Also Katharine
Also Katharine
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Frequent reader, rare poster. No expectation you would follow back.
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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 2:26 AM
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This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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"grate a pear" is the new "go fuck yourself, nerd"
LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI
September 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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again, these people should be exiled from society until they have changed in some pretty fundamental ways
“Senator Argall asked Mary, ‘Do you think we should allow pornographic magazines in Kindergarten classrooms?‘ ... ‘Mary looked confused and had to ask, ‘What does that mean?’ He explained to her, in front of the entire audience, that it meant ‘naked pictures of people in books and magazines.”
Pa. GOP lawmaker apologizes for questioning a 12-year-old about pornography at civics event
Sen. David Argall on Thursday issued an apology for his line of questioning with a sixth-grader regarding pornography during a middle school Civics Bee.
www.pennlive.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I remember crying when I read the headline on the left in 2010 - seeing it splayed out in black and white in my own school paper made it seem so real.

Once again, the headline on the right this week made everything seem so real, and I ~may~ have cried again, albeit for very different reasons.
February 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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An Amazon delivery confirmation photo is the last time a Palisades resident saw her house standing. Amazon drivers say they have been delivering in neighborhoods that were evacuated soon after they left, are delivering in adjacent neighborhoods. Scary situation

www.404media.co/an-amazon-de...
An Amazon Delivery Confirmation Is the Last Photo a Palisades Resident Has of Her Burnt Down House
Amazon drivers have continued delivering packages in some areas of Los Angeles affected by ongoing wildfires in a constantly changing situation.
www.404media.co
January 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM