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"Nothing about the future" is admittedly a very funny complaint to have about museums
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EPA head getting into the chemtrails conspiracy theory.
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Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵
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Google removed the pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its AI principles
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The CIA has carried out an executive order signed by Trump to revoke security clearances for about 50 former intelligence officials and senior government officials who had signed a letter about Russia’s possible role in spreading allegations against Hunter Biden, an agency spokesman told NBC News. nbcnews.com/politics/donald-…
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R.I.P. David Lynch, January 20, 1946 — January 2025. Here is Angelo Badalamenti sharing his and David’s composition process for “Twin Peaks.”
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I think maybe the most bonkers-in-a-good-way study I read last year:
Ants are intuitive surgeons. They perform amputations on injured legs of nest mates — and seem to effectively distinguish between “femur” vs “tibia” injuries to maximize the benefit of the amputation
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Americans confidence in medicine, by generation; 1972-2022
Many stories you could tell here. One is: Confidence in medicine declines with age, until you get old, and at which point confidence in medicine starts to rise again
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Here’s the thing: studies of social media find that most posts are actually positive, but angry posts spread more widely. Why?
Joyful posts only spread within our tight social network but anger & indignation are universal, moving more easily across the weak ties between network
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America's cats are killing 365 million birds per year. And no one is talking about it
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Romanian far-right presidential candidate Calin Georgescu:
- doesn't believe in the moon landing
- believes nanotechnology is in food
- has alternative theories on water
- says he met a "non-human" person at the UN
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One-in-five Americans reports getting their news from influencers.
A new study finds that news influencers are more likely to identify with the political right. trib.al/1zrw4hQ
ALT A bar chart showing the share of social media news influencers identifying with partisan political leanings across several platforms. Facebook is the most skewed at 13% left-leaning and 39% right-leaning while TikTok is the most even, with 28% left-leaning and 25% right.
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President Zelensky’s team confirms to me that Elon Musk was on the call with Trump and the Ukrainian president and participated in the discussion.
🇺🇸🇺🇦Scoop: Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky. My story on @axios
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