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Jules
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Covid is not a cold or a flu, eff hierarchies 🏴. Love Sporting & Arsenal, & bass that makes you Feel Mighty Real. 🏳️‍⚧️ Pic is from 2021 (pre-N95s). Born in Philly but Canadian. @[email protected] https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jules_glenn
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“Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions.”

i keep telling students ChatGPT writes word salad.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Making it impractical to actually get and approve any vaccines is the same thing as the crudest anti-vaxxism.

The anti-vaxxers are in power, and they are counting on people to give them an undeserved "just asking questions" benefit of the doubt.

Don't.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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It's so funny to have a president ideologically opposed to the existence of an economy
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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like big tobacco funding cancer research
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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[emergent generation] is killing the [industry] by spending less money, time to cut wages relative to inflation again
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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if there were an effective and well-organized opposition party in this country and if it busied itself with actual opposition, the regime would be visibly crumbling by now

even with the largely-incompetent minority party we have, the regime is going to lose a lot of battles coming up
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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and at least some of the donors and corporate interests that have purchased influence are actively opposing the exact strategy of mass workplace raids and deportations that Heritage is demanding

they can’t satisfy the ideologues AND the capitalists simultaneously
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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this is a showboat regime, not an effective autocracy

it stages a certain number of genuine horrors in an attempt to convince you that it is doing the horrors on a far grander scale than you can witness

most of them would LIKE to do horrors on a grander scale, but they are too stupid and inept
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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sure, naturalized citizens and their kids have a tendency to vote for Democrats, but that’s completely outweighed by their tendency to prop up the rural communities that allow Republicans to take maximum advantage of the U.S. electoral system’s bias towards rural voters
December 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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George W Bush (and by GWB I mean the people around him who picked his drunk ass up off the floor and handed him talking points) was a flagrant war criminal and should be tried in The Hague, but he was also the last prominent Republican who clearly understood that immigration advantages Republicans
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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obviously they’ve thought of this and that’s why they’re trying to force white women to have more babies but I’m sorry mate that’s just not gonna happen, there are plenty of totalitarian states on earth and none of them in the modern era has succeeded in producing many babies by social coercion
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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immigration is literally the only thing that can save the Republican Party bc without immigrants, small rural towns will disappear in the population crash and cities will get even bigger and more expensive which means more pressure for affordability and more Mamdani-style candidates
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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It's wild to think we're going into year 7 of this mess and somehow big media & govt's have normalized alienating anyone who uses health mitigations
6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Canadian publisher Kids Can Press "strongly condemns any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image" following Pete Hegseth's post:
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.

My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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setting aside the fact that they just don’t know what jokes are, this gives a big insight into the mind of white nationalists. they are deeply paranoid about the idea of being percieved as anything other than Epic Stoics
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I'm not convinced that PM Goldman Sachs is an abstract, long-term thinker. And this hasn't just damaged his relationship with May; now other parties have reason not to trust him.

“I don’t know if the prime minister lied but I think he needs to consider what his word means when his word was given"
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Getting Maduro out of office and crushing any form of socialist/vaugely leftist government globally is a bipartisan affair and always has been.
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM