Adam Bender

AI's got hurt feelings. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ARE YOU A BASEBALL MANAGER HUNGRY FOR A CHALLENGE*? The Philadelphia Phillies have an opportunity for you! Amenities include: -Meet Bryce Harper (once) -Free "WELCOME ALEX CORA" banner -Rawest milk you've ever bathed in -Octobers off *Challenge not guaranteed to satisfy hunger

Hey while you were sleeping the Phillies officially ran out of ideas for their manager position despite trying almost nothing

Have you noticed how the Braves hit homers with runners on? #Phillies

Still waiting for some offense. #phillies

.... Let's get some hits? #Phillies

Phillies 4, Braves 3 (F/10). Alec Bohm and Andrew Painter save the season. There will be a Game 3 in Atlanta. The Phillies live another day. What a batshit insane game.

When the Phillies needed a defensive play to save them, it was Alec Bohm who starts and ends a 3-2-3. As expected.

If we don’t overreact and pre-mourn, we will not be ready for what comes next (losing)

Yeah. Sure. The Phillies are down to their last shot. But so were the 1976 Phillies, just shy of 50 years ago. And you know what happened to them? That's right. They were called "the hollow men of the baseball postseason" by their hometown paper and swept out of the playoffs.

there is no limit to the amount of love I can fit into my soul just as there's no limit to the amount of pure, white-hot, searing hatred of the braves I hold in my soul. hatred, like love, is never ending

For the third straight postseason, the Phillies blow a Game 1 lead in the seventh inning or later. It's happening all over again. They lose, 5-3, and they face elimination Wednesday afternoon.

JT Realmuto and Ozzie Albies: 1 triple combined all season. JT Realmuto and Ozzie Albies: 2 triples in the last 2 half-innings. Baseball!

Womp womp

Go Phillies!

You might be done with the Phillies. They are not done with you. They're back in the playoffs for a fifth straight year after avoiding a historic collapse: www.nytimes.com/athletic/763...

Kyle Schwarber just belly-flopped into second base. He is going wild. The Phillies have a four-run lead in a must-win game.

I didn't know hell could look so cold and wet.

Who's feeling good about the Phillies? No seriously, I'm asking.

If the Phillies win, Don Mattingly said they’ll probably stick around to see if Arizona or San Diego loses, then party. Sure hope there will be pizza between games.

No one can accuse these Phillies of not taking them on a journey, 131 games of torture and surprise and sheer madness. How did they do that? The scene after one of the greatest ninth-inning comebacks in Phillis history: www.nytimes.com/athletic/753...

If you need to unwind, might I recommend Pokopia on the Switch 2? Have really been enjoying the low stakes. Dystopian backstory is a bonus.

Interesting piece in Bloomberg about data deletion rates: news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-...

I don’t recommend pneumonia, and I’m not going to write about it in my next novel In which the author gives a quick update on where he's been and what he's been up to.

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH from Mrs Voorhees

My latest blog post is about what tools I've used over the years for creating novels and how what I look for in writing software has evolved.

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Dear Outlook, I never ever want to attach the file with OneDrive. Thanks. Bye. Shira

Cool short film for the new Gorillaz album: youtu.be/ucRulNQsuYQ?...

Interesting panel session at #IAPPIntensive26 comparing the (slight) simplification of the UK’s international data transfers regime with the EU’s (growing) toughening of its own approach.

The number of people attending this #IAPPIntensive26 session on international data transfers and the number of questions being asked shows what a big area of concern this still is for organisations.

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so far tonight bad bunny has sung more reggaeton songs than the patriots and seahawks combined

Is Sofia Vergara a much bigger star than I knew?

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Let me know if you'd like to comment.”

Same.

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Just noticed a neat trick to save money on tech. Buy the wired version and save $100 with otherwise the same quality as the more expensive product. Works on earbuds, videogame controllers and probably more.

I'm going to try to get back to updating my blog in 2026! And maybe even make some headway on my creative writing!

I bought a 8bitdo Ultimate 2C controller for PC recently. Seemed like a steal for $30 given all the features. Seemed great at first and then I realized it was giving me a hand cramp every time I played after 30-45 minutes! Going to try a slightly pricier Razer controller instead.

Super excited to announce that in just 30 days, over 200,000 Californians have signed up for DROP -- the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform -- to delete their data from 100s of data brokers! #Privacy #DROP #CalPrivacy @calprivacy.bsky.social

Happy 25th Anniversary to Green Day's Warning. First real rock album I ever bought (I probably shouldn't count Batman film soundtracks). Still a great album!

Named donors include Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Google, Meta, Microsoft and T-Mobile. www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

The ‘rough and ready’ genre’s current box office boom shouldn’t surprise us, say film-makers and experts @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Here's a song to get you pumped for the weekend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE4H...

Very pleased that @calprivacy.bsky.social is partnering with multiple state AG offices to launch an investigatory sweep into businesses who fail to honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC), aka opt-out preference signal (OOPS). cppa.ca.gov/announcement...

I have a song stuck in my head from Donkey Kong Bananza that just goes "Zebraaaa, zebraaaa, zebraaaa!!!" This is pretty weird.

Wow, Bluesky will block users from Mississippi due to the state's age-verification law.