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Started in #physics, landed in #computers. Flipping bits since 1971. Software Engineer at a large tech company. I write #fanfiction in my nonexistent free […]
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Great time to take a look at your posting practices and consider doing a bit more to verify stories before sharing them.
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It goes without saying that Chait will not be calling on Cuomo to denounce ugly comments from other Jews, calling Palestinians animals or advocating for "glassing over" Gaza. Only certain types of people are expected to answer for everyone who shares their ethnic identity.
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There is, in our entire vast information landscape -- MSM, RW media, social media, YouTube, etc. etc. -- no faction of any size or influence that is devoted to defending and praising Democrats. Everyone - left, right, & center -- makes their bones shitting on Dems.
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When a Republican is in office, right-leaning media get ahead by praising him like a god & defending him against all critics.
When a Democrat is in office, left-leaning media get ahead by shitting all over him & criticizing his every move.
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👆 That is perhaps the most fundamental structural feature of US politics at this point, the reality that shapes everything else, and it goes *almost entirely uncommented*.
We're in this insane, wildly skewed information environment and no one will fucking talk about it.
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For more on the TOD bill, see here:
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Listen to John Oliver's hilarious episode on the state of local news. 8 years old but alas even more true today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_...
#LocalNews
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DeSantis and the legislature are now trying to limit death penalty appeals and speed up executions -- and trying to expand the death penalty to include non-homicidal crimes.
FL currently leads the country in death row exonerations. They're apparently addressing that by ... killing more quickly.
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i'm boycotting the nyt bsky.app/profile/harm...
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" “Every #heatwave that is occurring today is hotter than it would have been without human-induced #CimateChange,” she said.
Otto sounded an additional note of caution: Computer models “severely underestimate” the extreme heat trends we are seeing so far, which means projections for future […]
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"New strains of #misinformation about climate change are spreading, meant to slow the growth of renewable energy needed to fix the problem.
“Strategic disruption—carefully designed to appear moderate, reasonable, and data-driven, while quietly obstructing action.”
Delay tactics can be […]
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And here a lovely overview of #ArXiv statistics from Ralph Wijers.
#astrodon #OpenScience #eas2025