Modern Day Bartleby
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Former Clevelander, STL, SF now Tokyoite
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It Is Always Kopitiam
Objects can signify experiences, can stimulate memories, jumpstart nostalgia. This is what I imagine the silver kettle in the photo above does for those from a particular region of the world, Singa…
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Got a chance to see the Singaporean Omnibus film KOPITIAM DAYS at the Tokyo International Film Festival. As a lover of coffee and the third spaces #coffee spawns, I greatly enjoyed it. #CoffeeSky
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Dutch police have arrested over 500 fake officers this year www.dutchnews.nl?p=260358
Dutch police have arrested over 500 fake officers this year
www.dutchnews.nl
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Dutch police have arrested over 500 fake officers this year www.dutchnews.nl?p=260358
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
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I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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DOGE has been a FLOP, now disbanded 8 months early. Greatly exaggerating their "success" Trump and Musk lied to the taxpayers, never delivering a cent back to them. The real impact: slashing research, endangering public health, removing competent public servants, & creating chaos.
DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended
Musk said the initiative would save at least $1 trillion. But its website claims to have reached only $214 billion.
time.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
DOGE has been a FLOP, now disbanded 8 months early. Greatly exaggerating their "success" Trump and Musk lied to the taxpayers, never delivering a cent back to them. The real impact: slashing research, endangering public health, removing competent public servants, & creating chaos.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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A disturbing possibility could be that ICE targeted a woman with DACA status perhaps over a custody/alimony dispute with the father, the WH press sec.’s brother.
“Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."
“Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A disturbing possibility could be that ICE targeted a woman with DACA status perhaps over a custody/alimony dispute with the father, the WH press sec.’s brother.
“Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."
“Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."
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“This case presents the unique, if not unprecedented, situation where an unconstitutionally appointed prosecutor, exercising ‘power [she] did not lawfully possess,’ acted alone in conducting a grand jury proceeding & securing an indictment,” Judge Currie wrote about the Comey & James cases.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“This case presents the unique, if not unprecedented, situation where an unconstitutionally appointed prosecutor, exercising ‘power [she] did not lawfully possess,’ acted alone in conducting a grand jury proceeding & securing an indictment,” Judge Currie wrote about the Comey & James cases.
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It's blatant vindictive prosecution and everyone involved from Halligan to Bondi to Trump need to be sued.
“This case presents the unique, if not unprecedented, situation where an unconstitutionally appointed prosecutor, exercising ‘power [she] did not lawfully possess,’ acted alone in conducting a grand jury proceeding & securing an indictment,” Judge Currie wrote about the Comey & James cases.
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It's blatant vindictive prosecution and everyone involved from Halligan to Bondi to Trump need to be sued.
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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For those not familiar with this: Finland is changing their rail gauge to International from Russian. It won't accommodate Russian trains anymore. This is a physical rebuild, and expensive. Finland MEANS IT!
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
For those not familiar with this: Finland is changing their rail gauge to International from Russian. It won't accommodate Russian trains anymore. This is a physical rebuild, and expensive. Finland MEANS IT!
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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Oh look. More journalists being hit by “less lethal” rounds. This time in St. Paul.
“Yücel, the MPR News photojournalist, was among those hit by the less-lethal munitions. He was taken from the scene by ambulance and released shortly after.”
“Yücel, the MPR News photojournalist, was among those hit by the less-lethal munitions. He was taken from the scene by ambulance and released shortly after.”
For the second time in a week, a federal law enforcement operation drew protesters in St. Paul on Tuesday. The latest operation happened on the 600 block of Rose Street East — a residential area in the city’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood.
Another federal agent operation in St. Paul draws large crowds of protesters
There was no immediate confirmation about the nature of the operation, but an MPR News photographer captured images of federal agents on the scene, including at least three from Homeland Security Inve...
www.mprnews.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh look. More journalists being hit by “less lethal” rounds. This time in St. Paul.
“Yücel, the MPR News photojournalist, was among those hit by the less-lethal munitions. He was taken from the scene by ambulance and released shortly after.”
“Yücel, the MPR News photojournalist, was among those hit by the less-lethal munitions. He was taken from the scene by ambulance and released shortly after.”
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IMPORTANT: NASA map shows temperatures of up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets & sidewalks. All that unrelenting concrete and asphalt for cars. Not nearly enough trees. They start with ridiculous heat that’s only getting worse with the #ClimateCrisis, and then make it much worse with bad design.
