hooks is also a real Kentuckian not some Ohio bum enagaging in stolen valor.

seeing the full moon in all its glory and thinking about how there are two dudes, a woman, and a canadian on their way to do a lap around it

Happy first week of the baseball season from Southern Alberta!

Nobody says anything when Venezuela misses the World Cup year after year but when another proud baseball nation in Italy does suddenly it's a big deal.

I need everyone to know that Andrew McCutchen hit his first home run as a Ranger while the Dallas furry convention was taking place.

What's this guy doing in the International League when he should be smuggling deathsticks through the Kessel Run.

Skenes: We've got to dominate the world. The domination:

there is a fantastic visualization strategy coming from cultural evolution circles. I thought it'd be a perfect way to describe public opinion data, so I adapted it for aggregate survey data, created an R package, and wrote a post introducing it here: tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/publicopin

people googling "quanti inning nel baseball" in Italy over the past year...

Check out my new article w/David Eagle in Sociology of Religion academic.oup.com/socrel/advan... We look at the recent schism in the UMC and find that the division goes beyond disagreement on theology; it maps onto longstanding political/religious divides. It's open-access so you have no excuse!

Opera, espresso, fancy jacket, little kisses - Team Italy is winning because they've embraced a philosophy of nice treats.

🤌🤌

I love how the energy of the booth in the GBR vs. ITA #wbc game has just turned into a celebration of Italian-American culture.

this is like that time the Vikings missed their draft pick because they called in a trade with the Ravens but the Ravens didn't. @unlox.bsky.social am i doing this right?

Anthropic is the funiest "AI" company because they're constantly like: "Please! Would somebody stop the magical death machine that will kill all of humanity! Please give us 500 bazillion dollars to build the magical death machine!" But all they're really doing is just posioning the water.

where my gender de-pol truthers at?

common Weber dub

Art but sports guy never misses.

A bunch of revisionist Flames fans right now:

There's a reason why Canada vs. USA hockey is appointment viewing every time.

"He will never let you down." Career .222/.339/.320 slash in the postseason says otherwise.

There needs to be a word for an ideology that's basically Ludditism except for label makers. Because I've grown disillusioned with so much tech but you'd have to pry my label maker from my cold dead hands. What do you mean I could just use a marker? Caveman.

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

I'm so ready for the next Papal Encyclical on proper 3rd and 1 offense.

If you start watching Game 5 of the 2024 World Series at 10:26:37, you can watch the ball drop in New York at midnight.

Good to see evidence for something I've suspected for some time. While well-meaning, the anti-test push is ultimately counterproductive and is the product of poor counter-factual reasoning. The alternatives (extra curriculars, personal statements, etc.) are way more class- and race-biased.

It's weird how GPT is incredibly good at all the things I don't know much about but downright terrible at all the things I know something about. Though I'm sure they'll fix this bug with GPT 5.3.

My tree is worth billions (in Runescape money)

🥊🥊 getting into the holiday spirit

I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.

Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely weren't wrong, they were just early!

Holiday selfie tribute to David Lynch

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Broke: Norte Dame should be in. Woke: Vandy should be in. Bespoke: Duke should be in.

looking forward to double dipping tomorrow

If you aren't rooting for the Grey Cup to end like this with a final score of 1-0 then you and I have irreconcilable differences in sports values.

One argument in favour of incorporating "AI" into the classroom is that back in the day math teachers railed against the incorporation of calculators in the classroom. But I'm at a point where that argument doesn't push me towards including "AI"... ...it pushes me towards banning calculators.

Time is a flat circle

Solid effort from Auburn there, and they're a great little upstart program. But it's just so hard to close the deal on the road when you're trying to upset a top 25 SEC powerhouse like Vanderbilt.

John Rocker continuing to have Exactly the Politics You'd Expect in 2025 makes me question the magnitude of the post-2016 realignment in US politics.

Baseball is a close and deeply empathetic friend who is right there beside for you 6 months out of year, then goes on a 4-week bender that emotionally destroys you 29 out of 30 times, then suddenly disappears from your life for half a year before coming back as if nothing happened.

i love baseball

For Game 7, the Dodgers are starting the most famous player in the sport, a multigenerational talent. The Blue Jays are starting a discarded zombie costume they picked up outside the stadium last night, brought to life with the rage of the undead. Honestly you have to think Toronto wins 5-2

To anyone not into baseball I’m sorry but also get into baseball

This is the alternate universe where Cash leaves Snell in.

deeply funny that Roberts has been going to Blake Treinen over this guy for literally the entire postseason

Where's "Let's Go Pirates!" girl when you need her?

choosing to believe that George Springer literally filmed this TD commercial since coming out of the game and there's no evidence you could present that would cause me to doubt that

Starting to think a Greek mythology punishment might be in play here. The game is doomed to continue until the Blue Jays are brave enough to pitch to Ohtani.

did you fools really think we wouldn't get to see another Ohtani IBB?