Slightly obsessed with information technology, dogs, music, and cycling too. Sarcasm thought leader. #BLM
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Something something, American exceptionalism
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Ya’ll keep putting your faith in Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot even though you know they’re going to disappoint you yet again like a bad boyfriend.
Looks like there’s going to be a gravel cyclist episode of Dateline in the near future.
Colin Strickland issues statement following arrest warrant in Moriah Wilson murder case
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"We should just have a centrist party" is up there with "We should just keep up all the good speech and get rid of the bad speech" on the Mount Rushmore of sweet summer child takes
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Unregulated technology allows many, many ways for law enforcement *or* vigilantes to identify and hunt down women suspected of being pregnant.
My new essay explains why avoiding this as an individual—by deleting apps or being careful—will not be feasible.
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It’s fun to laugh at the world’s richest guys crying about unions but also it means that it’s time for unions to start thinking seriously about the plan for when those guys buy the next elections and the government is not our friend any more
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the current right wing vision for America is a police and military dictatorship with a 30% approval rating where the dictator is in constant danger of dying from having too much asbestos in his cereal
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Apparently the #1 CAC reader on Amazon comes with a *free* Trojan Horse!
Buying things from Amazon seems increasingly fraught.
@doctorow you see this? krebsonsecurity.com/2022/05/…
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Ken Paxton has also been under indictment since the Obama administration, and hasn’t had to resign his high office or face trial. I can sorta understand how he’s concluded laws don’t apply to him.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is required by law to reveal the addresses of properties he owns to the state’s ethics board.
Yet, he has refused to do it. Via @houstonchron. bit.ly/3LpA5wf
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This is how social shaming works: tech people don’t want to work at Facebook in part because in their social circles they’d get judged.
It also highlights immorality of neutrality, as think tanks take FB money.
Have values. Stand up for them. Shame others who have bad values.
Facebook may find it easy to hire shills, but it's can't hire engineers. The company is increasingly turning into a tech ghost-ship, experiencing massive shortfalls in its recruiting goals. Apparently, coders have higher standards than "think tanks."
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Dog justice.
A cop was killed by his dog before he could face trial for his role in a 2019 case where three teenagers were killed after being chased by police in Argentina. It marked one of the country's most emblematic cases of alleged police abuse in recent memory. trib.al/5Zjmjcp
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It's absolutely wild that the thing that appears to have driven the world's two richest men into posting for clout is unionization.
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Best court transcript I've seen all week
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If you were trying to fend off several current and potential SEC investigations, you'd probably say something like this, right?
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The war on drugs brainwashed people so badly that now they're waking up to the fact that illegal and prescription drugs are the same thing & instead of going "oh, the issue must be how you use it not what you use" they decided to instead turn on people with legit prescribed needs
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My little sister has been really struggling with a health condition lately and finally got to see a doctor. They charged her $40 for crying.
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Nothing, *nothing* could have prepared me for this Jordan Peterson quote
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