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"Nice little congressional seat ya got there. Be a real shame if someone challenged you in the next primary, wouldn't it?"

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I always find a few things to like on Kaplan's lists. slate.com/culture/2024...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Fantastic overview. For those without much time to read (or desire to read), just read the brief ending parts, starting with "knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed."

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

I love that Paul Krugman calls Seattle "sort of a secondary technology cluster". Take that, Redmond! paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-u...

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Spent a little time hacking elisp today to bring code to Emacs 29 standards. Immensely satisfying!

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If you can, please help spread the word that I joined this site by reposting or sharing this post! Here is my 4 month winter outlook from September. We are still in line to have a significantly lower peak than last winter!

submitted 132 days ago • 10 comments

"And the race is still essentially tied." Calling it a "race" is part of the problem. This is not a sporting event or an entertainment of any sort. It's an impending disaster, and the element of suspense is whether we can avoid it or not.

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A bit alarming to know that your TV is watching what you watch, and reporting back to the big data aggregators. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

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We have no clinical test to assess our immune system status. The case for an immunome erictopol.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...

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Pole Vault xkcd.com/2955

submitted 237 days ago • 20 comments

Wow! wapo.st/43XOcnB

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This is such a fantastically composed and historically meaningful final photo of Ingenuity, taken by Perseverence before it drove away, that I want to make it my phone background but also I don't want to cry every time I look at my phone screen. 🥺

submitted 388 days ago • 34 comments

Movies for this weekend: The 23rd: Either "Rare Exports" or "Die Hard 2". Christmas Eve: Either "The Shop Around the Corner" or the 1951 "Scrooge". Christmas Day: "A Christmas Story".

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