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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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someone should remake the movie idiocracy, except the leader in 2035 is just a charismatic somewhat unintelligent guy whose “cabinet” is a 2026-era LLM sponsored by Mountain Dew, which ends all of its responses with things like, “You should lower taxes. And, remember, do the dew!”

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I work in the best university in the world, less than 3 hours from my rural hometown, yet superstar students travel here from all over the world… if we keep treating them badly, will centers of excellence move elsewhere? "If my kids excel, will they move away?" jeffreybigham.com/blog/2025/wh...

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I work in the best university in the world, less than 3 hours from my rural hometown, yet superstar students travel here from all over the world… if we keep treating them badly, will centers of excellence move elsewhere? "If my kids excel, will they move away?" jeffreybigham.com/blog/2025/wh...

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Come on Carol! (adventures in old signs)

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Council votes to allow sale of first 5 of 450 city-owned homes directly to residents Council seeks to speed up permitting process Tell Council how you feel about these issues at informup.org/reducing-per... #pgh #Pittsburgh

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was reminded that my last coding interview was 20 years ago in 2005 at google … I passed! 🤣 … but, decided to continue with my PhD 🧐

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Council Considers restarting the City's Department of Public Health to be led by Building Inspections Bureau Chief Council also approves funds for a new City park in the Hill and park improvements in Garfield Tell the Council what you think informup.org/city-may-get... #PGH #Pittsburgh

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Swift Charts is coming to the third dimension 📊! developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

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a new blog post from WWDC describing Apple's new generation of LLMs, which developers can now access directly in their own apps on-device -- machinelearning.apple.com/research/app...

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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

think this snippet of Ezra Klein's new essay is great. If people keep not getting the outcomes of their high taxes, they'll get upset

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

if you just consumed the social internet, you'd think most people either thing AI is (i) terrible and useless, or (ii) a solution to everything and soon will reach AGI just to check myself, once we get past the loud people, most people are somewhere safely in the middle, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

shocking!

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another week, more stuff from pittsburgh city council -- if you have an opinion on any of this, complete the survey so we can close the loop back to our council members!

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#booksky

submitted 21 days ago • 384 comments

I rented a car that doesn’t have CarPlay (or android play), and it’s a new car!… who would buy this garbage? also, one more reason not to buy a Tesla

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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 21 days ago • 343 comments

anyone else think that they're putting on this show on purpose because (i) they love shows, and (ii) you could almost imagine ppl buying teslas again if elon is fighting with trump? (regardless of why)

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I got a Harvard t-shirt, and want to write a catchy slogan on the back … ideas? stand with smart people resist stupid people what does abruptly cutting cancer research have to do with fighting anti-semitism?

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

nytimes wrote a whole article about how opening and closing bar tabs is an annoying customer experience, then blamed Gen-Z people for supposedly not doing it anyway www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/b...

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"AI Could Consume More Power Than Bitcoin By the End of 2025" … omg, you're telling me that we are wasting that much energy on bitcoin, which is entirely useless … can somebody please get these people a database they can gamble on?

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If you want to see the planned impact on science with the proposed National Science Foundation cuts, this table in particular demonstrates it most devastatingly. Going from 330,000 people to 90,000 people involved in NSF activities. #SaveNSF From: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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what was Pittsburgh city council talking about this week? ⬇️

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ppl around the world sent their very best children to come to America and often they would stay, benefiting the US economy instead of where they were born… the conclusion of this is our best and brightest children will want to go wherever the best and brightest congregate, which won’t be here

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PA will have a new distracted driver law -- $50 fine if you are caught using your phone, FIVE YEARS EXTRA IN PRISON if you kill someone while using your phone www.post-gazette.com/news/transpo...

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It’s really unfathomable that nearly every progressive elected official, organization and journalist is still on X.

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