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Robert Warren
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Robert Warren
@robvwarren
“You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.” - Salinger
Irvine, CA Beigetreten Şubat 2009
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@garrytan @sarthakgh Not sure if this is dishonest or just oblivious. Most leftists I know don’t talk or think about any of those things. They worry about resource allocation (build homes or build datacenters?), environmental impact, and loss of human significance/contribution.
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Hard leftists and DSA-types will fight AI tooth and nail because AI is the universal solvent for socialism’s three prerequisites.
AI will reduce scarcity (abundance), eliminate victimhood (agency), and eliminate the need for intermediaries (disintermediation).
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael
Le socialisme n'est pas une théorie économique. C'est une structure morale qui a besoin de trois choses pour exister : 1. De la rareté à redistribuer 2. Des victimes à défendre 3. Une classe d'intermédiaires pour orchestrer le tout Retirez un seul de ces trois piliers et l'édifice s'effondre. L'IA est en train de retirer les trois en même temps.
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Delta rejected adopting SpaceX's @Starlink on its fleet because it wanted to provide internet connectivity to passengers via the Delta Sync portal, instead of the Starlink-branded portal. Delta has since chosen to partner with Amazon's LEO.
This will result in Delta falling behind many of its competitors in offering high-speed WiFi onboard, as many other carriers are already offering or installing Starlink, whereas Amazon's LEO airplane WiFi for Delta is still a couple year away (or more).
Satellites currently in orbit:
• SpaceX's Starlink: 10,400
• Amazon's LEO: 300
(Delta rejection info according to Ron Baron)
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What are the best electronic music releases of 2026 so far?
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@preston_woo @ItsElanaGold @neurophos Aren’t you guys HQ’d in Austin and building out engineering in CA?
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@j_smith1968 @PNWConservative “Progressive” does not mean more taxes. It means a system in which the tax rate scales with income (or wealth, etc.). The idea of a progressive taxation system is to reduce income inequality.
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@PNWConservative Sounds like what Mamdani said.
Progressive means more taxes,correct? Or fees ( a nicer word for taxes) maybe add “temporary” in front to make it hit softer.
Seattle voted for her, but I feel sadness for those that didn’t.
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She ain’t stopping!!
This would be ON TOP of the massive tax increases WA Dems passed at the state level.
Katie Wilson: "I do think that we will need to pursue new progressive revenue in order to fund our priorities ... “
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@humantransit They’re losing money and their stock is at a 10 year low. So it’s not going well.
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Everyone but United and Delta is in varying degrees of trouble. JetBlue is on the verge of going under. There have been 240 airline bankruptcies since deregulation. If we want an airline system we need to regulate it.
Neera Tanden🌻@neeratanden
Given the news today that Spirit Airlines is shuttering and thousands of people are losing their jobs, I think we should honestly assess whether the Garland DoJ stopping the JetBlue merger with Spirit Airlines was the right call. Perhaps it was but any analysis must consider as part of the equation the loss to so many families ro decide.
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@jeffwilcox I took the 1 like from SEA down to Federal Way the other day. It was super slow until Star Lake (I think) and then sped up to 50+ mph along the final stretch. I really don’t get why it couldn’t get up to those speeds earlier in the ride.
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Rainy Seattle day.
Connector to work.
Light Rail home.
The 2 Line is really, really slow at points. Not sure if it’s limitations of technology or if they put poor rail down, but it’s so different than cities like New York and London where the rail is -flying- all the time.
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@SeattleWXGuy Such a coincidence to see this. I was on this flight yesterday and another passenger asked me to close my window. I was a little annoyed, but mostly because it wasn’t night time so why the heck is the preference for the plane to be dark?
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Amsterdam to Seattle and delta flight requests all window shades to be down while flying over Iceland and Greenland, agree or no?
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@JimDavisMTG How do you go about getting the new treatments for those that like the new style?
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🚨 #MTGStrixhaven #MTGArena Alert 🚨
BEFORE you start opening packs, craft the Mystical Archives that appear at Rare or higher but have lesser versions.
They will craft at the lowest possible rarity so they won't take up a rare slot in your packs!
Import list in next comment!
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@sam_rosenfeld "At an internal all-hands... NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the ... directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely." I'd wait to see more (non-anon) verification on this.
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Late to this, but why is the dissolution happening now in response to unpassed proposed future cuts?
Max Kozlov@maxdkozlov
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is closing its social sciences directorate. Staff will be transferred elsewhere in NSF, and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be kept. W/ @dangaristo for @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…
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@LocasaleLab @maxdkozlov I’ve seen many on X/reddit claim that “something is broken…” as if they’re writing a suspense novel. But the reality is that many companies and labs have suffered, and there have been life-changing impacts like job losses, due to these “non-story” delays.
