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Mitch Lemon

@mitchlemon.bsky.social

I have a whole Sam-and-Diane thing with the world. I am relatively extremely Minnesotan.

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Mitch Lemon@mitchlemon.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bookmark it. Put it on the fridge. Carry it in your wallet. Next time someone asks why people in this generation think they’re special and shouldn’t, let’s say, pay property tax, point to this. News editors have trained them for 40 years to think they’re interesting and their opinion matters most.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

In deep-red Texas, conservatives are trying to make sense of what just happened to their longtime Republican stronghold. We visited a men’s bible study as they gathered for the first time since the state flipped in the midterm election.

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 2w ago

FRIEND (IN CANADA): What's the Gulf called, what's the lake called, who won in the US in 2020? GOOGLE: Mexico, Ontario, Biden. ME (IN AMERICA): What's the Gulf called, what's the lake called, who won in the US in 2020? GOOGLE: America, America, I am not at liberty to disclose.

Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · 2w ago

We expect voters to send pics of their ballots to LLMs to get advice - so we built a feature in CampSight that shows 2500 real responses from ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok on around 150 sample ballots. Take a look! getcampsight.ai/ballotsight

BallotSight — what AI chatbots say about the candidates on your ballot | CampSight

We showed ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok the same sample ballots. See who they talk about, who they ignore, and where they disagree.

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George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 2w ago

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Mitch Lemon@mitchlemon.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is nothing more Minnesotan than confidently believing we would be the first target in a nuclear war. Post-apocalypse Minnesotans would definitely be telling other survivors roasting rat meat on a barrel fire, “You know MN is the birthplace of nuclear war? Yeah. It’s true. Judy Garland, too.”

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tonight in 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated toward direct confrontation, a sentry on patrol at Duluth Air Force Base in Minnesota thought he saw someone climbing the perimeter fence. He shot at the intruder and activated the base sabotage alarm, which by design automatically triggered ...

Productive Outs@productiveouts.bsky.social · 2w ago

That’s right, it’s the World Series! The crack of bat, the sound of the clam, the roar of the goach and the rand of the hand. It’s the ultimate heat of the slam. We’re findin’ out who’s got the moose and who’s crammin’ a ham. These days it’s down to business. Strap in, folks! We’re goin’ wham!

Mitch Lemon@mitchlemon.bsky.social · 2w ago

This. A thousand times. When I look at my recent searches on Wikipedia, and it’s always a bizarre cocktail of weird things that floated into my mind. (See attached screenshot) Sometimes I need to remind myself: There was a time when you would have to live with not knowing something.

My truly bizarre list of Wikipedia searches from the last couple days. It includes a genus of ant, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, a guy who bought a Trump pardon, Etruscan civilization, and more weird, unconnected topics
Renee Dechert@reneedechert.com · 2w ago

Wikipedia It’s a community-driven reference work committed to providing good information to the world. Before Wikipedia, owning a set of encyclopedias was prohibitively expensive. Now, that information available to everyone. And it’s constantly updated. (It’s not perfect, but it’s a net good.)