Paul Jankura
@anthropic42.bsky.social
Emphatically not an AI company. Ohioan, Liberal, book-worm, news-hound, CLE sports s̶u̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶r̶ enjoyer, Anglophile, He/him. @Anthropic on Twitter
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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these comments, in context outside of a fucking popcrave snippet, to me, do not seem at all unreasonable, and seem more responsible than most tech CEO comments i've read in recent years on most topics, though every headline on this is deliberately inflammatory.
Society will accept a death caused by a robotaxi, Waymo co-CEO says
"We don't say 'whether.' We say 'when,'" the executive said.
www.sfgate.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
these comments, in context outside of a fucking popcrave snippet, to me, do not seem at all unreasonable, and seem more responsible than most tech CEO comments i've read in recent years on most topics, though every headline on this is deliberately inflammatory.
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It's amusing how people on the right think the rest of the country will feel wounded somehow because their are relatively minor consequences for Summers.
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 AM
It's amusing how people on the right think the rest of the country will feel wounded somehow because their are relatively minor consequences for Summers.
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Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
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“Today, as the Roberts court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that Roberts’ promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up.”
This @pemalevy.bsky.social / @ariberman.bsky.social joint effort on John Roberts is a must-read.
"The Roberts court has spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"The Roberts court has spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM
“Today, as the Roberts court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that Roberts’ promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up.”
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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i agree with this, both on musk specifically and (to a point) about autonomous driving more generally, but silicon valley, going far beyond elon musk, have created this problem, and while i don't agree with the bubbling chorus of pseudo-luddism, i understand entirely where it comes from
Elon is a bullshit artist but some people are letting negative polarization rewrite their brain to become against objectively good things that he has unfortunately branded himself as being associated with. Actually working self driving cars are obviously good and will likely save many lives.
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
i agree with this, both on musk specifically and (to a point) about autonomous driving more generally, but silicon valley, going far beyond elon musk, have created this problem, and while i don't agree with the bubbling chorus of pseudo-luddism, i understand entirely where it comes from
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Todd Blanche always looks like he just shit his pants and is deliberating next steps
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Todd Blanche always looks like he just shit his pants and is deliberating next steps
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Everyone sign up now for the "Canceled? I'll Show You Canceled" podcast with Lawrence Summers, Chris Cuomo, Kevin Spacey, and Matt Lauer
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Everyone sign up now for the "Canceled? I'll Show You Canceled" podcast with Lawrence Summers, Chris Cuomo, Kevin Spacey, and Matt Lauer
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John McAfee: "well, technically it wasn't my hands"
What's the largest mammal you've ever touched with your hands?
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 AM
John McAfee: "well, technically it wasn't my hands"
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Trump has played golf more often in five years than Obama did in eight, outpacing his first term by playing golf on 1 in 4 days during his second term and about 1 in 5 over the two terms. He’s on pace to play more than Obama did *in this term alone*.
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Trump has played golf more often in five years than Obama did in eight, outpacing his first term by playing golf on 1 in 4 days during his second term and about 1 in 5 over the two terms. He’s on pace to play more than Obama did *in this term alone*.
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
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Per AS: LEGO will have a sponsored car in F1 Academy next season and sell a new toy set around the all-female series in a new facet of the licensing deal with F1.
Lego will also give out a "bouquet" of Lego Botanical toy flowers to the Academy podium finishers at Vegas. #F1 #IndyCar #IMSA
Lego will also give out a "bouquet" of Lego Botanical toy flowers to the Academy podium finishers at Vegas. #F1 #IndyCar #IMSA
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
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I would say, "This is what's happening on X," but this is also today's Washington Post.
This is the sort of toxic shit Jeff Bezos is paying for.
When he said "free markets and personal liberties" if apparently means "the free market never hurts white guys," and "personal liberties" are well ...
This is the sort of toxic shit Jeff Bezos is paying for.
When he said "free markets and personal liberties" if apparently means "the free market never hurts white guys," and "personal liberties" are well ...
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I would say, "This is what's happening on X," but this is also today's Washington Post.
This is the sort of toxic shit Jeff Bezos is paying for.
When he said "free markets and personal liberties" if apparently means "the free market never hurts white guys," and "personal liberties" are well ...
This is the sort of toxic shit Jeff Bezos is paying for.
When he said "free markets and personal liberties" if apparently means "the free market never hurts white guys," and "personal liberties" are well ...
Every day I wake up and the clowns in Columbus are trying to make this state worse.
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Every day I wake up and the clowns in Columbus are trying to make this state worse.
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when the asteroid hits
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
when the asteroid hits
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This seems like a lagging indicator. Of course Nvidia is raking it in because people with lots of money are still in the grips of ecstasy over its potential to shed labor cost and increase control over information-production. I’d be more curious about the profits of businesses that sell AI products
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This seems like a lagging indicator. Of course Nvidia is raking it in because people with lots of money are still in the grips of ecstasy over its potential to shed labor cost and increase control over information-production. I’d be more curious about the profits of businesses that sell AI products
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From my notes—not a transcript, which doesn't exist yet—this was the exchange between Judge Nachmanoff & AUSA Lemons about the deputy AG telling him not to reveal if there was a declination memo in the Comey case. (A memo on why prosecutors weren't bringing charges.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From my notes—not a transcript, which doesn't exist yet—this was the exchange between Judge Nachmanoff & AUSA Lemons about the deputy AG telling him not to reveal if there was a declination memo in the Comey case. (A memo on why prosecutors weren't bringing charges.)
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Lol
Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Lol
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Good story on how government officials at nearly every level are limiting records access/transparency, & making a mockery of “open government”.
NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s influence over state government.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Good story on how government officials at nearly every level are limiting records access/transparency, & making a mockery of “open government”.
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we are returning to the state in which the framers intended for the legislature, in which the lower chamber and the upper chamber absolutely despise one another
The House has voted unanimously to repeal the provisions in the shutdown package which allow GOP Senators to sue the federal government and get as much as $1 million in damages - because the feds looked at their phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we are returning to the state in which the framers intended for the legislature, in which the lower chamber and the upper chamber absolutely despise one another
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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What’s so pernicious about this is that science works by testing a hypothesis (call it H1) vs the null hypothesis (H0). The burden of proof is on those asserting H1 as correct. This gets our standards of proof completely backwards. This is an attack on the very foundation of scientific epistemology.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
What’s so pernicious about this is that science works by testing a hypothesis (call it H1) vs the null hypothesis (H0). The burden of proof is on those asserting H1 as correct. This gets our standards of proof completely backwards. This is an attack on the very foundation of scientific epistemology.