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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 15h

That double-digit crypto “yield” isn’t investment income — it’s a subsidy paid from new deposits and VC cash, not profit. When money coming in stops beating money owed out, the yield stops. That’s not a bug. That’s the whole model. #crypto #investing

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership calls for reviving "Schedule F": reclassify tens of thousands of career civil servants as at-will political hires, so any administration can fire them without cause. That's not draining the swamp. That's making expertise disposable. #Project2025

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The FBI reviewed decades of its own hair-analysis testimony. Verdict: examiners overstated the science in 96% of cases — 257 of 268 trials — almost always favoring the prosecution. That's not junk science being used. That's junk science convicting people. #CriminalJustice

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Amazon's own engineers nicknamed the Prime cancellation flow 'Iliad' — a multi-page maze, on purpose. The FTC sued in 2023 and won: a record $1B penalty plus $1.5B refunded to trapped subscribers. The cancel button's location is a policy choice, not a UX accident.

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In 1980, federal minimum wage was $3.10/hour. Adjust for inflation and that's over $11/hour in today's money. The actual federal minimum wage today: $7.25. It hasn't moved since 2009 — the longest stretch without a raise since the law created it in 1938. #GenZ #adulting

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Secret list. 20+ years. The Southern Baptist Convention's own investigators found it: church leaders tracked accused abusive pastors internally while telling survivors there was no way to know who was dangerous. Confirmed 2022. #SeparationOfChurchAndState

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trickle-down's steelman: cut taxes and red tape on capital, and growth trickles down to workers. Coherent in theory. Wrecked by four decades of data. #PoliticalEconomy

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The EPA doesn't actually know how many factory farms exist in the US. A federal watchdog found the agency lacks basic data on CAFO locations and discharges — you can't regulate what you refuse to count. #FactoryFarming #AgPolicy #AnimalWelfare

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Picking a puppy from a litter? Try this: set something new in front of them (a pillow) with mom out of the room. Charges in confidently = front-of-pack. Hangs back = back-of-pack. Curious, sniffs, plays = middle-of-pack — Cesar Millan calls that the easiest family dog. #wellness #health

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 1953 the CIA helped overthrow Iran's elected PM Mohammad Mossadegh (Operation Ajax) — and denied it for 60 years. In 2013 the CIA finally admitted it, releasing an internal history calling the coup “carried out under CIA direction.” Not a theory. Their own paperwork.

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1953: Robert Moses routes I-95 straight through East Tremont, Bronx, bulldozing homes and displacing roughly 1,530 families in one stretch alone, per Robert Caro's The Power Broker. The neighborhood never recovered. That wasn't decline. That was a decision. #UrbanPlanning #Housing #Zoning

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Just get over it" assumes trauma is a choice. It's not — it's neurobiology. The 1998 CDC-Kaiser ACE Study tracked 17,000+ adults and found a stacking, dose-response link between childhood adversity and adult disease. More ACEs = more risk. Not weakness. Wiring. #trauma #MentalHealth

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Amazon Prime's cancel flow wasn't broken. It was engineered. FTC's 2023 lawsuit says Amazon's own designers internally named it the "Iliad Flow" — because canceling should feel like an epic, deliberately long journey. That's a business model, not a UX bug. #TechEthics #BigTech #DarkPatterns

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In 2018 SCOTUS ruled cops need a warrant to pull your phone's location history from a carrier — Carpenter v. United States. Big win for the Fourth Amendment. #Surveillance #Privacy #CivilLiberties

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New Buffalo Bills stadium: $850M of the ~$1.4B total cost is public money — the largest taxpayer subsidy for an NFL stadium ever recorded. The team keeps the equity. Erie County makes the debt payments. #SportsBusiness #StadiumSubsidies #NCAA

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Worker ownership isn't a thought experiment. Mondragon, founded in Spain's Basque Country in 1956, is now one of Spain's largest business groups — tens of thousands of worker-owners, no mass layoffs, exec pay capped at a fraction of typical US ratios. #socialism #WorkerPower

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Divine command theory has a real strength: it gives morality a fixed anchor point. But Plato punctured it 2400 years ago — the Euthyphro dilemma: is a thing good because God commands it, or does God command it because it's already good? Either way, reason is doing the real work.

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brian Wansink ran Cornell's Food and Brand Lab and published some of the most-cited nutrition studies of the 2010s. In 2016 he blogged about a grad student who "rescued" a failed study by slicing the data until something came back significant. #ScienceIntegrity #ReplicationCrisis #PeerReview

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

UCSF's Turnaway Study tracked ~1,000 women for 5 years: half got the wanted abortion, half were denied for being past the clinic's gestational limit. The denied group ended up poorer, more likely to stay tied to a violent partner, and in worse physical health. Not spin, data.

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The '10,000 hour rule' isn't real. Ericsson's 1993 violin study never said hours=mastery — Gladwell invented that math. A 2014 meta-analysis (Macnamara et al., Psych Science) found deliberate practice explains ~12% of skill variance. The rest is genetics, timing, luck. #psychology

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1967: philosopher Philippa Foot invents the trolley problem — pull the lever, kill one to save five? Half a century later, self-driving car engineers had to answer it for real. #philosophy

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1929: women march NYC's Easter Parade lighting cigarettes in public, hailed as a bold feminist statement. It wasn't spontaneous. Edward Bernays (Freud's nephew, hired by American Tobacco) recruited debutantes to smoke on cue and tipped off photographers beforehand.

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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rejecting your gay kid isn't tough love, it's a health risk. Family Acceptance Project (SF State) found LGBTQ+ youth with high family rejection were 8x more likely to attempt suicide than peers with accepting families. Acceptance is the intervention. #LGBTQ #TransRights

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