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Transportation geek. Classic video game nerd. Engineer brain is autism brain. (He, Lui)
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for a people who spend so much time talking about dog whistles lefties sure aren't very good at realizing when we're the dogs
This ad is a pro-trans dog whistle virtuously designed to mislead hogs. “Washington needs to stay out of it” the only thing Washington is doing is trying to impose a national ban, Washington staying out of it means “no ban”
IT'S TIME TO KICK ASS AND CUDDLE PLUSH AND I'M ALL OUTTA PLUSH
OMG. 29 years ago I put an Easter egg in Duke Nukem 3D Mac, that replaced two of the in-game posters with pictures of a couple plush animals I had. I never told anyone other than my wife about the code (DNGLENDA) and completely forgot I did this. 1/2
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Performance art thehill.com/policy/techn...
Specifically to prevent recurrence in people who've already had it, not for broad use to stop people from getting melanoma in the first place, but still a positive development. And if it can work for melanoma it can probably work for other types of cancer too, expect more R&D here
Merck, Moderna say melanoma vaccine meets goals in large trial reut.rs/4zqdji1
Oh now all of a sudden he's concerned enough to make a figleaf request to "review" it. How about pulling the plug on the fascism-enabling surveillance. www.wfsb.com/2026/08/07/g...
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Hi what the fuck people are going to die because of this
AI is now answering 911 calls in New Orleans. The AI handles incoming calls and is supposed to analyze and prioritize the calls so that if multiple people phone in about the same incident, the chatbot will handle the repetitive calls about the same incident. /1
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An autistic man’s train journey has unexpectedly changed, leading to the sort of ironic suffering normally reserved for an episode of The Twilight Zone, sources have revealed.
So the NWS seems to have killed the ability to look up past weather data on their own website, the page that formerly had it 404s. climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu appears to be the intended substitute for the northeast except the webpage is completely broken and doesn't work. Cool, cool.
Update: it appears the service in question on weather.gov was simply down. It's back up now.