Was feeling awful all day, took like 3 naps, but woke up from the last one feeling ok suddenly, so I max late regged the first events from the PS Winter Series. First online session this year... still got it! 💪

I knew the tiny people are real! Please give me back all my socks and forks etc.!

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

In This Dystopia You Can't Vote Against Wars But You Can Gamble On When They'll Start www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/in-this-dy...

And now the problem with having your public brand and facing social media accounts run as if by a 12-year-old dunce bully becomes apparent: Why should anyone believe a word they post? I don't, and based on the comments, neither do others. Be careful if playing on either Bodog/Bovada or WPT (+ACR)

I saw the WPT Hawkins post elsewhere and thought it was a prank. But no, I just ss it from their feed. Banning Hawkins is probably a good move, but this is beyond offensive and f'd up. I was about to post the screenshot but I just can't, so blacked out part. Seriously, wtf?

Yep, this is really, really, really bad. It's a big red flashing sign of a desperate and bankrupt culture and society.

This should be obvious now but DO NOT under any circumstances give your medical records to ChatGPT

This is at least part of why they did it. Ever since the US economic sanctions against in 2022-3 where they seized like $300b in Russian assets, weaponizing the SWIFT/US banking system, much of the world has been rushing to de-dollarize. And everything the US has done since further incentivizes it.

Uh oh. I'm in danger!

Why are techbros so obsessed with dreaming up stuff that not only has NO ONE asked for, but would be nightmares to live with, and then, presumably, trying to force us to use them? Whatever happened to coming up with products and services that people actually want?

LOL. This is why they are forcing it on us everywhere. They need that line to keep going straight up and for us to adopt it on the same scale as the internet (i.e. public utility). Except instead of making something useful that we would *choose* to use because it betters our lives,

AI (LLMs) is not only being forced on us, the tech itself is the best thing ever for stalkers, rapists, and domestic abusers. AI is the aesthetic and culture of fascism, and rape culture is a fundamental apparatus of fascism. AI being forced on us everywhere feels gross for this reason.

Not shocked, and this is going to be every company that is trying to replace employees with AI that cannot do the things people can either well or at all. Well, any company that wants to stay in business anyway. I'm sure there will be some that keeping digging in until they have no customers left.

Unlike most things I see people posting that they use LLMs for that it should be obvious they can't do at all or well, idea generation is possible to some degree. One part of idea generation is juxtaposing two things together in new ways. As a hallucinating mad libs machine,

The announcement that CNN and CNBC are partnering with Kalshi is stunning in the worst possible way. We are living in a society ruled by a ruthless predator class seeking to financialize literally everything. It's a nightmare. Hopefully prop betting will soon be banned.

Not only is @puntoftheday.com blog the best, Sam kindly takes suggestions of hands to analyze, as he did today with a hand from the APT main. I requested it because I would feel like puking facing a jam on the river, and puking usually = indifference. Heuristic held! www.puntoftheday.com/p/potd-185

Ed is right about the labor issue, and artists, who mostly already couldn't make it, are losing the last of the paying work they had, from theft. But he consistently misses the larger issue: AI can't actually replace artists at even close to the level of quality and creativity.

I wish so much I didn't live in the idiocracy timeline where wilful ignorance and bigotry is valued over education and learning.

This is hilarious. And unsurprising for all of us who are trained in the humanities. STEM only quantitative supremacists don't have a clue about the vast fields of knowledge that are *very* relevant to the things that are possible and the things they don't know aren't possible that they want to do.

Anyone interested in joining a private, encrypted political/economic/intellectual chat group to share info and converse and maybe transition off social media? Oppo-fashits, pro public health, and collapse and COVID-aware folks welcome. DM for info. Post below if you can't DM and want to join.

Really, you don't say. All the ghouls who threatened to leave haven't already packed up? Who could have predicted?

No, it can't. JFC why is every single pseudoscience that was debunked 25-150 years ago coming back? This ridiculous, wasteful, and harmful nonsense is what happens when techbros who only had the narrowest of STEM educations get put in charge of things. They reinvent bunk and think they're geniuses.

I like this, what a great idea.

"In less than 36 hours since we announced that we will be sending payments to disabled SNAP recipients in the South—$100 to individuals and $250 to households—we have received more than 12,400 applications, totaling $2.7 million in requests." - they have to close the form tomorrow... no way to cover

Sundays my way. First online session since crushing fall COOP. Got up very late, did chores, watched TV, ate delicious leftovers, had a cup of hot cocoa, took a nap, max late regged the Sunday special tournaments at 9pm (4 MTTs total). 1 cash, 1 ft, 1 win! Fun times! 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺

If I cared the slightest bit about baseball, this would be a great day for me as someone from Los Angeles currently living in Toronto. But I don't, so it's just unpleasantly loud and crowded lol.

