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Praisegod Barebone

@sailboatchris.bsky.social

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full-time public servant, part-time history instructor 🇺🇲/🇨🇦

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Watching England go full England is one of the great delights of every World Cup. Almost thought we weren't going to get it this year. But they were saving it up. Bravo

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Exactly who is this supposed to be affordable for, FIFA? Get bent.

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Tell me you're a Canadian telecom startup without telling me you're a Canadian telecom startup

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Ennui-tery @jerkwheatery.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The goddamned Tigers

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Jesus christ FIFA (and this is apaprently preferred access/pricing for Canada soccer members)

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

R Mason Thomas brought me the most joy in football this year, so here's: $5 for each sack (6.5) $15 for the 3 times I remember cackling as QBs spiked balls in terror when they saw him come free off the edge run the ball (or R Mason will get you) @edsbs.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 15/04/2026

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

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Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

So much winning that we are getting tired of winning, they say.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/02/2026

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social might be more dudes in this photo than in the rest of the stadium

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Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

handed the mic over to the em dash—read its response to the AI allegations in my latest for @mcsweeneys.net 🎤🎤🎤

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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/04/2025

So OpenAI is actively marketing ChatGPT to students during college finals season in the U.S. We've talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to these systems, but additionally, there's been at least three…

Screenshot of ChatpGPT page:

ChaptGPT

Promo: 2 months free for students
ChatGPT Plus is now free for college students through May

Offer valid for students in the US and Canada

[Buttons reading "Claim offer" and "learn more"
An image of a pencil scrawling a scribbly and looping line]

ChatGPT Plus is here to help you through finals

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

"Steak n Shake aligned itself with the nazis" is something I would have a hard time coming up with even in a fever dream

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Keith Jackson: "As the sun sets over the San Gabriels, we wonder, should the Cincinnati Bengals be here instead of Oregon?"

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Grape Job CBS sporps

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Really wish it were possible for both these Big XII teams to make the playoff

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Praisegod Barebone @sailboatchris.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Another #AI win. It's all marketing. This stuff doesn't actually work most of the time. I suspect it's why half my students are averaging a C-.

A screenshot of a Google search where the AI overview states NFL coordinators only make $51,000-$55,000 per year.

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