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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2h

Ridership on the Bay Area's Caltrain also continues rising in the wake of the route's electrification, with passenger counts up 31% since this time last year! Caltrain is now moving more people than it did in equivalent months pre-COVID, a massive rarity among US rail systems

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 38m

Wall Street Journal newsroom, welcome to the resistance.

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 39m

Yeah, that would do the trick (as would bigger fields)

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Hairybusiness @hairybusiness.bsky.social · 5h

I'd just move the walls back 10-15 feet

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 39m

Did they shrink Comerica Park from when it first opened? Every park could look like that I guess

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly this is an improvement from some of the insane slide decks from the Iraq War years. But largely this is "PowerPoint is not a good information medium"

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 6h

Okay I've got it: If you hit a home run, the runners on the bases score, but your at bat just continues.

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 7h

If you watch the film it's so clear how swings have changed to try to get a better launch angle so you hit a few more dingers. Seems like you have to find a way to undo that. (You could deaden the ball or bats a little bit I guess)

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 7h

Even "win Kansas; lose Maine" would be pretty nuts!

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 7h

Has anyone looked at calling more high strikes so batters have to defend further up, instead of literally golfing at pitches in the dirt.

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 7h

I get what they are trying to do but c'mon.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 7h

what was health insurance

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Halacha/Talmud/Mishnah Language

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 8h

Man it must suck if you're the son of an extremely famous politician and you want to go into, like, accounting.

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 8h

Like, NJ was close because of some mix of crime, immigration, and inflation, how Dems do on those issues will affect results.

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 8h

I'm more interested to see what will happen in New Jersey, but various parts of NY are interesting as well.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 9h

the start of the World Cup + every game since the World Cup is one of the best extended runs in USMNT history but right in the middle of that they had a very important game where they repeatedly blasted themselves in the groin with a shotgun

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Occam’s Slasher Film Prop @moshirty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I blame reality tv shows, where everyone talks on speakerphone so the viewer can hear both sides of the call, and now people think that’s the normal way to do it

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 9h

... King? (Yes I thought this was about measuring the first time)

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 9h

It also hasn't happened yet, remember what the polls looked like in 2020

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 10h

I think the conservative position now is that food stamps + Medicaid expansion are welfare.

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Mark Schmitt @mschmitt9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The real absurdity of Huckabee Sanders re-upping old welfare tropes is that welfare (TANF) barely exists, especially in Southern states. There were 729 families on TANF in Arkansas last year and by definition, no childless young men. Less than 2% of the families in poverty in AK are on TANF.

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 10h

Orange marmalade is delicious.

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 10h

I never know what to do with "this is correct but it's poor speechwriting because of the ability to clip it" -- like Dem admins go to insane lengths to avoid five word phrases that can be misconstrued in isolation.

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 10h

Right I think it's in the same joking on the straight vein as "Thanks Obama" was -- it's not *really* because of Trump/Obama but you're going to credit/blame him anyway.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19h

Digger is great and in a few years anyone serious will love it and swear they always loved it.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 16h

“Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 10h

🎶 Nationwide is on your side 🎶

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 10h

This has to be a comedy bit (mcrib is the giveaway)

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 11h

This is why neoliberals since the Washington Consensus have understood that free trade is economically good, not just because of comparative advantage, but also because it improves the political economy by removing one avenue for clientelism, forcing companies to instead make better products.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 21h

Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 22h

This is even weirder than @xenocryptsite.bsky.social suggests because not only: do voters not change behavior much or split tickets, and yet elections do change but! voters have changed dramatically on region and class, and yet somehow this has mostly come out to 50/50 since 2008. Odd IMO!

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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 22h

MESSI’S FINAL ABSOLUTE CHIMNEYS

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 22h

I’m at a large-format screening of DIGGER on a Tuesday night and it’s sold out and was basically sold out 2 days ago when I bought the ticket. God bless Los Angeles.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Frog sat by the pond waiting for Toad.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We don't know for a fact that it will be as good a year for Dems as polling (and other indicators!) suggest, but if it is? They're going to gain all over the place, including some real surprises.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Many are asking me, “Spencer, what is your New York Comic Con schedule? I hear there’s an opportunity to get a limited-edition ashcan of NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC #1 a month before its release — is that true?” Don’t worry. I’ve answered all your questions here:

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You Can Only Get This At New York Comic Con

Not only will I be signing, we'll have exclusive NO ONE EXPECTS THE DIALECTIC stuff there! PLUS: For paid subscribers, a cover reveal!

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I guess this is organized ball, so you could have 10-15 hours of team practice, 3-6 hours of fitness training, spend your spare time hooping solo or goofing around with friends. But also ... read a book? Ask a girl on a date?

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The NBA has youth participation recommended and maximum participation guidelines.. It would be interesting to see how many current D1 *college* players stayed within these guidelines. youthguidelines.nba.com

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The WHOLE POINT of the spelling bee (and Mathcounts, and Teen Jeopardy, and All-State band, and and) is to get kids to practice, the question is at what point practice for _________ (spelling, math, music, sports, etc) starts crowding out other aspects of life.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In January 2025 the assumption was Dems would gain North Carolina and maybe Maine if they could get Jared Golden to run.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I find myself concerned that the widening midterm map may create a set of expectations where we end up getting a D+7/D+8 year with some strong candidate effects but it gets read as a disappointing performance because the Dems didn't pick off Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa or Texas etc.

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Mr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Again, non-creepy uses of these things exist, but Meta is like the worst possible spokesman for them.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

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