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Mark Anderson

@emer.net
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 9h
It’s so amazing. He basically said exactly what he wanted to do.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 13h
This seems unwise to me. The victim will get blamed for snitching, not the alleged rapists. Of course, that's often the point of these collective punishments: to scare victims out of reporting. I hope that's not the intention here. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
Ithaca Mayor Calls for Moratorium on All Student Event Permits, Including Greek Life, Amid Chi Phi Lawsuit
Ithaca Mayor Robert Cantelmo M.A. ’20 called for an immediate moratorium on all student event and special event permits, including Greek Life events, in a Monday statement. He attributed his decision ...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the winner
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ResistanceRoots The fight for universal healthcare may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, dating from President Truman’s failed proposal for a national, publicly funded health insurance system in 1945. However, the fight goes back to the 1910s, and it’s linked to anti-labor forces. /1
President Truman addresses a joint session of Congress. On Nov. 19, 1945, Truman sent a groundbreaking Special Message to Congress recommending a comprehensive national health program. His five-part strategy included constructing hospitals and health centers, expanding public health services, investing in medical research and education, providing cash benefits and disability insurance to workers, and prepaid national health insurance. The American Medical Association launched a campaign against it, condemning the plan as “socialized medicine” and comparing it to communism during the early years of the Cold War. By 1946, “conservative” Repubs controlled both houses of Congress and blocked the bill. Truman tried again with subsequent messages to Congress, but the legislative effort ultimately failed. Truman later called this defeat the most troubling disappointment of his presidency. Photo credit: Harry S. Truman Library.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 29/09/2026
It’s called Philadelphia, have some respect. 😀
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 29/09/2026
Fredonia from Duck Soup!
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The 4-year-olds don’t know where they are and what’s going on" “I have no one. I have nothing.” This is beyond grotesque. Shame, Shame, Shame on Trump and everyone involved in this horror.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 29/09/2026
These people cannot understand that some things are more important than money. I’d say it’s sad if they weren’t the worst people on earth wrecking everything.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 29/09/2026
Yeah, that’s not a great defense there Ken.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 29/09/2026
You’d be shocked how far a “not cool, bro” goes.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 28/09/2026
I always think of Dolores Huerta when I hear stories like this, and how we should really rename everything after her.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 27/09/2026
It’s always that Arrested Development meme.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
inquirer.com
We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 27/09/2026
And because we have so many more options we’ve kinda ditched the Monoculture. Makes Weird Al’s life super tough.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 27/09/2026
That’s why/how poor Jackie Spier wound up playing dead and bleeding out on a runway for like 22 hours.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI isn't going "rogue" because it can't—and we won't get a grip on how companies like OpenAI are playing with fire until we have the language right
eoinhiggins.substack.com
There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
Right? I never get when people decide to side with the billion dollar company over the Union and workers.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
Once upon a time my family used oil and I cannot imagine a twelve-hundred-dollar fill.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
Trump illegally refuses to spend money appropriated by Congress. (FTFW)
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
2029 will be even worse since the 1999 Austin Powers involves 30 years of time travel.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
What the fuck, Porter!
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
That’s the hate handed down by my mother of Mitch McConnell.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
I’m all for our feral childhoods but that’s asking for trouble. This is not sending me at 9 walking to school. 5 is young as hell.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
Parts of it are on their last legs. So just barely.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
When I watched the 3rd season opener of LD, I realized in TNG Tasha Yar wasn’t even dead yet by episode 21!
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
With five seasons of Lower Decks, why don’t I have 100 episodes?
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
Oh yeah I feel about AOC in ‘28 the way I did about Obama in ‘08. It’s the perfect time.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
We really need to prop up the 14th amendment. Robert’s et. al. hate the reconstruction amendments so we’re gonna have to make a lot of shit explicit.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
If it is him versus like JD Vance I think I’ll just walk into the sea.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
I knew both those words but never put it together!
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
It can stress a water system if you build them in a dry place, especially. But the energy is the real story. Those chips run 500W a pop.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
That drives me nuts. “Such and such said blank” THEY’RE THE VILLAIN! Why would you trust what they say?
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
I’d love to see “Saw posting” become a thing.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
sammatey.substack.com
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I lost my beloved cat Zara to aggressive cancer today, but this was also published: youtu.be/4o2YEkmejU0?is @wired.com
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Biomedical Scientist Fact Checks Pseudoscience Slop
YouTube video by WIRED
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26/09/2026
I think I’ve seen 80 as a patient in my life. Not quite but quite a few.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fact that they think they have the right, or the ability, to evaluate people based on appropriating their language is insane. No other industry oversteps boundaries with such smug contempt. My master’s thesis was on this specifically, and it is scary and will be wrong.
OpenAl
September 23, 2026 Publication
Introducing
MentalHealthBench
An open benchmark developed with more than 80 licensed mental health experts to evaluate Al responses in realistic mental health conversations.
Read the paper
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats
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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 25/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/pete...
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 25/09/2026
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 25/09/2026
What kinda of maniac would drive from Manhattan to Manhattan?! You get a spot and you keep that shit.
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 25/09/2026
Yeah I’ve got 3 and 5/8ths, so I’m dying in this house.
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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 25/09/2026
Click "Download Full Zip" at the bottom of this page before Flock gets it way. flocksurveillance.org
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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 25/09/2026
I’m still salty they moved WWDC there which meant I had to rent a car and couldn’t just hang in SF. But otherwise I had a good time.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
theonion.com
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Never forget that Frank Oz believes the stress of dealing with Disney's initial, relentless attempts to buy his creations is what killed Jim Henson. "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick," he told The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
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Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me’
He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - then became a brilliant comedy director. What is he most proud of?
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