@midianitemanna.bsky.social
I help people explain complex ideas in intuitive, easy to understand ways.
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Lots of folks I know suddenly interested in the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Gonna break it down in the TL;DR format based on what I was taught many years ago by Salim Tamari, pre-eminent Palestinian historical sociologist.
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I wish people would read.
This is not a fuckin LLM, this is not asking ChatGPT what the weather will be. This is leveraging neural networks to identify emergent patterns in weather systems to extend the usability of forecast algorithms. This is the golden use case of machine learning.
This is not a fuckin LLM, this is not asking ChatGPT what the weather will be. This is leveraging neural networks to identify emergent patterns in weather systems to extend the usability of forecast algorithms. This is the golden use case of machine learning.
Today, we're rolling out a new suite of AI-driven global weather models, including a "first of its kind" hybrid ensemble system! Want to get geeky with us? Come check it out:
www.noaa.gov/news-release...
www.noaa.gov/news-release...
This AIGFS forecast in the form of a map, for December 10, 2025, shows the heavy precipitation from an atmospheric river hitting the U.S. Pacific Northwest. AI weather models like this one will protect life and property by improving forecast accuracy and timeliness for events such as the catastrophic flooding that impacted the Northwest.
www.noaa.gov
December 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I wish people would read.
This is not a fuckin LLM, this is not asking ChatGPT what the weather will be. This is leveraging neural networks to identify emergent patterns in weather systems to extend the usability of forecast algorithms. This is the golden use case of machine learning.
This is not a fuckin LLM, this is not asking ChatGPT what the weather will be. This is leveraging neural networks to identify emergent patterns in weather systems to extend the usability of forecast algorithms. This is the golden use case of machine learning.
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Marco Rubio is the first real boy to turn into a wooden puppet.
December 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Marco Rubio is the first real boy to turn into a wooden puppet.
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wow that was stupid but i guess at least he didn’t declare war with venezuela
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
wow that was stupid but i guess at least he didn’t declare war with venezuela
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🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON
CHOSE THE COLOR PURPLE
AS HIS EMBLEMATIC COLOR
BECAUSE OF THE BOOK
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
(this has been verified)
which -- absolutely changes how imma hear Purple Rain from now on idk abt you
(PS that is not a white child, fight me)
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON
CHOSE THE COLOR PURPLE
AS HIS EMBLEMATIC COLOR
BECAUSE OF THE BOOK
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
(this has been verified)
which -- absolutely changes how imma hear Purple Rain from now on idk abt you
(PS that is not a white child, fight me)
December 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON
CHOSE THE COLOR PURPLE
AS HIS EMBLEMATIC COLOR
BECAUSE OF THE BOOK
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
(this has been verified)
which -- absolutely changes how imma hear Purple Rain from now on idk abt you
(PS that is not a white child, fight me)
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON
CHOSE THE COLOR PURPLE
AS HIS EMBLEMATIC COLOR
BECAUSE OF THE BOOK
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
(this has been verified)
which -- absolutely changes how imma hear Purple Rain from now on idk abt you
(PS that is not a white child, fight me)
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It's clear that the only reason this speech happened is because Trump was angry about his approval ratings, all the bad press he's recently gotten over Venezuela and the fact that fewer and fewer Americans are buying his snake oil these days
He thought yelling at America for 20 minutes would fix it
He thought yelling at America for 20 minutes would fix it
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
It's clear that the only reason this speech happened is because Trump was angry about his approval ratings, all the bad press he's recently gotten over Venezuela and the fact that fewer and fewer Americans are buying his snake oil these days
He thought yelling at America for 20 minutes would fix it
He thought yelling at America for 20 minutes would fix it
WTAF
1/9
🚨 CDC supervisors are instructing employees with disabilities to email their *personal medical records directly to the CDC Chief Operating Officer*, Lynda Chapman, to obtain temporary telework -- because the formal reasonable accommodation system is overwhelmed.
Yes. Really. 🧵⬇️
🚨 CDC supervisors are instructing employees with disabilities to email their *personal medical records directly to the CDC Chief Operating Officer*, Lynda Chapman, to obtain temporary telework -- because the formal reasonable accommodation system is overwhelmed.
Yes. Really. 🧵⬇️
As HHS restricts telework, CDC asks employees to ‘bypass’ reasonable accommodation process
Multiple CDC supervisors are raising concerns that a new HHS reasonable accommodation policy conflicts with federal disability law.
federalnewsnetwork.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
WTAF
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This is completely and utterly unethical, unacceptable and disgraceful.
Thread on the topic incoming.
H/t @beansproutsmom.bsky.social for the heads up
Thread on the topic incoming.
H/t @beansproutsmom.bsky.social for the heads up
Seems interesting that CDC is awarding $1.6M to a university in Denmark to study Hep B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau given recent CDC vax changes and FDA's Hoeg's connections to Denmark. Does this study sound ethical?
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23245.p...
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23245.p...
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is completely and utterly unethical, unacceptable and disgraceful.
Thread on the topic incoming.
H/t @beansproutsmom.bsky.social for the heads up
Thread on the topic incoming.
H/t @beansproutsmom.bsky.social for the heads up
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This is what we call, I believe, KING SHIT
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is what we call, I believe, KING SHIT
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"The biggest problem may be resisting pressures to be more active, from health professionals, family, peers and the need to maintain self-esteem."
The last part of that sentence gave me pause. This is a valuable read. #LongCOVID #MECFS
The last part of that sentence gave me pause. This is a valuable read. #LongCOVID #MECFS
1) New factsheet: ME/CFS - information for medical professionals (6 pages).
