What real leadership sounds like

NEW @npr.org: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort has failed to deliver on its outsized promises to cut costs and increase efficiency, NPR's latest analysis of federal data finds.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Alright, I love these new UI additions in #MicrosoftFabric

Just brilliant! Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I know I am only a humble speech pathologist, but for the professional record I reject everything that RFK says or will say about autism, and it’s important to recognize what he’s really saying is that to be neurodiverse is worse than to be dead

I've had an amazing time at #PowerBINextStep in #Copenhagen, #Denmark! Superior sessions, fantastic food, and plenty of much-appreciated coffee breaks. The whole experience has been both exciting and educational. Huge props to the conference organizers, and thank you for inviting me! 😊

A new daily puzzle game that asks you to guess what country the chart line represents - super fun for all my #dataviz peeps out there. (h/t @wwb099.bsky.social) chartle.cc

Technologically advance a band: SUMX(41)

Silencing smart people so dumb people won’t be offended is like unplugging the smoke alarm so the fire won’t feel bad.

"Aye, the sirens," says the lighthouse keeper, picking a bit of tobacco from his beard. "Some nights, when the wind is just so, I swear I can hear 'em singing." "What do they sing?" I prod him. A faraway look in his eyes, he says in a voice barely above a whisper, "Tubthumping."

Does anyone in my network either work at @github.com or know someone who does? I'd really like to know why #GitHubCopilot in @vscode.dev keeps showing #xAI #Grok as an option in the models list, even though I've *explicitly disabled it* in my account settings on the GitHub website.

The #FDA has rescinded #COVID19 #vaccine approval for healthy adults, but there's a BIG loophole in this stupid new rule, and it's definitely worth a look. If you meet ANY of the criteria on this list, then you qualify: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl... #COVID #ADHD #Autism #Depression #Smoker #ExSmoker

as always i encourage u all not to post things that may attract the attention of an authoritarian secret police with unlimited power to surveil american citizens at this time

Sentiment Analysis in #PowerQuery by Gil Raviv #Data #microsoft #Azure #PowerBI datachant.com/2025/09/05/s...

I did the math, and it looks like the pilots on this @deltaairways.bsky.social flight from #MSP to #DSM are planning to set a new speed record. 😉 #DeltaAirLines #FlightDL5253 #Minneapolis #DesMoines

Cartoon by @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social.

We are in the mirror universe of Roosevelt’s famous “speak softly and carry a big stick” in which he who speaks bigly carries a soft stick

The quality of the output of #ChatGPT is getting more and more worse. It just told me that #SQLServer stores columns in the order in which you have created them. If you guide it in the right direction, you will (hopefully) get the correct answer. ProTip: never ever trust a LLM blindly!!!

When your happiness and self-worth are tied to believing you worked hard for everything you have, it is in your interest to ignore the fact that the system was literally designed for you.

you can't cede one centimeter of ground to these "we just need to figure out what causes autism" freaks. it's always, 100% of the time, eugenicist.

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

2025 is like one of those movies where all the fictional characters from fairy tales or 19th century lit start walking around in the same universe and cross paths except instead of characters it's hundreds of reductio ad absurdisms interacting with one another

CEO: Our bots keep telling users to unalive themselves! What are we gonna do? Legal: Send the cops. CEO: OK, but how will that help? Legal: They can't unalive themselves if the cops unalive them first. CEO: Brilliant!

🚨 Going live in 5 mins! Default Disasters in Power BI Desktop Hosts: James Bartlett & Ahmad Chamy 🛠️ Fix common settings that bloat files & break reports 📅 2PM CT 🔗 lnkd.in/gR9bdRiB Let’s rewrite the rules. #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #TheDrillDown

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

If we can send all the crypto bros to "Liberland" and never, ever hear from them again, then I'm all for it!

Here's some actual good news for a change!

This is a pretty good bit

Private equity looted 3 Connecticut hospitals. Services cut, nurses buying their own supplies etc. They will do it to your hospital if we don't stop this trend right now. 1/ Today I'm releasing a report on the truth about private equity in health care. tinyurl.com/adangerousprospect

The median pay for S&P 500 CEOs rose to $19M last year—a 7.7 percent increase from the year before. Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol was the second-highest paid S&P 500 CEO, with a pay package of $95.8 million. That’s a whole lot of mocha lattes—and everything that’s wrong with contemporary capitalism.

Sickening. Not a single one of the many able-bodied bystanders did a single thing to help, but at least two people stood at a distance and filmed the whole thing.

they're preparing you for the popping of a bubble they created by widespread and repeated product misrepresentation

They're just speedrunning the apocalypse, aren't they?

I genuinely think before anyone joins social media for the first time they should be required to read a thread from 4chan demonstrating how quickly a bunch of strangers can track down your physical location by comparing the tile in the background of your selfies to a 6-year old google earth image

My TikTok is absolutely flooded with doctors trying to get insurance to approve care and getting denied. I have to believe health insurance companies must be freaking out about the spotlight this stuff is getting right now.

2020-2024: Jay Bhattacharya says mRNA vaccines are inferior to “natural immunity,” encourages everyone to get Covid, and cashes in by implying vaccines are dangerous & don’t work 2025: Jay Bhattacharya says the public doesn’t trust mRNA vaccines because of all the lies he told them

“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .” - Vital Knowledge @politico.com 🇺🇸 www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Had a good conversation with @data-dragoness.bsky.social and @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social this last weekend, most of what people “think” or “think they want” with AI is really just process automation. Something else (unattended) doing the work - is AI.

A new take on an old classic, now with a phone number to help channel your concerns. Online now! www.raygunsite.com/products/pre... #raygun

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

Hi yes hello, going to reiterate that this should not be legal

He's a creep. He's a weirdo. What the hell is he doing here? He doesn't belong here.

Christian Nationalism is a pernicious threat.

Today on #TheDrillDown, Ahmad will be giving a special presentation about the "secret sauce" which sets high-performing #MicrosoftFabric and #PowerBI teams apart from the rest. Join us live at 2PM Central! lnkd.in/gx8nWbEm

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.