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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 6h

Then let’s all get on our gourd, whichever beautiful, imperfect one represents you.

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 6h

There is no standard gourd. Just as there is no standard mind. Let’s replace gourds as a simple reductive term for the head, and instead embrace the astonishing variety of gourds as a metaphor for the dazzling neurodiversity of our species.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 6h

In autumn, I am always astonished at the diversity of gourds, the pimples, the stripes, the rubenesque, the browns, the greens, the yellows, the ones that remind me of my sweet grandmother, the ones that look like geese.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🧵The Cornell 7 case has made me angry, sick, and sad. I had five wonderful years in Ithaca as a graduate student, but I was still a bystander to bad behavior by other men. I knew little to nothing of the frat life there, but I knew my department life.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

RIP to a great actress and wonderful human, Eva Marie Saint. In 1996, I was fortunate to meet her, her husband, Bill Moyers, and Jonathan Kozol when they were promoting a documentary about public education inequalities based upon Kozol's book "Savage Inequalities."

NY Times headline

Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102

Image of Cary Grant and Saint on Mt Rushmore from the film North by Northwest

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧵I had the pleasure of driving this gorgeous highway on Sunday (US 550 through Colorado's San Juan mountains).

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NoOnProp39 🧵 Richard Uihlein, Schlitz beer heir, owner of Uline office products, & ultraconservative WI multibillionaire, has given $17M to support Prop 39 in California, a backdoor voter suppression effort introduced by GOP legislators. The proposition, if passed, would require Californians...

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When they arrived, Katie moved around to the other side of the car and held Karollyn's hand as she delivered a healthy baby girl by the side of Highway 1.

Katie Higgins, Karollyn Zepeda, and Karollyn's new baby Higgins helped her deliver.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧵 Here is a timeline cleanser. Karollyn Zepeda and her partner Nate Geminiano were excited when her water broke for their second child in their Outer Sunset home in San Francisco. They headed out to Anza Vista in what looked like plenty of time but got stuck in traffic in Golden Gate park.

Nate Geminiano and Karollyn Zepeda with their one year old, their new baby girl, assisting paramedics, and Katie Higgins, a trained doulla who ran from her car to help the young couple when a traffic jam in San Francisco's Golden Gate park forced them to pull to the side of thr road as Karollyn was going into labor

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧵 I would read this essay with an open mind - as I did as a scientist and atheist. It doesn't matter whether spirits and the afterlife are real. The perception of communication with lost loved ones is a healing experience regardless, and empirical studies support this.

NY Times Op Ed from 9/20/26

Go Ahead and Laugh at Mediums. They May Be On to Something.

Image of shadow sillouettes beneath a sheet suggestive of ghosts

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump promised affordability. He has instead given unaffordability.

X post by @lepapiklon2

"We are watching thr "Trump effect" take place in America as diesel prices hit all-time record highs of $6.50/gallon

Chart of price increases from end of Viden term to now

Gas $3.13/gal -> $4.59/gal
Electricity 17.5 cents /kwh -> 22.7 cents/kwh
Oil $70/bbl -> $124/bbl
Heating oil $2.50/gal -> $5.99/gal
Coal $116.35/ton -> $158.40/ton
Beef $5.40/lb -> $8.49/lb
Bread $2/loaf -> $2.50/loaf

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One reason for slowing down AI R&D and appealing to government oversight of AI is to socialize the liability risk "What kind of legal liability might an A.I. lab like OpenAI or Anthropic face if its products were to run amok & cause great harm? Investors in either’s I.P.O. would need to weigh ..

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Holy Lone Star State! Something is a brewing in Texas! But we have to keep running through the tape!

ReconRM/Siena poll, llk3ly voters, released 9/11, Hinojosa 49%, Abbott 45%,
Talrico 49%, Paxton 43%

Image of Hinojosa

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There is a Big Blue Wave brewing. In what were seemingly unshakable red states and districts, where Trump won in double digits, races are competitive. Like KY06, below. "Less than seven weeks before the midterm elections, the political environment has deteriorated so badly for Republicans ...

