Fareed Zakaria closing statement was brilliant. “We need to get serious”
October 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Fareed Zakaria closing statement was brilliant. “We need to get serious”
I have the feeling North Dakota farmers are going to complain about socialism and handouts very soon. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I have the feeling North Dakota farmers are going to complain about socialism and handouts very soon. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
@gabbygiffords.bsky.social at the same there was a shooting at a school. Teenagers are shot. I would not talk about a person that actively provoked violence. What care is kids being shot.
I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah.
Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence.
Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.
Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence.
Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
@gabbygiffords.bsky.social at the same there was a shooting at a school. Teenagers are shot. I would not talk about a person that actively provoked violence. What care is kids being shot.
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Engineering is the intersection of Curiosity and Capability
When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow
When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity
Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow
When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity
Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
August 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Engineering is the intersection of Curiosity and Capability
When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow
When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity
Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow
When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity
Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
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Not to mention the tortuous chaos that comes with success
June 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Not to mention the tortuous chaos that comes with success
How this not a violation of The Privacy Act of 1974?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
www.nytimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
How this not a violation of The Privacy Act of 1974?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
While we are all talk about the cuts Pentagon’s budget increased with 13%
May 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
While we are all talk about the cuts Pentagon’s budget increased with 13%
Debt increase by president
Ronald Reagan 160.8%
George W. Bush 72.6%
Barack Obama 64.4%
George H. W. Bush 42.3%
Donald Trump (first term) 39.2%
Richard Nixon 34.3%
Joe Biden 30.5%
Ronald Reagan 160.8%
George W. Bush 72.6%
Barack Obama 64.4%
George H. W. Bush 42.3%
Donald Trump (first term) 39.2%
Richard Nixon 34.3%
Joe Biden 30.5%
May 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Debt increase by president
Ronald Reagan 160.8%
George W. Bush 72.6%
Barack Obama 64.4%
George H. W. Bush 42.3%
Donald Trump (first term) 39.2%
Richard Nixon 34.3%
Joe Biden 30.5%
Ronald Reagan 160.8%
George W. Bush 72.6%
Barack Obama 64.4%
George H. W. Bush 42.3%
Donald Trump (first term) 39.2%
Richard Nixon 34.3%
Joe Biden 30.5%
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4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.
These posters are made to be shared!
We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.
get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
These posters are made to be shared!
We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.
get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.
These posters are made to be shared!
We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.
get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
These posters are made to be shared!
We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.
get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
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May the fourth be with you, Illinois.
May 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
May the fourth be with you, Illinois.
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I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social
Why everyone has hat in front of them? Is this a cabinet meeting or a product launch?
May 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Why everyone has hat in front of them? Is this a cabinet meeting or a product launch?
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Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.
Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.
March 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.
Does the FBI freeze funds because the EPA doesn't like the law it is obligated to execute? That is some twisted law enforcement techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/f...
FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money | TechCrunch
The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown.
techcrunch.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Does the FBI freeze funds because the EPA doesn't like the law it is obligated to execute? That is some twisted law enforcement techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/f...
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Why Bluesky is far more transformative than recognized, and how it can provide a base to #FreeOurFeeds (@freeourfeeds.com). Excellent, short, very accessible intro, with @robin.berjon.com.
Robin Berjon on freeing journalists’ feeds: The AT protocol and “long-term, lifelong, sustainable protection against enshittification.” With Feven Merid. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
Q&A: Robin Berjon on Freeing Journalists’ Feeds
The AT protocol and “long-term, lifelong, sustainable protection against enshittification.”
www.cjr.org
March 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Why Bluesky is far more transformative than recognized, and how it can provide a base to #FreeOurFeeds (@freeourfeeds.com). Excellent, short, very accessible intro, with @robin.berjon.com.
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Above all I want boring government. I hate living in interesting times.
February 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Above all I want boring government. I hate living in interesting times.
It reminded me of how much I miss him. youtu.be/UOTAdvc1MJM?...
American Politics | George Carlin | Life Is Worth Losing (2005)
YouTube video by Official George Carlin
youtu.be
February 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It reminded me of how much I miss him. youtu.be/UOTAdvc1MJM?...
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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One major problem with every city outside New York is that no one has a sense of urgency
January 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
One major problem with every city outside New York is that no one has a sense of urgency
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As 1st to use the phrase "Free our Feeds" & Twitter hashtag #FreeOurFeeds, it's gratifying to see launch of the Free Our Feeds Foundation to embark on a major step toward that vision. Here brief notes on a long view of how we got here, & why it's promising. 🧵
ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/01/free...
ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/01/free...
#FreeOurFeeds - Another Step Toward the Vision
ucm.teleshuttle.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
As 1st to use the phrase "Free our Feeds" & Twitter hashtag #FreeOurFeeds, it's gratifying to see launch of the Free Our Feeds Foundation to embark on a major step toward that vision. Here brief notes on a long view of how we got here, & why it's promising. 🧵
ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/01/free...
ucm.teleshuttle.com/2025/01/free...
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I was playing with Grok 2. I wanted to see what it could do.
I asked it to create a meme it thought could go viral, giving Trump a hard time for not keeping his promise to cut grocery prices. It was ok. Then I asked it to go dark. It’s response wasn’t what I expected lol
youtu.be/f9fxeNNguzY?...
I asked it to create a meme it thought could go viral, giving Trump a hard time for not keeping his promise to cut grocery prices. It was ok. Then I asked it to go dark. It’s response wasn’t what I expected lol
youtu.be/f9fxeNNguzY?...
Crazy grok response to request for trump viral meme
YouTube video by Mark Cuban
youtu.be
December 15, 2024 at 9:00 PM
I was playing with Grok 2. I wanted to see what it could do.
I asked it to create a meme it thought could go viral, giving Trump a hard time for not keeping his promise to cut grocery prices. It was ok. Then I asked it to go dark. It’s response wasn’t what I expected lol
youtu.be/f9fxeNNguzY?...
I asked it to create a meme it thought could go viral, giving Trump a hard time for not keeping his promise to cut grocery prices. It was ok. Then I asked it to go dark. It’s response wasn’t what I expected lol
youtu.be/f9fxeNNguzY?...
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Shout out to the top 5 skies in the world, pie in the, reach for the, excuse me while I kiss the, Lucy in the, and Blue.
November 26, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Shout out to the top 5 skies in the world, pie in the, reach for the, excuse me while I kiss the, Lucy in the, and Blue.
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thought it would be fun to flesh this out and do a bit of a thread on data federation
discussing some of the roles in the upcoming federated network & comparing atproto to some of the alternative protocols such as ActivityPub & nostr
(long 🧵 incoming)
discussing some of the roles in the upcoming federated network & comparing atproto to some of the alternative protocols such as ActivityPub & nostr
(long 🧵 incoming)
anyone will be able to run an Appview/BGS & while ours will index & service the entire network, there is not requirement that they do so
You could run an appview that services some well-defined slice of the network (ie 2 hops out from me & any backlinks) for cheap
You could run an appview that services some well-defined slice of the network (ie 2 hops out from me & any backlinks) for cheap
September 16, 2023 at 12:04 AM
thought it would be fun to flesh this out and do a bit of a thread on data federation
discussing some of the roles in the upcoming federated network & comparing atproto to some of the alternative protocols such as ActivityPub & nostr
(long 🧵 incoming)
discussing some of the roles in the upcoming federated network & comparing atproto to some of the alternative protocols such as ActivityPub & nostr
(long 🧵 incoming)