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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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Did the US fight on the wrong side in World War II? This Federalist Society law professor thinks so.

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How Vladimir Putin became an unlikely folk hero for many white working-class Americans.

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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This will be fantastic, really looking forward to this

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Another #podcast episode that made my #nerdy heart happy. In this episode of the Word of Mouth podcast, Michael Rosen talks to Professor David Adger about how he uses his #linguistics skills to create new #languages for film and television. Link: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #langsky

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Things I find when I browse around for travel destinations. -- Esperanto Museum. Museum devoted to the artificial language. www.atlasobscura.com/places/esper... via @atlasobscura.com #esperanto #language #museum #vienna #wanderlust #langsky

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Somebody needs to build, and fund, this. #LangSky

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Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

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“You let that unstable piece of human scaffolding into your house?” -Selina Meyer to Jonah Ryan, VEEP

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The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

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Predicting System Dynamics of Universal Growth Patterns in Complex Systems – Hedayatifar et al (2025)

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Whomever is running The Simulation is clearly stanning The Omen at this point.

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A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

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Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

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Someone should write a book about all the crackpot theories that have ever been proposed about Stonehenge, and title it 'Unhenged'

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I love this so much #severance

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“Surprisingly, while AI can improve efficiency, it may also reduce critical engagement, particularly in routine or lower-stakes tasks in which users simply rely on AI, raising concerns about long-term reliance and diminished independent problem-solving.”

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Dammit

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So here’s the thing…

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Numbers stations are shortwave radio broadcasts that transmit sequences of spoken numbers. They are believed to have been used as coded messages for intelligence agents since World War I. While many stations are thought to be relics of Cold War spying, some still broadcast today. ➡️ w.wiki/Cizu

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I worked in a Senate office during HS 20+ years ago and can say this is 100% true. When answering the phone, we kept a clipboard to tally which issues people were calling about. Ten or more calls on an issue were considered a big deal!

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As an IRS agent, Tigran Gambaryan was perhaps the most effective crypto investigator in history. Then last year he was charged in Nigeria with money laundering and thrown in prison. Throughout, he was texting with me from a secret phone. This is his full, untold story. www.wired.com/story/untold...

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If law enforcement can't figure out what to charge you with, that's a good sign that it's probably not a crime.

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funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

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Almost certainly being paranoid, but astronomers: someone outside the US has ADS backed up, right?

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🏺 This discussion by colleagues in astro got me wondering are there US-based #archaeology orgs/projects with vulnerable data/resources which could do with some extra protection or backups provided by colleagues located elsewhere?

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Bookmark this to review in 6 months.

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This is worth the watch,. Even it’s just for populating your upcoming bingo cards.

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You wanna fight back? Find folks like this, and support them. Anyone with this message that resonates with you. Just support whomever you believe pushes the good place: youtu.be/bQ9oaprjSzE?...

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I dunno who needs to hear this (it’s all of you. All of us, really.) but: www.instagram.com/reel/DD6DQEy...

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still think folks are missing woods for trees on security. very big problem: people plugging random shit into federal systems somehow even bigger problem: entire federal workforce being demoralized somehow even biggest problem: entire world's private sector deciding to buy not-american in future

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The Room Next Door - Donald Trump Plane Crash Fact Check

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Radio 3 vs Classic FM.

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Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Tonight at Law Dork: What the Musk is going on? With new info on yet another Fork FAQ email sent to all federal workers tonight from the now-infamous hr at opm dot gov address. www.lawdork.com/p/sunday-sca...

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Security steps to take if you use an iPhone: 1. Make sure you have an alphanumberic passcode, not a PIN. 2. For even remotely sensitive conversations, Use iMessage ONLY. Signal for cross-ecosystem chats. 1/?

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"Using Egg Substitutes in Baking and Cooking" via @UMaineExtension extension.umaine.edu/food-health/...

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Not many people know what the US Digital Services is — it was set up during the Obama admin to allow super smart techies to work w the fed govt for a year or two, to revamp & improve its tech Think of it as a “peace corps” type thing, that many Silicon Valley folks did bc they wanted to help

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Some great work in the comments.

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