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Do you know how hard it is to poll something at 94%? 10% of Americans believe the moon is made of barbecue spare ribs
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Do you know how hard it is to poll something at 94%? 10% of Americans believe the moon is made of barbecue spare ribs
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This story details that the teen they detained for six months was just about to graduate high school early at the age of 16.
Definitely the kind of irredeemable criminal monster we don’t want in America.
Definitely the kind of irredeemable criminal monster we don’t want in America.
Meriden teen is back home for Christmas, after six months in detention at an ICE facility
The Meriden community welcomes home a teen who was detained for six months at a federal ICE facility.
www.ctpublic.org
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This story details that the teen they detained for six months was just about to graduate high school early at the age of 16.
Definitely the kind of irredeemable criminal monster we don’t want in America.
Definitely the kind of irredeemable criminal monster we don’t want in America.
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Specifically, a protest song about how the sons of the rich were able to avoid fighting, like fighting-age Donald Trump who got four deferments for being in college and another for bone spurs.
Trump posts footage of the Maduro raid set to "Fortunate Son" -- a protest song about the Vietnam War draft
January 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Specifically, a protest song about how the sons of the rich were able to avoid fighting, like fighting-age Donald Trump who got four deferments for being in college and another for bone spurs.
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One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
January 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
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Police data sharing is such a disaster. There need to be actual infrastructural/design hurdles to keep this from happening--law and policy don't seem to be enough.
A LMPD police shared *login credentials* with DEA agents to access city Flock ALPR data---and they used it for immigration enforcement.
A LMPD police shared *login credentials* with DEA agents to access city Flock ALPR data---and they used it for immigration enforcement.
LMPD: Detective shared Flock password with DEA agent who used it for immigration searches
A Louisville Metro Police Department detective and two other staff members were reprimanded after they violated department policy in relation to immigration searches this year.
www.wlky.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Police data sharing is such a disaster. There need to be actual infrastructural/design hurdles to keep this from happening--law and policy don't seem to be enough.
A LMPD police shared *login credentials* with DEA agents to access city Flock ALPR data---and they used it for immigration enforcement.
A LMPD police shared *login credentials* with DEA agents to access city Flock ALPR data---and they used it for immigration enforcement.
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“i don’t like either party”
December 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“i don’t like either party”
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Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file sharing sites. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/archivists-p...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/archivists-p...
December 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file sharing sites. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/archivists-p...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/archivists-p...
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Me every new year
December 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Me every new year
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Yeah I think the point was to expose them so this is not going to fly.
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Yeah I think the point was to expose them so this is not going to fly.
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majestic footage of Tesla's camera-only perception system in action
December 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
majestic footage of Tesla's camera-only perception system in action
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I cant stop thinking about how ireland is providing basic income for artists
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I cant stop thinking about how ireland is providing basic income for artists
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It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
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‘“I can’t pay my rent with prestige,” one sign said. Another was a mock-up of the cover of Great Expectations, with “Great” crossed out and replaced by “Reasonable”.’
@anna-aslanyan.bsky.social on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
@anna-aslanyan.bsky.social on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
‘“I can’t pay my rent with prestige,” one sign said. Another was a mock-up of the cover of Great Expectations, with “Great” crossed out and replaced by “Reasonable”.’
@anna-aslanyan.bsky.social on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
@anna-aslanyan.bsky.social on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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An interesting list of Musk's promises... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
An interesting list of Musk's promises... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
HOW is this not the onion
These VCs’ Winning Investment Strategy: Finding Founders With Childhood Trauma
Hummingbird’s VCs Look To Invest In Founders With Childhood Trauma
Partners Barend Van den Brande and Firat Ileri at low-profile London fund Hummingbird both won spots on the Midas List Europe for tearing up the venture rulebook and backing “outlier” founders.
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
HOW is this not the onion