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James Pitt retweeted
so stupid that every election is about gas prices while we have rendered cheap chinese electric cars illegal
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All the demographic destiny stuff continues to be loser talk from the 2000s. In the Trump era we've had massive swings in voting behavior by education, age, race, religion, and then back again, we've had a Texas R+2, a Texas R+14, and a Texas D+11 election, it's all up for grabs.
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Over 50 DSA victories tonight prove socialism can win in the U.S.
Workers deserve more and a reality where all of us live with dignity and hope is closer than we think.
The job's not done, though. Tomorrow, we continue organizing, fighting, and winning for the working class!
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Ossoff: "In sweeping and decisive victories, the American people have rebuked the depravity, corruption, and incompetence of the failed lame duck president, Donald J Trump"
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Anakin is non-binary now. That Draco Malfoy but a girl one is a covid-conscious lesbian
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it used to be that the response to this was "well, all high performance systems are already written in C++, it would be insane to try to rewrite, so we're stuck with it"
unfortunately for the C++ committee it appears we will in fact be rewriting all software globally in 2027
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Yes, this was a wave election.
But every one of these races was a battle. Many were brutal.
We fielded strong candidates who fought with everything they had. Activists, volunteers, local leaders poured their hearts into these campaigns.
This wave didn’t just happen. We fought for it. We earned it.
What makes us feel "fight or flight" may be less adrenaline and more of something else—a hormone that seeps out of our bones.
Learn more on #Halloween: scim.ag/4qOArCM
ALT Hormone secreted by bones may help us escape danger
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The chances of being killed by a landmine delivered by a bear are low, but they are never zero.
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Our hypothesis: LLMs have a pressure for information density, leading to compressed language, novel ngrams, and a preference for short alternatives in linguistic alternations, even when this is not humanlike - humans have a pressure for successful communication with other humans
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Everyone knows that hunting in chimpanzees is mostly by males. But in bonobos, much of the hunting is by females!! Large implications for thinking about the origins of hunting in humans. cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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When every second counts, New Yorkers are waiting longer for emergency medical care. 🚨
As medical emergencies increase, low pay and high turnover among @FDNY EMTs and paramedics are putting additional strain on NYC’s EMS system, contributing to longer response times. 🚑
Our latest report calls for competitive pay for these essential first responders and a comprehensive plan to reduce response times and ensure New Yorkers get the care they need, when they need it most. Read the full report: comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/…
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Today I'm making public my data pipeline for the 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in DRC. It extracts clean, health-zone-level case, death, and other series from INSP's daily French PDF situation reports.
vsbuffalo.github.io/ebola-bd…
