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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 6h

Really gets to heart of this kind of person’s whole thing: the Community General Will shall be discerned by who can go to the most meetings and is rightfully “no”

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 6h

Also… you’re at the meeting? You’re complaining about not knowing when the meeting is, while you are at the meeting

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 6h

He’ll never pay for a cup of single origin pour over again

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 7h

The Reverse Lasso

John Lovett @johnlovett.bsky.social · 7h

Jose Mourinho

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 16h

I know they won’t; but an organization committed to protecting Jews from discrimination should

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 16h

the ADL should send a letter to Bezos and the entire masthead and publicly release that letter

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 16h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 16h

When Gawande was named CEO I remember counting and he already had like five other jobs, none of which he was leaving, including being a practicing hospital physician. Shockingly the venture was said to suffer from a lack of focus

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 17h

(it was quietly shuttered in 2021)

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 17h

Remember when Warren Buffer, Jamie Dimon and… Atul Gawande launched an Amazon-Berkshire-JPM joint venture that was going to change the face of US healthcare?

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

I once sat at a bar with a British colleague who’d moved from London to NYC and explained the ins and outs of this process and all the various made up vocabulary associated with US insurance for like 2 hours straight. It’s like knowing the rules to the most perverse board game ever invented

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

Man I’m in like the top 0.1% of Americans for, like, quantitative financial modeling and the idea of having to do some kind of actuarial underwriting of my expected healthcare expenses to buy a plan strikes me as such an insane way to run a system (no shade on OP for the great thread, to be clear)

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Oct 28

It's open enrollment time so here's a convenient peg to hang a little tutorial about how to choose your health insurance.

Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

real comedy here gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

The guy behind those ‘Friend’ ads in the subways is tired of talking to New Yorkers

New Yorkers are taking note and even scribbling their own graffiti on the ads. Avi Schiffman, 22, says that's the point — but doesn't feel like talking to them.

gothamist.com

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

truly a lesson in the power of social and financial incentives

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

did not realize this kid is the guy behind the Friend AI necklace whose ads are plastered all over the NYC subway www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The High Schooler Who Became a COVID-19 Watchdog

While his friends are worrying about whether the prom will be cancelled, Avi Schiffmann and his coronavirus-tracking site are navigating global fame.

www.newyorker.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

waymo has a limited rollout because it is a bad business, not a bad technology. just depreciating $60k worth of optics per car is comparably expensive to paying a guy $10/hr to drive it.

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!

A bluesky post with the user's handle cropped out: "In 2015, I was told, confidently, that AI would end human drivers in the trucking industry w/in 5 years.

[Begin my highlight]10 years later, and there’s what-some experimental cabs rolling around a few cities in heavily-engineered preset routes?[end my highlight]

Not to mention the fact that the AI industry itself is Enron on heroin."

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Russian property buying habits over the past decade indicate… yes

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Alexander Soros can be convinced of this vision…

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Stats Grantland, the people are clamoring for this

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

I can report that the maple bars and cartons of milk hit different from the back seat of a 1981 honda civic

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

As a former regular customer of the Winchell’s at 39th amd Sandy Blvd, it pains me to report that Winchell’s closed all its portland locations circa 2008

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

inside every man there are two wolves

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Tourism Booster Committee of the Regional Chamber of Commerce-ass country (laudatory)

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

This is bad but I’m laughing at “rally (implicitly) on the Lower East Side”, a great Borscht Belt set up if I ever saw one

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Grimey @grimey.bsky.social · 2d

this is every Guy Ritchie film

blaw @blaw.bsky.social · 2d

showing up to grandpa's will reading like

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a really funny category of interview tic where someone like Zidane or Pirlo will get asked about great players they never played with but wish they had and give the most transparently bs answer.

Like yeah, Zidane never actually wanted to play with Michael Carrick, sorry

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