Written by Prof. Emeritus Jonathon Edwards and members of the Science for ME forum. A valuable text, useful to bookmark. A couple of quotes from key paragraphs 👇
Written by Prof. Emeritus Jonathon Edwards and members of the Science for ME forum. A valuable text, useful to bookmark. A couple of quotes from key paragraphs 👇
December 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"The biggest problem may be resisting pressures to be more active, from health professionals, family, peers and the need to maintain self-esteem."
The last part of that sentence gave me pause. This is a valuable read. #LongCOVID #MECFS
The last part of that sentence gave me pause. This is a valuable read. #LongCOVID #MECFS
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Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
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When people think about patient safety, hospitals usually come to mind first. But most healthcare is delivered in the community—and from the patient perspective, almost all of that relies on retail pharmacies.
We can’t have safe care without safe pharmacies.
#QISky
We can’t have safe care without safe pharmacies.
#QISky
"I’m a CVS pharmacist. My retail pharmacy colleagues and I face a crisis. It has never been more challenging to do my job safely." www.statnews.com/2025/12/12/p...
I'm a CVS pharmacist. My retail pharmacy colleagues and I face a crisis
“There is often less than a minute to review an order before falling behind,” and that makes it harder to catch potential problems, a pharmacist warns.
www.statnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
When people think about patient safety, hospitals usually come to mind first. But most healthcare is delivered in the community—and from the patient perspective, almost all of that relies on retail pharmacies.
We can’t have safe care without safe pharmacies.
#QISky
We can’t have safe care without safe pharmacies.
#QISky
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If you want your ACA coverage to be active on January 1, you must’ve enrolled by today. You can enroll up to Jan 15 but then coverage won’t start until February. Meaning they’re asking people to either go without coverage or take a chance on enrolling in a plan they know they can’t afford.
UPDATE: Susan Collins after meeting says goal is to announce a plan, with vote next year to restore expiring subsidies. She said it’s too late to get a bill signed before end of the year.
December 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If you want your ACA coverage to be active on January 1, you must’ve enrolled by today. You can enroll up to Jan 15 but then coverage won’t start until February. Meaning they’re asking people to either go without coverage or take a chance on enrolling in a plan they know they can’t afford.
Remember this as you see them reframing this winter’s H3N2 flu as coming “from China,” when it’s been circulating for months in Australia, the UK, and Japan.
gonna say something that probably only a handful of you will interact with but the root of a lot of anti asian racism--apart from the piece where some people just want us dead--is that at the core a lot of non-asian people who encounter the term don't actually believe anti asian racism exists.
December 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Remember this as you see them reframing this winter’s H3N2 flu as coming “from China,” when it’s been circulating for months in Australia, the UK, and Japan.
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and this is leftists and progressives and democrats and whatever you want to call the people who are supposedly on the side of the angels. when pressed it becomes so clear that so many of you do not believe asian americans actually experience racism and that's a huge problem.
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
and this is leftists and progressives and democrats and whatever you want to call the people who are supposedly on the side of the angels. when pressed it becomes so clear that so many of you do not believe asian americans actually experience racism and that's a huge problem.
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
Because heavily armed goons checking your ID before letting you pee makes every woman feel “safe”
texas literally has assigned armed state troopers to guard the ladies room.
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges
In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Because heavily armed goons checking your ID before letting you pee makes every woman feel “safe”
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Annual reminder that if you see a menorah in someone’s window, that’s an act of defiance against bigotry and hate. It’s also pride and bravery.
It’s says “a Jew lives here” and that’s both painting a target but also reminding everyone that we still exist and we always will.
It’s says “a Jew lives here” and that’s both painting a target but also reminding everyone that we still exist and we always will.
December 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Annual reminder that if you see a menorah in someone’s window, that’s an act of defiance against bigotry and hate. It’s also pride and bravery.
It’s says “a Jew lives here” and that’s both painting a target but also reminding everyone that we still exist and we always will.
It’s says “a Jew lives here” and that’s both painting a target but also reminding everyone that we still exist and we always will.
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“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives.'"
--Jozay Alkanj, who was having coffee with Ahmed when the shooting erupted.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
--Jozay Alkanj, who was having coffee with Ahmed when the shooting erupted.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Hero who wrestled gun from terrorist says he’d do it again despite being ‘riddled with bullets’
Despite Ahmed al Ahmed being in a lot of pain, according to his migration lawyer, he felt as if disarming the gunman at Bondi was an act for the community.
www.smh.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives.'"
--Jozay Alkanj, who was having coffee with Ahmed when the shooting erupted.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
--Jozay Alkanj, who was having coffee with Ahmed when the shooting erupted.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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He was buddies with a pedo but in a tasteful, honorable way
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
He was buddies with a pedo but in a tasteful, honorable way
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Never forget that those of us driving 15+ year old Hondas with not even so much as a rear facing camera are basically gods compared to these people.
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Never forget that those of us driving 15+ year old Hondas with not even so much as a rear facing camera are basically gods compared to these people.
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Chag Semeach, y’all! Behold the KRAKENORAH!
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Chag Semeach, y’all! Behold the KRAKENORAH!
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ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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They're not just requiring that students learn how to use the bullshit machine.
They're requiring students to "defend" the decisions made by AI.
Remind me, which one of them is supposedly getting the degree there?
They're requiring students to "defend" the decisions made by AI.
Remind me, which one of them is supposedly getting the degree there?
December 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
They're not just requiring that students learn how to use the bullshit machine.
They're requiring students to "defend" the decisions made by AI.
Remind me, which one of them is supposedly getting the degree there?
They're requiring students to "defend" the decisions made by AI.
Remind me, which one of them is supposedly getting the degree there?