Giant Boy Detective

Giant Boy Detective

@captfamous.bsky.social

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The dunk addiction is real

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

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because it is relevant to my work, I have tried very hard to educate myself on how AI works, be fair and measured in how I evaluate it, and regularly test new tools to confirm or debunk my priors and tbh AI haters are just nailing it with less work like 99% of the time. keep at it folks

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the knicks' ring ceremony was cool. i think marriage should be between two people but at the end of the day it's not really about what i think

Whenever they do a sympathy piece and go through one person's monthly expenses they always have something like "401k contributions" or "deposits to savings" in there.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

I think the real finding from surveys like this is that a lot of self-pitying rich people don't know what "paycheck to paycheck" means. If you are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on voluntary expenditures like prep school tuition, you don't count. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

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What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Randomly pull up a billboard chart from a year before you were like 5 and see how many of those songs you have never even heard of

Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online

Most of what gets to the top of the charts is mediocre in the same way that the top of the Nielsen ratings is CBS procedurals that your parents watch. You shouldn’t dismiss those things outright because sometimes something good gets through, but it’s largely mid because that’s what has mass appeal.

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This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co

That’s a load-bearing assumption, Dr Strangelove. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

Had an Iranian tour guide last night and at dinner I tried to explain that the reason he isn't allowed into the US is just because the people in charge are incredibly petty and stupid.

Micah@rincewind.run

you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is

The idea that AI would generate revenue was based mostly on a thesis that SLOW LAZY EMPLOYEES were the bottleneck to productivity. Turns out a lot of companies just don't have the revenue potential they've been promising their shareholders.

Dino Jr doing Just like Heaven is an actual recorded cover but hits every time Most pleasantly surprising: Big Business doing Ghost Rider by Suicide

The Ken In Yellow@kenlowery.bsky.social

Favorite cover you saw live? Top of mind for me is FIDLAR *opening* their show with a ribcage-rattling cover of Beastie Boys's "Sabotage." Talk about One Weird Trick to make a crowd high-energy from the jump Recently: NIN covering "I'm Afraid of Americans"

It is extremely on brand for my home town to be the lightest of light blue here

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social

DDHQ Race Update (est. 52% in): Massachusetts US Senate Democratic Primary Edward Markey (D): 316,172 (64.2%) Seth Moulton (D): 176,066 (35.8%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/293201