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"Did you consider the people who don't like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don't know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?"
Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media?
Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make the...
buff.ly
January 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"Did you consider the people who don't like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don't know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?"
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ME: *sigh* New year, same haters.
WIFE: Again, they're not your haters, they're your children.
WIFE: Again, they're not your haters, they're your children.
January 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ME: *sigh* New year, same haters.
WIFE: Again, they're not your haters, they're your children.
WIFE: Again, they're not your haters, they're your children.
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I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer.
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December 17, 2024 at 11:15 PM
I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer.
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New @cgdev.org policy paper:
*MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out.
We examine why, and how to go faster.
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*MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out.
We examine why, and how to go faster.
🧵
December 16, 2024 at 11:37 AM
New @cgdev.org policy paper:
*MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out.
We examine why, and how to go faster.
🧵
*MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out.
We examine why, and how to go faster.
🧵
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UPDATE: Black Girl High Schoolers Who Found ‘Impossible’ Proof of Pythagorean Theorem Discover 9 More Solutions to it www.goodnewsnetwork.org/update-high-...
UPDATE: High Schoolers Who Found 'Impossible' Proof of Pythagorean Theorem Discover 9 More Solutions to it
Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson made national headlines, won their school a large grant, and were invited to publish papers.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
December 16, 2024 at 1:43 PM
UPDATE: Black Girl High Schoolers Who Found ‘Impossible’ Proof of Pythagorean Theorem Discover 9 More Solutions to it www.goodnewsnetwork.org/update-high-...
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🚨🏈 New from me: I spent a week undercover as a member of the Vikings’ grounds crew.
A story I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and the Vikings in particular. (You’ll see why.)
I learned a ton and tried to share as many cool details as I could: www.si.com/nfl/writer-i...
A story I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and the Vikings in particular. (You’ll see why.)
I learned a ton and tried to share as many cool details as I could: www.si.com/nfl/writer-i...
Inside My Memorable Week As a Member of the Vikings’ Grounds Crew
Sam Darnold takes a snap from the 47-yard line. He fakes a handoff and his feet glide across the Norseman logo in the center of the Minnesota Vikings’ home fiel
www.si.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:31 PM
🚨🏈 New from me: I spent a week undercover as a member of the Vikings’ grounds crew.
A story I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and the Vikings in particular. (You’ll see why.)
I learned a ton and tried to share as many cool details as I could: www.si.com/nfl/writer-i...
A story I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and the Vikings in particular. (You’ll see why.)
I learned a ton and tried to share as many cool details as I could: www.si.com/nfl/writer-i...
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legacy news: Why would someone do this brazen shooting
shooter’s statement: I did it because America’s healthcare industry is inhumane
legacy news: Perhaps it was video games?
shooter’s statement: I am literally citing sources about corporate greed
legacy news: I guess we’ll just never know
shooter’s statement: I did it because America’s healthcare industry is inhumane
legacy news: Perhaps it was video games?
shooter’s statement: I am literally citing sources about corporate greed
legacy news: I guess we’ll just never know
December 11, 2024 at 12:15 AM
legacy news: Why would someone do this brazen shooting
shooter’s statement: I did it because America’s healthcare industry is inhumane
legacy news: Perhaps it was video games?
shooter’s statement: I am literally citing sources about corporate greed
legacy news: I guess we’ll just never know
shooter’s statement: I did it because America’s healthcare industry is inhumane
legacy news: Perhaps it was video games?
shooter’s statement: I am literally citing sources about corporate greed
legacy news: I guess we’ll just never know
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NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
www.texasobserver.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:13 PM
NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
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I really don’t see how chasing the Duke boys for years qualifies this guy to run the IRS.
Breaking News: President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Billy Long, a former congressman from Missouri, to lead the Internal Revenue Service.
Update from Minho Kim
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:25 PM
I really don’t see how chasing the Duke boys for years qualifies this guy to run the IRS.
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Crab plows on Swell Lodge vehicles on Christmas Island.
November 29, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Crab plows on Swell Lodge vehicles on Christmas Island.
