Mark Madsen

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Decision support, design, architecture, augmenting human analysis, organizational systems, cybernetics and sociotechnical systems, complexity, GOFAI, urban planning, botany, art, dada
"we have to be optimistic because the grift dies if we’re not"

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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Every single Biden replacement plan sounds 100x more brain-cooked than the worst Biden moment.

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These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social) reason.com/volokh/2024/...

The Supreme Court's Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munozreason.com Justice Amy Coney Barrett's majority opinion includes significant errors, and violates some of her own precepts against excessive reliance on questionable history.

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I have never seen the 1990 BBC series based On Wodehouse’s Jeeves books. I need this as a break from the aristocratic strain of the modern US economy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeeves_...

Jeeves and Wooster - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

Facial recognition works great. How could there possibly be a problem with something that has at least a 50% success rate?

😡🧐🤬 gizmodo.com/oklahoma-ala...

Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bulletsgizmodo.com In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser.

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If for any reason Joe Biden can't complete a 2nd term, we know who will take over. Her name is Kamala Harris and America already voted for her once. If Donald Trump can't complete a 2nd term, we have no idea who will take over because he TRIED TO HAVE HIS LAST VP MURDERED.

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Just reupping www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extremewww.rollingstone.com “Yes, we do really want to burn it all down,” says a Republican close to Trump.

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The story of Charles Darwin and barnacles is very funny

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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

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A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs. We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.

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Biden is not owed good press by a long shot. But the amount of coverage his age is receiving relative to that of Trump's very real past and promised future actions strikes me as one of the greatest media mis-prioritizations since the run-up to the Iraq War.

Or: US forest service - we must eliminate “small diameter fuels”, thereby drying out understories, increasing grass penetration, and increasing smaller diameter fuels, leading to an increase in fires and severity

'Four Pests' campaign under Mao Zedong aimed to eliminate rats, flies, mosquitoes & sparrows. People killed sparrows to prevent grain losses, resulting in overpopulation of crop pests that reduced yield and contributed to the Great Famine (1959-1961) that killed >15 million. (📷: Andreas Trepte)

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Write down the phrase "taking action is not just acceptable but the only way to defend the norms," if you, like me, are a person who calls your electeds and tells them what you want them to do to defend democracy from the fascists.

I think the thing I respect about this the most is the acknowledgment that it’s the cardinal saying “Pope Francis isn’t a real pope because he’s too liberal for my personal tastes” that broke the norms, which means taking action is not just acceptable but the only way to defend the norms

Vanessa butterflies cross the atlantic ocean from Africa to South America. Tiny little butterflies go all that way. The research to discover this is fantastic. So much work to piece the story together. 🌿 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A trans-oceanic flight of over 4,200 km by painted lady butterflies - Nature Communicationswww.nature.com The extent and impact of global insect movements is hindered by tracking limitations. This study reveals a 4,200 km transatlantic journey by butterflies from West Africa to South America, lasting 5-8 ...

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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“Faced w/the choice of another four years of Biden/Harris or the gravy train of Trump, the press has openly picked Trump. Even before the debate, the media studiously minimized Trump’s criminal convictions, fascist rantings, verbal diarrhea & his use of language literally out of Hitler’s playbook.”

Biden “has been competently boring, passing a roster of better than anticipated legislative achievements that have led to low unemployment, low fuel prices, massive infrastructure investment & now-declining inflation. This is great for America but it sucks for the bank accounts of most journalists.”

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We should have three presidents per ticket: 1st shift president, 2nd shift president, and Waffle-house chair girl

my hot take is that the president should be and live like a normal human, and so I reject the premise that the president must work 130 hour weeks and never be well-rested. he has dozens of staffers who can cover shifts!

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Ah fuck. Everyone who told me Chevron being overturned wouldn’t matter can kindly have a seat now. I don’t really consider myself an expert in much but considering I’ve been working in health regs for the past almost 8 years, I knew this was 100% coming. I just didn’t think it would be so fast 😭

Days after the Chevron ruling a corporate healthcare system - which doesn’t pay any taxes despite being a profit-driven business - is now suing Medicare so that they can collect more *tax dollars* w/o having to meet the standards of care set by CMS. Some CMS regulations may be silly but this is bad.

Hackensack Meridian sues HHS secretary in wake of Chevron rulingwww.beckershospitalreview.com Learn about the recent lawsuit filed by Hackensack Meridian Health against HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra challenging his interpretation of Medicare statutes.

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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

Everything is in peril, not just academic freedom. It’s all part of the same playbook

Academic freedom is in peril @katestarbird.bsky.social exposes the disingenuous attacks on misinformation research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

American academic freedom is in perilwww.science.org Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermi...

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"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed." Would that the left would learn this fucking lesson and direct that scorching irony towards the people who deserve it, and not the folks in solidarity with us.

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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UK election in a nutshell

This is an ongoing mess of an organization, yet has survived multiple democrat administrations, including control of congress and the senate. I hold my nose every time I vote, but the religious-fascist ideological alternative is still worse.

pure evil

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:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

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I see the NYTimes decided to celebrate July 4th by encouraging the fall of democracy.

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...