Kevin Shay

Kevin Shay

@kshay.com

Brooklyn

305 followers555 following3K posts

Alexa. You’ve got to shut up about the rip currents. I will never care about rip currents

Me: hey I would love to know how long until the next C train comes Subway Platform Screen Displaying Ninety Million Bits Of Information: LANTERNS Me: ok but how many minutes until SPSDNMBOI: AMEX Me: feels like you could just dedicate one small corner to SPSDNMBOI: LANTERNS

Two, four, six, eight! Tell the people what she ate! She ate a Sinaloa jalapeño Salmonella, that’s insane, yo She threw up for the first time today She ate a Sinaloa jalapeño Salmonella, that’s insane, yo In the bathroom she wanted to stay

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

It's not just Chipotle. Qdoba had the salmonella jalapenos too, according to the FDA. They've identified 345 cases in 27 states. 36 hospitalizations.

Kevin Shay reposted

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Hmm! How did this informal slang usage come about, I wonder? Why is it considered rude? [This was not in fact an attempt to search for “bs” but a botched URL autocomplete of “bsky.app”]

It’s written all over this guy’s face: a false sense of immunity to ructions. Classic mistake. Nobody is immune to ructions

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Seven-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the $20bn hedge fund founded by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sought to raise fresh capital from investors after suffering heavy losses during the recent rout in AI stocks.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/2803...

The replacement of Platner with Jackson seemed like a satisfactory outcome, but something was missing I couldn’t put my finger on… oh, there we go! Unsolicited fundraising texts!

This dog being carried up the escalator yesterday was almost certainly the least anxious individual in the Atlantic Terminal Mall

The US needs this ASAP. Wish we had some sort of federal consumer protection thingy

Martin Lewis@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com

Pls spread word. Three digits can help protect you from scams: 159. If you're suspicious of a 'call from your bank', politely hang up and dial 159. It connects you to a switchboard that puts you through to your bank's real number. Watch the video for why its extra protection

Damn Canadian officials

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Peter Navarro claims that Canadian officials are "some of the most dishonest people I've ever met. They stab you in the back ... they're screwing us"

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. A slide that says Qualcomm… I watched a guy in a dark blazer take an object from me… All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.“

Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.

Kevin Shay reposted

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I was looking for a video of The State’s sketch about the guy who discovers the word “and” and... this AI Overview neither describes that sketch nor the linked www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Kz..., which is indeed “a ridiculous, disjointed live broadcast” but not based on the word “and” at all

There’s a nonzero chance that Scott Jennings is not lying but in fact had a long conversation with a Mitch-flavored chatbot someone on McConnell’s staff stood up

Can’t wait to read the third and fourth volumes, which may appear the same to the untrained eye but have subtly different shades of orange