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Art history books IN Russian and Polish and Bulgarian. If you have an institution or library or university that wants that, that's AMAZING, would love to talk, but that's the big hurdle from here in northeast Missouri.
My sister and I have been tasked to go through all of my dad's books and there are so many incredible Russian and Polish and Bulgarian art history books that will just... disappear? Because we can't read then and don't have space? And I hate it so much.
These bookshelves are big memories.
These bookshelves are big memories.
December 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Art history books IN Russian and Polish and Bulgarian. If you have an institution or library or university that wants that, that's AMAZING, would love to talk, but that's the big hurdle from here in northeast Missouri.
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… were they still in the Mar A Lago bathroom?
December 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
… were they still in the Mar A Lago bathroom?
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Breaking my sabbatical to let you know that there's a brand new Rabbit Hole out this morning about a unique style of Christmas lights called Blinkies, the relentless inventor who made them, and why they haven't spread far and wide beyond North Carolina (yet). www.ncrabbithole.com/p/behold-the...
Behold the Blinkies: A Very North Carolina Set of Christmas Lights
What started as a way to honor a woman in Kernersville has become a regional phenomenon. Here's the story of an overnight success that took decades, and a man who never stopped inventing.
www.ncrabbithole.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Breaking my sabbatical to let you know that there's a brand new Rabbit Hole out this morning about a unique style of Christmas lights called Blinkies, the relentless inventor who made them, and why they haven't spread far and wide beyond North Carolina (yet). www.ncrabbithole.com/p/behold-the...
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This is pretty egregious when you look at the actual context of the quote. And people are praising that book?
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is pretty egregious when you look at the actual context of the quote. And people are praising that book?
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"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
December 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
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Here's the study by @amandafrost.bsky.social on the original meaning of the citizenship clause mentioned in this article ⬇️🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
December 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Here's the study by @amandafrost.bsky.social on the original meaning of the citizenship clause mentioned in this article ⬇️🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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I can't believe we've reached the "if you want to watch the real news you have to hope someone recorded a bootleg from Canada" phase of this aspiring dictatorship and it hasn't even been a year 🙄
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I can't believe we've reached the "if you want to watch the real news you have to hope someone recorded a bootleg from Canada" phase of this aspiring dictatorship and it hasn't even been a year 🙄
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Dear Republicans,
No one has ever asked you to apologize for being white. They have asked you to apologize for being racist.
Love,
Non-Racist White Guys Who Are Weirdly Never Asked to Apologize for Being White Despite Republicans Thinking That's an Inescapable Everyday Occurrence
No one has ever asked you to apologize for being white. They have asked you to apologize for being racist.
Love,
Non-Racist White Guys Who Are Weirdly Never Asked to Apologize for Being White Despite Republicans Thinking That's an Inescapable Everyday Occurrence
December 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Dear Republicans,
No one has ever asked you to apologize for being white. They have asked you to apologize for being racist.
Love,
Non-Racist White Guys Who Are Weirdly Never Asked to Apologize for Being White Despite Republicans Thinking That's an Inescapable Everyday Occurrence
No one has ever asked you to apologize for being white. They have asked you to apologize for being racist.
Love,
Non-Racist White Guys Who Are Weirdly Never Asked to Apologize for Being White Despite Republicans Thinking That's an Inescapable Everyday Occurrence
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American conservatives and other types of fascist have no desire to return to the days of skillful liars.
A person living by a lie told skillfully may have been fooled by the skill.
But to force a person to live according to an obvious lie means you have dominated them.
A person living by a lie told skillfully may have been fooled by the skill.
But to force a person to live according to an obvious lie means you have dominated them.
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
American conservatives and other types of fascist have no desire to return to the days of skillful liars.
A person living by a lie told skillfully may have been fooled by the skill.
But to force a person to live according to an obvious lie means you have dominated them.
A person living by a lie told skillfully may have been fooled by the skill.
But to force a person to live according to an obvious lie means you have dominated them.
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From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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The system that created Epstein, protected him, and let him thrive for decades, still exists. His market of powerful monsters still exists, and they're still being protected.
There is definitely, right now, someone serving the same role he did, being protected the same way by the same people.
