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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 1d

People profiting through grift, being caught at it, and just continuing. That’s what’s destroying us.

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 1d

Horton claims it was a mistake but he had undisclosed connections to Wakefield.

He claims Wakefield committed fraud, but the paper didn’t warrant publication *even if* it were entirely genuine and the weak evidence it did present had been ethically obtained.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 1d

Again, I used to think that it started with Berlusconi or Netanyahu or Rupert Murdoch. But this is the editor in chief of the second most prestigious medical journal in the world.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the scientific equivalent of Weinstein still being in the movie business and walking red carpet at Cannes and accepting Oscars.

It’s the equivalent of Trump being in his third term.

Voters are mostly low information buffoons. This is the editor in chief of the Lancet.

No consequences.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory that the decline of the West began with the Lancet. The fact that Richard Horton is still editor-in-chief after making what can only be described as the indefensible decision to publish Wakefield’s fraudulent and (even without the fraud) weak paper in a top tier medical journal…

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting pricing strategy from #Apple here. Rocky Horror Picture Show is cheaper to buy than rent!

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 2d

@ifbookspod.bsky.social have you looked at the book How to be Miserable (it’s probably actually a good book, but it might make a welcome break from the grifter economy)?

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 5d

House of Dynamite is very well put together but the actual scenario has only one sane response, which is to wait and see. But this would require a completely different and less ambiguous ending. Or two endings.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 10d

#SI2U is highly recommended. Very worth sequel.

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t understand the business with the ICE tracking app for iPhones. You can do all this with a web app (including push notifications) and there’s nothing Apple or the US government can do to block it (yet). And it would work on Android and Firefox phones and toasters.

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 12d

tosijs helps you build better apps faster in five ways (and counting)

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#javascript #css #frontend

inconsequence | The Owl has Landed

tosijs is a from-the-ground rebuild of b8rjs that matches its ambition but is written in Typescript, meets more rigorous engineering standards, and has a simpler and more powerful API. This summarize...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19d

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 18d

Enron for AI Hype!

Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 19d

The financial infrastructure of the next bust?

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 19d

Hey #apple, any reason you don’t automatically sort boarding passes into chronological order?

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 22d

I’m very tempted to see if I can replicate one of these subscription based web apps using Claude or Gemini.

I can buy a polished Adobe quality graphics app for my Mac for around $40. Maybe in a couple of years there’s a new version and I pay again.

$13/month billed yearly for a half assed toy?

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 23d

I’d be more upset that Affinity has been bought by Canva and is likely switching to a subscription model except I hardly use their products because they’re so slow and bloated (the feature of Adobe’s products they’ve best replicated).

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Oct 4

This thing cost $175M!?! What did they do with the money? That’s a LOT of drugs. There’s no effects. No stunts. No good action scenes except, marginally, the final chase (best thing in the movie, and that’s not saying much).

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Oct 4

Leonardo DiCaprio is playing a less funny version of The Dude as a half assed revolutionary. His character arc is a flat line. He isn’t serious at the start and isn’t serious at the end. He doesn’t pull himself together when things get serious. His funny bits are barely funny.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Oct 4

I avoided reading reviews of the movie so I could watch it with no expectations and now that I read rave reviews I really think anyone who raves about this movie is an idiot.

The best thing about the movie is Benicio del Toro playing the only actually competent resister in the story.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Oct 4

I’m not sure what the fuss is about One Battle After Another. Its portrayal of American Fascism might have been more interesting had it come out before actual American Fascism overtook it or if it had been set in the novel’s time frame. Even so, it’s a mess.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Oct 1

The ability of Samsung and LG to screw up user interfaces is legen… wait for it…

Your EULA has been updated, would you like to read it now?

Wait I’m going to switch on Game Mode and then complain that your HDMI source is switched off.

Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · Oct 1

Visiting my parents at a house with two LG smart TVs and they asked me how to do things to the TVs (‘Make it make normal TV’ and ‘turn the brightness up’) and I am stunned and humiliated to announce I couldn’t accomplish either task

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Oct 1

The US soldiers most often associated with poor grooming standards are of course special forces operators.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

A Novice Defense Secretary Lectures the Brass on What It Takes to Win

www.nytimes.com

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 30

So far watching Ezra Klein talk to Te Nehasi Coates is:

“Was silence not an option?”

Ezra should just have shut up.

But those saying Ezra Klein is just wrong or thinks it’s a game are missing the point. These men are friends and allies who are trying to figure out how to win not what the goal is.

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 24

The joke is that a stopped clock is right twice a day. But how often is a *random* clock right?

I’m not a big fan of Bill Gates but in one of his biographies it’s said he regards “random” as the worst insult (i.e. not even reliably wrong).

Trump isn’t random. He’s usually wrong. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 21

From NY Times…

57% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of “border policy”,

I.e. mass deportations, suspension of due process, armed men in masks grabbing people off the street…

57% of Americans are ok with fascism, just not when it’s directed against a successful, funny, white guy.

A new Fox News poll found President Trump’s overall approval ratings to be stable since July, while his approval ratings on the economy continued to fall. Just 39 percent of voters approve of how he has handled the economy. Voters are happier, however, with his policies on border security (57 percent approve) and immigration (47 percent), numbers that have not changed since the president ordered a surge of National Guard troops to Washington D.C.

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