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Daily Beast interview with Michael Wolff, about Trump and a couple of his female staff. Eleven minutes:

I thought of this months ago but didn’t express it, but Kinzinger does it better anyway. Trump, et al, is the new cancel culture. Trump himself, is the thin skinned King Snowflake now.

4 minutes:

MEIDAS TOUCH
(Trigger warning, pendulum swinging back to Lefties?)

I start this youtube video several minutes in, leaving 7-minute out take:

(I still hate the hyperbolic headlines, but they’re successfully grabbing lots of clicks. These guys are headed toward a million subscribers.)

TheEncogitationer wrote:
AI could provide vastly sped up analysis of drug interactions and side effects…provided, of course that it isn’t infected by Elmo Hitler. (By the way, would there be an Elmo Hitler if there were no Corporation for Public broadcasting to birth Elmo in the first place? 🤔😁)

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A tall order, but it could be done if onl…

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@Enco – This is just another day of government plodding with a different boss.

I can’t make a very strong argument against that. But this time, while it is a different boss, it is also a new form of plodding. Collapsing the FDA will be a mistake. Reforming it should be the priority. It should have happened a lot sooner, but meaningful reform can…[Read more]

On Friday, during an interview on CNBC, the House speaker, Mike Johnson, claimed that President Trump was among the most popular people to ever occupy the Oval Office.

The president is the most maligned and attacked political figure in the history of American politics. There’s no question about it, but he’s also the most resilient. And you see…[Read more]

In 1946, George Orwell described good writing as “picking out words for the sake of their meaning,” a practice that dictionaries catalyze and writing programs stifle. Writers consulting a dictionary make a choice — writers guided by an app like Grammarly have their choices made for them.

Where Grammarly says, “Stay on-brand with consist…[Read more]

That sign is wrong on one point and only half-right on others.

Yes, but it is still the contents page from the “How to become a Dictator” handbook. The extreme right are all wrong.

You’re very welcome Strega!

Thank you Reg!!!

Have a great week everyone!

@Jakelafort, I am sure that if I walked into a sociology class today, the professor would first ask for my preferred pronouns, then remind the class of the intersectional power dynamics of punctuality, and only then ask if I agreed with the modernized version of the statement that now asserts that “A system is a cohesive whole shaped by bounded r…[Read more]

@Jakelafort, I think your posted into the wrong post (like me now)…but no matter.

Your words “Well articulated ideas forming a cohesive something something” reminded me of year one, day one in my Sociology class (it was a business degree course) when the professor announced within the first minute that “a system is a cohesive whole founded…[Read more]

Yes, had a friend from Atheist Ireland in Dublin who is Syrian and lived among a mostly Druze population, before the Civil War.  She was working towards her Masters on a research team that analyzed the brains of people who died from Alzheimer’s disease. I (stupidly) asked her if she got much push back for being an atheist (having wrongly assumed…[Read more]

Yes, the first massacre was only a few months ago when the violence was sparked by a falsified audio attributed to a Druze religious leader, sparking anger among Sunnis who are easily offended enough to murder people. Israel even carried out targeted airstrikes to “protect the Druze”. Some of the Druze even serve in the Israeli army.

FYI – Dru…[Read more]