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6/ Why does this matter? Bird flu is one thing that keeps epidemiologists up at night. Flu mutates quickly and can easily swap genes with other flu viruses, which could spark a pandemic. Slowly but surely, bird flu has been creeping up the chain toward a pandemic.

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The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

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every single thing Trump has done since coming down that escalator has been to help Putin but he just did a few head fakes to throw people off the scent

*Microsoft is clumsy, ugly and bad. Google is incoherent, arrogant and blows up their own products. Anthropic is a tiny gang of bizarre weirdos. OpenAI are sleazy cranks and grifter blowhards *They're really not an attractive industry

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

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Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: https://loom.ly/oA2_-p8

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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The American people should never forget that when they faced exploding costs from a failed war in Iran and dangerous uncertainty from unchecked artificial intelligence, House Republicans decided to cancel work in Washington and go home for nearly eight weeks. Shameful.

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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

As I've said many times. it's an idiocracy. The never ending the stupidity of this whole MAGAT administration!

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"I bet it would be funny to put a pancake on my cats face" 2 minutes later "JESUS CHRIST!"

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There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.

ICE's goal is 2k daily arrests, looks like about 1.5k atm. So at ~60k a month, that's: * one Dodgers Stadium * 2x UCLA undergrad enrollment * 1 in 10 of a Portland, OR EVERY MONTH

🧵1/2 Trump’s own advisers say the map for Congress is closing. Four days ago…he floated a national emergency over the election. Do NOT read those as two separate stories. Do NOT.

Billionaires have already poured $433 MILLION into the 2026 midterms. Corporate interests are getting prioritized over the interests of working people. Our elections should not be up for sale. End Citizens United NOW.

I need you to consider how funny his first appearance would have been after Iran killed a plane full of journalists plus, say, Marco Rubio. Picture his face not even hinting at the idea that he should show sympathy or empathy. Instead, a goofy pride that he tricked them. He can't stop grinning

So, you're telling me Trump used journalists as human decoys during the NATO summit, then subpoenaed them for reporting on the security failures that led to the deception. There really is no low that man will not sink to.

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AI agents have no concept of criminal hacking laws, nor do they ask “should we hack one of our partners?” Amazing what can be done when ignoring all consequences. simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/o...

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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

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In theory, the moral clarity and steadfastness demonstrated in this statement condemning Israel’s war crimes should be the bare minimum. But in the meantime, Mamdani is a giant among cowardly politicians.

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