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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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Hardwood xkcd.com/3051

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So RFK Jr. Has been sworn in as the US's Health Secretary. Just a reminder that babies brains are formed in the womb and that autistic children are born autistic. Vaccines have nothing to do with it. Get your kids vaccinated and love autistic children for the perfect beings they were born to be.

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Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Who are your heroes, role models, women in science you think are really cool? I’ve always had a bit of a 🤩 for Margaret Mead, Jane Goodall and Diana Boyd. #WomenInScience

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Emmy Noether, no questions! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_No... #womeninscience

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In 1973, a brilliant critic named Stuart Hall created a diagram that changed the way we study media, and could help you survive this moment. Just dropped: the second letter in my series about how to analyze the media in a time of crisis. It's all about codes. buttondown.com/thehypothesi...

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1/2 🧵 Ok, so ideally I would like this post, dating from 1912 and alerting the scientific community of the time to the dangers of coal exploitation and consumption on the greenhouse effect and climate change, to go viral in order to inform the wider community.

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John Scarlett Davis, View from Snieder’s Hotel of the Arno, https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133118

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And then there were three...

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#TodayInQueerHistory Feb 1 (2025) LGBTQIA+ History Month begins in the UK. Since 2005 it has focussed on a different aspect of LGBTQIA+ history, this year it is Activism. Emily (12) who designed this year's badge said “I was inspired to draw the megaphone because everyone deserves to be heard."

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Hell Is Overconfident Developers Writing Encryption Code Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn't inherently a bad thing, despite the infosec truisms…

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

When I daydream about a Democratic Party that learns messaging, the slogan I imagine is: Get the Government You Pay For. Clean air and water? You pay for that. You should get it. Medicare and Social Security? You paid for that. You should get it. Your kids’ education? Safe food? Roads?

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

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I miss Anthony Bourdain so much.

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Principiële overwegingen #cyberkamer Hof Den Haag over onderzoek aan #gegevensdragers met enkel toestemming van de officier van justitie (gelet op zaak HvJEU Landeck) n.a.v. verweer. Hof: geen nieuw recht maar uitleg van bestaand recht. Vormverzuim. deeplink.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak?id...

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When I watch SILICON VALLEY I feel like I imagine a D-Day veteran might feel watching the first few minutes of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. It is a PTSD-inducing nightmare of my life in SF, which insults me by making me laugh while still being terrified about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

submitted 38 days ago • 121 comments

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

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When Florida can report and arrest trans people for just going to the bathroom, and they can now also forcibly detransition people in prison by refusing their meds and shaving their heads, and the industry is still ✨⭐️conference at Epcot✨⭐️!

submitted 40 days ago • 8 comments

Whenever you read a metoo story in a serious publication and then see an apology that says that accused person wasn't perfect but that the worst allegations are false, remember: The former has been vetted by editors, fact-checkers, multiple accounts, and corresponding evidence. The latter hasn't.

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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

submitted 42 days ago • 668 comments

I hate every single possible thing about this, and I'm heartbroken about all of it. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

submitted 42 days ago • 325 comments

SO you were a fan of Neil Gaiman and one or more of his works were really meaningful to your life. Now, that wasn't my case. I was a fan of who I thought he was, and some of his work very much so But he wasn't say, Pratchett for me or anything. SO. Here's some things for you that fan.

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==Training Lesson== INVESTIGATION NARRATIVE: SSH Kill la Killed 🧵 My job is to solve the Weird Problems as the Final escalation tier. I do this with generalist knowledge and practical experience. New InfoSec/IT entrants often ask what this looks like in practice. Follow below.

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Happening now, the first anti-trans hearing of 2025 in the United States. HB121 in Montana is a full adult bathroom ban in publicly owned buildings. It targets all trans adults and the trans reps Zooey Zephyr/SJ Howell. I am covering it live. Watch with me: sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00309/Harmon...

submitted 45 days ago • 139 comments

On Truth We are no longer in a culture war, we are fighting instead an epistemological war, where authoritarians seek to replace process with diktat: why truth is a gradient and not a boolean.

submitted 50 days ago • 24 comments