NASA map shows temperatures up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets, sidewalks
Data from June 19, when the daily high was 106 degrees, shows asphalt across the city that day was between 120 and 160 degrees.
www.kjzz.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
IMPORTANT: NASA map shows temperatures of up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets & sidewalks. All that unrelenting concrete and asphalt for cars. Not nearly enough trees. They start with ridiculous heat that’s only getting worse with the #ClimateCrisis, and then make it much worse with bad design.
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peggy hill is right
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
peggy hill is right
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RFKJr has cut ALL mRNA vax research in the USA where all the work discussed in this thread was developed. Other countries can step in. But the rhetoric about mRNA vax from the likes of him are HUGELY harming the trust in mRNA vaccine technology. We address common questions n myths here
independentsage.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
RFKJr has cut ALL mRNA vax research in the USA where all the work discussed in this thread was developed. Other countries can step in. But the rhetoric about mRNA vax from the likes of him are HUGELY harming the trust in mRNA vaccine technology. We address common questions n myths here
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
The Profa Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of epistemic irresponsibility
Louisiana's surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines "dangerous," will become the second-highest ranking official at the CDC. n.pr/49Af0z8
Louisiana's top health official, a critic of the COVID vaccine, will be CDC deputy
Louisiana's surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines "dangerous," will become the second-highest ranking official at the CDC.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The Profa Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of epistemic irresponsibility
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“Louisiana officials waited to warn of whooping cough outbreak”
Now the person responsible has a national role…
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Now the person responsible has a national role…
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
“Louisiana officials waited to warn of whooping cough outbreak”
Now the person responsible has a national role…
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Now the person responsible has a national role…
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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🚨New podcast interview🚨
Check out "Bitch" author, Karen Stollznow, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social in conversation with Miranda Melcher
Hear the full discussion https://cup.org/3LSUcJc
#BookPodcast #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 📚💙
Check out "Bitch" author, Karen Stollznow, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social in conversation with Miranda Melcher
Hear the full discussion https://cup.org/3LSUcJc
#BookPodcast #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 📚💙
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🚨New podcast interview🚨
Check out "Bitch" author, Karen Stollznow, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social in conversation with Miranda Melcher
Hear the full discussion https://cup.org/3LSUcJc
#BookPodcast #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 📚💙
Check out "Bitch" author, Karen Stollznow, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social in conversation with Miranda Melcher
Hear the full discussion https://cup.org/3LSUcJc
#BookPodcast #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 📚💙
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The U.S. Justice Department is facing pushback against Trump’s demands for retribution against his perceived enemies.
U.S. Justice Department stumbles in retribution campaign against Trump foes
There are signs of pushback in the courts to Trump’s demands that the Justice Department pursue retribution against perceived enemies of the president.
ebx.sh
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The U.S. Justice Department is facing pushback against Trump’s demands for retribution against his perceived enemies.
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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro begins serving a 27-year jail term for an attempted coup against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2023.
Ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro begins 27-year jail term for coup plot
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro begins serving a 27-year jail term for an attempted coup against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2023.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro begins serving a 27-year jail term for an attempted coup against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2023.
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The fact more people don't know about shoofly pie and that it should be available everywhere year round but you only find it in this tiny pocket of Pennsylvania Dutch country is a shame. When I left Philly my favorite baker made me a shoofly pie to go and I ate the whole thing at the airport
This got me thinking….how do we as a society normalize pumpkin pie as a breakfast option at restaurants year round? Who will be the change we want to see in the world?
It turns out Mina and I have identical pie takes (literally had home made pumpkin pie for breakfast this morning before kids woke up).
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The fact more people don't know about shoofly pie and that it should be available everywhere year round but you only find it in this tiny pocket of Pennsylvania Dutch country is a shame. When I left Philly my favorite baker made me a shoofly pie to go and I ate the whole thing at the airport
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They also hunted down all grants that went to any purpose containing "LGBTQ" or similar words. I think it is pretty clear this is the brainchild of a conspiracy theorist who wants to "follow the money" to find out how the imaginary cabal of perpetually triggered leftists gets funded.
The majority of DOGE's "work" is to use LLMs to search federal grants for the keywords "LGBTQ," "BIPOC," and similar, and then to cancel those grants.
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They also hunted down all grants that went to any purpose containing "LGBTQ" or similar words. I think it is pretty clear this is the brainchild of a conspiracy theorist who wants to "follow the money" to find out how the imaginary cabal of perpetually triggered leftists gets funded.