Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026But also who decided “artificial intelligence“ was a good label for “self-tuning probabilistic linear regression” anyway? And why did everyone just accept that? 210
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I kind of miss it but I’ll happily take the trade for far more interesting basketball conference play. 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“I support Israel” polls really poorly with Dem voters, “I condemn Hasan Piker” does not. That’s really the whole story. 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Exactly, the worst Democrat in the senate is always just the punching bag taking the heat for those colleagues who feel the same way but don’t want to risk their seats. Imagine what sort of concessions somewhat like that can muster as well. 010
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Texas is apparently pretending Article IV doesn’t exist 011
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Regardless of the validity of his opinions in one‘s eyes, the deliberately false contexts they’ve been presented in should outrage anyone of integrity. But this is what the party leadership wants to focus on because they’re on the wrong side of an 80/20 issue with their own base. It’s bad politics. 100
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Why as a country do we need to defeat a twitch streamer, exactly? And why focus our efforts there at all (much less principally) instead of against powerful forces literally undermining democracy? 100
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Democratic Party leadership would rather defeat Hasan Piker than Donald Trump. 110
Reposted by Beardyalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 01/08/2026THREAD. After years of litigating against New York prosecutors and judges, we just won a landmark First Amendment case in the federal appeals court. The case could expose the secretive world that protects prosecutors when they break the law. But something deeper is going on. 211638
Reposted by BeardyJesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Y’all are cowards. I’m gonna say “steering wheel” 271
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026It’s hard to get too worked up about this when supporting indentured servitude wasn’t a bridge too far for any nation, but if instead this is what it takes to reform FIFA, I guess I’ll take it. I do understand the gravity of what Trump did. 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If the above makes me a deluded American, then so be it. 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026FIFA is corrupt (which is hardly news), the red card was a reasonable response to close inspection of the contact, Trump made everything worse like he always does, RBFA made a poor argument. Analysis of argument and of rules is important to avoid awful rules like the one Anna highlighted. 100
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026One of the things I kind of enjoyed about the sport when I began watching it was the incessant arguing among fans about things that cannot be changed, so I maybe don’t agree about VAR, but I understand this is a niche opinion of mine. 100
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Criticizing a poor argument for its quality is not the hill a lawyer should die on? We’re going to have a hard time finding competent counsel if that’s true. 010
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026It wasn’t a tackle, and while, after reviewing that play in slow motion, a red card is an appropriate assessment, the play should never have been reviewed in slow motion in the first place as that is an inconsistent application of the VAR rules. 100
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026In a World Cup final match, that is. Obviously not only one match ever. 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I think both Klose and Messi would agree that there’s a more important statistic between the two of them and that one is in Klose’s favor. 100
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I once bought a pack of Sampœrna X-tras that had 21 cigarettes in it. Nobody asked me the question, when I would clearly have been morally obligated to say “yes.” 030
Reposted by BeardyEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs. 14770021919
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I acutely remember both learning that some maniac idiot had murdered a Sikh, and a neighbor who had previously seemed level-headed ranting about how he had concluded we just have to kill these people (all Muslims, I guess?!) I was in shock from the way people reacted. 020
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026How does that even happen? Was the infrastructure designed by one incompetent person without review? 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026No one in the world has worse political instincts than a Democratic consultant. 020
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Coming at this from a software perspective, users are usually extremely good at telling you what’s wrong but typically very bad at telling you what would be better. 030
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Perhaps it is so that any sufficiently dedicated buffoon adversarial to our public institutions could manage to do such damage as has already been accomplished, which will doubtless take decades to rectify. His inability to have achieved all of his declared goals in this short span is some solace. 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026He was the principal architect of an extremely detailed plan to dismantle the federal government which appears to proceeding apace. In that respect he doesn’t seem incompetent at all; he only seems incompetent if you assume his goals are aligned with his predecessor. 110
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026He’s been responsible for most of the targeted dismantling of federal institutions from the inside that the admin has managed. His ideas are only stupid if you consider his aims stupid (which is certainly understandable) instead of misanthropic. 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Good point, Miller is a cartoonish villain but Vought is an actual evil genius. 330
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026We also don’t deserve dogs, but they are completely unaware. 010
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026I only really talk about it with my brother but we’ve both been struggling with this for years. The thing that really gets to me is I cannot reconcile these worldviews with my understanding of morality which is itself rooted in Jewish philosophy. 020
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026This sort of experience is particularly hard to process because it appears so plainly at odds with everything I have learned of morality from Jewish philosophical and theological traditions. It directly attacks my foundational understanding of my culture. 151
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I saw that Cobra last week or so and agree it sounded convincing. 010
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I presume it’s something along the lines of hitting backspace is tantamount to admitting fallibility, which is contrary to their entire worldview. 020
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026This feels like an appropriate time to remind everyone of the time that asshole said if a detailed proposal addressing world hunger for $6b could be drawn up, he would fund it; the UN responded with an extremely detailed plan to prevent all famine that year for $6b. They did not receive the funding. 030
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026“The wrong kind of Jew” is an inevitable consequence of Zionism. 061
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025People are just tuning in to six-year-old discourse, apparently. 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025It’s just the modern version Of advertising autographed portraits of Jesus Christ on the radio in the 1930s. 010
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025And often, what they aren’t. Gore Vidal said, decades ago, and talking about the NYT, that people from the rest of the world were often surprised how well informed Soviet citizens were. They said that you needed to know how to read Pravda. 010
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Indeed, this person did such a fine job of reading it that I’ll just defer to them: 110
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025So I don’t pay a ton of attention to any of the folks involved but I gather the right is gearing up for a concentration camp/death camp schism? 000
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The NYT editorial-decision praxis gap has existed since I’ve been old enough to read the paper, but it‘s wider these days. 110
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Not related to your point (and yeah, we need to primary him,) but it isn’t necessary to read the tea leaves of this recent election: it doesn’t take an expert to discern that people all over the country were clearly saying “fuck this.” 110
Beardy @oldbeardy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025David Wilcox has a song about this (“Rule Number One”) and summarized it excellently: “sooner or later, you’re the waiter.” 1162
