empiricalskeptic 8 months ago

Whenever objective reality became heterodoxy. Original post:

Mastodon

Church of Jeff (@jeffowski@mastodon.world)

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empiricalskeptic 8 months ago

“Regrets collect like old friends.” - Florence + The Machine

empiricalskeptic 8 months ago

Otherwise lost in the chaos and noise is the opening of the 2025 World Expo. Original post:

Bluesky Social

The Japan Times (@japantimes.co.jp)

Challenges and hopes marked Sunday's opening of the 2025 World Exposition in the city of Osaka. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/14/japan/...

empiricalskeptic 8 months ago

Putin’s Palm Sunday Sumy Massacre in #ukraine was despicable, even by #russia standards. Trump can no longer rely on wishful thinking to end the war.

empiricalskeptic 8 months ago

Dumb question about Instagram’s UI. Is it now completely impossible to see a timeline feed without any algorithmic ranking? #meta #enshittification

empiricalskeptic 8 months ago

Well, that PagerDuty conference in Tokyo was a dud.

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

Okay, Trump Slump it is. #trumpslump

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

I prefer the anime stylized versions of my (real) photos.

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

It’s that season again (AI rendering of real personal photo). #sakura #spring #ai

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

Once again the S02 finale of Severance has defied my ability to guess where it’s going. #severance #appletv #scifi #sciencefiction

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

“Slowly. Then suddenly.” How authoritarians creep up on a population. usa #oligarchy #authoritarianism

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

“Then, a premium awaits those who, instead of blandly following tradition, or trying to foist their preferences onto the physical or social universe, are open to what the Universe teaches.” - Carl Sagan #science #mindfulness

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

I’m a few fucks short of the necessary fucks to give at the moment.

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

Blah blah, manufactured autopen controversy, blah blah… #biden #trump #propaganda

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

It’s immediately clear that Putin is slow-walking the US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. He has no intention of accepting the proposal, but Putin needs to avoid saying “no” directly to Trump. And he needs only a few days to invent a provocation that makes the proposal unacceptable.

empiricalskeptic 9 months ago

Well, this is interesting. Curious whether he can stand reelection as a #forward candidate.

Forward Party

Utah Sen. Thatcher leaves the GOP to join the Forward Party

The Forward Party today is proud to accept Senator Daniel Thatcher (SD 11: Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah Counties) as its first elected member of the Uta...

empiricalskeptic 10 months ago

The purpose of efforts to study (the non-existent) links between #vaccines and #autism is to run multiple small studies with poor controls, then terminate early and publicize those that demonstrate the desired outcomes. #badscience

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Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone) on X

RFK Jr is about to squander taxpayers money on ANOTHER study to look at a possible link between vaccines and autism How do I report this monument...

empiricalskeptic 10 months ago

The Trump administration is negotiating with Ukraine in bad faith. US will not under any circumstance restore arms shipments and intelligence sharing, or do anything to improve the security of Ukraine whatever steps Ukraine takes.

empiricalskeptic 10 months ago

Uh oh. February 2025 leak of corporate customers. Responsible party unknown.

Ground News

Data breach at Japanese telecom giant NTT hits 18,000 companies

Japanese telecommunication services provider NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their informati...

empiricalskeptic 10 months ago

I am wondering. Will Trump’s State of the Union Address will be delivered in its native Russian?