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Cover of Bill Gates Book "How To Avoid A Climate Disaster"

How to Avoid A Climate Disaster

1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate
2. Repeat #1

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Joshua Ray Walker - Stuff Listen to Stuff on TIDAL

Been out less than a week but quickly becoming my favorite of the year. A reflection on life after his cancer treatment from the perspective of objects one might find at an estate sale after a death. Recorded with only instruments and objects already present in the studio.

Stay woke friends

a perfect, yet terrible, example of how absurdism, when in direct confrontation with fascist forces, effectively conveys the absurdism of that force.

that said, hope she’s okay. just terrible.

We'll be at the #NoKingsOct18 protests tomorrow. As we've been for each protest for years.

But, friends, you don't counter fascism after brunch and mimosas every twelfth Saturday.

It takes daily protests for months. Disruption. Unpredictability. Chaos.

If you have a permit, you're not protesting.

I mean fuck John Bolton, but the whole charging him for having classified documents is quite rich coming from this admin.

Bessent says US considers doubling aid to Argentina to $40B The assistance is aimed at bolstering the country's collapsing currency and calming economic unrest before Oct. 26 midterm elections.

The WH budget for FY26 includes a proposed $18B cut to NIH, a $5B cut to NASA, a $5B cut to NSF, a $5B cut to CDC, and a $5B cut to EPA. You don't need a math/econ PhD to see that a $40B bailout to Argentina covers this and more right here in the USA.

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Ok, so this is a very big deal. Let’s thread it.

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

The CDC's union estimates that a quarter of the agency been gutted under the Trump administration. Here's our story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

a man in a judge 's robe is sitting at a desk ALT: a man in a judge 's robe is sitting at a desk

You know a lot of attention has been put on #RFKJr,
#RussellVought & the #GOP Congress on the mess we’re facing but it’s time for #JohnRoberts and his court to take equal blame for the lawless destruction of public health. They are political actors here, no longer can hide behind their robes.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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John Oliver saying "Fuck You! Make Me!"

The correct response as described last week by John Oliver.

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

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I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

How should psychologists exercise these responsibilities? We believe restorative or repar- ative justice provides a useful model (van Wormer, 2013; Wenzel, Okimoto et al., 2008). Unlike retributive justice (used by almost all criminal justice systems today), the aim of restor- ative justice is to repair the damaged relationships between victims and perpetrators of injus- tice. Typically, restorative justice requires perpetrators to not only acknowledge their actions and the harms that these actions had on victims, but also to work with victims to identify concrete actions that perpetrators can take to redress or mitigate these harms. From this per- spective, explicit apologies for contributions to scientific racism are essential as a first step (American Psychological Association, 2021; Fuentes et al., 2019; Jackson, Turner et al., 2023), but not fully sufficient on their own.

Second, psychology and behavior genetics have been slower than other human sciences to address their role in scientific racism. Scientists, like everyone else, have a moral obligation to prevent their actions from causing harm. These fields might adopt a restorative justice approach. 13/13

In the timeline of our study (1960-2010) race-and-intelligence was an entirely mainstream topic. In our corpus, the most important venues were two mainstream journals, Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences. Today both are published by Elsevier. 9/13

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

YouTube video by Stand Up for Science! Impeach Bobby "The Quack" Jr! Stand Up For Science Delivers Quack-O-Grams to Congress.

🚨We’ve got the Quack-O-Gram video up on YouTube!🚨

Please share widely—Bobby “The Quack” Jr has to go. He’s unqualified, corrupt, and going to get people killed.

🐥It’s not to late to send a QOG or bundle of Quacks to Congress: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams

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Lot of traffic on the roads considering the rapture n all.

They’re telling me there was this non addictive pain medication without Tylenol in it that was UNFAIRLY taken off the market in 2010. We’re BRINGING IT BACK TO STOP AUTISM AND MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN

Can’t wait to call my 98yo WWII vet grandfather inlaw and tell him he’s a terrorist.

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Someone really needs to check on tom Brady’s dogs.

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

THREAD 🧵

Examining the Harm of AI Chatbots | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

At 2:30ET today there will be a hearing on “the harms of AI chatbots.”Testimonies are now up. None of these are good for the companies. Big focus on kids.

(I wouldn’t let my kids use Character.ai; my experience was ‘creepy product w/nasty dark patterns’)

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