KEW
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I read, tell stories, block early/often, mind my business, and write--I SAW DEATH COMING is now in paperback.
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KEW
@kidadaewilliams.com
· Nov 18
My girl made it to the Blacksonian, y'all! And she's in great company! ❤️🔥
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So many booksellers and librarians in the comments agreeing with this. This is a really good example of the kinds of positive changes you can make in your community without actually doing all that much. Books!!!
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
So many booksellers and librarians in the comments agreeing with this. This is a really good example of the kinds of positive changes you can make in your community without actually doing all that much. Books!!!
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This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
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I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
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UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
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“It’s cold today—so much for global warming!”
Weather is like your mood, while climate is your personality. One cold day doesn’t disprove global trends. In fact, warming can even disrupt weather patterns and cause some of the wild swings we see today!
Weather is like your mood, while climate is your personality. One cold day doesn’t disprove global trends. In fact, warming can even disrupt weather patterns and cause some of the wild swings we see today!
Climate vs Weather | Global Weirding
YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“It’s cold today—so much for global warming!”
Weather is like your mood, while climate is your personality. One cold day doesn’t disprove global trends. In fact, warming can even disrupt weather patterns and cause some of the wild swings we see today!
Weather is like your mood, while climate is your personality. One cold day doesn’t disprove global trends. In fact, warming can even disrupt weather patterns and cause some of the wild swings we see today!
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to keep functioning society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us?
That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the “globally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
to keep functioning society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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There is no evidence that these devices improve any measure of health whatsoever, and a lot of what they track is nonvalidated nonsense that can actually make people unwell.
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
There is no evidence that these devices improve any measure of health whatsoever, and a lot of what they track is nonvalidated nonsense that can actually make people unwell.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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My book The Contagion of Liberty, which, among other things, explains the enthusiasm early Americans had for public health and inoculations. Is coming soon to paperback and can be preordered for 40% off with code HHOL25 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My book The Contagion of Liberty, which, among other things, explains the enthusiasm early Americans had for public health and inoculations. Is coming soon to paperback and can be preordered for 40% off with code HHOL25 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Even the cold calculation of empire requires more inclusiveness than whatever the fuck this is. It’s insanity.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Even the cold calculation of empire requires more inclusiveness than whatever the fuck this is. It’s insanity.
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For those of you following of the tragedy at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong yesterday/today. Firstly my condolences to all the victims. Secondly a lot of Western media is blaming the bamboo scaffolding for spreading the fire when it is actually the flammable substandard netting....
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
For those of you following of the tragedy at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong yesterday/today. Firstly my condolences to all the victims. Secondly a lot of Western media is blaming the bamboo scaffolding for spreading the fire when it is actually the flammable substandard netting....
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Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says - www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says
The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the head of France's Institut Pa...
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says - www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Bringing businesses and rich capitalists into coalitions with workers means the rich entities will have the most sway. Compromises will be largely made in their favor because their influence and capital is “needed”. This must be understood and prepared for if that’s the strategy
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Bringing businesses and rich capitalists into coalitions with workers means the rich entities will have the most sway. Compromises will be largely made in their favor because their influence and capital is “needed”. This must be understood and prepared for if that’s the strategy
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I wrote a history of Cook County Jail, and how jails became political institutions, and how jailed people and their allies fought to mitigate mass incarceration www.pennpress.org/978151282349...
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I wrote a history of Cook County Jail, and how jails became political institutions, and how jailed people and their allies fought to mitigate mass incarceration www.pennpress.org/978151282349...
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OpenAI is sending out emails this morning to confirm that a ton of user data has been exposed owing to a breach in a third-party web analytics tool called Mixpanel
OpenAI confirms major data breach, exposing names, emails and more
Users are waking up to discover OpenAI leaked their data this morning via a faulty third-party plugin. Here's what you need to know.
www.windowscentral.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
OpenAI is sending out emails this morning to confirm that a ton of user data has been exposed owing to a breach in a third-party web analytics tool called Mixpanel
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On this day in 1995, an article published by a Princeton University professor entitled "The Coming of the Super-Predators" wrongly predicted that violence in the U.S. would rise dramatically due to growing "moral poverty" by poor and minority youth.
Nov. 27, 1995 | Report Advancing 'Super-Predator' Myth Leads to Harsh, Racially Biased Sentencing
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On this day in 1995, an article published by a Princeton University professor entitled "The Coming of the Super-Predators" wrongly predicted that violence in the U.S. would rise dramatically due to growing "moral poverty" by poor and minority youth.
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YOU KNOW IT WAS NASTY!!!!!!
Every time I think about that man having to eat in the car at his racist in-laws house I pause and think… I bet the food wasn’t even good either on top of everything else.
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
YOU KNOW IT WAS NASTY!!!!!!
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Why do the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always play on Thanksgiving?
Why do the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always play on Thanksgiving?
The Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always have games on Thanksgiving Day, but how did that start for each team?
www.latimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Why do the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always play on Thanksgiving?
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And then he said that his wife’s brother BEGGED their parents to let him come for Thanksgiving. And in a Thanksgiving Miracle, his wife’s parents relented & allowed to come to Thanksgiving Dinner…and eat on the porch. And from that day till our last day, we will tell this tale every November…
November 14, 2024 at 2:46 AM
And then he said that his wife’s brother BEGGED their parents to let him come for Thanksgiving. And in a Thanksgiving Miracle, his wife’s parents relented & allowed to come to Thanksgiving Dinner…and eat on the porch. And from that day till our last day, we will tell this tale every November…
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I’ve known a few people over the years who started watching Fox News because they wanted to be “informed” and not trapped in a media bubble who ultimately started drinking the Kool Aid. Propaganda works.
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’ve known a few people over the years who started watching Fox News because they wanted to be “informed” and not trapped in a media bubble who ultimately started drinking the Kool Aid. Propaganda works.
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).