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Every new internal combustion engine is a policy failure.
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The first woman known to have lost her baby after following Saldaya’s advice was Lorren Holliday. When she got pregnant in 2018, she interviewed midwives, but couldn’t afford the $5,000 downpayment for their services. Reluctantly, she resigned herself to the hospital, until, scrolling through Instagram one day, she found FBS: “What they offered was exactly what I was looking for
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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a 50+ year old electric ~vehicle that has no tablet, no plastic, almost no electronics, some wood, hopefully no asbestos, a manual transmission (speed control is even weirder than that), the original tires, and is still running. Wild

youtu.be/bdtxmd8ze7E
screencap of two electric tractors and a youtube comment from the daughter of the original owner describing its use over 50 years
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Geologist dismantles dating methods?

The earth is the new manosphere.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
Rosie the Riveter poster
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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the Simpsons teaches kids, always look for the help bears
Maggie Simpson riding on a bear as it walks off the left side of the screen, as a disgruntle looking man yells "All bears off the set"
September 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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his tweets need an editor, is he for or against nonviolence because this is just the same thing being repeated
successive ezra tweets first one says "...too little to just say we oppose political violence" second one says "...we are going to have to live here with each other"
September 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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"Is this a pigeon?" meme, with "Klein" looking at "The argument, Searchlight" and asking "Is this abundance?"
September 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Screenshot of a feed showing this post followed by https://bsky.app/profile/auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social/post/3lytfgng4hz2r
September 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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letthemfight if elon is dunking on klein and the Abundance crowd for not caring about sustainability
screenshot of a Tesla video titled "Master Plan Part IV | sustainable abundance" with some more or less real vehicles and a impractically shaped robot
September 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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@acollierastro.bsky.social reminded me of how you described your initial interest in Star Trek. Enable people to work together on better things by solving everything stressing them out now.

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Platner told me that Star Trek’s optimism had inspired his earliest interest in policy. “This brings us back to Star Trek,” he says to wrap up his philosophy on culture war issues. “You have to solve scarcity. I believe that if you solve scarcity issues, no one gives a fuck about these other things.”
August 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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fair but if we're discussing activism and electoral strategy there are bigger failures in this thread than burning one flag
August 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I'm so sad about the juxtaposition between the Wired article about cancelled government funding for cancer treatment followed by a profile of the wanna be immortal tech bro talking about how, aside from his expensive medical "care", his Bryan AI is already trained on every dumb thing he's ever said
NIH Cancer funding by year, showing consistent growth from 2014 to 2024 across different types of cancer. This is all threatened. graph of annual appropriations to the national cancer institute, with Trump's preferred cuts going back to below nominal 2014 levels Bryan Johnson speaking to wired: So that's extension. But we also have the ability to begin moving ourselves to com- putational systems. So currently, in a very crude form, I have a Bryan AI that has digested everything I've ever said. You do currently have this? I do. OK. And that Bryan AI is pretty good. As the technology gets better and better, the most prized asset is going to be exis- tence; immortality as we thought about it before, through accomplishment or through offspring or the afterlife, will be devalued relative to existing. And that's my fundamental bet on the future.
August 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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These idiots buying cars for a mid life crisis (yet too cheap to pay for track time) are so close to understanding how pathetic their vroom vroom engines are in a world with cheap base model EVs
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/porsches-best-daily-driver-911-the-2025-carrera-gts-t-hybrid-review/ Screenshot of a car review, highlighting that the "electric" turbocharger gives "almost instant" throttle response
August 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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this has been a rough week for zero cool
Three screenshots from Hackers with captions First: I've got a record. I was Zero Cool. Second: Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Third: Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988
August 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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does anybody have their number? I'd like to offer a seat
Picture of a driver holding their phone with both hands, taken through a bus window
July 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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with over 70 people injured, in a civilized society this would be legislation not a chyron on some obscure podcast #bancars

