Jim

Jim

@jimc5.bsky.social

#BList baseball, books, biking, beans, beach #girldad, retired EE, enjoys Disney theme parks, fantasy baseball, cycling and coffee. Married to the smartest woman I know. 74.9% chance I will follow a fellow Jim. Looking for my next read

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Who won the 2025 Nobel in Chemistry?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

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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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

interestingly this interest in black voters doesn’t extend to the republican effort to deprive them of federal representation, nor do they seem interested in asking whether republican candidates are burdened by the fact that trump talks like a klansman

Corruption in government is unpopular electorally!

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social

look, nothing is simple and i have no parsimonious explanation for anything here, but a student protest movement, focused on corruption & authoritarianism, just won a major european election. a big deal.

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little bit of a tangent: i once had a department chair who physically threatened me because the graduate student he was having an affair with was struggling in my class. i ended up resigning a few months later. so dating a student can have far-reaching consequences beyond the abuse of the student.

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Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

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If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

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I have a friend who is a social worker doing the same work as this social worker. She has also told me stories of women like Amy Acton's mother.

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bring back shame

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

Pick another cut of beef? I’d rather pick a new head of HHS bsky.app/profile/scol...

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

How many young men were talked to in this article?

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com

Millions of American men have dropped out of the workforce—and it’s not because of the job market, Keith Humphreys and Brent Orrell write. theatln.tc/IV1eo6Nn

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Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

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Every year transphobes say the wave of detransitions will begin any day now, and every year the number of detransitioners who will work with them, worldwide, remains in the low to mid countable-on-one-hand

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social

We had an interaction, probably in 2019, where I just wanted to know what evidence he'd need to accept that detransition actually was rare, and it became clear that there was none. He's ideologically invested in something having gone wrong with trans care and will accept no evidence to the contrary.

No one wants to make cis kids trans. But Republicans most definitely want to make trans kids (and adults) cis. Same thing with gay & lesbian. Are there conversion therapies to make straight kids gay? Every accusation is a confession.

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has mmfa or someone like that compiled a comparison of airtime and front page headlines given to hunter biden vs jared kushner, given that kushner's alleged corruption is about 1000x larger, you would expect it to receive more coverage than Hunter's, right?

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“Just three to four decades ago, men with metastatic prostate cancer lived an average of 28 to 36 months. Today, the average life expectancy of someone with this diagnosis has increased to about five to six years” www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/...

health.harvard.eduRethinking metastatic prostate cancer - Harvard HealthAdvances in imaging and evolving treatment approaches mean that more men with a diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer are living longer and better than ever before. Dr. Marc Garnick leads a round...
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My dad got diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer 8 years ago. He’s still living his best life obsessed with the Yankees and watch his grandsons play baseball as often as he can.

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FAMU Rattlers know how to do it right for homecoming! Thank you for the warm welcome y’all! I may be a gator but I looove my rattler fam! 🐍💚🧡💙🐊 #AngieforFlorida #FAMU #Tallahassee

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"Honestly, if we end up with two hundred and twenty-five seats on the White Council, I would be disappointed. I would rather Sauron keep control of Middle-earth by five seats than have the Fellowship win by five, because then we’d be hostage to the Ents." buff.ly/9WluK1y

buff.lyWhile I Oppose Sauron, I Would Rather Mordor Win Than Be Held Hostage by the Ents“Honestly, if we end up with two hundred and twenty-five seats on the White Council, I would be disappointed. I would rather Sauron keep control of Middle-ea...

You rarely hear the term “exploratory surgery” anymore. “Let’s just cut you open and see what’s the problem in there” Medical imaging is orders of magnitude better than when I was a kid

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Yglesias being wrong about ICE confirms my priors

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

And, didn’t he write a book titled One Billion Americans that would sound to most Americans like far more immigration than we’ve had.

Good journalism is a massive deterrent to corruption. Especially local journalism. Look up the JEA scandal in Jacksonville. who is working against good journalism? These things are related

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New: Low-info voters, who put Trump in the White House, now look even more anti-Trump than high-info voters, and give Dems bigger margins on the generic ballot. 1 out of 3 Trump voters who can't name the party in charge of Congress now back Dems for 2026. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/poll-low-i...

gelliottmorris.comPoll: Low-information voters have turned hardest against Trump and the GOPTrump voters who can't answer two basic questions about politics are three times as likely as other Trump voters to back Democrats for the House. This is a big change since 2024.

Gonna guess that giving kids one share of SpaceX stock is not gonna make up for this

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social

About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.

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I keep seeing South Asian folks making grand gestures of disclaiming Ramaswamy, as with Haley or Jindal. The thing to understand is, NONE of these candidates have ever, in any race, won a majority of the South Asian vote in any jurisdiction where they were running. They are products of white voters.

W gave his “mission accomplished“ speech 43 days after the invasion. 10 years later “first withdrawal“ ongoing.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

It's striking how exactly they repeated Putin's mistake in Ukraine - assuming a quick war that's over in several days without making any contingency plans for what would happen if things go wrong and the war drags out