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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin

@shimminykricket.blacksky.app
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Electrical, electromechanical, and embedded systems engineer and teacher. ♦️👌 1911. PC gamer, sci-fi, fantasy, Warhammer 40k, watch collecting. Loves history, philosophy, science and thinking about hard problems.

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Temu Tisha Campbell @thatgirlbamz.bsky.social · 12h
Why do they make it so difficult for us to vote if “voting doesn’t matter” ?
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Denzel Washington: Explain It To Me
Alt: Denzel Washington: Explain It To Me
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The Watch Nerd @tiredofcrazyshite.bsky.social · 4h
#Earthen has 3 new ceramic case colors for the Summit Mk II field watch collection: Apres-Bleu; Glade Green and Dune Devil. Same 38mm proportions and Miyota 9039. Ceramic might not be the best material for a field watch case, but lets call it a "desk hiker". $899. earthen-co.com/collections/...
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 43m
Wtf do you even put in a punitive essay about gang raping someone? Who tf thought that was a good idea?
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 47m
The Cornell shit is fucking crazy. I just got caught up.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 56m
The MAGA people are mad that Sarah Huckabee Sanders used a white man as a "welfare queen" in a conservative anti-welfare ad which tells you all you need to know about why socialism aint never happening in the US lol.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 4h
Look at this old ass cute lil robot I found lol. Ima make it do stuff as soon as I find the manual.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 7h
Recruiter spam, especially from India, is out of control.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 12h
The racism black people all face to varying degrees makes the class division problems within the community less visible which is why that book by E. Franklin Frazier called Black Bourgeoise was so salient and relevant today in many ways.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 12h
There are too many people who want access to the cover and protection of community without obligation to the community.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 13h
Its easy to have values when you comfortable.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 13h
I saw Nikole Hannah Jones interview and it confirmed exactly what I thought. Her decision was more about intraracial class stratification in the black community than it was access to diversity.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
My favorite "maybe" technology is that ITER nuclear fusion reactor
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
When the AI bubble pops its gonna be felt for sure but its gonna be *nothing* like the global financial crisis of 2008. That shit was apocalyptic for a number of reasons.
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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.com · 29/09/2026
And that’s before you even get to the off-balance sheet shenanigans. The Bank of International Settlements has noticed: www.bis.org/publications...
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Financing the AI infrastructure boom: on- and off-balance sheet borrowing | Bank for International Settlements
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
The mere fact that the AI industry cap ex is being financed mostly by bonds/debt (soon to be downgraded) AND their IPOs are getting delayed is a sign the market doesnt buy the bullshit being sold about AI. (Loaning a business money = less risky than owning a piece of the business)
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Im gonna create a list of technology that is currently being explored or in active development that I'm actually excited for and optimistic about.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Even if a technology is transformive and fully integrated in the daily lives of people that doesn't mean its gonna make any money. Take email for example. Gen AI could end up being likethat, except email service costs are miniscule by comparision.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Anthropic lost $42B on $5B in revenue and committed to another $518B in future cap ex obligations. They are *never* going to be a profitable company.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump: "You're gonna see that data centers are gonna be very popular"
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
If Anthropic numbers are that bad OpenAI's must be horrendous.
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Scientist Mel @scientistmel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This reminds me of a type of cognitive bias called “pro-innovation bias”. AI and its tech bro support is a perfect example of this. None of these folks are considering the blanket harmful effects and the lack of usefulness this has for the individual.
Pro-innovation Bias
Startup failures can sometimes be attributed to pro-innovation bias. That is the tendency to have an excessive optimism towards an invention or innovation's usefulness in the world.
At the same time, the "innovator" fails to identify the invention's limitations and weaknesses. Innovation often should be based on addressing a real user's problem for it to be successful.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/09/2026
“Costco is a cult “ A cult of livable wages and surprising deals Sign me TF up!!!
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The Watch Nerd @tiredofcrazyshite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Nomos has improved on the Club Sport Neomatik Worldtimer with a new black dial version and lumed city track and home time subdial. New is the would fix the bracelet it would be perfect. I put mine on a DeLugs rubberized leather strap and it's so much better. $5370 share.google/IXWXtVfT75M9...
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Anthropic's IPO prospectus leaked and their financials is a giant turd which explains why they wanted to "slow down" all of a sudden.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
40% of first-time homebuyers under the age of 30 used a cash gift from parents or an inheritance. Must be nice.
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Yanncé ✨ @uhnopenottoday.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
The way the Trump administration fucked everybody with student loans… no lube.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
The Jehovah's Witnesses finally revoked their ban on blood transfusions and their members are *pissed*. All those people that died for no reason smh.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Thinking the married woman is somehow different than the woman you just dating is how you end up divorced. The same energy you had when you got them is the same energy you need to keep them.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
They should absolutely ask that if they want their date to think they have an impact crater where their brain should be.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Then the question did its job. The point *is* to repel/filter certain kinds of people.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Oh you definitely is not a person who has money or know anything about it if you believe any of this nonsense.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
True but we not just talking about gambling. We talking about propensity for gambling *addiction* and men are 3x more likely to have gambling addiction than women are.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Any adult who doesnt know the difference between owning stock i.e. equity ownership in an actual business that makes actual money and gambling is not well informed to put that as nicely as possible.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Agreed 100%. The data is already pointing that direcrion now.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Wouldn't go that far. People who *dont* watch sports at all and dont understand people who do are far more likely to both be boring af *and* assholes. Two nonstarters.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
You stop at addiction or addiction potential...obviously. Massive difference between someone who gambles daily or weekly and someone who gambles once or twice per year.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Nope. There is no such thing as an amount of money that cant be gambled away. The very idea of being able to "afford" being addicted to gambling is stupid.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Its asking how you spend your time and since doing virtually anything recreational cost money asking any questions about how you spend your time is the same as asking how you spend your money. But you clearly sensitive about that 😬
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
And they should. However you can fish in any body of water you want but that dont mean you equally likely to catch fish in them.
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Tiricohairline @trejames.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Have your first date at a sports bar, he'll blow his cover without you asking.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The ads work precisely *because* people are bad at math and critical thinking. You aint gonna find too many mathematicians betting on parlays even if they gamble. We learn that rolling a 6 on one die is a higher probability than rolling three 6s on three dice in middle school.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Not to people who they assume gamble too.
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Big Brain Meme Gesture
ALT: Big Brain Meme Gesture
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Its stupidity and that stupidity is what makes it fun. Many of those same people voted for a orange clown to run the United States because the price of eggs increased.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Both but men make up the vast majority of sports gamblers and an even bigger proportion of people who are gambling addicts. Men are 3x more likely to develop gambling addictions than women are.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Depends on the vice. For some "vices" this is like only determing a snake is venomous *after* it bites you. This is how people end up with a spouse that gambles away their house because they could afford to gamble when they were dating.
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't ask it like that though, because you're not gonna get an honest answer from the gamblers. Instead, ask them what bets/parlays they have going for the night of the date in a way that makes them think you're rooting for them to win.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Aint nothing worse than a dumb man who doesnt know it who believes he should be leading someone. Aint nothing worse than a woman dumb enough to let him.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
When people gamble on sports they not even choosing the bets with the highest probability of winning which is astonishing to me.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I lost this weight and I'm dreading the effort its gonna take to donate/sell/tailor all these clothes and or get new ones.
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