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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13h

Remember when crypto was a brand new thing and every single explanation of what it was boiled down to ”it’s like money but digital and specifically for doing crimes”

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

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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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

Mashed Potatoes cannot be “scalding”. This is not an opinion, it’s science. Physical reality.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

Laura San Giacomo's career, Wikipedia tells me, followed the arc I would have guessed if I had remembered she existed at any point since 2000.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

I think I watched a season or two of this...David Spade, right? I think they stuck it on after "Friends" or "Seinfeld" or one of the big guns...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

"Too Close for Comfort" and "Benson" ran back-to-back for SEVEN YEARS. There are people who acted in those shows who probably don't remember them!!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

That and some of its contemporaries (HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, etc) are the dying gasp or the tail end of the pre-cable Three Networks era where any sitcom that put up better numbers than reruns of old movies got 10 seasons and became embedded in the culture. It's watched because it's on!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

"Well he did win the popular vote by almost 1.5% over a candidate who wasn't the nominee until July" damn what a mandate

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

Archetype of a movie/tv series that *sounds* appealing because it checks the boxes of things you like but absolutely does not sum to a thing you want to sit and watch for 2+ hours.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 18h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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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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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

Love that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the sentient version of this tweet

Jane
@Whooping_Jane
blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine
Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom
1:40 PM • 2/3/19 • Twitter Web Client

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Look Greg she’s ~*~concerned~*~

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s completely rebrand and reorient the fundamental mission of our university around this technology that’s only a couple years old and already looks like a massive hype bubble ready to burst and destroy us all.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine how embarrassing changes like this are going to look in 3-5 years

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I understand what he was given the award for, and Kissinger for that matter. To argue that either man is an icon of the concept of Peace deserving of our recognition is, I think, a bit silly.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

The award bestowed upon icons of peaceful coexistence like Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi would never

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

It seems like the cause of some minor furor every year but you'd think people would have internalized that the Nobel Peace Prize is a little suspect after Kissinger and Arafat each got one.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

On living in an age of magic and grappling with the price we are paying for it.

AWFUL MAGIC | Gin and Tacos

Get more from Gin and Tacos on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 1d

you may have heard that china is becoming an "electrostate" or that it's leading the world in decarbonization. but actual chinese economic policy is far more muddled and complex. essential piece from @jeremywallace.bsky.social heatmap.news/ideas/china-...

China Can’t Decide if It Wants to Be the World’s First ‘Electrostate’

The country’s underwhelming new climate pledge is more than just bad news for the world — it reveals a serious governing mistake.

heatmap.news

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

"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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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Short podcast on the man who convinced the world that transit maps would be better and easier to use if they didn't try to represent geography accurately. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Aren't most Canadian products from Europe and Asia a generic "North American" spec, meaning "Whatever the Americans are going to want"?

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

“Trumped” in this usage is from the French “tromper” meaning to deceive, which also gives us Trompe-l'œil for all the artists out there.

Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 2d

Future generations are gonna be really confused about the etymology of “trumped-up charges”

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know why I’m like this or how not to be like this

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