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Posts by meredith balkus

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

3 months ago 3900 967 37 21
wsj push alert that says: In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be

wsj push alert that says: In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

9 months ago 6927 1088 102 142
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

9 months ago 10345 4916 155 231

if being part of the union does not entitle you to any of the benefits of the union, we do not, in any real sense, have a union

9 months ago 3866 891 85 20

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

9 months ago 63643 14343 811 583

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

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Listen do you want to try writing the book or amputating a limb with the civil war bone saw? It's going to feel about the same.

10 months ago 202 33 11 6
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

1 year ago 10499 5284 452 396

yeah that’s kidnapping

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1 year ago 3364 1661 10 15

all scrolling is doomscrolling under fascism

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This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

1 year ago 38651 7132 1508 646

"Woke just means you give a damn about other people."

— Jane Fonda accepting the Life Achievement Award at the SAG Awards

1 year ago 5349 875 66 40

when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

1 year ago 4437 906 55 21
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Fantasy At The End Of The World - Aftermath A new world is possible, but only if we log off and put in the work

NEW for @aftermath.site - i wrote about Metaphor:ReFantazio, David Lynch, and the work we need to do to defeat doomerism and manifest the world we want.

1 year ago 246 60 3 8

"rapid response"

*checks calendar*

huh

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Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

1 year ago 44136 7136 218 160

we love attentive blocking

1 year ago 4654 924 13 40
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Fabulous 🇺🇸💥

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Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate

Kendrick: actually

1 year ago 54154 7233 117 245

This is why the Samuel L. Jackson bits were so amazing. Just a total troll job on angry white people.

1 year ago 486 59 3 2
As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces
President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence

As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence

Pretty sure it’s a racist overcurrent now.

1 year ago 689 122 27 8

we are reaching levels of national security threats I did not even realize were possible

this is the kind of thing you put in a terrible b-movie where some nefarious cybercriminal has hacked The Entire Treasury and everyone rolls their eyes at the implausibility

except somehow it's actually real

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same methods, different era

1 year ago 10189 2890 75 75

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

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Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks:

"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

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A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

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