ocschwar

ocschwar

@ocschwar.bsky.social

Angry about all the reasons why we cannot have nice things.

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Charlie Stross
@cstross.bsky.social

**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable

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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.

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Russ Jones
@russincheshire.bsky.social

If we have to ban under-16s from social media so they don't have to see all the awful shit over-16s are doing, I'm thinking maybe under-16s aren't the problem.

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Charlie Foxtrot 🌐
@streetscene.bsky.social

Replying to @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Ritchie Benaud was a great Australian cricketer and later in life, an even better commentator. He always cautioned against overusing superlatives because it cheapened their meaning. "The Titanic was a tragedy, the Ethiopian drought a disaster, and neither bears any relation to a dropped catch."

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Kate Compton
@galaxykate.bsky.social

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

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Lilly
@lilly8123.bsky.social

I will like and repost every post asking for the release of the Epstein files. Remember trending doesn't count on words within a banner.

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Adam Schwarz
@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

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Philip Bump
@pbump.com

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

ocschwar
@ocschwar.bsky.social

Updating my will now. I want a future archaeologist to be just as mystified when he digs up my bones.

Eric J. White@ericjwhite.bsky.social

Cool find that makes you wonder what those shells meant. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

livescience.comViking Age woman found buried with scallop shells on her mouth, and archaeologists are mystifiedA ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.

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Alt CDC (they/them)
@altcdc.altgov.info

🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category. That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement. A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠 aspph.org/department-o...

aspph.orgDepartment of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” DefinitionDiscover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.

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Brian Tyler Cohen
@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.

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Alt CDC (they/them)
@altcdc.altgov.info

1/3 John Knox, anti-vaccine activist, is now acting head of ASPR -- the agency that handles pandemic response. He’s called COVID vaccine campaigns “nothing other than genocide.” 😶 Not exactly reassuring...

msnbc.comMeet the anti-vaccine activist who could lead the response to the next pandemicFormer firefighter John Knox's ties to RFK Jr. have landed him atop the agency that helped bring Covid-19 under control. People in the know are worried.

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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

Wikipedia’s traffic is down -8% year over year driven by the rise of AI overviews in search and young people preferring to get their answers from TikTok. It’s still startling to me how many technology trends I thought permanent were actually just generational trends.

techcrunch.comWikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video | TechCrunchLooks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends.

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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar@ilhanmn.bsky.social

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION. Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare. Shame.

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Jeff Sharlet
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social

The view from Virginia Woolf’s house, 29 Fitzroy Square. I believe this is what she had in mind while writing To the Lighthouse. She’s really not given enough credit for her cyberpunk work.

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Daniel Carlson
@danielwcarlson.bsky.social

Replying to @davidjroth.bsky.social

My family lives paycheck to paycheck precisely because our cocaine budget is so high. This is a huge help to us, or it would be if we hadn't immediately decided to use our savings to buy more cocaine. I forget what we were talking about, but do you have any cocaine

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Tom Nichols
@radiofreetom.bsky.social

In any other administration (including Trump's first one), someone in the Pentagon would have said: "Mr. President, you cannot order the military to murder a bunch of people on a boat on the high seas." Designating them "narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that lets you do that.

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Allison Gill
@muellershewrote.com

ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

Grok is on Twitter confirming that DOGE cuts instituted by Elon Musk are to blame for reducing NWS/NOAA’s effectiveness at providing accurate weather forecasts in the recent Texas floods. Between USAID and NWS/NOAA cuts, there’s already enough material to start a “DOGE death toll” website.

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Larry S Williams, MA
@lswma.bsky.social

Apparently this big bank doesn't think "climate change is a hoax." "JPMorgan hired NOAA's chief scientist to advise clients on navigating climate change" www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/w...

cnbc.comJPMorgan hired NOAA's chief scientist to advise clients on navigating climate changeLast year, JPMorgan hired Sarah Kapnick as the bank's chief climate scientist. She's now advising clients on how climate change will impact their investments.