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@LocasaleLab @maxdkozlov I mostly agree with your point, but I disagree about it being a “non-story.” Anyone really paying attention has known that NIH would eventually be fully funded once Congress signaled their rejection for cuts. And the delays, while serious, were explainable (shutdown, OMB). 1/2
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We did not push any doomsday narrative; we reported the facts.
The White House changed the rules for how agencies receive their appropriated budgets, limiting the NIH's access to its Congress-approved funds for 42 days and slowing down new awards. The data speaks for itself.
Jason Locasale@LocasaleLab
The “NIH is no longer functioning” narrative was always dramatically overstated. A delayed apportionment coming after a prolonged government shutdown was framed as institutional collapse rather than what it likely was: a lag in funding flow tied to broader delays in federal operations. That context was largely ignored. Instead, a handful of social influencers amplified by outlets like Science and Nature pushed a doomsday storyline that was far more dramatic than the underlying reality.
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@S_Corcoran @NCIDirector @theNCI There is also a significant delay this year, w/ spending likely to start in earnest in April. This is 4 months earlier than last year. but still not normal. So, it seems very likely NIH will spend more than FY25 and it’s possible, though challenging, for spending to match FY24.
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@S_Corcoran @NCIDirector @theNCI If you look at annual spending habits, especially the chart shared by Nature last month, NIH spending is usually very consistent & evenly dispersed throughout November - October prior to an annual reset. The delay last year was massive & led to a large spending reduction, 1/2
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I’ve heard concerns about @theNCI funding in FY26—especially about the number of awards issued so far. Here’s some context. 🧵
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@deniswirtz @Stanford @Penn @JohnsHopkins @Harvard @UMich @UCLA @MIT @UofIllinois @UChicago @Caltech Denis - you're misrepresenting this by switching back and forth from "issuing awards" and "new funding opportunities". Which do you mean? Here's an attempt to pull all projects through RePORTER. Has funding slowed down? Yes. Did it completely stop as you're suggesting? No.
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NIH is not issuing awards. You may think that it's because they it is coming up with new directions of research...The apposite is true.
Here is a graph showing how many fewer new funding opportunities that NIH has posted over time.
-91%, a trend that started on Jan 2025.
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@saveoursheriff @herrbrahms The people want you to adhere to our constitution and not suggest you’re going to strip guns away from people.
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The editorial basically says I have no right to any opinions. To be clear, I represent almost one million people in the county (more than a Congressional district), and the people who elected me want me to speak up for them, and I will not stop.
thenewstribune.com/opinion/articl…
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Yes. It’s very different. I thought I liked you for standing up for liberties while protecting the public, but I’m worried you’re actually just a culture warrior. You’re abusing your power to bully communities you don’t understand with no legitimate purpose behind it. Get back to work.
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Do you think it’s time to ban trans people from owning guns?
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@RoKhanna Ro! Agree we should be developing mRNA tools but neither mRNA and DNA are proteins or protein complexes. Both are strands of nucleic acids (i.e. “genetic” material).
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HHS stopped funding mRNA.
mRNA enables faster development than DNA as it's a genetic sequence, not a protein.
This delays the universal flu vaccine.
Trump's HHS are modern flat-earthers.
Ashish K. Jha@ashishkjha
There is a whosale destruction of leadership at the CDC. The newly confirmed Director is out Most of the top leaders who run key centers have resigned en masse Total implosion All because of @SecKennedy leadership What a complete disaster
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@jasonaramburu @verrrrmin @kingofhellz0ro @abcdfgehi @loomdoop wonder if any if these people have heard of NVLink. NVIDIA does much more than “resell TSMC chips”
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@verrrrmin @kingofhellz0ro @abcdfgehi @loomdoop Then why do they need to steal NVIDIA chips? reuters.com/business/autos…
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There is no AI economy. It loses hundreds of billions of dollars and all gains are in speculative valuation.
The only one making a profit is Nvidia, and it doesn’t make anything. It resells Taiwanese chips to companies that use them to lose money.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
New newsletter: The US economy is splitting in two. There’s a rip-roaring AI economy. And there’s a lackluster consumer economy. - Macro: Last quarter, spending on AI outpaced the growth in consumer spending - Stocks: In the last two years, ~60% of equity returns have come from “AI-related” companies, esp the hyperscalers like Microsoft and Meta (per JPM) - Micro: According to Stripe, firms on the platform that self-describe as “AI companies” are dominating revenue growt, far surpassing the growth rate of any other group
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