Snowden St.

Snowden St.

@snowden.st

A scholar with a slight flaw in my character. COan. Cannabis regulatory analyst, poorly-fit Lutheran, Constructive Postmodernist. Go Blue, Ski-U-Mah, Nuggets/ABA loyalist. always thinkin’ bout sports, religion, history, weed, and beans. https://snowden.st

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Not even kidding, I will happily do a video chat with any Dem candidate or staffer. There aren’t a lot of forces working to get Democrats on the same page with this, so there’s all kinds of hand waving and vagueness. In less than 30 minutes I can walk through basics, answer q’s etc.

Snowden St.@snowden.st

I can probably put the boilerplate response in a post “yeah, I’m happy to stand with people making safer choices. the federal laws are dumb, the people have spoken, it’s not even that controversial of a take anymore, even in red states. feel free to catch up.”

Just speaking as a cannabis compliance expert-- don't do this. And also, don't post on Twitter "I have my own cannabis store" when your state only allows hemp shops.

Liz Dye@lizdye.bsky.social

Dammit, this Louise Lucas indictment is not good storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

some things are better off with no defense than a bad defense. and a large chunk of social media is people trying to defend things that they shouldn't. i don't mean "things shouldn't be defended", but "*these* people shouldn't defend it".

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Please remember that one of the oldest and most important parts of the US spooky season is to frighten fundamentalists.

Snowden St.@snowden.st

One reason I have an abiding love for the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is that Ichabod Crane is the most American of doofuses— a pious Christian who is sweet and credulous to the Nth degree, believing all of Cotton Mather’s bullshit, and scared stupid. We still have Ichabod Cranes all around us today.

these are two coalitions within DSA, can’t be denied, but they are just two. there are at least 4-6 more caucuses, too.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

From the outside, a lot of DSA internal politics these days looks like a clash between people who are becoming increasingly successful at democratic politics and people who want to act like authoritarians despite having no actual authority

Milwaukee this week

Snowden St.@snowden.st

JD Vance’s Nightmares

Cannot wait to see what the town is like when the Brewers finally win one

Snowden St.@snowden.st

The town getting out like this for the Boys after they *lost* a World Series? Nowhere else like it.

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@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

Snowden St.@snowden.st

The Milwaukee Brewers are Filled With The Power of God

Woodruff getting to pitch in this dream of a world series is an absolute Disney-ass finishing touch

The Milwaukee Brewers are Filled With The Power of God

Tom Cruise there to proudly represent the Scientology community of Tampa-St Pete, cut and print!

Colorado Rockies gonna put out a banner for Antonio Senzatela’s World Series

I think Kevin Cash and the Rays did a Big Brain and kept Aranda and Hicks for the later innings (presumably to face the bullpen when needed), only to have them come sweep up after the meteor struck. lol

Can’t believe we got one of these games in the freakin’ World Series

Snowden St.@snowden.st

The Brewers are playing like a sci-fi horror entity-- they're in the walls, they're on the floor, they're on your suit, they're in your nostrils, you're dead.

I will respect William Contreras SO much if he comes into his next year at C and immediately returns to a “fuck it, I’m not driving” approach for challenges in the regular season.

Snowden St.@snowden.st

He’s got the most successful ABS challenges, but that’s because he’s firing them off like shots on spring break, one of the worst success rates in MLB!

why do you open your damn mouth, Snowden, SHIT

Snowden St.@snowden.st

I guess one side benefit to baseball becoming a second-fiddle sport in the US is our championship broadcasts don’t warrant some He Gets Us commercials about Jesus.

do…we get a position pitcher in the World Series?

Snowden St.@snowden.st

Brewers fixin’ to blow this mf’er open

Brewers fixin’ to blow this mf’er open

I guess one side benefit to baseball becoming a second-fiddle sport in the US is our championship broadcasts don’t warrant some He Gets Us commercials about Jesus.

are the Fox mics directly next to the Brewers section in the Trop or something? this is loud

He’ll always be Jackson Browne Chourio, in my heart

oh man, what if he had Jackson Browne’s actual first name, Clyde Chourio is a powerful name

at the end of the day, good defense is the prettiest part of baseball

strikeouts are awe-inspiring, but they destroy so much potential beauty

that was an absolutely suicidal catch, goodness

Jackass-ass play, baller shit

is that Teoscar Hernandez sitting a couple rows back in Tampa’s stadium, when they do shots of the Brewers on-deck hitter? In the B hat?

