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Everyone hates this shit so much. It’s a bipartisan issue. AI sucks. It’s intrusive. It isn’t magical nor is it changing the world other than in the amount of money being wasted on it. Consumers are increasingly offended by its presence
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"The most terrible time of the year"

McDonald’s pulls AI-generated Christmas advert in the Netherlands. The advert, titled "the most terrible time of the year," depicts Christmas chaos, with Santa caught in a traffic jam and a present-laden cyclist slipping in the snow
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December 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Carlos Sainz: F1 drivers need 'urgent' meeting over racing guidelines - BBC Sport www.bbc.com/sport/formul...
Carlos Sainz: F1 drivers need 'urgent' meeting over racing guidelines
Formula 1 drivers
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November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
Even if you *believed* it, can you imagine the impunity Bovino must believe he has to *admit* under oath he doesn’t believe he’s beholden to the Constitution?
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · Nov 4
Overnight court filings seem to be giving us a peek at what U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino said in his deposition so far (it apparently continues today):
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
I talk about this every year but it's notable that everywhere else *but* the U.S. (and Canada, partially) sees a version of the World Series where every player's nationality is prominently displayed whenever they enter the game or come up to bat
dodgers starting lineup graphic from game one, showing each player's national flag next to their name same for the bluejays YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO and the whole left side of the screen is japanese flags PH MIGUEL ROJAS and there is a venezuelan flag next to his name
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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mford.bsky.social
This must be what it’s like to meet Odin when you enter Valhalla. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
The stars were plentiful, and in the aftermath of the lunacy, one of them stood in the Dodgers' clubhouse, still trying to process what happened. Will Klein, the last man out of the Dodgers' bullpen, a reliever who had topped out this year at two innings and 36 pitches, threw four innings of one-hit ball and struck out five on 72 pitches. The last of them, an 86 mph curveball, induced a swing-and-miss from Tyler Heineman and a scream from Klein, who understood what had been asked of him and knew he'd delivered. Games don't become classics without efforts like Klein's -- and he had an admirer who wanted to acknowledge that. Into the Dodgers' clubhouse strode Sandy Koufax, his eminence of Dodgers pitching, who, at 89 years old, looked no worse for the wear at 12:48 a.m. Koufax walked up to Klein, stuck out his hand, looked him in the eyes and said: "Nice going."
October 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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sheehannewsletter.bsky.social
Kurt Suzuki got a one-year contract to manage the Angels.

Remember, when you're licking their boots by advocating for price-fixing, that MLB owners are already planning for a 2027 lockout 13 months ahead of the CBA expiration. They already know they're doing it.
October 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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grubb.wtf
I feel stupid announcing this, but I think it has more of an effect if I do: I cancelled Disney, Hulu, and ESPN+. And I plan to shoplift Andor season 2 when it comes to Blu-ray.
September 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Glad the WSJ didn't rush to report inflammatory claims backed by no evidence whatsoever at an incredibly sensitive time.
thelincoln.bsky.social Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Sep 11
NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:
According to a preliminary internal report circulated inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal and local officials recovered ammunition with the shooter’s rifle that appeared to be engraved with statements “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.” But a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information.
September 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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janelytv.bsky.social
When Russia began bombarding farmers in Kherson with FPV drones, Oleksandr Hordienko fought back, shooting down over 80 with his rifle.

Russians took notice.

“They’re hunting me,” he said.

Our story on what Ukraine's farmers in Kherson face:
www.wsj.com/world/a-ukra...
A Ukrainian Farmer Fought Back Against the Russians. He Paid With His Life.
Farming in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region has become a deadly profession as Russian drone pilots target civilians.
www.wsj.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
It should have been the lead story in every paper in America: A president all but declaring war on the 3rd-largest US city

But there's an even better angle to the Chicago story. Leaders, everyday people aren't having it. Trump picked the wrong fight

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Trump wants to make war on Chicago. He picked the wrong fight | Will Bunch
President Trump's stunning online threat against America's third-largest city will test the power of the resistance.
www.inquirer.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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August 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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bymccullough.bsky.social
This was six years ago!
July 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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razzball.bsky.social
Too young, unbelievably sad. RIP Bobby Jenks, with Ozzie signaling to him
Chicago White Sox 1 @whitesox Former Chicago White Sox All-Star pitcher and 2005 World Series Champion Bobby Jenks passed away yesterday, July 4, in Sintra, Portugal, where he had been battling adenocarcinoma, a form of stomach cancer. He was 44 years old. 45 cago 5 BOBBY JENKS 1981-2025 Ozzie Guillen
July 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Holy shit...I applied for a job with The Onion back in April and this was literally one of my 30 sports headline submissions. @davidjroth.bsky.social @robertsilverman.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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joon.bsky.social
Sports was one of America's most accessible forms of entertainment. Now it's paywalled, splintered and sold to the highest bidder.

Fandom isn't being nurtured. It's being mined.

