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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/117349244161954260 There is no AI, only exploitation of labor.

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  Yet again, USA: Get the kids their shots. Get yourselves your shots if you have not had them. Get your immunity checked if it is doubt. Require that the state governments expand vaccine mandates. QT Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social 2026 September 26 "At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." https://bsky.app/profi...

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  @BlueDot@left-tusk.com @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Amy Klobuchar was Hennepin County Attorney during 1998 - 2006. Her refusal to prosecute police brutality and killings committed by cops during that period is well-documented. Derek Chauvin was hired by MPD in 2001. As well as numerous complaints of brutality; he was involved in the killings of three people before he murdered George Floyd - including the 2006 October killing of Wayne Reyes of the Leech Lake Ojibwe. Klobuchar did not bring an...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117299861062480465 Keep voting, #Minnesota.

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  Because this apparently needs to be explained: Current human-caused CO2 emissions: ~40 gigatons of carbon/year. Total global CO2 sinking by geochemical weathering: ~0.25 gigatons of carbon/year. Work for everything necessary to sharply cut emissions, everyone.

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  Since I read people not understanding this today: The text generators make programming slower and more error prone. Some programmers claim that they are useful, but that is not the same as their actually being so. There is actual data on this: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/

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  One bit of good news for today. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/fda-approves-moderna-mflusiva-first-mrna-flu-vaccine/

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  "Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him." "He was one of thousands of immigrants arrested during Operation Metro Surge" https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/03/orbin-mauricio-henriquez-serrano-survived-a-violent-border-patrol-arrest/

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  I am once again asking scientists to do multiple-comparison corrections when computing statistical significance.

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  Require that all of these trumped-up charges be dropped, United States. Remove all of the Trump DoJ appointees responsible for them. And #ImpeachTrump and #AbolishICE. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/28/ice-protests-antifa-minnesota

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  Today on the #arXiv : Minker et al. 2026, "Unmasking (44) Nysa: Evidence for a trilobate structure" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25786 Describing adaptive optics images of the main-belt asteroid 44 Nysa and its satellite. It is a strange place.

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  Yet again, USA: #AbolishICE and the Border Patrol. And also disarm cops of weapons they manifestly cannot be trusted with. "Immigration officials misused weapons hundreds of times during protests, report finds" https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/30/immigration-officials-misused-weapons-hundreds-of-times-during-protests-report-finds/

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  Yet again, USA: Do not allow anything like this. And require that Congress #ImpeachDuffy. "Proposed rule would exempt commercial launch licensing from environmental regulations" https://spacenews.com/proposed-rule-would-exempt-commercial-launch-licensing-from-environmental-regulations/

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  No, electronic medical records software vendor, there is no circumstance where I would want you to run my test results through the automated-plagiarism text generator. Not even if you pretend it is to change the actual results into "easy-to-understand explanations and diagrams".

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/116997505799021780 Montargès et al. 2026, "VLT/SPHERE imaging of the candidate companion of Betelgeuse" - https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2611/eso2611a.pdf . Confirming that Betelgeuse B does indeed exist. And calling for more data to understand what it is doing to the larger star.

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116997866703618863 #AbolishICE

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  Yet again, USA: Do not accept this. Require that the state governments & Congress shut down the ghoulish scams that are "prediction markets". And #ImpeachTrump for abusing the apparatus of government to enable them when his family is profiting from them. QT Minnesota Reformer 2026 July 28 "Judge halts Minnesota ban on prediction markets" https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/judge-halts-minnesota-ban-on-prediction-markets/

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  Yet again, USA: #AbolishTheDeathPenalty And yet again, #Florida : Remove DeSantis and those with him before they kill even more people than they already have. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/florida-double-execution

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  "Space is big." #ThingsActualScientistsSay (Except for low Earth orbit. That is actually pretty small.)

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116999946404934348 Today in the cyberpunk dystopia. Yet again, USA: Require actual effective #GunControlNow. Rather than stunts like this that do nothing to make anyone safer, but do cost schools lots of money.

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  Elon Musk continues to be an ombigoted sexual predator and liar who has caused mass death. And it remains way past time for everyone to stop giving him money & power.

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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org My most-recently-played music selection is best described as "eclectic".

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  I encountered a car today that had a bumper sticker that read: "I lick rocks and I know things." How to identify a geologist's vehicle?

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  That is not the answer I would like to "why are those six DSN antennas offline?". May everyone who works onsite be safe. QT Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social 2026 July 24 The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. [ picture ] via Infues Avila [ image of wildfire behind one of the 34 meter antennas at MDSCC ] https://bsky.app/profile/andyscollick.bsky.social/post/3mrfqswr65s2...

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  RE: https://newsie.social/@therobburgessshow/116976573604817022 #ImpeachTrump for every possible reason.

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  The particularly USA experience of having a medical provider order a routine low-cost test; then the scheduler explaining the clinic's particular procedure for arguing your health insurance company into covering it. We could just have universal healthcare instead. Like a sensible country.

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  In the midst of a large disease outbreak caused by contaminated produce, RFK Jr. is spending his time bragging about relaxing pasteurization standards for orange juice. Yet again, USA: #ImpeachRFKJr.

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  I could do without members of the United States Congress who have been in office longer than ICE has existed pretending that calls to #AbolishICE are "not a realistic public policy".

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  This happened here in the #TwinCities. The Saint Paul City Council is currently debating SPPD running Flock Cameras. Tell your councilmember to vote to shut them down, #SaintPaul. https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-me-for-days-over-stolen-plates-and-sent-police-after-me

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  There is no ambiguity in the text of the 14th Amendment. 4 current members of SCOTUS are pleased to blatantly lie and pretend otherwise. Yet again, USA: #UnpackTheCourts. QT Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social‬ 2026 June 30 The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals https://bsky.app/pr...