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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"Reimagining Safety Act" is such a bad name and framing. Call it the "Constitution Act," include a repeal of most of the Patriot Act, and frame it as restoring American rights that were taken from us by the Bush administration post-9/11.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Let's also drop most of the Patriot Act while we're at it.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Polls have margin of error. It's better to look at overall patterns rather than individual polls, and the overall pattern doesn't show much change.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Polling data is messy, and averages like this also vary based on what polls you count and how you weigh them. The average Nate Silver maintains on his website, for example, has had Talarico around +3.5 for a couple weeks, and that's higher than he was at before then.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Political ads are effective in smaller races with low name recognition and on topics where people are more easily persuaded. More money has quickly diminishing returns though, and no voters in Texas are confused or uncertain about the differences between Paxton and Talarico.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Not every bug is a backdoor. This would not be the first time an attempted hardware optimization opened the door for a timing-based side channel attack, and it likely won't be the last. These things slip through when you're trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your silicon.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Aside from the obvious, it's crazy that they believe smoking is great and that the only problem is the cancer.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Banks probably put more effort into security than supermarket refrigerator system suppliers.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The CA tax is based on residence, not where the assets are.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The MA millionaire tax is so different from the CA proposal that it's basically irrelevant to compare them.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

MA's tax was far more diffuse (affected thousands of millionaires rather than dozens of billionaires) and was not a wealth tax.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do people want "super sweetener" or "super flavoring"...? Those honestly sound more sci-fi dystopian than "artificial."

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What revelation does South Korea even want an apology for? Clearly not the transfer since they agreed to that. And what good would an apology for revealing the secret agreement even do? It's already out in the open now anyways.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Giving players half the permanent? Big politics card.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They're protesting to continue a way of life that was financed by unlimited debt in an inflation-free world that no longer exists, with an aging population that can't provide the economic growth to outrun it. Even if they win this fight, the costs will still have to be paid, just in other ways.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kindred just for the tarmogoyf decks.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Going after an unrelated party in response to a grievance like this is not what respectable entities do. It's what bullies do, especially when their behavior is being challenged.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So how does the cost of all of that compare to the cost of just building the data centers down here?

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Getting the power is not the problem (solar), the problem is getting rid of the energy once it turns to heat.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It would also aggravate The US's energy crisis.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How much of that $7.33bn is compute vs infrastructure? If the compute costs are greater than the total revenue, the unit economics seem pretty grim.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The fix for college sports is not to turn it into a codified sports league. Colleges should be in the business of teaching, not running professional sports teams. If they want a league for younger semi-pro athletes, there's no issue with just forming a new indie league separate from colleges.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Falling by one point when the margin of error is 3.5 is like... not even noteworthy.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"I never thought they'd come after the immigrants WE hire"

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Human authors act as stenographers for companies all the time.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So anyways, we're excited to invite President Trump to the 2027 White House Correspondents' Dinner.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Basically I think the ethical questions around intentionally breeding heavily disabled mice in order to experiment on them are a bit more pertinent than "maybe adding a few human cells to a mouse will turn it into a human."

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This paragraph is weird. Consciousness is not something we can prove something has, it's something we decide something has. If you don't believe mice have consciousness already, should 6 months with a very small clump of human neurons really alter that opinion?

For instance, the researchers chose to stop the experiments when the human brain cells reached around six months old — before they could form a connection in the mouse's brain that is considered a hallmark of consciousness by human development researchers. "They're trying to stop the study before the markers of consciousness, or the fact of consciousness, might emerge," Farahany says — a choice she agrees with.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The reason he's not on the ballot is because he defied Trump and pushed for the Epstein files to be released. Most of his beliefs suck, but he is at least principled in them.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rules text for convoke differs slightly from the reminder text and actually says "tap ... _rather than_ pay that mana." So unfortunately it doesn't interact favorably.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"In them, Musk says he is feeling newly confident just before the November presidential election, writing he plans to 'unleash the anomaly in the matrix.'" Guys, I don't think there's a real conspiracy here, I think Musk is just a chuunibyou.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Democrats have not lost Silicon Valley. They've lost billionaire wannabe oligarchs. Silicon Valley overwhelmingly favors Democrats.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Senators can't be recalled.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Senators can't be recalled in any state. They can be expelled, but that's not gonna happen no matter who wins in November.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Japan holds a huge amount of US debt, and if Japan has to sell that debt to stabilize the yen, it would devalue the dollar.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You literally quote-replied me, but regardless, if not that, what was the "observation" supposed to be?

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I can read what you're saying, and your statements simply do not align with what the data shows. The data does not say that people don't consider individuals working multiple jobs to be working class. It shows that when asked to define "working class," people opt for broader, more inclusive terms.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think you should probably stop treating any and all responses which don't completely agree with you as personal attacks. I literally never said any of that. I said that the data did not show what you seemed to think it showed.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What are you talking about?

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Employed / Working for a living," the top response, includes people who work multiple jobs.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The implication from your post was clearly that respondants didn't think working multiple jobs was "working class," which is not what the infographic says. And without that implication, the observation is simply "people defined a term using a broad definition over a specific and incomplete one."

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The question was free response, not check all that apply.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I can't tell if an aftermath adventure would technically work within the rules, but it's a pretty cool idea nonetheless.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Did you just ignore all of the text below that?

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I had to find the original complaint but it looks like they are responding to specific allegations by the plaintiffs that words like "buy" could actually make consumers think they're purchasing the IP.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sony's argument there is not about revokability, it's about the fact that consumers know they're just buying a license. Their argument on revokability is not discussed in the article but looking at the actual filing they basically just point at their ToS and cite some relevant case law.

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