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Greg Strange
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iplayoddball.bsky.social
It's hard to know whether I'm on 'Following'or 'Discover' because...they aren't mutually exclusive people.
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
I am continually meditating these days on this quote from one of my role models, James Stockdale, who survived torture and worse in Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_S...
Oh, that's easy, the optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, "We're going to be out by Christmas". And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they'd say, "We're going to be out by Easter". And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart. This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
Can we just skip to the end and define what we can discriminate based on? Otherwise, we're going to be having this fight for every new demographic. Suggestion: "We comply with the EEOC and discriminate on the basis of ability, intelligence and hygiene".
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
we should all be freaking out a lot more over how investments in ai will soon ruin us all financially
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
Key new court ruling - full report:
Federal Court Ruling Limits Police Qualified Immunity in Line 3 Excessive Force Case
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
Federal Court Ruling Limits Police Qualified Immunity in Line 3 Excessive Force Case - UNICORN RIOT
Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
unicornriot.ninja
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
"May the tribes, I pray, ever retain, if not love for us, at least hatred for each other — for while the destinies of empire hurry us on, fortune can give no greater boon than discord among our foes."

Tacitus
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene
I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., and having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
Ausgezeichnet! (Excellent!)
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
I'm fucking dying
eastendjoe.bsky.social Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 2d
Best version of Careless Whisper I’ve seen so far.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
Astonishing
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
Die Damm beginnt zu bröckeln
todoheiko.bsky.social Heiko @todoheiko.bsky.social · 2d
„Das Internet ist kein Selbstbedienungsladen und menschliche Kreativleistungen sind keine Gratisvorlage. Wir haben heute einen Präzedenzfall geschaffen ... KI-Tools müssen sich an das Urheberrecht halten".
Allerdings: OpenAI wird gegen das Urteil Berufung einlegen.
www.scinexx.de/news/technik...
Copyright: GEMA gewinnt gegen OpenAI
Streit ums Urheberrecht: Dürfen generative KI-Modelle mit urheberrechtlich geschützten Songs, Bildern und Texten trainiert werden? Und wie ähnlich darf
www.scinexx.de
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
"It also notes...that international stocks are outperforming the U.S. S&P stock index by the widest margin in 16 years." Lemme do the math. Hmm, wonder what was going on in 2009.
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
“It is ironic, because they’re so against gender-affirming care for trans people, but they’re doing gender-affirming care for themselves,” Dr Belkin said.
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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swiftonsecurity.com
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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freya.bsky.social
I'm such a C# shill but,

any time I hear someone say "the garbage collector slows things down too much" I feel like they're not aware of just how many tools you have to avoid heap allocations

it seems to me whatever work that entails, it's almost always less work than using an unmanaged language
C# code that reads: Span<float2> points = stackalloc float2[3] { Mathfs.AngToDir( 0 ), Mathfs.AngToDir( Mathfs.TAU / 3 ), Mathfs.AngToDir( 2 * Mathfs.TAU / 3 ) }; foreach( float2 p in points ) { // ... }
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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queenofthesouth.bsky.social
Tariffs and increased ACA premiums disproportionately hurt small businesses. Giant Fortune 500 companies are happy to take a temporary hit with tariffs if that means that all their potential competition goes under.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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jonburkeuk.bsky.social
Big thanks to @ecosiasearch.bsky.social for using one of my posts to highlight the almost magical powers of urban street trees! 🌳
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
I'm seeing a lot of people saying things like "They should all go to jail, I don't even care if they did anything illegal." Fellow babies, I get it in the deepest part of me. But that conception is Trumpian. Remember what we've been saying about due process for everyone else.
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
aaah, American Exceptionalism!
parismarx.com Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 3d
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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toddalcott.bsky.social
In Metropolis (1927), the wealthy son of a tech-lord billionaire sees the deplorable conditions of the working class and vows to change the system. That's how you can tell it's science fiction.
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
What if my laptop was stolen with my phone in a foreign airport and the only way I could get help was to message folks back home on Messenger? This is just about the dumbest thing ever when there are so many good ways to verify by, you know, actual data..
Facebook rejection screenshot with a picture of a phone and laptop with dotted connecting lines and a shield. Text says: Log in on another device to continue When we can’t be sure someone trying to log into an account really owns it, we’ll add an extra security step at login. You need to sign in on a device you’ve signed in from before and approve this login. I don’t have another device If you don’t have access to an alternative device that you’ve used to log into this account before, it’s not safe for us to let you log in.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
People say, "Stop using double spaces at the end of sentences! It will save paper!" I remember, I've never heard anyone say, "Stop writing stupid shit! It saves the trees!"
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
US expats: with the govt shutdown and big backlog of passport renewals, I'm thinking about renewing mine in RO when I go in Jan (it exp in Sept). Are renewals pretty quick in US embassies abroad? Do I have to give up my current passport like @ home? If so, how do I stay compliant?
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
This fantastic article about the science of reading and the charlatanism of cue reading is worth the long, well-cited read.

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
He brought up the example of a child who comes to the word "horse" and says "pony" instead. His argument is that a child will still understand the meaning of the story because horse and pony are the same concept. I pressed him on this. First of all, a pony isn't the same thing as a horse. Second, don't you want to make sure that when a child is learning to read, he understands that /p/ /o/ /n/ /y/ says "pony"? And different letters say "horse"? He dismissed my question. "The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM