Luke Yoquinto

Luke Yoquinto

@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

yoquinto.com MIT AgeLab Books: * Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn * Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging

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Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

…like if you’re Northrop or Lockheed, you’re PISSED, right?

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

European officials have stepped up talks on reducing reliance on US defense suppliers after a dispute over Ukraine’s Starlink restrictions, according to people familiar with the matter.

bloom.bgStarlink Brinkmanship Is Driving Allies to Rethink US RelianceEuropean officials have intensified discussions about ways to reduce their reliance on the US and American defense contractors following the recent blame game around Ukraine’s Starlink restrictions, according to people familiar with the matter.
Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

To me the problem with the Cheesecake Factory discourse is that CF is more notable for its excessive menu than its decorations. If you want to make fun of a restaurant's decorations you need to go with TGI Friday's.

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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."

Luke Yoquinto
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(Mentally re-filing the Boston molasses disaster of 1919 from “freak event” to “the kind of thing that happens every hundred years or so”)

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social

of course the government has fired all the molasses spill recovery experts it had

cbsnews.com5,000 gallons of molasses spill into Baltimore's Inner Harbor after tank overflowA chemical reaction last week at a feed products facility in Baltimore led a container tank to overflow and spill an estimated 5,000 gallons of molasses into the Inner Harbor.
Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

Nobel committee has an opportunity to do the funniest thing (give Obama a second Peace Prize)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I've settled 8 wars, think of that. Did I get the Nobel Prize, no? DID I GET THE NOBEL PRIZE?"

Luke Yoquinto
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I mean this is where you start to wonder What Defamation Law Could Do For You

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "His name is Abdul Muhammad...He was a member, probably still is, of the Muslim Brotherhood...He's a vicious, violent jihadist. And he has no place in our government."

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

I hate coming across something that seems really intriguing and immediately having to wonder if there's an agenda behind it: either MAHA quacks or climate deniers who want to go back to incandescent bulbs www.newscientist.com/article/2582...

newscientist.comThe shock revelation that light bulbs are wrecking your metabolism | New ScientistSince the 2000s, our light exposure has changed drastically as we make our buildings more energy-efficient. Now, we’re discovering how this may mess with our mitochondria, contributing to diabetes, de...
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Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

you can get this green smoothie at the store but it tastes too good. I want one that tastes nasty. I want to I actively dread putting this liquid to my lips. That's how you know it's good for you

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

The weird thing about this is, if you look into who is responsible for consumer spending in the US, it's older folks. TLDR: older people are keeping the economy afloat but I guess our merely-floating boat COULD be a flying car if they'd spend down their savings even more www.cnbc.com/2026/10/12/b...

cnbc.comWhy older Americans' wealth may be helping keep consumer spending strongBoomers report more financial confidence as Federal Reserve and JPMorgan data show older households hold more wealth and draw more from investments.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

The third piece I’ve read in as many days “concerned” that Americans are ”sitting on capital” that needs to be “freed up”. www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...

theatlantic.comAmericans Aren’t Spending Their Retirement SavingsBucket lists everywhere are suffering.
Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

I dont know why but i find myself thinking about Don Mattingly’s sideburns gag in the Simpsons All The Time

Dan Chibnall@bookowl.bsky.social

When John Middleton eventually fires Mattingly mid-season, they really need to recreate this scene when it happens.

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

Not about digger per se, but I once got very irritated with someone who was looking at their phone thru an entire movie then had the nerve to say its “pacing was off”

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Luke Yoquinto
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I do think there are some movies that need deep attentional buy-in from viewers for them to work. These are an endangered species. (I have not seen digger though, so leave me alone abt that)

Luke Yoquinto
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On the plus side this reminded me of the very funny fake Denzel Washington plot point in the criminally underrated film Game Night

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Trump just fell for a FAKE Denzel Washington endorsement, sharing a fabricated quote claiming the Oscar-winning actor called him the smartest and bravest person he’d ever met. Even more embarrassing? The exact same fake endorsement has been attributed to Matthew McConaughey and Mick Jagger.

meidasnews.comTrump Falls for Fake Denzel Washington EndorsementThe president shared a debunked quote praising him as “smarter” than anyone the actor had ever met.
Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

I’ve been haphazardly listening to Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle books on and off for the better part of a year while doing other things, and I’ve come to the conclusion that this is not a recipe for “Understanding What is Going On.”

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

Man attends AmericaFest to see AmericaFester in Person

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social

First round of speakers announced for TPUSA’s annual Phoenix conference AmericaFest including Epstein buddy Steve Bannon, Nick Shirley, Spencer Pratt, Cubs player Matt Shaw, former Nick Fuentes affiliate John Doyle, Franklin Graham, Karoline Leavitt, and vice president JD Vance.

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

underrated: seeing a big dude you played rugby with back in the day, who you liked as a person but always assumed to be conservative, hearting an IG video of Jon Ossoff shredding his opponent

Luke Yoquinto
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lol not even in the article do they say which gulf

CNN@cnn.com

A tropical depression or storm has a high chance to form in the Gulf this week and breathe life into the tail end of an Atlantic hurricane season squashed by El Niño. https://cnn.it/3VNLjFO

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

Hardly to the point, but backbreaking, lifespan-shortening labor =/= exercise

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

The charitable interpretation is that he’s just being incoherent in his attempt to say “high gas prices aren’t that big of a deal compared to the bad things that can happen in a war.” But even then… like, Biden got the boot for being far less incoherent than this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Mark Histed
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Replying to @markhisted.org

Oh I shd add: Deisseroth’s work was (say it w me!) supported with public funding through federal science agencies incl NIH, NSF, and DARPA. And I daresay few political deciders in 2004 would have been excited to put algal proteins in HEK cells or neurons. Scientists knew, though.

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

Extremely Vindicated: @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social 's many years spent thinking through the intersection of manta rays and office politics

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

nytimes.comKristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
Luke Yoquinto
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takes me back... theonion.com/bush-refuses...

theonion.comBush Refuses To Set Timetable For Withdrawal Of Head From White House BanisterWASHINGTON, DC—Though critics have argued that he does not understand the futility of his current situation, President Bush announced today that he has no plans to remove his head from its current pos...
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young@dannagal.bsky.social

The fact that FDNY has a clearly established protocol for this precise thing tells us that kids are just... walking around squeezing their heads in between bars every day all the time.

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

village rabblerouser: get our your pitchforks and torches! me: I have this pitchspoon him: ...that's a shovel me: I have a pitchknife too him: that's a sword me: that's right him: ... him: bring along your pitchspoon

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

95% of the time someone posts something containing the word “humans”—making a claim about what what we all do, or have done in our long and varied history—you can disregard it.

Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

(Peter Thiel sees number on receipt; eyes bug out of head)

Mary Peltola@marypeltola.com

$24.49 a gallon for gas in Noatak. I don’t know how anyone can afford that. Alaska families are being crushed by the unaffordable cost of living, and Dan Sullivan keeps on voting for the war that’s making everything more expensive. Alaska needs change.

Luke Yoquinto
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One thing I learned from this is the likely origin site of the 1918 global pandemic was… Kansas?? See more: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govThe site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications
Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social

As the midterms approach, I want to remind folks that pandemics have historically given rise to fascism The fear associated with death and disability on a massive scale makes it easier for authoritarians to seize power Vote accordingly Protect disabled & marginalized people. Get them to the polls

politico.comFed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gainsThe paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.