SvetBeard
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<statement that is both profound and utterly generic>
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Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
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This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side.
What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?
What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?
Well, I guess my question for all of the doomers now would be why they think no one can stop Donald Trump from taking our democracy from us?
The guy couldn't even take Jimmy Kimmel.
The guy couldn't even take Jimmy Kimmel.
September 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side.
What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?
What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?
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I have a sci-fi flash fiction out with @metastellar.bsky.social today!
If you have 4 minutes and fancy a fun take on what the future of advertising may hold, please have a read.
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
If you have 4 minutes and fancy a fun take on what the future of advertising may hold, please have a read.
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
Adverts - MetaStellar
“They know your search history!” Priya shook her head and sighed. “So stop living your wish fulfillment fantasy and bloody ask him before you end up in a contract, a cult, or even worse, an MLM.”
www.metastellar.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I have a sci-fi flash fiction out with @metastellar.bsky.social today!
If you have 4 minutes and fancy a fun take on what the future of advertising may hold, please have a read.
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
If you have 4 minutes and fancy a fun take on what the future of advertising may hold, please have a read.
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
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People need to understand that this budget bill just handed the Republicans pretty much the keys to the kingdom.
NO CONTEMPT ENFORCEMENT
Officials can defy court orders without consequences if no bond is posted.
NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS
BANNED
Courts can't stop illegal acts at a national scale.
NO CONTEMPT ENFORCEMENT
Officials can defy court orders without consequences if no bond is posted.
NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS
BANNED
Courts can't stop illegal acts at a national scale.
May 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
People need to understand that this budget bill just handed the Republicans pretty much the keys to the kingdom.
NO CONTEMPT ENFORCEMENT
Officials can defy court orders without consequences if no bond is posted.
NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS
BANNED
Courts can't stop illegal acts at a national scale.
NO CONTEMPT ENFORCEMENT
Officials can defy court orders without consequences if no bond is posted.
NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS
BANNED
Courts can't stop illegal acts at a national scale.
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The new Popemobile is an interesting choice.
May 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The new Popemobile is an interesting choice.
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You'd make a great horror writer man. It inspired me a bit if you don't mind.
May 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
You'd make a great horror writer man. It inspired me a bit if you don't mind.
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I just read this. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and true.
Go on, you know you want to.
Incidentally, Premee's first collection was amazing, so the new one is worth buying.
Probably...
Go on, you know you want to.
Incidentally, Premee's first collection was amazing, so the new one is worth buying.
Probably...
HELLO I have too much work to do today in too few hours but does anyone want to read a small story about (maybe) the end of the world
psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...
psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...
Everyone Keeps Saying Probably - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Publisher's Note: Please enjoy this short story by Premee Mohamed, who, coincidentally(!!), has a book out from Psychopomp on February 11th. It's called One
psychopomp.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I just read this. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and true.
Go on, you know you want to.
Incidentally, Premee's first collection was amazing, so the new one is worth buying.
Probably...
Go on, you know you want to.
Incidentally, Premee's first collection was amazing, so the new one is worth buying.
Probably...
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Measles was completely eradicated in the United States by the MMR vaccine. It is not possible for anything to be better than that. It is journalistic malpractice to present this as anything other than stupidity, lies, and outright fraud.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Measles was completely eradicated in the United States by the MMR vaccine. It is not possible for anything to be better than that. It is journalistic malpractice to present this as anything other than stupidity, lies, and outright fraud.
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Mom & minor daughters are citizens who just moved from MD to Oklahoma. This statement from the Mom should be read, absorbed & circulated. ICE cannot be allowed to terrorize vulnerable families. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social
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April 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Mom & minor daughters are citizens who just moved from MD to Oklahoma. This statement from the Mom should be read, absorbed & circulated. ICE cannot be allowed to terrorize vulnerable families. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a baby swearing, forever. That’s what this is: a kid trained to say “fuck” because grown-ups think it’s funny, without ever wondering, caring, or learning why.
The thing to understand is that an LLM is not in any sense reading and understanding your words. It is not interpreting and producing “factual claims”; it is interpreting and producing “completions that are possible.”
April 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a baby swearing, forever. That’s what this is: a kid trained to say “fuck” because grown-ups think it’s funny, without ever wondering, caring, or learning why.
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I am not being remotely hyperbolic or overstating things when I say that Elon and RFK et al should be treated alongside Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot in terms of history's greatest mass murderers, assuming nothing is done to stave off the impending disaster
March 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I am not being remotely hyperbolic or overstating things when I say that Elon and RFK et al should be treated alongside Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot in terms of history's greatest mass murderers, assuming nothing is done to stave off the impending disaster
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Exactly this. I tell my students that measles outbreaks are signs of a collapsing society because the systems that prevent measles spreads do so much other good.
Once measles appears, systems are failing, and society is in trouble.
Once measles appears, systems are failing, and society is in trouble.
March 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Exactly this. I tell my students that measles outbreaks are signs of a collapsing society because the systems that prevent measles spreads do so much other good.
Once measles appears, systems are failing, and society is in trouble.
Once measles appears, systems are failing, and society is in trouble.
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
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The moment is so big, and our leaders are so small.
February 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The moment is so big, and our leaders are so small.
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
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February 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Great story! Dr. Davies’ experience shows the use of computing as a tool to process knowledge and further human insight rather than as the end-all be-all of everything.
Yep. And what you learn about what even exists in the world - or in the archive - will depend on what the machine invents, garbles, and vomits out. Real expertise doesn't come from asking a mindless machine to process information. Notes from a historian's coalface: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Great story! Dr. Davies’ experience shows the use of computing as a tool to process knowledge and further human insight rather than as the end-all be-all of everything.
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.
February 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.
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This bombshell investigation from yesterday with six bylines is already off the NYT homepage.
Behind the scenes on how Senator Tillis flipped to support Hegseth amid threats of retaliation from Trump. Give it a read.
🎁 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
Behind the scenes on how Senator Tillis flipped to support Hegseth amid threats of retaliation from Trump. Give it a read.
🎁 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
February 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This bombshell investigation from yesterday with six bylines is already off the NYT homepage.
Behind the scenes on how Senator Tillis flipped to support Hegseth amid threats of retaliation from Trump. Give it a read.
🎁 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
Behind the scenes on how Senator Tillis flipped to support Hegseth amid threats of retaliation from Trump. Give it a read.
🎁 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
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Decades of political spending by business interests have finally produced the conditions that will destroy America's status as a good place to do business.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...
The Business Community Is Extraordinarily Stupid
Is a dictatorship good for business?
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Decades of political spending by business interests have finally produced the conditions that will destroy America's status as a good place to do business.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.