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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 3h
This type of behavior is beyond reform. www.wbez.org/education/20...
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To protect immigrant students, a Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused.
Elgin Community College resorted to covering the surveillance cameras with trash bags and zip ties. Public records show that federal immigration authorities have accessed Flock data at other Illinois ...
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John Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Only 42% included completed proofs and 3 of those have already been retracted due to obvious errors. It seems more like trying to DoS mathematicians into scoring an RL run than constructively working in the math domain.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 22/09/2026
Schools across the state started offering free breakfasts and lunches to all students in the fall of 2023. The number of students eating school lunch went up 15 percent the first year. The number of kids eating breakfast at school went up 40 percent.
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Fewer skipped meals, less stigma: New data on the impact of Minnesota’s universal school meals
A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family...
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 01/09/2026
I don't see any epi in there.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 27/08/2026
"This model not only better aligns with historical and experimental observations but also calls for a reconsideration of the exclusive focus on viral eradication as a means of ending paralytic polio" for the love of jonas salk, no it doesn't.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 27/08/2026
counterpoint: we do not need to re-think polio if we eradicate it.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 26/08/2026
This is the dril good things and bad things tweet, but unironically.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
Because if you didn't say a word about DOGE eliminating every federal grant with any element that Grok thought had anything to do with LGBTQ health, climate change, health disparities, and most of all DEI? I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 06/08/2026
Sorry, but Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme is a bop.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 25/07/2026
"Wow, so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
2. Remarkably, given how universally unpopular this would be, the intent seems accept the ruination of US health and medical research as collateral damage.
Mr. Kratsios’ proposal to reduce the role of universities would upend that system, which has been in place since the end of World War II. His call for the administration to de-prioritize “life sciences,” which encompass molecular biology, genetics and other fields in biomedicine, as well as clinical trials aimed at testing new therapies, raised alarms among biomedical researchers and academic medical centers. They fear it will mean less funding for the National Institutes of Health.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 23/07/2026
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 23/07/2026
I don't ride Divvy scooters for this exact issue. I've had power cut in dangerous situations before when riding alongside traffic.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Andersonville’s Chicago Dance Supply, which is co-owned by an alderperson, is closing after 23 years. blockclubchi.co/4wdzZ34
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
a graph of US gambling losses
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 29/06/2026
Can you point me in the direction of the reports you're referring to? All of the published data I've seen suggest they outperform humans by a decent amount.
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Late pass, obviously, but this to me is a fantastic blog in the classic sense. High-quality language and real insight directed at an otherwise shitty news story, by one of the all-time greats at doing all that. www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...
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Giants pitchers' Bible verses on Pride Night caps show how they've missed the point
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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I think by now everyone knows rideshare apps suck, but this book is full of examples of this model infiltrating every corner of society it can. I didn’t know this about apps preying on nurses, for example
In 2024, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda from the Roosevelt Institute published "Uber for Nurs-ing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care," a report on hospitals' use of apps to procure the labor of contract nurses, who are hired by the shift to cover staffing shortfalls (hos-pitals having sliced their unionized staff nurse cohort to the bone, these shortfalls are a normal occurrence).
Contract nurses used to find work through regional nurse staffing agencies. There were several of these competing in each market. However, with the rise of app-based "Uber for nursing" digital hiring tools, the regional staffing agencies have given way to a cartel of four nurse-hir-ing apps: CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey, and ShiftMed.
In Wells and Spilda's report, they describe how these apps buy nurses' credit history from data brokers before offering them a shift, and then reduce the wage on offer for nurses with a lot of credit-card debt. Those nurses, after all, are more economically desperate and thus likely to accept a lower wage.
This is a place where AI can really wring out some intensive wage savings. The goal of this system is to accurately guess the lowest wage a nurse will accept. Because these apps dominate the market for contract nursing nationwide, they getmany chances to lowball a nurse for a shift, and because the United States has no privacy rules to speak of, the outcomes of these offers can be compared with rich, deep dossiers on nurses' financial lives. Locating the biographical and financial correlates of economic desperation and quantifying their implications for eroding nurses' wages is a perfect task for AI.
