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@Political_Data your tracker seems to be feeding data from the general election for the Santa Clara County special election. politicaldata.com/early-vote-cou… 47% turnout seemed totally out of bounds, and it was. Hope you'll be rested and refreshed for '26!

@lipa0902 I mostly agree, and have been BTFD, so pretty happy.

@cf201602 I doubt refurbished consumables will be widely used. Any surgical complications, whether related or not, will expose the surgeons and hospitals to lawsuits if they use refurbished. Surgeons don’t get paid more for using refurbished. Typically it’s surgeons decision what to use.

Never understood why investors were negative on $ISRG during Q3. Now it beat the expectations like a clockwork, sentiments should improve. If you are concerned about competition from $JNJ or $MDT, let me tell you: they will NEVER be a threat! No surgeons have time to learn a new tool that is inferior and unproven compared with the standard set by Da Vinci

The FCC commissioners are not unanimous. Brava to Anna Gomez: #CancelDisney

@DisneyPlus Had been thinking about turning on a subscription to watch Andor with my family, but after Disney's display of cowardice, I sold our shares in Disney instead. Shame on you.

@MatthewRideout @dan__treasure The point is that the iGPU has high sp6eed access to that 128G of ram. That 3060 only goes up to 12Gig...

@kianfaizi An interesting challenge would be to search for relics in the genetic code of these earlier systems tuned for less organically rich environment?

pic from reiners’ “complementary models for ecosystems”; you may recognize it from the more conservative adaptation that appears in sterner and elser’s “ecological stoichiometry”

all life is made of matter, but where does that come from? the *inorganic* world, at least initially! nothing in biology makes sense except in light of this

How many people here heard of the Posse Comitatus act because of a high school civics class? I'm drawing a blank on the name of my 9th grade teacher but really wishing more people had teachers like him.

@benacur He was punched by his son "X"? Who gives their kid the same name as their company?

gift article from The New York Times: A Black Eye at the White House: Did Somebody Punch Elon? The list of possible suspects seemed long. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/…

@StephenQuake @royalsociety Congratulations Steve! Grateful to have played a small role.

Honored to be elected a Fellow of the @royalsociety. Grateful for the collaborators and mentors who’ve made this journey possible, and proud to keep pushing science forward. royalsociety.org/news/2025/05/n…

@elander777 @hughs_news Yeah, do you think all that bark grows on trees?

@hughs_news If Onfim lived in the 1200s and was taking classes (probably from a tutor), wouldn't he also be a member of the elite?

@chrislhayes @whstancil I wish I coudl think of a better adjective than "effectively" given the chaos?

@whstancil Kinda looks like there are 12-18 red-pilled social media addicts aged 25-30 who are effectively running the entire federal bureaucracy at the moment.

The craziest thing is that they had months to plan what they were going to do when they got in office and they’re kicking out insane, government-destroying orders and memos and emails seemingly live, direct out of their fevered brains, with no plan at all

@elonmusk So you're saying anyone who's ever worked for the federal government has a conflict of interest w.r.t. the government? Get real.

What the hell? Certainly improper, possibly criminal.

@nakashimae It's fun to probe more:

Asked about Tiananmen Square, site of a deadly government crackdown on protesters in 1989, China's DeepSeek AI app responds: “I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.” washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

@JesseKellyDC Some of us may not have known it existed, but before Obama won, when people questioned whether he was even eligible to run, a lot of us became a lot more aware of the racism that was just under the surface.

For those who aren’t old enough, you cannot imagine how little race tension there was in this country before Obama got into power and started stoking those flames. It was here, sure. But it was so small you hardly knew it existed. Then, the communist got power.

@JeffDean Are you affiliated with the housing development called "The Dean" in Mountain View on San Antonio? It looks relatively bike friendly, and is close to Google.

The societal health benefits alone of investing in better bike infrastructure probably have a 10:1 or 20:1 ROI. And with (optionally) ebikes and better infrastructure, more people will use bikes for more journeys. I wish more US cities would do these kinds of transformations.

@brithume Which candidate has talked about exercising 2nd amendment rights as a tool to fight tyranny?

If Donald Trump is held responsible for Jan. 6 because of his allegations that the 2020 election was stolen, is it unfair, after two assassination attempts, to hold responsible the Democrats who have ceaselessly claimed Trump is a threat to democracy?

@teenmd @YouTube youtu.be/3t6L-FlfeaI?si…

.@YouTube why does your closed captioning can detect it's spanish but can't just caption it e.g. sí se puede vs "spanish"

@JamesFallows Didn't newspapers used to print transcripts of acceptance speeches? I'm not even seeing a link to one.