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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 4h

“Large data sets … fertile ground for studies that probe how various factors affect health. But their richness also allows unscrupulous actors to carve up the data in countless ways, seeking chance correlations that look like reliable statistical signals but are, in reality, just noise.”

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · Jul 31

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 6h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 8h

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 14h

Yes

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 16h

Is there a transcript…?

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 23h

Taking blame culture to new heights…

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hailey @hailey.at · 1d

an interesting note re: scaling image moderation. in the past 24 hours:

at least 500 thousand images in posts (not considering # of images, just if an image was in the post)
86 thousand avatars
500 thousand url thumbnails
58 thousand videos.

that's a lot to moderate!

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 23h

Probably using this bit. Of course, in Trump’s mind any protest against him is “rebelling against the authority of the government of the United States”…

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 1d

Still great.

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 1d

STOP. CALLING. IT. THE. QUANTUM. REALM.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 1d

I'm worried due process is over for good. That the fascists know how unpopular they are, that they can't legit hold Congress - so they'll "win" illegally. Military will be out in force, intimating voters at the polls. Nobody seems to understand that the time to stop this is NOW. If not yesterday.

Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 1d

The ICE stories in this Reddit thread should shake every American, regardless of party, to their core. We no longer have a Constitution. This is fascism, pure and simple.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

“If I can’t dance to it I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Emma Goldman

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 1d

Apologies, but hard not to:

Young Frankenstein : Frau Blucher

YouTube video by John Murrill

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is so dark

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1d

“Dear God, protect our officers from the frog.”

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 1d

OT: What a great series Due South was…

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hailey @hailey.at · 1d

if you post your content on _any_ serious social media site on the entire internet in 2025, there is going to be ai moderation used to moderate that content. if you don't want this, go and participate in mybb forum with 500 users.

hailey @hailey.at · 1d

*rubbing temples, rocking back and forth on the floor in the corner of the room*
ai assisted moderation is not generative ai...ai assisted moderation is not generative ai...ai assisted moderation is not generative ai...ai assisted moderation is not generative ai...ai assisted moderati

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 1d

The Taming of the Shrew episode is magnificent…

Atomic Shakespeare - Petruchio's entrance

YouTube video by Adina J.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

So, as long as we are posting classic videos with animals and music

youtu.be/Veg63B8ofnQ

Kitty Corliss "Grinding the Crack"

YouTube video by Karl Compton

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 1d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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