Krishnan Viswanathan
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@reckless.bsky.social your recent Decoder on education is one of the best i have heard this year. As a parent with one in college & another entering next year, this is a must listen for them & parents. And kudos to all the thoughtful teacher voices. They are really grappling with a hard problem.
November 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
@reckless.bsky.social your recent Decoder on education is one of the best i have heard this year. As a parent with one in college & another entering next year, this is a must listen for them & parents. And kudos to all the thoughtful teacher voices. They are really grappling with a hard problem.
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Look, I know we’re all rightfully pissed about the current Epstein stuff, but you should really set aside some time and read this piece. There’s a reason “mitigating the effects of climate change” is one of my key policy positions.
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Look, I know we’re all rightfully pissed about the current Epstein stuff, but you should really set aside some time and read this piece. There’s a reason “mitigating the effects of climate change” is one of my key policy positions.
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This is the greatest story ever told:
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
Police Arrest Man After HSR Bus Joy Ride
On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at approximately 9:00 p.m., a Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) bus driver pulled into the McNab Bus Terminal and exited the vehicle for a short break.During this time, an a...
hamiltonpolice.on.ca
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This is the greatest story ever told:
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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New data from the Bureau of What the Actual
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
New data from the Bureau of What the Actual
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An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
@davidpierce.xyz Don't miss this lovely movie showing the lives of the humans who do the grunt work of labeling data for AI. www.netflix.com/us/title/821...
Watch Humans in the loop | Netflix
An indigenous woman works as an AI data-labeler after returning to her village with her children, but soon questions the human bias in machine learning.
www.netflix.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
@davidpierce.xyz Don't miss this lovely movie showing the lives of the humans who do the grunt work of labeling data for AI. www.netflix.com/us/title/821...
@reckless.bsky.social and @davidpierce.xyz if this guy is not on the OpenAI god panel, is it even legit 🤣
youtu.be/ck_AQTIu2VA?...
youtu.be/ck_AQTIu2VA?...
E≠MC² .. E is not equal to mc^2 - Avatar Paramahamsa Nithyananda
YouTube video by NITHYANANDA CLICKS
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@reckless.bsky.social and @davidpierce.xyz if this guy is not on the OpenAI god panel, is it even legit 🤣
youtu.be/ck_AQTIu2VA?...
youtu.be/ck_AQTIu2VA?...
Had to be a brainwashed moron from my state 🤦🏾♂️.
A Florida man was arrested in connection with a series of online threats against several of President Trump’s political adversaries, according to a criminal complaint, which said that his targets included James Comey, Letitia James and Hunter Biden.
Florida Man Threatened James Comey and Letitia James, Complaint Says
Gregory Formicone, of Bradenton, Fla., used online comments to call for several of President Trump’s most prominent adversaries to be targeted, the authorities said.
nyti.ms
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Had to be a brainwashed moron from my state 🤦🏾♂️.
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"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”
Gov. Andy Beshear
Gov. Andy Beshear
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”
Gov. Andy Beshear
Gov. Andy Beshear
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I want to laugh at how cooked this makes OpenAI look because it’s all but an admission that they have no idea how to turn a profit. But I’m also scared that our government is stupid enough to still say yes and setup a potential biblical scale calamity for the economy lmao
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I want to laugh at how cooked this makes OpenAI look because it’s all but an admission that they have no idea how to turn a profit. But I’m also scared that our government is stupid enough to still say yes and setup a potential biblical scale calamity for the economy lmao
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I spent some time spelunking in the footnotes of the Oregon National Guard litigation and came to the horrible conclusion that we're watching the record decay in real time under the weight of a right-wing influencer circus www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
Influencers have fractured reality in Portland
Right-wing content creators managed to successfully brand the Portland police as ‘antifa.’
www.theverge.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I spent some time spelunking in the footnotes of the Oregon National Guard litigation and came to the horrible conclusion that we're watching the record decay in real time under the weight of a right-wing influencer circus www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
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So much big news in local elections.
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
So much big news in local elections.
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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Parking is the one, true equaliser contemporary society. Even absurdly wealthy doctors and architects will start behaving like absolute lunatics - brandishing weapons, pet death threats, frothing at the mouth - over their "entitlement" to a parking space.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Parking is the one, true equaliser contemporary society. Even absurdly wealthy doctors and architects will start behaving like absolute lunatics - brandishing weapons, pet death threats, frothing at the mouth - over their "entitlement" to a parking space.
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Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.
Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.
A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.
www.inquirer.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.
Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
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Like I always say - when you march, you're marching for ten people who couldn't ✊
When you see 2-3 percent doing something costly like protesting, you figure there are at least 10x who would like to but couldn't, 20x who largely agree, and 5-10 percent who are undecided but really thinking about what is going on.
The sum is way over 50 percent any way you cut it.
The sum is way over 50 percent any way you cut it.
Just saw an extremely dumb post about how this is not what democracy
looks like because only 2% of the population turned out, it's what freedom of assembly looks like, and what the bleep do people even think democracy is? Freedom of assembly being part of democracy is elementary school civics.
looks like because only 2% of the population turned out, it's what freedom of assembly looks like, and what the bleep do people even think democracy is? Freedom of assembly being part of democracy is elementary school civics.
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Like I always say - when you march, you're marching for ten people who couldn't ✊
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The number one request we've gotten since we launched subscriptions was ad-free podcasts, and it took a lot of work but they are HERE. Sign up! www.theverge.com/bulletin/795...
Verge subscribers, here’s how to set up ad-free podcasts
Ad-free Decoder, Version History, and The Vergecast! Here’s how to get them.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The number one request we've gotten since we launched subscriptions was ad-free podcasts, and it took a lot of work but they are HERE. Sign up! www.theverge.com/bulletin/795...
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Plyler v. Doe provides some formal protection against such ICE raids and intimidation at schools to the extent it denies access to school for undocumented children. Long overdue to press the issue in court.
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Plyler v. Doe provides some formal protection against such ICE raids and intimidation at schools to the extent it denies access to school for undocumented children. Long overdue to press the issue in court.
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Is America great now
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
n.pr
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Is America great now
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What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.