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Posts by Charlie Thomsen

That's what this has all been about.

"Correcting diversity."

Deportations, concentration camps, murdering protestors, anti-DEI, forcing trans people into hiding, it's all for one reason....

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Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.

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It should be noted that Bovino is actually describing mass ethnic cleansing, not mass deportations.

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Judge Helen Gillmor just told the DOJ exactly where to stick their bogus, preemptive lawsuit. Her brilliant ruling leaves Big Oil's federal shield completely shattered. Here's why this ruling is a massive game-changer... 🌊👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-is-l...

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A series of six maps depicting Arctic sea ice age from 2000 to 2024. Each map shows the Arctic region with colors representing the age of the sea ice, ranging from yellow for older ice to dark blue for younger ice. The progression illustrates changes over time with each map labeled with its corresponding year: 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2024.

A series of six maps depicting Arctic sea ice age from 2000 to 2024. Each map shows the Arctic region with colors representing the age of the sea ice, ranging from yellow for older ice to dark blue for younger ice. The progression illustrates changes over time with each map labeled with its corresponding year: 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2024.

Introducing the new Arctic Sea Ice Age product, offering one of the most advanced long-term records of Arctic sea ice evolution.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3NXZkgO

📸 Arctic sea ice age 2005-2024, Arctic Sea Ice Age Climate Data Record.
#CopernicusMarine #Arctic #ClimateChange

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Hegseth on dropping the flu vaccine reqt for the military: We will not force you to take it, “because your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable.”

OH REALLY?

Replace ‘flu vaccine’ with ‘abortion’ and we’ll see how ‘negotiable’ my body, faith, and convictions are.

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It's not possible to view these kinds of arguments, which are coming up repeatedly, separately from the sustained attacks on shared governance. Some state legislatures and rich donors have been extremely vocal about removing faculty from positions where they can affect change at their universities.

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Subglacial water flow and ice dynamics during glacial lake outburst floods observed from space - Nature Communications An analysis of satellite data follows ~1 km3 of flood water drain over only 3 weeks from a glacier-covered lake along a 50 km path beneath the ice to the glacier margin, providing important insight fo...

Exciting 🤩 new insights into subglacial hydrology of Grímsvötn jökulhlaups (2021/22, Iceland).

💧 Subglacial Floods switch between channel & sheet flow; water ponding along paths drives major ice dynamics and velocity including lifting of ice, altering 3D motion.

Amazing work 🇮🇸 #glaciology #glofs

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SORKIN: There's a whole number of very large companies, including Apple and Amazon, that have not sought reimbursements yet for the tariffs. From what I understand, part of the reason is they're worried about offending you.


TRUMP: I think it's brilliant. They got to know me very well. I'm honored.

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I don't *believe* this per se, but there's a long-held conspiracy theory that Alex Jones is long-dead esoteric comedian Bill Hicks, and I'm just gonna say that it makes Jones REALLY mad when you bring it up

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Imagine seeing a Grimace hit by a car on the side of the road. For us it’s the stuff of nightmares but for motorists in McDonaldLand it is the grim reality of everyday life

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Look out, kid!

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Him: What would be your dream job
Me: Oh that's easy. Sitting on the back of a motorbike on the Tour de France pushing idiots into the ditch
Him: Oh come off it there's no such job
Me:

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The passive voice is even more wild when you open up the article and it says they suspect he was driving under the influence. What a joke

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A map of the US showing home-insurance premiums as a percentage of household income by county. the highest percentages are in Florida, as you'd expect, but also vast swaths of the Midwest and South. Source: Bloomberg Intelligence

A map of the US showing home-insurance premiums as a percentage of household income by county. the highest percentages are in Florida, as you'd expect, but also vast swaths of the Midwest and South. Source: Bloomberg Intelligence

No place is immune to the impacts of a hotter planet. One example: People outside the usual suspects of Cali and Florida are suffering the most from soaring home-insurance premiums

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Dump crowing about E's acumen with those vote-counting computers and E crowing about how he delivered the election to Dump.

Dump crowing about E's acumen with those vote-counting computers and E crowing about how he delivered the election to Dump.

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This video shows how seismic waves from the M7.4 earthquake in Japan were detected across North America and Europe.

These ground motion visualizations are created by the @earthscope.org

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Revealed: Scientists tell Colombia fossil-fuel transition summit to ‘halt new expansion’ - Carbon Brief Around 50 nations will gather in Colombia to debate ways to “transition away” from fossil fuels, in the face of worsening climate change and high oil prices

Buenos Dias from Colombia! 🌺

Around 50 nations will meet here to discuss fossil-fuel transition.

They have already been circulated a draft report recommending that they “halt all new expansion”, according to an exclusive by me for @carbonbrief.org

www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-sci...

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Hey everybody! I am taking the helm of this classic American institution with @theonion.com and want to know what you fine folks would like to see from us.

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Still from the first Lord of the Rings movie showing Saruman speaking to Gandalf with text that reads "Your love of the halfling's leaf has clearly slowed your mind."

Still from the first Lord of the Rings movie showing Saruman speaking to Gandalf with text that reads "Your love of the halfling's leaf has clearly slowed your mind."

fuck you man

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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

BBC Investigation: “Some analysts say it bears the hallmarks of illegal insider trading.”

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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public

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With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

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I love these two Tims, Onion & Heidecker. Sandy Hook is the next town over from me; my kids swam in meets against the older siblings of the murdered kids.

Ben, you are the definition of a mensch.

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American manufacturers who record the interior of your vehicle and the space around it and sell your location and driving data to data brokers : but Chinese cyber

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There is a crow. You should pay more attention.

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I had a pastor who one time told us the theory of evolution would become laughable in our lifetime, and I was like, okay, we’re done here

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“Nah, You Ain’t Got Enough Edjiccashun to Vote” [1958, Alabama] www.loc.gov/exhibits/her...

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A Minnesota protester threw a snowball. Feds responded with tear gas, pepper balls. • Minnesota Reformer As the toxic haze rose, an agent pepper-sprayed protesters and a news photographer at close range.

“We see use of excessive force after use of excess force". Documentary footage shows agents tear-gasssed and pepper sprayed a crowd in response to a snowball. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/20/a...

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