Doug Thorburn
Then: Baseball R&D, sportswriter, pitching coach
Now: Owner of Engenius Learning Centers of Morgan Hill + Los Gatos, pitching coach
- “Hey AI: I want a movie about John Madden, starring Nicolas Cage … like National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets + The Waterboy. Put Christian Bale in it.” CTRL+P = Print
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- Reposted by Doug ThorburnFor everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnThis kid runs circles around the reporter
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnCarl Sagan's insights were far ahead of his time. 🎥 : made from em_curr (Tiktok)
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnAnother day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnI don’t get why we don’t just regard the use of AI in writing like steroids in sports. Whether it’s useful or effective is moot because the whole endeavor is only interesting and valuable as a human feat. Books and homers produced efficiently and inauthentically just aren’t cool so what’s the point?
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnCarl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.
- Sagan actually DID “his own research”
- It’s amazing how often the most basic, obvious response would be: “Well, that’s not true. So either you’re ignorant and guessing or you know better and are intentionally lying. So which is it? Are you ignorant or are you lying?”
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- Reposted by Doug ThorburnEagles News: Randall Cunningham to Jalen Hurts: “What I didn’t fulfill, I’m fulfilling through you” www.bleedinggreennation.com/2025/5/5/244...
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnRandall Cunningham is now a pastor in Las Vegas. He trains high-jumpers, including his daughter. And he's grateful now for his Eagles experience. “I needed that, all the highs and the lows that come with pride and arrogance,” he says. dlvr.it/TKZ825
- It’s also molded a generation of young kids who think it’s crazy to think for themselves, to write for themselves, or to answer a question that they can just dump into ChatGPT (and get the wrong answer half the time, but be unaware bc they’re so disconnected from the material).
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnCarl Sagan on how humanity can create its purpose and make its existence meaningful.
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. - Carl Sagan
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnSocialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
- Reposted by Doug Thorburn40 Years ago Carl Sagan knew about Climate change and he was so aware of it's impact on Nature more than us we do right now.
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- Reposted by Doug Thorburnpersonally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
- Dodgers philosophy on Free Agent SPs: “We’ll buy it, we’ll break it”
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- Lactose Intolerance = latest vaccine
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnThe very first clip of COSMOS—this is where it all began. A voyage from the shores of Earth's oceans to the infinite expanses of the Milky Way, Andromeda, and beyond. Thank you, Carl, for taking us on this journey. We remain forever in your debt.
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnCarl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
- Today’s game is so weird… …it’s like a track meet with only short-distance events
- Autism is a spectrum … we are ALL on it
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- AI was not nearly ready for public consumption, yet it was force-fed to society with such fervor that the naive AI-virus has already had far-reaching effects … and it might be too late to stop the avalanche
- This was huge… Thanks to WGN and TBS, I could flip between episodes of Saved by the Bell for 2 hrs and dodge commercial breaks the whole time.
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnThey might forgive in Minnesota, but they don’t forget.
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnDr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
- Reposted by Doug Thorburnowning a small business in 2025…
- Reposted by Doug ThorburnHowie Roseman says the #Eagles won't even scout players who have ever been violent with women: “I won’t even watch them. I don't even want to talk. I can't go 'He’s really good, he did it 10 years ago and he learned from it.” It just doesn't work for us." #FlyEaglesFly (🎥: The McShay Show)
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- So Republicans are paying protesters… (every accusation is a confession with these folks) … I mean, I figured that was the case, but thanks for saying it out loud. We should check to see if the flights and hotel stays for the J6 dunce-caps were comped
- This is awesome. In my first weeks at the National Pitching Association, I was told to watch the catcher’s glove- and only the glove- for a game. It’s how I learned the difference b/w “command” and “control,” and it forever altered the way the I absorb baseball
- “earth-shattering” = please stop giving him more ideas for how to screw over the human race
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- Next Question: “…So why do MLB teams enjoy an anti-trust exemption? Is it necessary, in 2025?”
- The power that this one man has over the rest of the world … here in 2025 … it’s absolutely stunning …and that’s before considering that this one man is one of the most egregiously-flawed humans in world history. …only in a timeline where Acting Like A Fool gets click$$$ and views
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- WTF are the Giants doing with Birdsong? They could just let him start in AAA until one of the current SP’s gets hurt/shelled- following a ST that shoulda earned an SP gig with the big club- but instead they’re seemingly intent on derailing his career. This feels like textbook Rockies behavior
- Oh… THAT’s what Humpty Dumpty looked like …no wonder they couldn’t put Trumpty Dumpty back together again - his thin skin is really an eggshell
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- Reposted by Doug ThorburnThere are 32m small businesses in the USA
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- After fires burned Maui to the ground, wealthy investors swooped in and took advantage of the locals’ turmoil, buying up the land for cheap. The L.A. fires were “Rinse, Repeat” Now they’re intentionally setting fire to the entire U.S. (and world) economy… …guess what comes next?
- Reposted by Doug Thorburnthe extent to which a technology whose function is to generate plausible-sounding sentences without regard to their accuracy has been embraced by so many of the richest and most powerful really shows you that these people do not have a clue what they’re talking about
- Rage Against the Machine hitting esp hard rn: As the polls close like a casket On truth devoured A Silent play in the shadow of power A spectacle monopolized The camera's eyes on choice disguised Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil? Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil?
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- Um… if I were importing meat, I would care a lot more about the health regulations protecting the product than whether or not the meat looked “beautiful”. Since US regulations are now gutted, why would anyone want our tainted meat? We triggered our own egg crisis bc we couldn’t contain avian flu.
- Let Thurmond be the Home Run Baker of filibusters; enter the time of the Dem Soapbox
- Beer selection was bomb back when it was Raley Field
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- Reposted by Doug ThorburnThe Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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- For those wondering what they can possibly do in the face of our new reality, here’s a great list:
- The next wave of great pitchers will withstand the pressures of HS, NCAA, and MLB- the entities that need players for no more than a few years, bleeding them dry in the process- and will know how to take charge of their own careers thru proper conditioning, biomechanics, nutrition, and pitch design
- This is why baseball is romantic
- “Empathy is a weakness”
- Rent Free
- I was at a pivot pt in life back in fall 2018… was offered a “dream job” for an MLB team… wife gave the “ok” and we were *this* close to uprooting our lives (2 kids at time)… …I opted to decline. Stayed put and started a business, & now we’re interwoven with the local community. No regrets.
