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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 3h

Hey, Nashville. If you want to get serious about reducing traffic deaths and becoming a pedestrian and bike friendly city, here's a role model.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 03/10/2026

🚨NASA CERES satellite data shows another 4-year average record for global Absorbed Solar Radiation. Earth's Energy Imbalance has more than doubled over the past 20 years. We've been trying to warn about this and the impacts for years, but few seem to care.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 6h

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 4h

This claims differently. www.americanscientist.org/article/a-wi...

Screenshot from the linked article:

The telegraph engineers noticed that when a dash emerged from the cable, a dot rushed right behind it, making a message hard to understand. The electrical signals underwent signal retardation, whereby they spread into weaker and longer pulses, which relegated the engineers to the time-consuming work of confirming and repeating messages. Edward O. Wildman Whitehouse, a medical doctor turned ill-informed amateur electrician, was the cable’s chief science advisor and quarreled with Lord Kelvin on how to resolve this problem.

Kelvin knew that transmitting signals underwater would not be easy because the doctrine of squares applied; that is, the speed of the message decreased as the square of the total length of the wire. Kelvin’s approach was to make signals shorter (and he was ultimately proven correct). Whitehouse’s thinking was to amplify the signal by increasing the voltage. His solution proved disastrous. When Whitehouse tested it, he roasted the cable and it never worked again.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 4h

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. USENET groups on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched GOPHER glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like 2400 baud modems.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 8h

I don't see RFK Jr. or other MAHA mavens having similarly productive engagements with experts on vaccine efficacy and safety. Wolfers's recommendation suffers from a "both-sides" fallacy that is contradicted by empirical historical evidence.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 8h

There is a political asymmetry here: When Anthony Fauci sat down to talk with Larry Kramer and other ACT-UP activists about the efficacy of clinical trials for early-generation anti-retrovirals, it was a productive exchange of views and ideas, and improved FDA/NIH/CDC science. ...

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 10h

Tom Lehrer also had something to say about this: National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek It's fun to eulogise the people you despise As long you don't let them in your school www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vm-...

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Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week - The Frost Report

YouTube video by flashbackcaruso

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 10h

As with many things, this depends on what the "other side" is.

Screenshot of a famous 2015 tweet by Robert Jones, Jr.:

"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist."

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 10h

As with many things, this depends on what the "other side" is.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 12h

You call yourself a Holocaust Studies department, and yet you have no professors who take the pro-Holocaust position. Curious. I am very intelligent.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 13h

I was physics professor in the days before internet social media, and my mail cubby was often filled with typewritten dissertations people would send on how they had disproved quantum mechanics or relativity, or had invented a perpetual motion machine.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 13h

The omissions make it clear that the reporter is selectively reporting things that support a point he wants to make, rather than examining all the evidence and allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 13h

3. Abigail Spanberger winning Virginia in 2025 after clearly stating her opposition to state bans on trans athletes in the face of Earle-Sears's "Spanberger is for they/them" ads. 4. John Ewing winning the mayoral race in Omaha NE by mocking his opponent's obsession with trans people using toilets.

Ad from John Ewing, Jr.'s 2025 Mayoral campaign in Omaha NE: "Jean is focused on potties. John is focused on fixing potholes."

The images show Jean Stothert peeking her head under the door of a bathroom stall and John Ewing, Jr. next to a pothole.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 13h

It was telling that the reporter chose to omit several important things: 1. Andy Beshear supporting trans rights with his full chest: "We don't throw anybody under the bus." 2. Talarico walking back his anti-trans sports comment and saying that he opposes any blanket ban on trans athletes.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 04/10/2026

I felt like the accent was so terrible that it had to be a choice to make it so painful, and I was down with that choice.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 04/10/2026

Brian Ferry had their number half a century ago. I bought you mail order My plain wrapper baby Your skin is like vinyl The perfect companion You float in my new pool Deluxe and delightful youtu.be/LSniBxXjK_8?...

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Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache

YouTube video by vulpinoid

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 04/10/2026

dismantling government and reducing services to the public.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 04/10/2026

The article emphasizes the difference between Clinton/Gore philosophy that reforming government and improving efficiency were about making government more effective at serving the public, vs. the Reagan/Bush 41/Bush 43 (and Trump/Musk/DOGE) philosophy of efficiency and reform meaning...

