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my dad was a diabetic who was uninsured for most of his adult life and often couldn’t get the meds and treatments he needed to control his disease. we never voted the same way. but that doesn’t mean he deserved to die at 67. some of you sound just as broken as the people you want to beat.

submitted 9 hours ago • 27 comments

I think this was the entire conclusion of @jamieloftus.bsky.social "My Year In Mensa" podcast which all of you should definitely listen to so you can understand how these people actually are. Reading Nate silver's tweets isn't enough to understand viscerally the IQ chuds

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Way to remind everyone of the most condescending, micromanaging boss they ever had -- the one who didn't know what actually needed to get done but demanded absolute control nonetheless.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done." White evangelicals have given these words the feel of a threat, as they champion a regime intent on the dismantling of secular governance. @mccrummen.bsky.social sheds light on one branch, the New Apostolic Reformation. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Please stop attributing Musk's behavior to "drugs." People who use, struggle with, and rely on drugs have enough problems right now -- they are also humans.

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Jason is right here. A bunch of us spent our first couple of decades being violently programmed to fall in line when this moment came, but we learned about the broader world and we're doing the opposite. People can grow and change. It doesn't minimize past harms, but there's still hope.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

My advisor, @profgabriele.com , pointed out that this tweet is more or less the perfect summation of what my dissertation is getting it. The terminally online, hateful and irony poisoned language-game of 4-Chan has become the language of politics in the most blatant and obvious way possible.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Really irritating to see people assuming that because this caller is from West Virginia, he voted for Trump. In the call he states he’s a Democrat. I have family in WV and they’re all Democrats who are pretty scared right now

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

The fatal shooting of a US border patrol agent in Vermont. The stabbing death of a landlord in California. An elderly couple murdered in Pennsylvania. Who are the so-called Zizians, the group allegedly linked to all these killings? buff.ly/3ENqfa5

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

As Justice Breyer said, "America’s public schools are the nurseries of democracy." Which means that by expanding voucher programs, the GOP is poised to erode not only the separation of church and state but also democracy, by using public money to promote Christian nationalism to kids.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Classical music album covers have tremendous “bard of the D&D campaign energy” if that makes sense.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

How Microsoft completely failed one victim of non-consensual image abuse, not removing more than 100 explicit images for months. Everyone we spoke to for this story said the processes for removing non-consensual images are broken and big tech does whatever it wants (Resharing for the weekend)

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Roblox and Discord -- are being sued for allegedly facilitating the sexual exploitation of children online. www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

What worriws me (and should worry us all) is we are coming to an end of efforts tech regulation and guardrails. This shift goes against the scientific evidence of the structural causes of tech enabled harms and their acceleration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is basically my life, it just involves a lot more internet

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

spoiler: the answer it spat out was from an already published paper but the BBC is basically the yellow pages for llm scams at this point so that part was conveniently left out of this piece

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

This is important, I think. You hear cynicism about democracy on the left. Understandable bc the only democracy we know is bourgeois democracy: partial and compromised at best. But democracy isn't zero sum, on/off. A bit is better than none. You need some to get more. And we won what we have.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 17 hours ago • 100 comments

If anyone brings up the increase in autism diagnoses, here's a useful graph and article www.psu.edu/news/researc...

submitted 21 hours ago • 19 comments

I can't stop thinking about her... #anglerfish

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I'm here outside the Tesla showroom in Devon, Pa. west of Philly where about 10 hearty souls are protesting unelected billionaire Elon Musk #TeslaTakedown

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

No. New. PhD. Students. Direct hit on American innovation. On American competitiveness. On America.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

DOGE staffer Marko Elez, who had to resign from Treasury, is now at Social Security Administration. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 2 days ago • 238 comments

I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

A huge and hugely contentious subject @timescarcass.bsky.social and myself covered in this one: The phenomena of "estranged parents" communities coalescing online, and their status as pipelines to Far-Right ideology. youtu.be/E0k-2fQRkfE?...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Hello, Blue Sky! For my first post, I wanted to wish everyone as much peace as a sleeping polar bear in summer time 💜

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

NEW: Trump's pick to run the WH Faith Office, Paula White-Cain, has drawn blowback from a subset of conservative Calvinists influential among some in Trump's cabinet. Speaking to me, Doug Wilson called her an “erratic woman preacher who has been all over the map.” religionnews.com/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

every single YouTube music video for a song over 5 years old will have multiple comments that will make you go “Jesus Christ” at best and will haunt you forever at worst

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

I have questions: Where are the airlines in all this? Has any CEO from United, Delta, JetBlue, American, Virgin, etc. made public comments? A recent search turned up nothing. Surely safety is front of mind? Surely they're concerned about a loss in revenue due a loss in perceived safety?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The cars keep lurching to the far right.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

Education groups push back against feared cuts to school-based medicaid www.the74million.org/article/educ...

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Every liberal "paper of record": maybe the fascists have a point Eater: Know your rights

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

WAIT -- who was doing the threatening?

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Authoritarianism is inherently strange. Trump’s worsening madness and Musk’s repulsive behavior is part of that, but also it all provides an opening for actual resistance. The backlash is coming. It’s on us to be ready when the moment arrives. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/sound-and-...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I hate calling my reps but Matthew makes it so easy.

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