Mike Palmedo
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IP stuff, economics, music.
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South Centre
5 days ago
New study confirms that compulsory licenses have contributed to improved availability of HIV drugs through commercial channels, with meaningful effects on prices. See
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The Effects of Compulsory Licensing: A Case Study of HIV Drugs
Compulsory licensing is a legal mechanism that allows governments the use of patented medicines without the owner's consent, subject to conditions and compensation, to meet public-health needs. Despi...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.70123
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On one hand, of course people find us unreliable now, duh. But still, this is a hell of a graphic.
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9 days ago
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When you give a donor with a firm named GREENWATER a contract to make your pool blue
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15 days ago
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Mediapolitic
28 days ago
You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.
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Life imitates art
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about 1 month ago
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Aaron Huertas
about 1 month ago
Politicians should be forced to have their primary work and personal emails + cell phones subscribed to their party’s own fundraising programs.
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Happy May the Fourth, everyone
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2 months ago
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Adams Morgan PorchFest was a blast this weekend!
2 months ago
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Blue Virginia
2 months ago
"The fact is, Republicans do not hate rigged maps. They just hate it when they have to take their own medicine. Don't start none, won't be none. If they finally decide they don't like it, they can take it up for a national ban." - Isle of Wight Dems
bluevirginia.us/2026/04/vide...
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Air conditioner's broken and four yellow jackets have appeared in the living room in the last three days. HVAC people are taking their time. Wife & kid are trapping, feeding, and naming the bees.
3 months ago
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Pretty sure that when I turned 18 the govt mailed me a letter telling me to register. If Uncle Sam can already reach you, why keep registration as a thing anyway?
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3 months ago
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"a range of gestures" ♥️♥️♥️
3 months ago
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Why snort coke off a toilet seat if there is any other surface available?
5 months ago
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How is this real?
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5 months ago
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shri
5 months ago
maybe my favorite all time correlation
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West Seattle Bike Blob
5 months ago
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
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Representative Seth Magaziner
5 months ago
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Staying on the sidelines? Tim Cook gifts Trump a custom Apple plaque with 24-karat gold base
share.google/eolzfxeYmWFf...
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MPR News
5 months ago
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
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ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/21/ice-detains-5year-old-minnesota-boy-lawyer-says-agents-used-him-as-bait
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WTF
@washingtonpost.com
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6 months ago
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Denise Wheeler
7 months ago
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.
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The EU Parliament's JURI Committee just released "The Economics of Copyright and AI", written by
@cpeukert.bsky.social
It recommends a statutory licensing scheme for compensation of creators whose works are used in AI training.
#copyright
#ai
#econsky
www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...
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The economics of copyright and AI - Empirical evidence and optimal policy | Think Tank | European Parliament
The economics of copyright and AI - Empirical evidence and optimal policy
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/IUST_STU(2025)778859
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TAX THE RICH It’s not just Trump. Billionaires dominate politics more than ever. - Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
7 months ago
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Duolingo during the shutdown
8 months ago
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Indivisible ❌👑
9 months ago
This is what democracy looks like.
#NoKings
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Three mass shootings in one day
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9 months ago
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???
www.theverge.com/news/780757/...
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Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.
https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges
10 months ago
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404 Media
10 months ago
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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Corey Frayer
10 months ago
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
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Hey
@washingtonpost.com
, seems like local protest in response to the ICE/CBP/FBI etc. activity in the city is a legit story. Why isn't this anywhere on your landing page?
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11 months ago
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Stephanie Allen
12 months ago
““The DHS report repeatedly conflates basic protest, organizing, and journalism with terroristic violence, thereby justifying ever more authoritarian measures by law enforcement,””
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David Dayen
about 1 year ago
Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:
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This looks interesting and useful for studies of creative markets.
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about 1 year ago
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-93% Wow.
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about 1 year ago
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Enrique Saenz
about 1 year ago
Science, you big ole nerd, stop messing with my squatchin'
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
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Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
The big conclusion: “If bigfoot is there, it could be a bear.”…
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/study-finds-bigfoot-sightings-correlate-with-black-bear-populations/
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Well duh.
www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit
about 1 year ago
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This is fantastic
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about 1 year ago
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RIP American innovation
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | RIP American innovation
Why destroy the funding that made the United States a leader in technology and invention?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/12/invention-government-funding-trump-musk/
about 1 year ago
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Filipe Campante
about 1 year ago
And there’s a term for “unidentified, masked law enforcement”: secret police. The US right now has a secret police arbitrarily arresting people, including opposition politicians and students.
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🙋 Lapsed catholic here. If you're not a regular church-ing catholic... Who cares who the new Pope is?
about 1 year ago
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Been reading about the new Led Zeppelin copyright case... Apparently the guy who wrote "Dazed and Confused" before Led Zeppelin covered it also wrote "Be All You Can Be" for the army, and "I'm a Pepper" for Dr. Pepper.
#IPLawSky
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Jake Holmes - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Holmes
about 1 year ago
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Mike Palmedo
The Onion
about 1 year ago
“Maybe instead of 30 dolls this Christmas, children play with the life-size human figurines they already have,” said the commander-in-chief
theonion.com/trump-a...
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Trump Argues Toy Shortages Easily Overcome By Making Servants Dance
WASHINGTON—Acknowledging that his tariff hikes could result in a frozen supply chain this holiday season, President Donald Trump claimed Friday that any toy shortages Americans experienced could be easily overcome by making the family’s servants dance for their children’s enjoyment. “Maybe instead of 30 dolls this Christmas, children play with the life-size human figurines they […]
https://theonion.com/trump-argues-toy-shortages-easily-overcome-by-making-servants-dance/
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Jèf Uphoff
about 1 year ago
ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.
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"I do zero market research whatsoever"
www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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Elon Musk’s Epic Cybertruck Fail
Elon Musk’s polygonal pickup is a polarizing sales flop that's missed the billionaire’s volume goal by a staggering 84%. And there’s no sign that things are improving.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/04/03/elons-edsel-tesla-cybertruck-is-the-auto-industrys-biggest-flop-in-decades/
about 1 year ago
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LOL, badger lickers!
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about 1 year ago
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Thomas Frampton
about 1 year ago
Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
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ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid
Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.
https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_9ce921d6-5f61-4546-b0c9-ea2287d8bf16.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHkBbK87Vufn07HP6oXQhXJyrcUNJmBoumFi5OAvdFRMpjUUJQj6fpINbA-YW_aem_bftvxim3miFxAT_79Uzp2A
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Losing My Religion comes on the radio and my kid says, "Hey, it's this song... 'Let's pee in the corner'. 🎵"
about 1 year ago
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It's Abby. Yep
about 3 years ago
Now more than ever
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This is so great!
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about 1 year ago
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Protest is alive and well in the nation's capital
over 1 year ago
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