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W. Ethan Duckworth

@weduckworth.bsky.social
748 followers 1.1K following 4.1K posts

Mathematician, d̶e̶p̶a̶r̶t̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ c̶h̶a̶i̶r̶, husband, father, follower of news and sports.

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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need checkers blocking feature: don’t block this person but jump over them and block the person in the quoted post
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a good example. It assumes that the person can afford the price of whatever shop is available, for one thing. It also misunderstands that finding someone to work on your car is, for a lot of people, a social relation as much an economic one.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For example, do I need the tires today or do I need the good enough but not most expensive tires for just the front two because the back two can make it a few more weeks to payday and I can turn off that check engine light so you don’t have to pay a dealer premium. That’s SOCIAL and cultural.
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wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a technology for people who already mostly live in a frictionless transactional world and hate our messy reality
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@scottjshapiro.bsky.social you need to up your game
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Post SZN Nope @lesleynope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The woman carrying the baby and food in the Giants game clip that went viral has written the full story of her marriage and what happened in the stands that night. If you’ve commented or shared any of the clips you also need to read and share her story themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Totally had not heard this. Someone in my timeline had to pay approx $250 a few days ago ... maybe they can get a refund.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Input needed: for those who file US taxes and have someone prepare your return, if you don’t earn enough to owe anything, and you don’t have any extra things like investments etc, how long does it take? Like is it reasonable that it shouldn’t take an accountant more than an hour or two?
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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 22/09/2026
Fractions are hard! www.jamestanton.com/wp-content/u...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nothing can compete with a “best of” list to get rage levels up.
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've seen 15 in full and maybe one season or so of another 10 that I gave up on. I think that makes me a curmudgeon
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The reality of Britain’s food poverty crisis: ‘Everything is so expensive, I only eat one meal a day’. 14m people face food insecurity. High rents, water, energy, food prices & low incomes create a crisis. No curbs on profiteering 50 families have more wealth than 34m people. Must redistribute.
independent.co.uk
Inside Britain’s food poverty crisis: ‘ I only eat one meal a day’
Millions of Britons are worrying about the cost of food as prices continue to rise. Albert Toth reports
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draiglerpwl.bsky.social @draiglerpwl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As one of the fourteen, I think that Jonathan Freedland has pretty much summed up everything I believe about ...Up. A thoughtful and perceptive piece. Thank you.
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I had no idea the number was this high
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war: With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, database shows. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve read it! It had a very new feel to me: partly science fiction (space ships, planets), partly magic (the space ships are covered in, and partly depend on spells and a sentient life form). There’s a little gender bending, a little mind control, and a little romance.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've been writing about the concept of Toxic Apathy and Horgan is a perfect example of such indifference.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Dear John Horgan, Fluff MAHA/MAGA Doctors Less, Bash War More
"A cancer expert I admire becomes a Trump collaborator. Should he be dead to me?" That's an easy question to answer.
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent piece
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good article! I laughed (Trump weakening and in decline), I cried (global damage still unfolding, China emboldened, etc.)
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump’s UN rant=another cringeworthy display of desperation and self-delusion. Bumbling through his script, threatened to annihilate Iran, railed at the ICC (unsurprising since his genocidal threats violate the law of war), revelled in fake accomplishments. ..The audience sat in stunned silence
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COURT STRIKES DOWN MEDIA BAN; Trump’s Weakness Is Apparent to the Whole World
🚨40 Days to the Midterms🚨
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 23/09/2026
No it is about 4% off but I sneak in a transformation to get a perfect loop
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Ryan Welborn @osmfcpx.com · 23/09/2026
Is the one you zoom to for the loop truly equilateral? Is there a rule/reason for that happening in 7 passes?
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 23/09/2026
Repeatedly subdividing a triangle using its centroids
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The film Meta removed from Instagram… bsky.app/profile/roel...
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the non Dutch speakers Roel Maalderink made an excellent satirical video about Meta’s pervert glasses and Meta has removed the film from Instagram (film in following skeet) www.ad.nl/tech/meta-ha...
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Meta haalt satirische video offline waarin Roel Maalderink kritiek uit op de videobrillen van het techbedrijf
Meta heeft een video offline gehaald van Roel Maalderink en Bits of Freedom, waarin zij op satirische wijze kritiek uiten op de videobrillen van Meta. Maalderink filmt erin Meta-personeel met een vide...
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Has Untethered Himself From Reality (Gift Article)
The president’s distortions have an impact on much more than belief in his claims about what he was doing on Sept. 11.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
We are witnessing the collapse of antitrust enforcement at the federal level under the second Trump administration. prospect.org?p=145231
Oracle chairman Larry Ellison speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every one of these people view their positions in the government as an opportunity to cash in on multiple grifts while traveling the world and having a great time at our expense.
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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 23/09/2026
Look, let's clear this up. LLMs can't think or understand because those are evolved capabilities of embodied living organisms embedded in the physical and social world and LLMs aren't that. Don't make it harder than it is.
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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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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Tuesday everyone!
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good news
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😊😎
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.
propublica.org
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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🤌🍕ᕼᙍᖇᙍ ᖴᓎᖇ ᑤᕼᙍᙍSᙍ🧀🤌 @born2.besilly.online · 21/09/2026
maybe having to do with the situation in philly bsky.app/profile/acar...
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 21/09/2026
oof *FAA LISTS GROUND STOPS TO ALL MAJOR NEW YORK-AREA AIRPORTS
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
You should be angry about this. Everyone should be angry about this.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AI's catastrophic potential is a self-serving story told by... AI CEOs, motivated by their own interests. By @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Enforce Quarantines for Cases A passenger with measles passed through at least six counties on Amtrak – Alameda, Butte, Kern, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Joaquin – while making multiple transfers. www.ktvu.com/news/califor...
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California health department notifies of measles exposure from unvaccinated Amtrak passenger
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is urging residents to get their measles vaccination after notifying the public of an exposure from an Amtrak passenger who traveled on the rail syste...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
…and to get the general public to ACCEPT the replacing of actors— by anthropomorphizing it. It is literally a function of the propaganda/PR game they are running on us. So maybe resist that, even in your language.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
The difference between "tilly norwood" & a traditional cartoon is the cartoon has a human voice actor, director, & writer, working in concert to create a performance. The reason to call Characters by their in-world pronouns & "Norwood" an It, is that the SPECIFIC INTENT of it is to replace actors—…
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