George Dinwiddie
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Nobody wants this shit. Nobody.
The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Nobody wants this shit. Nobody.
The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.
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What would happen if all the reporters started calling her "Piggy?"
Would she congratulate them on their openness and honesty?
Would she congratulate them on their openness and honesty?
Meanwhile, from bizarro world: Horrendous Karoline Leavitt actually defends Trump for calling a female reporter “piggy”, thinks we should admire Trump for being “frank, open, and honest”.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
What would happen if all the reporters started calling her "Piggy?"
Would she congratulate them on their openness and honesty?
Would she congratulate them on their openness and honesty?
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Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's
19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the
FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had
"determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky.
The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech
was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreid5rog4gjpv3qeneunmoyqxoesnuxac2srp3u6ppnjdxphfv7jcoe@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Bovino is building a record as a fabulist that has been noted by federal judges and at least one jury which acquitted a protester that Bovino testified against.
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Bovino is building a record as a fabulist that has been noted by federal judges and at least one jury which acquitted a protester that Bovino testified against.
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Trump is pressuring Zelenskyy to sign the so-called peace treaty negotiated by the US and Russia by Nov 27. It basically gives Russia everything it wants and Ukraine nothing, and bases it on Russian non-aggression guarantees which are worthless.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr.
The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.
www.ms.now
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Not you, God. It's another god, you wouldn't know them, they go to a different school.
September 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Not you, God. It's another god, you wouldn't know them, they go to a different school.
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October 1940.
A member of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service holds a cat that's just been saved from the rubble, after a daylight raid in London.
A member of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service holds a cat that's just been saved from the rubble, after a daylight raid in London.
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
October 1940.
A member of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service holds a cat that's just been saved from the rubble, after a daylight raid in London.
A member of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service holds a cat that's just been saved from the rubble, after a daylight raid in London.
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/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.
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Wonder Woman, 1944:
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Wonder Woman, 1944:
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I love DC, man. The woman checking into my hotel next to me is complaining about a homeless encampment “with a chicken coop in the middle of I5”; meanwhile, on my bike ride over, I passed some locals with a few boxes of pizza asking an unhoused guy if he wanted one slice or two. That’s my city, baby
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I love DC, man. The woman checking into my hotel next to me is complaining about a homeless encampment “with a chicken coop in the middle of I5”; meanwhile, on my bike ride over, I passed some locals with a few boxes of pizza asking an unhoused guy if he wanted one slice or two. That’s my city, baby
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There are certainly things we can (and should!) do as scientists that can help build up trust but man it really is an uphill battle sometimes.
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
There are certainly things we can (and should!) do as scientists that can help build up trust but man it really is an uphill battle sometimes.
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Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
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Trump: The House Should Force Me to Release the Epstein Files That AG Bondi Will Say She Can’t Release Even if the Senate Joins the House & Even if I Don’t Veto Congress’s Demand Because She’s Re-Investigating Dems as I Ordered Her To Do & Releasing the Files Would Compromise Those Investigations!
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Trump: The House Should Force Me to Release the Epstein Files That AG Bondi Will Say She Can’t Release Even if the Senate Joins the House & Even if I Don’t Veto Congress’s Demand Because She’s Re-Investigating Dems as I Ordered Her To Do & Releasing the Files Would Compromise Those Investigations!
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Control of your own devices is temporary, but surveillance is forever.
Google stopped letting owners of early Nest themostats remotely control their devices last month. But it's still remotely collecting extensive surveillance data from them: https://www.theverge.com/news/820600/google-nest-learning-thermostat-downgraded-data-collection #privacy
Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats
The thermostats may no longer connect to Google’s app, but they still transmit your data.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Control of your own devices is temporary, but surveillance is forever.
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Hearing a lot about Oz this week? 🧙🏼♀️ Did you know many of the original Oz books & early media are in the public domain? Explore these classic works & how you can access them in our blog!
📖 Learn more ⬇️
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#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
📖 Learn more ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hearing a lot about Oz this week? 🧙🏼♀️ Did you know many of the original Oz books & early media are in the public domain? Explore these classic works & how you can access them in our blog!
📖 Learn more ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
📖 Learn more ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #ClassicLiterature #LFrankBaum
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People keep posting this photo, claiming it shows a young Pam Bondi with Trump and Epstein. The photo is real, and it does show Trump with Epstein. However, the woman in the photo is Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve. She looks at bit like an Ivanka upgrade so I bet she was relentlessly pawed.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
People keep posting this photo, claiming it shows a young Pam Bondi with Trump and Epstein. The photo is real, and it does show Trump with Epstein. However, the woman in the photo is Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve. She looks at bit like an Ivanka upgrade so I bet she was relentlessly pawed.
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"1kg personalized gold bars," and the Swiss have an illustrious history.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"1kg personalized gold bars," and the Swiss have an illustrious history.
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(one kilo of gold is worth about $135k. A very small Rolex desk clock is $10k, but this one is probably worth many times that)
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
(one kilo of gold is worth about $135k. A very small Rolex desk clock is $10k, but this one is probably worth many times that)
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To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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