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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 15h

Always amusing when people post something like "Wow, good on the pope for speaking out against poverty like this." Have you . . . ever met a Catholic?

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 18h

Thiel has a philosophy degree from Stanford, although he does talk like an 18 year old who just discovered Aristotle two weeks ago, so I can understand why you might not guess that.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 20h

Found undocumented schema change.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 23h

A lot of this behaviour seems to come from an understandable place; it's extremely nerve-wracking to tell someone how you feel about them, and rejection stings. But rather than reducing the odds of rejection, it seems to just reduce the odds of *any* interaction.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a very different vibe

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone mentions the comedian Tim Heidecker I think they are talking about the composer Tim Hecker, and boy does that get confusing fast.

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katie dzwierzynski @kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · 2d

are we sure that’s not rebecca romaine

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 4d

Nicole Kidman stuns for Vogue.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 2d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 2d

If we are going to be a workers' party then we need to firmly stand in opposition to an economic bubble driven by a desire to devalue art and labour so that tech billionaires can get even richer. @avilewis.ca @heathermcpherson.bsky.social rmcpherson.bsky.social @rob-for-ndp-leader.bsky.social

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I'd really like to see from NDP leadership candidates is a commitment to reign in big tech rather than wasting public resources falling for the hype of AI companies. @avilewis.ca @heathermcpherson.bsky.social @rob-for-ndp-leader.bsky.social

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to 6 or 8 years from now when we get headlines like:
Mass Layoffs At Microsoft. Xbox Bleeds Money As AI Games Fail To Find An Audience.

and also

Nintendo Earns Record Profits Yet Again. Average Employee Has Been With The Company Since 1994.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 2d

And even if you do win a big parlay, the sportsbook may say the odds they offered were an error and refuse to pay out.

He hit three monster bets — and then the sportsbook wouldn’t pay

How sportsbooks use “obvious errors” as an insurance policy to protect their bottom line.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 2d

This recent thread on an unlikely sequence of events that happend to my Frosthaven group is pretty relevant. Hitting on three consecutive 25% chances has only a 1.6% chance of occurring, which is essentially how a parlay works.

draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 22d

A short thread thinking about probabilities:
I have a group that regularly plays a co-operative board game/RPG. Last night we played a quest where an enemy had an especially nasty ability that triggers 1/4 of the time at random. It hit us three consecutive turns to open the quest.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 2d

"Bettors lose billions of dollars a year on parlays ... and operators bring in far more revenue for every dollar wagered on these bets than they do straight bets. In most of the states that publish the relevant data, parlays account for between half and two-thirds of the operators’ revenue."

Americans can’t stop betting parlays. Sportsbooks are cashing in.

As betting booms, parlays are accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Washington Post analysis of state data.

wapo.st

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

Screenshot from link that reads: The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 2d

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 2d

I see we have reached the "arguing about the Nobel Peace Prize winner who I'd never heard of until I did 5 minutes of Wikipedia'ing" stage of the day.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t believe you’d do darts dirty like this.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 3d

One cool feature of Steam is they provide a Harassment Zone for each game you announce. It's a place for people who hate progress to come and crap all over games they haven't even played. No, they won't help you moderate it, but hey, at least you can't delete it!

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 4d

Classic Steam forums

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 3d

It's also easy to say you want more game because more of anything for the same price sounds like a good deal, but the real test is whether people would actually buy fewer games if they were shorter, and I don't think they would.

draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 3d

But also, I mean, like, come on.

A woman in a white cloak stands on a snow covered peak. The mountain diagonally bisects the frame. The sun rises over distant mountains in the background.

A man in shabby samurai garb stands in front of a mural of a blue demon facing a red demon.

A silhouetted woman in a samurai outfit cuts down an enemy on the right. A wolf attacks another samurai on the left. The scene is bathed in a foggy afterglow.

A rock on the coast is bathed in brilliant orange light as the sun sets behind it.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 3d

With video game budgets spiralling out of control, I really wonder whether it would make any difference at all to how many copies these games would sell, or how much people would like them, if they were half as big. These would all still be great games if they were "only" 25-30 hours long.

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