@malwaretech I'm hoping there's a ceremony where you're presented with your red nose.

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@w7voa They used to have an audio track that welcomed you to enjoy the view of the flight line in the mobile lounge. I always wanted to ride in them with a smoking jacket and a snifter of brandy, welcoming riders as they boarded.

@sminnee @NIH_LLAMAS @Popehat or a battle of wits with a Sicilian when death is on the line.

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My shorthand for the approach we most need in election coberage is this:

"Not the odds, but the stakes."

How does this work in practice? Margaret Sullivan answers that in The Guardian today. "Now’s the time to think about just how bad a DeSantis presidency would be."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Not how DeSantis plans to outwit Trump and then succeed in "the general" (itself an insidery phrase...) but what life would be like if he took power.

Not the odds, but the stakes.

#uspol #journalism

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I want to give a shout out to exposure notifications, the API Apple and Google created at the beginning of the pandemic. Well scoped. In close collaboration with domain experts. Privacy protecting. Measurably helped, maybe not as much as hoped, but still. And now being responsibly shut down, as promised.

We should praise folks when tech is done right. I want to see more of this responsible deployment of tech.

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NY: White Vet kills mentally ill Black man—GOP makes killer a hero😳

WI: White shooter kills 2 people at BLM rally—GOP makes killer a hero😳

TX: White Vet kills BLM marcher—GOP makes killer a hero😳

DC: Black cop kills white insurrectionist—GOP makes insurrectionist a hero🤔

This is what white supremacy looks like

@mike still upset about active acquiring and destroying coolrunning. It was only 16 years ago.

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Obviously the people have spoken. I’ll have some big news about my coverage of #Ukraine soon.

I’ll make sure to post regularly on Mastodon and keep you all in the loop!

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Did you know Tesla has cameras both on the outside of vehicles and the inside, and everything is uploaded to Tesla? Anyhoo they’ve been exporting the videos, making memes of customers and then posting them on chat rooms. reuters.com/technology/tesla-w

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Are any of my followers in, near, or soon to be passing through Malmo (Sweden) and want me to owe them a favour? I left a scarf in a restaurant and would like help retrieving it now I am not there any more! (boosts welcome)

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A striking visualisation of #climatechange: the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.

Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.

The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…

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Stanford: We couldn't have better engineered a scenario to make @Popehat hate everyone and everything

Wayne State: Well, lemme give it a shot
popehat.substack.com/p/wayne-s

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/5 As long as I’ve been writing in public about “wow this guy’s an asshole but his speech is protected,” I’ve been pestered by people saying “oh but why did you have to say he’s an asshole, you didn’t have to say that.” Yeah, you didn’t have to be a tedious nag, but here we fuckin are. Robustly calling out assholes while accurately limning their rights is supposed to model how the free speech bargain works.

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@brianklaas the whole "Trump derangement syndrome" retort was so annoying.

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I mean, how can you not love this deliriously optimistic protest (posted by @MichalFeldman9@twitter)

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