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For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum. Now, advances in science are revealing discreet biological subtypes.
The discoveries could one day lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatments.
The discoveries could one day lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatments.
New science points to 4 distinct types of autism
Scientists are redefining autism as a complex condition with multiple forms, challenging traditional notions.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum. Now, advances in science are revealing discreet biological subtypes.
The discoveries could one day lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatments.
The discoveries could one day lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatments.
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I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
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my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck
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If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)
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What do you think is the greatest ever TV news clip? For me this can never be beaten...
September 15, 2024 at 5:16 PM
What do you think is the greatest ever TV news clip? For me this can never be beaten...
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For the Star’s opinion section I contributed to the year end “loss” package: the loss of the TTC as “The Better Way”. Not yet the worst way but sliding towards it. Many culprits, ultimately but it’s our own fault for not demanding, & voting, better.
Shawn Micallef: The better way no more: What the decline of the TTC says about Toronto
What was once a point of pride in the city is increasingly a source of frustration.
www.thestar.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
For the Star’s opinion section I contributed to the year end “loss” package: the loss of the TTC as “The Better Way”. Not yet the worst way but sliding towards it. Many culprits, ultimately but it’s our own fault for not demanding, & voting, better.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
January 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
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The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
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FUN FACTE: The Emu ys the onlye flightless bird whose name ys also an abbreviacioun for Eastern Michigan Universitye.
December 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
FUN FACTE: The Emu ys the onlye flightless bird whose name ys also an abbreviacioun for Eastern Michigan Universitye.
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Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
October 8, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
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"When will I ever use this?" "How is this useful in my life?"
Not everything we learn in math has to be applied. Math can be seen as an art as well.
Not everything we learn in math has to be applied. Math can be seen as an art as well.
December 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"When will I ever use this?" "How is this useful in my life?"
Not everything we learn in math has to be applied. Math can be seen as an art as well.
Not everything we learn in math has to be applied. Math can be seen as an art as well.
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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“They’re like, ‘you do Canadian politics.’ I don’t. These are nations [with] different understandings of their relationships, territory, themselves.”
To Make More Space for Indigenous Worldviews, Start Here | The Tyee
It begins with undoing the ‘hegemonologue,’ says a leading political scientist.
thetyee.ca
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“They’re like, ‘you do Canadian politics.’ I don’t. These are nations [with] different understandings of their relationships, territory, themselves.”
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I can’t believe it flopped. I thought everyone was dying for a badly written account of what it’s like to have phone sex with a spoon stuck in a garbage disposal.
December 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I can’t believe it flopped. I thought everyone was dying for a badly written account of what it’s like to have phone sex with a spoon stuck in a garbage disposal.
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Yule ≠ Christmas
Yule is one of the oldest winter solstice festivals, with origins among the ancient Norse thousands of years ago.
Although today it’s heavily associated with, and even confused with, Christmas, the celebration existed long before Christianity. 🧵⬇️
Yule is one of the oldest winter solstice festivals, with origins among the ancient Norse thousands of years ago.
Although today it’s heavily associated with, and even confused with, Christmas, the celebration existed long before Christianity. 🧵⬇️
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Yule ≠ Christmas
Yule is one of the oldest winter solstice festivals, with origins among the ancient Norse thousands of years ago.
Although today it’s heavily associated with, and even confused with, Christmas, the celebration existed long before Christianity. 🧵⬇️
Yule is one of the oldest winter solstice festivals, with origins among the ancient Norse thousands of years ago.
Although today it’s heavily associated with, and even confused with, Christmas, the celebration existed long before Christianity. 🧵⬇️
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This is a good thread
1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is a good thread
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
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For nine years from 1962 to 1971, General Motors of Canada made a Canadian-exclusive car called The Acadian.
It was the first car built specifically for Canadians during the muscle car era by GM.
This is the story of that car.
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It was the first car built specifically for Canadians during the muscle car era by GM.
This is the story of that car.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
For nine years from 1962 to 1971, General Motors of Canada made a Canadian-exclusive car called The Acadian.
It was the first car built specifically for Canadians during the muscle car era by GM.
This is the story of that car.
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It was the first car built specifically for Canadians during the muscle car era by GM.
This is the story of that car.
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"The new corporation could set water rates for municipal residents, as a privately owned, for-profit organization. Municipalities would have to transfer all their water and wastewater assets, staff, debt, contracts and infrastructure to the new body." 🤮
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
Ford government dives into municipal business as it eyes water services
The province has assumed sweeping new powers to seize control over municipal water systems — one of Ontario’s largest public assets, worth $175.8 billion — raising fears the move could pave the way fo...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"The new corporation could set water rates for municipal residents, as a privately owned, for-profit organization. Municipalities would have to transfer all their water and wastewater assets, staff, debt, contracts and infrastructure to the new body." 🤮
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...