Break a leg?
Break a leg?
"Every CEO" and then actually they just mean a handful of people
Bro acts like getting the number of births you do in your life to go down from 7 to 2 isn't solving the birthrate problem. (It's curiously like he has never imagined the thoughts, feelings, or desires of a woman.)
deep state wants you to think dogs avoid eye contact because it's an act of aggression among canines, but we know the truth
If I were brave enough, my response to that would be "that is SO kind of you to suggest. What time should I drop the kids off with you?"
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What a w0rld
Nothing is ever his fault. He fires people who present unfavorable data, surrounds himself with yes-men, and then raises the possibility that someone showed him favorable data that cannot withstand public scrutiny---but in order excuse himself! No link at all to his pattern of governance.
I shoulda learned to play the guitar, shoulda learned to play them drums
he doth protest too much, methinks
I saw your post right after reading a passage in a book where two guys almost succumb to a surprise attack from a snake, so I took your post *very* seriously 😂
simpler but subtler: both pre-2016 parties are dead for the same reason. The infosphere has shifted much faster than the party apparatus could adjust.
Poe's Law strikes again
I was gonna put it more tamely, but, yeah, if someone's looking for a common ethos shared by Maga and Kennedy, it's anti-establishmentism.
Poe's Law strikes again
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They did, but the ruling came without any order to stop the taxes, to give the Supreme Court a chance to weigh in.
What if "messaging" in 2025 is not about what you say, but about how it travels. Musk sent ads making *opposite* claims to opposing sides of an issue. Senators claiming "we didn't know" about RFK---and expecting to be taken seriously. The left is playing checkers, the right is playing 3-D chess?
Can spending $7.9 billion "in eligible costs on projects" include executive bonuses? If so, it feels like waiving "milestones" means the Intel execs were paid off to agree to the deal
oh dang, something knocked off his hat? he shoulda ....... ducked
lol, I'm old enough to remember when a Washington State farmer whined about workers being irrationally afraid of ICE raids, but said the labor shortage definitely absolutely obviously wasn't the Administration's fault. (It was last month.) www.npr.org/2025/07/06/n...
Ahaha fair enough :)
Many people are surprised to learn that, in a lot of US jurisdictions, roads and sidewalks and such are not replaced on a schedule, but are replaced by private contractors as a condition of being issued a permit to do a job in an area. Which means areas with high activity get shiny new things.
I am arguing Candela's point, about what tech bros will achieve, with an iconic example from science fiction. I addressed your point elsewhere, perhaps you missed it
As for whether they will "try" to make it in their image, isn't the relevant question whether they will *succeed*? Mary Shelley comes to mind
I don't know exactly what is possible, and I also don't know exactly what will be achieved. But referring to a hypothetical AGI and then saying it won't be G is different than asserting AGI is impossible.
yeah, I don't know who decided "superhuman AGI" meant doing tetris only. Physical dexterity, creativity, visual acuity, hypothetically any of these could be part of some advanced "general" intelligence. OP's claim that we don't need to fear AGI because it won't be G is circular reasoning
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Oh yeah same for sure. I think even if JD though Donald was going to live another 100 years and never give up power, it would still be the smart move to become Donald's mini-me. I mean look what happened to ol' Mikey.
You could push back even harder and observe that in a sane world, poor neighborhoods would be the first to get bike lanes and other infrastructure serving non-single occupant vehicles.
It struck me a few days ago that JD is starting to dress like Donald. Perhaps trying to convey visually that he assumes the figurative mantle
In more important news than the missing POTUS, we can all expect enormous price hikes in grocery bills this winter. So, try to prepare in advance. Milk - doubled cost Produce - increased by half or doubled Juices - more expensive Shelf-stable today is survival tomorrow. Indoor gardens are key.
I remember holding this libertarian kind of view as a teenager. But then the simple fact hit me, sure hypothetically anyone could study up on topic X, but in reality no one has time to study up on X, Y, Z, .... all the things you'd need to know to be a truly "independent" person.
gotta do your own research
Markets are efficient...ish. This failure to price in poor governance feels like a bubble in disguise
Fair enough, all words are suitcases---though that might make all the more valuable a term that highlights the quality in question
I think you're roughly right. The crazy thing is that this time, Pitchbot is stating basically a fact, somehow Americans are having trouble discerning science from quackery---and I think in most cases it's folks with very low knowledge having to rely on a gut feeling from their personal experiences.
Dangerous people learned how to cover whispers with sound and fury
I think it's useful to remember from the Twitter days how @atticus59914029.bsky.social's natural inclination is moderate. It's a sign of how extreme the present climate has become that "abolish ICE" is the battle cry of a moderate---but principled---man.
@dieworkwear.bsky.social what is going on with the rumpled sleeves here??
