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@wliketheletter.bsky.social
music and books and law school I guess
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Please stop showing me anything about Ezra Klein. Irrevocably opting out of “Ezra Klein”
September 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Please stop showing me anything about Ezra Klein. Irrevocably opting out of “Ezra Klein”
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Happy Birthday to everyone’s favorite BlueSky boy, @teemaction.com!!! Everyone send some wishes for blue skies today in your happy birthday skeets to him!
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Happy Birthday to everyone’s favorite BlueSky boy, @teemaction.com!!! Everyone send some wishes for blue skies today in your happy birthday skeets to him!
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for those that wanted to see the clip of him being genuinely annoyed at the suggestion ai podcasts are good after he spends time glazing ai music lol
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
for those that wanted to see the clip of him being genuinely annoyed at the suggestion ai podcasts are good after he spends time glazing ai music lol
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Fortunately it's not. Next question
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Fortunately it's not. Next question
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The Trump administration has awarded Palantir a no-bid contract to build an AI system intended to prevent "SNAP fraud," among other things.
The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.
The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Trump administration has awarded Palantir a no-bid contract to build an AI system intended to prevent "SNAP fraud," among other things.
The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.
The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.
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A trainer at the gym told me that one of his clients in tech (very Seattle story) was frantically asking him what AI might be good for at the gym. Real “We have to make this thing happen, what is it for???” vibes.
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
A trainer at the gym told me that one of his clients in tech (very Seattle story) was frantically asking him what AI might be good for at the gym. Real “We have to make this thing happen, what is it for???” vibes.
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so far the only concrete thing ai has done is make the entire tech market worse and every consumer facing tech product less usable or accessable
December 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
so far the only concrete thing ai has done is make the entire tech market worse and every consumer facing tech product less usable or accessable
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GenAI truly is the asbestos poisoning our collectively shared resources and infrastructure.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
GenAI truly is the asbestos poisoning our collectively shared resources and infrastructure.
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I get tons of ideas every day. It's only by living with them and in them, and learning the craft and art of writing, that this means anything worth a darn.
The cliche that ‘having an idea’ is the hard part of writing is persistent and pernicious. Realising the idea is the craft of it. That FAQ of…
December 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I get tons of ideas every day. It's only by living with them and in them, and learning the craft and art of writing, that this means anything worth a darn.
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It’s me, I’m grown men.
one thing i love about college football is that you can locate the least consequential game of the day, between two schools you barely knew existed, and there will be grown men on television in the stands ready to kill themselves if it goes the wrong way
November 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
It’s me, I’m grown men.
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During my PhD i kept coming across this number about the maximum grid penetration for renewables.
So, I started to dig. Tracing back what references I could. Never found a single analytical or empirical basis for it. It appeared to have sprung from thin air based on some engineers' intuition.
So, I started to dig. Tracing back what references I could. Never found a single analytical or empirical basis for it. It appeared to have sprung from thin air based on some engineers' intuition.
People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers.
Anyway, about China ...
Anyway, about China ...
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
During my PhD i kept coming across this number about the maximum grid penetration for renewables.
So, I started to dig. Tracing back what references I could. Never found a single analytical or empirical basis for it. It appeared to have sprung from thin air based on some engineers' intuition.
So, I started to dig. Tracing back what references I could. Never found a single analytical or empirical basis for it. It appeared to have sprung from thin air based on some engineers' intuition.
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Best i can do is build the economy around something nobody wants that also costs trillions of dollars and uses natural resources to a dangerous extent
November 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Best i can do is build the economy around something nobody wants that also costs trillions of dollars and uses natural resources to a dangerous extent
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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After Houston removed an LGBTQ+ Pride crosswalk in Montrose, residents responded in color.
“It’s something that people out there need,” artist Nicky Davis said. “They need to know that the community of Houston accepts everyone.”
✍🏻 Gwen Howerton
bit.ly/43Nw7JX
“It’s something that people out there need,” artist Nicky Davis said. “They need to know that the community of Houston accepts everyone.”
✍🏻 Gwen Howerton
bit.ly/43Nw7JX
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
After Houston removed an LGBTQ+ Pride crosswalk in Montrose, residents responded in color.
“It’s something that people out there need,” artist Nicky Davis said. “They need to know that the community of Houston accepts everyone.”
✍🏻 Gwen Howerton
bit.ly/43Nw7JX
“It’s something that people out there need,” artist Nicky Davis said. “They need to know that the community of Houston accepts everyone.”
✍🏻 Gwen Howerton
bit.ly/43Nw7JX
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My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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Need to revisit this, feel like I messed up not pursuing this, imagine how well this guy is doing right now
June 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Need to revisit this, feel like I messed up not pursuing this, imagine how well this guy is doing right now
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the only passing stat Arch Manning is beating Marcel Reed in is interceptions
September 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
the only passing stat Arch Manning is beating Marcel Reed in is interceptions
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As called by Andrew Monaco on aTm radio:
September 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
As called by Andrew Monaco on aTm radio:
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give Arch Manning some time, he's just a junior quarterback starting at home for a team loaded with talent against one of the worst defenses in college football
September 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
give Arch Manning some time, he's just a junior quarterback starting at home for a team loaded with talent against one of the worst defenses in college football
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Siam Square’s Pho Beef in Fairbanks with the vinegar chili sauce. The real ones remember @wliketheletter.bsky.social @rocketdocboomie.bsky.social @teemaction.com
I don't want to hear about your lost loves, tell me about the restaurant food that haunts you because you'll never be able to taste it again
April 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Siam Square’s Pho Beef in Fairbanks with the vinegar chili sauce. The real ones remember @wliketheletter.bsky.social @rocketdocboomie.bsky.social @teemaction.com