For @nytopinion.nytimes.com on on the state of sports, and what it says about America: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...
Opinion | $4,785. That’s How Much It Costs to Be a Sports Fan Now.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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edzitron.com
I started writing something important to me tonight. Not really sure what it is, but I’ll share the end of it. Watching the tech industry do what it’s doing sickens me, and I want people to know why.
Nowhere along the line did anyone actually see an opportunity to sell people something they wanted or needed - Large Language Models were able to generate a lot of text or generate pictures, and that barely approximated a thing that society wanted or needed other than it was something that people used to be willing to pay more for and businesses had been vaguely interested in doing these things cheaper, usually by offshoring or underpaying contractors. The fact that three years later we still have trouble describing why these things exist is enough of a sign that the tech industry has no real interest in building artificial intelligence at all - because AI is, at least based on the time before ChatGPT, meant to be about doing stuff for us, which Large Language Models are pretty fucking poor at, because the idea of getting something “done for you” is that you’re outsourcing both the production and the quality control. In any case, it’s enough to make anyone feel crazy. Over the last decade we’ve watched - and while I’m talking about the tech industry, I think we can all say it’s been everywhere else too - the things we love get distanced from us so that somebody else can get unbelievably rich, the things we used to do easily made more difficult, confusing and/or expensive, and the ways we used to connect with people become increasingly abstracted and exploitative. I don’t know what to tell you about these people other than the fact that you should know that they are responsible for the world around you feeling like it’s in fucking ruins. I cannot give you a plan for the future, I cannot tell you what will fix things, but however things get fixed start with people knowing who these people are and what they have done. The reason I am so hard on my peers in the media is that it has never been more urgent that we hold these people accountable. Their ability to act both unburdened by regulation and true criticism has emboldened them to cause harm to billions of peop… Fighting back starts with the truth, said regularly, said boldly and clearly with emotion and sincerity. I don’t have other answers. I don’t have bold plans. I don’t know what to do, other than to explain how I feel, and if you feel the same, at the very least make you feel less afraid. If you ever need to talk, email me at ez@betteroffline.com. I don’t care. I have cracked myself open and spilled myself onto my podcast and newsletter for no reason other than the fact that I feel more alive doing so, and have become a stronger and happier person doing so. All this is possible thanks to technology, and while I have no plan, I know I feel more free and alive when I write and speak about this stuff. I write this knowing that speaking in this way feels “too much” or some other way of attacking me for experiencing emotion, and if you’re feeling that way reading this, look deep within yourself and see if you’re simply uncomfortable with somebody capable of feeling things. We die alone, but we choose whether we live that way. Remember that billions of us are suffering in the same way, and remember who to fucking thank for doing it to us.
June 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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edzitron.com
They are so unbelievably and terribly desperate. You don’t do things like this unless you are scraping the bottom of the barrel for revenue and adoption. This is the ultimate form of the tech industry: a despicable, wretched, entitled, destructive, abusive digital despot that wants to con your kids.
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jun 5
So, uh... I just did a Google search which was not about homework... because I haven't been in school in decades, and I got this pop up from Google. And, like, I actually think there are ways to use AI in school properly, but this kind of advertising from Google seems... super sketchy.
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June 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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You can read the whole thing here. In my wildest dreams, I would never have thought to accuse the Trump administration of planning something like this. This is clearly a crime, and DHS Sec. Noem and others should be impeached for it: www.cato.org/blog/50-vene...
50+ Venezuelans Imprisoned in El Salvador Came to US Legally, Never Violated Immigration Law
The US government not only denied these men due process; it has generally failed to provide their families, their attorneys, or the public any information about what it alleges these men did to deserv...
www.cato.org
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Bryce Harper was asked about the Dodgers' spending and talent acquisition methods ahead of L.A.'s game in Philly Friday.

This was his response:

(via @toddzolecki.bsky.social)
April 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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baseballprospectus.com
Jackie Robinson and the Twisted Mirror
by Steven Goldman (@stevengoldman.bsky.social)
Jackie Robinson and the Twisted Mirror | Baseball Prospectus
An aggressive Orwellian politics intrudes into baseball (whether you’d prefer to stick to sports or not).
www.baseballprospectus.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com
one of the things I'm most excited about for this upcoming season? @edzitron.com will be writing a series for BP about, well, read his intro article. It's free to anyone with an email address, so no excuses:
Better Off Ed | Baseball Prospectus
A new series on baseball fandom from Ed Zitron, starting on the outside and working inward.
www.baseballprospectus.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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richarddeitsch.bsky.social
. @danshanoff.bsky.social pays tribute to Gene Hackman, Midwest basketball coach.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/616...
Gene Hackman’s role in ‘Hoosiers’ left a lasting impression on basketball fans
Hackman's portrayal of coach Dale's transformation — and redemption — throughout "Hoosiers" was the heartbeat of the box-office classic.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM