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skyle
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Cook to love, love to cook. Community. Book lover.
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At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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GRRRRRRR 📚
Medical textbook is pulled from shelves after an extract found stating the line – "It is important to note that as an AI language model, I can provide a general perspective, but you should consult with medical professionals for personalized advice."

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/12/1...
$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’
Peter Purgathofer looked over “Advanced Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy” by Nanasaheb Thorat, published in March by Springer Nature. On page 25, he found why we pay Springer the big bucks: [h…
pivot-to-ai.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates
The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.
www.nhpr.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Supreme Court rules Clean Water Act doesn't require clean water.

Shout this loud and clear to your neighbors.

slate.com/news-and-pol...
Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean
Amy Coney Barrett was not having it.
slate.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Trump: “Rule of unelected bureaucrats is over…”except for Elon Musk who is taking an ax to key services with no accountability #jointaddress
March 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Social Security is the greatest promise that Americans have made to one another.

A promise that you can live a dignified life after you retire, become disabled, or lose a family breadwinner.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world.

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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New at Media Nation: Boston magazine ruling advances press freedom. Plus, a tale of two obits, and remembering the late Arthur "Ted" Rowse.
Boston magazine ruling advances press freedom; plus, a tale of two obits, and the late Ted Rowse
Some very good news for freedom of the press in Massachusetts: Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone has ruled that Boston magazine reporter Gretchen Voss will not be compelled to produce notes she …
dankennedy.net
February 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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#Uganda: Ebola outbreak has been confirmed by the Ugandan Ministry of Health, following the death of a 32-year-old nurse on Wednesday 29 January.

We have been asked to support with the response, and are currently assessing where and how we can best assist.

Our work with Ebola: www.msf.org/ebola
Ebola | MSF medical response
Discover more about ebola, our response to the issue and related stories from around the world.
www.msf.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Chilling how air tracking apps listed the crashed flight as "landed." They were so close. What a tragedy. My heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones, and the responders who have worked hard through the night to find any survivors.
January 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Open source FTW.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...
Open access.
Open data.
Open government.
Open societies.

Open democracy — the worst form of government, save for all the rest that have been tried from time to time.
DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working
The Silicon Valley giant was criticized for giving away its core A.I. technology two years ago for anyone to use. Now that bet is having an impact.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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In 1961 the plane carrying the US figure skating team to the world championships in Prague crashed, killing all on board. Guy who trained me helped coach one of those skaters but wasn't on board because there wasn't enough money for all the coaches.
January 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Just in case anybody has doubts about what "Make America Healthy Again" really means, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. filed a trademark request to use the slogan to market supplements, essential oils & cryptocurrency. Scammity scam-scam scamming scammer. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. sought to trademark MAHA for vaccine marketing, transferred to ally
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. transferred ownership of the trademark application in December and its abbreviation — MAHA — to an LLC managed by Del Bigtree.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Anyone here work in oxygen therapy systems? Manufacturing or patents?
January 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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too on-the-nose that @theonion.com is one of the first accounts to reach 1M followers here. they're officially bluesky's paper of record now, i don't make the rules
January 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
🛼 yes!
This will be fun
sxsw.com SXSW @sxsw.com · Jan 21
Jay Graber, @bsky.app CEO and SXSW 2025 Keynote
January 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Read this
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.

It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
January 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM