Rahat S.
@ecotrombonegal.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UMD College Park researching (stormwater) green infrastructure. Maryland Sea Grant Fellow. Trombonist. #VeryAsian #academicsky.
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Michael Burry, the investor made famous by "The Big Short," is shorting Nvidia and Palantir.
Michael Burry Bets He Isn’t Too Early to Go Against the AI Juggernaut
The investor made famous by ‘The Big Short’ is shorting Nvidia and Palantir.
on.wsj.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I STILL have symptoms from when I got covid years ago. Studies show reinfection causes additional damage. What's wrong with me wanting to protect myself? Especially at events known to spread disease (like conferences, concerts, etc)?
Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
December 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I STILL have symptoms from when I got covid years ago. Studies show reinfection causes additional damage. What's wrong with me wanting to protect myself? Especially at events known to spread disease (like conferences, concerts, etc)?
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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Perhaps 2026 will be the year when everyone who thinks they can do something better than what's on offer will just go ahead and do it themselves.
December 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Perhaps 2026 will be the year when everyone who thinks they can do something better than what's on offer will just go ahead and do it themselves.
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One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
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Best Twitter riposte of the day
December 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Best Twitter riposte of the day
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www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...
This is really inspiring - so great to have a good-news story for a change
This is really inspiring - so great to have a good-news story for a change
How a resurrected Toronto river led to a flood of flora and fauna not seen in decades
The Don River mouth and Biidaasige Park is giving way to wild and plant life the city has not seen in more than 100 years.
www.thestar.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...
This is really inspiring - so great to have a good-news story for a change
This is really inspiring - so great to have a good-news story for a change
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unironically a good idea
December 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
unironically a good idea
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The combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many food pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry during this busy holiday season.
Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
December 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many food pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry during this busy holiday season.
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a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
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Here's to all the people doing all the emotional labor and heavy lifting of the holidays.
and by people I mean mostly women, still.
and by people I mean mostly women, still.
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here's to all the people doing all the emotional labor and heavy lifting of the holidays.
and by people I mean mostly women, still.
and by people I mean mostly women, still.
I feel like I chose a great time to visit Southern California.
December 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I feel like I chose a great time to visit Southern California.
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Let's pull the number up to the top: $75 billion per year
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have
ysph.yale.edu
December 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Let's pull the number up to the top: $75 billion per year
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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People on 60 Minutes have pretty consistently been brave and willing to give a damn to the point of losing their job rather than sell out their soul and this email is sadly probably going to be a part of that
December 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
People on 60 Minutes have pretty consistently been brave and willing to give a damn to the point of losing their job rather than sell out their soul and this email is sadly probably going to be a part of that
We need to demand that the democrats hold hearings if they win congress.
We need detailed plans on how to prosecute the lawbreakers in the current administration, and how candidates plan to implement those plans
This administration is going to crash, and we are going to get ONE CHANCE to fix things with massive structural reform. We have to start building support for that now. If we miss this moment more competent fascists will take power in the election after Dems win, and there will be no coming back.
December 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
We need to demand that the democrats hold hearings if they win congress.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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DID ANYONE MANAGE TO ARCHIVE???
December 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
DID ANYONE MANAGE TO ARCHIVE???
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Bennett and Hickenlooper shut down minibus federal funding to save Boulder’s NCAR
coloradosun.com/2025/12/19/m...
coloradosun.com/2025/12/19/m...
Colorado's U.S. senators hold up appropriations package over NCAR’s future
Many Colorado Democrats viewed the move to dismantle NCAR as retaliation over the state’s decision not to hand over or release former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters
coloradosun.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Hell yes, save NCAR
Bennett and Hickenlooper shut down minibus federal funding to save Boulder’s NCAR
coloradosun.com/2025/12/19/m...
coloradosun.com/2025/12/19/m...
Colorado's U.S. senators hold up appropriations package over NCAR’s future
Many Colorado Democrats viewed the move to dismantle NCAR as retaliation over the state’s decision not to hand over or release former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters
coloradosun.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Hell yes, save NCAR
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We ran into these issues during the MOOC days and ended up just sort of giving up on enforcement because of this boondoggle. I sincerely hope that every professor sues their outgoing institutions on these very grounds. May the legal morass bog us down for a generation.
If syllabi are UNC IP, does this mean that a faculty member who leaves Chapel Hill for another university would be barred from teaching the same or a similar course at the new institution?
December 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We ran into these issues during the MOOC days and ended up just sort of giving up on enforcement because of this boondoggle. I sincerely hope that every professor sues their outgoing institutions on these very grounds. May the legal morass bog us down for a generation.
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‘“I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”’
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
‘“I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”’
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These types of dudes are afraid women will treat them they way they want to treat women.
December 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
These types of dudes are afraid women will treat them they way they want to treat women.
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I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism