Manwray
@manwray.bsky.social
Coding since ‘66, guitar, violin, banjo. Musical tastes range from free jazz to oldtime and lots of early 20th century violinists. Dedicated listener of WKCR (home of technical difficulties) and WFMU (freeform radio). Further left!
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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So many of us have been warning the public that RFK Jr. is going to take away access to as many vaccines as he can.
The December ACIP meeting is dedicating an entire day to reviewing “the safety” of the childhood vaccine schedule.
There’s not a shred of credible evidence that warrants this.
The December ACIP meeting is dedicating an entire day to reviewing “the safety” of the childhood vaccine schedule.
There’s not a shred of credible evidence that warrants this.
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So many of us have been warning the public that RFK Jr. is going to take away access to as many vaccines as he can.
The December ACIP meeting is dedicating an entire day to reviewing “the safety” of the childhood vaccine schedule.
There’s not a shred of credible evidence that warrants this.
The December ACIP meeting is dedicating an entire day to reviewing “the safety” of the childhood vaccine schedule.
There’s not a shred of credible evidence that warrants this.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.
September 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.
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Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states.
AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE.
Freedom is not to be hoarded.
AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE.
Freedom is not to be hoarded.
September 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states.
AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE.
Freedom is not to be hoarded.
AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE.
Freedom is not to be hoarded.
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Every time I visit DC (which happens to be where I was born), I visit the Rothko Room at the Phillips Collection and just sit for a while. www.phillipscollection.org/curation/rot...
The Rothko Room
The intimate Rothko Room features four paintings by abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, and reflects the artist’s preference for exhibiting his art “in a scale of normal living.”
www.phillipscollection.org
August 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Every time I visit DC (which happens to be where I was born), I visit the Rothko Room at the Phillips Collection and just sit for a while. www.phillipscollection.org/curation/rot...
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Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies.
Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
August 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies.
Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
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One of the most memorable scenes in Les Miserables is where Jean Valjean briefly visualizes the full cosmic horror of French society crushing him with inhuman intent.
He pictures in detail every priest and gendarme, every bureaucrat, all the million moving pieces of the machine crushing him.
He pictures in detail every priest and gendarme, every bureaucrat, all the million moving pieces of the machine crushing him.
July 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
One of the most memorable scenes in Les Miserables is where Jean Valjean briefly visualizes the full cosmic horror of French society crushing him with inhuman intent.
He pictures in detail every priest and gendarme, every bureaucrat, all the million moving pieces of the machine crushing him.
He pictures in detail every priest and gendarme, every bureaucrat, all the million moving pieces of the machine crushing him.
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I tend to describe what they do, what they're designed to do, is generate "answer-shaped objects".
June 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I tend to describe what they do, what they're designed to do, is generate "answer-shaped objects".
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.
Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
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Weingarten: Their attacks on public education are relentless and why? Because they fear knowledge. Why do they fear teachers? They fear us because we teach critical thinking… their brand of greed, power, and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse educated citizens
June 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Weingarten: Their attacks on public education are relentless and why? Because they fear knowledge. Why do they fear teachers? They fear us because we teach critical thinking… their brand of greed, power, and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse educated citizens
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what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
Wow. New CBS poll finds majority (55%) supports the *general goal* of deportations, but a bigger majority (56%) dislikes how Trump is carrying them out. And 63% want due process.
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
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To add:
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently unwell/ in pain (like some fibro pain)
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently fine, but how we live life around them *makes* their lives difficult (like some neurodiversity)
But both ppl are conditioned to hide the difficulty
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently unwell/ in pain (like some fibro pain)
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently fine, but how we live life around them *makes* their lives difficult (like some neurodiversity)
But both ppl are conditioned to hide the difficulty
“But you don’t look sick!”
Many disabilities are invisible. It doesn’t make them any less real.
We’ve also been conditioned by society to hide our pain.
