Bob Calder
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Bob Calder
@bobcalder.net
Study how marginalized groups are empowered by the internet.
Retired teacher - web development and thinking skills.
AAAS Section X, Science and Society
Nobody is safe until everybody is safe
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This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?
A former New York Times staffer quietly left the paper after revealing he had solicited charitable donations from Jeffrey Epstein
Former New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. told his editors he became friends with Epstein after profiling him in 2008, NPR reported Thursday.
www.businessinsider.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Would the Justice Dept have given him immunity for it in a way that kept it a secret from us pretty much forever?
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Whenever I think of Merrick Garland I always think of this tweet by the great John Lurie
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Happened when she was a child. She literally doesn't care.
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
You don't think the Russian troll farm working on elections would ever miss an opportunity to stir up feelies?
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Your union doesn't have a lawyer who will represent you?
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Those of y'all who have followed me since Ye Olden Days might remember that I ran a law firm once upon a time, a couple blocks from Eastway Elementary School

And in 2015 the firm was doing so well that I (foolishly) ran for a seat in our state senate...

...as an R

...on the ballot with King Trump
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The long history of energy interest propaganda is sufficiently in the open that it can be ridiculed. US reps can bridle all they want, but they just look like jackasses.
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We know there is selection bias in training data. The sheer volume of training data makes me suspect that thousands of choices made all contain biases that may be unacceptable to me personally. At some point, people may trust expert system AI but not this general purpose trash.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Is Wiles still gung ho for Donald? What's going on with the circle of grifters? How do they suppose they can get away with it without shutting out everyone that still has a soul?
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM