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The Social Security website continues to experience frequent crashes as Musk pushes for cuts to the agency’s IT staff. Americans face chronic outages and login issues while trying to access their accounts—despite being urged to conduct more of their Social Security business online.
April 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Happy New Year, friends! Remember: That which does not kill us wins reelection and tries again.

Be vigilant and keep a good humor about your every day and spread laughter and good will. It’s the best inoculation against autocracy and idiocy.
January 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Updated CDC technical report on the Louisiana case is out.

There are low frequency mutations in HA that indicate adaptation in a human host—specifically this human host.

But this doesn’t really change much in terms of estimating pandemic risk.
www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...
Genetic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses Identified in a Person in Louisiana
CDC has sequenced the influenza viruses in specimens collected from the patient in Louisiana who was
www.cdc.gov
December 27, 2024 at 1:27 AM
This is sharp time, now, a precise time -- we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God's grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it.

- The Crucible, Arthur Miller
December 2, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Happy Thanksgiving! Keep your wits about you & your head on straight! 🦃🍽😆
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“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

~ Mark Twain
November 20, 2024 at 3:45 PM
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

~ Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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“You will not fail, however he may assail you. There is also love in the world.”

- Stephen R Donaldson
November 15, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Grace
November 15, 2024 at 3:16 AM
"We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.”

~ Ursula K. Le Guin
November 15, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Back in June
November 15, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Cottonwood Pass, Colorado. By Lars Leber Photography
November 15, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Excellent to be away from X "twiiter" 🙂😆
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Hello BlueSky. 👋 😏
November 15, 2024 at 1:57 AM