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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

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The $8B to $8M mistake is getting all the press, but the IDV problem described in the second screenshot is almost certain to be the bigger mistake. It’s a basic fact about FPDS that you can’t sum contract values without massive overcounting because of this.

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🦊 Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a team of extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave. Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin...

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Just watched an urban turkey jump down from a second story fire escape. It wasn’t exactly graceful, but definitely a lot more so than WKRP would have you believe.

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"Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind," Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896

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New: the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the union representing 750,000 federal employees, told its members not to resign via that deferred resignation email they got yesterday. www.theverge.com/news/602142/...

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Happy Molasses Awareness Day to all who celebrate!

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I should be keeping a list of Horror Movie Premises My Toddler Likes To Shout, but today’s is Here Comes The Doll.

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"Congestion Pricing" - Boring, generic, no theme song "Stephin Merritt Presents the 'Fear of Trains' Tax" - Exciting, synergistic, banging theme song

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Today’s mantra: I have not worked in IT in over 20 years. It is not my job to help solve this problem just because I’m the one who found it.

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Rolling into 2025 like

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Toddler insisting on listening to Bryan Ferry’s “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” cover several times in a row for New Year’s Eve, rather than start winding down to go to sleep, feels a little on the nose.

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Toddler just handed me a black crayon and demanded I draw the sun. My closeted goth soul could not be more proud.

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New year, new ways to save money. 
Starting in 2025, people across the country no longer have to hand their money over to TurboTax to file their taxes. 
Instead, you can file your taxes online, for free with the IRS. 
See if you're eligible at directfile.irs.gov

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People are saying! www.gao.gov/products/gao...

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Replies were closed or I’d only have subjected Mattie to this, but this immediately reminded me of the @benmonreal.bsky.social Likert scale extension of a while back.

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PSA: If you were able to find half-price advent calendars during December, you can start one tomorrow to provide yourself a soothing piece of chocolate every day leading up to the inauguration.

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Realizing that I very badly need a Christmas sweater with traditional patterns, but emblazoned with the words “Muddle Through Somehow.”

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