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Another thing- that 5-8% of covid infections result in long covid statistic people like to trot out to make it sound like less of a big deal... those are terrible odds actually?!

Watching Alzheimer's destroy the mind of someone I loved, who was also the smartest person I've ever known, is a big reason I mask indoors.

Of course, being sick much less often than everyone around me, despite being immunocompromised, is also nice.

FUCK ICE chants on #AEWDynamite

Whenever I explain the 'courtesy tow' system to non-Philadelphians, they literally don't believe me.

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it’s like the democrat Oscars or something

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

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A tangle of utility wires, covered in snow

And the guy was like "uhhhhh but we need a strong Democratic majority to make that happen" and I was like "yeah, we need strong Democrats. I'm seeing people around me every day who are meeting this moment, and I'm ready to vote for any one of them to primary the Congresswoman."

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.

This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.

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❄️ FINAL FORECAST: BLIZZARD OF 2026 ❄️

Now that the snowstorm is underway, I went into a high level of detail trying to narrow down the snow band placement and evolution.

Forecast reasoning follows in the thread below:

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

song updated to Friendships by Pascal Letoublon

Quakertown parents want answers as Bucks DA investigates police confrontation Videos show officers confronting student protesters in the Pennsylvania town, which the Bucks NAACP said “raised serious questions.”

This story from Quakertown is wild: high school students staged an anti-ICE walkout, and the local police chief, out of uniform and without identifying himself, attacked a teenage girl, put her in a chokehold, and had her arrested. whyy.org/articles/buc...

And you can build and use language models without turning them into the synthetic text extruding machines that are despoiling our information ecosystem.

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"Shirsho Dasgupta, a Miami Herald reporter who found that, as of late August [2025], about two-thirds of the 1,800 immigrants who were held there in July have gone missing from ICE’s online database, with their families and attorneys unable to locate them."

Two Feathers Native American Family Services Wins 2026 Irvine Leadership Award Two Feathers Native American Family Services in Humboldt County has been selected as a 2026 Leadership Award recipient by The James Irvine Foundation, receiving a $350,000 grant to grow its culturally...

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The study's senior author said that in the best case scenario, with enough funding, he estimates that a universal respiratory vaccine might be available in 5 to 7 years - "It could be a bulwark against new pandemics and simplify seasonal vaccinations":

I feel like people think "birds are dinosaurs" is a weird fun fact that is "technically true" but I don't know how to emphasize that there are tens of thousands of species of theropod dinosaur on the planet with us right now. People keep them AS PETS.

WE EAT THEM.

We've found out that cows can use tools and discovered a less ecologically damaging way to manufacture sea silk out of oyster farming waste and have treatments for diseases that used to always be fatal but the Business Jargon Remixer is supposed to be the most important tech of our time???

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Award certificate from the Denver Public Library for the Caroline Bancroft History Prize 2025 with a hand holding the certificate and a southwest woven rug in the background.

Sharing some exciting news- some brightness- my book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II published by @uwapress.uw.edu has received the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives! Arigaa! Thank you for engaging in AK Native history!

Project 2025 says (re: weather & climate) that "emphasis on prediction & management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable." But it's clear that broader federal bureaucracy is being forcibly dismantled to prevent anticipation or mitigation of foreseeable future harm.

You should be asking yourself why dhs and ice are so focused on building a vast unaccountable concentration camp network and exactly what that means.

This is not a purely political threat anymore this is existential and we are blundering into territory that is extremely dangerous

"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE.

Our conversation:

Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer. 2:53 PM · Feb 13, 2026 · 1.5M Views

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.