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"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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not everything is explicable in layperson terms, and not everything needs to be explicable in layperson terms. blaming intellectuals for anti intellectualism starts to look like blaming the victim at some point. 1

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

AI, so research helpful

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Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

submitted 14 hours ago • 3596 comments

I would say remotely competent historians understand that major events in history are historically shaped by men born into wealth and power and lots of them were idiots. (Caligula: psychopathic dumbass!)

submitted 14 hours ago • 81 comments

related phenomenon: -AI becoming the "new definitive source" of information, over and above the data it's hoovering into its models, and purporting to replace the need for that data altogether with synthetically-produced input

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

I suspect that our polling culture plays a role here. When we focus on measuring shifts in people's support for particular politicians and policy positions, it's easy to lose sight of the harder-to-measure affective forces that are driving the change.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Today, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted to defy the federal court ruling that blocked the executive order against providing gender-affirming care for patients under 19 and violate the Code of Virginia. Discrimination isn’t just wrong; it’s illegal. They’ll undoubtedly be sued.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It’s amazing how concerns about the President’s cognition disappeared on January 20, 2025.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 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 23 hours ago • 105 comments

OpenAI is a non-profit because the databases of copyrighted material they needed to collect to train their system were only legal to compile in the first place if they were used for non-profit research purposes. Sam is just lying his ass off here.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Seriously, people

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And I’m not even an Americanist!!!

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I don’t mean to be rude about this, but since Musk isn’t the DOGE administrator, under what authority is he ordering this? If this is an order from Trump, where is it written up and why isn’t it implemented via Cabinet secretaries?

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this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

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I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s obsession with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

The President who was doing flyovers at Daytona and golfing through his presidency wants an accounting of every federal employee’s work week or they will be fired. This while Elon Musk won’t account for any of his time to Congress.

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

what a weird coincidence that two different people at CPAC inadvertently made gestures that bear a passing resemblance to a Hitlergruß

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More good reporting like this, please, cutting through the lies and bullshit of Musk et al. This is the #GoodTimes DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Feels like academia - especially in the humanities - is rapidly being murdered globally.

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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

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UVA’s BOV encouraging families to go elsewhere for gender affirming care, apparently blissfully unaware that there is nowhere else to go

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The works that come out of the new NEH cycle: • A Glorious March to Freedom: How Great Men Built America Without Any Complications • Manifest Greatness: The Inspiring Story of America's Perfect Journey Forward • Founding Fathers and Other Flawless Figures: America’s Unblemished Path to Glory

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Quid, meet quo

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The Times cartoons are very good at the moment.

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🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target. They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed. This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.

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One of my best friends and coworkers was told he’s most likely going to be laid off tomorrow because he’s a probationary employee He’s only probationary because he’s a veteran hire and they have a 2 yr rather than 1 yr period He’s the highest performing person here This is so fucking stupid

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 2 days ago • 206 comments