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Exploring the world • Programmer • Flying • Scuba Ex-mechatronics grad learning more about geology and biology and refreshing my maths and physics (Also, set "alt text before posting" in accessibility.)
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1st: vaccines work 2nd: social media companies developed their OG vaccine policies in response to *outbreaks like this* in Samoa & Bklyn. Not COVID! They boosted good info. They labeled false claims. That got redefined as “censorship” by ppl who profit from lies. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

“This Week in Democracy: Week 5 – The 'King' Purges His Generals” Read and share the latest from Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term:

submitted 4 hours ago • 50 comments

#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover Left Navigation Camera (Navcam) 1422 - 1425 mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul... NASA/JPL/j. Roger 🔭

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

"In public health...reckless cuts may look good on a balance sheet today but could cost Americans far more in the long run—both in dollars and in lives." #Medsky .

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

I've made the difficult decision to turn off the US Politics Labeler. The linked post has more info about why and what's next. I will shortly begin the process of removing the labeler's data from my server. If you want to run your own, the source code is linked in the article.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 3 days ago • 4564 comments

Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...

submitted 3 days ago • 598 comments

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

submitted 3 days ago • 3393 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America -- politicians have always lied, nothing new about that. But the level that we're seeing right now. The big lie, over and over again ... "

submitted 3 days ago • 549 comments

COLLINS: You are a coequal branch of government BERNIE SANDERS: Are we?! I kinda thought so, but you'll have to explain that to the president

submitted 3 days ago • 340 comments

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

submitted 3 days ago • 1112 comments

Three areas where you don't want to hear someone say "OOPS!": 1. The nuclear weapons arsenal 2. National flight traffic control 3. Viral surveillance & safety Starting to think the "exploding rockets and crashing Twitter" guy might not be the right expert to run our government.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

The US is no longer reporting flu data to the WHO. "CDC right now is not reporting influenza data through the WHO global platforms, FluNet [and] FluID, that they’ve been providing information for many, many years."

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Air traffic controllers stifle pilot innovation

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.

submitted 5 days ago • 285 comments

Here's an example of the sort of tests I run with "AI" to see if they're still on their bullshit. One of these listed characters doesn't exist in the book. Gemini just plain made them up. Again: what does it get wrong about the things I *don't* know about?

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

Good post on "civic engagement", written after the election but obviously more crucial now drawdown.org/insights/bey... It includes the point, made centuries ago, that having citizens vote without also having regular civic engagement is nonsensical.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments