Scott Derrickson
@sderrickson.bsky.social
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Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car.
www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...
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This Stellantis Brand Is Quietly Preparing Its Most Radical Steering Wheel Yet for Production | Carscoops
The Hypersquare steering wheel and steer-by-wire technology are headed for a production car soon, as Peugeot begins early prototype testing
www.carscoops.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car.
www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...
www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...
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133. Twenty-five percent of South Carolina K-12 students attend schools with 92% vaccination rates or lower. (American Academy of Pediatrics says 92-94% immunity is necessary to prevent measles outbreaks.)
December 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
133. Twenty-five percent of South Carolina K-12 students attend schools with 92% vaccination rates or lower. (American Academy of Pediatrics says 92-94% immunity is necessary to prevent measles outbreaks.)
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My transport plan is simple: a lifetime ban on driving for anyone with a DUI, turning drunks into a powerful constituency in favour of dense walkable neighbourhoods
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
My transport plan is simple: a lifetime ban on driving for anyone with a DUI, turning drunks into a powerful constituency in favour of dense walkable neighbourhoods
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoref...
The machine at eye exams where you have to look at a hot air balloon or such, is called an autorefractor.
It works simply: you focus on something bright at a known simulated distance, it shoots infrared light into your eye to measure the refraction happening.
The machine at eye exams where you have to look at a hot air balloon or such, is called an autorefractor.
It works simply: you focus on something bright at a known simulated distance, it shoots infrared light into your eye to measure the refraction happening.
Autorefractor - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoref...
The machine at eye exams where you have to look at a hot air balloon or such, is called an autorefractor.
It works simply: you focus on something bright at a known simulated distance, it shoots infrared light into your eye to measure the refraction happening.
The machine at eye exams where you have to look at a hot air balloon or such, is called an autorefractor.
It works simply: you focus on something bright at a known simulated distance, it shoots infrared light into your eye to measure the refraction happening.
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Feel like I'm going completely insane. Why is everyone treating this like it's a real thing he can do??? The president can't unilaterally write or prohibit state laws!
Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a “single national framew...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Feel like I'm going completely insane. Why is everyone treating this like it's a real thing he can do??? The president can't unilaterally write or prohibit state laws!
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This is not going to go well for the GOP. I really don't think they comprehend how large this is.
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is not going to go well for the GOP. I really don't think they comprehend how large this is.
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"Don't be ridiculous, the BBC would never force out staff who hold pro trans rights views!"
My friends, this was 2021
My friends, this was 2021
LGBTQ Employees Are Quitting the BBC Because They Say It’s Transphobic
VICE World News received a leaked recording of a heated “listening session” for LGBTQ BBC staff, and heard from ex-employees about why they have left the UK’s national broadcaster.
www.vice.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Don't be ridiculous, the BBC would never force out staff who hold pro trans rights views!"
My friends, this was 2021
My friends, this was 2021
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"US tech stocks slumped on Friday as a sharp decline in Broadcom’s shares following the chipmaker’s earnings reignited investors’ nervousness about high valuations in companies linked to the artificial intelligence boom."
US tech stocks slide as fears over AI boom flare up
Chipmaker Broadcom tumbles 11.4% after financial forecast disappoints Wall Street
www.ft.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"US tech stocks slumped on Friday as a sharp decline in Broadcom’s shares following the chipmaker’s earnings reignited investors’ nervousness about high valuations in companies linked to the artificial intelligence boom."
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"The idea, reflected in the state and national policies of tax cuts for the wealthy and simultaneous cuts to supports and services for everyone else, is that wealthy people deserve to keep their full wealth and poor people deserve to keep their full poverty." Commentary from @danawormald.bsky.social
New Hampshire lost a fortune with a tax repeal, but I bet the wealthy spent it on lots of cool stuff • New Hampshire Bulletin
In the year that has passed since New Hampshire Republicans held a news conference to celebrate the repeal of the state’s Interest and Dividends Tax, I’ve thought (and written) a lot about the $150…
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December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"The idea, reflected in the state and national policies of tax cuts for the wealthy and simultaneous cuts to supports and services for everyone else, is that wealthy people deserve to keep their full wealth and poor people deserve to keep their full poverty." Commentary from @danawormald.bsky.social
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As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
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From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. 🤣
December 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. 🤣
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Outside of Covid, New Jersey’s unemployment rate is at a 10-year high:
December 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Outside of Covid, New Jersey’s unemployment rate is at a 10-year high:
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“In 2029, we will pass a law retroactively annulling all presidential pardons for crimes that directly benefited the president and his administration. And we will not permit the corrupt Supreme Court to stop us from seeking justice.”
Trump and admin lawyers know Pete Hegseth and others in the chain of command on the boat bombings are legally vulnerable. Adding to this from @swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social, the Trump Murder Memo "justifying" the bombings also makes this clear:
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Trump Is Already Discussing Preemptive Pardons For His Lawless Administration
The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.
zeteo.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“In 2029, we will pass a law retroactively annulling all presidential pardons for crimes that directly benefited the president and his administration. And we will not permit the corrupt Supreme Court to stop us from seeking justice.”
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60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
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Never stops annoying me that we get endless handwringing about how unsafe and untested lething trans people have hormones or puberty blockers while there's a fucking billion dollar industry hocking testosterone supplements and steroid injections to insecure teenage boys without anybody giving a shit
December 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Never stops annoying me that we get endless handwringing about how unsafe and untested lething trans people have hormones or puberty blockers while there's a fucking billion dollar industry hocking testosterone supplements and steroid injections to insecure teenage boys without anybody giving a shit
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Having to resign from a BBC science show after 16 years and 33 seasons, for not being a transphobe is where we are as a country.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Having to resign from a BBC science show after 16 years and 33 seasons, for not being a transphobe is where we are as a country.
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"CBS News has now made 13 posts about Erika Kirk in the last 2 days, dominating their news page over all other stories." - @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/12/satu...
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"CBS News has now made 13 posts about Erika Kirk in the last 2 days, dominating their news page over all other stories." - @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/12/satu...
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no it's not a "hallmark of the future," jesus christ what's wrong with you
The Post calls the podcast an "AI-powered tool" that turns its articles into an audio news digest. n.pr/4rUXc8z
Is The Washington Post's new AI podcast a hallmark of the future?
The Post calls the podcast an "AI-powered tool" that turns its articles into an audio news digest.
n.pr
December 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
no it's not a "hallmark of the future," jesus christ what's wrong with you
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
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the bourgeois conspiracy theory is that stopping an abuser is a form of abuse while collaborating with abusers is your civic duty
Barrack Obama mourned him like, specifically came out to mourn his assassination. who doesn’t have a conspiracy theory that avoids admitting the discourse of whether it’s reasonable for a man to hate nazis that much. there is only one conspiracy theory, it disavows itself by hiding in its obscenity.
December 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
the bourgeois conspiracy theory is that stopping an abuser is a form of abuse while collaborating with abusers is your civic duty
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Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.
BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed.
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
December 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.
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I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
December 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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"[T]he system of separated powers . . . has always demanded an energetic, independent Executive. The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled . . . to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. " -Trump v. US
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"[T]he system of separated powers . . . has always demanded an energetic, independent Executive. The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled . . . to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. " -Trump v. US