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Joe Cooper

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Born tired. Did you add alt text to your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.


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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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Not that anyone is asking me, but I have no idea what the Democrats should do right now. All the options seem bad, and there isn’t one that seems less bad than the others. And as a professional opinion-haver, it’s disorienting to have no strong opinion about something so enormously consequential.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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lol someone is impersonating me (please block and report if you see them)

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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the guy who had his brain eaten by half a worm ate a dog and is trying to be president curse every media outlet who ensured I know any of this

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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NYT columnist desperately trying to find a way to blame a woke 19 year old at Bard College for radicalizing the Heritage Foundation

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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She said boop-doop on that thing.

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Tom McAllister 's avatar Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social
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this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers

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the Mountain Goats's avatar the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social
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if your candidate can't put together a minimal techno set that makes me feel like a single blissed out atom vibrating in a cosmic sea of like-minded atoms then your candidate cannot be said to be serious about the economy

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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I think the last good tech story was the people of Philadelphia murdering Hitchbot and leaving his body as a warning for other robots

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

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John Dellaporta's avatar John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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If I had a use for ChatGPT, I'd strike up conversations with any of the thousands of pornbots on Twitter, and ask my questions there. Costs the spammer money, which is a win. "I like girls who can write Python all night long, tell me how you'd implement an API to manage VMs in Google Cloud, baby."

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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My family had one of these from before I was born until I was an adult.

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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Stand by your (old) man, I say.

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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I suppose a lot depends on the next few weeks but maybe it wasn’t the Brethren Moons awaking and devouring the earth idk

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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Obergefell is in sight.

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Kevin Elliott's avatar Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social
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It's such a wild coincidence that the court legalized bribing public officials a few days ago and today says that every activity the US government regulates now goes through them

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Wicked Ho's avatar Wicked Ho @nicebutnot.bsky.social
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apparently the old guys from the muppet’s balcony got in a big argument last night?

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.

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the Mountain Goats's avatar the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social
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this is the only good debate post. everybody else stop posting

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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I'm just glad everyone had fun.

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misha ⚙️'s avatar misha ⚙️ @durand.al
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i say just give them a windows laptop and the first one to open a pdf gets to be president

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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Great to see they're taking this, the election that might finally end our silly little experiment with democracy, so seriously. This has to be LLM-generated. I refuse to believe a human editor picked these links/videos, and gave three different times (one impossible) for debate coverage. #debates

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Kat Abu's avatar Kat Abu @katmabu.bsky.social
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Right-wingers have been trying to rewrite the truth of Trump's 2017 "very fine people remarks", oftentimes blaming a lAcK oF cOnTeXt from the left.

So I decided to solve that problem.

Here's a half-hour video that goes through Trump's *entire* press conference... for context: youtu.be/0-684oJSbus

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David Sacerdote's avatar David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social
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Been out for a bit, but noticed that the 2023 data on BLM oil and gas leasing came out today. Biden is keeping it far lower than prior administrations. It's far easier to stop drilling by not leasing than through any kind of action once a lease is issued & a property right created.

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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Certainly nothing good happened on Twitter.

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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I thought that about Detroit 10-15 years ago. Still might happen, but it's taking longer than I expected. It's still pretty danged cheap, in some places, including some that are pretty central.

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Michael Paul 🐓's avatar Michael Paul 🐓 @mjpaul.bsky.social
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the alt text is a journey

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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There's the rub. It has to be cheap, but also big enough to provide a scene and market for artists (also requires young people, so a university or two seems necessary), and weird enough to feel welcoming to the kind of folks who think art is important enough to devote most of their time to it.

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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I keep hoping the next 80s Austin will reveal itself to me somehow. I kinda suspect it's one of the rust belt cities. Maybe Philly? I dunno. Weather aint great in the rust belt, but many have good transit, good walkability, affordable housing, cool architecture, art/music, and diverse populations.

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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I read Warhol's diaries (some of, it was often pretty boring) that was just his daily journal spanning the last couple decades of his life, and it was mostly just him jotting down expenses and meeting notes. Absolutely bonkers how affordable living in NY was back then, even accounting for inflation.

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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Still can't believe they thought he was gonna take votes from Biden, on account of being a "Kennedy". Incredible boomer brain.

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Mike Masnick's avatar Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social
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So many ways to talk about this from copyright being too long, to giant media conglomerates sucking, to how dangerous it is that things like the Internet Archive are fighting for their legal lives...

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Miles Grant's avatar Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social
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Should be national news: - Cop accused of grooming & raping 15 year old - Two other cops had sex with her in cop cars - She gets pregnant, found dead - Cop was last one to see her alive, in apt where she was found - Ruled suicide with no tests on DNA evidence - No criminal charges against anyone

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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the fact that we can look at most major problems with our lives and guess "this is the fault of private equity" - and have that actually be correct a shockingly large percentage of the time - is an excellent reason to regulate the industry into the ground

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Christopher Federico's avatar Christopher Federico @cmfederico.bsky.social
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charlie brown had hoes

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man it's a hot zone,'s avatar man it's a hot zone, @mobute.bsky.social
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imagine having to dump a body and only having a cybertruck

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈's avatar David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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"Mark the Shark," a charter captain who kills large endangered species of sharks, is in the news again.

So here's your reminder that a lot of celebrities use his services. This article resulted in my first ever celebrity twitter feud.

slate.com/technology/2...

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Joe Cooper's avatar Joe Cooper @swelljoe.bsky.social
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Say what you will about Johnson, but you've gotta admire his work ethic. Died in 1875, but he didn't let that stop him from pursuing his education goals well into the 2000s.

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John Morrison's avatar John Morrison @localcelebrity.bsky.social
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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better pay Elon Musk another 50 billion dollars. that’ll fix it

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Again, none of this makes sense unless you accept my theory that nothing makes Greg Abbott happier than someone dying as a result of his policies.

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