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But courage! there is good cheer in store for you

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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Sand mound Ant nest entrance Burra Range, Queensland #AntNest #Queensland #Nature #photography #australia#photographyofbluesky #bluesky

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Sand Lasseter Highway, Petermann Northern Territory. #Sand #RedCentre #Australia #Outback #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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Look at my hair #donkey

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Look at my feet #geese

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Princess parrots #OzBirds

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Cockatiels at Royal Canberra Show #OzBirds

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JFC!!

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Direct line of communication between the Catholic Church and The Australian? Shocked, etc

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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FDA fired team in charge of medical device safety.

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Hot of the presses: my take on how "extraction" and "extractability" should be valued in copyright law--with implications for AI and beyond. Thanks to the many folks who commented on this while it was under construction! scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol103/...

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PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

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#chookpower

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When you go to collect data but the data doesn't let you write it down ✍🏻🐦😆 #bird #ecology #ornithology #SFW_ANU @sramellini.bsky.social @franhckr.bsky.social @scienceanu.bsky.social

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Staff and students standing together against cuts at ANU. Sacking 638FTE, tutorials every second week and more students per class degrades the quality of education @ourANU. See VoteNOanu.nteu.au for more info.

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Juvenile Gang-gang Cockatoo cleaning (and eating) our gutters. #birds

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"You screwed people": Inside the National Science Foundation’s firing of 168 workers👇

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Banksia #OzFlowers

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Male Powerful Owl in suburban Brisbane. We were both a bit surprised, me by where he was roosting, & he that I was there. Fortunately, I backed off quickly & he was fine. You realise how much you don't actually see, even when it's right in front of you, when looking for owls #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

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Just for kicks ... cicadas & exuviae

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US burning to the ground. Meanwhile ACCC does useful work - www.accc.gov.au/media-releas...

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Zelensky said he had brokered a peace deal for Canada to take over the USA, during a summit to which the US was not invited.

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Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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My boss today, in the personage of Dr. Alison Wrynn, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, said with a straight face that unionization hurts academic freedom. Not six months ago, she released a free speech policy that told of us how to walk, talk, and chalk. We weren't consulted.

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It feels like we're one bad round of golf away from America joining the Ukraine war... on Russia's side.

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Russian drug companies making weight loss meds under government issued compulsory licences FT: The copycat brands that are replacing Ozempic in Russia on.ft.com/3X8WIho

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this

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Meta and Google aren't partnering with Mardi Gras this year, as Mardi Gras says DEI changes might make the two companies not meet partner requirements. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The most underreported and important story in AI right now: Pure scaling has failed to produce AGI, despite a half-trillion dollar investment. New essay at Fortune: fortune.com/2025/02/19/g...

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Looking for something more pleasant to post. Something I saw last week.

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‘Contract employment for secretaries, who effectively can now be fired at will, not only created pressure for public servants to tell ministers what they wanted to hear, but also untethered their salaries from historical norms.’ theconversation.com/the-prime-mi... #auspol

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www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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Birded Panama's famous 'pipeline road'* yesterday and spotted 93 species. One of my favorite shots was of this stunning Rufous Motmot! 🧡💚💙 #Motmot #Panama #pipeline #Birdsseenin2025

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Google has removed its Responsible AI Principles. This is actually a pretty big deal.

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Trump administration terminates privacy officials at agency overseeing government hiring and firing edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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Black-throated Green Warbler in Mexico this time in 2017. #birding #birdsoftheworld

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