John Saunders

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1. Elon didn't create PayPal. He sucked at his job so bad, that Peter Thiel fired him. Seriously. Look it up.

2. Elon did not found Tesla. He bought it, then pretended that he founded it. Seriously. Look it up.

3. The hyper loop makes zero sense and is fake. High speed rail makes sense and is real

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

New from 404 Media: the removed DOGE deposition videos have already been backed up across the internet. A judge ordered their removal from YouTube on Friday. By Saturday, the videos were available on the Internet Archive and as a torrent file www.404media.co/the-removed-...

Thought for the Day…

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Historian here happy women’s history month: “At the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 37 countries voted to strengthen access to justice for women and girls. Six abstained. One voted against: the United States under Donald Trump.
Alone. Against a global effort to advance women’ rights.”

Whoops. Spreading to eastern Europe now.

Someone at the NYT asked me a couple years ago for an opinion piece on "how to solve the Colorado River water crisis."

So I made a nice little writeup on the most obvious answer: charging for water.

Once the editorial board saw it, they freaked out & cancelled the piece.

More ships in transit perhaps trapped, or subject to an extra "toll". And not just oil.

The rerouting around Africa is gonna hurt.

Uuuu boy. Shades of Trusted Platform Module.

A Frosty Morning. 2°C and a fine day ahead. Rooks

A Frosty Morning . 2°C and a fine day ahead. Rooks.

No Kings Day is two weeks away and we’ve already surpassed the total number of events from October’s historic protests. Join us in the streets again on March 28 for the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Not to mention the logistics, administrative and material.

This paper is really good. If you go for it, hang on until the section "Replacing Rules with Rent" where neo-royalism comes into focus within current events.

Counter-intuitive financial moves are maneuvering for position in an order not yet fully formed, not this one.

🧵 more than simple grifting. A political project.

Strength In Numbers is looking for smart survey research assistants Note: Not a full-time job, but I will pay you — probably best for a smart undergrad or grad student or side hustle-r

Strength In Numbers is looking for a smart part-time survey research assistant (or a few)
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/strength-i...

Migratory species depend on networks of habitats. When these connections remain intact, they can move freely, ecosystems stay resilient, and natural processes that sustain life continue to flow.

Participants at #CMSCOP15 will seek to maintain, restore & strengthen these networks: www.cms.int/cop15

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No one should have to live like this just because some rich, old, white billionaires think they have the right to rule the world.

It’s always the exposure of vacuous little monsters that is the problem, not the vacuous little monsters and their deeds. If more people knew they would become pariahs or be prosecuted for their actions, maybe they would become more cautious.

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Minnesota Frost fan on the zamboni has a sign reading No ICE, no war, no kings, which was immediately taken off the big screen once it was shown on camera.

Fans continue to let out cheers, but just began booing as a team official removed it on the ice.

THIS.

Charging for water isn't anti-agriculture.

It's a basic guardrail that keeps lowest-common denominator bulk goods, that can be grown just about anywhere, from crowding out more financially rewarding types of farming.

That brings MORE MONEY to farms & rural areas.

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If you missed it there were quite a few school walkouts today!
Here’s footage from Maryland of one of these walkouts
It’s time for the youth to take center stage, and how could we blame them? After all, this is THEIR future, the Trump
administration is destroying!

Source: MD Walkout IG

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

Senator are you just gonna narrate this or do something about it