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Tim “Los Ingobernables de Minnesota" Nichols

@timcities555.bsky.social

The Eagles won the Super Bowl - TWICE! Wrestling. UK grad and Gophers fan. #MNUFC Red Loons member. Come on you LOONS! Saint Paul, MN

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Black Hart of Saint Paul@blackhartstp.com · 4h ago

Ok, we're actually mad about this, so we're going to donate $2 from all our hot dogs and $1 from every drink sold today to Listening House.

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Black Hart of Saint Paul@blackhartstp.com · 5h ago

Poverty, homelessness, drugs are all complicated issues with no easy solutions. But destroying encampments is inhumane & solves nothing. Listening House is an amazing resource for unhoused neighbors. If you want to be part of a solution, consider volunteering/donating. www.listeninghouse.org

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 6h ago

This part finally connected the usefulness I feel when I dabble with AI and the dread I feel when confronting it writ large

From Doctorow’s piece: The other question Suresh implicitly raises is: "How can you reconcile the failure of Al in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that Al is helping them do great work?" The answer is that these Al users are "centaurs" - experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves. Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad. They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves throughput. An automation technique that requires close supervision by skilled and experienced workers isn't going to be a raw productivity powerhouse. You don't "100x" your code this way, at least, not in the sense of firing 99 of your coders and having the remaining programmer pick up all their work. Rather, an automation tool that requires the continuous and conscientious exercise of discernment will let individual practitioners improve their work in extremely satisfying and useful ways. It's a way to spend more on operations in order to produce better outputs. It's not a way to cut your workforce, realise a gigantic saving, and still produce comparable goods and services at a far lower cost. That is why some individual coders report such delight with their Al tools. They engage with those tools on their own terms, to improve their work in the ways that they, in their expert judgment, consider beneficial. No one ranks them on a "token-maximisation" scoreboard. No one tells them they can't do a project if it isn't "sufficiently AI". When they set out to do a project, no one makes them prove that it couldn't be "done by AI"
Mike Spangenberg@mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 7h ago

I’m presdisposed to Doctorow’s position here, but this really resonates: “It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Tim “Los Ingobernables de Minnesota" Nichols@timcities555.bsky.social · 7h ago

The team plays tentative and lost, but also have no offensive midfielders at all apart from Triantis (who's hurt). 3 of 5 TAM players can't get on the field (Fitz, Bongi, Gressel). Draft picks not playing consistently (maybe Caldera in future?). Problem is much bigger than Knowles.

Andy Greder@andygreder.bsky.social · 7h ago

“I’m sorry to disappoint the fans.” #MNUFC supporters continued to boo #Loons at a half-empty Allianz Field on Tuesday, but head coach Cameron Knowles’ job is not considered to be in jeopardy. Follow-up story » www.twincities.com/2026/08/05/b...

Andy Greder@andygreder.bsky.social · 7h ago

“I’m sorry to disappoint the fans.” #MNUFC supporters continued to boo #Loons at a half-empty Allianz Field on Tuesday, but head coach Cameron Knowles’ job is not considered to be in jeopardy. Follow-up story » www.twincities.com/2026/08/05/b...

Boos continue, but coach Cameron Knowles’ job safe with MNUFC

Minnesota United hasn’t won at Allianz Field since April 18 and the team’s struggles hit another low Tuesday in a 2-1 loss to FC Juarez to open the Leagues Cup.

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Jon Marthaler@jonmarthaler.com · 19h ago

Full time: well, they did it. FC Juárez 2, Minnesota 1. That's eight in a row without a win, with only three of those against a team in a playoff spot right now. Seven in a row at home without a win. Seven in a row overall without scoring more than one goal. Probably out of the Leagues Cup.

Jon Marthaler@jonmarthaler.com · 21h ago

#MNUFC on track to lose to both the worst team in MLS and the worst team in Liga MX in the span of two weeks

Wes Burdine@wesburdine.bsky.social · yesterday

You just can't convince me that you can produce academy talent that will sell for tens of millions of dollars in Utah, but not Minnesota.

Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · yesterday

🇺🇸🔴🔵 BREAKING: Crystal Palace in advanced talks to sign American winger/wingback Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake, per sources - Deal not agreed yet, but trending well. Likely in $15m region - Gozo, 19, made clear he wants to go to Europe www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...

Tim “Los Ingobernables de Minnesota" Nichols@timcities555.bsky.social · yesterday

Sounds like she isn't quitting, but oh man I could see the citizens getting angry enough to recall her

Kyle Stokes@kystokes.bsky.social · yesterday

Scoop: In a private call with top officials, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her lashed at requests to delay a homeless encampment sweep. She attributed her anger to “fuckery” being said about her in public, 3 officials told @axios.com . One state rep logged off in frustration. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

Kyle Stokes@kystokes.bsky.social · yesterday

Scoop: In a private call with top officials, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her lashed at requests to delay a homeless encampment sweep. She attributed her anger to “fuckery” being said about her in public, 3 officials told @axios.com . One state rep logged off in frustration. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

Scoop: St. Paul's homelessness meeting with top officials went off the rails

Mayor Kaohly Her's controversial shift in homelessness policy comes as she faces a separate investigation.

axios.com

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"