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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 03/10/2026

Yeah, but as a Northwestern person who works with a bunch of Penn State people, that was pretty satisfying to watch. (And I made some money betting on that game.)

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 27/09/2026

And NCAA football games apparently

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 13/09/2026

Nice of medium term oil markets to notice what most of us figured out in April. What a bunch of fucking dunces.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 12/09/2026

I figure it’s that they are hitting the end of other people being willing to give them billions for buildout because there’s not enough revenue on the other side, and nobody wants to be the only one to slow down

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 07/09/2026

I thought the books had a satisfying conclusion but the show has diverged increasingly on character details

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 31/08/2026

Tactically, both were successes. They blew up the stuff they intended to blow up. Yay us. But unlike the (first) gulf war, the strategic outcome has left the US, the region and the whole planet dramatically worse off than before we started.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 19/08/2026

I think it’s newsworthy that the elected leader of a nuclear superpower has no grasp of reality, but the news coverage should have the tone of “Can you f*ing believe this? I know, right?” And it universally does not.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 11/08/2026

1) Star Wars The Arcade Game (in the sit-down cabinet); and 2) the first time I knew that video games would grow to an industry that would rival movies, when I played Wing Commander IV with well known actors in the cutscenes.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 08/08/2026

We live along a major east-west rail line and sometimes the driver of the locomotive toots “shave and a haircut” on the air horn, which I enjoy.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 08/08/2026

I homeschooled my kids during Covid and it was awesome. They loved it, I loved it, they are now getting 5’s on AP exams and doing math two years ahead of where they would have been otherwise. But, you’re right that uneducated parents are unlikely to have good homeschool outcomes.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 07/08/2026

Tonight was the first time I remember being so distracted by people looking at their phones during a movie that it was genuinely upsetting.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 28/07/2026

One of the nice things about having a local LLM is that a lot of the parameters are tunable. Adjusting temperature, top_p and top_k makes a big difference in how creative/hallucinatory it is.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 28/07/2026

I never saw it because I was confused as to why they would make a film about former CIA director George Tenet. Robert Pattinson doesn’t look *remotely* like him. But, having gone back and actually read about it now, I would watch Elizabeth Debicki read the tax code. May have to rethink this.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 18/07/2026

Perhaps the real horror was the air we breathed along the way to the theater

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 18/07/2026

It’s a trick. Get an axe.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 17/07/2026

Has anyone modeled how much CO2 these fires are releasing? Because I assume it's a lot.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 16/07/2026

Warren Watermelon for the win

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 15/07/2026

“I think this game is going to be won by the team that scores the most points.” - John Madden.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 29/06/2026

I’m crossing the Atlantic on a ship. One nice thing about being a few time zones ahead is that it’s socially acceptable to drink at the hour Supreme Court opinions are released. (Although it does complicate the watching of World Cup games played in North America.)

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 29/05/2026

I remember when that happened, and my first thought was… aircraft carriers are very large, and don’t move all that fast. Wouldn’t a keen observer generally know where it was without resorting to Strava data?

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 27/05/2026

If it’s not Batman Forever, then neither can I.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 24/05/2026

When I lived in Chicago I described my concept of geography as “the lake, the 20-30 blocks east to west where I lived, some corn, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Ocean.” That was primarily a function of the train and highway system layout.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 23/05/2026

“They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.” Titus 1:16

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 16/05/2026

This sounds delightful, I used to live at Ainslie & Hoyne.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 16/05/2026

$1.00 a can at Simon’s in Andersonville (Chicago) circa 2000.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 15/05/2026

The fraud is everywhere. Between you, me, the tree, the rock.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 14/05/2026

Doesn’t, but should: Putin’ on the Ritz

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 12/05/2026

I’ve met General Haugh and people should listen to him.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 09/05/2026

They can’t even deliver letters reliably! I ordered a new phone case and the box showed up mangled and empty, but by god I got a notice hit had been delivered! USPS is a disaster. This would just be one more nail.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 03/05/2026

This book, _Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid_, edited by Robert Sternberg, is a delight a.co/d/02TKHClx

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 02/05/2026

Came here to say this. Joe Kernen is the toadiest guy on CNBC.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 28/04/2026

It’s a complete mystery to me why oil has not been at this level or higher for the last month; almost all progress on talks has been BS and smoke.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 28/04/2026

Insane. That is much too expensive for a Domino’s pizza.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 13/04/2026

The aching vocal during the first few seconds of Ray Charles’ “I’m a fool to care”

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 05/04/2026

I think the answer is: if you are backed by an organization with good enough lawyers to defend you and make case law, no. Go ahead and do it. Otherwise, I'd err on the side of caution.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 31/03/2026

That is crazy because *Busch Stadium* has a much better beer selection than that.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 23/03/2026

Never been to the bar at La Guardia.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 23/03/2026

In fairness, Atlanta TSA sort of looked like this before. I had TSA Pre and a friend I was traveling with did not. I breezed through, went to the bar by our gate, and was three sheets to the wind by the time he got through security. But that was maybe 2-3 hours.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 22/03/2026

The sound design on War of the Worlds sold it. Unfortunately,the lack of any truly likable characters ruined it.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 19/03/2026

Nor frito pie, nor skyline chili.

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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 18/03/2026

Those prices *are* outrageous though.

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