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david kim
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real time indicator of decline
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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bear witness
mother (natalia) and child after husband/ father (jamal) was ripped away from them mother, daughter, son distraught in the corner of an elevator after their husband/ father was ripped away. asian man, presumably going to an immigration hearing, walks out of the elevator. monica going from elation thinking they were free to go until 2026 to devastation at having her husband be ripped away from her, crying out on the floor husband crying in elevator, wife detained.
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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mookie betts is one of the best all around baseball talents to ever grace the field and he knows shohei is just ... something else.
Mookie Betts got to watch all three homers from the on-deck circle and all 10 strikeouts from shortstop. So I asked him how he would describe his reaction to what he saw. “I don’t even know if I have one,” Betts said. “Just watch and enjoy it. That’s really all. I can tell my kids about how I got to play with Ohtani and play a long time with him. But, I mean, there’s just no more words you can really say for what he does.”
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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man died of an overly complicated invention but not before trying to kill the rest of us on a longer time horizon
• Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889-1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He became entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55. However, he is better known for two of his other inventions: the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). [41][42][43]
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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i love this because when i studied abroad ages ago and stayed with a well-to-do french family with two teens, my dinner with them on my first night in paris was a seafood tower and frites with copious amounts of mayo. nothing else.
Part of why this bite feels so out of place is that, while Chateau Royale is not by any stretch an inexpensive restaurant, it is also not an ostentatious or conceited one; it feels like the wrong setting for a dish so overtly sneering. In all other respects, Pruitt and his team seem to be working hard to create a warm, unintimidating experience: service is beautifully friendly, with waiters tour-guiding guests through the more highbrow aspects of the menu without an iota of condescension, and welcoming of hungry Francophiles of all levels of gastronomic expertise. [I had dinner one evening next to a family with two small children, who went wild on both oysters and French fries, to the delight of the entire dining room.] There's a dissonant note of another stripe on the menu downstairs, in the barroom, where the atmosphere
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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10. In this sense, it can be said that the commitment to the poor and to removing the social and structural causes of poverty has gained importance in recent decades, but it remains insufficient. This is also the case because our societies often favor criteria for orienting life and politics that are marked by numerous inequalities. As a result, the old forms of poverty that we have become aware of and are trying to combat are being joined by new ones, sometimes more subtle and dangerous. From this point of view, it is to be welcomed that the United Nations has made the eradication of poverty one of its Millennium Goals. 11. A concrete commitment to the poor must also be accompanied by a change in mentality that can have an impact at the cultural level. In fact, the illusion of happiness derived from a comfortable life pushes many people towards a vision of life centered on the accumulation of wealth and social success at all costs, even at the expense of others and by taking advantage of unjust social ideals and political-economic systems that favor the strongest. Thus, in a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people. This means that a culture still persists — sometimes well disguised — that discards others without even realizing it and tolerates with indifference that millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings. A few years ago, the photo of a lifeless child lying on a Mediterranean beach caused an uproar; unfortunately, apart from some momentary outcry, similar events are becoming increasingly irrelevant and seen as marginal news items.
October 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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"Pope Francis, explaining his choice of that name, related how, after his election, a Cardinal friend of his embraced him, kissed him and told him: 'Do not forget the poor!'"
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
The cry of the poor 8. The passage of Sacred Scripture in which God reveals himself to Moses in the burning bush can serve as a constant starting-point for this effort. There he says: "I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them... So come, I will send you" (Ex 3:7-8,10). [Z] God thus shows his concern for the needs of the poor: "When the Israelites cried out to the Lord, he raised up for them a deliverer" (Judg 3:15). In hearing the cry of the poor, we are asked to enter into the heart of God, who is always concerned for the needs of his children, especially those in greatest need. If we remain unresponsive to that cry, the poor might well cry out to the Lord against us, and we would incur guilt (cf. Deut 15:9) and turn away from the very heart of God. 9. The condition of the poor is a cry that, throughout human history, constantly challenges our lives, societies, political and economic systems, and, not least, the Church. On the wounded faces of the poor, we see the suffering of the innocent and, therefore, the suffering of Christ himself. At the same time, we should perhaps speak more correctly of the many faces of the poor and of poverty, since it is a multifaceted phenomenon. In fact, there are many forms of poverty: the poverty of those who lack material means of subsistence, the poverty of those who are socially marginalized and lack the means to give voice to their dignity and abilities, moral and spiritual poverty, cultural poverty, the poverty of those who find themselves in a condition of personal or social weakness or fragility, the poverty of those who have no rights, no space, no freedom.
