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Chris Cappella

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2006 Time's Person of the Year | gym class hero

here and there Katılım Ağustos 2010
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Fuck You I Quit@fuckyouiquit·
Super Fun Fact: If the federal minimum wage had continued to track with the growth in labor productivity as it did in the mid-20th century, the rate would be approximately $24.50 today.
Melanie D'Arrigo@DarrigoMelanie

Fun Fact: Congress made it so the maximum campaign donation amount increases every two years and is indexed to inflation. Congress did not however, index the federal minimum wage to inflation, and it has not increased from $7.25 per hour since 2009.

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Jimmy Traina@JimmyTraina·
It’s pretty remarkable that Bill Raftery is going to be 83 years old next month and he’s still as good as he is. He sounds like he can do the Tournament for another 10 years.
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Chris Cappella@C_Cappella·
@KingMegatronIV The best chance they had to use him (aside from actually starting) just ended the 7th inning. Smh
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Chris Cappella@C_Cappella·
So Gunnar Henderson is just gonna be a spectator tonight?!
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Mike Young
Mike Young@micyoung75·
Rolling Stone lays out the receipts. Young Republican leaders in private chains openly admiring Hitler, treating the Holocaust's architect as a misunderstood strongman, trading racist fantasies as though the war was someone else's history. The line was drawn at Normandy. It does not move. Honest conservatives know exactly what this moment requires of them.
Rolling Stone@RollingStone

Not so long ago, hugging Hitler was one of those lines you just didn’t cross. But that’s what’s been happening with increasing regularity, revealed by a recent string of unhinged text chains revealed among young Republican leaders. Read @JohnAvlon's commentary: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

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Chris Cappella@C_Cappella·
@ColtsMusee It's seeming possible that he has blackmail on the owners in the league, can't explain the Jets willingness to play him all these years and then the Colts to pay him any other way
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway. Run the math on why. A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes. The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit. Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance. Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error. 67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results. Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.
Venkatesh@Venkydotdev

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Roger Sollenberger
Roger Sollenberger@SollenbergerRC·
NEWS: NPR’s Stephen Fowler advancing my reporting on the Trump accuser in the Epstein files — NPR found the DOJ removed records related to this accuser (and another victim implicating Trump) and withheld an additional *50+ pages of the accuser’s FBI interviews & FBI notes*
stephen fowler@stphnfwlr

EXCLUSIVE: An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored). npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-…

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Andrew Bates
Andrew Bates@AndrewBatesNC·
🚨 It takes a lot to be a "holy shit" moment in 2026. But on the same day as Trump's State of the Union, @NPR caught @TheJusticeDept illegally hiding Epstein records alleging that @POTUS "sexually abused a minor."
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stephen fowler@stphnfwlr

EXCLUSIVE: An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored). npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-…

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Dan Menningen
Dan Menningen@Thesportsfeller·
So the owners have enough cash to put $75 million aside for each team in case of a lockout, while the Guardians have spent $82 million on the 2026 roster and the Marlins have spent $73 million. The Dodgers are not ruining baseball, the owners who are pocketing millions are
Joel Sherman@Joelsherman1

nypost.com/2026/02/19/spo… With @JonHeyman reporting on the roughly $2 billion war chest MLB owners have amassed for the worst case scenario if there are missed games (or more) next year.

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Tristan Freeman
Tristan Freeman@hoopsnut351·
A year ago, Robert Morris went on a late-season win streak that carried over into its first Horizon League title. Right now, the Colonials have 4 straight wins, including victories over the 2 top teams. Here's my look as to why RMU has been winning. bustingbrackets.com/on-the-path-to…
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g.@GeauxGabrielle·
1. What if you dont live in the same town you were BORN in? Or the same county. I never have. 2. What if yours doesn’t cost $15. Mine didnt. What if you dont have $15. 3. What if you dont have $165 for a passport. 4. What if you dont have a VEHICLE or reliable transport for obtaining any of this. My town doesnt have buses or Uber. You NEED a car. 5. What if you live 30 miles from the DMV to get that ID? Many people in rural America do. 6. What if you live with an abusive man who doesnt allow this? 7. What if your NAMES DONT MATCH
Chad Songer@ChadSonger1

@GeauxGabrielle I went to my town hall spent $15 and got my birth certificate then and there. Getting these documents aren’t hard to obtain. It’s scare tactics as both sides tend to do if they don’t agree with something. Once you’ve registered you only need an id to vote

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Mike Young
Mike Young@micyoung75·
The SAVE Act requires exact-match documents, like birth certificates or passports, to prove citizenship. Fine if your name never changed. But 80% of married women take their spouse’s name. And millions don’t have the matching paperwork on hand. This isn’t stopping fraud. It’s stopping voters. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. Confirmed to be rare. This bill doesn’t fix anything. It creates hoops; disproportionately for women, seniors, and young people. That’s not security. That’s exclusion with paperwork as cover.
USA TODAY@USATODAY

Here's how the voting ID law could make it harder for married women to register to vote and cast ballots if passed. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

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Jeff Carlson
Jeff Carlson@themarketswork·
This is old information (document is from 2019 and recounts events from 2006) but in the current context it actually makes Trump look worse. What it says is that Trump spoke to the then-police chief Michael Reiter AFTER the investigation had gone public. The investigation started in 2005. Note that there is no official police report of this call. Only the 2019 FD-302 in which Reiter recalls 2006 events. Trump said that "Everyone has known he’s been doing this" Which actually contradicts Trump’s July 2019 testimony when he said he had "No idea" about Epstein’s crimes. More importantly, if Trump knew all about Epstein in 2006, why did he refuse to release the files, tell the country that the Epstein Case was unimportant and to “move on” now? Either way, Trump did not “blow the whistle” on Epstein. Any contact came well after the investigation was underway and already public.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh

🚨 BREAKING: Files confirm Donald Trump BLEW THE WHISTLE on Jeffrey Epstein's disgusting activities in a 2006 phone call with the police "TRUMP was one of the very first people to call" 👀 Trump said Ghislaine Maxwell is "evil" and "focus on her" Democrats are SPEECHLESS.

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Matt
Matt@SotaMatt3·
@C_Cappella It’s just crazy, isn’t it?
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Chris Cappella@C_Cappella·
MLB fans: Remove the blackouts so we can watch our teams. MLB: Double paywall? Fans: ... MLB: .... VPN time.
Matt@SotaMatt3

Why is @mlb bent on making it harder for fans to consume baseball games? If @espn wants to make it harder to watch sports with their #ESPNUnlimited garbage you don’t have to follow suit! Fans are being left behind.

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Stephen
Stephen@b_outliers·
If you want to be the Braves beat writer for The Athletic, the job has been posted $67,000-$80,000 Requirements, among other things, include a “thorough knowledge of baseball” jobs.lever.co/theathletic/72…
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Josh Raby
Josh Raby@JoshRaby·
I’ve said this before but: If a plane hit turbulence and the pilot panicked, aimed the nose to the ground and crashed, no one would say “Well, you try flying a plane in turbulence.” They would say “That is a bad pilot. That’s not how pilots should handle things.”
Jeff Dye@JeffDye

Do you know that ICE agents aren’t robots? They are HUMANS. Humans who are men and women doing a job that can be a very scary job. A job that has and always will be necessary. When they are put in a terribly scary position and they are already on edge TERRIBLE things happen that didn’t need to. NO ONE should be happy when terrible things happen. It’s sad. Life doesn’t happen in a slow motion video frame by frame to judge what SHOULD have happened. It happens quick. Kick the bees nest and the bees come. I’m greatly sad about all of this.

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