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the danger of rote learning: if we don't fully understand a process, we can't find another way.

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@MechaNoot @grantstern tesla speedboat

Yesterday was a pretty incredible news week. Here's a recap: - VP Kamala Harris did a rally with Oprah, it was a hit! - Trump said anti-Semitic things to Jewish people at an anti-anti-Semitism event - Trump's anti-Semitic endorsement who became the NC gubernatorial nominee Mari Robinson just got revealed as the Black Nazi who loves bisexual sex when he's not preaching against LGBTQ people or getting one of his beloved golden showers whole cheating on his wife with her sister, and he got caught on the AshleyMadison cheat on your wife website database - Right wing journalist Olivia Nuzzi revealed an improper personal relationship with RFK Jr. after New York Magazine suspended her. - Right wing propagandist Christopher Rufo also got caught in the Ashley Madison database looking to cheat on his wife, whom he admitted to being an undocumented immigrant from Thailand 2018 Facebook post after his years of supporting racial hatred against immigrants. - The House Republican impeachment machine got torn to bloody shreds in full view of the public, as did their brilliant idea of bringing the people who wrote Project 2025 on to testify

@grantstern but wait, there was more kentuckytoday.com/news/sheriff-a…

Wow, Google even monitors its own employees reactions to major news like this. "Tone is neutral" "stock is largely unaffected" and of course, "Communicate with Care" which the Courts have interpreted as let your sensitive chat messages purge and copy lawyers on emails. /9

@ItsMooooooooose @CarolinaJournal too liberal in his porn preferences

@CarolinaJournal A scandal so bad a Republican must drop out? What could it be that's worse than being an accused child rapist, an adjudicated rapist, convicted of 34 felonies, fraud, stealing from children's charities, flying with Epstein, & being responsible for over 1 million American deaths?

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 NC Republicans pressure Gubernatorial Candidate Mark Robinson to drop out of the race as scandal unfolds #ncga #ncpol

@BGrueskin never forget what they did

@MarkAmesExiled but we're still gonna do weird things nothing strange about that

adam curtis was right, no one can be weird ever again

@_cingraham isolated pockets of paleolithic community lookin good rn we should be so lucky

@PabloReports perhaps a bit late now :| which, I've been told, makes it indecorous and rude to mention. can't say the things that shouldn't have to be said.

Reporter Tip: Cover the circus, but don't fuck the clowns.

If you wonder how this person can still be sheriff, I have a book for you! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/t…

This should be bigger news: AI is *revitalizing the fossil fuels industry.* Bloomberg called it a "surprising resurgence" in gas-fired power plants when we were on the brink of a transition to clean energy. And big tech has nothing to say about it. bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revita…

@BenjySarlin Given any kind of accuracy in diagnosis and/or effectiveness of treatments, people would constantly be shifting between risk pools, which are also proxies for quality and coverage of treatment.

FWIW, we asked Trump campaign about whether they'd rule out ideas like moving people with pre-existing conditions into a separate risk pool (a big 2017 GOP repeal/replace idea). No specifics, except to say the Trump and Vance "share the underlying principles of using more choice in the marketplace and efficiency as tools for better, more affordable health care."

🟡NEW: JD Vance reopens the pre-existing condition debates His NBC interview Sunday included several apparent references to Trump-era proposals to replace or pare back the ACA's protections for pre-ex conditions. Why's that so notable? Trump has pointedly not said if he'd try to pass them again. If Vance is right, his new "concepts of a plan" may look like his old ones. semafor.com/article/09/17/…

"Economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans." -Joan Robinson

Morning in a Pine Forest, 1889

@KenneyGeorge @ddayen Maybe the choice shouldn't be informed?

@dankloke @ddayen Maybe.

Reporting from Wilkes-Barre, PA, which has seen both major-party presidential candidates in recent weeks, here's @ryanlcooper: "So that’s what it’s like for your vote for president to matter in this country, and I have to say I’m not a fan." prospect.org/politics/2024-…

@KenneyGeorge @ddayen Agreed, although for informed choice, the second question should come last.

@ddayen It should be a serious national conversation. ‘Do Americans know what democracy is?’ ‘Do Americans want democracy?’ ‘What would Americans have to do to get democracy?’ Etc., etc.

@Miltime8 @ddayen The king is always a target, and has many enemies. Unless you specifically want to be a king, you really don't want to be a king at all.

@ddayen Poor guy suffering holding more power than the average medieval king

Lebanese friend of mine is trying to get information about his family & said something I didn’t even stop to consider today. He said ‘a lot of people are hesitant to answer texts right now’. What Israel did today really does change the course of how “wars” are conducted.