tomathy
@tomiiwrites.bsky.social
Nobody’s fuckin’ with my pen, I can tell you that.
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remember all that hoopla republicans made about death panels when the ACA was passed
Medicare will start requiring prior approval for certain procedures — and will hire private AI companies to determine if patients are covered.
The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
remember all that hoopla republicans made about death panels when the ACA was passed
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my question is: why isn’t there a countervailing “yes” campaign? i get gavin is out there making the case but there should be PACs doing mailers and such! the entire party should be investing in it! popular pols should visit the state to tout it!!!
There's an aggressive No campaign going on. I'm getting mailers every single day warning me how dangerous it is
August 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
my question is: why isn’t there a countervailing “yes” campaign? i get gavin is out there making the case but there should be PACs doing mailers and such! the entire party should be investing in it! popular pols should visit the state to tout it!!!
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Now that this whole thing appears to be crashing, I hope the saudis force Elon to pull the plug on ani and that’s what ultimately makes him Do It
August 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Now that this whole thing appears to be crashing, I hope the saudis force Elon to pull the plug on ani and that’s what ultimately makes him Do It
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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
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this is legitimately worse than anything i’ve ever written and might be the worst sentence i’ve ever read in a published work
![Williams’s book is impaired by slapdash prose. His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions. Here is one from the prologue:
For non-whites, even though the mixed-race population has become the fastest-growing segment of the American demos and, in real terms, a disproportionate but statistically small and decreasing number of unarmed Black civilians were killed by police annually (typically between 15 and 25 per year from a population exceeding 40 million, according to The Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” database) — and indeed other quality-of-life markers have been equalizing for significant numbers of Black people since the civil rights movement — the death of [Trayvon] Martin followed by [Michael] Brown (regardless of the specific contingencies of that case), and a high-profile slate of videotaped police and vigilante killings that converged with the proliferation of camera-equipped smartphones and the pervasiveness of social media, thwarted any self-congratulatory sense of the inevitability of social progress still alive in the first half of Obama’s second administration.
Huh? In addition to such passages, “Summer of Our Discontent” includes many distended excerpts — some spanning three pages — from not-so-obscure sources, including The Times.
Midway through the book, Williams chides another writer on the race beat for propounding “an excruciatingly simplistic tale, fueled by a powerful unwillingness and incapacity to grapple with contemporary American racial and social complexity.” Regrettably, I know the feeling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfposmpmhegtyvhbs75s3pw/bafkreif2e52q5ncyrgmcxrrhpwuuclwcfp2vefdlmqxka6z5p2brfiarsa@jpeg)
August 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
this is legitimately worse than anything i’ve ever written and might be the worst sentence i’ve ever read in a published work
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I think there is no better summation of the Democratic Party than saying you want to minimize cruelty instead of completely eliminate it
We can protect national security and public safety — the reasons why ICE was created in the first place — while minimizing cruelty, especially to children.
August 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I think there is no better summation of the Democratic Party than saying you want to minimize cruelty instead of completely eliminate it
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truly don't understand the AI user mindset. like how is this an advantage if literally everyone else has access to it. if you were the only person who had genAI then it would sort of make sense but pumping out uninspired slop is a skill available to everyone
August 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
truly don't understand the AI user mindset. like how is this an advantage if literally everyone else has access to it. if you were the only person who had genAI then it would sort of make sense but pumping out uninspired slop is a skill available to everyone
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Yharnam is cozy.
pssst literally any game can be “cozy” if it feels cozy to you
every MMO is cozy if that’s the way you play it
cozy is not a game genre
cozy is not a graphical style choice
cozy is a ✨state of being ✨ you’re in while you play any type of game that evokes comfort and warmth for you specifically
every MMO is cozy if that’s the way you play it
cozy is not a game genre
cozy is not a graphical style choice
cozy is a ✨state of being ✨ you’re in while you play any type of game that evokes comfort and warmth for you specifically
July 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Yharnam is cozy.
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Having spent my childhood in the pre-Internet era I will never get used to how quickly news cycles move and stories just evaporate now. When was the last time you heard or thought about the flooding in Texas, unless you are in a directly affected area? That was like three weeks ago.
