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Video games, PopSci/geoscience, Giants baseball, progressive politics, nonsense. he/him

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14.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

FOX really understands that what baseball fans long for is to stare at Ken Rosenthal’s bald spot for three minutes while Team USA is batting.

14.03.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose β€˜targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

13.03.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 9448 πŸ” 5662 πŸ’¬ 203 πŸ“Œ 392
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This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

13.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 15166 πŸ” 3230 πŸ’¬ 471 πŸ“Œ 241

I was in California for approximately 120 hours last month and I saw about 30 Tom Steyer ads.

That feels less desperate than this bit from Porter.

13.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

13.03.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 6669 πŸ” 1329 πŸ’¬ 171 πŸ“Œ 147

To me it's best and most simply understood as "business influencer" (which may or may not come with corresponding financial or ladder-climbing incentives). In other cases, it's just a polite framing of a certain type of marketing or sales enablement.

13.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a cute little puzzler. I'm probably... 60% of the way through, not super demanding and mechanically easy to understand. You can probably 100% the game in less than 10 hours.

13.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No vision.

No coherence.

Just vibes, baby!

13.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This format is all the rage on LinkedIn (and is likely very influenced by what ChatGPT currently believes is thought leadership).

13.03.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Well, when ChatGPT and Evan Williams are your speechwriters…

13.03.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Down To Fung(tm)

12.03.2026 23:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally a newspaper that understands me

12.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's truly remarkable that all of this was foreseeable, preventable, and known by the U.S. and thy still managed to trip over their dick to start a shooting war with no tangible plan or goal. The Lord of the Flies administration at its finest.

12.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Replies and quote posts turned off now lol.

12.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait:

1. Build up speed
2. Hit Trampoline
3. Cool backflip
4. Nail the landing

The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

12.03.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 7437 πŸ” 2086 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 151
Tweet from wint (@dril):

who the fuck is scraeming "LOG OFF" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off
11:36 PM Β· Sep 15, 2012

Tweet from wint (@dril): who the fuck is scraeming "LOG OFF" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off 11:36 PM Β· Sep 15, 2012

Dems stay Demming.

12.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Italy's going to sweep the pool, just like we all expected.

12.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So if I understand right, if Italy scores 4 runs the only way the US can be eliminated is if it goes to some absolutely bananas extra inning marathon, which honestly would be the funniest possible outcome and I might root for in spite of everything else.

12.03.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mine is "oh freddled gruntbuggly" which doesn't really have a use case but I'm stuck with it anyway

11.03.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rami, no spoilers please, I'm only at πŸ™‚

11.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Have fun out there, Howie. Enjoy the insurance premiums.

11.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm in spaces where I and other people are learning B2B AI use cases bc it's something I'm gonna need to have an informed POV on for my line of work, and every single meeting has somebody over-describing their AI sand castle and it is just intolerable.

11.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Telling someone what you're doing with AI in your personal time is the most tedious fucking one-way conversation you can have these days. Even if you're talking to people who are open to agentic/GenAI, nobody cares what you made in Midjourney and nobody cares that you talk to your magic 8 ball.

11.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Bart saying: his face is so flesh-colored and sad. And his feet β€” they’re so small.

Bart saying: his face is so flesh-colored and sad. And his feet β€” they’re so small.

Looking at Marco Rubio

11.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
11.03.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 16176 πŸ” 4232 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 36

Not the manager Team USA needs, but perhaps the manager it deserves.

11.03.2026 05:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

05.02.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 10635 πŸ” 1898 πŸ’¬ 133 πŸ“Œ 161
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DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned β€˜Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

10.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 3063 πŸ” 1790 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 90