Tony Adornato
@robottony.bsky.social
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Betting used to mean sort of committing a crime in the name of fun and nothing legal can ever beat that
a lukewarm take I have is that betting has become supremely boring. Going-to-the-window euphoria doesn't exist in the phone. Scarcity was fun (in moderation). And the ads and content around it all is so bland
got pushed over the edge w legal sports betting just now when CBS cut to a guy giving his best bet on the team to get promoted from EFL league 1. Ban it again, go back to Vegas, sick of this shit
August 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Betting used to mean sort of committing a crime in the name of fun and nothing legal can ever beat that
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I got you, also oh my absolute god
July 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I got you, also oh my absolute god
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This is controversial for her career but the extent of the controversy, the extent of the provocation to anyone, is showing children being bombed as kids who deserve to live instead of faceless statistics, and if someone argues against that? Idk maybe that viewpoint should be the controversial one
Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
July 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is controversial for her career but the extent of the controversy, the extent of the provocation to anyone, is showing children being bombed as kids who deserve to live instead of faceless statistics, and if someone argues against that? Idk maybe that viewpoint should be the controversial one
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going to college, living in an international dorm and meeting brown kids from africa, dark-skinned kids with african features from india, spanish-speaking chinese kids from argentina, and many others changed the way i understood the world in some pretty fundamental ways
July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
going to college, living in an international dorm and meeting brown kids from africa, dark-skinned kids with african features from india, spanish-speaking chinese kids from argentina, and many others changed the way i understood the world in some pretty fundamental ways
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classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity
January 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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TAPPER: The one thing I hear from almost every small business owner is the uncertainty. They don't know how to plan for the future because they have no idea what's gonna come.
BESSENT: Strategic uncertainty is a negotiating tactic
BESSENT: Strategic uncertainty is a negotiating tactic
May 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
TAPPER: The one thing I hear from almost every small business owner is the uncertainty. They don't know how to plan for the future because they have no idea what's gonna come.
BESSENT: Strategic uncertainty is a negotiating tactic
BESSENT: Strategic uncertainty is a negotiating tactic
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It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
April 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
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wait for it…the payoff is INCREDIBLE
April 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
wait for it…the payoff is INCREDIBLE
No one is coming to save us but us.
Go Sharks.
Go Cats (except Riley Gaines).
@edsbs.bsky.social
@hollyanderson.bsky.social
@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social
Go Sharks.
Go Cats (except Riley Gaines).
@edsbs.bsky.social
@hollyanderson.bsky.social
@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
No one is coming to save us but us.
Go Sharks.
Go Cats (except Riley Gaines).
@edsbs.bsky.social
@hollyanderson.bsky.social
@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social
Go Sharks.
Go Cats (except Riley Gaines).
@edsbs.bsky.social
@hollyanderson.bsky.social
@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social
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not that it should have to be like this for people to care, but everyone should understand that anti-trans bigotry is a threat to cisgender people as well as to trans people.
Advocate [Mar 28] -- Lake City FL Walmart fires 7-year employee w/ spotless record who tutors special needs kids in spare time after a male customer attacks her for being trans because she is 6' 4" tall. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans
Dani Davis told a superior at Walmart that a man screamed anti-trans epithets while she was alone in the bathroom. Walmart fired her after she reported what happened.
www.advocate.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
not that it should have to be like this for people to care, but everyone should understand that anti-trans bigotry is a threat to cisgender people as well as to trans people.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
April 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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The position of the democratic party should be "you can return him now, or we will come get him when we are back in power, and drop you off at the Hague on the flight home."
Nayib Bukele is an enemy to the liberties of Americans and has behaved with contempt toward our laws and our courts. For as long as he lives, patriotic Americans should remember that about him -- and about his patron in the White House.
Live updates: Salvadoran president says he won’t return wrongly deported man to U.S.
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The position of the democratic party should be "you can return him now, or we will come get him when we are back in power, and drop you off at the Hague on the flight home."
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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not to be a "but the founders" guy but one thing the founders had absolutely right is that habeus corpus -- the principle that the government has to justify imprisonment through a process more complex and adversarial than just asserting that someone is bad -- is the foundational liberty we have
The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.
This should INFURIATE you
March 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
not to be a "but the founders" guy but one thing the founders had absolutely right is that habeus corpus -- the principle that the government has to justify imprisonment through a process more complex and adversarial than just asserting that someone is bad -- is the foundational liberty we have
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Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
March 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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The ball is tipped
March 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The ball is tipped
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We're doing these racists a big favor when we pretend their project is in any way based on actual grievance with modern DEI policy. They just want to promote the belief that no non-white person has ever been worthy of any praise or qualified for any honor or position
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We're doing these racists a big favor when we pretend their project is in any way based on actual grievance with modern DEI policy. They just want to promote the belief that no non-white person has ever been worthy of any praise or qualified for any honor or position
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the abhorrent opinions in question:
March 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
the abhorrent opinions in question:
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Always look to see what the tech bros want for their own kids: small class sizes with human teachers, human tutors with expert content knowledge, cell phone restrictions in classrooms, high per pupil spending, the arts and humanities--and much more they say is too costly for public schools.
The tech world is pushing AI into everything and telling us it's both the way of the future and inevitable. Meanwhile, in the tech world:
Parents in Tech Want Their Kids to Go Into the Arts Instead
Hands-on jobs that demand creativity are seen as less vulnerable to artificial intelligence.
bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Always look to see what the tech bros want for their own kids: small class sizes with human teachers, human tutors with expert content knowledge, cell phone restrictions in classrooms, high per pupil spending, the arts and humanities--and much more they say is too costly for public schools.