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MINNESOTANS: Early Voting opened on Friday, October 16th. This is like casting your ballot on election day, just earlier. Find your location and vote early: www.sos.mn.gov/elections-vo...

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

I asked Claude to explain the Anthropic S-1 to me like I'm college-educated but unfamiliar with finance (which is true) and it started with this:

The only thing bad about this guy, coming from a Minnesotan, is that he's a Badger.

I believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Mike Rogers believes in government of the billionaires, by the corporations, and for the special interests.

So, Timberwolves. Kinda good, eh?

I do not think that we should have democratic control over every aspect of our lives. The point of human rights and limited government is a stronger guarantee than simply "Currently a majority of the populace thinks I should have them". This should not be a hot take.

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

Knocking doors for the DFL tomorrow. Every little bit helps. And you know that I think it matters because my social anxiety and crippling introversion isn’t stopping me.

It’s morning in Minnesota

Me, logging into bsky

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

I've released a new version of my Microsoft SQL Server-only, features-specifically-designed-for-me, cross platform database query tool Quarry github.com/cantpitch/Qu...

Are we gonna do this, Bluesky? Are we all just gonna not understand accounting? 72B$ of the 80B$ is convertible notes. They became greater liabilities because the company's valuation skyrocketed. They don't have an 80B$ loss in the sense that almost everyone here is imagining.

Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad. "This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."

Everybody in that crowd should "feel stupid" because his claim doesn't even make sense: there's nothing special about Minnesota and Mercedes-Benz, the state's dealers & sales per capita are well below the national average. Nothing to this but more racism seeping out of Trump's cognitive septic tank.

My absentee ballot was received 4 business days after dropping in the mail (it still needs to be reviewed by the ballot board). Absentee voting works. If you still have concerns, in Minnesota you also have In-Person Absentee and Early Voting options: www.sos.mn.gov/elections-vo...

I denounce all brotherhoods. Muslim, Philadelphia, or otherwise.

LibreOffice opens files from the '90s that Microsoft Office now refuses to touch

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

I don’t know if AI is sentient but I’m pretty sure a good chunk of humanity isn’t.

legit LOL

A man can dream.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

It’s in MY word list

I opened up a mystery chip; it turned out to be a "switched capacitor filter" from 1984. Filters are important circuits, for example, adjusting the bass or treble in an audio signal. This chip, the MF10, was popular because it combined two filters into an easy-to-use chip. Let's take a closer look…

Just a reminder: reclining your seat on an airplane more than a couple inches is sociopathic behavior and any defense you try to make of it will just make you sound like more of a sociopath.

Two Republican former governors of Kansas are leading Republicans for Hamilton, a statewide coalition tired of the chaos and ready to fix our broken politics. Watch Governor Hayden explain his decision ⤵️

Some people: "AI will allow us to create a better future of super automation!" Me: "Make me a text editor that looks like a computer from my childhood." github.com/cantpitch/C6...

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

Some people: "AI will allow us to create a better future of super automation!" Me: "Make me a text editor that looks like a computer from my childhood." github.com/cantpitch/C6...

The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.

@chn-adam-wodon.bsky.social

If you are in the path of Hurricane Isaias and will use a portable generator to keep the power on, make sure you have working carbon monoxide alarms. Portable generators can produce enough carbon monoxide to kill in minutes.

There are artificial sweeteners and artificial flavors in everything and it's fine. I prefer Diet Coke to regular Coke. This weird obsession people have that "artificial" means "bad" and "organic" means "good" needs to end. It's pseudo-scientific bullshit.

Oh yeah. It slaps. Calling all mineheads! games.mino.mobi/orb

Someone: Many philosophical problems have been discussed for centuries and don't have easy answers. Bluesky: Aksually, the answers are pretty obvious if you weren't a literal nazi

Github Actions being down is like recreating the feeling of compiling back in the late 90's when it took 20 minutes to build and you just sat around waiting most of the time.

I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

Here are some mouthpieces from Carnuntum (AUT). The army used different instruments for different things, but we can't as yet distinguish which mouthpiece came from which instrument (unless one is still attached!). Of course, they also had civilian uses (eg in the amphitheatre).

If you want to see something use a lot of resources to do basic math and get wrong answers a lot of the time you don't need an LLM, just shoot it my way.