Clinton Blackburn
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.
I'm noticing that Spotify is recommending more music that seems to be AI-generated. This week I came across a Rihanna's "Umbrella": www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPiq....
Umbrella – 1950’s Motown Soul AI Reimagined Version [Back in Tune]
YouTube video by Back in Tune
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November 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I'm noticing that Spotify is recommending more music that seems to be AI-generated. This week I came across a Rihanna's "Umbrella": www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPiq....
This episode of @nprfreshair.bsky.social is enlightening and enraging. The country is always worse off when we aim for “national healing” instead of justice. Civil War, Nixon, Trump. Hopefully we learn quick! www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...
Why the DOJ's cases against Trump for election interference never came to a jury
Injustice authors Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis say following Jan. 6, the cases against the former president were stymied by the FBI's desire to preserve its independence from politics.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This episode of @nprfreshair.bsky.social is enlightening and enraging. The country is always worse off when we aim for “national healing” instead of justice. Civil War, Nixon, Trump. Hopefully we learn quick! www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...
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Our show this week is the first episode of The Harvard Plan Season 2, our collaboration with the @bostonglobe.com about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. Hosted by award-winning reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social:
S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Our show this week is the first episode of The Harvard Plan Season 2, our collaboration with the @bostonglobe.com about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. Hosted by award-winning reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social:
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MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.
reut.rs
October 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ
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THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
I want to hate-watch #Invasion, but don’t want to contribute to the analytics that might bizarrely get it renewed again. I may resort to torrents so Apple doesn’t infer the wrong conclusions. 🙃
August 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I want to hate-watch #Invasion, but don’t want to contribute to the analytics that might bizarrely get it renewed again. I may resort to torrents so Apple doesn’t infer the wrong conclusions. 🙃
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This.
2024 was such a weird year. The anti-DEI pushback didn't start under Trump, and it wasn't driven by the GOP.
This dude openly said, "Watch this! I'm going to turn gullible liberals against DEI!"🤡 And then he did.
So called allies accepted fascist lies about what DEI is, without question.🤦🏿♂️
2024 was such a weird year. The anti-DEI pushback didn't start under Trump, and it wasn't driven by the GOP.
This dude openly said, "Watch this! I'm going to turn gullible liberals against DEI!"🤡 And then he did.
So called allies accepted fascist lies about what DEI is, without question.🤦🏿♂️
I still cannot get over the fact that Rufo is associated with IM-1776—an internet magazine that publishes self-identified fascists who worship people like Leon Degrelle—and nobody cares in the slightest.
Everyone just continues to act like Rufo is just some guy off the street.
Everyone just continues to act like Rufo is just some guy off the street.
This is just textbook 1930’s fascism
August 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This.
2024 was such a weird year. The anti-DEI pushback didn't start under Trump, and it wasn't driven by the GOP.
This dude openly said, "Watch this! I'm going to turn gullible liberals against DEI!"🤡 And then he did.
So called allies accepted fascist lies about what DEI is, without question.🤦🏿♂️
2024 was such a weird year. The anti-DEI pushback didn't start under Trump, and it wasn't driven by the GOP.
This dude openly said, "Watch this! I'm going to turn gullible liberals against DEI!"🤡 And then he did.
So called allies accepted fascist lies about what DEI is, without question.🤦🏿♂️
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People finding out that despite the presence of auto pilot, you still need to be a pilot to fly an airplane
August 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
People finding out that despite the presence of auto pilot, you still need to be a pilot to fly an airplane
After four years in this apartment I finally thought to oil the hinges of the pantry door. Yet, my brain and body are conditioned to listen for the squeak. I’ve created my own episode of “Sliders” (a show that I can’t recall watching, but do recall the non-squeaky fence scene).
August 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
After four years in this apartment I finally thought to oil the hinges of the pantry door. Yet, my brain and body are conditioned to listen for the squeak. I’ve created my own episode of “Sliders” (a show that I can’t recall watching, but do recall the non-squeaky fence scene).
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Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.
going to college, living in an international dorm and meeting brown kids from africa, dark-skinned kids with african features from india, spanish-speaking chinese kids from argentina, and many others changed the way i understood the world in some pretty fundamental ways
July 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.
This was an pleasant surprise in my feed this afternoon.
Listen to me discuss my book Hate the Game on The Indicator!
Lessons in negotiation from Beyoncé and Destiny's Child : The Indicator from Planet Money www.npr.org/2025/05/19/1...
Lessons in negotiation from Beyoncé and Destiny's Child : The Indicator from Planet Money www.npr.org/2025/05/19/1...
