Andy Rabagliati
Andy Rabagliati
@wizzyct.bsky.social
Linux, Africa, parallel processing
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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One thing that @thefarce.org and I found when working on a video on tariffs is this superb podcast, which is totally lowkey, mostly two host reading off futures, in between debunking the bullshit the Administration tries to feed farmers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cT...
Clueless and LYING!! China Soybean "Commitments" and the White House
YouTube video by Grain Markets and Other Stuff
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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In a similar vein, I was once saw someone say "A PT Cruiser isn't a chick magnet, it's a Chuck magnet."
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Earliest man-made fire discovery [via BBC] 🧪🥼🤸‍♂️🔥

"heated sediment [] provides the most compelling evidence for anthropogenic fire maintenance at Barnham [some 350,000 yrs before]"

Springer shared the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

#fire #discovery
The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Something to take into account: almost a third of the Cassidy-Crapo bill focuses on surgery for transgender people. It’s barely even trying to conceal how much this bill is about trans people than it is about expanding health care.
December 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Now this will make you smile: city asks school kids to name new pothole filling truck. I was dreading the ‘potty mcPot face’ entries. Winner? 6th grader with “Uncle Fill” (from fresh prince of bel air Uncle Phil). It’s beyond genius. UNCLE FILL!! The kids are all right, I tell ya
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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ohhhhhhh my god
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I read this criminal complaint and get something different about it:
1) It was written almost exactly a month before statutes of limitation expire--literally last minute.
2) It doesn't REMOTELY meet the standard of proof of the other Jan6 arrest affidavits; even location data spoken of differently.
How are we supposed to trust the FBI & DOJ after years of watching Donald Trump denigrate & politicize them? That question was brought into sharp focus by the arrest earlier this week of Brian Cole, Jr., on bomb planting charges. joycevance.substack.com/p/charges-in...
Charges in the RNC/DNC Bomb Planting Case
Can we trust the FBI and this Justice Department after years of watching Donald Trump denigrate and politicize those previously independent agencies?
joycevance.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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undercovered as part of Our Current Nightmare that 60% of Republican SCOTUS appointments in the 21st century got there by stealing the 2000 election for Bush.
2/2

To say this for the 50th time, for anyone who doesn't know:

Three young conservative lawyers were part of the GOP "Florida recount" team that led to GWB becoming president, via Bush-v-Gore.

They were: John Roberts. Brett Kavanaugh. Amy Coney Barrett.

Small world.
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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My answers in English in an interview for a German newspaper (online version will be published a little later):

- I think Trump's initiative demonstrates the absolute inadequacy of his administration's expertise on modern Russia: they fundamentally don't understand what they're dealing with.
1/8
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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"Metacognitive processes are necessary to comply with Rule 11" is a phrase I expect litigators to start using as a diss on opposing counsel immediately
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Every Thursday Dr Kelby English makes her way to the Hartbeespoort Dam with 20,000 tiny insects packaged carefully in translucent containers.

Read groundup.org.za/article/in-p... by Ihsaan Haffejee
In photos: Meet the tiny hoppers saving Hartbeespoort Dam
The Centre for Biological Control releases about 20,000 water hyacinth hoppers as part of their biological control strategy
groundup.org.za
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Wednesday - the livestream we've all been waiting for!

Heather Cox Richardson interviews NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. 12PM Eastern Time, 9AM Pacific Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L4PoVBL4

#politics #uspol #nyc #zohranmamdani #heathercoxrichardson
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Good round-up of current state of affairs on ICC, Microsoft and which EU state and sub-state entities have publicly abandoned US tech for open source solutions:

"larger geopolitical trend of States and the UN embracing OSS as a critical tool for realising their digital autonomy and resilience."
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The irony is rich.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Persuasive letter on populism as a cognitive short-cut in the @financialtimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”

It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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MOM: *pulls first rodeo out of my backpack* what the hell is this

ME: it-it's not mine i swear
December 13, 2024 at 11:31 PM