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Published: January 15, 2025 14:48

Zuckerberg says they’re unleashing free speech and “masculine energy”, but Meta is REMOVING THEME COLORS for personalizing PRIVATE messenger chats. Such free speech. Praising the politician who had just said he should be imprisoned for life? So brave. …

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Published: January 15, 2025 14:48

Zuckerberg says they’re unleashing free speech and “masculine energy”, but Meta is REMOVING THEME COLORS for personalizing PRIVATE messenger chats. Such free speech. Praising the politician who had just said he should be imprisoned for life? So brave. …

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Published: January 6, 2025 16:23

On this anniversary of January 6th 2021, remembering my article from January 5, 2021. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/gun-was-always-loaded/617560/

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Published: January 4, 2025 04:28

Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes says Washington Post blocked her cartoon — first time, she says in her career — on tech moguls donating to Trump inauguration so she resigned from the job she had since 2008. Thinnest of skins, I guess. …

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Published: December 29, 2024 23:14

The Empire State in red white and blue tonight, in honor of Jimmy Carter who didn’t cash in from his position before, during or after his presidency. RIP. And the guinea worm disease— the eradication of which he made his post-presidency project — is…

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Published: December 22, 2024 13:58

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Published: December 19, 2024 15:49

I think the initial drone sightings — right around a military research base with a recent no fly zone — may have been US testing drones or foreign snooping. Or both. But much of what happened since is a tale as old as time, but now with social media. …

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Published: December 13, 2024 14:16

“Mr. Kennedy has privately expressed interest in having Mr. Siri serve in the Health and Human Services Department’s top legal job, general counsel.” Mr. Siri “has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine”. Gift link.…

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Published: December 6, 2024 18:55

New from me on what the rage and glee on public display after the killing of a healthcare CEO portends. I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives. They would be advised to read up on…

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Published: December 4, 2024 23:19

I have to wonder if healthcare insurance companies are looking at the response on social media — across the political spectrum. I don’t remember seeing anything like this. Pop culture stan accounts, sports fans, random subcultures etc. all participating…

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Published: November 29, 2024 14:05

We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected. The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics. We may get lucky. I…

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Published: November 27, 2024 22:45

I wrote a piece summarizing a few of the things Trump's pick to lead the NIH, Dr. Bhattacharya, got catastrophically wrong — especially in 2020. I’ve criticized public authorities, including for nonsensical and excessive measures (closing parks and…