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Ben Wade

@ben-adp-wade.bsky.social
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Married to @mayalmwwade.bsky.social. Interested in software (professionally), stories, games, language, math, and… well, most stuff, at least a little.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19/08/2026
We unmasked the cops who misused Flock to spy on their spouses. Their police departments weren't checking their searches, so we did it for them. One just got arrested. Here's how we did it. Gift link: wapo.st/4xSDfS4 witth all stars @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.
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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Think AI's rising energy demands aren't your problem? Think again! ⚡ In our commentary, @yjernite.bsky.social and I explain how AI & data center expansion is making energy bills rise in the US, what the mechanisms driving this are, and why it matters. www.techpolicy.press/how-your-uti...
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How Your Utility Bills Are Subsidizing Power-Hungry AI | TechPolicy.Press
The next few years will be pivotal for determining the future of AI and its impact on energy grids worldwide, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.
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Atkinson @maddavenport.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Tapping the sign
Protest sign reading THE TRANS AGENDA IS AN AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 07/09/2025
critical support to the teens of dc, who i keep seeing filming tiktok dances in front of guardsmen until they abandon whatever post they are at
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bookishvessal.bsky.social @bookishvessal.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Never blame the children.
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Girlstandstill🩷💛🩵 @girlstandstill.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I think about this James Baldwin quote a lot, especially now. “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
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Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.
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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing” And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 26/08/2025
We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
These are the sorts of attacks on experts that resulted in a domestic terrorist firing 500 shots at the CDC just over a week ago. If you stand for evidence based public health interventions, you basically get a target placed on your back by DHHS leadership. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
politico.com
RFK Jr. attacks pediatricians’ group over vaccine recommendations
The American Academy of Pediatrics had earlier urged parents to get young children vaccinated against Covid — pushing back against the health secretary’s stance.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Today: "For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics...is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations." 🔹️"The AAP is strongly recommending COVID-19 shots for children ages 6 months to 2 years. Shots also... 1/3 www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
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AAP's New COVID Shot Recommendations Differ From CDC Advice
COVID vaccine recommended for children ages 6 months to 2 years
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 20/08/2025
"people who are still concerned about covid are so unreasonable, they just want us all to go into lockdown again!" literally nobody is asking for that. what people are asking for is stuff like universal masking in healthcare settings and investment in indoor air filtration/clean air infrastructure
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/08/2025
the law should protect dumbasses from predators
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.

—Joseph Fasano
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 20/05/2025
Takes five seconds, and might mean you can still get COVID boosters.
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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