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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 AM
100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
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The world Silicon Valley has created is exhausting and terrible. We absolutely need better technology, but in the meantime it’s absolutely right to reject what doesn’t serve us and reassess our relationship to digital technology more broadly.
disconnect.blog/we-need-to-r...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The world Silicon Valley has created is exhausting and terrible. We absolutely need better technology, but in the meantime it’s absolutely right to reject what doesn’t serve us and reassess our relationship to digital technology more broadly.
disconnect.blog/we-need-to-r...
disconnect.blog/we-need-to-r...
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
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"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
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You could just mute that man. Really. Mute or block and get on with your day
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
You could just mute that man. Really. Mute or block and get on with your day
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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My dream is to see the ballroom turned into The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Center of America.
December 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
My dream is to see the ballroom turned into The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Center of America.
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Whatever we're gaining from space right now is nothing compared to the damage we're doing by enriching the man working to elect fascist governments throughout the world. He must be stopped.
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Whatever we're gaining from space right now is nothing compared to the damage we're doing by enriching the man working to elect fascist governments throughout the world. He must be stopped.
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My predictions for 2026:
- Trump’s coalition will crack and he will be seen as politically finished
- We will see the first stirrings of Woke 2
- Multiracial, working class solidarity against the billionaire oligarchs will be back on the menu
- A new political era will be on the horizon
- Trump’s coalition will crack and he will be seen as politically finished
- We will see the first stirrings of Woke 2
- Multiracial, working class solidarity against the billionaire oligarchs will be back on the menu
- A new political era will be on the horizon
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
My predictions for 2026:
- Trump’s coalition will crack and he will be seen as politically finished
- We will see the first stirrings of Woke 2
- Multiracial, working class solidarity against the billionaire oligarchs will be back on the menu
- A new political era will be on the horizon
- Trump’s coalition will crack and he will be seen as politically finished
- We will see the first stirrings of Woke 2
- Multiracial, working class solidarity against the billionaire oligarchs will be back on the menu
- A new political era will be on the horizon
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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anyone who believes and/or promotes the use of chatbots/ AI “companions” for therapy either chooses to ignore evidence that these bots can actually exacerbate mental health issues or is speaking from a place of ignorance dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
December 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
anyone who believes and/or promotes the use of chatbots/ AI “companions” for therapy either chooses to ignore evidence that these bots can actually exacerbate mental health issues or is speaking from a place of ignorance dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
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Right. Most organizations have a cognitive surplus. They have a coordination deficit, and adding a bunch of workslop to the mix will only make that worse, not better.
December 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Right. Most organizations have a cognitive surplus. They have a coordination deficit, and adding a bunch of workslop to the mix will only make that worse, not better.
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A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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There's a man crashing out in my Threads replies because I said your AI generated code isn't production ready if you don't know what's being generated.
So far he's asked who I think I am to talk about production ready code and tried to use the "you look like an only fans bot" as an insult.
So far he's asked who I think I am to talk about production ready code and tried to use the "you look like an only fans bot" as an insult.
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
There's a man crashing out in my Threads replies because I said your AI generated code isn't production ready if you don't know what's being generated.
So far he's asked who I think I am to talk about production ready code and tried to use the "you look like an only fans bot" as an insult.
So far he's asked who I think I am to talk about production ready code and tried to use the "you look like an only fans bot" as an insult.
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I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
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Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
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Anyway is it just me or has the rate of GitHub outages been ticking up significantly over time
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Anyway is it just me or has the rate of GitHub outages been ticking up significantly over time