Brent Crossman

Brent Crossman

@bcrossman.bsky.social

Mainer, ex-banker, ex-distressed debt private equity, probably staring at a spreadsheet right now.

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Brent Crossman
@bcrossman.bsky.social

One thing the Graham Platner debacle makes me realize is the cakewalk Jared Golden would have had for the Senate if: A) He had stuck to his "Medicare for all" views B) Not had a love affair with Susan Collins (only emotional I presume) Instead of being a bootlicker for Trump with that BDN op-ed

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Julian Sanchez
@normative.bsky.social

Hey, remember that Marvel storyline where Norman Osborn forms a new Avengers team, but it’s all supervillains in hero costumes? Just found myself thinking of that for no reason.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

Roughly two dozen countries have publicly accepted Trump's invitation and a senior White House official has said that they expect about 35 countries to participate. Follow live updates: ft.trib.al/05KNr4R

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Philip Bump
@pbump.com

It was wrong to view the shifts to Trump in 2024 as an emerging new coalition (as I've written a lot) so it is wrong to suggest the coalition has since dissipated. The actual emergent "coalition" since 2016 is distance from the political establishment that leads to yoyo-ing electoral preferences.

Brent Crossman
@bcrossman.bsky.social

Bluesky spending its time on the most productive stuff today. I'm not someone that feels like we can only focus on one thing or the biggest pain but if you think the market success of AI is near the top of the list of things we can or should stop, then I worry about the progressive movement.

Brent Crossman
@bcrossman.bsky.social

Was pretty happy with this, as I knew as soon as I went with distinct_all in part one, that part 2 was likely a counting of the passes instead (kind of a classic AoC solution when doing a large number of paths).

Brent Crossman
@bcrossman.bsky.social

This may be the longest pipe chain I've ever written but it actually really helped me to just be able to sequentially move through the data manipulation until I could get back to my part 1 method.

Brent Crossman
@bcrossman.bsky.social

I knew Part 1 wouldn't hold up for Part 2. I also knew, in my head, it was like drawing a plot where you could order it and hunt for gaps but it took forever to get it right (getting the edges and starts right with the inclusive was weird so I got some llm help on that).

Brent Crossman
@bcrossman.bsky.social

Here's my code in R for Day1 (both parts). Not going to lie, at least the way I did it, part 2 had some weird edge cases. So either them cutting this down to 12 days made day 1 harder or I just didn't have a good approach.

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Patrick Chovanec
@prchovanec.bsky.social

Citizens waving American flags protest Trump violating the Constitution. MAGA: They’re Marxists who hate America. GOP operatives praise Hitler and joke about rape and gas chambers in their group chat. MAGA: Boys will be boys!