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Today is Friday in California.

Huh???

‘Free Luigi’ billboard has gone up in lower Manhattan the evening before his next court appearance. Sent in anon.

Who remembers fighting for real round 1, fighting for real down to 10% health round 2 (then winner afk'ing), then going for real round 3?

People complaining about not having a training mode in a beta would not have survived the arcades

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Five major airlines—American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, and United—have joined an airline trade association lawsuit to overturn a Department of Transportation rule that forces airlines to treat wheelchair users and their mobility devices with dignity.

THIS IS HUGE! For the FIRST time in history, scientists at Sanaria and Seattle Children's Research Institute's Center for Global Infectious Disease Research (CGIDR) have developed a GROUNDBREAKING malaria vaccine (PfSPZ-LARC2) designed to provide >90% protection with just ONE dose. 🧪🧵⬇️

Less consumerism 2025!

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

I’m definitely not getting on the Y Combinator Betaplane absolutely fucking not

Listen up.

Bummed that you haven't been able to buy a physical Suica or PASMO card? Good news! Both JR East and PASMO Corp have deemed the IC chip crisis over. The companies say they'll resume selling anonymous IC cards as of March 1st.

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BABE WAKE UP THEY'RE MAKING A PHANTASY STAR TTRPG skydawngames.com/phantasystar...

Unfortunately, this is the last 70+ years of conservative politics if we count white flight from public schools after the Brown v. Board of Education decision. It was the essence of Reaganism in the 1980s as well

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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246 years ago today, the people of Hawai’i said “Live, Love, Land Back” by executing Captain James Cook for his crimes. Mahalo i ke kānaka maoli! Happy Captain Cooked Day 🥰💕

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

"...as historically significant as any other lauded for setting a new standard, reaching a new audience, or boldly pursuing a unique idea in the face of general indifference" Let's take a look at Angelique Special! ko-fi.com/post/Angeliq...

Korea does capitalist oligarchy even harder than the US. like I don't think there's a quality about Korea that makes it a nobler country, I think there's something fundamentally and bizarrely wrong with America right now

Put more bluntly: sheltered people are incompetent when faced with danger.

Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference

HEADLINE: CDC posts, then deletes, data on bird flu spread between cats and people. The data which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. It is evident the CDC is being muzzled SO let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND your pets. 🧪🧵 ⬇️

So basically what we're learning here is that money isn't safe in your bank account and can literally just vanish overnight if the government dislikes you personally. I wonder if that scary information spreading organically, perhaps on social media, could have some negative consequences.

Partition is commonly regarded as a genocidal event by historians these days

I'm just a simple country pundit, but I think "Trump protects corrupt, incredibly unpopular mayor of New York City" is something Democrats should shout from the rooftops. nypost.com/2025/02/13/u...

DOGE received approval to use PuTTY, which could be used to transfer large amounts of data out of Labor department systems.

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.