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"Amazon purchases accounted for $1.4 million, or 35% of all non-private school expenditures, making the e-commerce company the single largest recipient – by over $1 million – in EFA dollars." How much did Amazon (or affiliated groups) spend promoting "school choice," I wonder? Especially if […]

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Via AOC: It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can […]

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Monoprice, I paid for the Super Saver Shipping, I really don't need this FedEx guy to deliver on a Sunday.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm getting a bunch of Podcast Ads for a company that is "re-imagining car ownership", but it's clear that it's just a lease, so not only are they not creating anything new, it's also just not car ownership.

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This interview from Coffeezilla with a Memecoin Insider who was involved with both the Melania Memecoin and the recent Argentina Libra Memecoin is wild. These guys really are sppedrunning the entire history of why we have financial regulations, while arguing that we shouldn't have financial […]

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I suppose I really shouldn't be surprised that the guy handpicked by Nancy Pelosi to succeed her in the House is completely unable to rise to the circumstances in which he finds himself given a leadership role. #uspol

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Just a heads up: Nazis found this post. I'm fine, but please tell me if they start to harass you, too! https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114006679673879561

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I'm expecting 7 inches of snow tonight that is falling right on top of a half inch of ice that's sitting on four inches of snow. My toddler will definitely want to play outside, but it's not going to be fun for anyone.

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I'm reminded about how Daniel Suarez' Change Agent opens in Singapore, because the American Ex-Pat main character had to leave the US because the Right drove an anti-science campaign that led to a massive brain drain. That book came out in 2017. I have to believe that Daniel was thinking about […]

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So Elon is just straight up stealing money out of bank accounts now? With his DOGE powers? https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/statement-from-nyc-comptroller-lander-on-the-trump-administrations-illegal-reversal-of-fema-funding/ #ElonMusk #Musk #Trump #Coup #NYC #FEMA

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Does anyone know anything about 1620 Workwear? They good people? The website doesn't have any immediate red flags, but.... * Naming the company 1620 feels like it could be a "response" of sorts to the 1619 project. * It was founded in 2018, so operating on open "pro-America" advertising at […]

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Measured 7.5" of snowfall overnight here in Central New Hampshire. #CitizenScience #Weather #Snow #NewEngland

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Today was my last day at ONCD. I turned in my White House pass, laptop and phone. I was explaining why I was resigning, while they were explaining the Special Governmental Employee (SGE) program was being eliminated. We both got to the same result. No hard feelings, I wish the best for ONCD […]

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Decided to listen to Bad Hasbara, a podcast about Israeli Propaganda started in early 2024, from the very beginning. I'm not sure I recommend doing that. A lot happened last year, and the outright falsehoods used to justify it is incredible. But you should listen to the podcast. It's […]

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I know too many people who don't understand that my believing they are ignorant is me giving them grace for their actions and choices.

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The thing about Marc Andreesen that is impossible to explain to young people in tech is that he became one of the richest people on the planet after selling a web browser company to a company that used to send unwanted CDs to everyone in America to sign up for incredibly slow Internet.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing devalues the idea of "hard work" more than Elon Musk being the richest man in the world.

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Government forms are sometimes quite funny. I was just submitting Snowfall data to the NWS from last night (2.2 fresh inches), and the bottom of the form has a citation about how it's a crime to knowlingly submitting false data on the form is punishable by "fines and imprisonment" And like […]

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Whelp, my toddler, who has been congested all day, just threw up pure snot all over my shirt, and I have a new "most disgusting" experience.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

I lived in Lafayette, LA for a decade and in the time we got a dusting of snow twice, MAYBE three times. Tomorrow, the NWS is estimating 4". Southern Louisiana is simply shutting down for a day or so. No other option, really.

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Been reading "In the Garden of Beasts", Erik Larson's book about William Dodd, the US Ambassador to Germany from 1933 - 1937. The book documents Hitler's rise from that perspective, and ultimately, the book seems to mostly be about how quickly the average German fell in line with the Nazis to […]

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

AGI has always been a nearly meaningless term, but watching Sam Altman quickly run the goal posts back several times this year, and the tech press now credulously running with his claims that we'll have AGI in 2025 is shameful. Whatever OpenAI launches this year will not be anything like what […]

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My politically conservative father just put Pink Floyd's The Wall on, and I can't even...

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I'm pretty sure I have two separate colds vying for dominance in my body right now, and it absolutely sucks.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Given how much Tech Culture has wrecked San Francisco and the South Bay over the 15-ish years I've been visiting, I can't imagine what it feels like for people who've been watching this trend for twice that long.

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Watching Deathly Hallows because my nephew is obsessed. Two things strike me: 1. The biggest in-universe crime is the idea that Ron and Hermione would still be married twenty years later. Maybe they trauma bond and marry, but it would never last. Still probably a healthier marriage than Harry […]

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The growing schism between a lot of the American Cardinals and the Vatican is going to be a real interesting mess to watch.

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