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Little known behavior analyst and recreational swimmer. Not the libertarian Matt Welch or any of the other ones -- I'm talking to you, Matt.

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Hitting all the way over at Belaya is especially impressive, that's really damn far. πŸ₯³

01.06.2025 21:51 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think this obit is important when one considers the importance of acceptance and open society and attracting people who will help to make innovative and better outcomes for us all

17.05.2025 02:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99

Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

17.05.2025 02:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Orders All Children Born Under Biden To Be Renamed After Confederate Generals WASHINGTONβ€”In an effort to restore what he said were traditional American values that the previous administration had attempted to destroy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday decreeing that all children born while President Joe Biden was in office would be renamed after Confederate generals. β€œParents across the country were shamed by angry liberals […]

β€œParents across the country were shamed by angry liberals into giving their kids β€˜woke’ names like Tyler and Justin when they should have been naming them Stonewall and Forrest,” said Trump
theonion.com/trump-o...

25.03.2025 00:30 πŸ‘ 3410 πŸ” 349 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 36
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Have a written record of society’s collapse.

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10.01.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 6744 πŸ” 761 πŸ’¬ 135 πŸ“Œ 34
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07.02.2025 20:31 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Developing critical thinking, patience, resilience, and discipline to dismantle an authoritarian regime is like training for a sportβ€”only consistent effort and dedication yield results. Those without the rigor to advance with calm and discipline exhaust themselves and give up.

07.02.2025 22:33 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I was going to add: maybe he and Yanukovich can share a flat. "Odd Couple In Exile"

08.12.2024 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, of course Assad is reported to be in Moscow. Reassuring to know that some logic still holds up. πŸ™„

08.12.2024 20:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Thanksgiving, Bluesky

30.11.2024 21:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Study Shows Venting when angry seems sensible.

I've suspected this for a long time. It makes sense from the standpoint of automatic reinforcement. Possibly from the standpoint of respondent conditioning, also. Not the first study to show it.

www.sciencealert.com/venting-does...

21.11.2024 18:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜I’ve seen winters change’: Olympic champion Jessie Diggins refuses to shut up and ski The two-time cross-country World Cup champion is widely considered the best Nordic skier in US history. This year she has bigger goals

www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...

Winter without snow to ski on, or the fat bike on, is bad.

21.11.2024 17:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Kremlin’s 2045 Plan to Divide Ukraine and Reshape Global Power Revealed The Russian Defense Ministry’s 2045 plan sees the dismantling and division of Ukrainian territory, aimed at securing a pro-Russian global political outcome according to Kyiv Post sources.

Experience since 2014 in Ukraine, and even earlier in the post Russian-Soviet imperial space supports the likelihood of this dark ambition: www.kyivpost.com/post/42613?u...

21.11.2024 14:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good understanding of the relationship between radical behaviorism and behavior analysis gives understanding of how behavior analysis can improve lives. Not understanding the relationship leads means the signal gets lost in the noise.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

16.11.2024 17:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Delay discounting -- the behavioral original sin & probably phylogenetic behavior which now appears, ironically, possibly no longer evolutionarily advantageous in the context of global warning.

16.11.2024 17:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm wondering if wanting more Trump will end up like this: images.app.goo.gl/SJnpSPDoqFJW...

16.11.2024 17:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not until Guardian Football Weekly returns the often promised, little delivered Pulisic Watch. You hooked me in with your empty promises 🀨

14.11.2024 12:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just to be posting something for now, I'm gonna post some of my favorite behavior analytic, and ba adjacent, sayings from time to time. 1st: All behavior is choice behavior. (In the multiple concurrent contingencies sense.)

14.11.2024 03:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When thinking about this election, Paul Volker, Jimmy Carter, inflation, and Ronald Reagan come to mind.

07.11.2024 14:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Always πŸ’–

Don't make me tap the sign

06.11.2024 05:42 πŸ‘ 70184 πŸ” 62090 πŸ’¬ 297 πŸ“Œ 1974
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Elon Musk’s X Suspends Journalist Who Reported Leaked J.D. Vance Docs Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein was suspended from X shortly after sharing a leaked dossier on Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance.

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social is getting a Twitler headache after posting the J.D Vance dossier. So here's an article about it which includes a link to the document. Hopefully he just forgets about that nasty place and decides to spend his time here instead. newrepublic.com/post/186423/...

26.09.2024 20:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,280,786, Matt Welch β€ͺ@welchmj.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 1, 2023"

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,280,786, Matt Welch β€ͺ@welchmj.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 1, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,280,786!

27.09.2024 03:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll say again, it SURE IS WEIRD *wink wink, nudge nudge, hint hint, cough cough, say no more, say no more* that both the far-right and the far-left are repeating the same line about Putin escalating to nuclear weapons in Ukraine and starting WWIII!

11.09.2024 20:51 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Opinion | What the Supreme Court Should Not Do in Trump’s Disqualification Case If anyone is going to do so, elected representatives must be the ones to forgive Donald Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/o...

A democratic solution. Small d.

06.01.2024 02:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk promised an anti-β€˜woke’ chatbot. It’s not going as planned. Elon Musk’s β€œGrok” AI is drawing complaints from conservatives, who say it’s still too liberal. Musk says he’s trying to fix it.

Musk warned that Grok would offend people because it wouldn’t be afraid to speak the truth.

So far, the people most offended are the right-wingers who were counting on it to disparage minorities, trans women and vaccines. My latest: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

23.12.2023 14:48 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1