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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 18

periodic reminder you can send me tips securely on signal: timothypmurphy.41 or proton mail: [email protected]

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8h

...he named it after the Torment Nexus?

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

i'd assumed "Colossus" was just a reference to the ancient wonder but it can never be that normal w/ Elon www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

"Musk decided to name the data center Colossus—a reference to a popular trilogy of sci-fi novels from the 1960s by D.F. Jones, in which scientists built a supercomputer named Colossus that gained autonomy and plunged the world into war and chaos."

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

i'd assumed "Colossus" was just a reference to the ancient wonder but it can never be that normal w/ Elon www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

"He is contributing to the new group with his wife, Anna Brockman, whom he married at the OpenAI offices on a workday" www.wsj.com/politics/sil...

Exclusive | Silicon Valley Launches Pro-AI PACs to Defend Industry in Midterm Elections

Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among those helping launch and fund Leading the Future.

www.wsj.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

nothing makes me roll my eyes faster than when someone starts talking about "transplants" in a discussion of urban politics. sorry that people move here!

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 11h

would cops be chiller if they didn't commute by car every day? it's worth a shot

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 11h

a few times a year i have to actually drive into new york, and i don't know how people don't just go insane. (they do.)

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

lol man you're not supposed to just say that

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

these are, unfortunately, probably the two jobs absolutely no one wants to give him right now. has he considered getting into data centers?

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

bad bunny should not play the super bowl half time show because he is not a good role model for children. they should get good bunny

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The US pays millions to Professional Bull Riders for advertising.

At PBR league events, bullfighters are branded with slick jerseys declaring the event 'Protected by US Border Patrol.'

At some, the Border Patrol makes a dramatic entrance, rappelling from the rafters as the national anthem plays.

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

www.motherjones.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

another year without a MacArthur genius grant

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

"A copy of the arrangement I reviewed shows that the United States has agreed to pay Eswatini $5.1 million to take in up to 160 so-called 'third country nationals'" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

this bad bunny stuff is really good for republicans, they should keep telling everyone "bad funny and football both suck and if you like them you're not with us"

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

what are the weirdest recent Trump fuck-ups. like claiming to have ended the war between Albania and Armenia (feels very UEFA Nations league btw)

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

season 1 had the hovering presence of the hospital exec, but they could just have mid flanders in there asking people about their citizenship until the senior nurse snaps

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

they should write mike johnson into season 2 of The Pitt

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

great story, really interesting...also can't help but note that he's picked the most videogame/ringlore aspect of Christianity to completely fixate on: how to defeat the final boss