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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 35m

They like the huge paychecks under the current system.

Because they took out massive loans for school, they may NEED the huge paychecks.

Also, like other rich people they would generally prefer to pay lower taxes.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 5h

good afternoon

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1h

141 almost identical videos in a year
300,000 subscribers, many vids have over 500k views

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1h

If you find a YouTube video formula that works, stick to it

Paul Warburg on YouTube screenshot with 26 straight videos about how Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, all which have a title shot of him talking into the camera in a park with titles like THERES NOTHING RUSSIA CAN DO or RUSSIA IS RUNNING OUT OF RUSSIANS

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1h

In general they are scantily clad but not naked

Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1h

St Paul Farmer’s Market this morning. Only a few more weeks before they have to switch to winter meat and dairy only.

Crowded shopping stalls with a roof and a trailer that has a neon sign that says BAO

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1h

How would a feed engine know this is politics bsky.app/profile/iwil...

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

Portland 🔥

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1h

I want a no-politics feed for when I don’t want to be depressed

No idea how to make that though, it’s way more complicated than keyword filtering

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 5h

How can they compete with both downtowns when both are pretty empty though

Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 5h

The Qatar air base thing is not that big a deal in reality, but if MAGA knew a MUSLIM ALLY OF HAMAS was building a military base in Idaho, they’d have a heart attack and fall face first into their fries. But their news won’t tell them that…

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 19h

Columbigenous People’s Day

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 20h

(The official name of MSP is Wold-Chamberlain Field. Lindbergh is just the main terminal. Wold-Chamberlain Field was an early local manufacturer of automatic cat-scratchers.)

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 20h

Charles Schulz grew up in St. Paul and started the Peanuts here, before moving to California after it reached massive success. And yet I don't think we have a *single* institution named after him. Certainly not an airport. Personally I think he's more deserving than that Lindbergh fellow.

Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 21h

Spent the day biking between institutions named for Charles Schulz.

About 18 miles total, there and back.

Front door of the Charles M. Schulz museum.

Welcome sign and control tower and terminal (it's a small airport...) of the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 22h

Yea at least that’s what they say

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 22h

No, Robinhood claims they actually have some kind of equity stake in the companies. Probably buying shares from employees or something. They aren’t clear about what they’re actually doing though.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 22h

To sell shares publicly in the US, you have to be a public company. You can’t just sneakily sell shares off to the side. One case where the US has much better regulations than Europe.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 22h

Robinhood actually offers tokenized equity already in Europe. These tokens are made without the original company involving or approving it, but are supposed to move roughly with the company’s valuation. They can’t do this in the US because it’s illegal AF.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 1d

TIL Claude's new code interpreter mode has a /mnt/skills/public/ folder full of prompt instructions and Python utilities for creating and manipulating pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx files - and you can ask Claude for a copy and learn a TON about working with those formats

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/...

simonw/claude-skills

One of the tips I picked up from Jesse Vincent's Claude Code Superpowers post (previously) was this: Skills are what give your agents Superpowers. The first time they really popped …

simonwillison.net

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · Mar 13

Kill your TV, burn your newspaper, throw your clothes into the fire. Scream without words and gesture without meaning

No prayer will find you no shelter will protect you no sword can save you from the whirlwind

If there is a single stone standing on another, run from that place

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

Beer

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 1d

ACARS Message From: N228JQ / YX5816

Message: TURTLELISHIOUS DUDE.... HANG 10 AT 280 ..300 SUCKED LIKE SHREDDER IN THE OOZE OF 2. SENSAY

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N228JQ

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA

#acars #vdlm2 #N228JQ #YX5816

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

Remember, they could have done this with or without the shutdown. It’s not a negotiation. It’s a hostage situation.

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 1d

The lens reveals: the model does NOT go directly from amore to "amor" or "amour" by just dropping or adding letters!

Instead it first "thinks" about the (English) word "love".

In other words: LLMs translate using *concepts*, not tokens.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

Pilots only do this when they are very distressed

ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 1d

ACARS Message From: N761AJ / AA0705

Message: YES SUCKING THE SEAT CUSHION UP MY BUTT WORRYING ABOUT GAS IS NO BUENO

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N761AJ

Area: Maidstone, UK

#acars #vdlm2 #N761AJ #AA0705

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

My god. What is the world coming to. Black suit with brown shoes!

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