big lesson about people like El-Sayed versus, say, Platner, is that if a candidate drops a video where they're swinging a kettlebell instead of benching at least two plates we gotta drop their ass
Congrats to Chris Gilmer-Hill on winning the primary for a seat in the Michigan state house! Chris is a lifelong Detroiter fighting for affordability and environmental justice for all Detroiters. @detroitdsa.bsky.social
In 2018 my mom got the same kind of lymphoma that killed Bob Ross in 1996. They cured her with 6 doses of chemotherapy.
I think not enough ppl talk about all of the insane medical breakthroughs we've had in the past 15 years
I'm way, WAY too old and jaded to give 1/100th of a shit what anyone thinks about the method I use to lose weight. Tirzepatide is a fucking miracle drug and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands.
saw some well-meaning posts on reddit about GLP-1s and how they're "not the easy way out." and, sure. but also who gives a shit of they are the easy way out
I can’t help but notice that the testosterone homologation set isn’t super concerned about fairness or safety when it comes to cis boys competing against their peers who are already into puberty. No one’s protesting the 200lb 14 year old with a beard.
Websites should do a better job explaining that you're not sending biometric info to them. You're sending them a public key. Then you use biometric validation - only on your own device - to unlock the private key when using it.
every website offering to let you set up a "passkey" by handing over your biometric info feels like someone standing in front of the ATM offering to help with your transaction
Therapy: too expensive, hard to find a good match Talking to AI: just gives you new forms of psychosis Telling your problems to me and I say "damn, that's crazy": 100% free and effective
Got another hour of waiting at Toronto Pearson airport so you know I gotta bump it: youtu.be/ftVTWDrtrlc
Rush - YYZ
YouTube video by RushVEVO
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Spent most of this week in Ottowa, Ontario. Pretty chill city. Would work here again.
i wonder if maybe tech guys should’ve maybe had a better pitch for AI than ‘fuck you you have no choice’
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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the thing that scares the middle and right so much about DSA is that they don't believe in oligarchy. the idea that the richest have not earned the right to govern the rest of us is the thing that makes them furious.
Remember Chris Cillizza? He’s sweating.
I'm Lawful Cozy on the network alignment chart 🧭 my polar opposite: @emceekayvee.bsky.social (Chaotic Mogger). plot your own network → bisks.net/alignment-ch...
network alignment chart
Plot a Bluesky handle's moots onto a 3×3 alignment grid — CHILL↔HARSH × GOONING↔MOGGING. Find yourself. Find your worst mutual. It's a bit.
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Hurting morale and sowing discord by flooding the zone with people who don’t get anyone’s jokes
J Alfred Prufrock: do I dare to eat a peach William Carlos Williams: nyert nyert bitch here comes the plumlord