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The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d

The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 4h

The Russian nerve agent attack on Salisbury happened in 2018.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 4h

No.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ @cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17h

new ayn rand just dropped

#argentina #milei #javiermilei #bailout #uspol #aynrand #atlasshrugged #meme #memes

Cover of Atlas Shrugged, but with new title "Atlas needs you to spot him like $20 billion", 1st argentinian edition

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 6h

I read and write, I explore and I question, I design and script and analyse, I interpret and communicate. I do this to train my mind in the hopes of one day generating new knowledge. New knowledge that might even be useful, and that no algorithm can yet be trained on.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 3d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 8h

It was always a game. Now it's gamify.

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 19h

🖤

Diane Keaton, sometime in the 70s, squatting down and holding an SLR

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 19h

At the Barbican for the Divine Comedy gig. And...

"It'll make you smile
All human life is here
From the feeble old dear to the screaming child
From the student who knows that to have one of those
Would be suicide
To this family man."

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Futurism @futurism.bsky.social · 20h

Embracing Future Tech 8 could propel us into an era of unprecedented innovation and economic growth, fostering sustainability and efficiency. Let's harness this potential! #futurism

redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 20h

Future tech 8 will provide this economy the growth we all need!

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 20h

Tron: Arse 🤔

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 20h

Future tech 8 will provide this economy the growth we all need!

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 21h

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

Alt: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 21h

Tier 1 : Prison
Tier 2 : Ballet school
Tier 3 : Tech start up.

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 21h

Red in Tooth and Gove.

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Darren Guy @darrenguy.bsky.social · 21h

3 days old but popped up on my feed today

www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-...

Brexiters calling for uk steel industry to be killed off.

You just cannot make this up

Britain's steel industry must die

It already faced tariffs in the United States, and it has been struggling to cope with some of the highest industrial energy prices in the world. Now what remains of the British steel industry faces w...

www.spectator.co.uk

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 21h

The Telegraph never did learn how to spell "hero."

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being this lame

The Telegraph saying that an activist dancing dressed as a frog is a terrorist (in coward quotes), and for some reason they’ve added that the person is non-binary

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 21h

That's a lot of words when simply "hero" would do.

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 1d

It's also quite nice not to have Saturday lib baiting by Hodges every week.

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 1d

His floor isn't the problem and is probably immovable. Limiting his ceiling is the goal.

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 1d

US stock market in the dump part of Trump's cycling pump and dump grift.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump announces he's putting a bajillion percent tariff on China

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 1d

Think Labour have gone too soon with this. Another year and 75% of the electorate would have sworn blind they voted to remain.

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 1d

A 10 from me too!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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