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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 22m

What about this is new? The New York Times has always been an ideologically-amorphous state mouthpiece on behalf of capital interest, and right now the state is being run by a truckload of racist dipshits while the Cathedral of Capital is under attack by barbarians. This article was a dartboard shot

Jeff McMahon @jeffmcmahon.bsky.social · 5h

I honestly don't think the NY Times has been this bad in my lifetime, it's deeply shameful.

A screengrab from the NY Times, under the category "N.Y.C. Mayor's Race":
What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin
The Democratic candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 43m

we should probably collectively stop falsely equating Ivy League institutions with "intellectualism" and instead correctly recognize them as ideological vehicles that the elite use to manage and gatekeep access to the bourgeoisie

New York City belongs to capital and nobody should ever forget that

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1h

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin

www.nytimes.com

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sean kuhn @seankuhn.bsky.social · 6h

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer?

Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad.

The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself.

Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits.

Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 12h

the last HWRF+6 modeled out precisely 893 mbar at right now

slackjawed

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 12h

the center of Hurricane Melissa has hit 893 mb, and if you're not familiar, that is a psychotic intensity for any hurricane to be

only three others in recorded history have ever been this intense in the Atlantic. #3 (892 mb) happened so long ago that it predates the modern naming convention

1935 Labor Day hurricane - Wikipedia

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 12h

I always knew you were a cat

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 1d

I think the last person in the seat with any semblance of real journalism creds and enough academic bloodthirst to really sell the admin was Jay Carney under Obama

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 1d

Ralston McKenzie is live on Radio Jamaica doing his absolute best, you can tune in here

onlineradiobox.com/jm/rjr94fm/

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 1d

Lord in heaven please keep these people safe

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 1d

everyone please take a moment tonight to send good vibes to the wonderful people of Jamaica and Cuba, for whom the coming weeks are going to be extraordinarily difficult

gofundmes &c are going to be popping up, please do what you can to boost and donate if you are able

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

NHC 5 pm Melissa update for Jamaica:

"Remain in your safe shelter and do not venture outside."

Winds "may cause total structural failure."

Wind speeds are now at *175 mph*.

1. Jamaica: Remain in your safe shelter and do not venture outside. Catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding and numerous landslides are expected through Tuesday. The eyewall's destructive winds may cause total structural failure, particularly in higher elevations, leading to widespread infrastructural damage, prolonged power and communication outages, and isolated communities. Along the southern coast, life-threatening storm surge and damaging waves are anticipated through Tuesday.

NHC map focused on Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa is just to the south, tracking to cross the island and then Cuba and the Bahamas.

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 1d

it’s wild watching all of these ‘2023 the greatest jobs market in US history’ people finally seeing the charts that show the 2023 tech bloodbath as almost dot com bubble level bad and doing the ol Gil collar pull. I trust their ability to wriggle out of it though 😊

a chart showing tech employment since 1990, 2022-2024 being the largest dropoff since the notorious dot com bubble burst

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 1d

can you imagine volunteering for a job description that's just "we are going to wield the might and power of the American hegemon for the next four years and your job is to lie about how and why we're doing it to a room full of wordcels"

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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 1d

Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."

2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"

Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.

cbsn.ws

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 1d

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 1d

"all fungible tokens are equal, but some are more equal than others" -- George Orwell

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Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 1d

this'll be the most profound thing I ever post to the observer network designed to enable geometric-renormalization-as-a-service, wake me up if someone decides to solve capitalism

Max Scherzer Consolation Prize Simulator 2025 @metamora.bsky.social · 1d

gravity is a side effect of geometric renormalization