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Sam’s father. Sally’s husband. Fourth generation New Yorker. Traveling eater. Amateur cook. Software engineer. Googler. Hasn't yet won a Nobel Prize. he/him

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Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate.
In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate.
A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership.
"Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

www.wsj.com/business/med...

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a cartoon drawing of a helmet and the words stronger below it Alt: daft punk helmets with the words harder better faster stronger
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Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion | TechCrunch A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.

AI is going great

techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/f...

04.03.2026 18:12 👍 515 🔁 110 💬 14 📌 69

Supersize Me begs to differ

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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

05.03.2026 03:14 👍 5503 🔁 2636 💬 280 📌 577

I was on Masada with Jonathan Silverman in 1999

05.03.2026 03:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mom's side: Ran the family hardware store (Kaminstein Bros.)

and

Dad's side: Ran the family hair salon (Swirl and Curl)

05.03.2026 03:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‪@why.bsky.team‬
Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.

In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

04.03.2026 10:36 👍 7155 🔁 2304 💬 192 📌 639

yakety yak don't talk back is the best song about chores

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I liked Was but I wasn't fond of Not Was

04.03.2026 12:40 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

03.03.2026 14:02 👍 1683 🔁 379 💬 24 📌 104

pinned post

03.03.2026 20:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cheryl Mills vs Lauren Boebert is like bringing in a siege engine to crush a walnut

03.03.2026 13:57 👍 212 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 0

pork the worst chicken beef

03.03.2026 14:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is what I have been saying forever. The only reason Republicans pretend to care about “the Jewish people” is that they need Israel for the Rapture to happen and then all the Jews will burn in Hell. Criticizing Israel’s government isn’t antisemitic but THAT sure is.

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cool cool cool cool cool cool

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since when do you uncork a can?

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lol at "dying speak and spell voice"

02.03.2026 19:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a big friendly dog

a big friendly dog

met a friend at the barbershop. he agrees I need a haircut.

01.03.2026 21:39 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

28.02.2026 15:54 👍 10272 🔁 2810 💬 92 📌 136

Platinum Court™

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looks like liver's back on the menu, boys

27.02.2026 18:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
nyt breaking news alerts in reverse chronological order. from bottom to top:

5h: breaking news: immigration agents arrested a Columbia student after misrepresenting themselves to access a building, the school said.

4h: Mamdani in Washington: mayor zohran Mamdani is said to have made an unannounced trip to meet with President Trump. the agenda was unclear.

16m: breaking news: a Columbia student arrested by ICE earlier today was released after mayor Mamdani discussed the matter with President Trump.

nyt breaking news alerts in reverse chronological order. from bottom to top: 5h: breaking news: immigration agents arrested a Columbia student after misrepresenting themselves to access a building, the school said. 4h: Mamdani in Washington: mayor zohran Mamdani is said to have made an unannounced trip to meet with President Trump. the agenda was unclear. 16m: breaking news: a Columbia student arrested by ICE earlier today was released after mayor Mamdani discussed the matter with President Trump.

quite a sequence of notifications today

27.02.2026 04:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a black shirt is holding a box that says mrs. Alt: Gallagher (1 or 2) smashing a watermelon
26.02.2026 18:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is disgusting and horrifying. they've rendered a whole group of people illegitimate at the stroke of a pen.

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a picture of a monster with the words looks like meat 's back on the menu boys below it Alt: a picture of a monster with the words looks like meat 's back on the menu boys below it
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garlic soup with a slice of white bread covered with melted cheese half-submerged. another spice rests on the plate

garlic soup with a slice of white bread covered with melted cheese half-submerged. another spice rests on the plate

I love the sopa de ajo (garlic soup) at Cafe de Tacuba in Mexico City. Melted cheesy white bread slices are perfect in it.

24.02.2026 18:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Imagine you have two machines. One you can open up and examine all of its workings, and if you give it every picture of a cat on the whole internet, it can reliably distinguish cats trom non-cats. The other is a black box and it can also reliably distinguish cats from non-cats if you give it half a dozen pictures of cats, some apple sauce, and a hug. These machines sort of do the same thing, but even without knowing how the second one works 1 am extremely confident in saying it doesn't work the same way as the first one.

Imagine you have two machines. One you can open up and examine all of its workings, and if you give it every picture of a cat on the whole internet, it can reliably distinguish cats trom non-cats. The other is a black box and it can also reliably distinguish cats from non-cats if you give it half a dozen pictures of cats, some apple sauce, and a hug. These machines sort of do the same thing, but even without knowing how the second one works 1 am extremely confident in saying it doesn't work the same way as the first one.

A.I Isn’t People www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...

23.02.2026 22:42 👍 374 🔁 106 💬 10 📌 31

not when the government pays with tax dollars and not for profit, right?

(celebratory)

24.02.2026 14:16 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Email to USA Hockey

Email to USA Hockey

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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