese model was based on distilled outputs of a model they had released two weeks earlier making a machine god out of linear algebra isn't going to go well for the west

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

harpers ferry is always fun!

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

*this is actually what PBMs were invented solve! PBMs introduce price-non-transparency to manufacturers and insurers, to increase the total demand for the pill, theoretically lowing prices in aggregate of course, the emphasis is on the theoretically bit

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

jakafi, the medicine in question, is largely priced for acute cancers, where you're typically on it for ~3-6 mo the discovery of the jak2 gene (and effective patient advocacy!) means that insurance cos are basically now required to cover jakafi's ~$25k/mo* cost forever

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

oof that's rough my disease PV, a rare chronic blood cancer, was studied primarily for scientific interest, since it is a relatively "simple" disease in most patients. for most patients, the standard of care is frequent blood draws, and a 1950s chemotherapy pill

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

also the mechanism of action by which it it inhibits red cell growth that it promotes the genetic signaling to produce blood cells, to the point where the n mutant cells “exhausts” themselves

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it’s also crazy how even advanced therapies work: the jak2 gene makes protein that promote blood cell growth I take a jak2 inhibitor for my blood disease, caused by a jak2 mutation. but the genetic link was discovered after the medicine was invented and approved!

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the problem is that the discourse of around a modernized Marty would be beyond idiotic

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On the subject of classic movies that could use a modern rework: Marty.

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Marty (film) - Wikipedia

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A friend who lives in Evanston IL sent this amazing website purporting to be for "Citizens for Appropriate Growth in Evanston" www.evanstoncitizens.com

Thoughtful growth, carefully contained.
Pure Evanston.

Curating research, action alerts, and community resources dedicated to the careful evaluation of any housing proposal that might change something.

A Rich Heritage of Community… since 1863

Citizens for Appropriate Growth in Evanston is focused on preserving neighborhood character, protecting community stability, and ensuring growth is appropriate for existing Evanston residents.
Research

CAGE produces evidence-based analysis of zoning, density, housing supply, neighborhood character, parking availability, and other community impacts. Our research team is finalizing a longitudinal study of existing residents and their preferred number of new residents.

Our last report, Characters in the Neighborhood™, examined the relationship between development and the continued presence of people who arrived before the current proposal was submitted. Specifically, our analysis prioritized the perspectives of residents with the deepest demonstrated commitment to Evanston, as measured through years of homeownership, property tax payment (exclusive of senior exemptions), and proximity to the proposed development. Our patented stakeholder weighting metric increased proportionally with both tenure of residence and likelihood of observing the proposed development from a privately owned property.

Key Finding: Using a mixed-methods approach, researchers found a statistically significant relationship between length of residency and the belief that Evanston reached optimal population levels shortly thereafter. Results suggest that Evanston's ideal population level is remarkably stable, having been reached shortly after the arrival of nearly every survey participant.

Action

CAGE amplifies housing-related hearings, community meetings, and opportunities for residents to make their voices heard. We’re focused on Evanston’s Putting Assets to Work campaign and Evanston’s Land Use Commission (LUC).

We’re also acting on our growing alarm at the approval of tall, “transit-oriented” developments through our Airflow Resilience Project™. This project will prepare residents for potential exposure to dangerous levels of amplified natural occurring airflow (“wind”) that can occur around tall buildings. Through a partnership with a national university, scientists are testing various personal protective equipment options such as wind-resistant cardigans, reinforced travel mug retention devices, and military grade pacifiers for infants. We will test prototypes at Davis and Chicago Avenue in late 2027.

CAGE - Citizens for Appropriate Growth in Evanston

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Victor Geislinger @victorsvector.com · 10/10/2026

A coworker shared this to our chat yesterday & no joke, it's been stuck in my head since Still not sure how I feel about it as I cycle between laughter & tears anyway, lgtm 💃🏼 youtu.be/3TNpOD6bov8

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LGTM (Looks Good to Me) - Claude Opus 5.5 music video

YouTube video by Degenerative Pixels

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My awful super power is that dudes tell me what they really think and I hate it he told me he started watching Dexter and said unironically that he had a lot in common with the main character the next week he started bringing in donuts

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

incredibly smart actually and a good leader as well He just hasn’t yet realized that he’s a fascist, and openly (and correctly) views Trump as supporting his interests drives a cyber truck obviously

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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dude I worked with used to say he bought a Trump T shirt to own the libs, not because he’s maga

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