It’s a smart line because TCF’s decor is thinly-veiled “casino-core, casino buffet”, and there are few things Trump is more attuned and sensitive to

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social

This is why it was a good line, because yes there are Americans who think of The Cheesecake Factory as a special occasion restaurant but Trump is not one of them. So thank you very much Donald for taking the bait.

and I’d bet a lot of Bluesky underestimates the diversity and breadth of working class people who love a casino vibe, or a trip to Vegas. But Trump loathes those people, views them as livestock to slaughter and render into cash.

a kinda interesting thing that The Files have shown is “the limits of corporate media’s control of information.” like, this stuff has been frozen out of the discourse of DC and political elites, and the national legislature and news coverage, but it’s still widely known and cared about.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

American media is so densely owned by so few rich people who, at worse, are two degrees of separation from someone in The Files. And yet!

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some policy nerds think the Median Business Owner in an ideal world would be checking the Daily Rules News or something, and know laws have changed. that's what businesses with lobbying budgets and in-house counsel/compliance departments do, that ain't most businesses, many people don't know shit.

Getting my whole block to pivot from trick or treat, to “Chip Or Dip”.

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com

giving each trick or treater a full scoop of beans

if we did this for three consecutive years, the police would get called in, too many millennial parents created a riot-like scenario.

would I also have promos for my fantasy retail project? yes

Snowden St.@snowden.st

I’ll share a deep Snowden Fantasy: opening up a storefront-and-web salsa emporium. Like 95% of the SKUs would be shelf stable, we could run promos with local chip companies, have tasting flights, etc.

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"on an unrelated note" 🙅‍♀️ all phenomena are inextricably interdependent

Just to silo it to one of my fields, but it applied everywhere— the past decade has transformed what is known about most popular sports. We have more data about athletic performance than ever, and human bodies, and it provokes novel questions about “who owns what data, who determines data’s value?”

Snowden St.@snowden.st

and to get VERY stoner with it— i think a lot of this is humanity at the frontier of understanding what *is* data. for good and for bad, and what is its value, what does it say about individual experience vs data, etc.

Which metrics are available to a team (a company), which data is available only to athletes and their personal reps? What health data renders contracts void? All of this gets hammered out in negotiations (or should) but these are novel facets to consider, the complexity only increases.

and over the past….75ish years, the field of data (and data privacy) and predictive technologies has blossomed. it was a hairy road, between banking and telecoms and hospitals and government. But over time, we realized some forms of regulation and certifying of Holders of Certain Data was needed.

*work in groups, lol, but work in treats is acceptable

Snowden St.@snowden.st

the Edenic myth is important, but it’s still mythical! the reality is that what we know as ourselves or human beings have developed against a permanent slope, the future has always been perilous, and we think and work in treats to make ourselves prepared to answer/address the perils.

(this is a loose analogy) if Data is the New Oil, I think LLMs might be something like a plastic

Alistair Davidson@moh-kohn.eurosky.social

Through that lens, AI almost feels inevitable. Capitalists concentrated so much data that it began to speak. People then took that and attempted to swarm-clone expensive SaaS products like Adobe Suite (n.b. they are yet to succeed at that).

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there’s really no room for maudlin or sentimental reasoning around technology, not lo these 150 years of technological boom. the task is to take them seriously, and rationally, and in as broad a context as we can push our minds to comprehend. Real Curious Nerds hours, imo.

Snowden St.@snowden.st

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties." -- Alfred North Whitehead

the Edenic myth is important, but it’s still mythical! the reality is that what we know as ourselves or human beings have developed against a permanent slope, the future has always been perilous, and we think and work in treats to make ourselves prepared to answer/address the perils.

(this is a loose analogy) if Data is the New Oil, I think LLMs might be something like a plastic

Alistair Davidson@moh-kohn.eurosky.social

Through that lens, AI almost feels inevitable. Capitalists concentrated so much data that it began to speak. People then took that and attempted to swarm-clone expensive SaaS products like Adobe Suite (n.b. they are yet to succeed at that).

loosely, it would also mean “is useful, is also a pollutant, and environmentally questionable, mostly benefits a lot of private production, but also probably not eradicable”.

and to get VERY stoner with it— i think a lot of this is humanity at the frontier of understanding what *is* data. for good and for bad, and what is its value, what does it say about individual experience vs data, etc.