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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 10h

SMRT Turlet: I'm in love with the shape of you...

Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 11h

Underrated part of the shutdown strategy: Non-wealthy, non-Riyadh Comedy Festival comedians are about to have their healthcare premiums shoot through the roof. Wonder who they'll align with in their podcasts now?

Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 12h

I think the point is that standard deviation bell curves would point out that like 14% of people can infer things, remember the recent past, or discern quite obvious lies.

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 12h

Vitello goes to the pros, Sully takes a leave of absence, Prince Andrew gives up his titles...

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 2d

Hoo boy have I had some.

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 3d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 3d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 3d

Send me your questions, Gridiron Dores fans:

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2025 Vanderbilt Football Mailbag #8: Call For Submissions

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 4d

That's what I call him, yes.

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 4d

THROW BRIAN KELLY INTO THE CUMBERLAND

Gridiron Dores 6-1. Bowl Eligible before Halloween for the first time in my lifetime... and likely my father's.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

The government’s social media channels are operated by incels, trolls, and YouTube commenters.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to inform you all that the Department of Homeland Security is currently attempting to ratio me (and failing, as of more than two hours later).

With a heavy sigh, I repeat: bring back professionalism. For the love of god. You're running comms for the government of the USA. Act like it.

@DHSGov account says "Ratio." They are QTing a post that I wrote (next picture reproduces in full) asking, with a fair amount of snark, why DHS was blaming Governor Pritzker for the Hanover Park PD having hiring someone who allegedly was a visa overstay. They post two headlines about an Illinois law which authorized noncitizens with valid work authorization to become cops.

The post that set this off, in which I too was QTing the DHS account. The DHS post about the Hanover Park PD incident reads as follows: ".
@GovPritzker
doesn’t just allow illegal aliens to terrorize Illinois’s communities, he allows them to work as sworn police officers.

Radule Bojovic overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to depart the U.S. on March 31, 2015. Over a decade later, he was still illegally in the U.S. working as a police officer for the Hanover Park Police Department earning a salary of $78,955.

Criminal illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our communities, especially on our police forces."

My QT response to this was: "What the heck does Governor Pritzker have to do with a local police department hiring decision?

Do the people running @DHSgov not even know the basics about how state governments work?"

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d

A leaked chat revealed Young Republican leaders trading bigoted slurs. Journalists at nearly every major outlet walked out of the Pentagon rather than submit to Hegseth's new rules. And a judge stepped in to stop Trump’s mass firings of federal workers. This week's top stories broken down here:

Young Republicans' vile group chat revealed. Pentagon reporters walk out. Judge blocks mass federal worker firings.

Young Republicans’ Offensive Messages Exposed

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5d

They don't exactly look good, he should obviously be in prison instead of just playing at silliness with dumb titles, but still it's not great that the British impose more consequences on literal royalty for Epstein-associated crimes than we do on our republican chief magistrate.

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 5d

Lot of rich people in Birmingham
Lot of ghosts in a lot of houses
Look over there, dry ice factory
Good place to get some thinking done

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 6d

All right. I'll play: I was married but I'm not married any more. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 6d

Want a bag answered? We can do that for you, Gridiron Dores fans.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 8d

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 8d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9d

the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9d

Seeing Broadcom, NVIDIA and AMD boost off of deals that involve OpenAI promising *each of them* 1GW of data center capacity BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR makes me furious. A data center takes 2.5 years, and none of these supposed developments have even had the land picked. It's all a lie.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11d

Oh shit. President Crimes and his crimes friends are committing crimes with the fake money for doing crimes. Have you guys seen this.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11d

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 11d

I'd just like to point out that literally no one I interact with is excited about AI, including the AI computer engineer.

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 11d

"How do you do, fellow kids" Rock.

a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

media.tenor.com

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Andrew VU '04 @andrewvu04.bsky.social · 11d

My high school students had never seen or heard of a crossword puzzle before. Their brains are so social media and AI cooked, it's tough to believe.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Oct 8

There are lots of great reasons not to celebrate Christopher Columbus. Many moons ago in @thenation.com I wrote about one of the big ones: that the founding legend around Columbus was fabricated out of whole cloth in the 1790s to suit the needs of American politics of the moment.

The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero

How the founding fathers turned Christopher Columbus, a mediocre Italian sailor and mass murderer, into a historical icon.

www.thenation.com

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 13d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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