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Sociologist at Christopher Newport University. Adopted Virginian, recovering Floridian, runner, concert-goer, unapologetic wife guy. Opinions are my own, but I strive to not make them a headache for my chair. We pronounce it "/bluːskiː/" in 757
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The people who followed this guy into MAGA, deserve a special mark of shame—beyond just the stigma that, lord willing, will follow all MAGA supporters for the rest of their days.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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The FIftyplusone saga is wild. One entity starts to ask these polling firms basic methodological questions or data for validation, and then they respond by just instantly deleting themselves.
Our investigation into allegations of data fabrication at the firm SoCal Strategies, and an alleged association with the admittedly fraudulent firm Wedgewood Polls, has resulted in the pollster wiping itself from the face of the earth. Full story at 50+1: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/more-polls...
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Republican candidate’s campaign website accidentally publishes AI prompt: “The president is not popular, so all messaging should be focused on local politics and needs." www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
It's absolutely bonkers to me that this image led directly to this tweet.
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Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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honestly most be dope to be so rich you don’t even need to know where you are
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
The fact that there are three things on here from my 30's is a testament to how good we were all eating in the late-2010's. My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/dae...
I probably should have added Age of Empires My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/977...