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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · 3d

A shameful shill for the coal industry that IMO dives way beneath even the degraded standards of today’s WaPo opinion section. Climate change is a real planetary danger, and this pro-fossil fuel bilge is what we get: Down in a Pennsylvania mine, I saw coal’s future

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · 9d

Methinks you aren’t thinking enough about nonpublic communication. I would guess that there’s a lot of “want a promotion? Want to keep that cushy job in Honolulu? Tell me who the rats are” happening on the sidelines. This wasn’t come listen to a speech. This was: the hunger games begin today.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10d

So, thinking maybe there won't be loyalty oaths or mass purges or a Day of the Long Teaspoons or anything else.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13d

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · 18d

This is someone to watch. He's a comer. youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...

I’m running for the U.S. Senate

YouTube video by James Talarico

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · 18d

My daughter is on a Report for America fellowship at the Uvalde Leader-News, covering the school district. The bad faith and governance are astonishing. Want to help? Subscribe to the paper, which has been doing a good job but could always use more support. www.uvaldeleadernews.com/subscribe/

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 18d

Everything alive is a computer—because the processes that enable life, at its core, are computational. This was a central point in my presentation and conversation with Benjamin Bratton at @longnow.org, where we challenged conventional notions about biological and artificial systems.

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · 18d

I laughed. Maybe you will, too.

The Onion @theonion.com · 18d

RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-warns-mistress-that-condoms-cause-autism/

John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · 18d

It is a good read. I'm tired of having a SCOTUS that discriminates, unconstitutionally, against me, just because I don't believe in ancient fairy tales.

Fump Truck @fump-truck.bsky.social · 18d

Here's a good read.
Hawai’i Supreme Court defends secularism in blistering rebuke of John Roberts' SCOTUS open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

Hawai’i Supreme Court defends secularism in blistering rebuke of John Roberts' SCOTUS

Justice Todd Eddins blasted SCOTUS for twisting facts, favoring religion, and betraying the First Amendment

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · 19d

As I remember, however, it did birth some incredibly boring Sunday morning TV shows. At least, that's where the equal-time trash showed up when I was young.

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · 19d

This is quite brilliant. You should read every word: Eric Adams, Donald Trump and the Case That Broke American Justice www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Opinion | Eric Adams, Donald Trump and the Case That Broke American Justice

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · Sep 11

Can someone tell me why the @nytimes.com app is so fucked up? It randomly makes me sign in when I’ve been signed in forever—and then the the app freezes and when you delete it and download it again, it demands you take out a new subscription, even though you already subscribe.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Sep 7

AI misinformation is threatening emergency communications. Here's how to fix that.

Read the new article by Ethan Beaty:

AI misinformation is threatening emergency communications. Here’s how to fix that

During disasters, AI-generated misinformation saturates social media and makes people hesitate to trust authentic alerts. Here are six ways to mitigate this growing threat to emergency communications.

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · Sep 7

I have answered your questions. There was no equivococation. I know that you don't want to admit that your assertion is simply wrong. But it is. There's not enough evidence to assert, definitively, whether the pandemic began as zoonosis or a leak from a lab studying coronaviruses.

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · Sep 7

A is obviously wrong; it is not conspiratorial to believe a lab orgin is possible. B posits an unproven hypothesis--zoonosis--as more likely without scientific basis. There is not enough evidence to have a "balance of evidence" in favor of either of the two main origin hypotheses.

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · Sep 6

What you just wrote is untrue, in many dimensions. Anyone who thinks the origins debate is settled in favor of zoonosis on the basis of current evidence is not attending to the evidence.

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mattyfield.bsky.social @mattyfield.bsky.social · Sep 4

Noted international relations thinker Graham Allison wonders what Trump will do the 80-80-9 formula (80 years without a world war, 80 without a nuclear war, and 9 nuclear states). @thebulletin.org @meckdevil.bsky.social
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Interview: Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order

A top analyst of international security policy—who has advised or served in the Defense Department, State Department, and the CIA, as well as teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School for more than 40 ye...

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · Sep 4

I really enjoyed this discussion with Graham Allison. Perhaps you will, also.

mattyfield.bsky.social @mattyfield.bsky.social · Sep 4

Noted international relations thinker Graham Allison wonders what Trump will do the 80-80-9 formula (80 years without a world war, 80 without a nuclear war, and 9 nuclear states). @thebulletin.org @meckdevil.bsky.social
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Interview: Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order

A top analyst of international security policy—who has advised or served in the Defense Department, State Department, and the CIA, as well as teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School for more than 40 ye...

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Indivisible Cortland County @indivisiblecortcty.bsky.social · Sep 4

resistance through art

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · Sep 4

This my friends is a great cover, designed by the brilliant @thomas.gaulk.in. And a great issue is behind it. Take a look; you'll be happy you did, the editor promises.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Sep 4

The role of the United States in global affairs is changing dramatically.

The September 2025 magazine issue of the Bulletin examines different facets of the NEW, new world order that Donald Trump has wrought in his second presidential term: buff.ly/bNVQEE2

Bulletin magazine cover with the title: "The NEW new world order." The photo-illustration shows Donald Trump walking, about to pump his fist and looking like he's dancing, on a chess board surrounded by knocked-over chess pieces.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Sep 3

"The 10-minute interview: Werner Herzog on Meeting Gorbachev," by @meckdevil.bsky.social.

"Meeting Gorbachev" is a documentary Herzog co-directed with André Singer.

The 10-minute interview: Werner Herzog on Meeting Gorbachev

A short conversation with Werner Herzog—a renowned filmmaker with a penchant for the offbeat—about his aims in making the documentary Meeting Gorbachev.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Sep 3

"An interview with Ted Koppel on the meaning of The Day After," by @meckdevil.bsky.social.

Koppel had a 25-year run as the anchor and managing editor of news program Nightline, and hosted a panel on "The Day After" including Henry Kissinger, Carl Sagan, Elie Wiesel, Robert McNamara, and others.

An interview with Ted Koppel on the meaning of The Day After

In 1983, Ted Koppel was fairly early in what became a 25-year run as the anchor and managing editor of Nightline, the storied ABC News public affairs

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Aug 25

In 2019, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was directly responsible for over 250,000 deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as contributing to over 816,000 additional deaths.

Read more in "Climate change and antimicrobial resistance: a combination driving disease spread in Africa," by Geoffrey Kamadi.

Climate change and antimicrobial resistance: a combination driving disease spread in Africa

The AMR problem is a byproduct of climate change-induced disasters and overuse of antibiotics to treat the disease outbreaks those disasters fuel.

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John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social · Aug 27

A clear-eyed look at how RFK Jr is undermining public health.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Aug 25

If US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine views continue to be the basis for public health policy, communities should prepare for diseases that have been gone for decades to reemerge, writes Jennifer Herricks.

The 'strangling angel' returns? RFK Jr.'s policies could foster a resurgence of now-rare diseases

If Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine views continue to be the basis for public health policy, communities should prepare for diseases that have been gone for decades to…

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Aug 25

Generative AI and off-the-shelf computational tools can make the synthesis and use of nerve agents for nefarious purposes more probable.

"The Sarin shortcut: How AI lowers the bar for chemical weapons," by @ashjogalekar.bsky.social. ⬇️

The Sarin shortcut: How AI lowers the bar for chemical weapons

Generative AI and off-the-shelf computational tool can make the synthesis and use of nerve agents for nefarious purposes more probable.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Aug 27

"This is no longer just a question of origins—it is a test of whether we, as a global community, are capable of confronting hard problems together." — @guspalpog.bsky.social, Adolfo García-Sastre, and David A. Relman.

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