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Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud.... The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

Helpful note: if the DC office isn't picking up, you can also call your reps' local offices. Per another user, "Tap the dots to right of the DC number and local office numbers come up."

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Stating the obvious: tariffs are a regressive tax on the poorest Americans. A company pays the tariff, and raises their prices to get that money. That price is paid by the consumer. Duh

submitted 21 days ago • 968 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 31 days ago • 835 comments

The Trump Administration has officially closed the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. This is a crushing blow to all the significant and historic work we've made over the last 4 years. Biden's work on guns has saved thousands of lives- the Trump admin is trying to reverse that.

submitted 32 days ago • 49 comments