Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.

Was incredibly obvious from early reporting that these guys were spooks. Still pretty fast to be able to explicitly report it out. washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

There’s a whole tangled web of Portuguese connections.

Sir Alex Ferguson bought Bebe as a payoff to Carlos Quieroz for dropping Nani from Portugal from the Word Cup squad before he could fail a drug test which SAF knew he couldn’t pass.

Will just say…the first 15 minutes of that movie go a lot harder than y’all remember [laudatory, unless you decide to watch it with a nine-year-old].

I mean…I got the corporate memo!

Me: Here’s this thing I’ve done in my personal time and I’d like to replicate it for the benefit of my employer.

Corporate AI: Got it, here’s the tools you need.

Me: Do I have those tools?

C-AI [cheerfully]: Nope!

Me: Can I acquire those tools?

C-AI: lol heavens no.

I work for a big corporation and also co run a small podcast so I’m directly contrasting my two professional experiences using AI in the current moment.

You’re thinking about it backwards from how I intend it. If you were a little law firm two years ago it was easier for you to adopt AI powered deep research tools than if you were at a big firm. Two years later the big firms have caught up. And two years from now little firms may be priced out.

People can and should do what they want. Using these tools has been of great benefit to me personally! I don’t blame people who do not go through the process of figuring out how it might be useful to them. I do, however, point out that they’re wrong when they say therefore it must be useless.

I think people should keep it in mind in that there are people who make very definitive statements about what ai can and can’t do based on one set of user experiences that is not universally shared.

And also the arc of tech is that eventually the good user tools come to the big company’s tools.

lol probably the most productive thing I’ve done for work personally is basically spoof getting api access to a set of soccer stats by automating downloading several 100 CSVs once a week and then building my own mini database to use them.

Am I trying to get corporate AI to do stuff I know how to do on the personal machine and tearing my hair out? Who can say.

Truly the Double Pivot planning chats are lit.

my whole lifetime

One thing I its worth keeping in mind in the bluesky AI wars is that if your entire experience using AI is mediated by mediocre tools provided by a big (or biggish) company that’s just a much much worse experience.

But also if that’s your only experience, there are way better experiences out there!

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Eh that’s what Biden tried and it left people utterly convinced he didn’t do anything.

Whatever you do don’t call your bold expansive vision a bold expansive vision, just call it basic common sense.

I’m begging you.

I apologize if I misunderstood you saying you felt like you were “just pulling levers” to be something other than what you intended. I meant no offense, really.

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I played so much of that during my Month of Stronger Painkillers Than I Realized. My spreadsheet work ended up quite subpar.

Also god the base building part of that game is dumb and tedious. Still fun though.

I’m not saying you should like it! Like what you like! I’m just saying if you found yourself randomly clicking buttons early on you were ignoring lots of initial strategic depth in the poker mechanics themselves before getting to the randomized deck building!

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No. His non penalty goals are above his non penalty xG by a bit.

Now….look [slips quietly out of the room]

lol yeah this is kind of the thing it does lol. I get it not being fun for some people for sure.

I mean what this says to me is that you didn’t come in with basic understanding of card game mechanics (no judgment lots of people don’t have them), but for many part of Balatro’s charm was immediately having basic card game strategy to apply *in game play* while hitting the rogue-game curve.

Yeah I think flat track bully is a mostly useless term, or more to the point, every good striker is a flat track bully. The better the striker the more they bully bad teams.

Theres not really a striker who is comparatively less good against bad teams and more good against good teams.