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Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
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This is something I and my fellow hyper literate types have a really hard time grasping. It’s frustrating to think you’re being really clear in writing, but still get wildly misunderstood because you’ve overestimated people’s literacy level.
This is…a real problem online.
This is…a real problem online.
People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
December 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is something I and my fellow hyper literate types have a really hard time grasping. It’s frustrating to think you’re being really clear in writing, but still get wildly misunderstood because you’ve overestimated people’s literacy level.
This is…a real problem online.
This is…a real problem online.
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as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'
People are dying over who gets to steal from a dude in Iowa who thinks the model who "accidentally" texted him has fallen in love with him.
the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'
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This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
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Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
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One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
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Got a lil fired up 🤪
Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Got a lil fired up 🤪
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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The op-ed writer is Canada’s former ambassador to NATO and a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa.
Canada and Europe could be in real trouble here.
#GiftLink 🎁
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90e3098...
Canada and Europe could be in real trouble here.
#GiftLink 🎁
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90e3098...
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The op-ed writer is Canada’s former ambassador to NATO and a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa.
Canada and Europe could be in real trouble here.
#GiftLink 🎁
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90e3098...
Canada and Europe could be in real trouble here.
#GiftLink 🎁
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90e3098...
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Even better, Trump is so scared of wind farms and takes them personally. win win
A win!
Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy
apnews.com/article/trum...
Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy
apnews.com/article/trum...
Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy
A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “a...
apnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Even better, Trump is so scared of wind farms and takes them personally. win win
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The inanity of assuming that every child pictured on an autism website has been clinically diagnosed with autism combined with the arrogance that using their faces without consent was ethical because they were in the “public domain” is just staggering.
December 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The inanity of assuming that every child pictured on an autism website has been clinically diagnosed with autism combined with the arrogance that using their faces without consent was ethical because they were in the “public domain” is just staggering.
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Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
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Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
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Yeah I have NO poker face
December 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Yeah I have NO poker face
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One thing about climate change: it disproves the capitalist ideology that poor people's suffering is their own fault.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One thing about climate change: it disproves the capitalist ideology that poor people's suffering is their own fault.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
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Even for the obvious fact that segregating and persecuting a minority is bad for them we need cis organisations to say so before it gets taken seriously enough to get in the paper
“Mental health services should be places of refuge, not risk, and equality protections must strengthen, not erode, the conditions that enable people to feel safe and supported.”
Anti trans policies cause significant harm, but that's what those pushing them want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Anti trans policies cause significant harm, but that's what those pushing them want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say
Fifteen organisations sign letter expressing deep concern over EHRC guidance being considered by ministers
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Even for the obvious fact that segregating and persecuting a minority is bad for them we need cis organisations to say so before it gets taken seriously enough to get in the paper
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"'It’s a tiny subset that doesn’t want this education … I don’t understand why there would be pushback about learning about something that is relevant to your practice, is relevant to your community, and is relevant to Canada as a whole and continuing with reconciliation.'" #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
Alberta lawyers must take Indigenous education course tied to TRC. New legislation could change that | CBC News
A little more than five years ago, the regulator for Alberta's lawyers announced that moving forward, all active Alberta lawyers would be required to take a mandatory Indigenous education course. But ...
www.cbc.ca
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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One hundred percent on-point analysis. If y’all haven’t seen it, look up the interview with Piers Morgan in the wake of the United Healthcare shooting. He was SHOOK. He knows regular people hate him.
Peter Thiels general affect seemed to me to be one of a man in acute suffering, he’s sweaty, scared and on the verge of tears all the time, and it’s reassuring to know that he really is that miserable
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
One hundred percent on-point analysis. If y’all haven’t seen it, look up the interview with Piers Morgan in the wake of the United Healthcare shooting. He was SHOOK. He knows regular people hate him.
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Was fantasising about a brand new internet where I can go read things and it would have no AI or ads or influencers…and realised that is the library
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Was fantasising about a brand new internet where I can go read things and it would have no AI or ads or influencers…and realised that is the library
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Oof
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Oof
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Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
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Seriously I think this is the sell. When we say “this is how it’s done” it sounds prescriptive, people hate that. “You will like how it feels” is the winning message
Blocking weirdos is the one feature this app absolutely excels at. Two clicks & annoying strangers disappear forever. Unprecedented feeling.
I cannot stress enough that is some rando responds to something you reposted trying to draw you into a “but have you considered” discussion of it, they are not acting in good faith, and you just block. Please, embrace the blue sky way. block. block. block.
December 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Seriously I think this is the sell. When we say “this is how it’s done” it sounds prescriptive, people hate that. “You will like how it feels” is the winning message
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it
"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
- Vincent Coleman
saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it