Huge Mantis
@hugemantis.bsky.social
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I write. I'm here sometimes, I just delete my posts. I can't get DMs for the moment. Email: HugeMantis @ gmail dot com
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I wrote about the rough time that Ding Liren has had since winning the World Chess Championship, which was an excuse to write about the rigors of elite competition, social media and AI, and the human condition. hugemantis.medium.com/ding-liren-i...
Ding Liren Is Struggling
There were signs that something might be troubling Ding Liren before he had even won the World Chess Championship. At a press conference…
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As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.
MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.
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Pritzker has been leaps and bounds better than the baseline Dems, but you can see him slam headfirst into the wall of what the limits of that are. You can either learn lessons from that or not but it’s laid out pretty straightforwardly for everyone that you can’t solve it like this.
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[Sarah McLachlan music] Every 15 minutes, a liberal gets conned into believing Mark Cuban is good. This is an entirely avoidable tragedy, and only you can help stop it.
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The planet has lost a lot of priceless stone fox resources recently, which is tragic at a personal level. But as a category, it’s renewable. Humanity will keep churning out ridiculously hot people and I think that’s beautiful.
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In-laws have an inconveniently placed laundry chute door that always made me wonder how no one ever stabbed themselves on it, and today I finally stabbed myself on it.
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I wish someone had just got a photo of my face when I hit play and read 22:06 on the slider.
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I have to wake up tomorrow to drive 2 hours to spend all weekend cleaning out my in-laws' garage. I do not even care about baseball. I am locked in, regardless. I had the crew tie me to the mast. I'm going wherever this game does.
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Keeping an eye on the replys here, because I really like Errant Signal and I've gotten zero good recs from the algorithm on anything else close to that vibe.