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Jon Phenow
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· Nov 2
I would do some pretty crazy things to make a fast train between MSP and Duluth happen.
Hatch Rest+ lets you add more steps to your playlists and as a person with a two year old I’ve never been more excited about a tweak to an app
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hatch Rest+ lets you add more steps to your playlists and as a person with a two year old I’ve never been more excited about a tweak to an app
I just saw a billboard in Northeast for fluoride free toothpaste from Amazon and CVS where the fluoride free is the whole selling point seemingly. What a silly time to be alive.
October 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I just saw a billboard in Northeast for fluoride free toothpaste from Amazon and CVS where the fluoride free is the whole selling point seemingly. What a silly time to be alive.
Excuse me, could?
A report, commissioned by Congress in 2023, offers evidence-based recommendations to increase breastfeeding rates. Among its suggestions: A federal paid parental leave program.
The government wants more people to breastfeed. Experts say paid parental leave could help.
Researchers have been examining ways to increase breastfeeding rates for years. They warn it will take structural reform and funding.
19thnews.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Excuse me, could?
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Tolkkinen LITERALLY “all violence matters” in this column: “By the way, do we really need to say ‘gun violence?’ Can’t we just say ‘deadly violence?’” www.startribune.com/tolkkinen-sh...
September 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Tolkkinen LITERALLY “all violence matters” in this column: “By the way, do we really need to say ‘gun violence?’ Can’t we just say ‘deadly violence?’” www.startribune.com/tolkkinen-sh...
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Stupid fuckin nazis
EXCLUSIVE: Immigration agents arrested two Mexican contractors helping to tackle a wildfire in Olympic National Forest in Washington, a supervisor who oversees the crews said.
Border Patrol agents arrest fire crew members at Washington wildfire
The two Mexican men were contract workers who were in the U.S. illegally, immigration officials said.
nbcnews.to
August 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Stupid fuckin nazis
"could you give us more data to help us charge everyone more money for shit health coverage"
August 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"could you give us more data to help us charge everyone more money for shit health coverage"
I love how delta.com doesn't work but www.delta.com does
delta.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I love how delta.com doesn't work but www.delta.com does
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Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
August 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
Feels like we’re in a waiting-for-a-shoe-to-drop / breaking phase of incentives, communities, society.
Found this both interesting and distressing as with a troubling number of my podcasts lately castro.fm/episode/vBOsfA
Found this both interesting and distressing as with a troubling number of my podcasts lately castro.fm/episode/vBOsfA
Your Undivided Attention: Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity? with Prof. Michael Sandel (46m)
Tech leaders promise that AI automation will usher in an age of unprecedented abundance: cheap goods, universal high income, and freedom from the drudgery of work. But even if AI delivers material pro...
castro.fm
August 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Feels like we’re in a waiting-for-a-shoe-to-drop / breaking phase of incentives, communities, society.
Found this both interesting and distressing as with a troubling number of my podcasts lately castro.fm/episode/vBOsfA
Found this both interesting and distressing as with a troubling number of my podcasts lately castro.fm/episode/vBOsfA
This guy looks worse every time I see a picture of him
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been a critic of the vaccine court, calling it “biased” against compensating people, slow and unfair. He has said that he wants to “revolutionize” or “fix” this system.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/rfk-jr-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr.’s Wants to Overhaul the US ‘Vaccine Court.’ What Would That Actually Look Like?
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This guy looks worse every time I see a picture of him
Is Comcast just trolling us with the slowest customer dashboard to ever exist?
July 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Is Comcast just trolling us with the slowest customer dashboard to ever exist?
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What closing would GUT you emotionally? Or, which one already has?
Open Thread: Tell Us What Bar/Restaurant/Club Closing Would Really Crush You - Racket
As we do every week at this time, we're turning Racket over to you, the readers.
racketmn.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
What closing would GUT you emotionally? Or, which one already has?
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👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
"They took hospitals and health care away from you so they could build concentration camps for immigrants."
I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”
July 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.
June 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Did new GitHub commits just suddenly stop showing up in the UI?
June 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Did new GitHub commits just suddenly stop showing up in the UI?
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i pray they find this shooter because the idea of him being on the loose with major rallies planned today is absolutely horrifying
as per the MN crime account, there have been shootings at a state senator‘s house in champlin and a state rep’s in brooklyn park. suspect is apparently impersonating law enforcement and still on the loose, info on him -
x.com/mn_crime/sta...
x.com/mn_crime/sta...
June 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
i pray they find this shooter because the idea of him being on the loose with major rallies planned today is absolutely horrifying
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Twin Cities folks looking for a chill, child-centric No Kings protest, we got you
(Bring extra poster-making supplies if you can, but please don’t worry about showing up empty-handed if you can’t! Other folks will bring extra so everyone can just do what they can manage, we’re all in this together)
(Bring extra poster-making supplies if you can, but please don’t worry about showing up empty-handed if you can’t! Other folks will bring extra so everyone can just do what they can manage, we’re all in this together)
June 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Twin Cities folks looking for a chill, child-centric No Kings protest, we got you
(Bring extra poster-making supplies if you can, but please don’t worry about showing up empty-handed if you can’t! Other folks will bring extra so everyone can just do what they can manage, we’re all in this together)
(Bring extra poster-making supplies if you can, but please don’t worry about showing up empty-handed if you can’t! Other folks will bring extra so everyone can just do what they can manage, we’re all in this together)
GCP seems to be having a major outage.
Watch it be DNS and we can all giggle about how AI/LLMs can't change the world that much
Watch it be DNS and we can all giggle about how AI/LLMs can't change the world that much
June 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
GCP seems to be having a major outage.
Watch it be DNS and we can all giggle about how AI/LLMs can't change the world that much
Watch it be DNS and we can all giggle about how AI/LLMs can't change the world that much
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KARL: “The Republican Bill eliminates a 10% tax on tanning beds. How did that become a priority?
SPEAKER JOHNSON: “That was an unfair thing that Biden put on an industry.”
KARL: “It's been around for 15 years.”
SPEAKER JOHNSON: 😬🤷🏻♂️
SPEAKER JOHNSON: “That was an unfair thing that Biden put on an industry.”
KARL: “It's been around for 15 years.”
SPEAKER JOHNSON: 😬🤷🏻♂️
June 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
KARL: “The Republican Bill eliminates a 10% tax on tanning beds. How did that become a priority?
SPEAKER JOHNSON: “That was an unfair thing that Biden put on an industry.”
KARL: “It's been around for 15 years.”
SPEAKER JOHNSON: 😬🤷🏻♂️
SPEAKER JOHNSON: “That was an unfair thing that Biden put on an industry.”
KARL: “It's been around for 15 years.”
SPEAKER JOHNSON: 😬🤷🏻♂️
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This would be comparable to the government ordering Loring Park to be closed during Minneapolis Pride
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Crews close off Dupont Circle Park for WorldPride festivities this weekend
Authorities began Friday morning to fence off the park at the heart of D.C.’s historic LGBTQ neighborhood.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This would be comparable to the government ordering Loring Park to be closed during Minneapolis Pride
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
I wonder if LLMs are doing so "well" across the general public because we spent the last 15 years slowly getting used to people loudly and confidently lying that when LLMs do it it's not surprising.
May 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wonder if LLMs are doing so "well" across the general public because we spent the last 15 years slowly getting used to people loudly and confidently lying that when LLMs do it it's not surprising.