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IMHO US dominance in sci/tech has been as a result of money, immigration, and policy. With all three of those things gone, the world will now notice that Asia has been exceeding the West on many fronts for several years now.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

When oil and tech CEOs are in the loop about his plans to invade a sovereign nation and Congress isn’t, that’s all you need to know about the legitimacy of his actions.

It's gonna get crazier because it's still not working.

Donald Trump has made it clear that he is nothing more than a klepto-gangster. The threat is clear. We know what is at stake. Canadians will defend our sovereignty.

This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files. #ImpeachAndConvict47NOW

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If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

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Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.

Trump and the wealthy will continue dismantling democracy and increase surveillance and oppression while the GOP embraces overt Nazism. They’ll wreck any remaining standard of living and any protections I think 2026 is the year our grief turns to rage. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/living-in-...

And here’s the first three Waverly Jones mysteries, a wildly imaginative, Twin Peaks-inspired detective series (trying to catch all the references is super fun) payhip.com/b/Np8Kh

I’ve started the new year with a new author, the first in this list … and so far, yes, it has increased my angry feelings towards all the men😉

You have been warned about the peril. 👀

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The Chief Public Health Officer of Ontario is criminally negligent. It's costing everyone their lives and their livelihoods.

COVID, influenza etc are airborne, transmitted in bioaerosols that require routine wear of N95 / FFP2/3 respirators and high-quality ventilation to stop. If your hospital doesn't have both, the people making those decisions either don't care if you get infected, or are nearly a century out of date.

Amazon's new "Buy For Me" feature. Ick. www.youtube.com/shorts/s8jGn...

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

People need to stop saying, "This is not who we are." This is exactly who we are, and we need to stop being that.

One of the things I need to add to this is that you need to be careful about people NOT IN YOUR INDUSTRY reading your contract. A good lawyer who understands contract but is not a publishing industry professional will flag for you that there are things they don't understand!

Welcome back to Canada, President Zelenskyy. Today in Halifax, we committed critical new support to help Ukraine end Russia’s war of aggression, and to recover and rebuild. When peace comes — and it will come — Canada will be there for the Ukrainian people. Slava Ukraini. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

A million pages is conservatively 400 bankers boxes.

The AG is *supposed* to be the people’s lawyer, not the president’s. This is outrageous. It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.

This is very wise, especially for a very clumsy girl like me!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has concluded "regular forces" means the military, and has therefore ruled that Trump does NOT have authority to deploy the National Guard under §12406. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

WTF is this? I did not write or submit this paper. Are journals now run entirely by AIs who hallucinate entire publications? Knowledge Of Pregnant Women About The Benefits Of Pregnancy Books In Ottawa | International Journal of Health Engineering and Technology share.google/ArcgxhUDfSY9...

If the Democrats retake Congress this must be on the priority list of legislative initiatives. Yes, Trump will veto it. But signing this bill must be a campaign issue for any 2028 Dem candidate. reason.com/2025/12/17/t...

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

Mark D. White (@profmdwhite.bsky.socia) "The Virtues of Captain America", "Batman and Ethics" Stewart Reynolds (@brittlestar.com) "Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism" Jane Glatt (@janeglatt.bsky.social) "Lost & Found" Olivia Atwater (@oliviaatwater.com) "Half a Soul"

#Books make a great last minute #Christmas gift! Here are some I've purchased and enjoyed : Janice Richardson "Fading Expectations", "Suddenly a Millionaire" series, "Spencer Funeral Home" series, "The Making of a Funeral Director" Judith Read "Cat Ranch", "Claddagh Hall", "Etta's Way" 1/n

Musk, an immigrant to America, called an American mayor a “traitor” for supporting other immigrants to America. Just an unmitigated asshole.

A part of our heritage.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Just started the fourth one of these and they're very good.

Wild — as the community note says, Trump’s DOJ released a publicly available pic of MJ & Clinton & Diana Ross with their own kids and implied it’s them with victims They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring