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Since the casual eugenicists are coming out of the woodwork at the mention of IQ here, Richard Feynman had an IQ of 125 when he was tested in high school.

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Years ago, our team brought on an external consultant who was tech-adjacent. They refused to use or learn our modeling tools or read our previous work, but spent weeks trying to work things out from first principles. (1/x)

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This is the first part of Character Limit that made me laugh so hard I had to put my phone down

submitted 13 days ago • 39 comments

It is almost impossible to explain the sheer insanity of Elon Musk apparently having the capability to email the entire federal government evidently without getting approval from anyone—and, apparently, against the wishes of most Cabinet departments.

submitted 5 hours ago • 65 comments

Good morning from Ocean Beach 🌊 🎥: Eric Thurber

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Collins is once again concerned. So, what is she going to do about it?

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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

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Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

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Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

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“They wanna be in the city, but don’t wanna use their name…It feels extremely disrespectful” -Padres Broadcast Game 1 and already opposing teams broadcast are weighing in. This executive FO has made one bad PR move after the next and this was always a puzzling one. #FJF

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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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Hegseth on CQ Brown: "Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter."

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Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

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Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Yeah @kqednews.kqed.org, reporting on the DOT & Public Works’ combined $1.6M overspending over 7 years, but not OPD’s projected $52M overspending in a single year, is absolutely negligent.

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Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 2 days ago • 238 comments

The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 2949 comments

I posted a copy of the 3 minute version of my speech from yesterday (with citations) if anyone is interested. Feel free to steal from it if you want! (also, this is literally less than half of the Nazi shit they're currently pulling)

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Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by Republicans. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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This is going to be another rough week for our colleagues in government & for all of us. Vast cuts of govt scientists hurts everyone’s health. Let’s talk about what this will do to vaccines. This is the process. Here’s how they’re going to undermine it: www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...

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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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It’s like they’ve embedded colonies of termites throughout the entirety of the nation’s governmental infrastructure that are slowly eating away at the supports that make modern life possible for ordinary people. Seems like it’s just a matter of time before the cascading collapses start happening.

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SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

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And this question from @jamellebouie.net is not far fetched. The CDC used to collaborate closely with WHO to determine the composition of the next flu vaccine. A highly coordinated, data-driven process that involved global influenza surveillance, virological analysis, and vaccine strain selection.

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

we're a 'oops we canceled a treasury payment that backends the entire system' snafu away from a shitshow

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

i think we are a few weeks to a few months away from finding out what a true mass panic looks like in a shattered and broken information environment

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