October 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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your first mention in @financialtimes.com?
picture of a section of the print edition of the financial times mentioning pablo's story about kawhi, aspiration, and ballmer
September 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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mamdani is absolutely a real one for this
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
But Mamdani was interested in the tennis. (Favorite player of all time? Juan Martin del Porto.) When he learned that his guests were tennis novices, he launched into a rundown of serves, games, sets, advantage, and strategy. "The points go fifteen, then thirty, then forty," he said. "If the other person is also at forty, it becomes something called deuce.
September 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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@thepressbox.bsky.social @bryancurtis.bsky.social
saw the headline and thought there was a finance word "horsey" that i didn't know about. turns out, it's exactly horsey.
article with headline: Apollo accepts horsey collateral for £40mn loan to football super agent'
August 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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oh boy
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Q. & A. How Former Biden Officials Defend Their Gaza Policy The former President’s support for Israel abetted a humanitarian catastrophe. But Jacob Lew, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the country, still thinks that the Trump White House could learn from its predecessor. By Isaac Chotiner August 26, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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lol what a waste of time and space
nytimes headline: democrats' flashing red alert, what the voter registration data shows another nytimes headline: amy klobuchar: what i didn't say about sydney sweeney
August 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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@thepressbox.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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man missed this headline early in the morning
ft critical comma column with the headline, "perhaps you could rebrand it coke-cane?"
July 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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not a nice thing to say about @karlthefog.bsky.social
Some scientists wouldn’t even count this cloud cover as fog, though. According to various definitions from the National Weather Service, American Meteorological Society and United Kingdom Met Office, fog must be close to or in the vicinity of Earth’s surface. The cloud cover this week would better be described as marine stratocumulus.
July 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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"... when Khalil said that he was honored to be standing with Mamdani, 'a man so principled that ICE hasn’t arrested him yet.' He paused and then, with perfect timing, added, 'You can tell they are thinking about it.'"
If you are not careful, and if you are not tapped into your own humanity and that of others, it can be tempting to mistake people for symbols. It is easy to affix a political prisoner to his political positions, or to the horrors of his detainment, and to see nothing else. The government sought to make an example of Mahmoud Khalil, to show others what happens when you are vocal about the rights of the Palestinian people. In many ways, this is how the state distorts the perspective of even the most well-meaning people: if what you understand about Khalil is that he has suffered, and you believe that his suffering is unjust, and your heart aches for his suffering, that ache may overwhelm your ability to understand him as anything else. Such shortsightedness isn’t nefarious, but it does make a fraction out of a full life. I love the Hadith about a collective body because it is not just about pain—it is about sharing the full spectrum of human feeling. I am not drawn to action only because people have suffered or are suffering; I am drawn to action because I am distinctly aware of every inch of humanity from which suffering keeps people.
July 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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feel like medical research has constantly been looking for a magical pill and it finally has one
Bloomberg Headline: Weight-loss drugs outperform diet and exercise and should be primary care to prevent heart disease, cardiologists say
June 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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@bryancurtis.bsky.social @thepressbox.bsky.social one of those ft headlines where i can't tell if it's strained or i am just out of touch
May 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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lol
menu for deleting duoling shows "removing duolingo? you can't hide from duo."
April 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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i see it
whale icon that looks like the lamb cake
April 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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nerdjpg eyes
April 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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they are shutting shit down and cherry-picking already. now what chucky?
defector.com/this-is-uvalde
The horror of Uvalde was that the people who did nothing were there in uniform. Their cowardice was not just the sum of their individual moral weakness, but of what they had been organized into, supposedly on the public's behalf. With their badges and their guns, they were not simply people who were merely personally afraid to face the danger themselves, but who would institutionally, forcibly interfere with other people who did want to face it. Outside the secure perimeter, protesters have filled the streets and swarmed Tesla dealerships and national parks. Republicans are fleeing town-hall meetings to avoid angry constituents. Millions of people understand how urgently dangerous the moment is. None of the system's appointed leaders agree. After Uvalde, people talked and talked, in rage and disbelief, about what they would have done if only they'd been there. Here we all are. Now what?
March 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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lol @kang.bsky.social is absolutely right
kang tweets: this is an extreme bay area boba shop collection of dudes. like if you walk into a boba shop near cal or stanford at any time of the day you will find these four dudes. kang further tweets: lol just googled and one is from palo alto and the other actually went to cal. i'm sorry but you can't hide from me. if you're a type of asian i will find you.
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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idk if some staffer thought this was a good idea but they at best did not have the good sense to tell charlie this was fucking idiotic
screenshot of useless chuck schumer posts
February 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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if deepseek wasn't indicative of the peak, this must be the death knell to llm hype
bloomberg push notification: softbank is in talks to invest as much as $25 billion in openai
January 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM