perplexpert
@situational-lefty.bsky.social
Video games, PopSci/geoscience, Giants baseball, progressive politics, nonsense.
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Why pay Cody Ponce 3/30M when you can pay guys 5 and 10 years older and left off the Jays' playoff roster 2/40 or 1/16? 🥴
Cody Ponce is going to Toronto on a 3-year, $30 million deal that crushed industry estimates, via @ken-rosenthal.bsky.social . Giants were involved but market got beyond them. Jays moved quickly to replace Chris Bassitt and Max Scherzer with Dylan Cease and Ponce. Will one or both be SF-bound now? 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Why pay Cody Ponce 3/30M when you can pay guys 5 and 10 years older and left off the Jays' playoff roster 2/40 or 1/16? 🥴
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this Arendt quote gets at it too www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
December 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
this Arendt quote gets at it too www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
This only makes sense if the Giants move Eldridge and also you got kicked in the head by a stalking horse
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This only makes sense if the Giants move Eldridge and also you got kicked in the head by a stalking horse
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It's December which means it's time to post the generic Hallmark version of "All I Want For Christmas Is You" that the kids are calling "probably not legally actionable"
December 2, 2024 at 10:02 PM
It's December which means it's time to post the generic Hallmark version of "All I Want For Christmas Is You" that the kids are calling "probably not legally actionable"
Not gonna link to the latest Baggs article on Imai, but my two reactions to it:
1) all the actual "reporting" out there on the Giants' interest or lack thereof in Imai feels weirdly speculative
2) if on the other hand the reporting is true on the influence of private equity, the franchise is cooked
1) all the actual "reporting" out there on the Giants' interest or lack thereof in Imai feels weirdly speculative
2) if on the other hand the reporting is true on the influence of private equity, the franchise is cooked
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Not gonna link to the latest Baggs article on Imai, but my two reactions to it:
1) all the actual "reporting" out there on the Giants' interest or lack thereof in Imai feels weirdly speculative
2) if on the other hand the reporting is true on the influence of private equity, the franchise is cooked
1) all the actual "reporting" out there on the Giants' interest or lack thereof in Imai feels weirdly speculative
2) if on the other hand the reporting is true on the influence of private equity, the franchise is cooked
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I enjoy books that start with maps.
December 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I enjoy books that start with maps.
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The price-setting company RealPage worked with landlords for years to overcharge tenants. A judge decided they can keep their profits, as long as they promise not to do it again. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/MbLEQ0Q
The Wrist-Slappers Strike Again - The American Prospect
A settlement with algorithmic collusion facilitator RealPage allows it to keep allegedly ill-gotten profits and continue innovating to raise rents.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The price-setting company RealPage worked with landlords for years to overcharge tenants. A judge decided they can keep their profits, as long as they promise not to do it again. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/MbLEQ0Q
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there is no comprehensive list of dangerous criminal undocumented migrants. nor are there many of them in the country at all. “mass deportations” are by definition gonna be almost exclusively peaceful immigrants and sweep up LPRs, people on visas, these are the easy people to locate!
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
there is no comprehensive list of dangerous criminal undocumented migrants. nor are there many of them in the country at all. “mass deportations” are by definition gonna be almost exclusively peaceful immigrants and sweep up LPRs, people on visas, these are the easy people to locate!
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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"ugh you are so annoying. and here's why the Way That You Are is a crucial contribution to US hegemony"
no. stop. release yourself from this
no. stop. release yourself from this
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"ugh you are so annoying. and here's why the Way That You Are is a crucial contribution to US hegemony"
no. stop. release yourself from this
no. stop. release yourself from this
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Wow. Vitale wrote The End of Policing, advocating for community-based solutions for safety instead of policing.
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Wow. Vitale wrote The End of Policing, advocating for community-based solutions for safety instead of policing.
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DOJ settles the RealPage case.
Some legitimate changes to its business practices but nobody's getting convicted for price fixing.
nypost.com/2025/11/24/b...
Some legitimate changes to its business practices but nobody's getting convicted for price fixing.
nypost.com/2025/11/24/b...
Exclusive | DOJ settles case accusing real estate tech firm RealPage of enabling landlords to collude on sky-high rents
The Justice Department has settled its case against real estate tech firm RealPage, which faced bombshell allegations of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to jack up r…
nypost.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
DOJ settles the RealPage case.
Some legitimate changes to its business practices but nobody's getting convicted for price fixing.
nypost.com/2025/11/24/b...
Some legitimate changes to its business practices but nobody's getting convicted for price fixing.
nypost.com/2025/11/24/b...
I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this.
the past few days candace owens has been claiming that the french have put out a hit on her & there’s possible conspiring with israel as a result of her spending the last nearly two years transvestigating brigitte macron
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this.
One of the great wonders of the internet is the sheer number of people who make a career out of telling you how stupid they are. You would think there's no market for this but the tap never turns off, somehow.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
One of the great wonders of the internet is the sheer number of people who make a career out of telling you how stupid they are. You would think there's no market for this but the tap never turns off, somehow.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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if renewable energy buildout isn't your only political issue it's likely it will be very soon
Two countries have to abandon their megacity capitals because they have too much (Jakarta) or too little (Tehran) water.
It feels like we've been fighting nature for some time - and we're starting to lose
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...
It feels like we've been fighting nature for some time - and we're starting to lose
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
if renewable energy buildout isn't your only political issue it's likely it will be very soon
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"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game
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good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...
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they are hemorrhaging support. there is dissent in their ranks. they wilt in front of our discipline.
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CBP reportedly pulling out after a week in Charlotte.
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
they are hemorrhaging support. there is dissent in their ranks. they wilt in front of our discipline.
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bsky.app/profile/pear...
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listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
[mysterious old lady flips tarot card revealing a dude who looks exactly like me headlining an article titled "people who might get fired"] Me: is that good
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
[mysterious old lady flips tarot card revealing a dude who looks exactly like me headlining an article titled "people who might get fired"] Me: is that good
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“And in the end, her campaign was simply more cost-effective. It spent $2.98 in PAC money per voter, where Harrell’s campaign spent a whopping $13.32. In my back-of-envelope McKinsey calculations, this means that socialist Katie Wilson got a better ROI than the oligarchs.”
"The problem for billionaires is written on the tin: It’s their billions. Lately, once the money of the private-jet set enters a campaign, the stink of the oligarchy sticks to the campaign."
Me today @newrepublic.com :
newrepublic.com/article/2033... via @newrepublic.com
Me today @newrepublic.com :
newrepublic.com/article/2033... via @newrepublic.com
The Real Losers in Seattle’s Mayoral
Election? Oligarchs.
They poured mountains of dollars into trying to find ways to stop socialist Katie Wilson. But to younger voters, their money stinks.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“And in the end, her campaign was simply more cost-effective. It spent $2.98 in PAC money per voter, where Harrell’s campaign spent a whopping $13.32. In my back-of-envelope McKinsey calculations, this means that socialist Katie Wilson got a better ROI than the oligarchs.”
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"Everybody in ICE goes to The Hague" is going to be the moderate view by 2028
Sounds like he thought he had a get out of jail free card on the underage sex charge since he was ICE www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"Everybody in ICE goes to The Hague" is going to be the moderate view by 2028