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The story behind names of places and countries is often very interesting

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late night arbor day dot com shopping in winter means planting 100 tree seedlings on memorial day

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I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.

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🎶 crack the sky open, put your hands up

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On this Memorial Day, remember that Hitler used used scapegoats 2 create a strong national feeling by creating an in-group & an out-group. Hitler enhanced this by using aggressive language against enemies he created. He also deported enemies of the state & unwanted people to concentration camps.

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lol I just got momentarily hysterical thinking about the fact that the New York Times got its managing director for communications to confirm on a Saturday that it is standing by its reporting that young women in China have tiny hands and this is why Apple has its factories there

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This passed 215-214. We're going to lose our healthcare because 3 senior Dems have died this year. We lost Roe because Ginsburg didn't retire. We lost the election because Joe ran for reelection. Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.

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Important detail in this Irish Times story about the private jet to hell: Irish authorities say the plane is set to land at Shannon tonight for it return trip. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed. DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

No one has shit a bed more thoroughly than the Knicks just shit that bed.

submitted 6 days ago • 104 comments

“We need a Joe Rogan of the left” no we need climate Lenin

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This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down. A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family. A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

I made a long video about the "someone's got to do it" memes, where they came from, what they're really saying, and what these posts reveal about collective trauma, political cynicism, our decaying faith in democratic institutions and so so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrj...

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

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Do the derailed Democrats know Biden isn’t president right now?

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👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a political right bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵

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As the nation that filled public pools with concrete rather than integrate them, this is well within American tradition. In this essay I will

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This week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty is happening now! Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London) On "Modernising" Sparse Gaussian Processes YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbGW...

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We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes. We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.

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Anti-surveillance poster seen in Sydney

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It appears someone car bombed a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/u...

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www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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transphobes: "we should reduce your numbers, take away your rights, legally define you out of existence." trans people: "fuck you." media: "trans row erupts, gender-critical campaigners speak of how 'abuse' by trans activists is silencing their voices in debate."

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

www.thenation.com/article/poli... undocumented conveniently could mean never documented or rescinded

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great week for m&a announcements. dicks and foot locker, charter and cox.

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Honestly it makes perfect sense to me that lawyers and CEOs are both falling head first into the LLM bubble. Both professions that value sounding confident over being correct

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dear god www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-...

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Having run out of racists in diners for sympathetic interviews swallowed whole, the #BrokenTimes & Trump now import them. "Mr. Langton said he felt much safer already." An Afrikaner Farming Family Trades South Africa for Alabama www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

Going to start calling Sam Altman "Sloppenheimer"

submitted 13 days ago • 38 comments

Ugh

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Have the hackers replaced their logo with a pair of butt cheeks or has it been like this before?

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NYT: "I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention" Kseniia Petrova "is a Russian scientist who works in a lab at Harvard Medical School. She told her story through a Times Opinion editor, Alex Ellerbeck, over multiple calls from an ICE detention center." A 30 y.o. who erred at Customs.

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WSJ's reporting agrees with what I'd heard: the Latin American cardinals had coalesced around Prevost even before the conclave, and provided the base of his support, which then attracted those opposed to Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

i do think there’s an increase in layoffs blamed on AI. CEOs use AI as a way to paint their bad position as “innovation”. if you need to layoff anyway, blame it on AI. it’s too easy/effective to not do it. people are primed to believe you

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~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 19 days ago • 631 comments

The same kind of folks who spent years complaining about masks that slowed the spread of disease are now wearing masks to facilitate the spread of fascism

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