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“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.”
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
January 11, 2026 at 12:53 AM
“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.”
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
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A poem by Amanda Gorman
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE on January 7th, 2026
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE on January 7th, 2026
January 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A poem by Amanda Gorman
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE on January 7th, 2026
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE on January 7th, 2026
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"
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Taiwan is a country. 🇹🇼
November 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Taiwan is a country. 🇹🇼
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According to this report, the parliament, now dominated by KMT & TPP, slashed the Ministry of Agriculture's animal and plant quarantine and epidemic prevention promotional funding by 60% during this year's budget review.
Today, first african swine fever outbreak in 20 years was reported in Taichung.
Today, first african swine fever outbreak in 20 years was reported in Taichung.
隨立法院由國民黨、民眾黨主導，審查今年預算時，則直接大刀一砍農業部動植物防檢疫宣導經費6成，在幾乎沒有預算下，難如過去在機場或港口有全面性的宣導，隨經費被砍，也首度在台中的養豬場驗出疑似非洲豬瘟病毒。
破功！我今年6月獲WOAH認證為3大豬病非疫區 台中今爆出現非洲豬瘟
news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/br...
破功！我今年6月獲WOAH認證為3大豬病非疫區 台中今爆出現非洲豬瘟
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破功！我今年6月獲WOAH認證為3大豬病非疫區 台中今爆出現非洲豬瘟 - 生活 - 自由時報電子報
非洲豬瘟自2018年在亞洲大爆發，我國透過嚴守邊境模式盡力防堵並大力宣導，但今年宣導防堵邊境防檢疫的經費，藍白主導的立院大砍6成後，農業部今（22日）召開緊急臨時記者會，說明在台中養豬場疑似驗到非洲豬瘟陽性。我國今年6月才獲世界動物衛生組織（WOAH）認證為非洲豬瘟、傳統豬瘟、口蹄疫等三大重大豬病非疫區，其中沒有疫苗、藥物可醫治的非洲豬瘟，透過邊境嚴格檢查等方式，包含設置手檢站、高風險區快遞包裹等...
news.ltn.com.tw
October 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
According to this report, the parliament, now dominated by KMT & TPP, slashed the Ministry of Agriculture's animal and plant quarantine and epidemic prevention promotional funding by 60% during this year's budget review.
Today, first african swine fever outbreak in 20 years was reported in Taichung.
Today, first african swine fever outbreak in 20 years was reported in Taichung.
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Not the same.
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Not the same.
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"The Taiwan Solidarity Party (TSP), the Taiwan Teachers’ Union and the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan cohosted the event, titled “Love, Faith and Courage: Memorial for Charlie Kirk”".
The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan??? WTF
The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan??? WTF
Scuffle mars event in Taipei for Charlie Kirk - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"The Taiwan Solidarity Party (TSP), the Taiwan Teachers’ Union and the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan cohosted the event, titled “Love, Faith and Courage: Memorial for Charlie Kirk”".
The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan??? WTF
The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan??? WTF
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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you know what fair
October 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
you know what fair
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the fellowship of the arts: thread
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
the fellowship of the arts: thread
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Lot of people thinking they will fly out of Taiwan at the first sign of trouble. Not gonna happen.
October 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Lot of people thinking they will fly out of Taiwan at the first sign of trouble. Not gonna happen.
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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Scary
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Scary
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The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
Contemptible & pathetic.
September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
Contemptible & pathetic.
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"To preserve the integrity of the work, the [Taiwanese] filmmakers could not comply with the requested changes, leading to the film's withdrawal from the screening" in the Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival.
Taiwanese film pulled from Hong Kong festival over censorship issue - Focus Taiwan
Screenings of the Taiwanese movie Family Matters (我家的事) at a Hong Kong film festival have been canceled after it failed to meet "revision requirements" set by Hong Kong authorities, with some media ci...
focustaiwan.tw
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"To preserve the integrity of the work, the [Taiwanese] filmmakers could not comply with the requested changes, leading to the film's withdrawal from the screening" in the Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival.
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If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.
July 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.
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Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
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Anyways, AIDS is going to be gone soon, this is a generic with FDA full approval.
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Anyways, AIDS is going to be gone soon, this is a generic with FDA full approval.
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this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies
genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it
also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious
genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it
also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious
July 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies
genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it
also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious
genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it
also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious