Let's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 6d agoMLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury
The more they bluster like this the more dire the strategic situation is for the US
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Fox correspondent: "President Trump tells Fox News about Iran, 'We are going to beat the f**king s**t out of them.' He went on to say, 'We'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating.'"
Any adaptation of A Christmas Carol is doomed to failure because the perfect adaptation (the muppets one) has already been made
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2w agoSaw someone say that Johnny Depp didn't face any consequences from MeToo and like... it killed his career? He's getting a second chance I think because chuds now run Paramount but I strongly suspect the scrooge movie - basically the first mainstream movie he's starred in since - will bomb?
We really gotta put a stop to college football coaching in this country until we can figure out why it's giving us guys like this
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTuberville on Mayor Mamdani: "Put handcuffs on him ... send him to Gitmo"
say what you will about the internet, but it’s undeniably the best way to find new stupid stuff to be insane about every day
The one property that couldn't be made worse with AI
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2w agojust do another horrific adaptation of atlas shrugged like you guys have during every other right wing culture war cycle
Good LLMs often give correct answers to questions that are posed correctly - but the LLM that most people interact with, the AI results in google search - is dogshit.
conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2w agogee I’m shocked. I suspected the study was completely fucked when I saw that the LLMs only gave wrong answers. LLMs usually give right answers. surely that’s relevant to people’s expectations about answer quality lol
”Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables“ on cassette
Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · 2w agoPotentially fun prompt: What was the first piece of music you bought for yourself knowing your parents wouldn't approve? Mine was "The Downward Spiral." Picked up cassette on a trip to a Dewey Beach music store. Had heard "Closer" on MTV (where the "fucks" were muted) and wanted in.
The language in the 10-K strikes me as borderline boilerplate: of course contamination in the food chain is a huge risk to restaurants like this, and they were right to acknowledge it as such. Any reasonable person could have come up with the same guess, especially in the era of diarrhea-by-policy!
Forbes@forbes.com · 3w agoSEC filings show Taco Bell—and other restaurants—knew cyclospora posed a risk to their businesses and the public.
Sitting down in front of my TV with my big warm glass of raw milk and my bowl of unwashed lettuce, ready to watch trumps speech
I was an exchange student in Germany in the early 2000s, and my host mother - who worked for the city! - smoked in her office
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3w agoHospitals often didn’t ban smoking till the early 1990s. The past is another country! Also you would not *believe* how much right wing whining there was about smoking bans. Also about the use of “Ms”
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
Getting students interested in the material I'm teaching has been more effective at preventing AI cheating than any other approach I've tried so far
Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3w agoit’s amazing how often the solution to endlessly multiplying pedagogical problems turns out to be restoring an actual pedagogical relationship between instructors and students
This is a great insight about biohacking and an endless heath optimization culture
patrick@redford.bsky.social · 3w agoHow cycling solved sleep: Inside a Tour de France team’s sleep program, a look at the expansive tech they use, and a theory of wellness culture, sleep, and simplicity: defector.com/how-cycling-...
This was an incredibly helpful primer on what's going on with China www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
Opinion | What Americans Need to Understand About China (Gift Article)
Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, went back to school to try to understand how the Chinese president thinks.
nytimes.com
LLMs don't threaten my sense of identity at all - they would never be able to spend ten years getting a PhD. They'd probably finish it much quicker
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
Not surprising, but nonetheless disappointing. US bills are some of the worst designed in the world (so bad that the BEP lost a lawsuit to the American Council of the BIind requiring them to redesign the bills, which they haven't yet done), and have only ever featured men.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 4w agoTrump administration says it has abandoned plans for new Harriet Tubman $20 bill spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/pol...
Summarizing is really important to building expertise, too - there's a reason that, e.g., humanities PhDs make their canditates read over a hundred books and write notes over them in preparation for qualifying exams. You can't be an expert without having done hundreds of little tasks like that.
Hacking and sawing at the cables on the bridge because standing on it makes me think i can't possibly fall into the chasm
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump says oil prices might go up: "Maybe we'll do some other things that could lift it a little bit, but I don't think it's gonna lift it a lot at all"
Managing my risk by betting half on black and half on red
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoOn Trump's Iran war, CTFC Chairman Michael Selig claims that prediction markets are "an interesting hedging tool" that enable firms to "manage risk." "Airlines and other businesses are able to manage their costs so the consumer doesn't pay for that," he adds.
AI is great. It's allowed software developers to build their towers taller and taller. Soon they will reach Heaven and greet God