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scene of a street where a driver had injured over 70 people. Many police officers standing. A few cop cars and ambulances. Chyron on the bottom states: I DON'T THINK IT'S OVERREACTING TO SAY BAN ALL CARS NOW
June 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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yeah sure buddy, people are foregoing children and relationships so they can live alone and listen to your podcast
Douthat: The coupling crisis writ large seems to be linked somehow to technology, right? Evans: Yes, that’s what I think. Certainly. I think we can say there could be locally specific factors that go on in each place. Each place has its own cultural idiosyncrasies and I don’t want to ignore that. But yes, absolutely. The big shock that’s occurred everywhere all at once is we’ve seen vast improvements in personal online entertainment. So we know, for example, in the U.S. — Douthat: Podcasting. You know, I mean — [Chuckles.] Evans: Yeah. All these charismatic podcasters. Douthat: That’s right. Evans: So people are spending more. No, but I think that’s the thing. I mean, no offense, Ross, but I do blame charismatic people like you. If people want to socialize, to listen — Douthat: This is a new podcast. It’s played no role at all, yet — yet — Evans: Oh, OK. You protest your influence. OK
June 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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@wtyppod.bsky.social I can't draw but thinking of your latest ep
top half: normal trolley problem diagram with people on the tracks, labelled "trolley problem" bottom half: pacific electric interurban facing a line of cybertrucks on its tracks, labelled "Interurban Problem Solver"
May 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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everything about this is so rancid
an oped titled "If You Want Welfare, You Must Work" by ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., MEHMET OZ, BROOKE ROLLINS AND SCOTT TURNER in the new york times
May 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I heard Biden was paying some Democratic ghouls to do PR for his garbage legacy. Just found this pic I took at a bookstore four years ago, maybe he could pay to distribute copies.
front cover of a book titled "Hot Cup of Joe" with a creepy drawing of joe biden holding a cup of coffee
May 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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mnals who came illegally. Gentile, 31, was a toddler when the family moved from Argentina to the U.S. in the mid-90s. He is a green card holder, and the father of two U.S. citizen children, ages 6 and 8. "We feel betrayed, tricked." Verdi and Rey say they have shielded their grandkids from the severity of Gentile's current situ- ation in South Georgia, where he is clad in an orange jumpsuit and fighting to remain in the coun- try. They told the children that he had to leave on an urgent trip. "They ask, 'Where is my daddy?' And we can't tell them, 'Daddy is in jail," Verdi said. "We had to lie to them because we don't want to hurt them," Rey added.
May 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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@equalityalec.bsky.social thank you for helping me be able to read this story critically

Why Do More Police Officers Die by Suicide Than in the Line of Duty? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
Jennifer got to know a founder of the group, Karen Solomon, who had been collecting data on police suicides since 2016. Solomon, who is married to a police officer in Massachusetts, had become frustrated by negative sentiment toward cops after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Solomon believed the shift in public opinion was taking a huge toll on officers.
May 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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good for the NYT for putting air quotes around this reasoning from the DOJ
George Santos Is Sentenced to More Than 7 Years in Prison Federal prosecutors wanted Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, to receive a lengthy sentence to “protect the public” from future fraud.
April 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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what happened to code is law? absurd that digitally taking crypto from some dumb bro entails harsher prison terms than a violent kidnapping

They Stole a Quarter-Billion in Crypto and Got Caught Within a Month www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/m...
Shortly after the call with the supposed Google agent, the same D.C. resident, whose identity remains concealed in federal court documents, received a second call from someone who said they were a security-team representative from Gemini, a prominent cryptocurrency exchange. Like the supposed Google employee, he had the man’s personal information; he explained that his Gemini account, which held about $4.5 million worth of coins, had been hacked and that the man needed to reset his two-factor authentication and transfer the Bitcoin in his account to another wallet to keep it safe. The person on the phone then suggested that the account holder download a program that would provide additional security. The man agreed, not knowing that he was downloading a remote-desktop app, which would give the caller access to his computer — and access to a second crypto account, exposing him to an even more staggering theft. It turned out that the D.C. resident, an early investor in cryptocurrency, had more than 4,100 Bitcoin in total. Ten years ago, that much Bitcoin was worth about $1 million; that day, it was worth more than $243 million. Within minutes, it was all gone.
April 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM