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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 7h

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 5h

Here's the most devastating long-term consequence: we're eliminating the junior developer pipeline.

Companies are replacing junior positions with AI tools, but senior developers don't emerge from thin air. They grow from juniors who:

* Debug production crashes at 2 AM
* Learn why that "clever" optimization breaks everything
* Understand system architecture by building it wrong first
* Develop intuition through thousands of small failures

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 11h

i still think about the talk i went to where some guy said "competition produced better results" and the actual paper he linked to said "produced more entrants but less quality results than the collaborative approaches"

and it's just, yeah people are vibe reading stuff all the time

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 11h

i think my favourite thing on a blog post is clicking on a citation and finding out it says almost the exact opposite of how it's been summarised

in this instance it was titled "learning should be uncomfortable" and it's a study arguing for teaching people the rationale before the mechanism

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 19h

President of Colombia:

Gustavo Petro via X (@petrogustavo): "Without killing anyone. Without firing missiles. 2.7 tons fall on a speedboat that was heading to Costa Rica through the Pacific Ocean, through which the vast majority of Colombian cocaine travels.

Five Colombians captured and alive."

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 19h

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Cori Bush @coribush.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t wait for permission to fight for what’s right. I’m running to represent Missouri’s First because our community deserves a leader who shows up when it’s hardest and fights for all of us with courage.

Thanks for having me, @velshi.com @msnbc.com. #CoriForUs

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 20h

Israeli officials gave a document they said is from Hamas to the NYT.

NYT: Is this document authentic?

Israeli officials: Yes, it is real

NYT: Great, confirmed authentic.

Guys, that’s not how authentication works!

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 1d

Every centrist’s reward for punching left has been Republicans currently lumping every one of them into the “pro-Hamas terrorist wing of the Democratic Party.”

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 1d

Defund the Police was pragmatism. Abolish Ice was pragmatism. Unpack the Courts was pragmatism. Oppose Netanyahu’s Genocide was pragmatism.

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Ed Gaillard @edgaillard.bsky.social · 22h

Many people are saying.

Ed Gaillard @edgaillard.bsky.social · 23h

I'd buy it.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

So the Democrats are going to really ignore the CDC stuff and keep pretending they are fighting for health care huh?

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

like seriously team, I know y'all are working on both improving Discover and on better reply sentiment filtering and all, but it's going to take a while to tune it properly and a "never show my post on Discover" setting would be a 10 minute fix that would get 65% of why people want private accounts

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

I had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so close. I'm so tantalizingly close.

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 18d

If the World Series is Mariners v. Brewers, I will be so very happy, and I will also be fucking insufferable about the one-season existence of the Seattle Pilots (who moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers). In every conversation about ANYthing, I will be, like, "But did you know....."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I see absolutely no downsides to huge private companies issuing their own currencies to compete with the currencies of major countries.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Ten major banks including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and UBS announce an early-stage project to explore issuing stablecoins to G7 currencies (Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

As I said a couple hours ago about a different fake video, you don't need to feel stupid if you fell for it.

The entire internet is drowning in this AI shit. And there's no easy solution. We're just fucking cooked as a society.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

This video is AI.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 1d

There are four house martins feeding above my head. They’re six inches long and are about to travel 6,000 miles. That’s about 63 million times their body length. The lunatics.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

thing is , I grew up not even knowing this team existed. I didn't have to do this. This was a choice.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Can we talk about an exciting fall visitor to the yard this week?: Purple Finch! #birds (1/7)

Bird that looks like a sparrow dipped in cranberry juice is perched on the edge of a bird bath.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

Cops are great

They're also like a box of chocolates: they'll kill your dog

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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