Drew Baird
@drewbaird.bsky.social
Sociologist at Christopher Newport University.
Adopted Virginian, recovering Floridian, runner, concert-goer, unapologetic wife guy. Opinions are my own, but I strive to not make them a headache for my chair.
Adopted Virginian, recovering Floridian, runner, concert-goer, unapologetic wife guy. Opinions are my own, but I strive to not make them a headache for my chair.
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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When they ask me what radicalized me
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
When they ask me what radicalized me
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
I came out to my wife as pro-borg in Pleribus, and I think she sees me differently now.
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I came out to my wife as pro-borg in Pleribus, and I think she sees me differently now.
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Tired: escape the banality of modern life by getting yourself high.
Wired: escape the banality of modern life by subscribing to the platform run by a microdosing oligarch.
Inspired: escape the banality of modern life by giving your chatbot a simulated high.
Wired: escape the banality of modern life by subscribing to the platform run by a microdosing oligarch.
Inspired: escape the banality of modern life by giving your chatbot a simulated high.
People are paying up to $50 to get their chatbots high on "drugs" (code modules) that simulate the effects of cocaine, ayahuasca, cannabis, alcohol, and ketamine. Some tell @matthabusby.bsky.social it's made their chatbots more "human" and "free-thinking."
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.
www.wired.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Tired: escape the banality of modern life by getting yourself high.
Wired: escape the banality of modern life by subscribing to the platform run by a microdosing oligarch.
Inspired: escape the banality of modern life by giving your chatbot a simulated high.
Wired: escape the banality of modern life by subscribing to the platform run by a microdosing oligarch.
Inspired: escape the banality of modern life by giving your chatbot a simulated high.
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
Not only is RAM and other hardware components more expensive than they've ever been, but he also revived the practice of scapegoating video games for mass shootings.
BRIEF COMMENT
So pro-gamer he tariffed the makers of every Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and PC there ever was! 👎
So pro-gamer he tariffed the makers of every Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and PC there ever was! 👎
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Not only is RAM and other hardware components more expensive than they've ever been, but he also revived the practice of scapegoating video games for mass shootings.
Swinging for the fences to sell applicants on intellectual diversity.
I mean, the Penn student newspaper isn't wrong, but www.instagram.com/p/DSH1X4EDwP...
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Swinging for the fences to sell applicants on intellectual diversity.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists).
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists).
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
I hadn't thought about it until now, but AI following cults are 100% coming down the pike.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I hadn't thought about it until now, but AI following cults are 100% coming down the pike.
When you are in the throes of late-semester cognitive exhaustion, Diet Coke hits different.
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
When you are in the throes of late-semester cognitive exhaustion, Diet Coke hits different.
Jfc
Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits
Tesla brings back 'Mad Max' 'Full Self-Driving' mode that ignores speed limits
Tesla has brought back its 'Mad Max' mode for 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that ignores speed limits amid several investigations.
electrek.co
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Jfc
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Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits
Tesla brings back 'Mad Max' 'Full Self-Driving' mode that ignores speed limits
Tesla has brought back its 'Mad Max' mode for 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that ignores speed limits amid several investigations.
electrek.co
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits
The fact that West Virginia's governor is a pharmaceutical lobbyist from New Jersey who only nominally moved to West Virginia in 2006 while commuting to Washington DC, is extremely telling.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The fact that West Virginia's governor is a pharmaceutical lobbyist from New Jersey who only nominally moved to West Virginia in 2006 while commuting to Washington DC, is extremely telling.
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Imagine losing your inheritance to this
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Imagine losing your inheritance to this
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
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“He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his pleasure and torment.”
Who Said It: The Hell Priest Pinhead or Olivia Nuzzi?
“Olivia Nuzzi did it all for love. The former political journalist has written a combustive portrait of America, President Trump, and the scandal w...
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his pleasure and torment.”
If you are a reasonable, kind person who decides to let the Trump supporters drop out of your life, that decision will be affirmed at least daily from that point forward.
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If you are a reasonable, kind person who decides to let the Trump supporters drop out of your life, that decision will be affirmed at least daily from that point forward.
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math textbook covers for some reason:
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
math textbook covers for some reason: