Ankur M

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Oh good, another social media platform to lurk on. Litigator (probably not your lawyer, and opinions my own), interested in Everton FC, Bay Area sports, transit, and some other stuff.

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More people should use that PS.

RIP Norman Lear, who once sent me the best email I will ever receive.

!foryou

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It's the Theseus Ship Paradox of candy.

When you eat a Tootsie Roll, you may be eating 120 year-old candy. It's perfectly safe; they use a process where leftovers from each day's batch are mixed into the next day's, and have been since 1896. So in every candy there may be some microscopic amount from before the invention of the airplane:

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⚒️🧪 Hey Bay Area! Did you just feel the M4.1 earthquake near Millbrae? Whether or not you did, please fill this out and help constrain how far the effects extended! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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I know it’s fashionable to mock the Republicans for their plight, but that’s cold-hearted and totally lacking in empathy. Imagine if YOU had to pick one of them as having redeeming qualities suitable for leadership.

A number of Republicans emerged from tonight's closed-door candidates' forum worried that their speaker candidates won't be able to get 217 votes on the floor. Some fear that if they can’t this time, more Rs will want to cut a deal with Dems to reopen the House. — Manu Raju, CNN

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*extremely* telling that the NYT frames a family leaving a state because their trans son literally could not get the medical care he needed as a "politically motivated move" and an abstract "issue" rather than one connected to their child's intrinsic humanity www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/u...

Not an expert in this area, but this feels obviously right to me. If its OK for an art student to learn from a painting in a museum, why is it not OK for an AI to learn from the exact same painting when it's uploaded into its servers?

I had expected a lot more people to yell at me about this article and so far most people have been... kinda nice about it? So, I figure I'll post it here to increase the likelihood of people calling me names. www.techdirt.com/2023/10/05/p...

Publishing A Book Means No Longer Having Control Over How Others Feel About It, Or How They’re Ins...www.techdirt.com There’s no way to write this article without some people yelling angrily at me, so I’m just going to highlight that point up front: many, many people are going to disagree with this article, and I...

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YOU, DUMB: Hey, great news! I got a job! ME, SMART: You fool! You're ruining the economy!

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Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year using the first 6 months of data: • NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside • Full-time employment increased • Fewer visits to the ER • Fewer nights spent in jail

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If you want to know why the populations of the country's most desirable areas are perversely falling rather than rising, "families with kids are getting priced and evicted out" is the reason.

Babies and toddlers in the U.S. are disproportionately at risk of eviction, a new study found. And the risk is acute for Black children and their mothers, ages 20 to 35. nyti.ms/46AekF0

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"We have Deion Sanders at home" / Deion Sanders at home.

colorado weeks 1-3 vs colorado weeks 4-5

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10/10, no notes.

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