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Aaron Blackshear

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Anxious, sweaty Minnesotan. I do basketball data stuff and listen to good music.


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Meh on all this chocolate and caramel, we need the return of the Nerds blizzard

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Ned Resnikoff's avatar Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social
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These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Especially when it is all projection. The current Republican party would indeed try to frivolously prosecute a former president, Dems would send a sternly worded letter

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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I was trying to make a joke about all this but I’m gonna sit it out for a minute. This isn’t funny, fuck those guys

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

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Wagatwe Wanjuki's avatar Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com
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six million dollars that could have actually gone to support kids

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Minneapolis has affordable housing, wonderful bike infrastructure, and is not threatened by wildfires, water shortages, or rising sea levels

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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We have the first Category 4 hurricane to develop in the Atlantic Ocean in June.

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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It is wildly, unquestionably maddening how the Republican nominee is a widely and intensely loathed figure who is also a convicted criminal who is awaiting trial for stealing state secrets & staging a bloody coup attempt, and oh by the way he got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed & oversaw…

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Did Friedman's cab driver in tel Aviv tell him that?

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The latter, but make it The Mars Volta Bedlam in Goliath synced up with Apocalypto wizard of oz/dark side style

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My wife writes and reviews the intricacies of food safety regulations but I'm sure Matt Gaetz and Clay Higgins can do that just as well

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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Something the masses find entertaining and will do forever even though there's no real point? There's a book about that

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Chris Hayes's avatar Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Today’s Snyder decision almost a cartoon caricature of a corrupt court.

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Yell In a War's avatar Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social
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the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it

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I really despise the tech-ification of cars, touch screen heat, dials or touch screen for shifting, and it seems like everything in a Tesla is like that. That alone is a deal breaker

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Someone needs to Photoshop the 2nd picture being Ronaldo supplexing the kid

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Friend: "Aaron it's really tiresome and draining when you are so self-deprecating all the time" Me: "Yeah I'm a real piece of shit"

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(Playing with my Socrates action figure) fuck em up Socrates!

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By the time they figure out full self driving all of the roads in coastal states will be underwater

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Lauren's avatar Lauren @laurenkayes.bsky.social
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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Frightened Rabbit just came up on shuffle. It's still hard to listen to Scott's music all these years later. Check on your friends who are struggling

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It really is incredible the heights one can be vaulted to simply by being born in the right place and time to the right people and being able to read at a high school level

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I am technically late GenX, but I got a late start on college such that my friends and cultural influences were more old millennial, long story short I have a very specific kind of cross-generational brain worms

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always important to remember that this country pioneered the idea of the “confidence man”

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Tyler King's avatar Tyler King @tylerking.bsky.social
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The thing statements like this are hiding is basically every LLM from the major players has already reached the end of the training data universe. They’ve absorbed everything there is to scrape. They’re in desperate need of new data to build larger models. That data isn’t being created fast enough.

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Tyler King's avatar Tyler King @tylerking.bsky.social
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What’s far more likely is, as they’re forced to train models on LLM-generated data, the quality of these models dramatically decreases. Garbage in, garbage out. They’re in a desperate race to squeeze all the value out of this bubble before it bursts.

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In the fine print: we're going to use so much energy the sea level will rise by two feet and it's still only going to regurgitate Reddit posts

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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This is a war between management consultants and the rest of the world. They have harnessed the tech industry as a means of prolonging the growth-at-all-costs rot economy. The poison of growth has taken big tech down a very dark path. They must have more.

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Rudy probably could have pulled it off but then he showed up drunk to an event and got handsy with the public schools art director and part of the sealed settlement was calling off his budget cuts

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There is a very specific type of 80s-90s chud we all knew back then who said "fuckin gay shit" about art class, and we did not prepare ourselves for the fact that they were eventually going to become red state politicians

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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school kids bunkered in a classroom around the nation hearing rapid fire shots in the corridor will be very happy to know that well akshually /technically/ it's an altered semiautomatic rifle with a plastic mechanism designed to allow rapid re-engagement of the trigger mechanism and not a machinegun

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Lord Businessman II 's avatar Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social
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You just so rarely see a Priest body someone so hard

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When it's a man it's "leadership" or he's "relentless in the pursuit of his vision"

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The planet is overheating and we’re just lighting mountains of tires on fire so computers can spew gibberish at us.

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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legalizing sports betting was such a profound societal failure.

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Sean's avatar Sean @publichealth.bsky.social
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oof, this should keep some folks up at night: "As Alito provided an essential fifth vote hollowing out the Fourteenth Amendment’s bar to insurrectionists’ holding office, the Post sat silent."

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Jon you have no idea how much this means to me I've been standing here for years

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I was a health actuary in the individual market pre-ACA, you really really do not want that dystopia to come back

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