Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@w7voa
Didn't people used to use phrases like "the wisdom of the markets"? I'd actually be a lot more encouraged about our long-term prospects as a country and a civilization if markets continued to fall.

@KaraDanvers

Another distinction: what Biden signed was a congressional act, not an executive order. One is representative democracy in action, the other is the caprice, as easily withdrawn again as given, of an autocrat.

@petergleick
Hmm, if he's judging you to be one, that would make you a de jure atheist, not de facto.

@petergleick
Or perhaps no god has yet been confabulated to your specific requirements?

Move "ZIG". For great justice.

@Fife4Europe Beneficiary.

@briankrebs It's still pretty generous. There's a lot more wrong with that letter. It reads like the work of an excitable middle school yearbook volunteer.

@1br0wn Still it must be killing you to not know who might be the best-dressed coach in football

@Fife4Europe Light bulbs. I'm sure lightbulbs will help. And bleach, right?

@FrankPasquale

“My cancer knowledge is extremely limited,” one of Ms. Towle’s frequent critics texted. “Please respect my privacy.”

Eeeeeeeaaaaaaaggggghhh. It's impossible to even parody these people. Another one is "the privacy officer for Valley Health System, headquartered in Bergen County, N.J., where she shapes and manages the organization’s patient privacy practices, according to her LinkedIn profile."

It's just surreal. I know I sound like a Redditor when I say I hope that latter one loses her job, but seriously, it's appropriate here.

@beebrookshire The guy who said "it's wildly inconsistent" is missing the point. It's very consistent in one respect: it will say anything but "I don't know". Anything at all.

@beebrookshire

It's not like people are asking it on purpose. They stick it at the top of your search results and there's no direct way to turn it off. (Though you can put a custom url in your browser search settings to get a version of google search that doesn't have it.)

@EugeneMcParland Which is just the sort of thing a good mediator says, eh?

@w7voa We still have inspectors general?

@Fife4Europe Is it even espionage if the target simply walks up to you and hands you more than you ever dreamed of?

@rahmstorf Private industry has profited enormously, indeed in many senses almost exclusively, from government and academic investment in pure research. The enormous strides taken in digital technology and pharmacology, aerospace, etc, were not the product of the benefiting firms' own R&D. You and I paid for it. This has been the foundation of American prosperity at least since the second world war.