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We should centrally fund all social care, honestly. The government should fund the entire bill for adult social care, end of life care, children’s social care and SEND provision. Care should be paid via taxation. Families should not be funding the “excess”, forced to sell homes, etc.

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The dumbassistocracy

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I am half convinced that the increasingly delulu appointments are because there is already a Netflix scripted drama contract signed and ready to go

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just over the last 5 weeks, Trump has helped swing elections (against him) in Wisconsin, Canada, Australia, and the Vatican.

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Being made Pope - second greatest achievement by a Villanova grad this week …

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Trump crypto fireworks this morning.... Rep Maxine Waters and other Dems will walk out of a GOP controlled House hearing in protest and start their own hearing "to properly investigate Trump’s crypto ties, including his memecoin, WLF, and more."

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Brunson burner….

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Journalism beaten by sovereignty ….🐎

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“Reuters identified more than 600 posts on social media and right-leaning message boards since February targeting family members of judges who ruled against the Trump administration. The commentators attacked everything from their physical appearance to their patriotism.”

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Meta’s latest ‘product or criminal offense?’ offering

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... Yesterday I almost adopted two elderly chihuahuas who were visiting the J School with their foster carers. Today I ordered an iced matcha latte. I think my brain age has reset to 28

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"A high-ranking member of the Trump administration is turning federal-government data—in this case, State Department comms—into a political weapon against perceived ideological enemies." @cwarzel.bsky.social on this "investigation" which reportedly includes me. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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My great grand parents had a life expectancy of 46 ……

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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

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Portugal knocked offline by all the digital nomads simultaneously messaging about being added to the Build group chat

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I deleted a post about a hack because the theories now running wild on other platforms are so unhinged ….seems a good time to just wonder what the Andreessen Small Group Chat CP is up to today…

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We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

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‘If Thomas Friedman is a Waymo Democrat, how is he ever going to get material for his columns?’ …a friend asks

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Office Space : Severance but at an appropriate length and funny …a millennial friend told me today this is a cancelable take but I stand by it

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LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

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When asked about political affiliations, I like to think of myself as a TikTok Marxist

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Tom Friedman’s column …. reminds me of this : A Waymo drives aimlessly in circles whilst an increasingly alarmed passenger tries to stop it and get out youtu.be/g_Qq8WoHppg?...

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Our class really enjoyed reading Tressie on mid tech this week - as part of our popular ‘enshittification’ series. ‘You don’t have to hand it to AI’ is in fact a good title for next year’s course

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The world, is in flames. But there is a unifying political idea that could end polarization tomorrow . And it comes from (checks notes) the LibDems … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Larry David’s takedown of Bill Maher’s Trump dining experience remains a beacon of light in a darkening world www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend. “I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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‘Worst April since 1932’ ….MAGDA…Make America’s Great Depression Again

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