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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12h

people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 22h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 15h

the level of ahistorical posting on here today is reaching insane levels "euromaidan was fascist" "liberals never fought fascism" "electoralism never accomplished anything" i know everything is annoying but you don't have to buffer overflow yourself into believing stuff that didn't happen

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, yeah, it's just about Silver, PECOTA was the metric he came up with and this is how he calculated it

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 16h

mostly just silver, who has gone fully insane and on top of this is outsourcing various parts of his brain to LLMs

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 16h

no shade to everyone running around hacking shit together in excel and R/ggplot, I am also that guy, but jeez

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 16h

the programming in question

He took that output and loaded the results into the heart of PECOTA—a Rube Goldberg contraption of an Excel spreadsheet. He'd finish making his changes to the PECOTA methodology for the year to the spreadsheet, kick off the macros, and generate the output on a player-by-player basis on his laptop. Just the Excel portion of the processing took days, barring a memory leak or computer crash that might necessitate starting the entire Excel process over. The output would be a monster CSV and a bunch of image files that I'd run a Perl script on to build the PECOTA cards. The output seemed to change in small ways every year, so the script had to change to accommodate those. For my part, I wrote the card-building script in late 2002, and just thinking of looking at the code today makes me cringe.

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 16h

[christian grey voice] my programming needs are... somewhat unconventional

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 16h

they're great when you want to drink a glass of effectively straight gin

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · Nov 14

barbaro: herman göring has said "i think that women are wonderful but i've never met one who didn't show more feeling than logic" what does that mean for the hitler administration?

haberman: well michael it's important to remember that women broke harder for hitler in this election

barbaro: hm!

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 19h

they also appear to be pretty resistant to pepper balls

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 20h

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

lmao called it

National Guard deployed to the Bass Pro pyramid

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 20h

the times is fucking exhausting

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 20h

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 21h

doctors will get paid less and everyone will pay more taxes and that will be great if it means everyone gets healthcare

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 21h

it would be really helpful if people would internalize that instituting a broader, more generous social safety net (which we should 1000% do) is going to come with costs and tradeoffs (which we should bear) that go well beyond some amorphous executive getting paid less

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 23h

I’m sorry but this just isn’t true. Insurance companies work the way they do because of the system they’re embedded in and doctors (through professional organizations) are a big factor in lobbying to keep insurance because it helps keep their salaries and other fees high.

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 22h

i have a great idea for something to do to sergio

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 1d

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 22h

hold up we're making these in California and they're not on the shelves what the fuck is going on here

ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 22h

at a minimum I really do want everyone who ever worked for ICE to spend the rest of their lives afraid of a knock at the door

The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 22h

The reckoning for these crimes will be unbelievable

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas