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What I hate most about this whole thing is that people pretend that THIS discrimination is ok, because trans people make them uncomfortable. As if that wasn't always the reason for all discrimination.
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
What I hate most about this whole thing is that people pretend that THIS discrimination is ok, because trans people make them uncomfortable. As if that wasn't always the reason for all discrimination.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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I don’t know why, but I’d be entirely unsurprised to find this being used in my doctor’s office
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November 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I don’t know why, but I’d be entirely unsurprised to find this being used in my doctor’s office
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I don’t care if it’s Dan Brown airport garbage or unhinged omegaverse fanfiction on AO3, if it gets you reading it’s doing you more good than harm
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I don’t care if it’s Dan Brown airport garbage or unhinged omegaverse fanfiction on AO3, if it gets you reading it’s doing you more good than harm
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it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature
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Selling your Tesla might take some time (you should still do it) but stopping your use of X is instantaneous. I genuinely don’t know what more evidence someone needs, especially Brits, to get off that website. This is as grotesque as it is chilling. Musk is hellbent on gravely damaging the UK
Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.
If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.
If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.
Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.
October 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Selling your Tesla might take some time (you should still do it) but stopping your use of X is instantaneous. I genuinely don’t know what more evidence someone needs, especially Brits, to get off that website. This is as grotesque as it is chilling. Musk is hellbent on gravely damaging the UK
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Machines have no choice - they do, what they are programmed to do. Giving them an award does not increase their likelihood to engage in good behaviour, and recognition of their contributions is meaningless.
Why should we acknowledge their contributions?
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Why should we acknowledge their contributions?
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Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
October 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Machines have no choice - they do, what they are programmed to do. Giving them an award does not increase their likelihood to engage in good behaviour, and recognition of their contributions is meaningless.
Why should we acknowledge their contributions?
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Why should we acknowledge their contributions?
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I also recommend people watch the video! It’s super important to get a feeling for what AI videos look like, so you can spot them.
And unfortunately, the best way to do that is by watching the video.
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And unfortunately, the best way to do that is by watching the video.
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October 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I also recommend people watch the video! It’s super important to get a feeling for what AI videos look like, so you can spot them.
And unfortunately, the best way to do that is by watching the video.
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And unfortunately, the best way to do that is by watching the video.
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Stephen Miller has been waging a campaign of stochastic terrorism against judges. This attack sent three members of a judge’s family to the hospital.
Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
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On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze
Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.
time.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Stephen Miller has been waging a campaign of stochastic terrorism against judges. This attack sent three members of a judge’s family to the hospital.
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I'll let the man explain it in his own words, just in case you might consider me too harsh.
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Is Intelligence Really Different Among The Races? | MP CLIPS 1
YouTube video by Mike Israetel
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October 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I'll let the man explain it in his own words, just in case you might consider me too harsh.
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
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I can't believe I have spent my entire life being told to shut up about feminism and now it's 2025 and women are not allowed to have acetaminophen.
September 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I can't believe I have spent my entire life being told to shut up about feminism and now it's 2025 and women are not allowed to have acetaminophen.
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Cirno Day
September 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Cirno Day
There’s two kinds of lie:
The first, we’re all familiar with, the one you hope the other person believes. “My dog ate my homework”
But the second is a lie of power. It’s the bully deliberately spilling water on hour book, and when you confront him, saying “I didn’t. Whacha gonna do about it?”
The first, we’re all familiar with, the one you hope the other person believes. “My dog ate my homework”
But the second is a lie of power. It’s the bully deliberately spilling water on hour book, and when you confront him, saying “I didn’t. Whacha gonna do about it?”
I honestly feel like this is all being done to mock, not to persuade. They know it's absurd to use a traumatic head injury that they caused as an excuse for starvation. They know those angry about it can't do anything about it. The absurdity is a flex of power.
Netanyahu shared a video from Olivia Reingold arguing that it doesn’t count as starvation if the kids in Gaza had preexisting conditions
August 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
There’s two kinds of lie:
The first, we’re all familiar with, the one you hope the other person believes. “My dog ate my homework”
But the second is a lie of power. It’s the bully deliberately spilling water on hour book, and when you confront him, saying “I didn’t. Whacha gonna do about it?”
The first, we’re all familiar with, the one you hope the other person believes. “My dog ate my homework”
But the second is a lie of power. It’s the bully deliberately spilling water on hour book, and when you confront him, saying “I didn’t. Whacha gonna do about it?”
First power outage since I'm like 8(?) I can remember. Here in Berlin. I'm in some short-term rental (not airbnb)
Anyway, the room locks still work, they keypad for the apartment doesn't. Luckily a stranger let me in.
I let in 4 strangers already, and posted my phone number to the door. Oops!
Anyway, the room locks still work, they keypad for the apartment doesn't. Luckily a stranger let me in.
I let in 4 strangers already, and posted my phone number to the door. Oops!
August 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
First power outage since I'm like 8(?) I can remember. Here in Berlin. I'm in some short-term rental (not airbnb)
Anyway, the room locks still work, they keypad for the apartment doesn't. Luckily a stranger let me in.
I let in 4 strangers already, and posted my phone number to the door. Oops!
Anyway, the room locks still work, they keypad for the apartment doesn't. Luckily a stranger let me in.
I let in 4 strangers already, and posted my phone number to the door. Oops!
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I do this if I also want to repost it. I like giving context to me 0.5 followers
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people who reply to a post with a quote post of the original post
what's goin' on there?
what's goin' on there?
August 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I do this if I also want to repost it. I like giving context to me 0.5 followers
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Move out now mamdani. Move into these two bedroom apartments in the same neighborhood that cost 400 dollars more a month. A woman and her CHILD are on the line
August 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Move out now mamdani. Move into these two bedroom apartments in the same neighborhood that cost 400 dollars more a month. A woman and her CHILD are on the line
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So it appears you now need a Wanking License in the UK.
When I got my driving test I passed with 7 minors, which is absolutely a performance I don't intend to repeat.
When I got my driving test I passed with 7 minors, which is absolutely a performance I don't intend to repeat.
July 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
So it appears you now need a Wanking License in the UK.
When I got my driving test I passed with 7 minors, which is absolutely a performance I don't intend to repeat.
When I got my driving test I passed with 7 minors, which is absolutely a performance I don't intend to repeat.
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
Finally finished “Everything is Tuberculosis” by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
The sentence that got me was “He was just a father trying to do right by his kids— and then, when he couldn't, trying to do right by his kid.“
Both of Green’s latest books are about humanity, about the Anthropocene
The sentence that got me was “He was just a father trying to do right by his kids— and then, when he couldn't, trying to do right by his kid.“
Both of Green’s latest books are about humanity, about the Anthropocene
June 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Finally finished “Everything is Tuberculosis” by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
The sentence that got me was “He was just a father trying to do right by his kids— and then, when he couldn't, trying to do right by his kid.“
Both of Green’s latest books are about humanity, about the Anthropocene
The sentence that got me was “He was just a father trying to do right by his kids— and then, when he couldn't, trying to do right by his kid.“
Both of Green’s latest books are about humanity, about the Anthropocene
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Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles
June 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles
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I need y'all to understand what the NYT, Dem donors, and centrists are doing here. They're pushing the narrative that trans people went too far and we deserve what is happening to us.
It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.
It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.
June 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I need y'all to understand what the NYT, Dem donors, and centrists are doing here. They're pushing the narrative that trans people went too far and we deserve what is happening to us.
It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.
It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.
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the translation is not the central issue
June 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
the translation is not the central issue