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MatttttttttB
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e.g. Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader
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🖼️ A natural history of birds,
Albin, Eleazar, 1713-1759.
This account has taught me I have basically no idea what a vaccine is bc these posts about vaccines that could prevent cancer and vision loss and whatever just make me think, what, how is that possible
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
“HADES” placed appropriately right on top of Midland
The details in this 1888 map are pretty interesting to look at.
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So not only does the massive transit package passed last night fill the funding gap, it *boosts* ops funding by roughly the size of the gap, eliminates parking minimums within a half mile of rail stations, and gives the new regional transit board sweeping powers to do public development
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It's too long for Bluesky & I refuse to compromise. So here's a screenshot with the words in the alt-text.
Miller doesn’t wanna be dragged from his home by an outraged federal worker lol
The cosplaying military junta: like their leader, none of the people below served, so they brandish guns and tear gas try to make people cower anyway.
NEW: Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over military homes that until recently housed senior officers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
…wouldn’t that be the point?
Have the stories circulated on here about how he makes people cry in class and openly disdains students who didn’t go to Harvard or Yale?
A colleague old me that undergrads at his school recently invited Amar to speak at non-trivial expense, and he spent most of the talk hectoring the students to buy the book unfavorably reviewed downthread
The problem is the insistence upon one story. We do not need one, we do not have one, we should not demand one.
Close passed, honked at, and stared down by a very small man in a very big truck trying to make a permissive left arrow. The classic
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Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...
Prosecuting the Powerful
Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.
foreignpolicy.com
doesn’t sound like a very good working relationship
I guess the story can’t be told this way nowadays, but in 2023 you could’ve talked about differential privacy as a tech sector imposition on public sector stats processes
Wouldn’t have thought differential privacy would get any coverage this admin. Dire framing in this case doesn’t really suit imo
US census data is carefully anonymized for good reason. Now Republicans want to change that -- and their plan could put the data of every person living in the US at risk.

Important reporting from @telliotter.bsky.social
The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.
www.wired.com
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"Maybe the only way to turn the tide of misinformation... is to flood the algorithm w/ the right stuff. Unfortunately, flooding the algorithm takes resources, policy changes, and a unified, evidence-based message—the things that a fully funded federal Safe to Sleep campaign had previously promised."
‘These Aren’t Statistics​. These Are Babies.’ Why Online Misinformation About Infant Sleep Is More Dangerous Than Ever​. - Consumer Reports
Whether scrolling, searching, or shopping, parents are bombarded with misleading information and imagery about unsafe infant sleep practices and products.
www.consumerreports.org
Are there reasons the ACS would have this very different than BLS? I ask bc my rough, ACS-based recollection of housing costs as % of income for my region is that that it varies a good bit with income. And I’m wondering if I’m misremembering or if the BLS diary surveys may just be that different
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I don't want to overdo my personal hobby horse, but this is an example of "sheriff policing mentality" over progressive urban police (both bad but in different ways).
Personally really enjoy 5
i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away
Indefatigably explaining Romans 6:23 to me in between rebounds
Got proselytized to on the basketball court by a 21yo Tennessee bank examiner in town for a training at FDIC lol
We called this meeting to discuss your woke posts
One of a few of the PMC’s self-appointed personnel committees
i take it from my timeline that the supra-PMC has another report about how the PMC is bad