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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 9h

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 4h

Too short

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 14h

> 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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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11h

Look that new Zohran video is outstanding but I am not happy with his haircut, that's all I'm gonna say

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h

I'm sure this is a thing for parents but if I'm a parent I don't even want to know

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h

Lol you know we can't afford that

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h

A student missed the midterm exam and was very contrite and apologetic-- which is fine! people make mistakes!-- but they offered to send me their "Life 360" profile to prove they were home and studying all night. What are we doing to these young people?

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 14h

If you live in a society where this is allowed to happen, you do not live in a society governed by the rule of law.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 17h

The generous reading is they believe there is no limit to the money worth dumping into any project that could lead to a future AGI, because the AGI will be essentially invaluable. But this is the equivalent of building the world's largest economy around the expectation that the rapture is imminent

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17h

We know that LLMs struggle with math. Apparently the people involved in delivering the data centers that power LLMs do too. There's no way that investments will pay off. The bubble of bubbles. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

"subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance" is my new favorite way to describe why everything is terrible

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know why these senators aren't bringing armed escorts and forcing their way in. Unless they're doing it just for posting

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Oh we said Bennies too! There were two theories I remember: one is that it was an acronym for Bergen Essex Newark New York. The other is that there was a chair rental place called Bennie's and you could tell who the tourists were because the back of their chairs said Bennie's

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Me too!

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

I do not regret to inform you that Carly is an authoritative source

Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1d

I am rereading Gun Country because my grad students are reading it next week and I do not regret to inform you that @drewmckevitt.bsky.social is a genius

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CaptDedEyes @captdedeyes.bsky.social · May 29

This Tumblr post gave me a huge confidence boost:

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in all of today's news is the fact that I, too, did not win the Nobel Peace Prize

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

lol amazing and offensive

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to think of another country that made a sudden hard turn right toward violent authoritarianism and then started losing all its Nobel laureates

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Soaking up Eagles fan vibes this morning like

a man with long curly hair is looking at a computer screen

ALT: a man with long curly hair is looking at a computer screen

media.tenor.com

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

That's interesting because one of my colleagues down the road is also a former head of the local SCV!

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

policy idea: something good for once, anything really

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 2d

lol

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I don't want to give the impression that the conservative students have always been happy about what I teach. First time I taught the gun class we held a campus forum and they held their own opposing event with Larry Pratt, a man famous for hanging out with Nazis and white supremacists

HüskerBlü 🍉 @inimitablevi.bsky.social · 2d

It's great that worked for you.

My experience has been, because I am a women, they would be somehow lessened if they learned anything from me. It then becomes their aim to ruin the course for as many other people as possible.

It was a great course anyway, as they were largely outnumbered.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 2d

It is a very busy highway

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