James Webber

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I am as discouraged and upset as everyone else this morning. The debate was a freaking catastrophe. SCOTUS is a rogue branch of govt. But also, this feeling reminds me of what it was like every fucking morning of Trump's presidency.

Finally, a use for the Internet www.onemillioncheckboxes.com

The floor of this red line car is really wet and I *hope* it's from the thunderstorms but I'm not *sure* it's from the thunderstorms

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I think a lot of politicians and political reporters think "low info voter" is like someone who isn't following congressional budget negotiations when actual low-info voters are like "guy who thinks the president appoints the NFL commissioner and are mad at him for suspending a player on their team"

was annoyed at CVS for seemingly overcharging me but it turned out they were sending me a NINE MONTH supply for mysterious reasons

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Biden's team "doesn't expect the verdict to fundamentally alter the presidential race." That is incredibly dumb and self-fulfilling messaging to ever say to a reporter. Simply assert that it's a political earthquake. Loudly. Repeatedly. To an almost deranged degree. Will it into existence!

President Biden’s campaign weighed in after Trump was found guilty on 34 counts, saying the verdict showed how “no one is above the law.” But campaign officials say privately they don’t expect the verdict to fundamentally alter the tight presidential race.

Biden team takes aim at Trump after guilty verdictwapo.st But the president’s team does not expect the outcome to fundamentally change the dynamics of a close race.

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Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

Oh man. I made this my default immediately

They did, it's just not terribly well known. You have to add &udm=14 to the end of your search URL. Or just do your searches from here: udm14.com

&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami codeudm14.com A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

Me, biking home on warm spring day: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! My eyes, as they fill with pollen: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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I’m watching a Chekhov play and so far there has been no violence but this sign was on the wall at the entrance, so…

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Kittmidity's rising Purrometer's getting low According to all kittens Their dish's the place to go-ooo Cause today for the first time Since kitten records began For the first time in history The kitties are getting FEDDDD THEY'RE GETTING FED HALLELUJAH

This is some real "are we the baddies?" shit

Israelis set UNRWA’s headquarters in Jerusalem on fire

UNRWA to close East Jerusalem headquarters after arson attack by ‘Israeli extremists’ | CNNamp.cnn.com The United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees will shutter its East Jerusalem headquarters after the compound was set on fire by “Israeli extremists” while staff were inside, its chief said Thur...

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The NYPD has a public database of cop disciplinary records. There is only one problem. The data keeps disappearing: "at least 88% of the disciplinary cases that once appeared in the data have gone missing at some point" www.propublica.org/article/nypd...

how do I get paid to wander around GitHub and fix terrible code

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I made these. When asked if I wanted to laser etch anything into the blades, I thought of @ryannorth.ca

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NEVER - dashare.zone ADMIN

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no doubt a lot of things go into a decision like this, but a DA who's made it clear both that he isn't going to charge kids for getting arrested at a protest and that he WILL charge cops that get too far out of line probably factors into it

“Philadelphia Police Department declines Penn request to disband Gaza Solidarity Encampment”

LIVE UPDATES: Philadelphia Police Department declines Penn request to disband Gaza Solidarity Encampmentwww.thedp.com Several students have received disciplinary hearing notices, and students previously reported threats from Penn's administration that the encampment would be cleared on Wednesday.

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This is a game changer! The bacteria Akkermansia muciniphila as well as being a mucus muncher can degrade the glycans that coat blood groups ie target blood group antigens and effectively make them type O the universal donors! Incredible. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Akkermansia muciniphila exoglycosidases target extended blood group antigens to generate ABO-universal blood - Nature Microbiologywww.nature.com Discovery, biochemical and structural characterization of exoglycosidases from Akkermansia muciniphila reveals combinations that efficiently target extended A and B blood group antigens to produce ABO...

the upside of people using LLMs to write papers is that I will feel way less guilty about not reading papers

Okay I'd like to turn this off now

Decided to start following basketball so I can be irrationally angry on random nights

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Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights officenews.un.org Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war c...

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Just to circle the point law enforcement is a big reason why we don’t have stronger privacy protections in the US. A big part of what’s made our economy so scammy is the desire to keep multiple loopholes open for state surveillance.

"Called Spy Pet, the service’s creator says it scrapes more than ten of thousand Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, is also offering the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website."

A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messageswww.404media.co 404 Media tested the service, called Spy Pet, and verified it is collecting information on Discord users, including the messages they post across usually disparate servers.

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"A Washington Post investigation found that Israeli armored vehicles were present in the area...and that gunfire was audible as Hind and her cousin Layan begged for help, as well as extensive damage caused to the ambulance, are consistent with Israeli weapons." www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Palestinian paramedics said Israel gave them safe passage to save a 6-year-old girl in Gaza. They were all killed.www.washingtonpost.com A Washington Post examination raises questions about Israel’s assertion that its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within the firing range” of 6-year-old Hind Rajab.

Giving a group meeting tomorrow which means today is for critically essential chores like "clean that stain at the bottom of the compost bin"

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I have to have a NYT subscription for work, but you probably don't.... "[NYT] instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' and to 'avoid' using the phrase 'occupied territory' when describing Palestinian land"

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”theintercept.com An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.

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World Central Kitchen has shared the identities of the seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces.

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If you think this can still be explained away as an "accident," consider also that the second car was hit only after picking up survivors from the first strike, and the third car was hit only after it had picked up survivors from the second.

We accidentally hit three specific cars spread out along 2.4 kilometers of road

Decided to start following basketball so I can be irrationally angry on random nights

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@profharley.bsky.social doesn't spend enough time over here so I'll share what I keep telling him to share. Brendan did a quick analysis of the PIs who have been funded by ARPA-H so far: There are more PIs from Georgia Tech than there are women. Also the head of ARPA-H got their degree from GT. 🧪