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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 2h

All these guys say they think about the Roman Empire all the time, but they never think about the role of the Praetorian Guard in that empire, and what they did to the people they were supposed to protect.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2h

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 8h

Yea. Basically “skill issue”

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 15h

Ominous

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP : I LIKE THE DOLLAR

Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 16h

The proper term is “nussy”

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 16h

This might be the funniest thing he’s ever done.

In the history of snubs, this might be one of the world historical most brutal snubs, right in front of “I’m doing fine, the ballroom is going in there”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

Large red banners with big white circles hanging off buildings is a bad vibe for reasons Germans should be keenly aware of.

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 1d

programming is building conceptual models of things ! that's the entire thing !

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

Protein powders and shakes, like all dietary supplements, fall into something of a regulatory gray area.

There is no federal limit specifying the amount of lead allowed in protein powders. And while the FDA requires that manufacturers keep their products free of harmful contaminants, it largely leaves it up to companies to decide what counts as harmful and test their own products for compliance.

Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs.

Today, supplements are “presumed safe unless found otherwise,” says Cohen at Harvard Medical School, and most products face scrutiny only after reaching the market—meaning unsafe or contaminated supplements can reach consumers before problems are caught.

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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 1d

So the trend of clothing companies in Korea branding themselves off older American companies extends even to the manufacturer of the F-35, with Lockheed Martin Apparel Korea. Anywho, something for fan studies scholars among others to look at, perhaps . . . .

Screenshot from Lockheed Martin Apparel Instagram

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

Battle Creek, MI. So the other side of Lake Michigan, closer to Detroit than Chicago but not by much

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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 1d

The 2024 media failures, from “fact checks” to active disinterest in Trump lies, to … everything is infuriating. When people say “I didn’t vote for this” sometimes I believe them, because the media whitewashed a TON of Trump’s more distasteful positions and statements.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

One thing that I’ve come around on in comics is it used to seem corny and childish that a bunch of guys would call themselves the Legion of Doom and meet in an old castle where they’d be like ”hiss let us defeat the ideas of hope and love hiss” but that’s what they’re actually doing in real life lol

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like he didn’t need a dialogue to find a way out of the situation!

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina called for dialogue "to find a way out of this situation" and said the constitution should be respected. n.pr/3W7bvbs

Madagascar's president flees country in fear for his life after military rebellion

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina called for dialogue "to find a way out of this situation" and said the constitution should be respected.

n.pr

Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

We might still get astronauts there first.

Whether this hollowed out, corrupt cluster of institutions can get them there alive is an entirely different question

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

The Chinese are likely going to return to the moon before Americans and it's going to hit the American space establishment like a nightmare

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

men will smoke a whole box of cigars at the cigar shop instead of going to therapy

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

Even patronymic last names are only a couple hundred years old

See here page 64 (80 in the pdf):
files.libcom.org/files/Seeing...

files.libcom.org

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 1d

I think a lot of people don't quite grasp how little documentation of a legal identity anyone had before, like, the 1930s. No social security number, no green card, no driver's license. This made you reliant on your social network; OTOH nobody could force you to write your name a certain way.

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

On the plus side, looks like Altman’s job is going to get eliminated soon.

As we all know already, it wasn’t a real job to begin with.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 2d

This is how I found out Doug Emhoff was born.

Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 2d

Happy birthday, my Dougie. I love you so very much.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 2d

Some of these people absolutely deserve yogurt enemas, imo. Henry Ford deserved worse.

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 2d

In any case, no one knows why they're called "grape nuts." C.W. Post came up with the term. They're made from flour, dried yeast, and salt. They involve neither grape nor nut. Some speculate that it's because they're comparable in size to a grape seed.
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