MIT president rejects proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump's politica...

The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4qadGZG

I dunno, feels like reaching the “hiding your neighbors from the masked secret police” stage of things in like 9 months doesn’t bode well for the next couple of years.

I don’t know what’s more amazing, how stupid he thinks his followers are, or how correct he is about that

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The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

This is an actual headline

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Sure are a lot of books on tyranny and authoritarianism getting re released with new prefaces and forwards

Wonder what that’s about 🙃

i told my landlord they're releasing the amelia earhart files and he lowered my rent 50%. i told my grocer and he gave me a free nectarine. i told my doctor and he said i didn't have to pay for the visit. try it. you never know who out there has been waiting for this moment.

YouTube video by Josh Johnson This Kind of Freedom Will Leave You Speechless

Set your alarms. 9pm eastern tonight youtu.be/5tYdoEtPYUM?...

Chicago is out of control, quick send the national guard

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

Today the cult leaders will claim to have figured out the cause of autism, and it'll be acetaminophen (Tylenol).

Here's an enormous study on this very correlation with stringent methodology and a sample size of 2.4 million children.

TL;DR - There's no link

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Kimmel should make his first show back all about Jeffrey Epstein

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

'I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing your peace': Boston protester arrested at Charlie Kirk vigil says Joseph Antuan Castro Del Rio, 38, of Watertown, describes himself as a seasoned activist who has been in Boston for more than 20 years.

This guy just walked around the Charlie Kirk vigil in Boston, yelling Kirk quotes through a bullhorn

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work

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The Science News Cycle

Democrat: we can pass a sensible budget bill in a bipartisan manner

Republican: we will drink your blood. we will eat your hearts, your eyes

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

If you're with the Illinois National Guard or have any newsworthy info about the upcoming deployment, text me securely via Signal at 202-510-1268

Hey everyone...LOOK OVER HERE! It's Lt. Col. Bone Spurs declaring war on an American city!!! Does his rough tough cream-puff cosplay make you forget about the EPSTEIN survivors, their lifetime of trauma & their courage to speak the truth in public?

Yeah, me neither.

#ReleaseTheEPSTEINFilesASAP

Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

When will the presidential clown show end ffs

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If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.

Won’t give any advice about carrying out mass shooting until user drags the slider to fit the puzzle piece

New Safety Features Coming To ChatGPT https://theonion.com/new-safety-features-coming-to-chatgpt/

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

In my estimation, a lot of the people who have problems with Bluesky are so used to platforms just serving up the content buffet that they're unwilling to do the work to have a good experience here.

That work is the social part of social media.

I wonder how many RFK jr Halloween costumes there will be this year 🪱