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Used to be @jmsl on the site formerly known as Twitter. Account now deleted. Also @[email protected] Vice president of dog walking. Come for the intellectual dryer lint, stay for the bad takes.
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The USA’s sensibility that really everything a very wealthy person does must actually be legal is the root of many of its problems.

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"This rush can no longer be measured against what was proposed as the cultural objective, it is its radical negation, in both its excess and success." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Your regular reminder that §230 protects YOU, the person reading this post, from being sued for reposting things just as much as it protects "Big Tech" from things that still wouldn't be a viable cause of action because your problem is not with §230, it's with the first amendment

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Profs here are afraid of losing their jobs with NIH cuts and... www.al.com/news/2025/02...

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A new study finds that TikTok and Twitter have been meddling in German politics by recommending pro-AfD content to non-partisan users ahead of today's election www.linkedin.com/posts/global... More: techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

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Defense heavy Swedish counties will be obliged to be able to mass evacuate, starting within 4 hours and being completed in 3 days, in case of war. Sweden used to have these plans and now they are re-awakened. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/krav...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Zero ideas. This means they have zero ideas.

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

That’s wild why would Fareed Zakaria be applauding Elo-oh wait news is coming in

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

We put a computer that could access all the worlds knowledge in everyone’s pocket and people mostly used it to spread lies.

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

This was painted in 1917

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

I have to stop making TMNT logos

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

framework customer support needed a vid showing that my laptop crashes when jostled

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

lmfao excuse me

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

Wherein Silver tells us of his own attachment to the idea that he is “high IQ, high-agency” and somehow (ha!) not flawed or dangerous.

submitted 18 hours ago • 31 comments

OK honest question what is the root of this? Is this just how you think on drugs?

submitted 19 hours ago • 544 comments

Saturday’s legislative town hall hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee turned volatile after some attendees voiced their concerns over the possible repeal of Medicaid expansion and other bills working their way through the Idaho Legislature.

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Pensions are complicated. on.ft.com/4gXo8xz

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I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

I lived in a rural South West Missouri, I attest to the fact the little hospital in the town I lived will be closing soon, they are barley hanging on now. Many folks here survive on SSI disability they are either physically handicapped or have mental maladies. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

I mean it's drugs. And he's genuinely not very bright. And insane. but it's also 45 years of right wing and libertarian propaganda telling people that all government is always inherently bad. they genuinely don't understand how anything works.

submitted 18 hours ago • 37 comments

This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

submitted 18 hours ago • 150 comments

A List of Things People Blamed for the High Cost of Living 🧵

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If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting. Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options

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That’s gonna be a yikes from me, dawg.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 83 comments

when you insist on calling clever children geniuses you run a high chance of getting fascist nerds who think they are a superior sect if they don't get interrupted into other lines of thinking somehow. join the anti-genius league, we meet by the dumpster.

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

at this point i think it’s fair to conclude that a number of federal dems would be going much harder if not for leadership actively reigning them in. certainly the vibe on that readout from the call with the governors association

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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As Elon demands justifications from all federal workers (including many who are not Executive Branch employees), remember that if he paid his taxes, it'd pay for 677K federal jobs.

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

#compchem Good read: Linnett is Back: Chemical Bonding through the Lens of Born Maxima #compchemsky pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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New Yorker cartoon by Ellis Rosen.

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Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s hard right National Rally, has cancelled his plans to speak at CPAC after Steve Bannon “proactively made a gesture referring to Nazi ideology.” In other words, Bannon and CPAC are now too extreme for the French extreme right.

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Well, turns out there’s another layer to his dubious background. According to independent journalist Jacob Silverman, Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov, a former KGB spy. Per Silverman’s research, Martynov was an officer in the technical espionage division… gizmodo.com/doge-staffer...

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On Running systemd-nspawn Containers (2022) (benjamintoll.com) Main Link | Discussion

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Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker (@github.com) Main Link | Discussion

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Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

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Meanwhile a German user on Mastodon says that Coinbase is sending out emails endorsing the AfD mastodon.social/@ErikUden@ma...

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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FAA cuts include workers helping safety inspectors, repairing air traffic control facilities, updating digital maps that pilots use in flight, such as making changes that the FAA may direct for airplanes flying in Washington airspace following last month’s fata collision. apnews.com/article/faa-...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Put this one directly into the "who could have possibly foreseen this?" file...

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Pop culture is frozen in time for me. Bars where you throw axes Twee mustaches LCD Soundsystem retiring Edison bulbs, chalkboards, & barns Broad City Katy Perry Pokémon Go to the Polls Beets Don’t Kale My Vibe … Parenthood, biglaw, & the collapse of the Constitutional order blurs the rest.

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There is a particular method of deception that Chetan Nayak's version of Station Q uses. While you are focusing on the Q claim in front of you that looks fishy, they overwhelm you with a new one. Let's call it the 'fake it till you fake it' technique. Here is how it goes... 🧵

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MORE: Russia attempted to posture itself on equal terms with the United States during the February 18 Russian-American talks in Saudi Arabia, focusing its official public rhetoric about the meeting on US-Russian relations and not the war in Ukraine.

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the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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