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I think you may have misread what I posted. I didn't suggest this was a "lesson" for him. I was responding to the suggestion that "adapting" could somehow make someone not who they used to be. He's never going to not be the person he was in college. That's always going to be there, mixed in.

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What were you hoping to accomplish with this question?

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I've gotten pretty good at stretching out a loaf to last as long as possible. I guess you could say I'm the household's breadthinner.

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You would think the "Olympic" part would clue people in on how they absolutely do not have a chance. If I were offered the chance to race an Olympic sprinter I'd probably take it, but only for the opportunity to see exactly how badly I'd get smoked. That sounds like fun. xD

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"Who's the breadwinner in your household?" "They have contests for that now?"

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At full screen, specifically. Tried watching a bit of it at thumbnail size and that's SO smooth.

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I'm torn. Atmospherically it's great, but actually looking at it in motion kinda hurts my eyes. x.x

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I'm not sure that's true, though it also often isn't an option. For instance, a murderer probably won't have the opportunity to build up an audience for their video essays as they're unlikely to have a penalty as light as a school suspension for it.

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I don't know either way on this specific person. That isn't really relevant to the larger point of it being a problem for anyone who did that to someone to decide on a highly visible career path. For some it might not matter; for others it might be very harmful. It seems like a pretty bad idea.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

He did make great content. But I can see that while also seeing how having his face show up in a widespread fashion is potentially very painful, even harmful, to someone traumatized by seeing him. So I get the idea behind saying that's an inappropriate career path. Is that correct? 🤷‍♀️

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modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

imagining a world where the worst people on the planet weren't given billions of dollars by being the first to get an unoriginal app written with stolen code bought by yahoo in 2001

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ok so I was accidentally completely wrong about everything in exactly the way you guys said the whole time. Here’s why I was still right

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Brandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The argument for not allowing trans children in sports ignores all the reasons we would like a young person to benefit from socializing with their peers *on purpose* because not allowing a young trans person to generate a healthy peer group *is the point* but they can’t say that part aloud.

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What benefits does sports have for kids? Why are we so focused on winning?

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Anyway Democratic candidates could *clean up* by promising to make number-spoofing by corporations a federal offense.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wish it weren't the case that India's social media userbase is stuck on Twitter (and Meta platforms), but there's no denying that the existent non-mainstream information infra that was built up there despite the IT cell & censorship is still very much hanging on despite even further repression.

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Don’t mute your India news, people! Monumental protests happening right now.

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Kara BOOOOOchanan 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @magicariot.com · 10/10/2026

Finally, Doom on a PC, only possible with the power of AI Now excuse me while I hit myself in the head with a hammer

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The left isn’t weak because of infighting. The left is weak because every facet of our society and economy is geared to the benefit of fascism and white supremacy and it is the challenge of multiple lifetimes to dismantle all of that.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They weren’t acting on their own. They were doing what their negligent creators designed them to do.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Writer Beware is a great resource for looking up potentially problematic publishers. They published this updated history of MRM’s rights grabs yesterday. Their history lesson on MRM will be better than mine.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Vibecoding destroys this shared culture of hackers, producing people who legitimately can no longer perceive that Enterprise Hello World is a joke, who no longer have the mental skills to map out a JAPH to figure out what it does, or to catch an underhanded exploit.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

These jokes and pranks and competitions were all based around the idea that code can be arbitrarily clever, arbitrarily inscrutable, that lines of code is a completely worthless metric, etc. Every programmer was literate enough to *perceive there as jokes*.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They were amusing precisely because of how hard you'd sometimes have to think to figure out what the fuck the code was doing. It was a caricature of bad code, code that you'd get fired or just yelled at for trying to submit. Even though it did look like normal Perl.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Back in the 90's there was a common programming joke of doing Enterprise Hello World. Hello World is the first program you write in a language, the simplest. Usually it's like, print "hello world" Enterprise Hello World turns this into thousands of lines of over engineered bullshit. As a joke.

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The Quigadook @quiggy.itch.io · 09/10/2026

Just like how if you AI generated a novel you'd get something that resembles a novel but has a loose or nonexistent structure and that fails to cohere into a work of art, so too is this true of AI code. The difference is that we tend to review code by its output and not its form.

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The Quigadook @quiggy.itch.io · 09/10/2026

I really need to make it clear to folks that AI-generated code closely resembles AI-generated text, by which I mean it is syntactically correct, easy to produce, and can approach what a human can make, but very clearly lacks the forethought and holistic nature of when a skilled human makes it.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No one asked you to dumb it down, nor am I 'interpreting ambiguity.' I'm noting out the literal words you said in the order you said them. It's not complicated.

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Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Mad men one of the best scene "who cares ?" S01 E12

I'm pretty sure he's...misquoting Mad Men for this "Japanese saying"? youtu.be/OqkHPsY8p84?...

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YouTube video by Nicolas Thomas

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

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So you're admitting you suckerpunched a couple of guys who didn't even know you were there, and this is supposed to be either impressive or intimidating? I'm not sure if it's more pathetic for that to be true or for you to be making it up. It definitely doesn't reflect well on you either way.

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(Sorry, just defaulted to neutral there)

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