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Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@decius.bsky.social

Republics are systems that require people to compromise with each-other.

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Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 3d ago

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 6d ago

So here we are, 6 years later and Trump: >Has purged the military of independent voices AND elevated pro-Jan6 Generals >Is building a bunker >Invaded DC with National Guard

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · last wk.

This week is the first time I'm endorsing the assertion that America's brain drain, the largest since 1930s Nazi Germany, has crossed the point of no return. I no longer think the next Democratic President, even be it AOC, can get the talent, funding, facilities, and reputation back.

Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · last wk.

Walgreens has confirmed initial state-by-state availability of Covid vaccines. It may change — last year, some states that initially had age or prescription limits lost them when state officials acted — but this is the situation for now. Other pharmacies may have different policies.

We will continue to update availability as appropriate. States where the 2026-2027 COVID-19 vaccine will be available at Walgreens pharmacies soon to patients ages 3+: AL, AK, AR, CA, CO, DE, HI, ID, LA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MS, NE, NV, NH, NM, NY, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV, DC States where the 2026-2027 COVID-19 vaccine will be available soon, subject to state-specific age restrictions: CT (12+), FL (18+), GA (13+), IL (7+), IN (11+), IA (18+), KS (12+), KY (5+), MA (5+), MO (7+), MT (7+), NJ (5+), NC (7+), OH (5+), SC (16+), TX (14+), VT (5+), WI (6+), WY (7+) States where pharmacist administration will be available with a prescription. List may change: AZ, OR, UT U.S. territories where the vaccine is not currently available for administration at Walgreens pharmacies: Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸@decius.bsky.social · 2w ago

“According to the government’s data of the 64 new positions, 48 are researchers that are coming from American institutions, including researchers at Harvard, Yale, Duke, Cornell and MIT.” www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Why Ivy League professors are leaving Trump’s U.S. for Canada’s new $541-million research program

AI researchers, Ivy League professors, and at least one winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant will move to Canada from the U.S. with funds from the federal government’s research chair program.

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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: What Monday’s Supreme Court election order ruling is and is not. The Republican majority gave Trump a temporary win. It could be short-lived — or it could “foment chaos,” as Justice Jackson wrote, calling out the majority in unusually direct terms. Tonight, at Law Dork:

What Monday’s Supreme Court election order ruling is and is not

The Republican majority gave Trump a temporary win. It could be short-lived — or it could “foment chaos,” as Justice Jackson wrote, calling out the majority in unusually direct terms.

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Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Apparently, expecting America's opposition party to say "We like our allies, and we think it's wrong to threaten to invade them or tariff them for no reason" in some sort of public forum is actually asking them to abandon all affordability messaging and turn their TV spots into ads for the CBC.

NASA | ESA Space Updates@nasaupdates.bsky.social · 3w ago

NASA’s Webb Telescope captured a stunning new view of the Lion Nebula (NGC 2392). Its iconic lion-like "face" is actually a expanding bubble of ionized gas, while the surrounding "mane" is made up of dense dust clumps illuminated by a dying central star. 🌌 ✨ 1/4

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged the planetary nebula NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, using the observatory’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The central star’s remains are responsible for the nebula’s structure, including a lion face-shaped bubble of ionized gas and dust “mane.” Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)