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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 14h

i am simply not ready to accept "Julius Randle: Playoff Riser" just yet

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 16h

either it will or it won't imo

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 18h

only one way to find out

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 18h

yeah its 3rd most

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 18h

i officially predict that in the 2025-26 NBA season the Minnesota Timberwolves will go 52-30, finish 3rd in the West and lose in the first round of the playoffs

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 23h

legit lol

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 23h

I'm giving in-class essay exams with unlimited handwritten notes allowed and guess what, my issues with devices in class basically vanished lol

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 23h

lol

Harvard may be partly to blame for encouraging student absences, with a policy that allows students to enroll in two classes that meet at the same time.

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 23h

These kids are skipping class and dicking around on their phone during lecture because they are extremely smart and can get by without working their hardest. Also, please write about another school!!!

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 23h

But once they get in, many of its students skip class and fail to do the reading, according to the Classroom Social Compact Committee, a group of seven faculty members that produced a report on Harvard’s classroom culture that has been fueling debate since it was released in January.

When they do show up for class, they are focused on their devices, and are reluctant to speak out. Sometimes it is because they are afraid of sharing ideas that others will disagree with. But often, they have not read enough of the homework to make a meaningful contribution, the report continued.

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 23h

You have to be a world class dumbass to attribute students skipping class or not doing the reading to "ideological bubbles" and "liberal bias"

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

www.nytimes.com

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

well what are you gonna do at that point I guess

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

favorite moments: the little pause before Stevens says "Gherkin' It", DeepFuckingValue just being a normal stock market dickhead wanting to see a stock go from $4 to $15 dollars and then accidentally becoming the figurehead of a demented movement, the Young Neighbours track over the opening credits

Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

one fun thing about watching this in 2025 is wondering if these dudes are STILL predicting the upcoming mother of all short sales. Seems like it would be difficult to sustain that level of delusion for such a long time but then again people do really really love reducing dissonance

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

That said, I think this is a very fitting companion piece to When Prophecy Fails (1956), Leon Festinger's classic treatise on cognitive dissonance. Stevens makes the explicit connection to QAnon and I would have enjoyed a longer discussion of the parallels between the two movements

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

i think one issue is that I don't think he really laid the groundwork for the final conclusion of "aren't all stocks meme stocks if you really think about it?" very well. It is also a structural problem to be focusing at a group of very sad losers rather than a malicious set of fraudsters

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

I watched this 150 minute youtube video in another trade with Cory. In exchange, he will watch The Conversation (1974). I found this to be a little bit more watchable at the shot-for-shot level (lots of funny reddit posts to look at) but less compelling at the macro level than the mikkelsen twins

This is Financial Advice

YouTube video by Folding Ideas

www.youtube.com

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Maplehood United @maplehoodunited.bsky.social · 1d

My father-in-law is a builder.

It’s difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he’s lost in wonder. We were near Spruce Tree Centre together and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer…

“We can’t, we don’t know how.”

captainheck @captainheck.bsky.social · 1d

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

the phrase "jaguars junction" is one of the last remaining reliable sources of reward neurotransmitters

Defector @defector.com · 1d

“Jaguars Junction” is an independent source of football analysis unaffiliated with any professional sports franchise. defector.com/jaguars-junc...

Jaguars Junction: Week 5 | Defector

Jacksonville Jaguars move to a 4-1 record atop the NFL with a stunning victory. The news is so big and good that I’ve been cold calling people right out of the phone book to let them know about it.…

defector.com

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 2d

Missing (1982): An interesting companion to White Material (2009) in terms of waiting too long to bail. The first 30 minutes were pretty fucking chilling given current events! I appreciate that Costa-Gavros never let Ed be right about anything (including impotently threatening to sue at the end)

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

"Even if this were true, who cares? This country was built and run by men with worse stories than whatever you've imagined here." -Bert Cooper

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

www.nytimes.com

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 5d

Been listening to this Geese record that everybody loves (its quite good). Pretty crazy that we've entered into an era of Yeasayer nostalgia

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Max Read @maxread.info · 5d

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 5d

yeah i can certainly imagine it passing TWBB on rewatch

Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 5d

stuff I didn't like: (1) Avanti Q's change of heart felt almost like deus ex machina; we didn't spend enough time with him to set up that level of motivational shift (2) Lockjaw's coda, even if it did got us a sublime Jim Downey line read and (3) Lockjaw's over-obvious critique of Willa's make-up