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I further entropy, usually by trying (and failing) to bring order to my little corner of the chaos.
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For new folks joining, there's no Algorithm here, it's strictly who you follow on your main feed, so my advice:
* Follow liberally (by the time I see somebody a few times, I'll usually drop them a follow)
* Block even faster (life's too short to give your limited attention to assholes)
* Follow liberally (by the time I see somebody a few times, I'll usually drop them a follow)
* Block even faster (life's too short to give your limited attention to assholes)
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A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Chat GPT’s primary use case in chat bots are hyper specific non agentic beings
Any one who uses that beyond a certain threshold has an issue
And while we should have infrastructure to support them , there’s no tweak of tech that can ignore
That folks are looking for slaves
Any one who uses that beyond a certain threshold has an issue
And while we should have infrastructure to support them , there’s no tweak of tech that can ignore
That folks are looking for slaves
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Chat GPT’s primary use case in chat bots are hyper specific non agentic beings
Any one who uses that beyond a certain threshold has an issue
And while we should have infrastructure to support them , there’s no tweak of tech that can ignore
That folks are looking for slaves
Any one who uses that beyond a certain threshold has an issue
And while we should have infrastructure to support them , there’s no tweak of tech that can ignore
That folks are looking for slaves
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Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
www.sltrib.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
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But when we describe whether "The economy" is good or bad, we do it based on the views of the 3.4 million richest Americans, not from the viewpoint of the 338 million normal Americans.
🙂🙃
Stocks up, layoffs up, salaries down? Good economy!
Stocks down, unemployment down, salaries up? Bad economy!
🙂🙃
Stocks up, layoffs up, salaries down? Good economy!
Stocks down, unemployment down, salaries up? Bad economy!
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
But when we describe whether "The economy" is good or bad, we do it based on the views of the 3.4 million richest Americans, not from the viewpoint of the 338 million normal Americans.
🙂🙃
Stocks up, layoffs up, salaries down? Good economy!
Stocks down, unemployment down, salaries up? Bad economy!
🙂🙃
Stocks up, layoffs up, salaries down? Good economy!
Stocks down, unemployment down, salaries up? Bad economy!
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Again, the normal response to the ads would be we have no intention of issuing illegal orders.
For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Again, the normal response to the ads would be we have no intention of issuing illegal orders.
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
My family left Ukraine about 15 years before the Holodomor, but my great-great-grandmother survived it. Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day:
holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/the-histo...
"The Ukrainian Dream is to be left the fuck alone for 50 years," makes a lot of sense in historical context.
holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/the-histo...
"The Ukrainian Dream is to be left the fuck alone for 50 years," makes a lot of sense in historical context.
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My family left Ukraine about 15 years before the Holodomor, but my great-great-grandmother survived it. Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day:
holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/the-histo...
"The Ukrainian Dream is to be left the fuck alone for 50 years," makes a lot of sense in historical context.
holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/the-histo...
"The Ukrainian Dream is to be left the fuck alone for 50 years," makes a lot of sense in historical context.
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Since I learned about this a week ago, I keep thinking about how there are people who spent decades studying the T Rex and are just now learning that what they based their understanding on was not, in fact, a young T Rex,
But an entirely different species.
naturalsciences.org/calendar/new...
But an entirely different species.
naturalsciences.org/calendar/new...
Nanotyrannus Confirmed: Dueling Dinosaurs Fossil Rewrites the Story of T. rex | Programs and Events Calendar
naturalsciences.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Since I learned about this a week ago, I keep thinking about how there are people who spent decades studying the T Rex and are just now learning that what they based their understanding on was not, in fact, a young T Rex,
But an entirely different species.
naturalsciences.org/calendar/new...
But an entirely different species.
naturalsciences.org/calendar/new...
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
I passed the General exam and studied for my Extra ham radio license in 2007, and this is not all that different from what it boils down to. 😂
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I passed the General exam and studied for my Extra ham radio license in 2007, and this is not all that different from what it boils down to. 😂
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Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
I mean, I'm no lawyer, but at this point, I don't think Lindsey Halligan is, either 😂
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I mean, I'm no lawyer, but at this point, I don't think Lindsey Halligan is, either 😂
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lol last night was a rerun
“NBC's Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage…”
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
lol last night was a rerun
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They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.
Saudi officials used President Trump’s state visit in May to pique his interest in a major real estate development, the latest example of Trump blending governance and family business, particularly in Persian Gulf countries. nyti.ms/4r7mboU
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 AM
They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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years ago an emmy-winning comedy writer posted this in a DM group and I’ve thought about it literally every day since (anonymized and shared with permission)
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
years ago an emmy-winning comedy writer posted this in a DM group and I’ve thought about it literally every day since (anonymized and shared with permission)
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Saw someone post that they didn’t want to take any aurora photos because it was cliché, everyone’s doing it
The sky’s full of mystical dancing lights, from particles miles above us, excited by a burp from our local star. You’re allowed to be excited about cool shit, and this is especially cool shit
The sky’s full of mystical dancing lights, from particles miles above us, excited by a burp from our local star. You’re allowed to be excited about cool shit, and this is especially cool shit
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Saw someone post that they didn’t want to take any aurora photos because it was cliché, everyone’s doing it
The sky’s full of mystical dancing lights, from particles miles above us, excited by a burp from our local star. You’re allowed to be excited about cool shit, and this is especially cool shit
The sky’s full of mystical dancing lights, from particles miles above us, excited by a burp from our local star. You’re allowed to be excited about cool shit, and this is especially cool shit