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Arlen Walker

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Declared by Twitter to be a hazard to the mental health of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). Yes, really.

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With apologies to #NeilYoung: ”Tin Soldiers and Trump is coming We’re finally on our own. How long til we hear the drumming More dead in Ohio?”

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The absurdity of Yahoo Fantasy Sports using ChatGPT in their recaps is obvious in the scoring graph. This week’s recap shows both teams ending at the 135 line—one just above it, the other below. Actual score was 144-129, winning team being the one graphed *below* the 135 line.

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I prefer ranked-choice voting. It lets people pick the candidate they actually want on the first ballot. It does away with “I’d vote for y if I thought they had a chance to win,’ and still lets you settle for less. It shows prospective candidates where the gettable votes are.

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So I checked the Grokipedia entry on World Chess Championship, and I encountered the phrase “unlimited rematch rights.” I can’t make the unlimited make sense in that context. I suspect it’s a conflation of two different match conditions, but srsly, WTF?

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As a resident of the last major US city to have a socialist mayor, I‘d like to express my hope that NYC fares as well as we did. It lasted a decade, and we grew more and prospered more than any other period in our history.

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Perfect example of what I dislike about Valentine’s game. He’s crap on tackling technique. He throws his shoulder and hopes the guy goes down. Result: he gives up a TD.

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Listening to my wife‘s blood pressure rising as she calls @humanahelp to complain she hasn’t received her ID card yet, and everything asks for her ID before it will talk to her.

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Why do people use 1Password? Installed it, it pops up a dialog box I can’t dismiss. Go to web site to figure it out, it says “I’m sticking a marketing tracker cookie on you, and you don’t get to stop me!”