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Abrego Garcia being returned to the USA not 24 hrs after matty y went to the mattyresses to argue it was a classic example of a lost cause is the perfect distillation of the value of matty y as a political observer

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Only thing worse than Poster's Madness is Poster's Madness affecting non-Posters

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Also the guy that Trump promoted and gave de facto full access to the government just called him a fucking pedophile, like, that doesn’t show good leadership! That is in fact a scandal! Not always in agreement with Stancil but he’s def right on this.

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Funniest basketball team of all time.

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Apropos of nothing, back in February I met a disaffectioned Pacers supporter in Frankfurt on the way to SF. His take was that Indiana has been mediocre for decades. Wonder how he's feeling tonight!

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if you are terminally online STAY ON LINE

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I’m not a huge fan of Bill Clinton, but “All of us should operate under guardrails” is a phrase people need to remember. Unchecked power is absolute power. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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They can't say "Twitter is not real life" (because 2024 clearly proved that wrong) so they moved on to "Bluesky is not real life"

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New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom. Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵

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BIG HOUSING NEWS: The Senate passed our bill (SB 79) to allow more housing near high quality transit & giving transit agencies more authority to build homes on their own land. We need more housing & focusing it around transit makes so much sense. It’ll mean more housing & more transit ridership.

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Perhaps there's room to debate whether tariffs can be helpful. But there can't be much debate about this policy, which is incoherent, chaotic, and poorly targeted No-one's going to build a 50-year factory based on a policy that'll go off faster than a bucket of prawns in the sun.

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The top priority for Trump 2.0 is to punish the libs and science is lib-coded despite “STEM” being centrist to conservative coded because the pro-STEM rhetoric is really just anti-humanities rhetoric, they don’t actually support science and half of them think the Earth is 6,000 years-old.

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A cheeseburger uses a lot more water than a ChatGPT request 🍔 Actual farms, not the data center variety, are sucking up groundwater more quickly than surface water, explains @markgongloff.bsky.social 🎥

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There are no good args against more housing near transit, if you're in CA call your reps and tell them as much

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🚨 CALL YOUR REPS 🚨 SB79, a key bill to allow more housing by urban train stations, is up for a vote in the state senate. This is the single biggest action you can take to help end California's housing crisis this year, and it only takes 30 seconds. Here's how to do it ⬇️

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@jdcmedlock.bsky.social and I have a little thing we like to say: "Sometimes markets are good. Sometimes they are bad." ::duck:: The ::duck:: is very important because a lot of social media folks are personally invested in destroying or white knighting "capitalism."

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Not to pick on this post, but a good example of why base populations (what group of people you're talking about) are so important, and how easily that detail can get muddled in retelling -- the article says "Nearly a quarter of consumers using buy now, pay later loans finance groceries"

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Truer by the day

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Building my industrial data center close to public transit on land owned by a transit agency so the bytes can commute to work easily

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People should not hold public office while also actively running and benefitting from for-profit companies. Especially ones based on contracts with the government or their political prominence. Seems pretty basic.

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on twitter we're apparently discoursing about trader joes on bluesky we're apparently discoursing about doing drugs so hard you piss yourself do you ever think the interne was a mistake?

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Hi it's me deepfates and I'm looking for 47,000 of my closest friends

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It is always a sin to kill people, and also we live in a fallen world. Figuring out how to navigate that contradiction has been the task of philosophy for the last five thousand years or so, and we're still working on it. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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That's why the safest is to be in a 50-people car driven by someone else

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slop forensics this guy uses bioinformatics techniques to cluster LLM outputs based on n-grams surprising: the new DeepSeek R1 0528 clusters closer to Gemini, implying they switched from openai synthetic training data to google github.com/sam-paech/sl...

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can’t believe that the Musk/Trump junta would just lie to the media like that

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So the Turing Test/Imitation Game is pretty clearly off the table as a method to suss out consciousness. What do you think should replace it? I think Turing was onto something with the idea of looking for equivalence, rather than defining consciousness. Just turns out the test conditions aren't it.

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Your typical person working in ML is like a well educated person who has a grad degree, probably some exposure to humanities. You will note that they are mostly uninterested in the VC singularity stuff, and more interested in ML as an object of study

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This is one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated physics experiments, it’s won the noble prize, and it literally does not work without both sites. Like it can’t function.

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Subtweet: if "stick a fork in an electrical outlet to raise climate awareness" was trending, it would be deranged to assume that the people calling this a bad idea were paid by the fossil fuel lobby, even though the fossil fuel lobby is very bad and does have a history of paying for propaganda

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Welcome to pesapallo hour I’m your host Seth. This evening we’re discussing: should there be a shift ban in pesapallo? Sound off in the comments

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Fuck everything, we’re doing five leches.

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whatever you do, do not call this power consolidation. they are simply destroying all of america’s sources of soft power and outside sources of opposition along with the ability for the opposition to ideologically reproduce itself.

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Now is the time to reopen the Eurozone bond debate - column here by ING chief economist @mariekeblom.bsky.social. She argues the EU now has a unique chance to capitalise on investor doubts about the US and promote the euro as a reserve currency www.ft.com/content/dc3a...

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Stanford researchers unveil Knoll, a knowledge ecosystem that empowers users to customize language models with localized information, enhancing response accuracy and personalization. In a public trial, over 200 users reported improved results and greater engagement. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19335