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Fuck up a run at governor and a Long Island congressional district and you get rewarded by being put in charge of dismantling all our environmental protections. What a world. This guy's like a hemorrhoid.

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If you’re one of those rare creatures who couldn’t figure out Elon Musk was a dangerous narcissist before you bought your Cybertruck, use your state’s lemon law to compel Tesla to take it back. Bring it to Tesla repeatedly for problems. Document everything.

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When you hire private contractors in place of your military, those people are called “mercenaries,” which is a word we ought to be using more.

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Another PITA when getting a new PC - Switching everything back to dark mode. Can we just make dark mode the default, already? Easier on the eyes.

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I'm in that weird period after you get a new PC where I'm not logged into those weird browser extensions and obscure services I use once every three months or so.

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Mornin'. It's a very Van Halen/The Who day. open.spotify.com/track/2E7Fmm...

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You remember working at dot com startups and you found out that the payments to vendors you had managment approve were being held up because the check was on the CFO’s desk? And then you had to re-present your rationale to the CFO and prove all over again that your company should pay its bills?

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17 years on Reddit. Geez…

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Has anybody noticed that Rachel Maddow flutters her eyelashes every time she needs to confront an absurdity created by Cheeto Hitler’s regime? Initially, I thought she was blinking “help me” in morse code.

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I think we’re underestimating our ability to pivot from temporarily embarrassed millionaires to temporarily embarrassed oligarchs.

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Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, will join this conversation ⬇️

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We already know how this is going to go here on Long Island: 1) Department of Education gets de-funded. 2) Hochul pushes the Federal funding gap to taxpayers. 3) Faced with double-digit tax increases, taxpayers vote "no" on all tax cap-piercing school budgets. 4) Public school collapse.

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If Joe Biden had given George Soros the kind of access to private data that Elon Musk and his engineers have right now, the right wing would be making January 6 look like an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

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Finally, someone is talking about this. Still, nobody is talking about this in the right way. You're not ready for the magnitude of how much shortfall this represents if you live in NYS. If it isn't made up, your school looks fundamentally different. But it's a huge tax increase to make it up.

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gonna save this one for reuse... a lot.

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Leon and DOGE are eating NOAA. Thankfully, we've Leon-proofed our home dashboards...

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Well-known to data hoarding types like me, but given where Leon has his sights set, might make sense to spread this around a bit.

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Today’s leftist fit is Star Trek.

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Thread: I don’t see anyone talking about this right now. As much as we like to think funds for public schools come from property taxes and the state, the feds are responsible for a smaller percentage of school aid. In New York, it’s a little over 7%.

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Me at the end of canning season: I canned too much. Me, now: I definitely didn’t can enough.

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By definition, you can’t go your own way on trade. Oh, and if you believe that every country in the world is ripping you off, maybe it’s not them. Maybe it’s you.

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Oh, my stars and garters! I've never experienced such zeal to protect me from cheap Chinese LLMs before. It's so nice that the people who insist AI needs to be all about power-hungry datacenters and NVIDIA chip muscle are warning me about the dangers of DeepSeek. Whatever would I do without them?

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THIS FRIDAY kicks off Fahrenheit 2451 hosted at the Internet Archive—a celebration of timeless books, films, art & stories. What would YOU preserve? 📅 Jan 31–Feb 1 📍 300 Funston Ave., SF Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/fahrenheit-2451-what-would-you-save-academic-conference-in-san-fra…

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Take a deep breath and understand that, under any other system, we would embrace an AI model that was: 1) Trained more cheaply 2) Developed with fewer computing cycles 3) Made without the benefit of cutting-edge chips 4) Subjected to greater restraints than its competition

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Prompts are like trying to tell an epic drinking story to someone who wasn't there. There's always some hidden bit of context, the relating of which doesn't seem relevant at the time, but is key to getting Claude to understand what the hell is going on.

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1945 Mercury Dime from the Coinstar reject tray at Wal-mart today. Always check the Coinstar reject tray.

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“Introducing the 2026 model year GMC Yukon McKinley…” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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Cecil Adams once said in The Straight Dope (I'm paraphrasing) that a great corollary to “behind every great fortune lies a great crime” is the notion that some people made their fortunes doing illegal things before it occurred to anybody to make them illegal.

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