Bearded Jayhawk

Bearded Jayhawk

@beardedjayhawk.bsky.social

Data Scientist That's not really a Data Scientist. PhD in I/O Psych. Native Kansan. Jayhawk. Embracing my inner grumpy old man. he/him

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Little known facts: It's simple to search the Flock database to find all people with stickers on their cars linked to a specific cause or political ideology. But sure, they're here to solve crime and keep us safe.

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On one level, it’s true that wallowing in identity doesn’t win wars. But it’s also true that crafting an identity - who you are, what you care about, what you are willing to kill or die for - is absolutely essential to winning wars.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "You can't throw your pronouns at the enemy"

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Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens? RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind? BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth

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Well Rick Pitino is clearly drinking again

Dan Why-Ner@danweiner.bsky.social

Rick Pitino said that Dylan Darling told him they should run a play that got him the ball and Pitino agreed before he realized Darling hadn't scored all game. Called it the funniest thing he's ever been involved with.

"I'm the first president to stop the people from shitting on the Fox and Friends couch"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump to Local 12 Cincinnati: "There's never been a better year for a president. I've been rated. That includes the stoppage of 8 wars with a 9th to come. The economy is roaring. It's phenomenal. That's why I'm here. This is an excursion, a little excursion, and I think it's only that."

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imagine this is how we find out UFOs are real

Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

A high-ranking retired US Air Force major general who once commanded a base long associated with UFO lore has been missing for nearly two weeks, and authorities are appealing to the public for help locating him. www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/u...

So we know reddit was used to train these models, but what about 4chan?

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

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look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.

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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

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People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.

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Seth Moulton is calling for ICE to be prosecuted in no uncertain terms. This is becoming a foundational political agreement for anyone seeing to oppose the regime. We need the broadest possible coalition all united about the necessity of caging these fucking monsters.

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“For starters, the president claimed to have brought peace to the Middle East for the first time in “3,000 years.” It feels bizarre to even try to fact-check that, as it would be akin to fact-checking a president saying that the moon is made of Velveeta.”

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Maybe the government could have a van that goes round the homes of the comfortably off, with a load of mice on tiny sofas in the back, with mini PS5s and tellies, which they say are paid for with a thing called “mouse benefits”. And people could smash the mice with mallets. Get it all out.

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"I speak for all of us in saying that this psychic siege has gone on long enough. It is time to break maggot-infested bread with our frothing sadists across the aisle and come to an old-fashioned, bipartisan agreement. The fires inside Charnal House must be lit once more."

buff.lyWe’ve Defied President Nyarlathotep’s Psychic Siege Long EnoughWell, everyone, it was a valiant and brave endeavor. We refused to capitulate during the Dread Lord Nyarlathotep’s nationwide psychic siege for ove...

I hope y'all like Barilla...

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social

"Starting as early as January, U.S. tariff rates on imported pasta from 13 major Italian companies could soar to as high as 107% under a preliminary U.S. Commerce Department decision." Trump takes pasta.

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"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people" Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

truthdig.comThe Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - TruthdigAs the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.

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Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

He's not the sandwich guy we deserve, but the sandwich guy we need...

Molly Roberts@mollyroberts.bsky.social

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

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Hi so this is slavery.

Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social

An FBI raid revealed 57 victims of forced labor living in cramped quarters at a lavish #Florida mansion connected to the leaders of a church, federal officials say. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.com

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we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

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This is an essential point given the irony poisoned nature of our information ecosystem

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.