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Lynden

@chopsii.bsky.social
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C++, science, philosophy, skepticism, politics. Eternally socially - including economically - progressive

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Who Is the Anonymous Data Expert Telling Elon Which Cuts to Make?
Conservatives cite her account to spread misinformation about federal agencies. DataRepublican has worked at a tech firm that’s battled the CFPB.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Reporter: Who is the administrator of DOGE? White House secretary: “I’m not going to reveal the name of that person from this podium…”
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Exploitative cancer misinformation everywhere. Our recent study: Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/goog... Ads led to an estimated 6,717,663 website visits. Paid traffic constituted 44.4% of all traffic.
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Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients | HKS Misinformation Review
Alternative cancer treatments are associated with earlier time to death when used without evidence-based treatments. Our study suggests alternative cancer clinics providing scientifically unsupported ...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/02/2025
This hits hard… “Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.” You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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Rua Lupa 🐾 @rua-lupa.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I don't have TikTok so I had to hunt this down and figured I would link it here for others that may be in the same scenario. This honestly was refreshing to see, in general. The words,"I don't know" are liberating when you are in a cultural sphere that punishes not knowing. We need to change that.
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Replying to @bootssie
TikTok video by Hank Green
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“Some of these strikes, which were the deadliest in the war and often used American bombs, are known to have killed Israeli hostages despite concerns raised ahead of time by military officers”
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Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s war on Gaza’s underground
The Israeli army decimated entire residential blocks with bunker-buster bombs to crush the passages below and flood them with lethal fumes.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“The Democrats didn’t do enough on Gaza, so I withheld my vote to make a statement.” “Well, Trump won and now he’s gonna destroy Gaza.” “Yep. We’re paying the price for the Democrats’ incompetence.” “‘We?’ The Gazans are paying the price, not us” Pause. “I needed to make a statement.”
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Vaush @vaush.gg · 03/12/2024
republicans are actually genuinely ending democracy in North Carolina rn
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Response to coups by elected leaders: - South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens - Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics - United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I personally think that when a reporter calls you to discuss Trump’s picks to lead the health agencies, it is important to note that several of these picks have vowed to jail scientists or are members of groups that want “retribution” against pro-vaccine health workers Seems relevant!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:
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Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan
In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 03/12/2024
I know there's so much news to track at the moment, but let me add some important science to the list: "An unknown disease killed 143 people in a south-west province of Democratic Republic of the Congo in November." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Unknown disease kills 143 people in south-west DRC, local authorities say
Infected people described as having flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/12/2024
Australia accused of undermining landmark climate change case brought by Pacific nations in international court www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Australia accused of undermining landmark climate change case brought by Pacific nations in international court
Vanuatu leads the charge of several nations arguing developed nations have a legal responsibility beyond UN commitments
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike. I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it. Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/11/2024
The most dangerous person in women's spaces in Congress isn't Sarah McBride, it's actually Nancy Mace's staffer Sean Brislin, apparently, who it appears she hired shortly after he broke into a woman's house and slept in her bed. www.advocate.com/politics/nan...
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Nancy Mace fights to keep transgender women out of bathrooms while her aide broke into a woman’s home
Mace’s legislative director, Sean Brislin, was arrested in 2020 for breaking into a woman’s home and sleeping in her bed.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ugh, Vinay Prasad strikes again 🤦‍♂️
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 26/11/2024
This is Otis. He just had his very first vet appointment. Even got to take a picture like it was his first day of school. 12/10 we're proud of you, Otis
a tiny brown dachshund puppy with tan a snoot and eyebrows, and adorably wrinkly ankles sits on a black countertop. next to him is a chalk sign that reads, "My first visit at Vets 4 Paws in Irvine." the sign indicates the wide-eyed puppy's name is Otis, he is 2.2 kilograms, and he's 10 weeks old.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is so profoundly evil and cruel
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Skeleton Claw @skeletonclaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hi everyone
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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Trump picked Russ Vought, a Christian nationalist, to head the White House Office of Management and Budget. Vought expects his agenda to be so deeply unpopular that he's preparing the US military to crush protests.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Now, as in 2017, Peter Thiel is calling the shots to dismantle the regulation of medicines and medical devices. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/11/2024
Gresham's law of the internet is the name given to a supposition that unmoderated spaces will always become Nazi hellholes that drive out all good content, alienating posters who aren't Nazis. I can certainly think of one analogue for all of us here on Bluesky. www.thebulwark.com/p/greshams-l...
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Gresham’s Law of the Internet
Content moderation isn’t “censorship.” It’s what built the Internet.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/11/2024
1. The New York Times has apparently figured out how we beat transphobia. Jeremy Peters, who has a colorful history on reporting left leaning politics,argues that the right way to beat it is to... Wait for it... Stop being mean to JK Rowling. Subscribe to support my journalism. Lets dig in.
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New York Times Journalist Says Solution For Trans Rights Is To Be Nicer To JK Rowling
The latest New York Times article interviews transgender leaders to argue transgender rights will come through giving up on sports and being nicer to anti-trans campaigners like Rowling.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
oh he did that shit
Marilyn Manson drops defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood, will pay her $327,000 legal fees
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Lynden @chopsii.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Maybe I'll try this next life
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 23/11/2024
Oh, is Bluesky an echo chamber? Really? Are we missing out on the valuable contributions to human knowledge from people who post links to YouTube conspiracy videos and give their very important thoughts on White Birth Rates? Wow, that's really sad. I'm so sad about that.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Extremely important graphic. Israeli forces have killed more people in Lebanon (purple) than Hezbollah has killed in Israel (yellow) over the past year, by orders of magnitude.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"It appears that a litmus test is being applied to candidates on one issue: vaccine skepticism...It is deeply concerning that a nonprofit organization concerned about one issue is involved with vetting candidates that will work on deeply complex matters spanning the public health field...”
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Kennedy's 'MAHA transition team' includes anti-vax activists
At least three informal advisers connected to the anti-vaccine movement are assisting Kennedy in filling out his staff as he prepares to lead HHS.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The real secret to the "Mediterranean diet" is eating equal qualities of pasta and antipasto so that they annihilate one another
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
after all the darkness of this year it's nice to be threatened with a good time
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/11/2024
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I appreciate how Elon reminds us that being a CEO isn’t a real job
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Lynden @chopsii.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I made it here.... Is there an official app for this?
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