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Spend time with Greatness
November 29, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Spend time with Greatness
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Mid-afternoon today, a partner in crime and I will be doing some heavy-tipping Phoenix dive bar hopping, helping out the folks who help us on this day of thinly-veiled family drama.
Will be soliciting donations via V*nmo (clueheywood) if anyone wants to participate. Not needed, but appreciated.
Will be soliciting donations via V*nmo (clueheywood) if anyone wants to participate. Not needed, but appreciated.
November 28, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Mid-afternoon today, a partner in crime and I will be doing some heavy-tipping Phoenix dive bar hopping, helping out the folks who help us on this day of thinly-veiled family drama.
Will be soliciting donations via V*nmo (clueheywood) if anyone wants to participate. Not needed, but appreciated.
Will be soliciting donations via V*nmo (clueheywood) if anyone wants to participate. Not needed, but appreciated.
Reposted by Ace Cowboy
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Official hired by Eric Adams to do police oversight asked to resign by Eric Adams for doing police oversight. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/n...
Mayor Adams Pushes Out Chairwoman of Police Oversight Board
Arva Rice was asked to resign after she criticized police handling of a fatal shooting investigation and requested more money and power to investigate misconduct.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Official hired by Eric Adams to do police oversight asked to resign by Eric Adams for doing police oversight. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/n...
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Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
The Man Who Killed Google Search
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.
The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, ...
www.wheresyoured.at
April 23, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
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Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
January 9, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
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Adams claims migrants are bankrupting NYC. Meanwhile, overtime for subway cops is up 3875% in one year. No, that's not a typo: 3875%. gothamist.com/news/nypd-ov...
NYPD overtime pay in the subway went from $4 million to $155 million this year
Subway crime is down slightly. Fare evasion tickets and arrests are way up.
gothamist.com
December 22, 2023 at 1:34 PM
Adams claims migrants are bankrupting NYC. Meanwhile, overtime for subway cops is up 3875% in one year. No, that's not a typo: 3875%. gothamist.com/news/nypd-ov...
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I thought Heat vs. Raptors was decided 65 million years ago
December 7, 2023 at 12:33 AM
I thought Heat vs. Raptors was decided 65 million years ago
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Jesus, this story. An entire circuit court decided to JUST IGNORE all petitions from prisoners who did not have counsel. Literally ignore them: they cut and pasted canned responses to the petitions without reading them. People are still in prison because of this.
They Tried to Expose Louisiana Judges Who Had Systematically Ignored Prisoners' Petitions. No One Li...
The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to ex...
www.propublica.org
November 5, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Jesus, this story. An entire circuit court decided to JUST IGNORE all petitions from prisoners who did not have counsel. Literally ignore them: they cut and pasted canned responses to the petitions without reading them. People are still in prison because of this.
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I wrote a column about grilled cheese sandwiches, which, to me, are small and perfect things
And the encounter with joy this entails
And joy itself with this unlikely messenger open.substack.com/pub/thesword...
And the encounter with joy this entails
And joy itself with this unlikely messenger open.substack.com/pub/thesword...
Notable Sandwiches #75: Grilled Cheese
On the joy of a small and perfect thing
open.substack.com
November 3, 2023 at 4:14 PM
I wrote a column about grilled cheese sandwiches, which, to me, are small and perfect things
And the encounter with joy this entails
And joy itself with this unlikely messenger open.substack.com/pub/thesword...
And the encounter with joy this entails
And joy itself with this unlikely messenger open.substack.com/pub/thesword...
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it is truly incredible how many of these folks have internalized the idea that the only actors with responsibility in american politics are democrats
David Gregory on the Republicans' speaker mess: “How long are Democrats going to stand by in the world of identity politics, and zero-sum politics, and not be part of any solution?” www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-dav...
CNN's David Gregory blames Democrats' adherence to "identity politics" for Republicans' speaker mess
www.mediamatters.org
October 13, 2023 at 3:42 PM
it is truly incredible how many of these folks have internalized the idea that the only actors with responsibility in american politics are democrats