Keeping my head up in Minnesota. Used to keep it up in NEPA and Colorado. Neck’s getting tired.
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SquintingDog retweeted
Nearly 30% of callers to the Social Security Administration are now auto-disconnected before reaching an agent, per SSA data reported by BI. After a year of low failure rates, the 2025 spike points to deepening understaffing or systemic breakdown.
SquintingDog retweeted
The Epidemic Intelligence Service has been terminated by DOGE.
This is a prestigious US epidemiology training program that supports public health in all 50 states.
insidemedicine.substack.com/…
SquintingDog retweeted
I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.
SquintingDog retweeted
Damn, it does look like this guy found the exact playbook that Elon and Trump are using right now.
They appear to be following Yavin's strategy to install a techno-monarchy in the US. The fact that Thiel, Vance, and Bannon are all fans of this guy's work point toward this being direct influence rather than parallel thinking.
This is worth a read.
SquintingDog retweeted
This sentence from @davidfrum captures perfectly why it’s so difficult to write about almost anything related to Trump:
“The situation was simultaneously too stupid for serious journalism and too shameful for wisecracks.”
SquintingDog retweeted
It is grimly hilarious to see this guy ripping up decades of American soft power projects while going “Wow!” and “Gawrsh!” at stuff he doesn’t understand. God only knows what the Russians or Iranians are making of the CIA getting absolutely hosed in public by an imbecile.
SquintingDog retweeted
Fukuyama was so insanely right about people restarting history out of boredom.
SquintingDog retweeted
I can’t believe the southern US perfected the porch…
and then just stopped building houses like this.
SquintingDog retweeted
A friend who studies crypto sent me this:
Trump launched his own meme coin overnight and swiftly appeared to make more than $25 billion on paper for himself and his companies. axios.com/2025/01/18/trump-m…
SquintingDog retweeted
Hydrangea macrophylla a native to Japan grows like crazy here in #NewZealand Flower color depends on soil pH. 5.5 or lower = blue flowers, 6.5 or higher = pink hydrangeas, and between 5.5 & 6.5 purple. This is due to the availability of aluminium ions in the soil base on the pH.
#BlueFlower
SquintingDog retweeted
New: Elon Musk spent today stirring Republicans into a frenzy over the stopgap spending bill filed by Johnson.
A look into everything he got wrong in tonight's Inside Congress: politico.com/newsletters/ins…
w/ @ktullymcmanus
SquintingDog retweeted
Thoughtful commentary from a highly decorated combat veteran @elliotackerman thefp.com/p/pete-hegseth-war…
SquintingDog retweeted
December 10th ➦In 1967...Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays (Otis’ backup group) were killed in the crash of a private plane near Madison, Wisconsin. Redding was just 26 years old. He came along at a time when black rhythm-and-blues artists were making inroads into the Top-40. But it was not until after his death that one of his records made the top of the charts. “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was a number-one hit in early 1968, selling four-million copies in five months.
SquintingDog retweeted
Mark McAfee, the California raw milk producer who has been at the center of several bird flu-related product recalls, says a transition team for RFK Jr has encouraged him to apply for a position at the Food and Drug Administration.
@susrust
latimes.com/environment/stor…
SquintingDog retweeted
I've written a summary/ initial analysis of what's happening in Syria qunfuz.com/2024/12/01/histor…
SquintingDog retweeted
The American political and cultural debate is now so vapid, so juvenile and even childish, so inane that I doubt any young people abroad have any interest in it or feel any attraction
