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And if you have an iPhone and you have the sinking realization as the federal agent is bearing down on you that you forgot to disable biometrics: hit the right-side down button 5x very quickly to enter the power down menu.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

A 20-year-old cancer vaccine may hold the key to long-term survival Two decades after a breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive—an astonishing result for metastatic disease. Scientists found their immune systems retained long-lasting memory…

Two decades after a small Duke breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive — a rare outcome for metastatic disease. When researchers looked closer, they found the women’s immune systems still carried “memory” cells that recognised the cancer. buff.ly/MNeRhJh
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Open AI is stopping the new PlayStation has to be something people can use to mobilize

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

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Some common themes in the responses:
1. It's great to be funny in alt text! The goal is to represent what's in the image, but you can do so humorously.
2. People who got here from Twitter yesterday genuinely might not know how to use alt text. I see a lot of ppl mistaking lack of skill for malice. 🧵

The character count on alt text is so high there's MORE than enough room to describe the image AND add snarky commentary like a salty wiki commons contributor Why WOULDN'T you take advantage of that?

More people are realizing folks won't share without alt text so they're putting pretty useless stuff in alt text for shares. Please click and check

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I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters

Those ads for Rocketmoney are weird as hell.

Every poor person is *excruciatingly* aware of the cost of shit. You're absolutely not "forgetting" a $50 monthly charge. You know exactly what shit costs down to the penny.

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

Epstein got away with all of this in part because there were whole structures in place to facilitate what he was doing. He did not invent them. He just knew how to work them.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

If you only read one thing today, let it be this. ICE is not in retreat. What we saw in Minnesota is going to spread everywhere. Get ready, friends. Take a training. Connect with your neighbors. Find out which groups are already doing prep work and volunteer. Lock arms and love on your community.

It would also be easy for another Dem to adopt Newsom’s posture of relentless mocking hostility to Trump! His main selling point is trivially easy to mimic

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this

the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid

the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

Also note the way that the burden is always, always placed upon the left; the right must be catered to, the center must be appealed to, the left? Suck it up, accept whatever is offered, perform the labor of care and capitulation and compromise.

A familiar dynamic.

keep hitting it we gotta deplete the full health bar before it recovers

Man, whenever I see people muse that they wish they could do the tradwife stuff like baking and cooking I'm just...

No you want UBI and workers' rights so you have the time to do those fun things, not return to a time where you're financially unable to leave a abusive relationship. x_x

When you are a kid and you make a mistake, you have to stop what you're doing and think about what you've done. I think about that in context of both Trump administrations. Like, Scaramucci is rehabbed, Spicer is at Harvard right? If you're not benched after coming out of the cult, who was tricked?

this is why vote blue no matter who doesn't work btw

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“Two independent analyses of social media content in the lead-up to the German federal election in 2025 have shown that extremist parties, in particular the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), were disproportionately favored by X, TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.”

I don't think people get how much time, effort & organisation is required to just function when your disabled or neurodivergent. It's a massive amount of time, often several people's time

Going to start listing my hobbies as organisation of medical appointments make it understable to people soon.