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Rufio

@rizzity.bsky.social
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Scientist/philosopher/leftist/dad. he/him

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
who is ready for the Red Deer People's Republic post-referendum
A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.

The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province’s resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence.

Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta’s pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
When you compare how much right-wing funding is going into their version of the humanities in higher ed ("civil discourse," "civic thought," "intellectual freedom") vs how little public or private funding there is for peer-reviewed humanities scholarship & teaching, it really makes you think.
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Rufio @rizzity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know it smell crazy in there
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Rufio @rizzity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Panel on Medicare reform moderated by… Russell Brand
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NGL I am struggling to be sympathetic to researchers who were happy to use the plagiarism machine but are HORRIFIED to find that the plagiarism machine has plagiarised THEIR research. You were OK with using it even though it stole my work, but you expect me to care when it steals yours? Huh. 🐆😱
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The Governor of Chaos 🇳🇬🇨🇩 @theigbobear.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Ravens won, Lamar getting a MVP, we winning the Super Bowl and Jesse Minter is a demon
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Rufio @rizzity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Apparently nobody can run a screen or an RPO correctly
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
California’s AG caved on the Paramount case because of pressure from tech billionaires AND Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom even earned a “thank you” from David Ellison in his statement celebrating the monopoly merger. We’re going to make sure this backfires.
deadline.com
Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with Warner Bros.
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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Consequences of the flood of AI manuscripts: "An early-career researcher at an unbranded institution loses the one mechanism that ever let them be read on merit — anonymous review of the work itself, however badly it functioned in practice.
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Rufio @rizzity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
John Harbaugh looks totally defeated
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The creation of dense, mixed-income, multiracial neighborhoods should be a significant policy priority for the Left because that is the breeding ground of our social base.
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Rufio @rizzity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Evidently the Ravens tradition of blowing fourth quarter leads has survived John Harbaugh
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Rufio @rizzity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Amusing detail: they want to set up a “board” to determine which NIH grants get funded. But the “board” is going to be Vought and Bhattacharya, and it needs to be unanimous, so this is “Vought is going to be in charge of the NIH,” with a bunch of extra words
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Article is useful in that it shows that a) Trump is directly involved in these decisions, b) sees them in purely personalist terms - he wants to politicize research grants so he can destroy Harvard for daring to defy him
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Same mentality as the guys who slash or throw acid in the faces of women who won't date them. "Anyone who won't have me, I'll destroy."
Trump's going to destroy the Kennedy Center, per WaPo.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If anything, people concerned about “safety and fairness” should be advocating hard for puberty hormonal treatment for trans minors, as these help them physically develop the way they want to, which would likely eliminate or reduce size and strength differences. But they don’t do that.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
do some of you not understand that almost half the American resident trans community has had to relocate? that their unemployment rate is massively higher than cis Americans? That I do not make the comparison to Black people under Jim Crow lightly? williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/trans-...
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Nearly half of transgender people surveyed have moved or are considering moving to more trans-affirming places
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026
bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars
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Rufio @rizzity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
America was united and thoughtful for about two days after 9/11, right up until Bush went up to a mic and told everyone “they hate our freedoms”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is somehow still going, and it’s not just a few random families now; it’s also a former mayor of NYC and governor of New York. There is, again, no way to reason to argue Mamdani shouldn’t attend this commemoration that isn’t fundamentally bigoted
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Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims.
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.
ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop. Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community. Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered. Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/09/2026
Jesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.
More recently in Craighead County — symbolically, at least, Ground Zero for the state’s attack on libraries, thanks to Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro) — the library announced several changes to circulation as it relates to minors. In a Facebook post, the library listed a number of changes to library policies, including:

Minors are prohibited from using the self-checkout kiosks;
Children under 13 years old may only check out materials from the designated children’s collection, while minors age 13-17 can only check out from the children or teen sections;
Minors may not check out DVDs at all; and  
Minors are prohibited from entering or purchasing anything from the Friends of the Library Bookstore.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what shutting down scientific debate actually looks like
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A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake
The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
captimes.com
UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jason Arday was driven to suicide but this is what counts as normal at Cambridge. It was never about standards. It was always about maintaining white male mediocrity.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The most likely outcome for the Trump presidency isn't totalitarianism but rather something like what happened in KS under Brownback. Dems are going to be handed back a bankrupt, broken and diminished America in 2029 and then be blamed for it while the media acts like there's a legitimate debate.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
DC is a deeply eerie place right now. phalanxes of feds and national guard everywhere you look, trump's ugly fucking mug staring down at you from every other federal building. my hometown is maybe the loveliest walking-around-type city in the country and they are trying like hell to ruin it
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/09/2026
FAI mentioned!! The same FAI that published a report entitled “Why NIH Needs Urgent Reform.” American scientists should read @gilduran.com ‘s book to help familiarize themselves with the (billionaire-funded) thinktank landscape. That’s essential now so we know who is pushing what ideas.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pretty telling as the media feels the need to confront every Democrat with Hasan Piker, the revelation that the president’s most loyal aide is seemingly unvetted and unstable just kind of faded because Trump didn’t concede anything and few on the right were challenged about her.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
in john roberts’ constitution, congress does not exist and the power of the purse belongs to the president, who is an elected dictator embodying the authentic Will of the People
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Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this is a pretty wild exchange with someone seemingly in a moderator position
Bouie: Sure. Before I do, I want to say two things, just to establish them right now and kind of to say where I stand on some of this stuff. The first thing is: "Woke" is a term that comes from African American vernacular. It has its origins in the 1930s, and it has traditionally meant something along the lines of: Be aware of the ways that this society is not built for you. Be aware of the ways that you may face disadvantage and oppression in this society. Again, this is a term that emerged in Black vernacular in the 1930s. And that is, as far as I'm concerned,
what the term means. And the usage — Cottle: You are exactly one of about 20
people who think that's what the term
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Bouie: I know.Bouie: I know. Cottle: I always love the historical reference,
but that ain't where it's gone. Bouie: I think a lot of Black Americans would agree with me on this point, I'll say that. I think among commentators, sure, not very many people agree with me. Among the
people for whom the term - Cottle: Oh, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. You can't pull that it's a split between commentators. And like, half of America has
decided what woke is, and it's not that. Bouie: Among Black Americans, it still
means what I just said. So I just want to say Cottle: But beyond the commentators, there's plenty of folks who have decided
something very different.
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 29/08/2026
I do not love that HHS has released a report claiming if you support trans people you are more likely to hold left-wing authoritarian beliefs and believe political violence is justified. Manufacturing rationales for cracking down on LGBTQ advocacy groups.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly
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Jamie Cate @jhdcate.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ribosomes have a strange protein modification in a universally-conserved protein uS11. This modification, isoaspartate, is also conserved in nearly all forms of life. We originally found this modification using cryo-EM, but had no idea how it was formed. 1/ elifesciences.org/articles/60482
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Structure of the bacterial ribosome at 2 Å resolution
High-resolution maps and models of the bacterial ribosome provide new chemical insights into protein synthesis, and should enable the development of robust tools for cryo-EM structure modeling and ref...
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 27/08/2026
Guys I hate to break it to you, but under capitalism, automation improves productivity but doesn't actually reduce the amount of time workers must work to survive. Instead, productivity gains are captured as profit. Only worker organizing will reduce our labor time. Yes, this applies to 'AI'
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Charlie Chaplin Working in Modern Times
ALT: Charlie Chaplin Working in Modern Times
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Rufio @rizzity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m so confused
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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