Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 8hI constantly wonder how many Trump appointees slept through classes and bought test answers from a guy behind 7-11. 010
Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 8hAlready exists and the mission is to advise "leadership". Armed Forces Chaplain's Board operates within the Department of War to advise leadership on religious policies, moral standards, and the free exercise of religion. 010
Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 8hAny time you have an unlicensed person selling you food, your recourse against them can't be pursued the way you can a grocer because they're not regulated. They can't be put out of business. Same goes for using a massage license to sell wellness cancer cures that use exercise, soup, and vegetables 001
Reposted by Bob CalderReuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 10hThe Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling unsealed on Wednesday that defunct legal-research company Ross Intelligence did not make fair use of Thomson Reuters' copyrighted material to build an AI-based legal search engine.reut.rsUnsealed opinion shows why Thomson Reuters won landmark AI fair-use rulingThe Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling unsealed on Wednesday that defunct legal-research company Ross Intelligence did not make fair use of Thomson Reuters' copyrighted material to build an AI-based legal search engine. 031
Reposted by Bob CalderCSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies @csis.org · 10hAs Thailand and Cambodia begin the process of compulsory conciliation with different priorities, the coming meetings will test how effectively compulsory conciliation can function as a framework for resolving maritime disputes, write CSIS experts. Read: bit.ly/4e0D3IHbit.lyBridging the Gulf? Thailand and Cambodia Turn to UNCLOS | Asia Maritime Transparency InitiativeAfter a 2025 fraught with deadly clashes on their land border, Thailand and Cambodia have turned to a seldom-used article of international law to resolve their overlapping maritime claims. On Septembe... 021
Reposted by Bob CalderKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10hOne of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control. 9764124
Reposted by Bob CalderArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 10hOverall, more than a third of participants who took retatrutide as part of a late-stage clinical trial lost 30 percent or more of their weight: arstechnica.visitlink.me/objlbJarstechnica.visitlink.meMost powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trialRetatrutide is a triple-hormone obesity drug simulating GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon. 1319
Reposted by Bob CalderChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10hPerlmutter has been kept in office thus far by a D.C. Circuit injunction pending appeal. The complication here is that the Copyright Office is under the Library of Congress, and there are disputes about what that means and what powers Trump has regarding appointing an "Acting Librarian." 17913
Reposted by Bob CalderThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h"For the most part, these are stretch races that have either flown under the national radar or gotten attention so late that national Democrats with big checkbooks have not sent the resources that could make a difference." Maybe you can.lnk.thebulwark.comMore Democrats Who Can Win Red AmericaTim Miller has more candidates to watch and support. 25017
Reposted by Bob CalderClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026from the bottom of my heart fuck my life 449828
Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 9hThey're likely to offer to increase the number of military scholarships at normal institutions like LSU and Tuskegee. Most ROTC leaders will welcome that because it means they can be more selective. Hillsdale has never had ROTC. Who knows how that'll turn out. Liberty has all the ROTCs. O_o 100
Reposted by Bob CalderWaggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 10hPrefibrotic bone marrow microenvironment is a hallmark of clonal hematopoiesis @natimmunol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... @drstass.bsky.social @uoftpress.bsky.social 062
Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 11hGetting huffy and walking out of Manufacturing Scientific Ignorance in your cashmere overcoat, then complaining loudly, is one way to identify an "industrial" scientist. 000
Reposted by Bob CalderSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12hthereader.mitpress.mit.edu/industry-wea...thereader.mitpress.mit.eduHow Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda“When you’re shining a light on something, almost everything else remains in the dark. And sometimes that darkness is deliberately kept dark.” 2114
Reposted by Bob CalderEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12hok I’ve seen enough: incompetence, followed immediately by maliciousness 79516
Reposted by Bob CalderMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14hI hate it when news media suck up to newsmakers by trying to wish things into existence. Two examples: The media chorus that Rahm Emanuel is presidential material and Axios pushing Eric Schmitt as the next vice president. Start reporting real news. Stop trying to make fetch happen. 2127661
Reposted by Bob CalderJ. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 12hwill experience worse symptoms. Up to 1 in 5 children in some urban school districts have asthma, which Anwar tied directly to the quality of indoor air." CEA head Kate Dias "reiterated that air purifiers alone won’t be enough. 'While I love the science of this and I love the opportunity and I love 151
Reposted by Bob CalderLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18hThis is a pretty stunning thing to admit 222086397
Reposted by Bob CalderEuromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 12hRussian troops hid their artillery and kept changing positions, but Ukrainian soldiers found and destroyed four guns anyway Drone footage released by an artillery brigade showed the strikes on three 2A65 Msta-B howitzers and one 2A36 Hyacinth-B howitzer 🎥 44th Artillery Brigade 06611
Reposted by Bob CalderRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17hThese ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity. 321587463
Reposted by Bob CalderJill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Thread of trip to Ukraine, day by day. I never posted about where I was going or where I was during the trip. There were various security implications, and it was better to choose the discretion of silence. Here I will re-create the trip each day, with corresponding essays and hindsight. -- 12910
