Flo Stro
@flostronomics.bsky.social
Data Leader who believes that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can be a force for good. Views own.
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I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury
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Sooner or later, some kid is going to take one of these tear gas canisters that ICE cars are leaving as a parting gift and toss it back into their vehicle.
Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
October 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Sooner or later, some kid is going to take one of these tear gas canisters that ICE cars are leaving as a parting gift and toss it back into their vehicle.
TACO TACO TACO
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
TACO TACO TACO
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"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?
Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck
October 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?
This is what it looks like when your whippet mix puppy is having fun without you at doggy daycare.
September 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is what it looks like when your whippet mix puppy is having fun without you at doggy daycare.
Actor, director, environmentalist Robert Redford dies at 89. I was a fan of his work and his works.
September 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Actor, director, environmentalist Robert Redford dies at 89. I was a fan of his work and his works.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Oradour sur Glane. A villager frozen in time helps us remember what happens when we ignore what happens around us. youtu.be/5HmCTlNCg8I?...
Oradour-sur-Glane: The French Village Frozen in Time Since 1944 | A Memorial to Nazi Atrocities
YouTube video by The Bees Sicilian Adventures
youtu.be
June 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Oradour sur Glane. A villager frozen in time helps us remember what happens when we ignore what happens around us. youtu.be/5HmCTlNCg8I?...
You are missing disease data.
Enter Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Palantir and close ally of Musk. Thiel and his company are now central to Trump’s newest plan: building a massive government-run database on every American.
June 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
You are missing disease data.
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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Here’s my account on Flashes, a photo sharing app. All my followers can automatically find me as soon as they log in!
This is what we mean when we say Bluesky is open: your identity and followers belong to you. It took 30s to sign up for this new, independent app, and everything is there.
This is what we mean when we say Bluesky is open: your identity and followers belong to you. It took 30s to sign up for this new, independent app, and everything is there.
March 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Here’s my account on Flashes, a photo sharing app. All my followers can automatically find me as soon as they log in!
This is what we mean when we say Bluesky is open: your identity and followers belong to you. It took 30s to sign up for this new, independent app, and everything is there.
This is what we mean when we say Bluesky is open: your identity and followers belong to you. It took 30s to sign up for this new, independent app, and everything is there.
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“[S]omething puzzling in the group’s accounts.
Compare Tesla’s capital expenditure in the last six months of 2024 to its valuation of the assets that money was spent on, and $1.4bn appears to have gone astray.”
$1.4 bn missing? What?
Compare Tesla’s capital expenditure in the last six months of 2024 to its valuation of the assets that money was spent on, and $1.4bn appears to have gone astray.”
$1.4 bn missing? What?
$1.4bn is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla
When money spent on assets doesn’t result in assets
www.ft.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“[S]omething puzzling in the group’s accounts.
Compare Tesla’s capital expenditure in the last six months of 2024 to its valuation of the assets that money was spent on, and $1.4bn appears to have gone astray.”
$1.4 bn missing? What?
Compare Tesla’s capital expenditure in the last six months of 2024 to its valuation of the assets that money was spent on, and $1.4bn appears to have gone astray.”
$1.4 bn missing? What?
Trump made an enormous mistake on behalf of the United States today in attacking Zelinsky at the White House. We saw it. It was despicable.
March 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Trump made an enormous mistake on behalf of the United States today in attacking Zelinsky at the White House. We saw it. It was despicable.
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Project 2025 author Russell Vought, an enemy of the Constitution's system of separation of powers, was confirmed by the GOP-run Senate as head of the Office of Management and Budget. Project 2025 author Brendan Carr is now FCC chair. Tom Homan is “border czar.” Surprise, surprise. 4/4🧵
How Trump has infused parts of Project 2025 into his administration
Several Project 2025 authors and contributors are not just connected to President-elect Donald Trump, but also nominated for roles in his administration.
abcnews.go.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Project 2025 author Russell Vought, an enemy of the Constitution's system of separation of powers, was confirmed by the GOP-run Senate as head of the Office of Management and Budget. Project 2025 author Brendan Carr is now FCC chair. Tom Homan is “border czar.” Surprise, surprise. 4/4🧵
These institutions create value through the research they participate in.
Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding.
Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)
(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)
(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
February 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
These institutions create value through the research they participate in.
Oh dear lord.
X is up in arms about this chart that says short men need a whole lot of extra income to be equally desirable as taller men.
Meanwhile, if you’re a 5’8” woman or taller you’re just hopelessly undateable home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/on...
Cc @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social
Meanwhile, if you’re a 5’8” woman or taller you’re just hopelessly undateable home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/on...
Cc @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Oh dear lord.
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Dressing for work today.
January 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Dressing for work today.
Blackrock wrote to warn me about the risks to their index funds…. I am, uh, aware.
December 7, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Blackrock wrote to warn me about the risks to their index funds…. I am, uh, aware.
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United will fly its largest-ever trans-Atlantic schedule with new flights to Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Croatia.
#United #Ulaanbaatar #Mongolia #Kaohsiung #Taiwan #Nuuk #Greenland #Palermo #Italy #Bilbao #Spain #MadeiraIsland #Portugal #Faro #Dakar #Senegal #UnitedAirlines
#United #Ulaanbaatar #Mongolia #Kaohsiung #Taiwan #Nuuk #Greenland #Palermo #Italy #Bilbao #Spain #MadeiraIsland #Portugal #Faro #Dakar #Senegal #UnitedAirlines
United adds eight new destinations in largest international expansion
United will fly its largest-ever trans-Atlantic schedule with new flights to Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Croatia.
www.stattimes.com
October 11, 2024 at 7:40 AM
United will fly its largest-ever trans-Atlantic schedule with new flights to Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Croatia.
#United #Ulaanbaatar #Mongolia #Kaohsiung #Taiwan #Nuuk #Greenland #Palermo #Italy #Bilbao #Spain #MadeiraIsland #Portugal #Faro #Dakar #Senegal #UnitedAirlines
#United #Ulaanbaatar #Mongolia #Kaohsiung #Taiwan #Nuuk #Greenland #Palermo #Italy #Bilbao #Spain #MadeiraIsland #Portugal #Faro #Dakar #Senegal #UnitedAirlines
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October 30, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Delta sues CrowdStrike over outage resulting in $500MM in losses. www.linkedin.com/news/story/d...
Delta sues CrowdStrike for outage | LinkedIn
Delta Air Lines has filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike, alleging negligence over the July IT outage that cost the airline over $500 million and grounded thousands of flights.
www.linkedin.com
October 28, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Delta sues CrowdStrike over outage resulting in $500MM in losses. www.linkedin.com/news/story/d...
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Here's a staged propaganda photo of facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat in 1938. Posting for no reason whatsoever.
October 21, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Here's a staged propaganda photo of facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat in 1938. Posting for no reason whatsoever.