Mark Tyson
@markatyson.bsky.social
Doing tech since early IBM PC days, former Elections Board member, interested in urbanism, health policy, green energy, travel, hiking…
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Every now and then I remember this tweet, and am thankful these people are so incredibly fucking stupid.
October 14, 2023 at 2:29 AM
Every now and then I remember this tweet, and am thankful these people are so incredibly fucking stupid.
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We talk of refusing unlawful orders, but really that's a very high bar. It's only for orders that are manifestly unlawful, something *obviously* illegal on the face of it. And the core example of that is refusing an order to wantonly murder noncombatants, which is exactly what they are doing.
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We talk of refusing unlawful orders, but really that's a very high bar. It's only for orders that are manifestly unlawful, something *obviously* illegal on the face of it. And the core example of that is refusing an order to wantonly murder noncombatants, which is exactly what they are doing.
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Marco Rubio has gone in circles on the origin story of the US peace proposal so many times that he’s starting to look like a malfunctioning Roomba. This is what you get when the world’s most powerful nation is down to a skeleton crew: nobody’s left to handle even the basic details like authorship.
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Marco Rubio has gone in circles on the origin story of the US peace proposal so many times that he’s starting to look like a malfunctioning Roomba. This is what you get when the world’s most powerful nation is down to a skeleton crew: nobody’s left to handle even the basic details like authorship.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers inform a federal judge about the Washington Post's bombshell: The government's claim that Costa Rica will no longer accept Abrego has been exposed as a lie.
More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers inform a federal judge about the Washington Post's bombshell: The government's claim that Costa Rica will no longer accept Abrego has been exposed as a lie.
More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn that the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
time.com/7336204/meta...
time.com/7336204/meta...
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn that the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
time.com/7336204/meta...
time.com/7336204/meta...
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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We live in an age where there's a glut of information and scarcity of attention, mediated through platforms that prioritise engagement over accuracy, and emotion captures attention more readily than reason.
This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We live in an age where there's a glut of information and scarcity of attention, mediated through platforms that prioritise engagement over accuracy, and emotion captures attention more readily than reason.
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Used to be, one trait associated with integrity was the ability to acknowledge a mistake, apologize, and attempt to correct it.
TAPPER: You were the deciding vote that allowed RFK Jr to ascend to the role of Health Secretary. Did you give him too much credit?
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Used to be, one trait associated with integrity was the ability to acknowledge a mistake, apologize, and attempt to correct it.
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Yale Law galaxy brain
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Yale Law galaxy brain
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Things are going well over on Truth Social, where Trump just reposted AI Slop of himself as what I can only describe as imperial Lannister cosplay, with prominent Democrats kneeling at his feet
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Things are going well over on Truth Social, where Trump just reposted AI Slop of himself as what I can only describe as imperial Lannister cosplay, with prominent Democrats kneeling at his feet
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Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America.
Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*
Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*
Someone is having concerns about Twitter privacy all of a sudden
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America.
Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*
Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*
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who needs clean air & water & healthy soil & biodiversity anyway… /s
Boast from EPA chief Lee Zelda: “We will do more deregulation in one year than entire federal governments in the past have done across all federal agencies combined.”
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
who needs clean air & water & healthy soil & biodiversity anyway… /s
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"Those great legal scholars include Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, that really crazy one named Sidney something, and the insurance law lady."
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"Those great legal scholars include Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, that really crazy one named Sidney something, and the insurance law lady."
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That splutter of off camera laughter is great
Governor Hochul on Elise Stefanik doubling down on her claims that Mamdani is a “jihadist.”
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
That splutter of off camera laughter is great
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
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An argument that didn’t work for Calley at My Lai, that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
An argument that didn’t work for Calley at My Lai, that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg
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Telling your mob of supporters to storm the Capitol and stop the ratification of a democratic election? No problem
Reminding soldiers of the oath they swore? PROBLEM
Reminding soldiers of the oath they swore? PROBLEM
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Telling your mob of supporters to storm the Capitol and stop the ratification of a democratic election? No problem
Reminding soldiers of the oath they swore? PROBLEM
Reminding soldiers of the oath they swore? PROBLEM
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CROW: We wanted to start a conversation about the dangerous rhetoric this president is using and threats he's made to use our military in an unlawful way
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
CROW: We wanted to start a conversation about the dangerous rhetoric this president is using and threats he's made to use our military in an unlawful way
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
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I've been using "Burkina Faso" sarcastically for years, as the least probable location... and he is literally from there.
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I've been using "Burkina Faso" sarcastically for years, as the least probable location... and he is literally from there.
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West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
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Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.
ED Reaches Consensus On Loan Caps
A very limited number of degree programs would have access to the highest level of loans under a new set of regulations that the Department of Education and its negotiating committee signed off on Thu...
www.insidehighered.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”