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Razorback fan, international traveler, in search of fine charcuterie
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This is worth reading every single year
America is not perfect. Far from it. But there are ideals worth fighting for, values worth pursuing, even when we fall short. Don’t abandon it to the totalitarians. https://www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth-of-july
The Fourth Of Julywww.popehat.com The America That Could Be
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(clears throat) Let me be very clear and direct here: FUCK every single ghoul who has spread #vaccine misinformation over the past few years. Watch a child suffering from pertussis just once and it will change you. This is fucking preventable and these babies have no choice. They rely on us.
UK whooping cough death toll rises to 8, people urged to get vaccinesapple.news Since January there have been 4,793 confirmed cases of whooping cough, compared with 858 in the whole of 2023, with one academic describing the size of the current outbreak as 'alarming'.
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We're at the end of the Rot-Com boom - every single weird, stupid concept (metaverse, crypto, generative AI) is a symptom of an industry that realizes that there isn't another trillion-dollar market to sell into having a dangerous, expensive mid life crisis. wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/
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“Federal regulators on Monday approved sweeping changes to how America’s electric grids are planned & funded, in a move that supporters hope could spur thousands of miles of new high-voltage power lines and make it easier to add more wind & solar energy.”
New Rules to Overhaul Electric Grids Could Boost Wind and Solar Powerwww.nytimes.com The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the biggest changes in more than a decade to the way U.S. power lines are planned and funded.
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Trying to finish off all this chocolate candy so I’m no longer tempted to eat it.
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Ugh, this is how we lose freely available, nationally run, gnss services and start paying for positioning data. No mention in this article of RTK or other gnss constellations, which would make this more transparently bullshit: “we’d like to make gps a paid service that’s less useful.”
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Princeton University Press flash sale means you can get Wonderstruck with 50% off. This is my book on how to find wonder in your life, and how our cognitive technologies (science, religion, magic, arts) help us to find wonder. Code: FIFTY Price now: $13.98/£11.00 reskeets appreciated!
Wonderstruckpress.princeton.edu A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world
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The "use case" for LLMs is: Spam. Everywhere.
"Crypto’s being dull again — but thankfully, AI has been dull too. The shine is coming off. So we’re back on the AI beat." amycastor.com/2023/09/12/p...
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Florida is charging formerly incarcerated people $50 a day even if they’re no longer in prison. The “pay to stay” fee is based on the length of the original sentence, so even when they're released they must keep paying for a prison bed they’re not using. www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-n...
Pay to stay: Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarcerationwww.abcactionnews.com It's a common saying: You do the crime, you do the time. But when people are released from prison, freedom is fragmented. It marks the start of new hardships, impacting families and communities.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social John Eastman’s defense fund ad campaign is going well
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The ad style is certainly a choice
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@kenwhite.bsky.social we have a RICO sighting
I’m by no means an expert or even novice with US law but if I was gonna commit a federal crime that was easily traceable I’d at least play into it with my alias, like RICO Suavé or something that lets everyone know I’m in on the getting myself caught bit
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7 years of planning went into this moment
Update to the update (watch my instagram for VIDEO) #eclipse
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Greetings fellow truck owners, who else is thinking about using their truck's manly, rugged trunk for manly, rugged tasks?
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From four years ago. Never forget, the former president's grifter son-in-law stole most of the money set aside for PPE for healthcare workers. #Medsky #EMedsky
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In case you need the first million digits in pi: www.piday.org/million/ #PiDay
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I’ve been lurking in car forums for the last few months and saw reports from drivers of General Motors cars that GM was selling their driving data to LexisNexis. It was resulting in their insurance going up. Can that be true, I thought. Reported it out. Yes. True. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/t...
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companieswww.nytimes.com LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.
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Bedbugs, Rats & No Heat: How One Woman Endured a Decade of Neglect in NY’s Guardianship System Judith lived in squalor, yet every month, her legally appointed guardian was paid $450 from her bank account. She is one of the thousands of vulnerable New Yorkers left stranded by the system.
Bedbugs, Rats and No Heat: How One Woman Endured a Decade of Neglect in New York’s Guardianship Systemwww.propublica.org Judith Zbiegniewicz lived in squalor, yet every month, her legally appointed guardian was paid $450 from her bank account. She is one of the thousands of vulnerable New Yorkers left stranded by a syst...
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The infuriating thing about language is that if you describe this as a "fun little red rubber ball" you're fine but if you call it a "rubber fun red little ball" you sound like you had a stroke, even though there is no official rule about order of adjectives.
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If you haven’t been reading KSBD, start at the beginning because the whole journey is worth it
KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com
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Black Pastrami Reuben, Brent’s Deli Northridge, CA Pastrami Rueben, hole in the wall deli, Utica NY Pulled pork, McClard’s Hot Springs, AR Philly Cheesesteak, Oh Brother Philly Philadelphia Lobster Roll, food truck outside a lighthouse around Portland, Maine
Pastrami on Rye w mustard, Katz's Deli Italian Combo, Mona Lisa Salumeria Scarsdale NY Polish Girl, Hot Sauce Williams Cleveland Ohio Philly Cheesesteak, Provolone w onions Tony Luke's Philadelphia Lobster Roll, Captain Scott's Lobster Dock New London Connecticut
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Hurt - Johnny Cash Good song but man that’ll kill the mood for everyone in the bar
What is the worst answer a potential match on Tinder/Bumble/Hinge/etc could give to the question, "What is your go-to karaoke song?" (I will shortly share the actual worst possible answer, received by a friend yesterday.)