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Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.
Good reminder
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Lots of private companies are relying on memory-unsafe code created by open source volunteers a long time ago. It's not getting replaced because private companies mostly don't do costly things for the common public good without making money. Governments are needed to do this.
December 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Lots of private companies are relying on memory-unsafe code created by open source volunteers a long time ago. It's not getting replaced because private companies mostly don't do costly things for the common public good without making money. Governments are needed to do this.
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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FWIW, Congress can still subpoena the Epstein estate for documents that are not in the DOJ files or that are redacted.
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
FWIW, Congress can still subpoena the Epstein estate for documents that are not in the DOJ files or that are redacted.
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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...
JFC
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
December 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
JFC
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We all know this is a lie, but can we stop valorizing this shit?
Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.
Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.
VARNEY: Do you work 18 hours a day?
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
MIKE JOHNSON: More. More. And I have to, because President Trump works 21 hours a day.
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We all know this is a lie, but can we stop valorizing this shit?
Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.
Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
sweet potato casserole is a crustless pie change my mind
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
sweet potato casserole is a crustless pie change my mind
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LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
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This kind of spying is already against the law, namely the Privacy Act of 1974. The original intent of that law (epic.org/the-privacy-...) was clearly to prohibit the kind of thing CBP, ICE, and DOGE are doing now:
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This kind of spying is already against the law, namely the Privacy Act of 1974. The original intent of that law (epic.org/the-privacy-...) was clearly to prohibit the kind of thing CBP, ICE, and DOGE are doing now:
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You can make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
You can make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
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W.Va. man dies months after his health insurance repeatedly denied cancer treatment westvirginiawatch.com/2025/11/20/w...
W.Va. man dies months after his health insurance repeatedly denied cancer treatment • West Virginia Watch
Eric Tennant’s doctors recommended histotripsy, which would potentially destroy a cancerous tumor in his liver. But by the time his insurer approved the treatment, Tennant was no longer considered a g...
westvirginiawatch.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
W.Va. man dies months after his health insurance repeatedly denied cancer treatment westvirginiawatch.com/2025/11/20/w...
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IMO the US needs a framework akin to the Green New Deal, but for the move to single-payer (New Deal for Health?)
Single-payer will eliminate some 2M insurance-related jobs, but if we incorporate a major investment at NIH, we can put people to work improving healthcare instead of blocking it.
Single-payer will eliminate some 2M insurance-related jobs, but if we incorporate a major investment at NIH, we can put people to work improving healthcare instead of blocking it.
the backlash in the dem party to the whole concept of fancy email/spreadsheet jobs needs to end soon. this could create good jobs for people of all education levels: researchers, lab techs, scicomm people, support workers for things like childcare. unionized, highly paid, in service of one mission.
The US should triple the NIH budget.
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
IMO the US needs a framework akin to the Green New Deal, but for the move to single-payer (New Deal for Health?)
Single-payer will eliminate some 2M insurance-related jobs, but if we incorporate a major investment at NIH, we can put people to work improving healthcare instead of blocking it.
Single-payer will eliminate some 2M insurance-related jobs, but if we incorporate a major investment at NIH, we can put people to work improving healthcare instead of blocking it.
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AMERICAN BLACK PEOPLE aren't even getting approved for mortgages! You expect me to believe undocumented POC are rolling up with backing from Wells Fargo or the minimum $300K needed for a house? In CASH? Brother, are you high?
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
AMERICAN BLACK PEOPLE aren't even getting approved for mortgages! You expect me to believe undocumented POC are rolling up with backing from Wells Fargo or the minimum $300K needed for a house? In CASH? Brother, are you high?
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So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
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It is time for new leadership in the Senate.
It’s time to Dump Chuck.
It’s time to Dump Chuck.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It is time for new leadership in the Senate.
It’s time to Dump Chuck.
It’s time to Dump Chuck.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else.
Republicans said no.
So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS.
Republicans OWN this shutdown.
Republicans said no.
So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS.
Republicans OWN this shutdown.
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else.
Republicans said no.
So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS.
Republicans OWN this shutdown.
Republicans said no.
So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS.
Republicans OWN this shutdown.
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McConnell orders the government to fully fund SNAP benefits for November immediately via TRO—written order to come.
Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned.
Wow.
Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned.
Wow.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
McConnell orders the government to fully fund SNAP benefits for November immediately via TRO—written order to come.
Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned.
Wow.
Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned.
Wow.
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I have a whole spiel ready to go about how means testing both costs more than it saves AND makes eligible people less likely to use the programs, thereby rendering them less effective overall, but yanno.
"STFU And Feed People" is shorter.
"STFU And Feed People" is shorter.
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I have a whole spiel ready to go about how means testing both costs more than it saves AND makes eligible people less likely to use the programs, thereby rendering them less effective overall, but yanno.
"STFU And Feed People" is shorter.
"STFU And Feed People" is shorter.
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Here it the thing about latent mental illness - or an inactivated strong genetic predisposition to mental illness:
It is latent, dormant - and that is great.
Keep it that way.
You don’t poke it with a stick over and over like an LLM does.
Also - this is actually very many people.
It is latent, dormant - and that is great.
Keep it that way.
You don’t poke it with a stick over and over like an LLM does.
Also - this is actually very many people.
I agree that LLMs probably aren't causing truly novel mental illness in previously mentally-stable people, but the key issue is that a TON of people DO have either active or latent mental illnesses - and it seems near impossible to accurately determine who's really at risk of LLM psychosis
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Here it the thing about latent mental illness - or an inactivated strong genetic predisposition to mental illness:
It is latent, dormant - and that is great.
Keep it that way.
You don’t poke it with a stick over and over like an LLM does.
Also - this is actually very many people.
It is latent, dormant - and that is great.
Keep it that way.
You don’t poke it with a stick over and over like an LLM does.
Also - this is actually very many people.
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To all those “Let them go without food for a month, maybe they’ll get a job” people: Most SNAP recipients have jobs. Exploitative jobs that keep them living just below the poverty line. — Should they starve to death? And then what?
October 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
To all those “Let them go without food for a month, maybe they’ll get a job” people: Most SNAP recipients have jobs. Exploitative jobs that keep them living just below the poverty line. — Should they starve to death? And then what?
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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Stop framing SNAP and Medicaid benefits as a freebie for poor people and start framing it as corporations profiteering by keeping wages lower than the cost of living.
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Stop framing SNAP and Medicaid benefits as a freebie for poor people and start framing it as corporations profiteering by keeping wages lower than the cost of living.