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.Anything but it .ארנב רות :in Hebrew. Not white. Born the year Raiders of the Lost Ark came out.
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· Aug 9
The rich shouldn’t fear taxes. They should think of them as an insurance policy vs hungry mobs with pitchforks.
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Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
February 18, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
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Okay so this is true *but* not in the way most people think. Antibiotic overuse is not “I had five ear infections in a year so I took antibiotics five times this year”
It’s
“Farmers feeding antibiotics to chicken to make them fatter and more profitable” and “labs dumping chemicals into the river”
It’s
“Farmers feeding antibiotics to chicken to make them fatter and more profitable” and “labs dumping chemicals into the river”
Although in fun news from science, in some ways antibiotics kinda are causing worsening disease as our overuse deepens resistance. There are people in hospitals right now dying of bugs which would have been treatable 20 years ago. Though something tells me this is not the point being made here
February 18, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Okay so this is true *but* not in the way most people think. Antibiotic overuse is not “I had five ear infections in a year so I took antibiotics five times this year”
It’s
“Farmers feeding antibiotics to chicken to make them fatter and more profitable” and “labs dumping chemicals into the river”
It’s
“Farmers feeding antibiotics to chicken to make them fatter and more profitable” and “labs dumping chemicals into the river”
This is a pretty good floor for the topic, imho.
Ok, so I have gotten a little hyperbolic with this, so let me ground it a little.
1. Bad things happening to characters are an essential element in a lot of fiction, especially adventure fiction.
2. Those bad things introduce challenges but, very importantly, do not STOP the adventure.
1. Bad things happening to characters are an essential element in a lot of fiction, especially adventure fiction.
2. Those bad things introduce challenges but, very importantly, do not STOP the adventure.
February 18, 2026 at 11:40 PM
This is a pretty good floor for the topic, imho.
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Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
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“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
February 18, 2026 at 6:26 PM
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
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It's almost as if the UK actually needed a thought-through constitutional structure of executive governance, not just whoever can cram into an old townhouse with a party leader who gets to pretend they're the monarch as long as they have the votes.
This is so good
"Appointments can be good, bad or indifferent, but it is wishful thinking to believe good people can overcome a bad system. When the problem is structural, the PM can feed all the good ... people he wants into the machine and it will ... deliver the same outcomes again and again."
"Appointments can be good, bad or indifferent, but it is wishful thinking to believe good people can overcome a bad system. When the problem is structural, the PM can feed all the good ... people he wants into the machine and it will ... deliver the same outcomes again and again."
Have written about how the below is one symptom of a really bad set-up at the centre of government. It makes sense that in the moment prime ministers keep trying to find a different person to do various jobs, but the problem is also a structural one, and the dysfunctional structure keeps on winning
February 18, 2026 at 3:28 PM
It's almost as if the UK actually needed a thought-through constitutional structure of executive governance, not just whoever can cram into an old townhouse with a party leader who gets to pretend they're the monarch as long as they have the votes.
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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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Out now Friends 💐. I was very nervous so I hope you all enjoy
JOSH JOHNSON Talks Comedy, Community, and America Today | IMO
YouTube video by Michelle Obama
youtu.be
February 18, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Out now Friends 💐. I was very nervous so I hope you all enjoy
And thats an endorsement of her tbf.
If you think for one second that if AOC wins the primary they donor class won't try to bounce her you're fucking kidding yourself
February 18, 2026 at 3:17 PM
And thats an endorsement of her tbf.
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Bookmarking this video for the next time someone claims that science communication can’t be engaging unless it’s about an inherently exciting topic or made personally relevant to people’s lives
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
February 18, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Bookmarking this video for the next time someone claims that science communication can’t be engaging unless it’s about an inherently exciting topic or made personally relevant to people’s lives
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I do think we've also been in a pretty long, pretty deep low in terms of *consumer technology*. There's a lot of cool stuff going on like batteries and solar and medicine, but you don't notice those just hanging out.
is the problem really that lefties aren't enthusiastic about technology, or is the problem that "technology" has broadly lost its valence as an apolitical and universally positive force in public life, and must now be re-justified through a culture war lens?
