Old Tehanu
@oldtehanu.bsky.social
Writer. Science fan. Maps matter. Biology is queer af. Worked at MS, Public Schools, & public transit. Gadfly. Old dragons don't die. Eunoia.
Just Say NO.
What power you have, use it against oligarchs & Nazls.
Banner: 1982, young me.
Sry 4 typos.
Just Say NO.
What power you have, use it against oligarchs & Nazls.
Banner: 1982, young me.
Sry 4 typos.
Pinned
Winters get dark. Giving helps. Give and you get. Reply with your favorite gift ideas. Not charity. Not glamor. What are u giving this season that u are really feeling good about.
What are you giving that is giving back?
Again, not charity necessarily. Looking for small, individual gifts. Warm.
What are you giving that is giving back?
Again, not charity necessarily. Looking for small, individual gifts. Warm.
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Not too soon, or too late I hope, to be aware of 2026 elections.
How to Stop Trump’s Plan to Steal the 2026 Elections
Brennan Center President Michael Waldman on how Donald Trump could try to subvert the 2026 midterm elections, how he can be stopped, and what can be done to reform America’s electoral system. Plus: Da...
www.theatlantic.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Not too soon, or too late I hope, to be aware of 2026 elections.
Grift. I bet only half the planes get bought. If that.
All the money they are stealing for bs.
All the money they are stealing for bs.
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Grift. I bet only half the planes get bought. If that.
All the money they are stealing for bs.
All the money they are stealing for bs.
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Ai takes over from the influencers. Which do you dislike most? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
These Travel Influencers Don’t Want Freebies. They’re A.I.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Ai takes over from the influencers. Which do you dislike most? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
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www.theatlantic.com/economy/2025... … Thoughts, anyone? @davidzmorris.bsky.social @jacobsilverman.com @benmckenzie.bsky.social @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social
Something Ominous Is Happening in the AI Economy
The last time so much wealth was tied up in such obscure overlapping arrangements was just before the 2008 financial crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
When public schools are increasingly controlled by anti-education private interests and radical political ideologies, it is not just gun violence to fear.
Bullying that is abusive and leads to suicides and widespread depression. Teachers that teach lies, libraries that are censured.
Yes. It's bad.
Bullying that is abusive and leads to suicides and widespread depression. Teachers that teach lies, libraries that are censured.
Yes. It's bad.
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
When public schools are increasingly controlled by anti-education private interests and radical political ideologies, it is not just gun violence to fear.
Bullying that is abusive and leads to suicides and widespread depression. Teachers that teach lies, libraries that are censured.
Yes. It's bad.
Bullying that is abusive and leads to suicides and widespread depression. Teachers that teach lies, libraries that are censured.
Yes. It's bad.
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This week on the pod:
🔥 Evidence of the earliest fire
🤖 How AI chatbots can sway voters with ease
go.nature.com/44Zl68U
🔥 Evidence of the earliest fire
🤖 How AI chatbots can sway voters with ease
go.nature.com/44Zl68U
Neanderthals mastered fire — 400,000 years ago
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 December 2025
go.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This week on the pod:
🔥 Evidence of the earliest fire
🤖 How AI chatbots can sway voters with ease
go.nature.com/44Zl68U
🔥 Evidence of the earliest fire
🤖 How AI chatbots can sway voters with ease
go.nature.com/44Zl68U
Anyone up for a privacy class action?
Know any international lawyers?
I'm eyeing the requirement to disclose personal info of all relatives and all email addresses (which for many is impossible, btw).
Are they planning to hack all the accounts and datamine? Because that's... a lot.
Know any international lawyers?
I'm eyeing the requirement to disclose personal info of all relatives and all email addresses (which for many is impossible, btw).
Are they planning to hack all the accounts and datamine? Because that's... a lot.
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Anyone up for a privacy class action?
Know any international lawyers?
I'm eyeing the requirement to disclose personal info of all relatives and all email addresses (which for many is impossible, btw).
Are they planning to hack all the accounts and datamine? Because that's... a lot.
Know any international lawyers?
I'm eyeing the requirement to disclose personal info of all relatives and all email addresses (which for many is impossible, btw).
Are they planning to hack all the accounts and datamine? Because that's... a lot.
I am taking away healthcare so people can buy it?
In what universe does deleting something makes it... exist???
In what universe does deleting something makes it... exist???
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I am taking away healthcare so people can buy it?
In what universe does deleting something makes it... exist???
In what universe does deleting something makes it... exist???
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Democrat Eileen Higgins wins the Miami mayor’s race! Higgins is the first Democrat to win the race in nearly 30 years. She defeated by about 18 points a Republican Emilio Gonzalez endorsed by Trump.
A good sign for Democrats before the midterms!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
A good sign for Democrats before the midterms!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Miami Elects First Democratic Mayor in Nearly 30 Years
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Democrat Eileen Higgins wins the Miami mayor’s race! Higgins is the first Democrat to win the race in nearly 30 years. She defeated by about 18 points a Republican Emilio Gonzalez endorsed by Trump.
