Dr. Kalt
My last job hunt that ended with me getting the job I have now was like all my job hunts: I sent out hundres of applications. And eventually got a job through someone I know personally that I had not sent anything to beforehand. I got lucky each time. And that's not something I can pass on as advice
Uh. Here's a thought: we need to brace for Musk going Full Hitler when he starts to believe that our civilization has failed him, and is beyond saving and needs to be destroyed by any means necessary. I'm almost certain that moment will come.
“Racist billionaire Elon Musk appears to believe that dumping nearly half a billion dollars into weird, bigoted campaign ads is the equivalent of saving a civilization.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
The real problem is that he has NOT FAILED. His fascist program has not fully consolidated power. But what most people read as failing the American people is a SOUNDING SUCESS of the project to enrich himself and his cronies at everyone's expends. Trumpism works mostly as intended.
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The push to treat octopuses and squids and cuttlefish humanely in research is worthy on its own, but scroll down to section VI for a wonderful primer on how these fascinating creatures live. And so many beautiful pictures of them, too.
Today's newsletter post: Petition to Include Cephalopods as Animals Deserving of Humane Treatment. (please share) walterveit.substack.com/p/petition-t...
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In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.
Yeah start insinuating he has morning chai rather than coffee, say that he knocks things for 6 rather than hits a home run, allege that he is generally a clean living good boy who loves his mother and prays every Friday (pejorative).
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I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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the handful of die-hard anti-trans voters that exist are going to vote GOP no matter what. so this ad will not pick up a single new voter. all it does is further disenfranchise trans ppl – a marginalized group MAGA hates. this is a pro-MAGA ad & Turek is furthering MAGA's cause by airing it
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
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hang on, so Bleecker Street was sold to a Pierre Omidyar-backed group that also happens to back Tosca Musk's Passionflix... and now "MUSK" is disappearing from theaters?
$TSLAQ Seems like the only coverage. Hopefully incorrect. Google Gemini claimed not to find showtimes for this weekend, so… 🤷 @niedermeyer.online www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/c...
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By my napkin math, total Bell Labs research expenditures from 1930-1980 were on the order of $50 billion in 2026 dollars. AI companies have spent ~$1 trillion so far: The equivalent of ~20 Bell Labs histories. In its history, Bell Labs researchers discovered the transistor, the solar cell, the laser
Funny thought experiment: Tech monopolies have spent about $1 trillion on AI development so far. How good of a chatbot could we have built for $1 trillion by just employing smart people to answer any question people might reasonably ask and collecting all the answers in a big lookup table?
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We all complain about headlines too much, but if your headline ends with "the White House said" or "Trump said" you are probably just giving the most valuable words in your article over to propaganda
US first lady Melania Trump secured a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the Russian-controlled city of Oleshky, which will begin on October 29, the White House said reut.rs/4eR8jub
The OUT OF MY WAY! Act will soon pass out of committee, making it so that no owner of a combustion engine equipped motor vehicle can in any way be held liable for death or injury suffered by pedestrians or owners of non-combustion engine equipped vehicles in the road, for whatever reason.
Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."
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i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people
NEW: Elon Musk gave his super PAC $76 million in just two weeks of October, and more than half of its new candidate spending went to one race: the Texas Senate fight against James Talarico. He’s now given more than $445 million this cycle, far more than he spent electing Trump.
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Sorry still thinking of $1,200-$1,800 dollar console just conceptually. Those are Real Computer numbers. You can just get a real computer for that kinda cash. The entire premise of the console is “this is a baby computer you don’t control but it’s standardized and affordable” but they can’t do that.
Is there anything this man HATES more with every fiber of his being than a woman in power he can't control...?
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
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It’s a deliberate far-right takeover of media in an attempt to hijack our culture and democracy.
🟡 SCOOP: Elon Musk makes $1 billion investment in Ellison’s Skydance, providing a much-needed financial injection as the company looks to cut costs and bolster its stock price. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
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Important piece: Republicans already strip-mined their donor base, and now are deeply dependent on billionaires. Unless Dems change, they will go the same route, or become electorally uncompetitive.
Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...
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It's so weird how 99% of the things JD Vance refuses to apologize for involve his political allies embracing bigots. www.axios.com/2026/10/22/v...