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Flock has dozens of contracts with police across Massachusetts, and many of those departments are sharing our sensitive location data with thousands of agencies nationwide. It's being used for immigration enforcement. data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location – The Data for Justice Project | ACLU of Massachusetts
data.aclum.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Flock has dozens of contracts with police across Massachusetts, and many of those departments are sharing our sensitive location data with thousands of agencies nationwide. It's being used for immigration enforcement. data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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People are dunking on this, but having worked in the field of police oversight for the last four years, listening to residents from every part of a major U.S. city, it doesn't surprise me at all.
A few points 🧵
A few points 🧵
More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
September 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
People are dunking on this, but having worked in the field of police oversight for the last four years, listening to residents from every part of a major U.S. city, it doesn't surprise me at all.
A few points 🧵
A few points 🧵
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what I'm learning from the fact that every one of these decisions has a "huge merger waiting to be approved" factor is that we should no longer allow mergers
sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society
only antitrust breakups allowed
sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society
only antitrust breakups allowed
September 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
what I'm learning from the fact that every one of these decisions has a "huge merger waiting to be approved" factor is that we should no longer allow mergers
sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society
only antitrust breakups allowed
sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society
only antitrust breakups allowed
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These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
September 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.
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The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
September 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
www.statnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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Privacy for me but not for thee: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Senators Could Vote Imminently to Remove Their Homes, Travel Info From Internet
The Senate could vote imminently to allow members of Congress and their staff to demand websites take down info about their houses and travel details.
www.rollingstone.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Privacy for me but not for thee: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Who wants to build the next killer LLM api in @ocaml.org? arxiv.org/abs/2507.22048
Composable Effect Handling for Programming LLM-integrated Scripts
Implementing LLM-integrated scripts introduces challenges in modularity and performance, as scripts are often coupled to specific LLM implementations and fail to exploit parallelization opportunities....
arxiv.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Who wants to build the next killer LLM api in @ocaml.org? arxiv.org/abs/2507.22048
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We need to make it illegal for AI models to offer advertising. And, we need to really examine referral fees as well.
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
July 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We need to make it illegal for AI models to offer advertising. And, we need to really examine referral fees as well.
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions.
We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media
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I've thought about this video every time I've put on sunscreen since 2014 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Bq...
How the sun sees you
YouTube video by Thomas Leveritt
www.youtube.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I've thought about this video every time I've put on sunscreen since 2014 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Bq...
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The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use.
An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.
When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.
An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.
When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.
July 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use.
An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.
When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.
An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.
When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.
Nick Shoulders on country music history nickshoulders.com/country-musi...
Country Music History — Nick Shoulders
nickshoulders.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Nick Shoulders on country music history nickshoulders.com/country-musi...
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That's not the only solution. Approval voting would also solve the problem - and doesn't even need ranking.
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
Approval voting - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
That's not the only solution. Approval voting would also solve the problem - and doesn't even need ranking.
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
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You want to pick on immigrants!? PICK ON WILLIE!
June 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
You want to pick on immigrants!? PICK ON WILLIE!
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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The problem with implementing automated traffic-enforcement cameras in the US is that stuff like this won't be implemented.
Traffic enforcement is more about generating revenue from poor people and middle-class people than it is about safety.
Traffic enforcement is more about generating revenue from poor people and middle-class people than it is about safety.
important features:
a) Finland's bureaucracy is so good they hand out fines based on your income, minimum fine of 6 euros but rich people can get dinged into 6 figures
b) they don't want to catch you, every camera has bigass signs as you approach
a) Finland's bureaucracy is so good they hand out fines based on your income, minimum fine of 6 euros but rich people can get dinged into 6 figures
b) they don't want to catch you, every camera has bigass signs as you approach
May 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The problem with implementing automated traffic-enforcement cameras in the US is that stuff like this won't be implemented.
Traffic enforcement is more about generating revenue from poor people and middle-class people than it is about safety.
Traffic enforcement is more about generating revenue from poor people and middle-class people than it is about safety.
New favorite song www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHF4...
Radie Peat & Daragh Lynch (LANKUM) - 'Hares on the Mountain' from episode 3 of 'This Ain't No Disco'
YouTube video by LankumDublin
www.youtube.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New favorite song www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHF4...
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~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline.
That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.
Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.
That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.
Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.
May 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline.
That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.
Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.
That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.
Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.
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I don’t care what Ozturk wrote. It doesn’t matter. This is America. We’re fucking free to have opinions of all sorts. It doesn’t matter. You don’t get to lock up people for bad thought. That’s against the fucking law and morals and fuck every last person arguing that this is a crime. Fuck all of em
May 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I don’t care what Ozturk wrote. It doesn’t matter. This is America. We’re fucking free to have opinions of all sorts. It doesn’t matter. You don’t get to lock up people for bad thought. That’s against the fucking law and morals and fuck every last person arguing that this is a crime. Fuck all of em