A good sign for Democrats before the midterms!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
A good sign for Democrats before the midterms!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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St. Susanna's parish is not holding back. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
St. Susanna's parish is not holding back. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Just making crap up to blathet about in the lunch time ass kissing sesions that start Trump’s nap time.
Everything is going so well in the world that Rubio has time to wage war on a typeface.
He’s bravely saving us from the “woke” Calibri font, the one chosen because it’s more accessible for readers.
Thanks for making the world a safer place for all of us, Marco. 🙄✍️
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
He’s bravely saving us from the “woke” Calibri font, the one chosen because it’s more accessible for readers.
Thanks for making the world a safer place for all of us, Marco. 🙄✍️
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just making crap up to blathet about in the lunch time ass kissing sesions that start Trump’s nap time.
Most can't. They will try to save a little on their own for emergencies, maybe. If they can.
And they will opt out of coverage.
And they will opt out of coverage.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/o...
Opinion | $27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Most can't. They will try to save a little on their own for emergencies, maybe. If they can.
And they will opt out of coverage.
And they will opt out of coverage.
Isolationist idealogy alive and well
Trump wasn’t satisfied with merely crippling the tourist industry. No, he has to kill it completely.
It doesn’t get much more nuts than this. Next will be denying the “wrong” American citizens re-entry.
It doesn’t get much more nuts than this. Next will be denying the “wrong” American citizens re-entry.
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Isolationist idealogy alive and well
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Incredibly remarkable that the two survivors who were recovered from the Oct. 16 strike (the only over strike survivor, from Oct. 27, was lost at sea) were released at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Incredibly remarkable that the two survivors who were recovered from the Oct. 16 strike (the only over strike survivor, from Oct. 27, was lost at sea) were released at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Awesome. USAID becomes a nazi organization
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... >>> What the absolute FUCK?
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Awesome. USAID becomes a nazi organization
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“Our machines are products of our minds. It doesn’t follow that our minds work like machines. LLMs are trained to imitate the outward forms of human speech…but they’re not capable of understanding the subjective thoughts and experiences behind those words. They’re not designed to even try.” [Gift]
Opinion | Let’s not idolize AI. That’s an age-old mistake.
In every generation, some advanced piece of machinery comes to seem like a model of the human mind.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“Our machines are products of our minds. It doesn’t follow that our minds work like machines. LLMs are trained to imitate the outward forms of human speech…but they’re not capable of understanding the subjective thoughts and experiences behind those words. They’re not designed to even try.” [Gift]
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🎁 "The America First Policy Institute, Turning Point USA, Moms For Liberty and the Faith and Freedom Coalition are among more than 40 groups sponsoring Ms. McMahon’s 50-state “History Rocks!” barnstorm."
? If the far right is sponsoring her tour why are taxpayers paying her?
? If the far right is sponsoring her tour why are taxpayers paying her?
Linda McMahon’s School Visit, Sponsored by Conservatives, Draws Protest
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🎁 "The America First Policy Institute, Turning Point USA, Moms For Liberty and the Faith and Freedom Coalition are among more than 40 groups sponsoring Ms. McMahon’s 50-state “History Rocks!” barnstorm."
? If the far right is sponsoring her tour why are taxpayers paying her?
? If the far right is sponsoring her tour why are taxpayers paying her?
They really gloss over the fact that if you delay, it takes 15 years to make back the difference. Which puts you at 80 plus years old.
And life expectancy is falling.
And life expectancy is falling.
Gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
Should You Really Wait Till 70 to Take Social Security?
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
They really gloss over the fact that if you delay, it takes 15 years to make back the difference. Which puts you at 80 plus years old.
And life expectancy is falling.
And life expectancy is falling.
Winters get dark. Giving helps. Give and you get. Reply with your favorite gift ideas. Not charity. Not glamor. What are u giving this season that u are really feeling good about.
What are you giving that is giving back?
Again, not charity necessarily. Looking for small, individual gifts. Warm.
What are you giving that is giving back?
Again, not charity necessarily. Looking for small, individual gifts. Warm.
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Winters get dark. Giving helps. Give and you get. Reply with your favorite gift ideas. Not charity. Not glamor. What are u giving this season that u are really feeling good about.
What are you giving that is giving back?
Again, not charity necessarily. Looking for small, individual gifts. Warm.
What are you giving that is giving back?
Again, not charity necessarily. Looking for small, individual gifts. Warm.
Cool.
I call for Musk to be abolished!
www.thetimes.com/article/2a46...
www.thetimes.com/article/2a46...
Elon Musk calls for EU to be abolished after X is fined €120 million
The social media platform was accused of failing to disclose basic information about its adverts and who had paid for them, among a series of breaches
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Cool.
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First Amendment.
December 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
First Amendment.
This deserves a huge march on DC.
SCOTUS will consider whether Trump’s earlier order seeking to end birthright citizenship for certain children born in the U.S. can stand. The decision to take up the case comes after several lower courts blocked the order for violating the 14th Amendment.
https://bit.ly/4rBATol
https://bit.ly/4rBATol
Supreme Court to Hear Trump's Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This deserves a huge march on DC.