There is definitely, right now, someone serving the same role he did, being protected the same way by the same people.
December 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
The system that created Epstein, protected him, and let him thrive for decades, still exists. His market of powerful monsters still exists, and they're still being protected.
There is definitely, right now, someone serving the same role he did, being protected the same way by the same people.
There is definitely, right now, someone serving the same role he did, being protected the same way by the same people.
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And what happens if the quotations from the fake paper you never wrote are damaging to your research or reputation?
This is horrifying...
#AcademicSky
This is horrifying...
#AcademicSky
December 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
And what happens if the quotations from the fake paper you never wrote are damaging to your research or reputation?
This is horrifying...
#AcademicSky
This is horrifying...
#AcademicSky
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
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This is why the whole discussion has focused on academia and journalism. You need a field with no jobs to gin up these bullshit arguments. If you say white men can’t get jobs in corporate America there are no small sample sizes to create fake numbers with, you’re just telling obvious lies
THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is why the whole discussion has focused on academia and journalism. You need a field with no jobs to gin up these bullshit arguments. If you say white men can’t get jobs in corporate America there are no small sample sizes to create fake numbers with, you’re just telling obvious lies
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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Jews around the world celebrated Hanukkah for centuries before Zionism existed as a political movement. And many of the early rabbis wanted to focus the holiday on the miracle of the lights because they were skeptical of the militarism of the Maccabees.
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Jews around the world celebrated Hanukkah for centuries before Zionism existed as a political movement. And many of the early rabbis wanted to focus the holiday on the miracle of the lights because they were skeptical of the militarism of the Maccabees.
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Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly.
Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them.
Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.
Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them.
Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly.
Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them.
Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.
Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them.
Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.
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I'm very tired of repeating myself about this, but, as someone who works professionally on housing affordability, this is a disgusting lie.
Vance: "Why have rents gone down for 4 consecutive months? Because we're starting to get those illegal aliens out of the USA. Those criminals, those gang members, those people that are taking homes that ought by right go the people in this room. It's simple economics."
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I'm very tired of repeating myself about this, but, as someone who works professionally on housing affordability, this is a disgusting lie.
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What a mess.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
What a mess.
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
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I love this perspective: "Think big and it shapes a better form of opposition politics."
So here's the first item on my wish list:
I want every member of this evil administration hounded to their dying breath for their crimes, including criminal prosecution, incarcelation, and public humiliation.
So here's the first item on my wish list:
I want every member of this evil administration hounded to their dying breath for their crimes, including criminal prosecution, incarcelation, and public humiliation.
Good case from @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com for impeaching Pete Hegseth. A key point raised here is that we shouldn't ever assume anything is politically out of reach. Think big and it shapes a better form of opposition politics:
www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love this perspective: "Think big and it shapes a better form of opposition politics."
So here's the first item on my wish list:
I want every member of this evil administration hounded to their dying breath for their crimes, including criminal prosecution, incarcelation, and public humiliation.
So here's the first item on my wish list:
I want every member of this evil administration hounded to their dying breath for their crimes, including criminal prosecution, incarcelation, and public humiliation.
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@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social is one of the most-level-headed guys in this space, so when he says this, listen.
I am deadly serious when I say that any liberal Project 2028 people should be taking names of the civil servants who go way past their authority to do stuff like this.
That is very much not me saying that normal employees following bad orders should be fired. But there’s a line. This crosses it.
That is very much not me saying that normal employees following bad orders should be fired. But there’s a line. This crosses it.
That should be a career ending act of corruption
December 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social is one of the most-level-headed guys in this space, so when he says this, listen.
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Remember to get your winter vaccine folks - it’s literally a potion that gives you more hit points.
I am currently on ID consult service. I saw my first severe case of post influenza staphylococcal pneumonia of the season today - very sick patient admitted to the ICU.
Every patient I have seen so far admitted with influenza this week is unvaccinated.
The vaccines keep you out of hospital!
Get 💉💉💉
Every patient I have seen so far admitted with influenza this week is unvaccinated.
The vaccines keep you out of hospital!
Get 💉💉💉
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Remember to get your winter vaccine folks - it’s literally a potion that gives you more hit points.