Gov Andy Beshear of Kentucky campaigning with Democratic candidate Zach Dembo in the 6th congressional district which Trump won by 15 points in 2024 but which is competitive this year.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are already in an energy crisis, couch humper!

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scott Bessent told Physics PhD @repbillfoster.bsky.social that Oppenheimer was not a physicist. 🤦‍♂️

Threads post by @american_bridge - image of Rep Bill Foster

“Robert Oppenheimer was not a physicist...”

Oppenheimer earned a doctorate in physics. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Caltech. He was the father of the atomic bomb.

He was very much a physicist.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So OpenAi wants to delay their IPO. Safety concerns about Frontier AI are real, but they can also provide a publicly acceptable rationale other than disappointing revenues and mounting debt for delaying an IPO.

Guardian headline - picture of Sam Altman, ceo of OpenAI-"OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says"

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Crown Prince MBS is entering the Leopards Ate My Face stage with Trump, who doesn't really care that the Houthis are crippling Saudi oil flows because of the war he started wirh Iran

Crow Prince MBS in the White House with Trump and a leopard snarling over his shoulder

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Last night I had the pleasure of seeing the Parsons Dance Company, for the third time, this time in San Francisco where they had not performed for 35 years. If you get a chance to see them, do: life affirming, crowd pleasing, accessible, acrobatic dancing with feeling and humor infused.

Poster for Parsons Dance residency at Lake Placid showing seven of the eight dancers in the air, 4 women and three men

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🧵 @michellegoldberg.bsky.social notes that tech leaders are diffident to demise of humanity by AI so long as they avoid stasis and gain immortality or interplanetary expansion. “For decades, large tech firms have insisted that the technologies they own and control are ‘inevitable’ and thus ...

Ny Times Opinion from 9/1226

Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing ato Risk Apocalypse

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🧵 Mark Bingham was a proud rugby player, member of the Cal national championship team in 1991, & a proud, out gay man. Together with Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Tom Burnett, & likely others, he fought the Flight 93 hijackers on 9/11 to prevent the plane from hitting a Capitol target.

Mark Bingham carrying the ball as a Cal Rugby player in the 90s.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 open.spotify.com/track/7nHvS6...

Sept 24, 2011 cover of the New Yorker showing two black sillouettes of the World Trade Center towers on a charcoal background

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

...which had been led by Tim Ballard, who Jim Cavaziel played in the 2023 movie "Sound of Freedom." Ballard was kicked out for inappropriate sexual behavior towards women coworkers.

Tim Ballard at the Sound of Freedom premiere

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧵The Trump administration is required by law to provide legal representation for children detained by ICE. In early August, HHS awarded a no bid contract worth $158m to Our Rescue. 12 of 24K detained kids have gotten representation since, per @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social

Detained migrant children waiting outside immigration court hearing room in NYC

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🧵The Musk documentary by Oscar winner Alex Gibney premiered at the Venice film fearival last night. It got a 4m standing ovation. "What kind of entrepreneur falsely claims to have founded Tesla, when it was really two other men? The same kind of man who would claim to have held his dying infant ..

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I remember watching Star Trek as a little kid. The weird Salt Vampire on the first episode, the lizard headed Gorn Kirk fought later in the season. I did not get the humanity of the show as much then. I so appreciate the intentions of Gene Roddenberry and the wisdom of Lucille Ball to get it done

Salt Vampire from Episode 1 of Star Trek, 1966

Gorn, lizard headed dude, fighting Kirk in the Arena episode later in the season in 1967

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sen. Roger Marshall MD skipped over the "no" in the first part of the Hippocratic Oath. Vote Adam Hamilton for US Senate from KS!

