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Rob Lion

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Mechanical engineer building particle accelerators, formerly quantum computers. Technology and infrastructure history; reverse engineering. Cats. He/him. Also @rnlion@Twitter and @rnlion@tacobelllabs.net

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This Eagle Scout is ashamed of Scouting America once again for caving to Hegseth, who wouldn't know honor if it gave him the Scout handshake. It's BSA v. Dale all over again apnews.com/article/scou...

Scouting America drops diversity initiatives from event after pressure from the PentagonOne of Scouting America’s biggest gatherings has eliminated dedicated spaces for gay youth, women and scouts of color as the organization faces pressure from the Pentagon to pull back diversity effort...apnews.com
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Micah

I mean this is fundamentally one of the big reasons why data centers have no local constituency: they don’t actually create a lot of jobs they’ll employ some folks during construction but the actual day to day operation of a data center really doesn’t need many people, especially given its size

Aaron Rupar

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

ashley 🌹

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

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laŭra

if an elite lobbying effort can convince you that you have to ban trans people from sports to survive in politics you straightforwardly do not have it in you to pass electoral reform, or stand up to the fossil fuel lobby, or do any of the difficult things that have to be done

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Alex von Tunzelmann

If somebody came to one of my writing classes with a novel about a “24-year-old wunderkind” on Wall Street called Leopold Aschenbrenner who graduated from Columbia aged 19, looked and dressed exactly like this, and crashed the stock market, I’d advise them to tone it down a bit

Tony Tassell

Quote in this story: “The real question is how did anyone invest so much money, and then lend so much money, to a . . . kid with no personal experience and no infrastructure?” as.ft.com/r/5f7537a7-0...

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Quantian

In conclusion: a very good stockpicker and a very bad portfolio manager, and the latter was sufficiently disastrous he wound up destroying most of his assets and probably causing the largest trading loss of all time. If the reported numbers are true, going $45bn -> $10bn is 3x the size of Archegos.

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Sarah Taber

Lisa Barnes's farm had a worker STANDING ON A SEMITRUCK BETWEEN THE CAB & TRAILER. While going down a state highway. So yeah he got thrown off & ran tf over by the semi truck. It's only the 2nd worker who's died on their farm in the last 3 years I'm sure it's not a pattern or anything :C

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Sarah Taber

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Lucas Tieman

There would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.

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