Pat Patterson

One way to read stories based on leaked docs: look at time from being circulated to docs getting published — bc that’s the amount of time it took to a) get someone pissed enough to agree to leak and b) get enough also-pissed people to confirm. These are slides dated April 29-30, published May 1.

tfw your AI bot ran out of AI juice

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Let’s start with the basics.

it’s not an important point at all, but I just can’t get over the fact that these people apparently believe they’d do well in a “meritocracy” after failing upwards their entire lives

RFK Jr thinks autistic people are second class citizens who “never pay taxes”, “never hold a job”, are a burden on society and that vaccines cause autism so they should be banned. Incredibly destructive ideas for anyone to have, let alone the secretary of health and human services. Crazy times.

MAGA complaining abt undocumented workers in US lying they only cared that ppl "entered legally." This is a native-born citizen & not the only one swept up by the ICE Gestapo. Finally released, but US citizen kept in jail for literally nothing wrong is the America they voted for

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE

OK, non-finance people: crash course in bonds. Connery is decent but overrated and his movies haven’t aged well. everyone thinks Moore is lame but his movies are by far the most fun. don’t watch the Dalton ones. Pierce Brosnan is Irish not English. two of Craig’s five are classics the others are eh.

Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

What are you talking about? Why, just the other day I went to the dealership and told them I wouldn't buy their $50,000 car until they'd bought 100,000 apples at $0.50/apple from my yard. Otherwise, they'd just be ripping me off. Then, everyone cheered.

If only extremely intelligent Business Thought Leaders could have had any way of having any forewarning whatsoever about the entirely unknown and unpredictable factors leading up to this moment. Oh well. Just no predicting some things!

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Hey @patrickmcfadin.bsky.social - I’m raising a pint to BoDi at the @datastax.com booth at #GTC25!

Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates www.tomshardware.com...

Yep, it’s hard to disagree with this.

You voted for this, farmers. You knew what he was and you voted for him anyway.

Basically nobody currently making policy for the United States seems to have any concept of how vulnerable global value chains are despite being bashed repeatedly over the head with these lessons for the last five years and it’s absolutely wild.

Thanks, Trump voters. You finally have the actual horrible economy that you pretended you had under Biden and Harris... dummies.

i expect the markets to have a totally chill reaction to this

Subtle upgrade to my Model 3

WANT TO MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY? ✔️ Universal health care ✔️ Vaccines ✔️ Unions

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

trump: I’m going to protect women women: no thank you trump: I’m gonna do it women: please don’t trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team women: what trump: and brought back andrew tate women: why trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore

It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.

Conservatives sieg heil-ing for the camera is about them playing a game of chicken with the media. Every time an outlet calls it a “Roman salute” or a “provocative hand gesture” the conservative proves who holds the power.

Trans rights are human rights, and we will fight for them. Always.

the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.