@BenDWalsh
Joined March 2011
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the Flavio Bolsonaro saga just cannot hold a candle to the Carlos Ghosn escape plan, which was truly one of the most insane stories and it just got completely buried in the collective memory because it happened in late 2019
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new hilarious details of Adams administration corruption: a Queen's slice shop; Valentines Day health inspection; hundreds of mouse droppings; unrefrigerated calamari “My nerves are shot, bro” the owner says on the phone. $300 in cash solves it gothamist.com/news/former-ny…

Former NYC buildings boss kept Adams' favored restaurant open despite health violations

Phone calls played at during the trial of Eric Adams’ former buildings commissioner show he worried about losing his job for helping business owners fast track inspections.

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imagine playing for Kenny Jackett *and* Tim Gilet
Millwall FC
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A man who would've been proud to see this moment... 🙌 Harry gave a mention to the late Kenny Jackett in his Ballon d'Or acceptance speech last night.
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I can highly recommend Luke for a position on Anthropic's board -- he'd bring the specific quality of being annoying in meetings, but in a totally different way than anyone else currently at Anthropic
Luke Kawa
@LJKawaOct 26
Replying to @DarioAmodei
@DarioAmodei Where can I apply for one of those Anthropic board seats devoted to making sure things are going okay for humanity?
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(laudatory), obviously ;)
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insightful piece about watching someone who is good at something become world historically great
Jack Pitt-Brooke@JackPittBrookeOct 27
I've been lucky enough to watch Harry Kane up close since 2011. My piece on his pursuit of mastery and his endless capacity to surprise. nytimes.com/athletic/7721009…

Harry Kane was not a born Ballon d’Or winner. That’s what makes him so special (Gift Article)

The Bayern Munich forward has evolved into a striker of pre-eminent quality but it was not an obvious journey

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the funny thing is the state of florida is... an insurance underwriter
Paul E Williams@PEWilliams_Oct 24
First they came for the insurance underwriters and I did not speak up, for I was not an insurance underwriter…
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key Harry Kane fact is that his mother's maiden name is Hogg, in a more feminist world he could have been Harry Hogg
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quick someone show Trump a NYPost front page hailing his plan to demolish port authority bus terminal and use the proceeds to the land sale to finance an expansion of the 7 train to NJ
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlinOct 26
Replying to @MattZeitlin
this is a nifty idea
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"Saddam Hussein runs a Cheesecake Factory" is the best Curb episode to have never been made
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this is so bleak
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"Dateline NBC is the 9the most popular podcast in the US" is a great argument that we're living in the long 1990's
Random Walk
@MosesSternsteinOct 23
incredibly grim
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An easter egg for my fellow young Gen-X/elder millennials: Sumner H. Slichter, the labor economist and New Deal critic quoted at the top of my story, was the grandfather of Jacob Slichter, the drummer for Semisonic.
Ben Casselman
@bencasselmanOct 22
Replying to @bencasselman
I found myself reading through the proceedings of the 1931 annual meetings of the American Economic Association (I'm a great time at parties), where Sumner H. Slichter warned that technology was advancing “more rapidly than in any previous age."
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Josh Barro
@jbarroOct 23
The ad has something for everyone: tennis haters can laugh about the hating on tennis, and guys who were ranked juniors get an opportunity to say they were ranked juniors
Richard Bachman 🇺🇸@chaosisaladdrOct 23
Replying to @MediumBuying
Lmaooooo what the fuck is up with all the sensitive tennis players in the comments. I am a lifelong tennis player and was a ranked junior and know it’s an ELITIST sport and always has been.
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imagine the energy, the electric pulse... the sheer vitality you'd experience watching the World Series in downtown Tampa
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katiebakes@katiebakesOct 23
go Brewers
katiebakes@katiebakes3 Nov 2020
Replying to @AsteadWH
here's a pic I took while in Wisconsin of the "Lighter Fare" portion of a menu. goals, truly
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they're real and they're spectacular
Brandy Jensen@BrandyLJensenOct 23
I understand that this is a very serious and important story but I keep laughing at the idea of Dutch spies
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yes technically he was "not a spy" right right I know
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the best insurance bills to get are the ones that both involve little or no payment from you and also confirm that medical billing charges are, at a core level, unreal
Sunk Cost Pharisee@LiamjsmOct 23
“Amt Billed: 350 Anthem paid: 20 You owe: 0” I like how insurance companies keep it obscure even when they’re not trying to screw you. Consistency is important
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is that a lot
Robin Millican@RobinMillicanOct 21
New @ColumbiaUEnergy dashboard just out by @AndreasenJack showing how BAAJA's permitting provisions may alter project timelines for onshore/offshore wind, solar, geothermal, pipelines, and transmission. It estimates, for example, transmission lines could take 8 fewer years. 1/
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