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

She supports a Medicare public option, making the ACA more affordable, affordable housing, making tech pay for data centers, voting rights, ending the Iran war, ending local police agreements with ICE. Lawler, nah.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🧵 #CaitConleyNY17 We gotta go blue, folks. The Republicans show us again and again. They care only about enriching themselves and making their billionaire patrons more billions. @caitfornewyork.bsky.social in NY 17th congressional district is taking on MAGA rubberstamper Mike Lawler.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🧵 Adam Hamilton supports choice. His opponent, Roger Marshall, the incumbent senator from KS, is an anti-choice ob-gyn who sued hundreds of patients for lare payments, having dozens arrested, garnishing pay, and charging 18% interest on debt. Marshall is full Trumper. Vote blue, KS!

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, offers a probable cause for Trump's sudden beef imports: corrupt alliance with a Brazilian beef magnate previously singled out by then Sen. Marco Rubio. "According to the The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump announced his intention to allow duty-free ...

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This Labor Day, let's commit to help send one of the most pro-union Senators ever, @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social , back to the Senate for Ohio.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#LaborDay It's Labor Day, and with Dolly Parton's recent passing, I would like to remember 9 to 5 and why this somewhat dark farce is a still topical commentary on the US labor force. If you haven't seen it, spoilers ahead.

Photo of Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman in 9 to 5

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🧵 #WhaleTales Two whale tales. In case you want some good vibrations. In 2017, marine biologist Nan Hauser was in the Cook Islands working on a documentary about humpback whales. She slid off the boat with her go pro camera on and swam towards some whales they observed.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Trump giving Americans grief about vacation days? Fuck off you orange dotard.

Headline deom CREw - Trump has visited his properties on 37% of his days in office.

Published June 16, 2026

Image of Trump in golf gear with golf clubs

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🧵In case you want to know more about Gloria Steinem, I recommend the following - last night my partner and I watched "The Glorias," Julie Taymor's visually stunning 2020 biopic where Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong play Steinem at different points of her life.

Poster for The Glorias,showing Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander, as well as Janelle Monae

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🧵Kevin Roose explains why the hack of Hugging Face by OpenAI agents should have you concerned. "No one agent in this group appears to have been particularly evil or reckless. (In fact, since the agents were generated by the same models, they were effectively copies of one another.) ...

Ny Times Headline

the shift

Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

...and he suffered a month of seizures. He was ordered released by the courts. Gamaliel Rodriguez suffered a torn meniscus in his knee playing soccer in ice detention. He was supposed to get surgery but ICE canceled it saying he could get outpatient surgery on deportation to Honduras, ...

Gamaliel Rodriguez, displaying the brace ICE gave him instead of initially promised surgery for his torn meniscus

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

...caused by a clot triggered by his now lemon sized tumor. Asylum seeker Daniel, shown below took medications to prevent seizures after surgery to remove a brain tumor in 2012. He had no seizures until his ICE detention. ICE did not get his medication to him in a timely way ...

Daniel, asylum seeker from Honduras, who had seizures related to a previous cancer surgery after ICE failed to provide his needed medicine in a timely way.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🧵The @sfchronicle.com has a lengthy dive with strong reporting on medical treatment of detainees by ICE. Or, I should say, lack of treatment. To add insult to injury, ICE is stiffing providers and billing detainees for their treatment on release, routing for collections if they don't pay.

Rodrigo, green card holder, was improperly detained by ICE and received no medication for his throat tumor, which is impinging on his vocal cords and caused a brain aneurysm.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🧵 The unprecedented southern Pacific warming setting the stage for a massive El Niño event will, via a Kelvin wave, drive coastal California waters higher by 9-14" for several weeks.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

RIP Gloria Steinem - you helped us all with your grace, wit, and intellect. In this age where too many cruel broligarchs persist, I love these quotes from you: “Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.” “We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

RIP Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at 92. Poet, writer, agrarian, environmentalist. My favorite poem of his is "The Peace of Wild Things."

The Peace of Wild Things

Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🧵 As if providing noise pollution, jacking electricity costs, threatening water supplies, and accelerating climate change were not enough: data centers threaten the economy. Per Robin Wigglesworth, we "have a lot of experience with debt-fueled investment sprees,

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