JD has started wearing Donald's ties
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The trolling will continue until governance improves.
mmmm all the hypothesizing with none of the rejecting
slightly off-topic, but I definitely think sports serves as a surrogate for the human instinct to wage war, channeling it into something less destructive
There's a lot of data. Data of variable quality and inference based on that data even more dubious, but ... lots of data. You could make a similar observation about a lot of "business" reporting. Simplest example is routine, dubious, assertions every day about why the stock market moved that day.
I suspect Allen was writing with student Jacob Ryker in mind, who along with other students did "converge" on a shooter. It's crazy though to advocate for putting kids in this position to begin with and think that's a solution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Th...
Sold, take me for a fitting
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Oh shoot yeah, I thought you were saying at first you thought I was serious, something I guess I'm very afraid of when I say awful things for the sake of satire
Poe's Law is thick out here lately
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
Yes, but before you object that people whose homes have been swept into the Gulf of Mexico probably won't have all their legal documents handy in a pinch, remember the rule will only be enforced for brown people
What is the enforcement? Do I have to see someone's papers if I run a charity now?
Just taught my first class of the semester -- The Age of Hamilton and Jefferson -- an undergraduate seminar. For reasons that I can't go into, there was extra added personal importance in it for me today. And it delivered. I love teaching. And I experienced why.
We live in the dumbest timeline
Also important to note, wayyy more expensive to have Guard members spread mulch than the Forest Service workers laid off by those "efficiency" dogs
in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern
Isn't she a convicted trafficker and perjurer? Why would anyone credit her new (unsworn?) interview
At Cerro Pelon, the monarch sanctuary.
Don't forget it also lets students avoid ever learning too, gotta preserve that for future generations
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If the USD stops being the world's reserve currency, "banks failing" won't even describe the calamity
lollllll what do you think logistics is lolllllllllllllllllllllllllll
I mean, this was considered good fun and not obviously shameful. Like duh the privilege of adulthood is being childish en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You...
Poe's Law strikes again, this time retroactively from 1600 years in the future
:/ I reported awhile back, don't know how harsh the mods on bsky are
the bizarre thing about bragging about being a trading genius is, if that were true, he'd be way too rich to be posting stuff no one reads on bsky
If your whole point is that there's a body of voters whose views don't fall somewhere onto a left-right scale, isn't "median" an inapplicable term?
look this isn't really the argument to be having, but it is being fooled that makes someone a fool. An object gets pancaked and it's a pancake. Something gets mailed and it's mail.
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
Poe's Law strikes again
What's the right failure rate?
Woo!
Doc, could you link to some reading material on the topic of debilitating empathy? Asking for the proverbial friend
Yes, I know the line. Do you recall anyone putting their hope in stormtroopers?
be mindful you don't build your hope on delusion. I feel like everyone's out there banking on a mental image from movies like 'The Siege' where it ultimately proves impossible to bend the military against the Constitution. if you're banking on that, you're out to lunch
if you're waiting for that moment, you're going to wait a long time
I'd add, because it might be counterintuitive: salads taste even better if you're exercising regularly. I think exercise increases the body's appetite for antioxidants in things like sprouts, leafy greens, and red beans (... oh and dark chocolate 😎 )
Definitely this. It took less than a week to go from 'we're just exercising our unique, temporary authority to police DC as a federal district' to 'Chicago is next' without anyone saying 'oh so just forget the Constitution then?'
I don't know, I once pointed out how Rather tried to throw an election by pushing an obvious lie on his network news show, and no one seemed curious or interested or willing to take their fingers out of their ears about it. The right has gone nuts lately but let's not act like it's all a mystery
Uneasy lies the head that dreams up these headlines. Emphasis on lies
If there is one unifying pattern, it is: nope, no one remembers
To be fair, we were all taught to believe the problem was they were bad people
Man nothing riles me up like "make election day a holiday"
Interesting to say he can't when he did. Maybe recalibrate your sense of rules, or whether there are any
let's dream of a day when society makes it profitable to share your love of the stars in proportion to the joy your love brings others
I don't know, I think if you go out and talk to people in the last ... decades ... you wouldn't be surprised by today's American anti-science attitude
You are unfamiliar with the concept of strays?
to be fair, what's actually going on is indeed beyond his comprehension
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You can understand the mistake, of course, since ICE is working for a Chief Executive whose oath appears to be quite forgotten www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
That was truly excellent!
We could just call it what it's already called en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
(relatively) minor point, but I think the inverse of this is why tech bros like LLMs so much. The fact that LLMs are big auto-completes makes them quite well suited to replace much of the labor that writes code, so tech bros have an exaggerated sense of how useful LLMs are for tasks in general
I think the craving for accountability is relatable. The craving for cruelty is... unfortunate
If you are a Black American, the existence of museums that discuss how horrible slavery was, in the past, IS NECESSARY for any chance of a bright future.
based on just the excerpt, author seems to be making a straightforward means-vs-ends distinction?
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