Mahir Yavuz

2025: MAGA mad bc they don't know what Kendrick's talking about.

2026: MAGA mad bc they don't understand what Bad Bunny is saying.

😂😂😂

How dare a guy sing in Spanish in a place named Santa Clara.

Simple yet powerful

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

good benchmark idea

This is the pattern. Purchase/Take Over a media source that has informed the public. Then dismantle them to the lowest form:
1. Twitter
2. Meta
3. Washington Post
4. CBS-60 Minutes/News
5. Public Broadcasting
6. Tik Tok

We are up to our necks in state run media.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters

and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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What We Saw in Minneapolis Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.

What @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I saw in Minneapolis

www.propublica.org/article/minn... @propublica.org

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

A must read for anyone

Unbelievable. This is simply abandoning the Constitution.

Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being "Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

"A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users."

Our physical space and resources matter *greatly!*

bookriot.com/innovative-s...

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2050 is as close as 2000. Let that warp your sense of time for a minute.

The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If you're starting from scratch, start here.

solid reading list from latent space #ai #llm www.latent.space/p/2025-papers

Thanks for sharing your wisdom Simon. Happy new year!

2025, the year of @bsky.app ?

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Only thing I miss from twitter: great responses to NYCASP account

more than 10 people asked me whether i use bluesky since the election. very limited but a strong signal for the future of here 💙

10/10

Many circles of different sizes, representing a visualization of inequality

The Gini coefficient is the standard way to measure inequality, but what does it mean, concretely? I made a little visualization to build intuition:
www.bewitched.com/demo/gini

Nice. Thank you 🙏

Some notes on NuExtract, a family of small LLMs fine-tuned for structured data extraction simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/16/...

who to follow on bluesky? #followfriday 🫠