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NEW: A WIRED investigation reveals that Elon Musk’s Starlink is serving internet to scam compounds in Myanmar where tens of thousands of human beings are enslaved. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/starli...

submitted 110 days ago • 25 comments

Why would there be an apocalypse when you’re in charge and so amazing at everything, Elon? WHY WOULD THERE BE AN APOCALYPSE WHEN YOU’RE IN CHARGE & SO AWESOME AT EVERYTHING, ELON?

submitted 109 days ago • 13 comments

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

submitted 128 days ago • 70 comments

My love for you is like a peregrine falcon. One more valentine from a past year.

submitted 124 days ago • 24 comments

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

submitted 125 days ago • 72 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 134 days ago • 490 comments

Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be

submitted 136 days ago • 196 comments

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

submitted 139 days ago • 978 comments

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

submitted 138 days ago • 266 comments

love it when i am a humanist who believes our only hope is to become a multiplanetary society and have lots of babies and also i cut off all funding to starving infants and NASA

submitted 140 days ago • 95 comments

alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

submitted 148 days ago • 96 comments

Hope this helps

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my lawyer friends posting on LinkedIn about what's going vs how this whole thing definitely looks to me as a non-lawyer

submitted 337 days ago • 18 comments