There was a three week news cycle dedicated to this complete vaporware
Musk’s America Party can’t get off the ground and was just to ‘blow off steam’ about Trump’s bill
Despite claiming he would form a new rival party after Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed, no official filings have been made
ca.news.yahoo.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Having spent my childhood in the pre-Internet era I will never get used to how quickly news cycles move and stories just evaporate now. When was the last time you heard or thought about the flooding in Texas, unless you are in a directly affected area? That was like three weeks ago.
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i love holding real news in my hands
July 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
i love holding real news in my hands
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Colbert isn’t the news! It’s a comedy show. It’s not in the news division.
"The news lost its way — it became extreme, elitist, and performative," the Ellison confidant said. "People like Colbert and others act like they're the IP, the value, when it’s the brand and journalism that matter. We need to get back to fundamentals. That's what David and his team believe."
July 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Colbert isn’t the news! It’s a comedy show. It’s not in the news division.
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my finger is just a bloody nub at this point i've been tapping the sign so much
July 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
my finger is just a bloody nub at this point i've been tapping the sign so much
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do people realize that when they're like "I only used AI for grammar/whatever" you kinda throw literally everything you ever say, do, or make into question?
like... how can I ever trust whatever you turn in or produce to not have AI shit in it? like once you break bad, I can't trust your ass again
like... how can I ever trust whatever you turn in or produce to not have AI shit in it? like once you break bad, I can't trust your ass again
July 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
do people realize that when they're like "I only used AI for grammar/whatever" you kinda throw literally everything you ever say, do, or make into question?
like... how can I ever trust whatever you turn in or produce to not have AI shit in it? like once you break bad, I can't trust your ass again
like... how can I ever trust whatever you turn in or produce to not have AI shit in it? like once you break bad, I can't trust your ass again
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for those unfamiliar, this is a bit like if someone stated an AI takeover for the film industry is imminent and backed it up with "jurassic park included a fully cgi t-rex in 1993"
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
July 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
for those unfamiliar, this is a bit like if someone stated an AI takeover for the film industry is imminent and backed it up with "jurassic park included a fully cgi t-rex in 1993"
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Coming around it the idea that anyone who says that some other amorphous group has concerns instead of saying “I personally do or do not have concerns” is full of shit
Buttigieg said parents have legitimate concerns.
To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.
www.advocate.com/news/pete-bu...
To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.
www.advocate.com/news/pete-bu...
Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports
He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.
www.advocate.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Coming around it the idea that anyone who says that some other amorphous group has concerns instead of saying “I personally do or do not have concerns” is full of shit
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Reading this made me feel like one of the apes that finds the monolith in 2001
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
July 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Reading this made me feel like one of the apes that finds the monolith in 2001
What an awful decision these kids are forced to make. Their parents or their future.
Despite the risk of exposing their parents to a deportation dragnet, 35% more college-bound high school seniors from mixed-status families have submitted a Free Application for Federal Student Aid as of the May 2 deadline compared to the same date last year. cal.news/451WpYN
📸 Juliana Yamada
📸 Juliana Yamada
July 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
What an awful decision these kids are forced to make. Their parents or their future.
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“Enough with the purity tests! We are on the verge of seeing thousands of people being murdered in Trump’s death camps! That’s why we need to get behind Gavin Newsom for the election in…3 and a half years!”
July 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“Enough with the purity tests! We are on the verge of seeing thousands of people being murdered in Trump’s death camps! That’s why we need to get behind Gavin Newsom for the election in…3 and a half years!”
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agree with the “we don’t need to argue about 2028” posts but they’re happening because (1) gavin is already running for president and (2) doing so in part by throwing trans people to the wolves. i think it’s okay for trans people to respond to that by saying “fuck this guy, i’ll never vote for him”
July 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
agree with the “we don’t need to argue about 2028” posts but they’re happening because (1) gavin is already running for president and (2) doing so in part by throwing trans people to the wolves. i think it’s okay for trans people to respond to that by saying “fuck this guy, i’ll never vote for him”
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
Olivia Pope answers the phone and says the persons name so I don’t really care tbh
I have learned that Gen Z expects the person calling to say "hello" first, instead of the person answering; upending a century of phone norms. You know what? fine, I say. Phone calls aren't what they used to be anyway www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-phone-...
Gen Z doesn't say 'hello' when answering the phone. I'm concerned.
Gen Z is making up its own etiquette rules when it comes to answering the phone. Some of them aren't saying "hello." They want you to first.
www.businessinsider.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Olivia Pope answers the phone and says the persons name so I don’t really care tbh