At any time Republican senators could refuse to confirm any more appointees until RFK Jr. is removed from his position and HHS returns to a basic commitment to science and medicine, including vaccines.

Attacking Kamala Harris feels extremely besides the point now, but she gave ground on trans rights. If your plan to save the Democratic party involves giving ground on trans rights you need to explain why it's different from the previous losing strategy.

Look, we’re not gonna be able to rebuild this capability in the next democratic admin, this is basically a generational problem to fix now. But, ruining the lives of the people who did this, and everybody who hung onto it to be close to power?

Revenge is very much something that we can do.

Dollars to donuts the first draft of this bill they release is going to give Trump new powers he can use to crack down on VPNs and Tor, and probably on all sorts of legally legit services and sites.

In fact, I'd be surprised if it didn't threaten Bluesky in some way.

A big wide angle view of a pasture that is hopelessly empty and boring except for a small cow at a small table with tools on it in the middle of the bottom of the frame. The cow, table, tools, and barn behind it are a consistent art style, while the added silos, landscape, and clouds surrounding the tiny focus of the image appear to be a slightly different and worse art style.

finally got my tickets to see cow tools at the sphere

I thought everyone on Bluesky had gotten dumber and more antisemitic but it turns out I had just switched to the Discover feed.

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If there were a Public Editor, she/he would dig into this story— and see who is telling the truth.

Lacking a Public Editor, NYT really needs its leaders, many of whom are former student journalists, to say more about provenance of this very damaging "Harvard bending the knee" report.

Not if it continues to only be referenced in made-up quotes in unsourced screenshots on social media. I mean it’d be great, sure.

Feel uncomfortable linking to the initial post of Acosta doing an AI Interview with a dead person....a child killed in a school shooting...

Feels like the media needs to have serious ethical conversations about this....

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

I have nostalgia for mercury thermometers. Maybe it’s misplaced?

At a meeting of wealthy, well-connected women in LA in 1943, one woman called for the city’s Jews to be “hung from lampposts within 5 years.” Another suggested that forced sterilization was the best way to deal with “the Jewish problem.” This transpired at a meeting of the CA Women’s Republican Club

A lot of folks who oppose AI ideologically will say "lol, can't wait til the bubble bursts" as if that's a totalizing cultural event rather than mainly a financial one. Whether the hype cycle ends in a crash or not, we will use LLMs or their descendants for the rest of our lives.

A few children and tourists climb on the Fremont Troll, a huge sculpture that lives under a bridge in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle Washington, USA. The troll holds an actual concrete-coated VW beetle.

Was he totally fine with that? I keep seeing people bringing “Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission” up but haven’t yet found any connection between that and Dershowitz. Maybe he opined on some news program?

Trump canceled the research grant for America’s — perhaps the world’s? — top mathematician (via @weakinstrument.bsky.social)

Rest in Peace Mexican American television, film and stage actor, voice artist and singer Emilio Delgado, well known for his role as Luis, the Fix-it Shop owner on Sesame Street from 1971 until 2016, and for his recurring role as a news editor on the television series Lou Grant.

Computer Engineering for Babies Computer Engineering for Babies is an interactive board book featuring buttons and lights to introduce basic computer logic gates. If you have a baby, friend, or co-worker that skipped ECE 150 then yo...

I got my tot this book years back. Seems almost related, just a little less Linnaean. computerengineeringforbabies.com

Hey does anyone know if there are cities to live in besides LA and NYC? Drop a comment and lemme know!

It’s weird because I assume he has to be in on the joke here with that M&M thing. Parodying himself while also resembling the parody?

He’s doing a weird switch in words here, maybe because he likes the sound but doesn’t have to censor himself to use this word for “stingy” that has a different and inoffensive root?

Since 2020 I carry a very small knife that I use to cut the spikes off of the covids when they swarm. It’s a very very small knife.

I’m assuming it’ll do colonoscopies as a paid software upgrade.

The post that I quoted to start this thread assumes that because imputations are rising, price changes are not getting recorded and the data is not reliable. Wrong! The data is slightly less accurate, but imputation raises error as opposed to skewing prices either way.

Or if they’re 98% conservative. The combination of those two populations is probably hiding a big difference between them.

Yeah combining that category is crazy.

Desert Island | Best Jewish Jokes Two Synagogues

He’s Modern Orthodox, a lot of people within that group would consider everyone else on the chart to have less Judaic knowledge and to be less observant of Jewish law (a lot of orthodox have rabbinic degrees even if they’re not pulpit rabbis). Also this: www.accidentaltalmudist.org/humor/2023/0...

From the TeslaLounge community on Reddit: Social says this is how to preserve my Cybertrucks finish, but I’m not buying it. Explore this post and more from the TeslaLounge community

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I am always in awe of the kind of power that the right thinks teachers have. My teacher friends are constantly telling me how much energy they spend just trying to get students to put their names on their assignments...