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Joined April 2026
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Isaac Asimov died of AIDS because he got a tainted blood transfusion. No joke
i tried to donate blood today, i had an appointment, and they turned me away. apparently you still can’t donate blood if you’re on PrEP or had anal sex within 3 months? (both disqualified me) i thought they unbanned gays from donating? how is this not de facto discrimination?
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US FDA blood donation guidelines apply the same individual risk-based questions to all donors regardless of orientation, deferring for recent anal sex with new/multiple partners or PrEP use to protect the blood supply as these can affect HIV detection. fda.gov/media/164829/d… redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/h…
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Last night was so awesome! Thank you to everyone who packed the Playhouse to learn about Starship. Great crowd, great questions, and best of all… we raised $20k for Restore Our Shores to protect the Indian River Lagoon. We ❤️ the space coast! Stoked and proud the @spacex team gets to work & live here!!! 🚀🚀🚀
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Macron is disgusting. Islamists have been slaughtering French Christians and French Jews for years, solely because of their identity. I'm so sick of him, and the lies he and his ruling class in Europe tell themselves about reality.
Il a passé les dernières années dans une cabane totalement coupé du monde ou bien il se fout juste de notre gueule ?
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Gray HG retweeted
There is an interesting category of take that’s treated as totally illegitimate on here while being totally mainstream out in the real world
Matt Yglesias tells an incredible story on The Argument podcast. Apparently a pollster working for pro-choice groups told Matt that one of the best polling messages for abortion rights is that if you banned it, poor people would have more kids they couldn't take care of.
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NASA’s concept of operations for the Artemis 4 lunar landing mission in 2028… Two options; utilizing either the SpaceX Starship HLS lander, or the Blue Origin Blue Moon MK 2 lander. A final decision on which vehicle will perform the Moon landing will be made pending hardware development progress.
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中国上海保存完好的拜占庭风格教堂 息焉堂。希腊朋友们 早上好!
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التقيت بوزير خارجية تركيا في إسطنبول، حيث أكدت رفض مصر القاطع لتصديق مجلس النواب الليبي على مذكرة التفاهم الموقعة عام ٢٠١٩ بين فايز السراج وتركيا بشأن تحديد مجالات الصلاحية البحرية في البحر المتوسط. من جانبه، أكد الوزير التركي تفهمه للشواغل المصرية وأهمية استمرار التشاور بشأنها.
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How to Talk to Someone Who Is Still Inside the Spell, “Until you understand that, every conversation will end the same way: they get defensive, you get frustrated, and the relationship takes another hit while the belief gets stronger.” by @pittparents open.substack.com/pub/pitt/p…
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This is really good
How to Talk to Someone Who Is Still Inside the Spell, “Until you understand that, every conversation will end the same way: they get defensive, you get frustrated, and the relationship takes another hit while the belief gets stronger.” by @pittparents open.substack.com/pub/pitt/p…
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Gray HG retweeted
I don’t currently know which politician this was, but I don’t make the rules: It’s all of our duty to share this young man’s rabbit art, after the authoritarian response he received! 🐇 🐰
JUST IN: UK police arrest 15 y/o boy, seize his devices, & collect his DNA after he posted photo of a local politician edited to look like a rabbit.
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It’s time to kill “static credentials”. Attacks and breaches can happen. But imagine if thieves could only steal “self-destructing keys” to your data and tokens. The industry once came together to deliver “green locks” encryption for every site (TLS). Let’s do it for OIDC! 💪
It's time to retire long-lived static credentials. We surveyed 1,000+ SaaS vendors and found only 8.4% support secure auth. This is our call to action and how we're doing our part. vercel.com/blog/death-to-lon…
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We are live folks!! Come get ya Friday show with Jcal
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Gray HG retweeted
Eastern Europe completely caved on mass immigration: over 250,000 non-EU migrants to Poland in 2025 alone, including 37,000 Colombians, 29,000 Filipinos, 29,000 Indians, also 10,000 Zimbabweans, 6000 Turks, 1400 Peruvians, 1000 Moroccans, 1700 Nigerians, 1500 Kenyans, etc.
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The Mayor of NYC is now openly advising people who are in our country illegally, in a foreign language, on how to best evade American men and women in law enforcement… Realize where we are.
If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.
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SpaceXSI’s @mattyp explains why software built for humans is slowing down AI agents: "Late 2025 everybody was pretty skeptical. The discourse on X was, coding agents are cool, but I still read all the code. Then something happened 2025 to 2026 where people were like, actually I read less of the code." "All of these tools around knowledge work were designed for humans over the past 30, 40 years. It’s kinda funny to think about Grok Bot, an agent with a computer that is basically using a remote desktop to do things for humans." "Booking a flight, interacting with spreadsheets, making decks, these are designed for humans and might be better designed for agents." @bot @SpaceXSI
FULL INTERVIEW: SpaceXSI's @mattyp says agents now build in an instant what used to take him a whole weekend. He still doesn't think software engineers will ever go away, because the "model doesn't really have empathy for people." @mattyp works on @bot at @SpaceXSI. He joined @theojaffee to break down why chat might replace most apps, how Grok Bot keeps your passwords hidden from the bot itself, and what agents still can't do: 00:56 why have multiple Grok Bots instead of one 03:52 why chat might be the only UI you need 06:31 why chat is just the first form factor for agents 07:43 how Grok Bot handles security 09:22 the Gmail alerts from a VM in Korea 10:27 treat your agent like a new hire 11:23 the cantaloupe problem with AI memory 13:45 why software engineers won't go away 15:07 where models still fall short 17:49 how SpaceXSI uses Grok Bot internally 19:33 working for @elonmusk after Cursor 21:05 what comes after the IDE
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Gray HG retweeted
BREAKING: 7 Christians killed in a church in Jordan after 2 gunmen attack a funeral. Security forces are chasing the attackers behind what seems to be an Islamist terror attack.
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BREAKING: SpaceX and NASA showcase the very first images of “Cabin 1” development in Starbase, Texas. Indicating further progress towards Starship’s human-spaceflight capabilities.
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Poland let in 250,000 “temporary workers” in 2025. But remember: the gastarbeiter—guest workers—in Germany never left. Whether we’re talking about the UK, Italy or Poland, European governments refuse to stop human quantitative easing.
Eastern Europe completely caved on mass immigration: over 250,000 non-EU migrants to Poland in 2025 alone, including 37,000 Colombians, 29,000 Filipinos, 29,000 Indians, also 10,000 Zimbabweans, 6000 Turks, 1400 Peruvians, 1000 Moroccans, 1700 Nigerians, 1500 Kenyans, etc.
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Artemis IV mission overview slide:
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One of the most misinformed groups in the world has to be people who watch John Oliver religiously, this is one of the better forum posts on the phenomenon of the "comedic-news" segments
HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.
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