Reposted by Bob CalderDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 18hYou sometimes encounter a very smart person who just doesn't care about music and thinks about it as background noise while they code or host dinner parties. Jeff Bezos once famously grabbed a bunch of CDs from a convenience store rack for a road trip, not caring or knowing who the artists were. 1736028
Reposted by Bob CalderWIRED @wired.com · 17hLost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Checkpoints are suffocating Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Over 18 months, WIRED and our reporting partners investigated the full scope of the system that has carved the West Bank up. www.wired.com/story/how-is...wired.comHow Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West BankLost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. 18272126
Reposted by Bob CalderMargo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 17hMy morning started with ‘we’re ok’ message from my loved ones . Means Russia attacked near them but they are ok . Kyiv, September , 2026 112531
Reposted by Bob Calderonpolitics.news @onpolitics.news · 17hTwenty-Five Years After 9/11, It Is Time to Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force and End the Forever War - Just Security #counterterrorism #afghan taliban #democracy & rule of law #use of force justsecurity.orgTwenty-Five Years After 9/11, It Is Time to Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force and End the Forever WarSuccessive administrations have stretched the AUMF beyond any reasonable interpretation to wage worldwide war, without foreseeable end. The post Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, It Is Time to Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force and End the Forever War appeared first on Just Security. 043
Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 17hSome of the resources I used in thinking skills were the Radiation Museum and the Radium Girls. Radium-infused tonics were consumed on vacationers' long train ride down to Henry Flagler's luxury hotel in Palm Beach. On Henry's train. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/radioactiv...newsguardrealitycheck.comRadioactive Health Hoax from the 1920s ReturnsSocial media accounts promote long-discredited radium water as a cure-all. PLUS: Introducing “Midterms Watch” 000
Reposted by Bob CalderMiles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 19hCorporations have learned you can post $10B in profit & $50M bonuses for your executives & **maybe** someday, years down the road after the lawyers have fought it out in court, the corporation (not the execs) will pay a $1M fine Dems should campaign on throwing corporate crooks in the slammer 0155
Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 17hIt's too bad the average voter can't connect the man who led the nation in Medicare fraud with the guy that wants more of the same old, same old that facilitated his wealth. 010
Reposted by Bob Caldergg @ggold328.bsky.social · 17hstatic.klipy.comHe Man's Skeletor: I Chose EvilAlt: He Man's Skeletor: I Chose Evil 1335
Reposted by Bob CalderReuters @reuters.com · 29/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing reut.rs/4hvqeY1reut.rsEXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filingAnthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology. 679664
Reposted by Bob CalderAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 19hI found a few more entries in the ever-popular "babushkas buffing bombs" genre of photography... (*I recognize that not all are authentic babushkas, but the alliteration was too great for me to resist, I apologize) 36715
Reposted by Bob CalderFrenchie McFrenchface @frenchie.eurosky.social · 20hTimes Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...bylinetimes.comTimes Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr AllegationsThe publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundatio... 057
Reposted by Bob CalderRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19hTHE DARK POWER OF FRATERNITIES A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame. By @caitlinflanagan.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comThe Dark Power of FraternitiesA yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame. 074
Reposted by Bob CalderBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3041661096
Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 19hVote? People are offered paranoid fantasies then vote for people who give them solutions. The paranpid fantasy consists of a bag full of random people who have been collected by purchasing data on what is assumed are their politics without regard to limiting error. 000
Reposted by Bob CalderLeah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026(pounces on you at a cocktail party) Did you hear the good news about crabapples! #PlantSky 🌱 #ScienceSky 🧪 #Apples 🍏🍎 source.washu.edu/2026/09/wild...source.washu.eduWild crabapples have genetic potential to improve domestic varietiesA plant scientist at Washington University in St. Louis studies genetics of native crabapple species to identify traits that will help production of domestic apple crops. 59528
Reposted by Bob CalderAndrew Longhofer @andrewlonghofer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026also, "writing is thinking" in WAC and other rhet-comp claims isn't saying "you can't learn critical thinking without writing," it's saying "writing and revision is a process of figuring out what you actually think, not documenting what you already think" and it's relevant TO WRITING SPECIFICALLY 0252
Reposted by Bob CalderAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026Having a bacteria alignment problem. I made a really infectious bacteria, and then at the weekend when only Bill was in it got out and spread all over Paolo Alto. Anyway don't worry we are working hard on aligning the bacteria better. 0103
Reposted by Bob CalderKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776142098
Reposted by Bob CalderNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.static.klipy.comVintage Pixel Game: LemmingsAlt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings 11274114
Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 29/09/2026He was apparently not as "sincere" as the owners of Hobby Lobby. Or perhaps they make the appropriate *sacrifices and donations* to their preisthood? 020
Reposted by Bob CalderDerek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Someone made rather large 10 year note purchases against the current. Market said nope. 142
Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 29/09/2026I'm suggesting that perhaps like many Trump appointees, perhaps Bessent wasn't capable of the performance he was credited with. Perhaps it's the fact he's embedded in a social construct that supports him and ignores his failings. The Trump administration leans on this social construct heavily.2/2 000