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The purpose of #RationalWiki includes:
1. Analyzing and refuting #pseudoscience and the anti-science movement
2. Documenting the full range of #crank ideas
3 […]
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1. Analyzing and refuting #pseudoscience and the anti-science movement
2. Documenting the full range of #crank ideas
3 […]
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/2 "to show that gerrymandering is racist rather than merely partisan the challenger has to offer race-neutral partisan alternatives" is relatively new despicable shit, and "a state gerrymandering based on a president's explicit written demand for racial gerrymandering is presumed cool" is fresh.
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
/2 "to show that gerrymandering is racist rather than merely partisan the challenger has to offer race-neutral partisan alternatives" is relatively new despicable shit, and "a state gerrymandering based on a president's explicit written demand for racial gerrymandering is presumed cool" is fresh.
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/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.
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/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.
September 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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If there was one thing I would have thought the current Supreme Court majority was against, it would be assigning voters to districts based on race. But today's Texas decision seems to veer into a "eh, it happens" mode. /1
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If there was one thing I would have thought the current Supreme Court majority was against, it would be assigning voters to districts based on race. But today's Texas decision seems to veer into a "eh, it happens" mode. /1
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California Announces New Online Portal to Report Misconduct by Federal Agents https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/california-announces-new-online-portal-report-misconduct-federal-agents
California Announces New Online Portal to Report Misconduct by Federal Agents
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Governor Gavin Newsom today announced a new online portal to assist members of the public in sharing information with the California Department of Justice regarding potentially unlawful activity by federal agents and officers across the state. Federal agents have broad authority to enforce federal laws, including federal immigration laws, but they must do so lawfully.
oag.ca.gov
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
California Announces New Online Portal to Report Misconduct by Federal Agents https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/california-announces-new-online-portal-report-misconduct-federal-agents
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"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#foss #digitalsovereignty […]
#foss #digitalsovereignty […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#foss #digitalsovereignty […]
#foss #digitalsovereignty […]
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Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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The endless saga continues: Bigger news outlet pretends it's breaking a story that was reported earlier by someone else, often a solo publisher.
It's grossly unethical -- and it's so common that journalists take it for granted. They should take the honorable path […]
It's grossly unethical -- and it's so common that journalists take it for granted. They should take the honorable path […]
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mastodon.social
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The endless saga continues: Bigger news outlet pretends it's breaking a story that was reported earlier by someone else, often a solo publisher.
It's grossly unethical -- and it's so common that journalists take it for granted. They should take the honorable path […]
It's grossly unethical -- and it's so common that journalists take it for granted. They should take the honorable path […]
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Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio gave orders leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings, most of them children. These three "leaders" killed USAID, and in the process ordered those deaths.
A crime against humanity, IMO […]
A crime against humanity, IMO […]
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mastodon.social
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio gave orders leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings, most of them children. These three "leaders" killed USAID, and in the process ordered those deaths.
A crime against humanity, IMO […]
A crime against humanity, IMO […]
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I've been fanboy of technology for decades. All those years of following and writing about it never changed that.
But while I could always appreciate, and often celebrate, the achievements of some of the people who created things, I was never a fan of their industry. Its growth and power came […]
But while I could always appreciate, and often celebrate, the achievements of some of the people who created things, I was never a fan of their industry. Its growth and power came […]
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mastodon.social
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I've been fanboy of technology for decades. All those years of following and writing about it never changed that.
But while I could always appreciate, and often celebrate, the achievements of some of the people who created things, I was never a fan of their industry. Its growth and power came […]
But while I could always appreciate, and often celebrate, the achievements of some of the people who created things, I was never a fan of their industry. Its growth and power came […]
#rationalwiki is now back and functioning without any significant outages for 3 days. 503 errors were apparently caused by an actor on #Alibaba Cloud doing scraping for #AI, and also affected other sites that were unprotected and unable to handle the #DDoS load.
#CloudComputing #scraping
#CloudComputing #scraping
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#rationalwiki is now back and functioning without any significant outages for 3 days. 503 errors were apparently caused by an actor on #Alibaba Cloud doing scraping for #AI, and also affected other sites that were unprotected and unable to handle the #DDoS load.
#CloudComputing #scraping
#CloudComputing #scraping
@davidgerard Is it time for last resort "proof-of-work challenge" in Iocaine? https://docs.rs/crate/iocaine/3.0.1
iocaine 3.0.1 - Docs.rs
docs.rs
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
@davidgerard Is it time for last resort "proof-of-work challenge" in Iocaine? https://docs.rs/crate/iocaine/3.0.1
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RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115583973694128369
Time to fire the Mozilla management or to hard-fork all #mozilla projects.
#aislop
Time to fire the Mozilla management or to hard-fork all #mozilla projects.
#aislop
floss.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115583973694128369
Time to fire the Mozilla management or to hard-fork all #mozilla projects.
#aislop
Time to fire the Mozilla management or to hard-fork all #mozilla projects.
#aislop
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This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
@davidgerard Looks like the 503 errors have just returned.
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
@davidgerard Looks like the 503 errors have just returned.
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An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
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Deeply ashamed just because you were soliciting a convicted child predator for advice on cheating on your wife my pressuring a younger colleague into sleeping with you while sneering at her and her work?
Gosh Ross Douthat better write another piece decrying woke culture
Gosh Ross Douthat better write another piece decrying woke culture
Sex pest : i am retiring from public life
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Deeply ashamed just because you were soliciting a convicted child predator for advice on cheating on your wife my pressuring a younger colleague into sleeping with you while sneering at her and her work?
Gosh Ross Douthat better write another piece decrying woke culture
Gosh Ross Douthat better write another piece decrying woke culture
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I really think that people who haven’t been poor should not give money or frugality advice to poor people. The problem with poor people isn’t money management or knowledge, it’s the insufficiency of money. This goes for anyone who wants to help people on food stamps navigate this situation […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I really think that people who haven’t been poor should not give money or frugality advice to poor people. The problem with poor people isn’t money management or knowledge, it’s the insufficiency of money. This goes for anyone who wants to help people on food stamps navigate this situation […]
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I can’t even
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I can’t even
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The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
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I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries