I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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If you have type-O positive blood and you can manage it, please consider donating blood *as soon as possible* - this is a very bad situation.
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · last wk.yikes
There are like 6 different categories in this that I NEVER would have guessed the right answer to
Mike Petriello@mikepetriello.bsky.social · 2w agoOr argue further about the left side of the Yankee infield baseballsavant.mlb.com/comparison-t...
"... from one red paperclip to an immaculate house of cards, a friggin' Sagrada Familia of cards, all stacked precisely enough to be able to not only stand firm in the storm of the playoffs, but somehow reach all the way to heaven." Delightful prose
Dan Devine@yourmandevine.bsky.social · 2mo agoOK. Let's put a period at the end of the sentence, and then move on to new business. At Y! Sports: I wrote about the Knicks as a roster-building miracle — the organizational equivalent of the way the offense puts opposing defenses in the blender. tinyurl.com/4npf9fjh
The last NY teams to start a championship round up 2-0: • 1994 Rangers ➡️ Won 4-3 * 2000 Yankees ➡️ Won 4-1 * 2026 Knicks
***** NCSU LIBRARIES T. GREG DOUCETTE ENDOWMENT FUNDRAISING THREAD ***** Sooooo we're officially a go for this thing, happening over the next ~22 hours! Though it's going to be a bit shambolic because nothing seems to go smoothly with anything philanthropic I do 🤪
a cartoon of a man with the words to the library on the bottom
Alt: A cartoon that Greg doesn't recognize, of a character in martial arts garb pointing skyward to the right while shouting "To the library!"
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I need an on demand, Muppet Show style hook for conference sessions that are actually ads for the presenter's company
@hedgielib.bsky.social wake up, new competitor for Executive Function Theft just dropped. (Intentionally not attributed, as the author disabled replies and quote posts)
I've been having good results recently asking coding agents to provide "a linear walkthrough of the code that explains how it all works in detail" - I demonstrated that against this vibe coded Swift codebase and wrote up the technique here: simonwillison.net/guides/agent...
Linear walkthroughs - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
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ATTENTION HUMANS OF AMERICA! "Singularity Sky" by @cstross.bsky.social, is on sale for $1.99 for Kindle today!
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Singularity Sky - Kindle edition by Stross, Charles. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Singularity Sky.
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UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Data Science and Society has been up and running for just three years. Now, it will merge with the School of Information and Library Science in a change tied to artificial intelligence.
Why UNC-CH Revived a Plan to Merge Library and Data Science
Many questions remain about UNC-Chapel Hill’s plan to merge the schools of Data Science and Society and Information and Library Science.
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Damn it, I was really hoping that the pic that didn't load would reveal a new album when I clicked through, not a cotton swab product
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Did You Know? This was the average duration of any random mid-season Yankees-Red Sox game on FOX in the Oughts
Jomboy Media (Unofficial)@jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 9mo agoGame 3 of the World Series lasted 6 hours and 39 minutes
Good -- I was hoping to see Eddy and Rempe split up, since if they can bring heavy forecheck to both lines. I would like to see Cuylle and Laf or Panarin flipped. They both work from the outside and Miller generates a lot net front, seems like there could be some good interplay there.
Interesting point from John Flaherty before our pregame show: Luis Gil has a huge difference in his arm angle between his fastball and his changeup Gil Avg Arm Angle This Season 4-Seamer 38° Changeup 23° (MLB avg arm angle is 38°) 4-seam at the top of the photo, changeup at the bottom
Trying to think of the last Yankees team that was a plus-defense...
Fried is MFing nails! (but I don't like the pitch count being up)
Now that the regular season is over, I updated my numbers from several years ago on home run reliance, the percentage of runs that a team scores on home runs (aka "Guillen Number" as coined by @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social), and how that translates to hitting well in the postseason (thread)
This is by far the best of these I've seen, and the first to make me moderate my certainty on Judge being overwhelmingly ahead
Tangotiger@tangotiger.com · 10mo agoBlog Post: Raleigh v Judge, via WAR tangotiger.com/index.php/si...
