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We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Oh my.

James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.

Get this man in the Senate.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The Washington Post wrongly fired Opinions columnist Karen Attiah over her social media posts. The Post not only flagrantly disregarded standard disciplinary processes, it also undermined its own mandate to be a champion of free speech.
September 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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“My fellow Americans: When you pay taxes, which would you rather support? Cancer research, or getting one guy a really big boat?” @petridishes.bsky.social writes:
With the Big, Beautiful Bill, You Can Now Sponsor a Billionaire of Your Choosing
"My fellow Americans: When you pay taxes, which would you rather support? Cancer research, or getting one guy a really big boat?" @petridishes writes:
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July 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Breaking News: The CDC kept Covid shots on an updated vaccination schedule for children, days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they would be taken off.
C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Do you dare to claim that human beings, in a crowd, are just as quick to reach for truth, which is not always palatable, as for untruth, which is always deliciously prepared, when in addition this must be combined with an admission that one has let oneself be deceived?" Kierkegaard
February 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If history teaches us anything, it should be that civilization needs guardrails, and those who want power for themselves want to tear them down.
Since my days in the stem cell research world, Paul Knoepfler is one of the best observers of what's happening there.

ipscell.com/2025/01/tech...
Tech Bro Manifestos, AI, and the Future of Biology (& Stem Cells) - The Niche
Scientist and writer discusses how Tech Bro Manifestos touch on biology and stem cells including visions for the future of science and AI.
ipscell.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM