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Anirul Bene
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Are you ready for what’s coming? 🫘
Historian, technologist, polymath, and pissed off.
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Tabby cat with short light brown fur and green eyes is laying in a brown fuzzy blanket. The kitty is smiling through barely open eyes and the camera.
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always— A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. By TS Eliot Excerpted from 4 Quartets - Little Gidding
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I have to share this every time I see these memes.
Joe Biden smirks as he stares straight at the camera across a crowded room. Everyone is blurry except him. The words, “who’s sleepy now” above him.
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Joe Biden locks eyes with the viewer from a distance over the blurry faces of the crowd between you. The caption above says, “who’s sleepy now?”
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Or someone who has Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome.
A screenshot of a quote from the Clevenland Clinc website. Link below “Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is a rare, inherited, sexual development disorder. People with AIS are genetically male, but don’t develop male external genitals because their bodies can’t respond to male sex hormones. AIS can cause problems during puberty, as well as infertility as an adult.” https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22199-androgen-insensitivity-syndrome
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Medical privacy was based on Roe. When Dobbs overturned it, it poked holes in medical privacy. Image is from linked American Bar Association pdf article about it.

Image text in alt text as well www.americanbar.org/content/dam/...
Dobbs has also upended privacy expectations. Although abortion has long been subject to some state restrictions, before Dobbs patients may have had confidence that their health data—for instance, data associated with researching, accessing, traveling to, and receiving reproductive health care—generally stayed private. Dobbs opened the floodgates not only to greater restric- tions on reproductive health care but also to increased enforcement of those restrictions, which may involve invasion of patient privacy. Much of the data that reveals an individual has received reproductive health care is covered by the privacy, security, and breach notification regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”).4 Although HIPAA’s regulations provide protections for per- sonally identifiable medical records, as well as health plan claims records (collectively known as protected health information or PHI), those rules have always included some exceptions by which law enforcement agencies could obtain access. In response to the changes in the legal landscape for reproductive health care post Dobbs, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently finalized changes to HIPAA’s privacy regulations—known as the Privacy Rule—to limit access to data generated by the delivery of legal reproductive health care, if it is being sought by law enforcement or other persons seeking to use that data to penalize a patient or his or her medical provider for the delivery of that care (hereinafter, the “Privacy Rule Reproductive Data Protections”).5 How well will those protections work to protect health data and what are the gaps that remain?
October 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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This moment is seared on my memory.
Sarah Palin on Thanksgiving Day 2008 at a turkey farm in Alaska. She had been there to pardon a turkey for the holiday. While she stood for a televised interview a farm worker behind her was casually watching the press as he slaughtered a turkey and bled it out into a gore filled bucket behind her. Both Palin and the farmer seemed oblivious to the fact that he was on camera.
September 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM