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2006: You control the Information Age!
2025: A handful of billionaires control the Information Age!
In two decades, the rich and powerful have consolidated their control over new mediums.
From ads to algorithms to AI, they'll try to control what we think, who we hate, and how we vote!
2025: A handful of billionaires control the Information Age!
In two decades, the rich and powerful have consolidated their control over new mediums.
From ads to algorithms to AI, they'll try to control what we think, who we hate, and how we vote!
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
2006: You control the Information Age!
2025: A handful of billionaires control the Information Age!
In two decades, the rich and powerful have consolidated their control over new mediums.
From ads to algorithms to AI, they'll try to control what we think, who we hate, and how we vote!
2025: A handful of billionaires control the Information Age!
In two decades, the rich and powerful have consolidated their control over new mediums.
From ads to algorithms to AI, they'll try to control what we think, who we hate, and how we vote!
Why just build a library when you can do this?! Daaaaayum. 🔥🔥🔥
Chicago is where Michelle was raised, where I got my start as an organizer, and where we built a family together. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next June, it will be our way to give back to a city that has given us so much. obama.org/presidential-center
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Why just build a library when you can do this?! Daaaaayum. 🔥🔥🔥
The absolute pettiness of this. I can’t wait for Marco and his ilk to get old and realize that if we are lucky to live long enough, we all end up needing some accommodations. Accessibility concerns are not just for “other people.”
Tackling THE most important issue facing America today, #Florida man turned Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful” & casts his order to return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
two men in suits and ties are talking to each other
ALT: two men in suits and ties are talking to each other
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December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The absolute pettiness of this. I can’t wait for Marco and his ilk to get old and realize that if we are lucky to live long enough, we all end up needing some accommodations. Accessibility concerns are not just for “other people.”
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Sad news...we've lost one heck of a chronicler of spaceflight.
John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92
John Noble Wilford, who died on Monday, wrote arguably the most memorable story on the most famous New York Times front page of all time. It started: Men have landed and walked on the moon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
John Noble Wilford, who died on Monday, wrote arguably the most memorable story on the most famous New York Times front page of all time. It started: Men have landed and walked on the moon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sad news...we've lost one heck of a chronicler of spaceflight.
One of my favorite birdies
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
One of my favorite birdies
The horror intensifies
Available for purchase at the school Book Fair
December 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The horror intensifies
Oh, so I can sit in my own sweat in a tube for hours? And the plane can smell like a locker room? No thanks. Also, my blood flows just fine walking to the gate and whatnot.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Oh, so I can sit in my own sweat in a tube for hours? And the plane can smell like a locker room? No thanks. Also, my blood flows just fine walking to the gate and whatnot.
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‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support
‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support
Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for services
It was after one friend was shot and another stabbed, both fatally, that Shan asked ChatGPT for help. She had tried conventional mental health services but “chat”, as she came to know her AI “friend”, felt safer, less intimidating and, crucially, more available when it came to handling the trauma from the deaths of her young friends.
As she started consulting the AI model, the Tottenham teenager joined about 40% of 13- to 17-year-olds in England and Wales affected by youth violence who are turning to AI chatbots for mental health support, according to research among more than 11,000 young people. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support
Anyone else really fed up with “historic expansions of executive power”? I’m watching “The American Revolution,” and I thought: “Oh, look, it’s the ghosts of the loyalist who hid and never left.”
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Anyone else really fed up with “historic expansions of executive power”? I’m watching “The American Revolution,” and I thought: “Oh, look, it’s the ghosts of the loyalist who hid and never left.”
Yes.
December 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Yes.
Wearing one of my new NASA shirts today because science is essential, space exploration (not exploitation) is wonderful, I’d love to be an astronaut, Sen. Mark Kelly is da bomb, SpaceX as a company sucks (not the aerospace pros who work there), and Elon can eat a bag of 🍆🍆🍆.
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Wearing one of my new NASA shirts today because science is essential, space exploration (not exploitation) is wonderful, I’d love to be an astronaut, Sen. Mark Kelly is da bomb, SpaceX as a company sucks (not the aerospace pros who work there), and Elon can eat a bag of 🍆🍆🍆.
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For those looking for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing today at 10:00 AM EST (12/3/2025) for NASA ADMIN nominee Jared Issacman: www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/11/chai...
Chairman Cruz Announces Nominations Hearing for NASA and Commerce Nominees
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing to consider the nominations for the National Aeronautics and Space Ad...
www.commerce.senate.gov
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
For those looking for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing today at 10:00 AM EST (12/3/2025) for NASA ADMIN nominee Jared Issacman: www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/11/chai...
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And he would still make a more responsible Secretary of Defense than Pete Hegseth.
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor apnews.com/article/drun...
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
And he would still make a more responsible Secretary of Defense than Pete Hegseth.
“F*** off! It’s a T-shirt, and it’s a douchebag T-shirt when you’re telling people not to take vaccines.” — from a Conspirituality podcast brief dated Nov. 29, 2025
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December 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
“F*** off! It’s a T-shirt, and it’s a douchebag T-shirt when you’re telling people not to take vaccines.” — from a Conspirituality podcast brief dated Nov. 29, 2025
😂💚😂💚😂💚😂💚😂
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“12-year-old playing army” — Sen. Mark Kelly about the SOD
a man with his mouth open and the word burn written on his shirt
Alt: Actor Ashton Kutcher is shown as his character from “That ‘70s Show” in a baseball T-shirt, leaning forward to exclaim, “Burn!,” as that word flashes on screen.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“12-year-old playing army” — Sen. Mark Kelly about the SOD
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Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably
This. She wouldn’t have been there, but for the narcissism of that bloated old con man and abuser in chief.
It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This. She wouldn’t have been there, but for the narcissism of that bloated old con man and abuser in chief.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
My loyalty is to the social contract of this nation: the Constitution, which the Founders crafted under the influence of Enlightenment scholarship, Greek and Roman philosophers and the example of Haudenosaunee governance.
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My loyalty is to the social contract of this nation: the Constitution, which the Founders crafted under the influence of Enlightenment scholarship, Greek and Roman philosophers and the example of Haudenosaunee governance.
Ohhh that’s goooood. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Ohhh that’s goooood. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Word.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Word.
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The 400-mile Olympic Pipeline carries gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other petroleum products from refineries near Seattle down to Portland.
Olympic Pipeline partially restarts as Oregon remains under fuel emergency declaration
The pipeline delivers the majority of Oregon’s gasoline, diesel and other fuels from a refining hub in the Seattle area.
www.opb.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The 400-mile Olympic Pipeline carries gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other petroleum products from refineries near Seattle down to Portland.
Not an Onion piece …
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Not an Onion piece …
Oh FFS. Is there a nation where people are into science, reason and humanism (basically the Enlightenment)? Because I am little tired of feeling alone among so many fantasists. Nature is so full of wonder without the need for the supernatural.
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Oh FFS. Is there a nation where people are into science, reason and humanism (basically the Enlightenment)? Because I am little tired of feeling alone among so many fantasists. Nature is so full of wonder without the need for the supernatural.