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Younger adults are far more likely than older adults to report using YouTube and TikTok daily. www.pewresearch.org/...
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Younger adults are far more likely than older adults to report using YouTube and TikTok daily. www.pewresearch.org/...
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Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"
September 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"
Eglantyne Jebb co-founded Save the Children after World War 1. Save is still a leading international humanitarian organization. #nonprofit #NGO
Overlooked No More: Eglantyne Jebb, Who Started a Movement With Save the Children
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Eglantyne Jebb co-founded Save the Children after World War 1. Save is still a leading international humanitarian organization. #nonprofit #NGO
The importance of #health and nutrition systems and how they matter for creating and maintaining #jobs, building skills, and boosting manufacturing and productivity. #Africa
Why Universal Health Coverage Matters in West and Central Africa
blogs.worldbank.org
August 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
Now with Dept of Ed layoffs, #DC is going to be a tough place to find jobs.
D.C. doesn't have enough white-collar jobs for displaced feds
They're entering what's already a "competitive market."
www.axios.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Now with Dept of Ed layoffs, #DC is going to be a tough place to find jobs.
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Here's what we lose when teams like USDS and 18F are suddenly deleted.
New from me:
www.wired.com/story/doge-m...
New from me:
www.wired.com/story/doge-m...
DOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk
In its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things.
www.wired.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Here's what we lose when teams like USDS and 18F are suddenly deleted.
New from me:
www.wired.com/story/doge-m...
New from me:
www.wired.com/story/doge-m...
Interesting piece on the effects of #ketamine
What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain
Excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world.
www.theatlantic.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Interesting piece on the effects of #ketamine
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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How to get rid of the new Apple Mail redesign
How to get rid of the new Apple Mail redesign
There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes, and tech platforms making design changes that are universally disliked. The latest victim to this phenomenon is the Apple Mail app, which got a major redesign in iOS 18. This update is also rolling…
tcrn.ch
March 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
How to get rid of the new Apple Mail redesign
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NEW: We compiled and confirmed a list of some of the top people working inside the govt under the banner of DOGE. We even uncovered a DOGE-branded chatbot on one of the employees’ personal websites.
As always, reach us if you have a tip or know what’s going on. ✌️
techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/t...
As always, reach us if you have a tip or know what’s going on. ✌️
techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/t...
The people in Elon Musk's DOGE universe | TechCrunch
Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisors in Elon Musk's inner circle, and how they got there.
techcrunch.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
NEW: We compiled and confirmed a list of some of the top people working inside the govt under the banner of DOGE. We even uncovered a DOGE-branded chatbot on one of the employees’ personal websites.
As always, reach us if you have a tip or know what’s going on. ✌️
techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/t...
As always, reach us if you have a tip or know what’s going on. ✌️
techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/t...
Just watched Sly Lives! documentary on Hulu. @questlove.bsky.social nails it again, good piece. Don’t necessarily agree with this review, but it does make a few good points. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m... #music
‘Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)’ Review: Struggling to Transmit
Questlove’s new documentary aims to dissect the forward-looking brilliance of Sly Stone and his band, but mostly it traces their downward arc.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Just watched Sly Lives! documentary on Hulu. @questlove.bsky.social nails it again, good piece. Don’t necessarily agree with this review, but it does make a few good points. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m... #music
Just got an email from someone called Trader Insight with this awful #GenAI image. And this is where I hate the use of it, espeically since you could have used thousands of images of the two of them together.
February 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Just got an email from someone called Trader Insight with this awful #GenAI image. And this is where I hate the use of it, espeically since you could have used thousands of images of the two of them together.
This #flu season is bad, not just your imagination. I had a flu vaccine in Oct and still had flu all last week. #fluseason #vaccines
Flu season in the US is the most intense it’s been in at least 15 years | CNN
The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years.
amp.cnn.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This #flu season is bad, not just your imagination. I had a flu vaccine in Oct and still had flu all last week. #fluseason #vaccines
February 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The administration had earlier planned to keep less than 300 staff at the world's largest donor, slashing more than 95% from its more than 10,000-person workforce.
Trump will double USAID staff numbers to 600, up from 300 yesterday
www.devex.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The administration had earlier planned to keep less than 300 staff at the world's largest donor, slashing more than 95% from its more than 10,000-person workforce.
"Richard Nixon was the most recent American president to govern as if the laws of the land did not apply to him, but 'this is far beyond anything that Nixon even attempted.'" #musk #usaid
Elon Musk is shredding America’s government as he did Twitter
Some of his operatives are barely out of their teens
www.economist.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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The following pages have been removed from the CDC website. This used to be known as censorship. Not sure what the new word is.
February 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The following pages have been removed from the CDC website. This used to be known as censorship. Not sure what the new word is.
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Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
Websites offer only error messages on Thursday after president demands agriculture department shutter sites
On Thursday, the Trump administration ordered the US agriculture department to remove its websites documenting or referencing the climate crisis.…
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
Foreign aid cuts will produce sector-wide job losses of between 2-3K global development professionals in #DC (via @devex.com)
www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
Exclusive: Up to 3,000 DC aid workers laid off by next week, CEO says
DT Global's CEO told staff members many other firms could furlough or retrench the vast majority of their staff.
www.devex.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Foreign aid cuts will produce sector-wide job losses of between 2-3K global development professionals in #DC (via @devex.com)
www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
Hey #Commanders, you went farther than anyone would have thought this season. Not a great day, but you can build on this. #football
Column | A dazzling Commanders season ended. Now an unfamiliar future awaits.
The Commanders established a new standard and it took them to the NFC championship game. Let’s see what they can do for an encore.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Hey #Commanders, you went farther than anyone would have thought this season. Not a great day, but you can build on this. #football
"No country can truly prosper if large portions of the population suffer from deficiencies in education, health, and nutritious food." Maybe #Africa or #Asia will need to start an org to help the US?
The End of Progress? | by Joseph E. Stiglitz - Project Syndicate
Joseph E. Stiglitz predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
www.project-syndicate.org
January 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal)
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January 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal)
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