Alex Savage

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IT IS JULY 9TH THE BLOWING THINGS UP HOLIDAY IS LONG FUCKING OVER

A Disaster of Historic Portions: The Red Lobster Bankruptcy Story

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Okay fuckers, my wife is watching C-Dramas on the TV with the Playstation, so, the fucking debate it is

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The absolutely wild thing is: This goes for ALL social aid. Just *giving people some fucking money,* literally going "OK, how much did you need?", cutting checks, and waving them out the door? COSTS LESS and HAS BETTER OUTCOMES than the current system's bureaucracy and means testing, EVERY TIME.

With alt-text because THIS IS LITERALLY EVERYONE’S EXPERIENCE & I FUCKING HATE IT. Being disabled is a godsdamn full time job battling different agencies all damn day. #NEISvoid

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DOJ unseals indictment against doctor accused of stealing private health records from Texas Children's Hospital to leak to Chris Rufo to attack gender-affirming care

Doctor accused of illegally obtaining Texas Children's patient informationwww.houstonchronicle.com Dr. Eithan Haim has described himself as a whistleblower who sought to expose the Texas Children's Hospital transgender medicine program.

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READ THE INDICTMENT of Dr. Eithan Haim, who DOJ has charged with four counts of violating HIPAA by leaking stolen patient records from Texas Children's Hospital to Chris Rufo to attack gender-affirming care www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

Really spending too much time reflecting on how in Pokémon Sword/Shield, you capture the literal legendary Pokémon that defend the realm from interdimensional evil, and then go and and keep it and use it to go win battle tower battles and stuff. Really makes you think

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the CDC is again trying to limit the 2024-25 booster availability to provably immunocompromised and elderly people. they’re taking written comments through the 17th. please take a minute to let them know boosters should be available to all who want them: www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD...

Regulations.govwww.regulations.gov

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Honestly, Brian Steel is living the dream. Imagine having the entire country agree at one time that a judge was just being a jerk to you for no reason.

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there’s a popular assumption that even if these guys are cruel and reactionary, they are analytically intelligent enough that they aren’t gonna fall for Q Anon level bullshit. wrong! they’re stupid in very regular ways!

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oh no, the famously open to listening to people other that members of his tribe Sam Alito might be less likely to speak candidly at the next black tie event he deigns to attend, what we as a society have lost!

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It's a disqualifying mindset, in any rational world.

Alito's worldview is one of a radical: we are in a war, where one side must defeat the other. Needless to say, this is a terrible mindset to bring to the interpretation of complex laws to govern all people, including those who disagree with you.

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I have a guest column in Scientific American today, about students’ use of AI-powered “nudify” apps against their own classmates (so, cw for CSAM/NCII issues): www.scientificamerican.com/article/teen...

Teens Are Spreading Deepfake Nudes of One Another. It’s No Jokewww.scientificamerican.com Teens are sending deepfake nude images of classmates to each other, disrupting lives. Schools, technology developers and parents need to act now

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do you want someone to make another Kubernetes? because this is how you get another Kubernetes

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Reinstate a drivers license: "…can be complicated." Throw a man in jail: “easy!”

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Everyone needs a picture of J. G. Hertzler (Martok) holding a gay bat'leth on their timeline today. Glory to you, and your chosen family!

Downed trees and limbs all around west side #Madison WI. The NWS did a great job using the WEA escalation for the severe thunderstorm warning wind threat on top of the tornado warnings here last night. #WIwx

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this story is an absolute nightmare but the part that gets me is the mostly-legal ripoff operation these people are running being virtually indistinguishable, from a consumer perspective, from any of the numerous and widespread scams, frauds, and cons out there right now www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1...

Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening thousands of Americans' homes : Planet Moneywww.npr.org Karen McDonough of Quincy, Mass., was enjoying her tea one morning in the dining room when she saw something odd outside her window: a group of people gathering on her lawn. A man with a clipboard tol...

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I wrote about a delicious Borinquen Chicagoland invention, the jibarito -- a breadless sandwich served on slabs of smashed, fried plantain: buttondown.email/theswordandt...

Notable Sandwiches #96: Jibaritobuttondown.email Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I and my longsuffering editor David Swanson stumble our way through the strange and mutable document...

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Y'know, I'm not sure I can think of a Schedule A plaintiff that would be a more deserving candidate for a thorough judicial pantsing than Tesla.

I'm sure it had NOTHING to do with the fact that this filing strategy saved the plaintiff over three quarters of a million dollars in filing fees.

Severe thunderstorms approaching Madison, WI from the west this afternoon. #wiwx #weatherphotos #wisconsin

#Madison #WI #Aurora

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tapping the sign bsky.app/profile/pwna...

The trick to not being disappointed by the FL case is to expect nothing from it

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“Available oxygen level: [object Object]”

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University of Virginia: "This entire year in particular, we have given wide berth to free expression, including protests, because this is at the heart of what universities do."

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In addition to the arrests and the pepper spray, at least one Albemarle County Police officer was brandishing his AR-15 at low ready position at the UVA protest today, on the anniversary of the Kent State shooting. After the negligent discharge at Columbia, this felt quite unsafe.

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How AI is going: I googled “they pay me in woims” looking for this Nancy panel and the third result was a straightfaced SEO article called “They Pay Me In Woims: The Truth About This Bizarre Form Of Payment”

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Go fuck yourselves, people are just finally getting diagnosed you ignorant fucks.

The fast rise of prescriptions for Adderall and other stimulants suggest the start of another drug crisis like the opioid epidemic, according to the DEA

Adderall Abuse Risks Becoming Another Opioid Crisis, DEA Sayswww.bloomberg.com The fast rise of prescriptions for Adderall and other stimulants, along with rampant online treatment and advertising, suggest the start of another drug crisis like the opioid epidemic, a senior Drug ...