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For Ukraine, against nazis, antisemitism, genocide, and zionism. Have forgotten more about chemistry than most people will ever know. Seriously, I *really* don't know very much chemistry, but I have a PhD in it, and forgot all of it 🤷
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hi, divorce expert here! this is not funny, JD Vance only does this when he's in extreme distress.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

This is good.

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Cool

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

it's the unmoisturized elbows for me.

submitted 13 hours ago • 40 comments

I've been wanting to tell my widowhood story publicly for years, but I know I don't have the kind of grief story people want to hear. No community rallied, no family healed, no strength discovered. I wrote about the gap between grief narratives and reality. www.dataandpolitics.net/why-i-find-i...

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

Much of the AI hype is hype. Most or all food delivery robots are driven by low cost remote workers. Waymo admits that every two miles or so there is a human intervention. Humanoids demos are tele-oped. Here is an AI powered coding app revealed. How many others? www.businesstoday.in/technology/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Few tech critiques have aged as well as Phil Agre saying "Oh come on. Face recognition will work well enough to be dangerous, and poorly enough to be dangerous as well." Obviously lands well beyond face rec.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

submitted 6 days ago • 107 comments

A glacier partially collapsed in Switzerland, burying the village of Blatten in a huge landslide of ice, rock, and mud after residents had been evacuated. Scientists called the collapse of the glacier “unprecedented” in the Swiss Alps.

submitted 7 days ago • 513 comments

This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.

submitted 13 days ago • 329 comments

"Europe needs is a strategy not just of containment or building resilience but of “unpowering Russia” — systematically reducing the Kremlin’s ability to harm the bloc." www.politico.eu/article/euro...

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Absolutely incredible investigation by the team @bellingcat.com, TjekDet, Politiken, and CBC that uncovered the identity of the owner of the most prominent deepfake sexual abuse site. This feels like the beginning of justice for victims. I am grateful 🙏 www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

Thank you to everyone around the world who helped bring Tesla's net income down 71%! Now THAT is a successful boycott. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

submitted 44 days ago • 793 comments

Just sent out my free weekend update. Two big stories this week. First the struggling Russian offensive shows that all the nonsense about the unstoppable Russian military and Ukraine on the point of losing was wrong. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

submitted 46 days ago • 251 comments

Two young German travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be a highlight. Instead, their visit ended in handcuffs, jail time, and deportation — a stark reminder of the risks some international visitors face at US borders. https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/

submitted 46 days ago • 147 comments

they're doing this to 19 year old white Germans. if you think you enjoy a certain degree safety because you're not part of the targeted groups, you're wrong.

submitted 46 days ago • 10 comments

didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"

submitted 50 days ago • 1095 comments