People don’t want a reminder of chronic illness & disability. They want us to sell them the comfortable lie. To say we’re “fine”
We’re not fine
Many disabilities are invisible. It doesn’t make them any less real.
We’ve also been conditioned by society to hide our pain.
People don’t want a reminder of chronic illness & disability. They want us to sell them the comfortable lie. To say we’re “fine”
We’re not fine
May 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
To add:
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently unwell/ in pain (like some fibro pain)
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently fine, but how we live life around them *makes* their lives difficult (like some neurodiversity)
But both ppl are conditioned to hide the difficulty
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently unwell/ in pain (like some fibro pain)
Some folks w invisible disabilities are inherently fine, but how we live life around them *makes* their lives difficult (like some neurodiversity)
But both ppl are conditioned to hide the difficulty
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Sun Ra came to this planet from the cosmos to be born in Alabama today. Celebrating the intergalactic music traveler through time & space on his birthday.
May 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Sun Ra came to this planet from the cosmos to be born in Alabama today. Celebrating the intergalactic music traveler through time & space on his birthday.
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This from @stuartbuck.bsky.social ought to be obvious, but is no longer so in the age DOGE. open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
May 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This from @stuartbuck.bsky.social ought to be obvious, but is no longer so in the age DOGE. open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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I mean is there a better example of how entitled and out of touch a majority of our elected officials and “elites” are?
Primary and remove them all. They know not who they serve or what their job is.
Primary and remove them all. They know not who they serve or what their job is.
Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP.
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
April 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I mean is there a better example of how entitled and out of touch a majority of our elected officials and “elites” are?
Primary and remove them all. They know not who they serve or what their job is.
Primary and remove them all. They know not who they serve or what their job is.
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#Measles deaths in the US have been ultra low for years. But with 3 deaths so far in 2025, it appears the country may be on a different trajectory — unless vaccination promotion is amped up and vaccination uptake increases. www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/m...
U.S. may be reverting to a time when measles deaths were not very rare, experts warn
Peter Marks: “Unless we dramatically change course, drastically change course, it's going to be a problem. This is what measles does.”
www.statnews.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
#Measles deaths in the US have been ultra low for years. But with 3 deaths so far in 2025, it appears the country may be on a different trajectory — unless vaccination promotion is amped up and vaccination uptake increases. www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/m...
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First of all, the case is not merely unjust but so obviously unjust that nobody is really disputing it. The administration's lawyers admitted it was an error. Joe Rogan thinks it's horrific.
This is a case that is already breaking through, and we can bring this to the American people.
This is a case that is already breaking through, and we can bring this to the American people.
April 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
First of all, the case is not merely unjust but so obviously unjust that nobody is really disputing it. The administration's lawyers admitted it was an error. Joe Rogan thinks it's horrific.
This is a case that is already breaking through, and we can bring this to the American people.
This is a case that is already breaking through, and we can bring this to the American people.
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Ezra Klein has never done anything but blog. That's been his job since he was an undergraduate. He has absolutely no experience doing anything else. Meaning he doesn't have any firsthand knowledge or experience of how anything works. Which makes everything he didn't think of wrong or a conspiracy.
in a flash, an influencer who didn't understand the subject he was talking about cemented the idea that the broadband grants included in the infrastructure bill were a complete and total waste because it took longer than he, a nonexpert in the field, would have liked
Jon Stewart And Ezra Klein Help GOP Paint Infrastructure Bill Broadband Grants As A Useless Boondoggle
We’ve long noted how the 2021 infrastructure bill included $42.5 billion for broadband dubbed the Broadband, Equity, Access And Deployment (BEAD) program. Managed by the NTIA and individual s…
www.techdirt.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Ezra Klein has never done anything but blog. That's been his job since he was an undergraduate. He has absolutely no experience doing anything else. Meaning he doesn't have any firsthand knowledge or experience of how anything works. Which makes everything he didn't think of wrong or a conspiracy.