The Art of the deal ft. Beyoncé : The Indicator from Planet Money
All of us negotiate — whether it's accepting a job offer, buying a house or working out who does the dishes. Economist Daryl Fairweather has a new book out: Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Lif...
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May 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This was an pleasant surprise in my feed this afternoon.
Random realization: I can't recall when I last emptied the trash on my computer. Disk space hasn't been a major concern for at least five years!
May 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Random realization: I can't recall when I last emptied the trash on my computer. Disk space hasn't been a major concern for at least five years!
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Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
May 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
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We now have rebuttals to every Republican claim of legitimacy.
* No, Republicans can't be trusted with the economy. Given the opportunity they wrecked it.
* No, they aren't tough on crime. They shut down investigations of their thieving buddies, and pardoned violent insurgents.
1/?
* No, Republicans can't be trusted with the economy. Given the opportunity they wrecked it.
* No, they aren't tough on crime. They shut down investigations of their thieving buddies, and pardoned violent insurgents.
1/?
i think it's worse than this. the Republican Party as an institution has thoroughly discredited itself as either interested in or capable of being trustworthy with respect to basic democratic governance
One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
April 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
We now have rebuttals to every Republican claim of legitimacy.
* No, Republicans can't be trusted with the economy. Given the opportunity they wrecked it.
* No, they aren't tough on crime. They shut down investigations of their thieving buddies, and pardoned violent insurgents.
1/?
* No, Republicans can't be trusted with the economy. Given the opportunity they wrecked it.
* No, they aren't tough on crime. They shut down investigations of their thieving buddies, and pardoned violent insurgents.
1/?
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Looking forward to this read from fellow #MIT alum @hatethegamebook.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Looking forward to this read from fellow #MIT alum @hatethegamebook.com
Why is scientific notation the default for large numbers in Excel/Sheets? More often than not, I just want to print long numbers as strings.
April 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Why is scientific notation the default for large numbers in Excel/Sheets? More often than not, I just want to print long numbers as strings.
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*sighs in Black person*
We detailed everything that these people were going to do, and are currently doing.
They wrote it down!
I can even tell you what happens next! But y'all won't listen to that either. 🤷🏿♂️
Y'all super late.
We detailed everything that these people were going to do, and are currently doing.
They wrote it down!
I can even tell you what happens next! But y'all won't listen to that either. 🤷🏿♂️
Y'all super late.
Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
www.newyorker.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
*sighs in Black person*
We detailed everything that these people were going to do, and are currently doing.
They wrote it down!
I can even tell you what happens next! But y'all won't listen to that either. 🤷🏿♂️
Y'all super late.
We detailed everything that these people were going to do, and are currently doing.
They wrote it down!
I can even tell you what happens next! But y'all won't listen to that either. 🤷🏿♂️
Y'all super late.
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Train your own model.
April 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Train your own model.
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How are Elon Musk and his associates remaking the federal bureaucracy?
🗓️ On Thursday, April 17 at 4 pm ET, join our reporters as they review what they’ve learned about the inner workings of DOGE.
Submit your questions below ⤵️
🗓️ On Thursday, April 17 at 4 pm ET, join our reporters as they review what they’ve learned about the inner workings of DOGE.
Submit your questions below ⤵️
Investigating the Department of Government Efficiency
Our reporting team discusses DOGE and how Elon Musk and his associates are remaking the federal bureaucracy.
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April 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
How are Elon Musk and his associates remaking the federal bureaucracy?
🗓️ On Thursday, April 17 at 4 pm ET, join our reporters as they review what they’ve learned about the inner workings of DOGE.
Submit your questions below ⤵️
🗓️ On Thursday, April 17 at 4 pm ET, join our reporters as they review what they’ve learned about the inner workings of DOGE.
Submit your questions below ⤵️
Great work @torrho.com!
"Pray Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"🤡
Short answer, no.
"If we have fashy VCs, funding fashy founders, might we get non-fashy companies and products out?"🤡
This one seems harder for folks to understand. But also no.
I fund Rudy instead👍🏿
Short answer, no.
"If we have fashy VCs, funding fashy founders, might we get non-fashy companies and products out?"🤡
This one seems harder for folks to understand. But also no.
I fund Rudy instead👍🏿
Beyond Horseless Carriages: Building Communities for the Decentralized Era, Rudy Fraser
YouTube video by AT Protocol Development
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March 27, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Great work @torrho.com!
I'm contemplating switching browsers all because I can't type "gc" to get to my calendar. Sometimes code should just be left alone. issues.chromium.org/issues/39772...
Chromium
issues.chromium.org
March 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I'm contemplating switching browsers all because I can't type "gc" to get to my calendar. Sometimes code should just be left alone. issues.chromium.org/issues/39772...