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Collin Sullivan
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Political science PhD candidate at Michigan: human rights, state repression, atrocity prevention, complex systems. he/him. Go (Oakland) A's 💚💛
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The algorithm has an excellent sense of humor
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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One of the most important and clear charts you'll ever see.
Chart from statista that shows Iran's uranium stockpile by year. Before the nuclear agreement (the JCPOA), Iran possessed more than 8,000kg of enriched uranium. After the agreement was adopted, that dropped to effectively zero, and stayed there. After Trump withdrew the US from the agreement in his first term, Iran's stockpiles steadily and gradually increased, to more than 9,200kg at the beginning of his second term.
June 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Tweet from Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman): Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
May 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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This led me to search for a "tooth fairy index," and thank goodness, it exists and is still going strong (and is still interesting!).
A chart illustrating the "tooth fairy index" from Delta Dental. The green line indicates the per-tooth national average payout from tooth fairies to children who have lost teeth. The darker line indicates the S&P 500 stock index. The two lines generally follow the same trend, but recently the tooth fairy index has sharply declined (two years in a row), while the S&P has continued to increase.
March 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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You'll not find a clearer example of Orwellian doublethink than referring to policies and guidelines that require or promote "the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income" as "forced discrimination programs."
A screenshot from the Wikipedia entry for "doublethink", which reads: In Nineteen Eighty-Four According to Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, doublethink is: "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink."
March 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM