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Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

submitted 6 hours ago • 671 comments

The SHEAR conference panel is "The Benefits of Male Continence: John Humphrey Noyes, Elon Musk, and the Problem of Pro-Natalists"

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What a shame. “DOGE affiliated staff, some of whom were responsible for pushing out thousands of federal workers, texted one another on Thursday about whether they would be fired next, according to administration officials.” www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

submitted 1 day ago • 155 comments

Amazing. Respect the lede.

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submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

The return of the East India Company and Hudson Bay… everything returns

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

ETTDs including it looks like TACOs

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

In the end Harvard has a lot to answer for

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I've never seen it so well put before.

submitted 15 days ago • 80 comments

How about we just let the f**kers just not pay taxes and the rest of us get to keep our science, safety, arts and humanities??? We can find a way to pay for them on our own and the billionaires can go live on their own private islands.

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Scholar of Gilded Age traces contemporary scandal to Hearst Co.

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youtu.be/2hekDuCBxCc?...

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If you can’t pay your workers and still make a profit you are happy with you don’t belong in business.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I’d take anyone of them except Newsom. But I’d bet cash money it will be someone not on this list.

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This Day in RI History: May 18, 1652 – Rhode Island becomes the first colony to pass an anti-slavery law

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say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

submitted 19 days ago • 70 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 19 days ago • 1117 comments

Reinventing buses

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The New York Times being ABSURD again even entertaining the question. Of course it is! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/m...

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If you’re born in America, you’re an American. Pass it on.

submitted 22 days ago • 461 comments

And the Qatari royal family has been unsuccessfully trying to sell it for five years.

submitted 22 days ago • 1216 comments