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Today is a good day to buy a carbon dioxide measurement device. Several at Amazon are under $40.

“Years ago, when I was writing my first book, I found myself in the main branch of New York City’s public library not because I needed to do research — the book was a memoir — but because the space itself seemed most aligned with the task of writing. It was like going to church to pray.” #Libraries #CharlesBlow nytimes.com/by/charles-m-blow nytimes.com/2022/11/23/opinion

This Illinois feed mill is cutting costs while fattening pigs thanks to its new 3 MW solar array, built with federal and state incentives:
energynews.us/2022/11/21/state

This is the binary black hole animation I made for Black Hole Week 2021 and the reason I joined twitter at the time. So I guess it is fitting to start with it here.

Months ago @VirusesImmunity@twitter.com and I laid out the strong case for nasal vaccines to achieve containment of the virus, breaking the chain of transmission at the individual and population level
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimm @SciImmunology@twitter.com

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This is one way to cross post on Twitter and Mastadon.

(Except if you’re Trump, go to the 4 Seasons’ Landscaping and await instructions.) universeodon.com/@ASlavitt/109


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RT @EricTopol
I'm outraged by this pathetic and inexcusable inability for this country to go after nasal and better, durable, variant-proof vaccines twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1
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RT @NickKnudsenUS
Billionaire buys Twitter to destabilize democracy.

Billionaire reinstates disgraced former president to piss off liberals and make them leave the platform.

Liberals leave the platform.

Billionaire chuckles to himself and sips his bourbon. twitter.com/i/web/status/15941
twitter.com/NickKnudsenUS/stat

@JPruente @JamesGleick

And, madness may be the point. Musk co-invested with Saudis, and in rhetoric is known to align with Putin. Twitter's past influence in Democratic uprisings has perhaps led to pushback by the regimes. Slate reports that Twitter outages are happening where Democracy is weakest. slate.com/technology/2022/11/t

We'll see what happens nationally today. The press predicts a wave despite mixed polling evidence. The predictions will be wrong because the polls will be (essentially) right.

The fantasy baseball people aren't here. I haven't found the music people. Maybe, science people are here? I see a couple locals. Oh, hi pundits!

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