Udarnik

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Mad scientist. Really mad. At you.

Vaccines work. Injury is rare.

Climate change is real. The injury will be catastrophic.

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How many Trump Cabinet members/senior staff have called on the US to reject him? Hint: it's a much larger number than D officials vs. Biden and you'd think that putting that counter alongside this one would be the minimum of balance required of an ethical news venue.

I wrote about the weirdest decision the NYT has made amongst a slew of weird decisions

How Many New York Times Reporters Does It Take to Count to Six?www.splinter.com Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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Beccas can't be choosers

I don’t know if you’ve ever watched Adam Conover’s essay on how Google absolutely borked the Internet, but SEO was a huge part of that argument youtu.be/P7NHABs76mg?...

How Google RUINED the Internetyoutu.be Google sucks now. Here's why. Get 20% off DeleteMe US consumer plans when you go to http://joindeleteme.com/Adam and use promo code ADAM at checkout. DeleteMe International Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com/ You may have noticed that Google isn't what it used to be. Search results are buried under ads and sponsored links, and when you do find a result, it's overflowing with SEO garbage. You aren't imagining things: the internet is getting quantifiably worse. In this video, Adam explains how the same Google that once helped make the internet more accessible to countless people has doomed the internet itself for the foreseeable future. SOURCES: Is Google Getting Worse? https://rb.gy/r42i0p How Does Google's Monopoly Hurt You https://rb.gy/dlo5qo How We Handle Ads, Funding, and Data Security https://rb.gy/xd90d1 Google Advertising Revenue 2023 https://rb.gy/2f03ql The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine https://rb.gy/s8g1k2 Google To Cut Thousands of Search Quality Rater Jobs https://rb.gy/c2tbfj Google Promotes Prabhakar Raghavan to Lead Search https://rb.gy/427k4w Google Is Spared a Search-Engine Switch by a Major Partner https://rb.gy/s0ftl2 Search Engines Should be Able to Guide Consumers https://t.ly/iMTC3 How to Build a Better Search Engine Than Google https://t.ly/5YQKu SEO Starter Guide https://t.ly/3LQ-l How Google is Killing Independent Sites Like Ours https://t.ly/BWzh5 Vice is Abandoning Vice.com and Laying Off Hundreds https://t.ly/5KgGG Pitchfork Faces Layoffs and Restructuring Under Condé Nast https://t.ly/8y5l8 Jezebel to Shut Down After 16 Years https://t.ly/EUA7y Mass Layoff Appears to be the End of Sports Illustrated https://t.ly/mSDri Where'd My Results Go? Google Search's Chatbot is No Longer Opt-In https://t.ly/Iwp-A Google Search Starts Rolling out ChatGPT-style Generative AI Results https://t.ly/bI4oO Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct https://t.ly/P-6r7 The Case Against Google https://t.ly/6CtGC United States v. Microsoft Corp. https://t.ly/CYBi6 Justice Dept. Sues Google Over Digital Advertising Dominance https://t.ly/cttv9 US Wraps Up Antitrust Case Against Google in Historic Trial https://t.ly/swo4E SUPPORT ADAM ON PATREON: http://patreon.com/adamconover SEE ADAM LIVE: https://www.adamconover.net/tourdates SUBSCRIBE TO FACTUALLY PODCAST: https://link.chtbl.com/factually

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if i had to pinpoint the beginning of the internet's long decline i would say it's when "search-engine optimisation" became a thing burying the worthwhile beneath the profitable has been the death knell of every industry ever

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Trump is trying to get ahead of the reality that he and the heritage foundation are working to destroy America and institute a fascist dictatorship. He is lying and expecting the media to gaslight America for him.

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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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"Why aren't you posting about Gaiman" because I don't know anyone, don't know the allegations except they exist, haven't heard the podcast, am far from an expert on any aspect of this & the worst thing about the internet is everyone feeling the need to weigh in on topics they are not qualified to

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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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Since 2019 I've liked to remind you that we should work to break up not just ICE, but abolish the entire DHS. It's a post-9/11 reactionary agency that needs to be destroyed. www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...

It’s time to break up the Department of Homeland Security | CNNwww.cnn.com David Perry says the bigotry under investigation at the Border Patrol, the overreach at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the terrible conditions in border facilities show an DHS, it’s time to d...

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The post-debate “Biden replacement theory” has all the vibes of a top-down bottom-up participatory disinformation campaign/conspiracism bubble reality

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It has astounded and disgusted me since 2016 that so many people were willing to just skip over the profoundly disturbing evidence that Trump is extremely sexually attracted to his own child, and has been since she was a minor.

He def raped his daughter

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Mr. Am I Being Detained

i've steered my research into examining the intersection of overt prejudice with non-prejudiced science denial and pseudoscience because of that observation. "gosh, there sure are a lot of racists who think evolution isn't real. what's up with that" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Prejudice is epistemically unwarranted beliefonlinelibrary.wiley.com Applied Cognitive Psychology publishes psychological analyses of memory, learning, thinking, problem solving, language, and consciousness.

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Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth

round earther

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lets be honest, the toughest SOB holding a US passport is Jimmy Carter and it isn't close to close, one of the few people in history who went into a nuclear reactor came back out and nothing at all happened and now dude has lasted over a year in hospice, literal brain cancer cannot beat this guy

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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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This is why I’ve been writing for years that “nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism.” It’s the exact same tactics, just repurposed for other causes. I share the frustration.

