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Constituent: When will you stand up to them and say that is enough? Rep. Fitzgerald: The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered Crowd: Booo

submitted 19 hours ago • 275 comments

"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

submitted 17 hours ago • 318 comments

What scares me most about social media is the continuous measurement of sentiment, resulting in an elastic collar scenario where the culture just continuously adjusts in different ways to release tension while quality of life just continues to degrade. How do we pull in such a way to slip the knot?

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

We live in an age where everything around us is falling apart. The attention economy has created a feedback loop of optimized delivery of low quality solutions to meet urgent needs created by that deficit. It's a nightmarish scenario where the only value that exists is in the cycle itself.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I love this article, I keep it around as a writing prompt for a dystopic sci-fi story I have yet to write. I've amassed a literal mad-libs collection of these over the years. This particular one would be my opening. #writing

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I once viewed robots as appliances meant to free us from the drudgery of labor. All I see now are grotesque biomimetic horrors put upon humanity by tech bros, where they will optimize for the labor these machines can't do or that might wear them out. Tech used to be a bicycle. Now it's a collar.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm due for a reread of the book, "The Gulag Archipelago." Thinking I can pick up some survival tips?

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 1 day ago • 715 comments

You can just see the fear in the gold market. Remember, gold pays no interest, so they are either betting on panic that will drive up prices or trying to find a safe place from a future drop. I think it's going to come in April with the jobs report?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary sector has wiped out all gains since the end of November.” (via Kevin Gordon)

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Not only did Boomers trash politics, they mortgaged their grandchildrens futures, then figured out how to blow up America and take everything with them on the way out.

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So, how's everybody dealing with the daily despair? #coping

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

It feels weird trying to figure out how to describe my experience of being impacted by racism as a minority at a predominantly Asian company. At the top line, it is just being shuffled from areas where you have strengths to those of weakness. Managers siloing you...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If you live in the US you probably have free access to the Mango Languages app through your library card. And they have like 70 languages to choose from.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 3 days ago • 1381 comments

It was auction night at Orchid Society last night. Lots of collectors were there buying stuff to sell into more exclusive markets. #plantsky #orchid #plants