3 Dog Dad
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My Corgi thinks I could be a little more productive.
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So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
My favorite Christmas special. Btw, when I was last in the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta they had Charlie Muskrat's cigar box banjo on display.
HELL YEAH
“Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” was released on this date in 1977.
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My favorite Christmas special. Btw, when I was last in the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta they had Charlie Muskrat's cigar box banjo on display.
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For the final week of my grad seminar on "The United States in the Long Twentieth Century," we'll be reading Bryant Simon's superb and disturbing, THE HAMLET FIRE: A TRAGIC STORY OF CHEAP FOOD, CHEAP GOVERNMENT, AND CHEAP LIVES.
uncpress.org/978146966026...
uncpress.org/978146966026...
The Hamlet Fire
For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a m...
uncpress.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For the final week of my grad seminar on "The United States in the Long Twentieth Century," we'll be reading Bryant Simon's superb and disturbing, THE HAMLET FIRE: A TRAGIC STORY OF CHEAP FOOD, CHEAP GOVERNMENT, AND CHEAP LIVES.
uncpress.org/978146966026...
uncpress.org/978146966026...
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
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hello, i have missed you all terribly, and please enjoy this BONUS EPISODE of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S on jeff buckley's "HALLELUJAH," the international national anthem and the worst open-mic-night cover i ever attempted open.spotify.com/episode/6yiZ...
“Hallelujah” — Jeff Buckley
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December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
hello, i have missed you all terribly, and please enjoy this BONUS EPISODE of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S on jeff buckley's "HALLELUJAH," the international national anthem and the worst open-mic-night cover i ever attempted open.spotify.com/episode/6yiZ...
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
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Extremely good stuff from @darioperkins.bsky.social on Perkins v Beamish this week.
overcast.fm/+ABKrk8yGXIo
overcast.fm/+ABKrk8yGXIo
The Big Fed Conspiracy — GlobalData TS Lombard: Perkins Vs Beamish
Fed Cut, AI and the UK BudgetAndrew Slazenger (reach out for a free trial, institutional investors only: andrew.slazenger@tslombard.com) hosts Dario Perkins and Freya Beamish as they answer:1) Is a Fe...
overcast.fm
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Extremely good stuff from @darioperkins.bsky.social on Perkins v Beamish this week.
overcast.fm/+ABKrk8yGXIo
overcast.fm/+ABKrk8yGXIo
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You’ve been raised up for such a time as this. Yes, it may be over your head, but it’s not over your dick’s head. You and your dick are a majority. As you take a step of faith, you’ll discover courage, strength, and ability you didn't know you had.
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
You’ve been raised up for such a time as this. Yes, it may be over your head, but it’s not over your dick’s head. You and your dick are a majority. As you take a step of faith, you’ll discover courage, strength, and ability you didn't know you had.
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Should we expect stock prices to rise by another 280 percent, like, immediately? Sure why not. www.ft.com/content/a7f1...
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Should we expect stock prices to rise by another 280 percent, like, immediately? Sure why not. www.ft.com/content/a7f1...
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Charlotte’s Amity Presbyterian Church “announced it would host a training on how to respond to the influx of federal immigration agents into the neighborhood. Later that evening, nearly 300 people filled Amity Presbyterian’s sanctuary to listen to representatives from @siembranc.bsky.social …”
Look For The Helpers: Americans Come Together To Protect Immigrant Neighbors
From buying out food vendors’ products to blowing whistles in order to warn about immigration agents, Americans are finding new and creative ways to defend immigrant communities.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Charlotte’s Amity Presbyterian Church “announced it would host a training on how to respond to the influx of federal immigration agents into the neighborhood. Later that evening, nearly 300 people filled Amity Presbyterian’s sanctuary to listen to representatives from @siembranc.bsky.social …”
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DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
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What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
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All just speculation, nothing more. But from my distant chair I see a broad current of “we’re going to win” that doesn’t include what that means, & another of “we need to replace old w/ socialist or progressive new order” without reckoning with how to persuade 1/2 terrified of that to come along.
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
All just speculation, nothing more. But from my distant chair I see a broad current of “we’re going to win” that doesn’t include what that means, & another of “we need to replace old w/ socialist or progressive new order” without reckoning with how to persuade 1/2 terrified of that to come along.
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+119K jobs gained last month (mid-Aug to mid-Sept).
-33K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months.
The big picture
-33K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months.
The big picture
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
+119K jobs gained last month (mid-Aug to mid-Sept).
-33K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months.
The big picture
-33K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months.
The big picture
Just a note of thanks to everyone for continuing to punish $TGT. Read a whole long article this morning about why Target is struggling for so long and no mention at all of the boycott, but clearly that's a big part.
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just a note of thanks to everyone for continuing to punish $TGT. Read a whole long article this morning about why Target is struggling for so long and no mention at all of the boycott, but clearly that's a big part.
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They're prepping the ground for a bailout if the bubble bursts.
Last time this happened there was a popular revolt from the right (Tea Party) and left (Occupy).
If this happens the anti-tech backlash will be furious. Smart politicos might want to get in front of it!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Last time this happened there was a popular revolt from the right (Tea Party) and left (Occupy).
If this happens the anti-tech backlash will be furious. Smart politicos might want to get in front of it!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
They're prepping the ground for a bailout if the bubble bursts.
Last time this happened there was a popular revolt from the right (Tea Party) and left (Occupy).
If this happens the anti-tech backlash will be furious. Smart politicos might want to get in front of it!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Last time this happened there was a popular revolt from the right (Tea Party) and left (Occupy).
If this happens the anti-tech backlash will be furious. Smart politicos might want to get in front of it!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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“There are about 1,000 of us.”
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“There are about 1,000 of us.”
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I curated a little link list too. It’s super helpful to have a landing page for your efforts. Here I have upcoming events, sign ups for 3D printing, files for 3D printing, links to the zines to print, fundraisers, and just some helpful info
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
Chicago Whistle Links | Instagram | Linktree
We host whistle events at places like Nighthawk in Albany Park and Beermiscuous in Lakeview. Help us print whistles & zines, or message to plan a party!
linktr.ee
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I curated a little link list too. It’s super helpful to have a landing page for your efforts. Here I have upcoming events, sign ups for 3D printing, files for 3D printing, links to the zines to print, fundraisers, and just some helpful info
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
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Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Re: Epstein’s emails
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So much you can say about his legendary performance in RAN but one thing I'll always think of is how he managed to nail his performance in one of the riskiest shots in film history - a huge character moment as he walks away from the castle set that they are literally burning down behind him
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
So much you can say about his legendary performance in RAN but one thing I'll always think of is how he managed to nail his performance in one of the riskiest shots in film history - a huge character moment as he walks away from the castle set that they are literally burning down behind him
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Not to defend the ASC in the OP because I don't know them and they could be sketchy as fuck, but I do want to provide context to why providers charge ridiculous rates regardless of what the insurance company will pay or what is a reasonable amount to charge a patient.
People talk a lot of (completely justified) shit about the insurance companies but the kind of shit that healthcare providers increasingly try to get away with will make your eyes bleed
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Not to defend the ASC in the OP because I don't know them and they could be sketchy as fuck, but I do want to provide context to why providers charge ridiculous rates regardless of what the insurance company will pay or what is a reasonable amount to charge a patient.
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Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.