It is enormously frustrating to know, as an evolutionary biologist with experience from the trenches of the creationist wars on science, that nobody on Biden’s team nor CNN’s seem to be aware of the Gish Gallop, 30y after Eugenie Scott described it and years of Trump deploying it!

Gish gallop - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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While pundits were watching based on the "Can Biden speak clearly" frame they had established as the most important storyline, swing voters were listening to what the candidates were saying:

Each person is given a dial. You can turn it up as high as 100. If you love what you are hearing, turn it down as low as zero if you hate what you are hearing, and every time Trump opened his mouth, those dials dropped, they just absolutely plummeted.. www.politicususa.com/2024/06/30/t...

Trump’s Debate Numbers Plummeted With Swing Voters Every Time He Opened His Mouthwww.politicususa.com While the media is obsessing over Biden’s age, more data is emerging about just how terrible Donald Trump’s debate performance was.

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I really have moved past dunking on assholes I just think there’s been a terrifying right-wing push to force women to have babies when they might not want to so this really does need to be pointed out.

Area op-ed columnist who thinks Taylor Swift is a bad role model because she’s 34 and unmarried with no kids also thinks Kevin Spacey deserves another chance:

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The thing with these guys is they view communications media (speech, fiction, film, TV series, drama, you name it) as data transmission and nothing more. The Great Gatsby is a list of events and characters and if you can cut that down to 500 words, you're maximizing something.

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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I can't believe we, as a species, invented bread and cheese - two things that require multiple, complicated steps as well as microbe husbandry - and this is the best political system we've got

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there is no world in which biden drops out and the nominee isn’t kamala harris. and i think it is very interesting that the loudest calls for biden to drop out do not acknowledge this fact.

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Typically, you want to arrest the leaders of a failed coup ASAP afterwards. Otherwise, they run for president again

BREAKING: Bolivian general who appeared to lead a failed coup is arrested after an attorney general opened an investigation against him.

Military flees Bolivia government palace after coup attempt failsapnews.com Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup.

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FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING "said" is NOT DEAD. It's okay for things to just be said. They don't always need a fancy synonym, and the more of them you chuck in there, the more juvenile your writing seems. Idc what your English teacher told you. It's okay to just use "said."

if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)

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i personally do not think the court should have this much discretion over the timing of its decisions.

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idk "the court killed women by restricting access to abortion" still seems like it has more punch than "the court likes bribes, bribes are fine" but im all for running against this shithouse institution by whatever means necessary so

Not that there weren't reasons to run against the court before, but "The justices who have taking a lot of bribes says it's okay to bribe elected officials" seems like the kind of thing that an average voter can both understand and get mad about

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the fact that we can look at most major problems with our lives and guess "this is the fault of private equity" - and have that actually be correct a shockingly large percentage of the time - is an excellent reason to regulate the industry into the ground

"Veterinary prices have soared more than 60% over the past decade, according to federal stats. Private equity firms and large corps have bought 100s of facilities around the country, an acquisition spree reminiscent of the corporate roll-ups of doctors’ offices." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/h...

Why You’re Paying Your Veterinarian So Muchwww.nytimes.com People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.

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These people are nihilists that believe that see creativity as a problem to solve and the product of someone unnecessarily distracted from the quest for growth. They see every single creative and worker as an enemy, and their shit doesn't work.

In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says "some creative jobs maybe will go away" due to AI, "but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" (Kate Irwin/PCMag) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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The source of the irrationality is pretty simple: it's middlebrow and cringe to say that a second trump presidency is an existential threat to the country, so if you consider yourself a sophisticate you dismiss it. But the resistance folks are right, and they've been right for eight years

I’ve been in a meeting with a number of men (and a handful of women) in suits, and while there has been intelligent discussion, my main impression is that Very Serious People are irrationally complacent about the consequences — economic and political — if Trump wins.

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oh for fuck's sake, here we fucking go again

New York bans ‘addictive feeds’ for teens - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/20/24182396/new-york-governor-social-media-law-parental-consent-algorithms

New York bans “addictive feeds” for teenswww.theverge.com States have been taking the lead on kids online safety.

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"U.S. police departments have gotten smaller—and the violent crime rate is still plummeting. So what is going on?" What's ALWAYS gone on. Cops do not stop crime. They never have. Real "tough on crime" measures are well-funded schools, free daycare, and mental health services. Always have been.

Hey, look, it's The Minneapolis Reckoning at Slate! slate.com/news-and-pol...

Police Departments Have Shrunk. Crime Is Plummeting. Now What?slate.com New, surprising data has lessons for all sides of the “defund” debate.

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The Senate overwhelmingly approved a major bill Tuesday night to make it easier, cheaper and faster to permit and build new nuclear reactors. The ADVANCE Act, which passed with just two senators voting no, now heads to Biden’s desk for signing, which he is expected to do.

The Senate just passed a critical clean energy bill to pave the way for more nuclear | CNNcnn.it Democrats and Republicans in a bitterly divided Congress can agree on one thing: the US needs more nuclear to power America’s rapidly growing energy appetite – and fast.