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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 7h

Let's get this deficit under control, by imposing the same top marginal tax rates paid in 1960, on income over $5 million.

Schedule of U.S. taxable income rates paid in 1960, showing top rate of 91% on income $400,000 or greater.

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 7h

Researchers have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging, namely: "widespread increases in AMPA receptor density linked to cognitive impairment and inflammation," confirming brain fog as a measurable condition.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists finally reveal what’s behind long COVID’s mysterious brain fog

Researchers in Japan have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging. They discovered widespread increases in AMPA receptor density linked to cognitive impa...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 7h

Interested in where things stand with humanoid robot hands? Watch this cool 6.5 minute video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS4r...

What's in a humanoid hand? | Boston Dynamics

YouTube video by Boston Dynamics

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 9h

Getting updated COVID vaccines makes sense, study shows.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 14h

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 18h

So Fields Medalists can productively add trained AI networks to their research teams but you're saying there is no way any big tech, say, marketing team could ever benefit from its software engineering liaison working with any kind of dedicated SLM agent? Surprised if that's really your view, but OK

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting developments concerning the representational machinery of individual non-neuronal cells

www.earth.com/news/memory-...

Scientists learn that memories are stored in other parts of the body, not just in the brain

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than all at once.

www.earth.com

Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 20h

Since you're not the type to follow along with whatever the "smart engineer" crowd is saying, perhaps in this instance it's just a lack of imagination on your part.

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 21h

Because it's mostly garbage. My only point is it's not a total waste.

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 21h

Good point. At least pardons can't immunize violations of state law. A lot of this administration's lawlessness seems to extend beyond just them ignoring federal law.

Our desire for accountability might rest with the Attorneys General in states affected by these admin officials' misconduct.

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 21h

The "just" in "AI is just a loser aggregator" is wrong.

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, mostly right on; ~97% will try using AI internally to impress managers due to otherwise dim career prospects.

But the 3% or so of those that do identify creative productive internal AI implementations could realize some outsized benefits for themselves.

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 1d

Jessica Pegula needed a 7th match point to prevail over Haley Baptiste, in a 3rd set tiebreaker, at #WuhanOpen #WTA 🎾

Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 1d

New CA law turns down the volume on streaming ads.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/c...

California bans loud commercials on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services | TechCrunch

Starting July 1, 2026, streaming services won’t be allowed to “transmit the audio of commercial advertisements louder than the video content the advertisements accompany,” according to the bill's text...

techcrunch.com

Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 1d

The Motion Picture Association CEO called out OpenAI's new video generation model Sora 2 for copyright infringement, and urged OpenAI to "take immediate and decisive action" to address copyright concerns.

#PayCopyrightHolders

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/o...

OpenAI's Sora 2 must stop allowing copyright infringement, Motion Picture Association says

The Motion Picture Association called out OpenAI's new video generation model Sora 2 for content infringement.

www.cnbc.com

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 1d

💯 Senator .. seems like legislation overruling Citizens United is key to helping get us back on the right track, something that explicitly recognizes the difference between human beings and social constructs like corporations, when it comes to political spending as speech.

I'd knock doors for that.

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 1d

soulful elegance
beauty borderline obscene
longing in her wake

#haiku #poetry

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks 🙏 for sharing the sizzling elegance of your eureka moment, inspiration can be contagious.

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 4d

Or even just kill Putin . . .

#PutinIsaWarCriminal

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 4d

After Russian drones fly over NATO allies, conflict broadens even further to include Chinese operational and intelligence support for invasion of Ukraine.

So much for Trump's lies about endinh the war "on Day 1" 🙄🤡

#TrumpIsATraitorAndCriminal 🇺🇸

www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...

China provides Russia with satellite data for missile strikes on Ukraine — intelligence

The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine has recorded evidence of China providing Russia with satellite intelligence data for missile strikes on Ukraine, in particular on foreign investors' facilit...

www.ukrinform.net

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 BREAKING NEWS — Federal judge grants TRO blocking Trump from deploying National Guard troops to #Portland.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For the reasons discussed below, this Court finds that Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on
their claim that the President's federalization of the Oregon National Guard exceeded his statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and was ultra vires. In addition, because Section 12406 defines the scope of Congress's constitutional delegation to the President to federalize the National Guard, Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claim that the President exceeded his constitutional authority and violated the Tenth Amendment. Because this Court finds that Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on these two claims, this Court declines to reach Plaintiffs' arguments regarding their likelihood of success on their remaining claims. Plaintiffs also have adequately shown irreparable harm and that the balance of equities and public interest weigh in
their favor. This Court therefore grants Plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order.

CONCLUSION
For the above reasons, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining
Order, ECF 6, and temporarily enjoins Defendants' September 28, 2025, Memorandum ordering the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard service members to Portland. The
TRO expires in fourteen days on October 18, 2025, and the parties are ORDERED to comply with the attached TRO. The Defendants' request to stay or administratively stay the Temporary Restraining Order, see Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 35 at 41, is DENIED.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 4th day of October, 2025 at 3:40 p.m. pacific daylight time.
/s/ Karin J. Immergut
Karin J. Immergut
United States District Judge

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5d

look at the map here -- more than 2000 protests planned already...

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 5d

A proposed amendment must first be proposed by a 2/3 vote in both houses of Congress (or a national convention called for by 2/3 of state legislatures).

After that, the proposed amendment must be ratified by 3/4 of the states.

For all the chicken littles out there, that's never gonna happen.

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 5d

What this racist loser and his wannabe dictator boss Traitor Trump do not understand, but the NFL definitely *does* (given recent Bad Bunny choice for Superbowl halftime show), is that multicultural democracy is *GOOD FOR BUSINESS*

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”

Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 6d

Lmao, you're joking right?

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Denton 🇺🇸 @dentonrg.bsky.social · 6d

In addition to voting, let's not capitulate to Executive branch usurpation of Congressional appropriation powers.

"All we can do" includes affected Blue State AGs seeking judicial relief from the third branch, as the framers intended.

Exec has constitutional duty to execute spending laws enacted