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I suppose it's conceivable that in red states, 86ing someone from the premises means killing them but in my experience the hospitality industry it just meant firmly asking them to leave.

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Lorem ipsum is like what am I, chopped liver?

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That awkward moment when you end up being in every project photo used in a @fastcompany.com article. Call me for all your architectural modeling needs. #profesh #sharedroof #seattlehousing #mixeduse #cooperativehousing #architecture #housing

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hey, what if we didn't get kicked out of our office for no good reason?

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Obviously this is very bad but “untalented goober doing everything possible to cut corners to get their degree at the expense of any learning” is a trope as old as higher education. This is just a new tool for them.

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If updating your app logs me out, someone should go to jail.

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DOGE officials are bragging about their accomplishments at building a better retirement system for federal workers (something that is sorely needed!). But sources inside the government tell us that this project actually began under Biden: www.fastcompany.com/91332785/dog...

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What’s one office worth as DOGE shutters federal workspaces? For @fastcompany.com I look at the singular, soon-to-close Goddard Institute for Space Studies in NYC, a NASA center where @billmckibben.bsky.social said we first understood the threat of climate change www.fastcompany.com/91333946/thi...

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Since Zohran has such a high floor but low ceiling, the anti-Cuomo RCV messaging actually needs to be more complex than just “don’t rank Cuomo” and I think it’s going to be hard for these candidates to figure that out.

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Andor and Zone 2, just as Tony Gilroy intended

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Food packaging is almost always made from fossil fuel-based plastic & is notoriously hard to recycle. But in a nondescript lab in Seattle, Amazon scientists are trying to change that—by designing a new kind of plastic packaging made from bio-based material.

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If you asked 100 people who was president during the start COVID, I bet at last 80 of them would say Biden.

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Fabulous dissection of the step-by-step crumbling of Target's reputation and shopping experience, which you have probably noticed as well: www.fastcompany.com/91320350/tar...

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New one from me on @fastcompany.com: This California bill could redefine digital consent by requiring opt-in approval before companies collect or share your location data www.fastcompany.com/91333177/cal...

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Played my kid "I Like To Move It' and thought I would blow her mind and she was like: "I know this song. The animals dance to it in Madagascar, I always watch it on the plane."

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When I see other kids with Bluey paraphernalia I always think to myself: “yeah but you don’t really GET it like my kid does, you know?”

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This actually worked.

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Currently getting a sunburn on purpose to teach my kid the value of sunscreen. Available for parenting advice books, if any editor is interested.

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Each of these guys should have to describe the health care they get and how much it costs and who is paying for it.

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Drivers love nothing more than waiting for you to put your foot down before they try to wave you through an intersection.

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Somehow "The European Conservative" was the top Google News result for "Leo XIV" and the site crashed.

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So, I had an interesting conversation last week. For @fastcompany.com, I spoke with Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad, on his decision to work at the VA, a role he has thanks to DOGE. He was remarkably transparent. www.fastcompany.com/91330297/dog... (Gift link)

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Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.

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Are you a “Dr.” if you complete med school but not your residency? A new front in the Who Gets a Dr. War opens, as participants, still cleaning their wounds from the Battle of Dr. Jill Biden, suddenly switch sides.

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Very cognizant and worried about AI hallucinations but I think we're getting into a bit of a fantasy that the first page of results for a random Google search always contain only accurate information.

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Imagine an alternate history where Google just added the ability to use conversational search queries and returned text answers instead of just links, and just made search really good without attaching any weird Messianic AI talking points to the technology.

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RFK Jr’s—and also MAHA and also the man-sphere—entire schtick in one screenshot, from the great Dr. Baraki

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Just so people understand this, there were no laptops allowed in class and you had to write bluebook essays less than 30 years ago. These would be trivially easy to bring back if anyone at a college had an ounce of will.

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An easy trick for journalists and writers used to be that when you decided to go for an easy corporate job, you could show up and write them a blog post in an hour that made them all think you were a genius. I've heard that this trick is rapidly becoming less effective.

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Lots of people talking about that AI cheating article and how they'll be at the top of the pile because they can still write an essay. But why would that matter if no one cares what a good essay is? It's not like they just don't like to write the essays... they also don't like to read the essays!

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It’s incredibly important to remember, as RFK continues to promote this “survival of the fittest” ethos, that the reason he looks like that is because he is on prescribed testosterone (provided by the pharmaceutical industry), and testosterone is an anabolic steroid.

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Do we think Larry Kudlow actually thinks that Alcatraz is “in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?” I am currently standing on the continental United States and I am looking right at it as we speak.

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For some reason, Major League Baseball wants me to know that today is high potassium awareness day.

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ADX Florence is like what am I, chopped liver?

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I've been asking "why are the Rivian colors so cool?" in edit meetings for the last four months and I have finally been rewarded with this great story. www.fastcompany.com/91326236/why...

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Do people who listen to their phones without headphones in public care if you also do it next to them? Are they selfish or do they just have no sense of aural annoyance?

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