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 04/10/2026

Also worth remembering the successes of Al Gore's "reinventing government" program when he was vice president. This article doesn't mention FEMA, but that was a huge, and transformative success. So was EnergySTAR. And both were very popular with the public. www.govexec.com/management/2...

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Reinventing Government -- Two Decades Later

A look back at Al Gore's efforts to bring private-sector efficiency into a more results-oriented federal space.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 04/10/2026

He'll just tweak the algorithm to hide AI porn of him and his friends, and emphasize porn of people he doesn't like (especially his exes).

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 04/10/2026

Yeah. This part of the argument brought the motivated reasoning right up to the surface.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 04/10/2026

A rising tide lifts some boats more than others.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 04/10/2026

Yes. This pretty much negates everything that came before.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 03/10/2026

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"AI in the information ecosystem and its impact on nuclear escalation"

By Herbert Lin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists March 12, 2026

"AI doesn’t need ‘superintelligence’ or evil intent to start a nuclear war"

By Paul Slovic & Herbert Lin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 2, 2026

"AI can chart a course to disaster faster than humans can notice"

By Hiranya Peiris, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 25, 2026

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026

Mods are out partying, we’re going to need a new set of AI safety experts that know how to negotiate stuff like arms control agreements and cyber warfare deescalation instead of experts on thought experiments about shrimp and basilisks.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 03/10/2026

But... Clinical use of AI for note-taking, diagnosis, and advise produces clinically dangerous errors 22% of the time. This feels like the latest in a long history of attempts to improve numerical productivity in healthcare by increasing quantity and decreasing quality. www.arise-ai.org/report

* 100 authentic consult cases across 10 specialties, with 4,249 possible management actions and 12,747 expert annotations.

* Across 31 LLMs, potential severe harm occurs in up to 22% of cases, and errors of omission account for 77% of severe harms (failing to recommend critical tests or treatments).

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026

I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 03/10/2026

Yeah. It feels like those things people would post on social media that have no legal force. And even if it did have force regarding the recording, once the story is published nothing stops another journalist from cherry-picking bits of your words from that story, and quoting them out of context.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was hard, especially as a survivor, but I dug through the court documents and the right-wing reaction to the Cornell case. What I've learned is the backlash to #MeToo did its job, reinscribing hatred of survivors. We need more #MeToo, not less. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...

salon.com

Cornell assault case shows #MeToo didn’t go far enough

The backlash against the woman suing Chi Phi fraternity members is turning into a witch hunt

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 03/10/2026

If Congress wanted to do something about the president flouting their will, they could and would. The Constitution gives them power over those who betray the public trust. If we vote for a better Congress in November, this kind of abuse can be stopped.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 03/10/2026

Save the symphony, and then put in some sidewalks and protected bike lanes. And benches!

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 02/10/2026

Christian economy (Matthew 19:21) "Give all that you have to the poor and follow me."

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Ryan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Retired miners, their families and policy groups are lobbying Congress to uphold worker protections and pass legislation that updates black lung disability programs. www.lpm.org/news/2026-10...

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Appalachian coal miners ask lawmakers in DC for better disability benefits and worker protections

Retired miners, their families and policy groups are lobbying Congress to uphold worker protections and pass legislation that updates black lung disability programs.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 01/10/2026

The big thing is that all those local news media that were destroyed were also corporations. Almost all news has always been corporations. Some are good, some are bad, but they're all corporations.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 30/09/2026

3(!) climate researchers won @macfound.org genius awards today: @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social, Kaiyu Guan, Marika Holland! Well deserved. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

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Holly Jean Buck

Investigating the social, ethical, and political dimensions of climate and energy policies and emerging technologies.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 29/09/2026

If the paper handler won't do two-sided, you can print odd pages, load the printed pages upside-down into the printer, and then print the even ones.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 29/09/2026

Classical liberalism for me, but not for they/them.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 29/09/2026

Some days I'm just gobsmacked about, WTF, people? What is so hard about respecting other people, and not harassing women, people of color, queer and trans people, etc. Just live your own life, and don't go around making other people's lives harder. Can you not just do that?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You all know what camp I’m in 💋

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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