You know you ran in meathead circles when you see “damn 315 is wild” and you’re like…it is? Most of my lifting partners and I were close to or over the 1000 pound club just on the legs. 315 is a respectable bench but every gym I’ve been to has multiple guys putting that up every day.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21m ago

315 is wild. Damn.

The last year in software has been wild. Like, that "nightmare" future is basically here. Although, in practice implementation is actually more asymptotic to free than truly free. Impl is _much_ cheaper, but you still will run up to the cost/friction point. And, honestly, it rocks so far.

Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · 3h ago

thinking about the nightmare future where AI *is* effective for knowledge work and that *doesn't* destroy all the jobs but but *does* turn every job in to purely managerial and strategy-alignment work because implementation becomes free

He definitely thinks that’s $30 of bananas.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 10h ago

Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest

This is why TikTok is indefensible on free speech grounds, they know what they’re doing is killing people. People killed by an actuarial trigger as just as dead as the ones killed by a bullet. Also if they can push people to suicide they can definitely change your vote.

Alexandra Lahav@alahav.bsky.social · 7h ago

New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...

"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterday

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

Florida Man is Florida Man because Florida is extraordinarily transparent about arrests. Illinois has a reputation for corruption because they actually prosecute it.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterday

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We built a free trade network with the world, it was hugely successful and raised the standard of living for pretty much everyone involved, and people have noticed that Trump has destroyed it.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

it's a motte and bailey the motte is that some philosophical beliefs are worthy of not being discriminated against the bailey is that this entails that no one can criticism on the grounds of said philosophical beliefs (when *discrimination*, not criticism, was the intent of the act!)

thepig993@thepig993.bsky.social · 2d ago

Saying the words "protected belief" over and over again in place of an actual argument

Astronaut dot meme

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 2d ago

Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce

Figuring shit out is cool. AI can help you figure shit out. Also, AI can convince you you’re figuring shit out when you very much are not. That is very bad. And feeling like you’re figuring shit out replacing actually figuring things out as the experience you’re chasing is quite dangerous.

Kate Holzemer@katebits.bsky.social · 2d ago

Another thought: in his statement, Hank Green expressed quite a lot of shame about the "dopamine hit" he gets from using AI. As a non-AI user I don't really know what he's referring to here. Is the AI voice flattering him while also doing his job (presumably poorly)? Because that's big weird.

NICU’s were wildly overcapacity because they were treating older kids, because the older kids ICU unit was completely filled with adult COVID patients on the knife’s edge of living and dying.

Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · 3d ago

A good friend of mine was a pulmonary ICU nurse in Brooklyn and the thing that made me realize how bad things were gonna get were her instagram stories that went from "wash your hands guys!" to "I saw three people die today" in like a week.

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

also, if free will is not an illusion, then we should also make sure to end poverty and reduce chronic stress

Scott Santens@scottsantens.com · 3d ago

I just read Sapolsky's book Determined and it kind of blew my mind. There's a biological argument for unconditional basic income to be made based on how our decisions depend on factors beyond our control. If free will is an illusion, then we should make sure to end poverty and reduce chronic stress.

Some people ask why lab leak theory even matters and here’s one reason why, it’s a conspiratorial project meant to undermine trust in science

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

May need to get a t-shirt printed, or maybe a tattoo.

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Well...

Shouldn't use 'Achilles heel' to mean 'salient weakness'. If one thing is your Achilles heel, that means that you are basically perfect at every other thing. If you have several weaknesses of which one is worst you don't have an Achilles heel. You are not Achilles. You are Bob.

There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…

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All im saying is, as a canadian, it would feel better if all this wasnt continually framed as a business decision

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · 4d ago

Trump's ignorant choice to make an enemy of one of our strongest allies is having DIRECT results on U.S. tourism—and just like the rest of his policies, it's hurting our economy.   My message to Canada: Washington state continues to welcome our Canadian friends and neighbors. 🇺🇸🇨🇦

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

He said this shit again yesterday so reup

Zeddy@zeddary.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Literally the fucking opposite happened. The Ukrainians flooded farmland and took other defensive measures north of Kyiv. It funneled the Russians onto the highways including that famous stalled convoy full of Spetsnaz and Chechen MMA bros. This is was what Ukraine did to them.

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

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Remembering how the "Ebola Crisis" was literally *the* most covered news story - consistently framed as though it was a huge embarrassment to Obama - before the 2014 midterms (after which the media totally abandoned the story)

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d ago

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 1,500 people in just over two months, and it is spreading much faster than previous outbreaks, the nation’s health ministry reported on Thursday.

Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.

Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d ago

saw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...

forbidden knowledge on this site: we should keep and expand full expensing from the TCJA

Matt Darling is heroically patient with randos in a way I have never been able to be. I read his replies and turn into Red Foreman.

That '70s Show: Red Forman's 'DUMBASS' Moment

ALT: That '70s Show: Red Forman's 'DUMBASS' Moment

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Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 6d ago

"The rise in prices getting smaller doesn't make it affordable." That's not what it's showing.

Trump was a kindergarden-level civics test the American electorate failed miserably, and the rest of the world now quite rightly regards us collectively as a toddler stumbling around with a Glock rather than an adult one can deal reasonably with.

The most irreversably damaging geopolitical harm Trump has inflicted is proving to the world that America is untrustworthy and unreliable. Not his administration, but the American people. open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

How Trump made America less popular than China

Speak loudly and blunder a lot

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“ignore it” has been the primary strategy to combat the far right/white supremacy for (at least) the last 25 years and it hasn’t worked but I’m sure it will work here

Seerat Sohi@seeratsohi.bsky.social · last wk.

If a tripod is set up on a sidewalk and nobody stops to yell at it, does it even make a sound? On Sophie Cunningham and a league that's finally learning to turning down the temperature: www.theringer.com/2026/07/29/w...

This is an outrageously false statement that ought to disqualify this wingnut from holding public office. By the way, 40 percent of the covid deaths in US could have been prevented with better management of the pandemic by Trump, according to a Lancet commission. abcnews.com/Health/lance...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Tuberville: "I'll be the governor of Alabama and I promise you we will find out if there's a possibility that we can bring him to Alabama to put him in front of a court and a jury to see if we can put this guy in prison. He killed millions of people, folks."