yoman5
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MTG/TFT streamer/writer/commentator. Top 8 GP Milwaukee.
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AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER DECK DUMP THREAD
50+ decks for Standard and beyond!
EOE Deck dump sponsored this time by @powrdragn.bsky.social! He puts out a ton of excellent standard content with an absolutely incredible variety.
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50+ decks for Standard and beyond!
EOE Deck dump sponsored this time by @powrdragn.bsky.social! He puts out a ton of excellent standard content with an absolutely incredible variety.
Help me show him some love and follow him here and on youtube!
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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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Update: Main feature match on Top 8 :)
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Update: Main feature match on Top 8 :)
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
4-2 in the standard challenge for 15th place
Deck felt kinda bad, hexmage wasn't as good as I hoped in this meta and this deck cannot handle fighting the cub decks for the most part. Sideboard desperately needs gix's command but that rotated so you probably need 2x black sun and even then idk
Deck felt kinda bad, hexmage wasn't as good as I hoped in this meta and this deck cannot handle fighting the cub decks for the most part. Sideboard desperately needs gix's command but that rotated so you probably need 2x black sun and even then idk
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
4-2 in the standard challenge for 15th place
Deck felt kinda bad, hexmage wasn't as good as I hoped in this meta and this deck cannot handle fighting the cub decks for the most part. Sideboard desperately needs gix's command but that rotated so you probably need 2x black sun and even then idk
Deck felt kinda bad, hexmage wasn't as good as I hoped in this meta and this deck cannot handle fighting the cub decks for the most part. Sideboard desperately needs gix's command but that rotated so you probably need 2x black sun and even then idk
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
Rock climbing update:
That was a solid session, put in a lot of work on hard climbs, sent one of the dyno challenges and kept grabbing the hold on another but I couldn't stick it
Then worked on my v4 projects for a while too
Very strong day happy to be back to 2x a week
That was a solid session, put in a lot of work on hard climbs, sent one of the dyno challenges and kept grabbing the hold on another but I couldn't stick it
Then worked on my v4 projects for a while too
Very strong day happy to be back to 2x a week
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Rock climbing update:
That was a solid session, put in a lot of work on hard climbs, sent one of the dyno challenges and kept grabbing the hold on another but I couldn't stick it
Then worked on my v4 projects for a while too
Very strong day happy to be back to 2x a week
That was a solid session, put in a lot of work on hard climbs, sent one of the dyno challenges and kept grabbing the hold on another but I couldn't stick it
Then worked on my v4 projects for a while too
Very strong day happy to be back to 2x a week
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“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
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Tech companies: AI is the future! You must embrace it or risk being left behind!
Also tech companies: Our AI products suck so much that we must actively bully our customers into using them.
Also tech companies: Our AI products suck so much that we must actively bully our customers into using them.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tech companies: AI is the future! You must embrace it or risk being left behind!
Also tech companies: Our AI products suck so much that we must actively bully our customers into using them.
Also tech companies: Our AI products suck so much that we must actively bully our customers into using them.
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year:2025 ++
7,087 Magic cards found where the release year = 2025
scryfall.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Rock climbing update:
Shorter session because I have fresh access to a hangboard at home 😅
I wore myself out really fast on 2 of my projects and then just did v0-2s to exhaustion so I still got a good workout in even if I tired out my fingers really fast lol
Shorter session because I have fresh access to a hangboard at home 😅
I wore myself out really fast on 2 of my projects and then just did v0-2s to exhaustion so I still got a good workout in even if I tired out my fingers really fast lol
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Rock climbing update:
Shorter session because I have fresh access to a hangboard at home 😅
I wore myself out really fast on 2 of my projects and then just did v0-2s to exhaustion so I still got a good workout in even if I tired out my fingers really fast lol
Shorter session because I have fresh access to a hangboard at home 😅
I wore myself out really fast on 2 of my projects and then just did v0-2s to exhaustion so I still got a good workout in even if I tired out my fingers really fast lol
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4-2 in the standard challenge good for 16th
riddler is a great sb card but I don't think I want it main, it's just expensive and clunky and splash portal wasn't worth it.
