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Non-practicing intellectual sharing historical oddities and modern jeremiads. My apologies in advance.
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Sup Midwest

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After he made Juneteenth "famous," he forgot about it. www.npr.org/2025/06/20/g...

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Finally, a Holy War I can join

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We’ve got money to bulldoze the White House Rose Garden and turn it into a Mar-a-Lago-style patio, but we can’t pay for cancer research for kids or make sure veterans aren’t living off food stamps.

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Wow, this seems like a terrible idea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXd...

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Perfect timing, gang, keep up the good work. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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We used to be a country where friends sent friends postcards of oil tank fires.

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If only there were a way to remove the cap on earnings. Oh well, guess it's impossible. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...

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The Roblox kids are alright. www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-a...

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I shit you not, people

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The hills are not alive with the sound of braying. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-po...

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Oregon's lawmakers just threw the state's ranchers a bone. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/17/o...

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In which we get an answer to the question: "Is it humanly possible for someone to consistently, every day, every week, 24/7, 365 days a year, in every situation imaginable, be a total asshole?" www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Good article on "road ecology." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-if-ever...

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The powerful "Drunkards Association" weighs in. tribuneonlineng.com/ghana-reduce...

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If you're in the market for an 1890 Fabergé pickle made from jade, gold, and rose-cut diamonds, then do I have a deal for you. www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4...

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Man, fuck this guy. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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"The Importance of Beating Ernst" www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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These are the real heroes. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village

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RED HAT RED HAT RED HAT RED HAT RED HAT HATRED

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In Berlin, protesters are sending thoughts to the president regarding his combo birthday/big-boy military parade.

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The Voice of America cracks. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

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my grandpa was illiterate so i have no idea if this ouija board is working or not

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Welp

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1700: Notable absolute monarch — Louis XIV (“L’État, c’est moi”/I am the state) 2025: Notable absolute mook — D. Trump (“The twat, it is me”)

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Alex Padilla: MIT grad Kristi Noem: Snow queen

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More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

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Om sweet om (or else).

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the boy who cried wolf would be a way cooler story if actual wolves came out of his eyes

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This nicely subverts the entire purpose of higher education: “OpenAI is trying to embed its chatbot in every facet of college life. First up: the more than 460,000 students in the California State University system.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

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Good news – since Andrew Jackson is “Trump’s favorite president,” sharing this lesson from the past will no doubt dissuade the White House from selling off precious public lands. Bluesky can make a difference!

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Well, that's fucked up. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

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The Orlando Sentinel, Florida, 1926 (via @yesterdaysprint.bsky.social):

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Breathtaking idiocy. wapo.st/4kumlCM

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Study of the Day: Eve Armstrong, “My Cat Chester’s Dynamical Systems Analysyyyyy7777777777777777y7is of the Laser Pointer and the Red Dot on the Wall: Correlation, Causation, or SARS-Cov-2 Hallucination?” arxiv.org/pdf/2103.17058

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NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

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“A fight between two children who hate each other.”

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Nothing captures the poetry and imagination of creativity like turning the knob to 11.

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That would be *19* health code violations if Trump shows up in a polo shirt. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/04/t...

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Shoutout to John Morales for going on the air to warn about cuts to science and their real effects. www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

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