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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4h

It about time to make an open source platform replacement, eh?

AT Protocol based TikTok @jay.bsky.team ?

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RIP TikTok 🪦

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4h

He’s a monster.

BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social for releasing this discussion on how to confront autocracy.

youtu.be/gRNaIMR00Fc?...

How to stop authoritarianism across the globe: a conversation with President Obama

YouTube video by Obama Foundation

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 5h

This is the strategy:

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 7h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 5h

When you move so far right that you have become a fascist, everything else seems like left bias.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5h

Pirate Wires—founded by Peter Thiel protege Mike Solana (with an investment from Thiel— whines that Wikipedia calls Trump an “authoritarian.” 10/10/25 … 1/ www.piratewires.com/p/wikipedia-...

Wikipedia Declares Trump an Authoritarian

a single editor repeatedly inserted the same "authoritarian" framing into multiple wikipedia articles, creating an illusion

www.piratewires.com

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 5h

Two options here:

1) They really did intend to fire them and underestimated the fire and pushback.

2) They are absolutely incompetent.

Either option is bad for America.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 6h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14h

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Stephan Preibisch @preibischs.bsky.social · 17h

The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14h

“You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! Why? Why?"

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14h

Mainstream media needs to be playing these videos non-stop and following up on clear abuses of power.

Where is the investigative journalism?

I’ve seen perhaps hundreds of these videos and they are happening all across the country right now.

These are not isolated events.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15h

I laugh every. single. time. I see this.

Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 15h

Look I respect the hustle.

A far side cartoon shows two spiders have built a web at the bottom of a playground slide. One of them says “If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings.”

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15h

I laugh every time I see that.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15h

Same.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16h

So good to reconnect with @danny1775.bsky.social in person after too long.

Thank for for breakfast, and look forward to the next opportunity.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16h

A friend of a friend is modeling the AI bubble.

It’s… disconcerting. AI spending is propping up the American economy right now, and it is mos def, a bubble.

And centers optimized as AI data centers have less of a viable lifespan than other data centers.

No bueno.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 18h

“Thanks to the solidity of bearded vulture nest structures and their locations in the western Mediterranean… they have acted as [ #archivists], conserving historical material in good condition."

A shoe made from twigs and grass is 675 y.o. while a basket in the nest was woven about 150 years ago!!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19h

Remember when we could work on the floor like that?

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 20h

$#!^

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

If I were a hostile power attempting to weaken the largest superpower in the world, actions like this would be effective.

You have to ask yourself, why do this?

What is the goal?

BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

My spouse pulled data from the CDC’s MMWR team on a weekly basis for her company to include with public health reports. That entire team has just been RIFed by Trump.

No more public health reports.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

www.cdc.gov

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

Go to the website and you get this propaganda bullshit.

A propaganda header on a CDC website that says: The Trump Administration is working to reopen the government for the American people. Mission-critical activities of CDC will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown. Certain federal government activities have ceased due to a lack of appropriated funding. During the government shutdown, only web sites supporting excepted functions will be updated.
As a result, the information on this website may not be up to date and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

And the entire Center for Forecasting and Analytics. So predicting the next flu strains or COVID strains to make vaccines against is now impossible in America.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

My spouse pulled data from the CDC’s MMWR team on a weekly basis for her company to include with public health reports. That entire team has just been RIFed by Trump.

No more public health reports.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

www.cdc.gov

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

Wish I wuz there with both y’all.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution

Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

And the “brain age” of an aggrieved, sociopathic 12-year old.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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