AGENTOFDISCORD

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

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Good morning !

“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.”

- Carl Sagan

Beautiful!

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky.

He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070...

🔭 🧪 #galactic

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There’s a lot of space to fuck up, for sure.

Quentin covered that song once!

Shallow Grave!

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

🔗 www.404media.co/this-college...

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Thanks @generalstrikeus.bsky.social for including us in this starter pack!

We've been doing this work for 30 years and are eager to pass on what we've experienced.

For example—try this analysis of how the last two successful general strikes in the US were organized:

crimethinc.com/TwoGeneralSt...

Israel launches major Gaza assault, shattering ceasefire Hamas says Israeli offensive marks end to ceasefire that took effect on January 19.

The Israeli military is bombing Gaza again, breaching the ceasefire. Hundreds of people are already reported killed.

This is not because they could not use diplomacy to achieve the goals that made them agree to the ceasefire.

It is because having achieved them, they can now resume the genocide.

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Timbeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732.

Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

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Strategy Choice Cascade In Games In the past, I've found that models like the Strategy Choice Cascade to be really helpful in defining a high level strategy that I can iterate on and drill down into. You might be tempted (as I was, e...

Choices we make early in development have knock on effects. Don’t think about them in isolation, visualize how they’re interrelated.

mechanus.org/strategy-cho...

These Are the SpaceX Engineers Already Working Inside the FAA SpaceX engineers were said to be simply touring the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday. In fact, some were already being onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment ...

www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

“Quietly…”
Why so quiet? Aren’t you loud and proud about being bigots?

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Happy belated birthday to you, brother!

Nazis fuck off.

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