The business world loves the idea of surveillance pricing. Economists have long dreamed of a day when every purchase and every labor contract is personalized, precision-formulated to the penny, so that everyone who buys your products pays the maximum they're willing to part with and everyone you pay is given the minimum they're willing to accept.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 08/06/2026
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is extremely chilling - virologists being targeted for what appears to be minor (if any) "offenses". We all know _why_ this is happening, so I'm not going to belabor that point - but I want to provide some context on the technical details. 🧵 www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH scientists plead not guilty to smuggling monkeypox viruses into U.S.
Defendants face prison time for criminal charges but samples may all have been inactivated and used for routine diagnostics
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/05/2026
My technopolitics faction - the faction associated with EFF, where I've worked for a quarter-century - has an answer: the role of encryption is to provide a measure of privacy and security that is best used to organize political struggles to demand the rule of law and respect for human rights. 15/
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 28/05/2026
Gonna do this just with Matt Millen draft picks.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 28/05/2026
Charles Rogers
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 25/05/2026
San Juan. Card-based engine builder riffing on Puerto Rico, travels great and plays great at 2p (also an app). My wife and my travel game. Hanabi also great at 2p and portable, but not quite like the others you've described. Will second Azul, Patchwork, Splendor.
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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In all the discussion of a singular "millennial anthem", we all did overlook this particular entry for a particular kind of too-online person.
The Album cover of Girl Talk's 2008 release Feed the Animals
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I see his point. Zero times two is still zero.
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The Screens of Pete and Pete @peteandpete.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 3, Episode 13: Saturday
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/05/2026
MIT is doing less research and enrolling fewer graduate students as a result of federal actions, the university president warned. Federally funded research on campus is down more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, she said.
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MIT president blames federal policy shifts for big drop in research on campus
Federal funding cuts have curtailed research at elite universities such as MIT, dulling America’s competitive edge globally.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 12/05/2026
slightly increase a name OLED Soundsystem
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 09/05/2026
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has said that a defendant getting a conviction thrown out doesn’t necessarily mean that person isn’t guilty. Her office has objected to most people seeking certificates of innocence after being exonerated.
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In Chicago, Prosecutors Fight to Keep Exonerated People from Clearing Their Names - Bolts
Under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, Cook County prosecutors have tried to block nearly every exonerated person who has sought a certificate of innocence. It
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 09/05/2026
My "this is not a golden calf" t-shirt etc. etc.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 06/05/2026
The new Ultimate Child Shield batteries also dye a child’s mouth blue indicating a battery may have been swallowed.
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Energizer’s new coin batteries won’t cause ingestion burns if swallowed
Energizer’s new coin batteries are safer to swallow, but please avoid that.
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J. Craig Venter Institute @jcvi.org · 30/04/2026
It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...
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J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics, Inc., dies at 79
La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 27/04/2026
Here's the CDC report -- on how effective the Covid vaccines are -- that was censored by Jay Bhattacharya. Good for @jeremyfaust.bsky.social getting the leak: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: Here's the Covid-19 vaccine paper the CDC censored.
RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. That’s exactly why you should.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 28/04/2026
A radio button clicked that says "I'm in this photo and I don't like it."
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 21/04/2026
This is, objectively, very funny
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 20/04/2026
Who is Superman II?
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment. So here's a 🧵. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Science | AAAS
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 11/04/2026
I know it's beating a dead horse, but HHS is absolutely off the rails.
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ReadJack🇺🇸 @readjack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I missed this in February — this is what Chicago organizers worked for from 2010 to 2018: closing Chicago’s trauma desert. People say “game-changer” but this is a LIFE-changer. One of the great Chicago community stories ever. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/a...
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After UChicago Trauma Center Reopened, Nearby Shooting Deaths Fell Nearly 4 Percent: Study
Shooting victims arrived for treatment about 10 minutes sooner and traveled about 3 miles fewer to receive care after the center's 2018 relaunch, according to a study published this week in the journa...
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 05/04/2026
Reason why I'm bothering to post is we should be clear about what risks and benefits do (and don't) exist and at what rates for a medication that substantially reduces morbidity/mortality.
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Ted Cybulski @tedc.cc · 05/04/2026
FWIW, statin myopathies are consistent with the current evidence base (the incidence is what's up for debate)
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.
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