The otters package is as good as it's ever been tho, boomerang basics is gas
riddler is a great sb card but I don't think I want it main, it's just expensive and clunky and splash portal wasn't worth it.
The otters package is as good as it's ever been tho, boomerang basics is gas
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
4-2 in the standard challenge good for 16th
riddler is a great sb card but I don't think I want it main, it's just expensive and clunky and splash portal wasn't worth it.
The otters package is as good as it's ever been tho, boomerang basics is gas
riddler is a great sb card but I don't think I want it main, it's just expensive and clunky and splash portal wasn't worth it.
The otters package is as good as it's ever been tho, boomerang basics is gas
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How deep does your brain need to be cooked by capitalism and PR bullshit to say that you should see systemic sexual predation of minors as an "opportunity?" We need to bring back shame.
Oh my god that is the worst possible answer
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
How deep does your brain need to be cooked by capitalism and PR bullshit to say that you should see systemic sexual predation of minors as an "opportunity?" We need to bring back shame.
boomerang basics+talent is really really good. I knew the loop being cheaper was nice but I underestimated just how nice the "pixie" openers are with it
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
boomerang basics+talent is really really good. I knew the loop being cheaper was nice but I underestimated just how nice the "pixie" openers are with it
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This is a really well written and defended piece about the value of competitive magic in a casual world.
Feels appropriate this piece becomes free as I’m packing for Thanksgiving-then-Worlds. For 15 years I loved competitive MTG not because I thought I’d get here, but because of the person it helped me become.
It absolutely needs to survive.
patreon.com/posts/142915...
@fireshoes.bsky.social
It absolutely needs to survive.
patreon.com/posts/142915...
@fireshoes.bsky.social
The Case for Competitive Magic | Ryan C's MTG
Get more from Ryan C's MTG on Patreon
patreon.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is a really well written and defended piece about the value of competitive magic in a casual world.
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I'll just leave these here
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'll just leave these here
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dystopian
![Social media screenshot:
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
dystopian
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Feels appropriate this piece becomes free as I’m packing for Thanksgiving-then-Worlds. For 15 years I loved competitive MTG not because I thought I’d get here, but because of the person it helped me become.
It absolutely needs to survive.
patreon.com/posts/142915...
@fireshoes.bsky.social
It absolutely needs to survive.
patreon.com/posts/142915...
@fireshoes.bsky.social
The Case for Competitive Magic | Ryan C's MTG
Get more from Ryan C's MTG on Patreon
patreon.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Feels appropriate this piece becomes free as I’m packing for Thanksgiving-then-Worlds. For 15 years I loved competitive MTG not because I thought I’d get here, but because of the person it helped me become.
It absolutely needs to survive.
patreon.com/posts/142915...
@fireshoes.bsky.social
It absolutely needs to survive.
patreon.com/posts/142915...
@fireshoes.bsky.social
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So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
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Consequences are not cancel culture. They're just a new concept for parts of society, who have never actually had to deal with them before.
When the papers start whining about “cancel culture” again, remember that these men are stepping down 1) voluntarily, and 2) because their jobs have no real impact on their wealth and power, and 3) BECAUSE OF THE RAPING.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Consequences are not cancel culture. They're just a new concept for parts of society, who have never actually had to deal with them before.
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Three things:
1) No longer classifying swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols is quite bad, and in line with many other actions from this admin.
2) Congrats to the cancel culture moral panickers.
3) I don't think a good political response to this is to shrug at Nazi tattoos.
1) No longer classifying swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols is quite bad, and in line with many other actions from this admin.
2) Congrats to the cancel culture moral panickers.
3) I don't think a good political response to this is to shrug at Nazi tattoos.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Three things:
1) No longer classifying swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols is quite bad, and in line with many other actions from this admin.
2) Congrats to the cancel culture moral panickers.
3) I don't think a good political response to this is to shrug at Nazi tattoos.
1) No longer classifying swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols is quite bad, and in line with many other actions from this admin.
2) Congrats to the cancel culture moral panickers.
3) I don't think a good political response to this is to shrug at Nazi tattoos.
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