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Adam Riggio
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Education, Training, & Curriculum Design Professional; author figuring out the next project; For All Our Futures newsletter at https://forallourfutures.beehiiv.com/; he-person; slowly recovering faith in humanity, recovery not guaranteed
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Great moments in history
Maybe American journalists should reflect on the courage of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi.
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Honestly the junkie friends I had in high school who were buying RCs off the darkweb would've been better as head of HHS than RFK *while they were at rock bottom.*
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When I look at the folks who’ve been riled up to insanity by their social media lives encouraging them to double, triple, & 64-ple down on bigotry, I can feel pretty emotional. A thread about the grace of God that I never fell down that way
im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad

This journalist basically agrees with Graham on everything and tries to write this sympathetically but also he is…mad archive.ph/2025.11.27-0...
archive.ph
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I'm anxious about being in Hawaiʻi and I just realized why. In Honolulu, where a car is needed to get around, I often agonize about when to go out so I'm not stuck in traffic. In London or Paris, I just go because I cycle everywhere and cars on the road don't impact my travel times. #CarsRuinCities
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I feel like Doctor Who fans can provide some insight here. One of the worst eras of the show was dominated by a production team (esp. Saward & Levine) obsessing over continuity consistency, focussed more on fitting jigsaw pieces together than on interesting stories & characters
No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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AI bot got me so mad I yelled at it, put that in your machine learning dickhead
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Placing this here for all of the "but you got kicked off Twitter" people. Of course I did. Twitter has been a haven for nazis for a decade now. The question is, why didn't you?
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
And some of those folks within that group of folks sometimes said some pretty racist things about whether Arabs were capable (!) of living in a democracy. Not all, but enough to make me really uncomfortable
One of the reasons I dropped out of left organizing here in Canada was because many everyday activists were becoming very anti-Ukraine & pro-Putin because they considered any opponent of the US as anti-imperialist. I was even dealing with pro-Assad & pro-Trump folks in left organizing.
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If the Enron echoes around Nvidia's situation is more than empty whispers, maybe the issue is how all their buyers' chip purchases ended up being financed. If the purchases let them say they have money on the books, but the buyer financing collapses & they get no cash. Thoughts, @edzitron.com?
oh so nvidia is cooked for real for real
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I know I should be making demands on him after publicly revealing a pretty serious health crisis, but the dream is too powerful
Where’s the Donald Glover Presents the Totally True & Not At All Exaggerated Adventures of Lando Calrissian limited tv series, that’s what I want to know
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Where’s the Donald Glover Presents the Totally True & Not At All Exaggerated Adventures of Lando Calrissian limited tv series, that’s what I want to know
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A fascinating look at what may have been ancient genocidal violence or civil war social breakdown in Central Europe 7000 years ago. Nice reading for my work break, I guess.
In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."

www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Gosh... if only we had a term for that. Like, it was built on some sort of mountain that wasn't actually a mountain, but something far more fragile and liable to metaphorically 'burst' if put under too much pressure. A... 'bubble' if you will.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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“Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right’…is a deeply researched account of the rise of the MAGA New Right during the past two decades braided with the narrative of her break with it.”

open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The fascist right will never drop its anti-Ukraine stance, because they want to see Russian aggression succeed.

But can the smaller yet quite vocal anti-anti-Russia left—Chomsky, Quincy Institute, Lula, etc—finally admit that blaming the war on the US and “they won’t even negotiate” were misguided?
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Britney Spears albums that are older than ICE:

...Baby One More Time

Oops!... I Did It Again

Britney
June 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
But I need these baskets back!
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is the same mean-spirited argument libertarian trolls used to post in my Facebook comment threads 15 years ago, that blames parents living in poverty for their own poverty, & says what's disgusting about people living in poverty is that government offers them help.
At a recent event the leader of the starvation movement, MAGA Con MP Jamil Jivani - Canada’s own JD Vance wannabe, spoke to a bored handful of students, in a tiny classroom (not the grand arena he had hoped), about why he opposes feeding hungry kids at schools... #cdnpoli
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This article is saved and I’ll be reading it soon. I’m actually designing cybersecurity training units for my work right now and this could be really useful
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I see a lot of handwringing these days about AI destroying people's relationships, but it comes on the heels of decades of not nearly enough handwringing over whether those people were suffering through shit relationships.
The new Turing test is whether a machine can show more empathy than the average husband
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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NEW: A risk assessment found that leading general-use chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Claude — are "fundamentally unsafe" for teen mental health support, failing to catch important red flags and responding inappropriately to users exhibiting signs of crisis.

futurism.com/artificial-i...
Report Finds That Leading Chatbots Are a Disaster for Teens Facing Mental Health Struggles
A report found that leading chatbots are "fundamentally unsafe" for teens looking for mental health support, and failed to catch red flags.
futurism.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Jewish communities of Toronto that I was connected to in the 2010s were deeply influenced by Birthright Israel, & Hurwitz’s implication was their exact view of the Holocaust: that it proved all people’s eternal hatred of Jews, so Jewish people had a right to use all violence in self-defence
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community
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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I just realized that on my bookshelf, in a row, are three books in a row whose names are Trust, Friendship, and Rejection.
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I want to lay down a few markers here for folks as the clock starts ticking down to the release of the Epstein Files.

1) You are going to learn about a lot more disgusting and sickening things people said, joked about and maybe even did. You will likely be disappointed in someone you had admired
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM