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Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC: "What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Okay somehow it's Friday and somehow we made it (congrats!) 🤯 To make the doomscroll easier, here's a thread of all the wild stuff we learned this week, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social's analysis on why DOGE is the deep state (and Elon Musk's extended universe.)

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Meme in real life

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After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve. Doge is the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:

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"If a bunch of shadowy, unelected figures, many with shared business interests and connections, took over government functions at the highest levels and directly contravened the will of Congress, what might you call that? How about … DOGE?" www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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Tech journalists are really doing the best political reporting right now @404media.co @wired.com www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

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Someone needs to explain to our Sec of Commerce how capitalism works. America has a GLOBAL TRADE SURPLUS on services. Services have the highest margins and profits of our exports. That is where capital and expertise focused. It is why we dominate in tech globally.

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1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills. While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation. Watch their speech. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.

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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” - Elon Musk I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people. 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Crockett: I want to be clear about one thing. Women's issues, they are all of our issues. Because the last time I checked, we all came from a woman.

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At least the AI uprising will be polite

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Everything is political now, whether you want it or not

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Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is the story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

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Hang this in the Louvre

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Everyone should see this YouTube Short with EUs top diplomat Kaja Kallas on Russian Negotiation Techniques. youtube.com/shorts/u1cTR...

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Dear Americans: the call is coming from inside the house

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Guess who forgot to exclude PostgreSQL from automatic upgrades resulting in active queries being aborted? #dev #postgresql

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Flow was so good, well deserved win at the Oscars

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Whoever supports this is a murderous ghoul

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Sign of the day…

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If Zelenskywas wearing a suit, they'd ask him how he can wear that while his country is at war

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Okay... we feel like we say this every week but a lot of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)

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fascinating to watch a global superpower tear itself apart for no good reason

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I think about this headline all of the time.

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Does anyone have any good news?

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Have we tried turning the world on and off again

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That feeling when you delete four years of backups

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NYT right emphasis & tone on Trump trying to help Russia beat Ukraine: -All lead stories -Calls out GOP abandoning supposed principles -Says Trump's up-is-down lie "rewriting history" -Reminds of Russia atrocities And I can't help but note: They really can cover bad things as bad when they want to

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Dear bookstores - I'm sorry I ever bought anything at Amazon. Please accept my sincere apology; we were wrong, you were right.

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What we take for granted today can be gone tomorrow.

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Y’all realize this is some North Korea type sh*t going on right now, right?

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Sorry about reality. My bad.

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Democrat president: I am so proud of our great nation, today we passed a resolution to form a committee to deliberate on the possibility of a symbolic gesture in solidarity with some of the less politically uncontroversial immigrants Republican president: I pushed the human rights violation button

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The history books covering these years will be wild

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Why is real life turning into an episode of South Park?

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Generating commit messages with GitHub Copilot is the greatest invention since sliced bread #dev #softwaredevelopment #copilot #github

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AI is great because it allows me to create more software faster. Coincidentally that is also why it's bad.

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Just recommended this to a friend: a documentary about a Cold War bunker turned hacker hideout.

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