#FoodBankChallenge Can we get to $5000 to start? With SNAP running out in Nov if the shutdown continues, more folks will be turning to food banks - which are already struggling since the administration cut $500 MILLION in deliveries back in the spring. teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participant/...

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

Counterpoint: no. There's a time and a place for identifying leaks, and before, during, and after a session is not it. Perfectionism is the opposite of helpful; it's debilitating, and was the biggest thing holding me back for years. It's a game. Enjoy crushing and study later.

I think there are basically only two positions in the debate about AI: 1) I have a brain and/or I'm an artist, I don't want to give them up, & f copyright theft 2) I know nothing about language, cognition, or critical thinking and I have no interest in learning, so holy cow it's transformational!

Too tired to do much of a write up, but back from another series. Fall results continue to be consistent "despite" very low "volume." LIVE Fall ring events: 11 FTs/Cashes: 3/3 ROI: 49% ONLINE Stars/ACR series events: 61 Wins/FTs/Cashes: 2/8/17 ROI: 99% Downswings are a choice! Time for a break!

I wanted to see how I'm doing compared to the "top" regs/pros in Ontario that I play with all the time. One lost so much in the last week (prob over $10k) they set their stats to private a few days ago. But I was able to find the rest. Pretty happy with my results!

I used to think this. Then I started playing every hand trying to figure out the best strategy to get my opponent, regardless of skill level, to make mistakes against me. And now I have fun playing against everyone. And it's super duper fun playing soft games with a huge ROI!

It was a good day. It's been a great week. But, you know, I'm just a rec and it's super low volume, so, like always, I must just be lucky! 🤣📈

Oooops I did it again! Sick week hahahahaha.

Don't mess with the Dr. in O8! 8th COOP title, 2nd in NLO8.

Not only is autism not a problem, much less one that needs to be solved, but I'm gonna say what no one else probably will: Autistic people are being targeted because they are the future and the biggest threat to those currently in power. Read Bulter's Parable of the Sower if this is puzzling.

What stage of science/academia are we in when people think that "identical" research papers, and not ones with novel ideas and perspectives, are actually publishable? The cultural elevation of group-think, crockery, and hallucinations as success is weird and wild.

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Day 5 of COOP. Really not my day even though there were two 8 game events, which are probably the ones I have the biggest edge in. But, as it sometimes happens, I just pretty much couldn't win a hand tonight in limit. 5 events played, 1 cash (but 2/5 were Total KOs where I won more than the buyin).

The difference between my approach to a series and pros. These are results to date for me (top) and a successful reg in the Ontario pool (bottom). My approach: curated schedule maximized for my capacity as well as game selecting the most profitable events for me while keeping table count to <=5.

Day 4 of COOP (plus bonus NLO8 OSS on ACR): - 3/4 sessions in profit (about -$200 on losing session) - 16 series events - 4 final tables (2nd, 4th, 6th, 9th) - Currently 5th on COOP leaderboard while playing about 1/4 to 1/3 of the events of the leader/all the regs - About +$1100

I treat session planning and in-session playing the same way I plan + adjust my strategy during a hand: - I come in with an idea of how I want to approach it - I adjust based on how the hand/session develops - I think of myself like I think about opponents: how can I get the max from this person?

Day 2 of COOP. Wasn't feeling great, so after running ridic bad for the last hour cancelled my plans to play another $700 in buyins and kept my risk for the day to $150. Played 3 events, cashed 2 (one is a phase, made day 2 with a big stack), and took 4th in the $20 Sunday Starter for $830.

Truly a sad day when they have to admit they're just not going to be able to manufacture consent for massacring certain populations - this time anyway - because the shooter was one of them, a conservative Christian white guy, and the calls for massacres thus need to be quickly rescinded. 😭😭😭😭😭

Newsom: "Whoa! Yes, I have terrorized California's poor for nearly 20 years, including showing up last fall to personally trash the belongings of unhoused people who were camping. But I draw the line at LEAVING people for DEAD after stealing their meds, cash, IDs. This is just too far!" Hypocrite.

My favorite Triton day is here: mystery bounty day! Bounties are worth ~400k or 16bbs (to start). How many of the players left will find the optimal adjustments when covering and/or covered at various stack depths? 👀 Let's just say that, in prior events, my work would've helped a lot of them!

Software engineer Ian Gavlick is bringing games like triple draw into the modern era of poker strategy with Stud Flop Draw. He also has some predictions for how AI will shape the future of poker... www.thinkingpoker.net/2025/09/epis...