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Zack McCartney @pizzaman.bsky.social · 11d

tracker updated! nbastt.grepco.net

and picking phoenix. i won't say it's the most _possible_ outcome, but it does seem like the funniest

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · May 26

I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back.

My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.

Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · May 28

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

Mediocre melee player @anchovymelee.bsky.social · May 28

How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025?

Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of
Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk
Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk

Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...

50th Edition - Spring 2025

A new national poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School reveals a generation navigating financial hardship, frayed social bond

iop.harvard.edu

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · May 29

Sincerity, like introspection, is terrifying, because we are engineered to judge people for being “too much” or “too emotional,” and that’s before gendered and racial bias amplifies the problem further. Media mocks the emotionally honest and elevates manufactured, controlled sincerity, as it’s safe.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · May 12

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Steph Noh @stephnoh.bsky.social · May 5

This was against a completely set defense 🤯

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Apr 30

The alternative to naloxone (Narcan) for a fentanyl overdose outside a healthcare facility - where almost all of them in this country occur - is death. Dead people don’t recover. Fentanyl overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-44. Every single fentanyl overdose death is preventable.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Apr 30

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction

Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.

www.latintimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 30

Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines?

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Stacy Cay 🏳️‍⚧️ @stacycay.bsky.social · Apr 3

We’ve done this mass tariff thing 3 times in American history.

1828, 1930, 2025.

All spaced about 100 years apart because everyone who remembers the last one needs to be dead for the next one to happen.

The last two caused a depression. I hope this one makes us rich tho.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Apr 22

A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Apr 21

On @60minutes.bsky.social the potential for A.I. to end diseases
www.cbsnews.com/news/artific...

Artificial intelligence could end disease, lead to "radical abundance," Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says

At Google DeepMind, researchers are chasing what's called artificial general intelligence: a silicon intellect as versatile as a human's, but with superhuman speed and knowledge.

www.cbsnews.com

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Law Murray 📘 @lawmurraythenu.bsky.social · Apr 22

There was never a Pistons playoff win tweet before today

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · Apr 19

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

A screengrab from Twitter.

HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks:
“Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism”

David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply:
“Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · Apr 19

Westbrook's game is like a series of randomly selected 45 second clips from Uncut Gems

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Zack McCartney @pizzaman.bsky.social · Apr 16

You can order spaghetti at basketball games?!?

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Tom Orsborn @tomorsborn.bsky.social · Apr 13

Chris Paul on playing 34 minutes at age 39 in his 82nd game of the season:

"I wanted to hoop. One of the guys on the bench asked me in the fourth quarter, 'Why are you in there playing?' I said, it's a long summer when you don't make the playoffs. Like what else I got to do?"

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · Apr 12

Wednesday wasn't luck.

It was insider trading at historic scale.

Millions in zero-day options precisely 29min before Trump's announcement.

This could only have been executed by sophisticated pros with advance knowledge.

My third newsletter post: data-and-politics.ghost.io/this-is-what...

This Is What Insider Trading Looks Like

Zero-day options represent speculation in its purest form. Traders pay a small premium for a contract destined to expire worthless within hours unless the market dramatically swings your way. On Apri...

data-and-politics.ghost.io

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Zack McCartney @pizzaman.bsky.social · Apr 8

To any fans of the Slam N' Jam pod from @theathletic.bsky.social out there: You might remember the Surprise Teams tracker that came up on the show a bit ago. Here it is again, with some updates:
• Past seasons: nbastt.grepco.net/archive/
• Graphs!!! 🎩: nbastt.grepco.net/stats/

Check it out!

Archive - NBASTT

Listing of seasons tracked for surprise teams so far

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Mar 22

Last night a friend and I were talking about like. What Happened over the past decade where it feels like COVID caused a lot of kind of bog standard soft conservatives to spiral out into anti-vaccine Nazism. And my thing was, a lot of these people had never had any constraints put on their behavior

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Mar 21

saw a coexist bumper sticker but it actually said corndogs??????

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devin ivy 🐋 @divy.zone · Mar 13

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Mar 15

one thing i do not like about these days is that i am filled with hate for so many people

WenHao @wenhao.bsky.social · Mar 15

Elon Musk celebrates the shutdown of VOA on X.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · Mar 13

Alsupp issuing a PI from the bench. Finding that OPM engaged in sham terminations, claiming they were performance based in an attempt to avoid the procedural requirements of the Reduction in Force Act.

Oh holy shit, quote in next post

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Michael Pina @michaelvpina.bsky.social · Mar 11

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Nov 15

I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Nov 15

I love how far afield this is from any problem government can address. “Now that Trump won people have to like and agree with me and not tell me I suck anymore.” bsky.app/profile/yash...

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Nov 15

2. “For the last four years, very acutely, and I know it preceded these four years as well, but there's been kind of a pressing down. A pressing down and kind of limiting what people can say.”

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Feb 2

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Feb 2

3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…

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