Jacob Kramer-Duffield

It is an interesting thing, yes

They're just doing stuff! There's no master plan!

Yes that's even more terrifying but it's true!

I like him and think he's making the roster - Torrens, Taylor, Tauchman, Vientos, Mauricio bench is a good one. That plus Baty playing all over and not having a dedicated DH really gives them a lot of flexibility both through the week and any given game.

I mean the thing is that slave ownership is aspirational for a lot of the SV folks, so.

The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Nor any GOP candidate in my lifetime!

Also which the actual Bernie Sanders was a terrific advocate for, helping out his good friend Joe Biden!

I definitely blame them and this isn't the first time they have played fast and loose with sourcing and facts. Also: in general you should be EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS of a source you've never heard of (the SEO firm) that is providing data that just happens to be an advertisement for their services.

No problem! This is not the first time Futurism had played kind of fast and loose with facts and sourcing, fwiw

Traffic is down and this is definitely a problem but this is a bullshit "study" by an SEO firm that the editor of one of the listed pubs confirmed is just making up numbers

I agree but also this is a bullshit "study" by an SEO firm that is confirmed to be utter nonsense in its particulars.

Specifically

Things are bad and traffic is down but I need people to do a better job checking sources.

This is a bullshit "study" by an SEO firm; @reckless.bsky.social himself confirmed that the numbers this report has for the Verge are totally made up.

Traffic is definitely down but this is a bullshit study by an SEO firm that the editor of one of the listed sites has confirmed is just making up numbers.

This is a bullshit study by an SEO firm.

Yes there's been substantial traffic reductions but @reckless.bsky.social himself confirmed that the numbers this report has for the Verge are nonsense.

Man I really miss this part of living there.

Very good thread.

Heard some there yesterday!

Fwiw I have indeed heard the latter repeated a number of times by Dems

This plus other forms of insider trading seems to be the main function of prediction markets, yes

Gotta snake the extension cord around boxes of yard signs first!

oh damn

Corner stores are literally illegal to build in much of the United States is the thing! And many of the other largest cities in the country have de-densified themselves to the point where the economics of corner store/bodegas don't work.

Also he obscured it with... Norse mythology stuff, which is most generously white supremacist-adjacent (we do not owe him that generosity)

when the internet was new, random Limewire users were sued for 6-7 figures over downloading individual songs

today, if you're an AI company, i guess you can just steal entire people's identities with no repercussions

sure we can, we have dozens or more kids killed in our schools every year and do absolutely nothing about it - if anything we're uniquely prepared to just keep on keeping on after this particular abomination

Friend of mine got one and swears by it, definitely go for it!

Great 🧵

The fusion of first sale and "resale" into one provider is just a cancer. Sure would be nice if we had an FTC!

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.