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Northwestern Wildcat amplifying the bejaysus out of true journalists & scientists so FACTS can kick rabble rousers in their propaganda sacks.

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The Neuroscience of Murderbot’s Cyborg Brain scientificamerican.com/artic…

Murderbot’s Cyborg Brain Explained by Neuroscience

What would it take to create a cyborg brain like the one in the new TV show Murderbot? The answer reveals what makes our own brain so unique

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this hits so hard...
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WIRED
@WIRED5 Apr 2025
SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED. wired.com/story/doge-hackath…

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

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the idea you're going to reshore this type of manufacturing is laughable. wheat timbs would cost $500 if made here. basic vans would be $200. a north face jacket would be $750. americans are not paying that kind of money for clothes and shoes.
Nate Silver
@NateSilver5384 Apr 2025
I took a deep dive into the tariff-triggered stock sell-off and how incredibly grim it is. When you look at which companies have declined the most, it's extremely recessionary, with consumer staples hit hardest.
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🎯 Credit: @McDivergence
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People keep trying to make this argument to defend what Trump did today. But if China is the problem, Trump should be targeting China. What he did today targeted the entire world. Low trade barriers, no currency manipulation, it doesn't matter: Trump jacked up tariffs on them.
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Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
James Surowiecki
@JamesSurowiecki2 Apr 2025
Replying to @JamesSurowiecki
It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff.
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smithsonianmag.com/innovatio…

How the Irish Pub Became One of the Emerald Isle's Greatest Exports

The Dublin-based Irish Pub Company has designed upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries around the globe

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He look like a racist Care Bear
The Spectator Index
@spectatorindex15 Jul 2024
What is your opinion of JD Vance?
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25 Years of The Sims Turning Players Into Gods nytimes.com/2025/02/04/arts/…

The Sims Turned Players Into Gods. And Farmers. And Vampires. And Landlords. (Published 2025)

As the virtual dollhouse turns 25, the game designer Will Wright explains how The Sims was a sandbox for the American dream.

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First and foremost— thinking of all in Ireland who are without services today— especially those with vulnerable family members, health issues and economic challenges to storm clean-up. My issue pales in comparison… A few years ago, I did a go-round of interviews in the Irish…
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@sligorovers for building such a culture for the community. You certainly had no intention of getting a public shout-out when you did it but people need to know where to look for the best of humanity.
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(And to my cousins at Murphy & Sons, make sure you re-up your Rovers sponsorship, John & Walter!) 😏
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