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Blue Atheist. Mathematician, Statistician, and AI scientist.
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Germany de-Nazified after WWII. The United States never de-Confederatized after the Civil War. That’s why we still have massive problems. Here is how Germany addressed some of this while balancing free speech, absolutely fascinating food for thought:

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The right to peacefully protest is fundamental. It is in the Constitution. No president can nullify it—because in the United States of America, we have no kings. Join @indivisible.org and more this weekend to make your voice heard: www.nokings.org

submitted 11 days ago • 122 comments

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

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According to AP, the typical pay package for S&P 500 CEOs rose to $17M last year — an increase of 9.7%. At half of the companies surveyed, it would take the median worker 192 years to make what the CEO did in one year.  This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

submitted 20 days ago • 307 comments

NEW: Everything wrong in America is because of the ultra-wealthy. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/its-the-ol...

submitted 24 days ago • 684 comments

A credit default swap (CDS) is a derivative contract that transfers credit risk from one party (the buyer) to another (the seller).

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The candidate who actually cares about Romanian security and prosperity won Now the far-right tries to construct an alternative reality and contest the results.

submitted 35 days ago • 54 comments

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I respect: 1) people who reach high positions but stay on the side of regular people. 2) people at high positions that live in a regular building. 3) people who wholeheartedly love others, no matter what. RIP “Jorge Mario Bergoglio”.

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Silicon Valley's gamble on Trump isn't paying off open.substack.com/pub/natesilv...

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NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS Judge Boasberg's restraining order against the deportation of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. The majority holds that migrants must file habeas petitions where they're confined. Liberals + BARRETT dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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It’s pretty much impossible to overstate how every single set of actors in 🇺🇸 politics & society have comprehensively failed to meet the current authoritarian moment. We have shown ourselves to be a deeply unserious country where laws, oaths, & the constitution do not matter & no one seems to care.

submitted 94 days ago • 17 comments

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As surely as if bombs are being dropped on our cities, we are trashing our economy by trashing science: "Estimates of the value of weather and climate information to the U.S. economy exceed $100 billion annually, roughly 10x the investment made by U.S. taxpayers." www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

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A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

submitted 115 days ago • 23 comments

Terrible.

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BREAKING—RFK Jr’s FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. God help us all.

submitted 116 days ago • 484 comments

Trump is the energy emergency—and he’s killing jobs and raising costs. My joint statement with @senatorheinrich.bsky.social regarding Republicans’ rubber-stamping of Trump’s war on affordable, American-made energy:

submitted 116 days ago • 20 comments