February 18, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I do think we've also been in a pretty long, pretty deep low in terms of *consumer technology*. There's a lot of cool stuff going on like batteries and solar and medicine, but you don't notice those just hanging out.
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"The rest of us need to follow in Minnesota’s footsteps. And not just when DHS launches a surge in a particular city. We need the grass-roots, spontaneous exercise of civic leadership in the fight against authoritarianism on every front for the next three years."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
We’re All Minnesotans Now
Let the North Star State give us direction.
open.substack.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:39 PM
"The rest of us need to follow in Minnesota’s footsteps. And not just when DHS launches a surge in a particular city. We need the grass-roots, spontaneous exercise of civic leadership in the fight against authoritarianism on every front for the next three years."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain
I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat
February 18, 2026 at 1:02 PM
seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain
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« Becoming »
“Billionaires have ways to lower their tax bills that aren’t available to most Americans.”
Bizarre to see this whole mess explained so neatly in…the Wall Street Journal??
Bizarre to see this whole mess explained so neatly in…the Wall Street Journal??
Billionaires’ Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy
Tax avoidance by the superwealthy is an economic issue as well as a political one.
www.wsj.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:40 PM
« Becoming »
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It’s rare to see a single chart that shows us exactly when and how the rot set in 😡
February 18, 2026 at 1:20 PM
It’s rare to see a single chart that shows us exactly when and how the rot set in 😡
lol whut
libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
February 18, 2026 at 2:38 PM
lol whut
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Announcing my new record “Revolutions” out Feb 6 at Bandcamp & streaming services. This record was written during a 7 week course I took through Plum Village Monastery with monastics & climate science professionals discussing the role engaged Buddhism can play in a world experiencing worst case…
February 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Announcing my new record “Revolutions” out Feb 6 at Bandcamp & streaming services. This record was written during a 7 week course I took through Plum Village Monastery with monastics & climate science professionals discussing the role engaged Buddhism can play in a world experiencing worst case…
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ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 1:14 PM
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
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It's an echo of the recent complaints about the NFL being "woke" for having Bad Bunny do the Super Bowl halftime show.
No, the NFL is a corporation looking to expand its market and give consumers what they like.
It's so weird because I remember when conservatives actually understood capitalism.
No, the NFL is a corporation looking to expand its market and give consumers what they like.
It's so weird because I remember when conservatives actually understood capitalism.
February 18, 2026 at 2:19 PM
It's an echo of the recent complaints about the NFL being "woke" for having Bad Bunny do the Super Bowl halftime show.
No, the NFL is a corporation looking to expand its market and give consumers what they like.
It's so weird because I remember when conservatives actually understood capitalism.
No, the NFL is a corporation looking to expand its market and give consumers what they like.
It's so weird because I remember when conservatives actually understood capitalism.
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one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
What strikes me is that 'the volk' have incredibly incoherent and everywhere ideas, but the people who claim to speak for them in the press are like clerics who think there are two poles for all politics and everything must fit between them. These poles are like, eight inches apart
February 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
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This answer - from one of the president’s key economic advisors - is disgraceful.
And, fwiw, the number for tariff pass through is closer to 94-96 percent
And, fwiw, the number for tariff pass through is closer to 94-96 percent
Hassett on new study from NY Fed showing 90% of tariff burden is being shouldered by US firms & consumers: "The paper is an embarrassment. It's I think the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Fed system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined."
February 18, 2026 at 2:22 PM
This answer - from one of the president’s key economic advisors - is disgraceful.
And, fwiw, the number for tariff pass through is closer to 94-96 percent
And, fwiw, the number for tariff pass through is closer to 94-96 percent
