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30-something Jewish 🇺🇸 🇦🇹 dual-citizen biologist patent lawyer who grew up in South Jersey, Delaware, and Geneva 🇨🇭. Now in Northern Virginia Proud dad to twin daughters 👶👶
TIL LionsGate wanted Oliver Stone to direct American Psycho with a just-off-of-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio as Patrick Bateman, and the movie was almost in production when DiCaprio let himself get talked out of it by Gloria Steinem www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
American Psycho Turns 20: How Leonardo DiCaprio Came Close to Playing Christian Bale's Iconic Role
American Psycho Turns 20: How Leonardo DiCaprio Almost Starred
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compare the way they treat "the city will run a grocery store" with "unhinged drug-addled racist megabillionaire promises robot factories on the moon"
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 4h agoIf you want a sense of how deranged the media is about Musk, Fareed Zakaria described Musk's promise as an "ambitious goal" and brought in astrophysicist Janna Levin for an interview, and she opened with "it's going to be extremely challenging, yet I think it's achievable" youtu.be/-FCEEFaKyK4?...
If you want a sense of how deranged the media is about Musk, Fareed Zakaria described Musk's promise as an "ambitious goal" and brought in astrophysicist Janna Levin for an interview, and she opened with "it's going to be extremely challenging, yet I think it's achievable" youtu.be/-FCEEFaKyK4?...
Musk wants factories on the moon. Can he do it? Fareed explores
YouTube video by CNN
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FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
The Onion published this joke _ten years ago_ theonion.com/spacex-s-pla...
George Pearkes@peark.es · 23h agoElon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.
The Onion published this joke _ten years ago_ theonion.com/spacex-s-pla...
George Pearkes@peark.es · 23h agoElon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.
I'm kinda surprised it's taken this long for a state to try something like this
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 23h agoRhode Island just adopted the first comprehensive self-checkout law in the US, HR7290 Effective Jan. 1, 2027, it requires any business that earns a majority of its gross income from food, beverage, and kitchen item sales to offer 1 manual clerk for every 3 self-checkouts during 8 AM to 8 PM
NEW: The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there: presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump's grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there | Press Watch
Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional.
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With a hat tip to the “don’t read this article” screencap, naturally I went and read the article I’ve had issues with this New Yorker author’s stuff but this piece honestly is fine (except for the obnoxious Thomas-Friedman-esque label used to describe underpaid college-educated millennials)
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · yesterdaycmon man you can't screencap a headline on here and say "nope sorry not falling for that ragebait"
![BlueSky post by Dan O'Sullivan
@Nope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass
[screencap of a New Yorker article, headlined:
Fault Lines
Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed
The voters who are determining the future of the Democratic Party.
By Jay Caspian Kang, August 4, 2026]
BlueSky post timestamped 10:30 AM ET · August 4, 2026
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That was a fun detail of Sperber’s Marx biography, that he lived just long enough to meet some marxists and found the experience annoying bsky.app/profile/saba...
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm very fascinated with how mythologized human beings stand up next to their own iconography I like how in the final couple years of his life Marx was beginning to confront being a political icon, and both noticed that it had little to do with his own ideas, and found it very annoying
![Guesde's followers was its first sustained and positive use [of the term "Marxist"]. Marx was not happy having his name associated with this group of supposed supporters, and told Paul Lafargue, according to Engels's reminiscence, "what is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist." Marx also told Engels that the doctrinaire "Marxists" and "anti-Marxists" alike in France were ruining his stay there while visiting his family in the fall of 1882. Both men saw differences among French socialists as primarily a product of idiosyncrasy, personal vanity, and obscure and unnecessary doctrinal disagreements. Meeting with these socialists in person during visits to his family in 1881 and 1882, Marx encouraged them to put aside such differences. The London exiles treated disagreements among German](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiasexh6v2g4dd3ho33ta5vb4mrmhqfw2vu52zeigmrrh25xgoxwlu)
Cornyn is asked, "don't Trump's comments about the settlement fund concern you?" Cornyn then says, "there's nothing we can do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund, that he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter it's dead" so, he's falling for Blanche's BS assurances
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
cmon man you can't screencap a headline on here and say "nope sorry not falling for that ragebait"
It also should not be overlooked that Davey Hearn is one of several defendants who were baselessly prosecuted as a direct consequence of Donald Trump's personal insistence, and at least one of the defendants was a federal contractor who lost his job bc of it washingtonian.com/2026/08/03/p...
Pirro Gave Up on Other Reflecting Pool Prosecutions, Too - Washingtonian
Documents show prosecutors declined to pursue misdemeanor charges against three other people charged with vandalism.
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Can someone in the press pool please just say to Trump “what the f ck are you talking about?” Literally “please describe precisely how you imagine a person with a box cutter damaged 7.8 acres of pool“
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 3w agoIn all seriousness what is Trump even, specifically, alleging? Someone was holding a box cutter, hunched way over with one arm deep in the water, and somehow shimmied along like that for a quarter mile? And then somehow peeled the liner up like a rubber blanket?
How much money would you have to be paid to be sorted into a norovirus vaccine challenge trial? If you’re sorted into the placebo group, you have a ~50% chance of contracting norovirus 12–72 hours after inoculation, and symptoms last 2–3 days (If you’re in the vax group, likelihood is unknown)
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 2d agoVaxart actually tested their monovalent AAV-based norovirus vaccine in a Phase-2 challenge study About half of inoculated unvaxxed cohort got sick AFAICT the compensation terms for participants were confidential cdn.clinicaltrials.gov/large-docs/6... clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT052...
Vaxart's norovirus vaccine candidate is formulated as a pill I wonder if there's evidence for differing rate of antivaxxism depending on route of administration. Would ppl be more averse to an injected vaccine than an equivalent vaccine formulated as a pill?
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 2d ago2) mRNA-1403 is not the only norovirus vaccine in human clinical trials Vaxart has a bivalent adeno-associated pseudovirus that expresses norovirus NV envelope on a replication-incompetent AAV vector which has had good results www.cidrap.umn.edu/norovirus/no... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two things: 1) This doesn't mean mRNA-1403 doesn't work. In an earnings call, Moderna said the trial remains blinded, but they're enrolling a new cohort bc there haven't been enough norovirus infections among participants to reach a statistically significant result clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT065...
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CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 2d agoNo early success for Moderna’s norovirus vaccine in phase 3 trial The vaccine maker said its investigational mRNA norovirus vaccine did not meet statistical criteria for early success. Read more: https://bit.ly/3TEgD8Y 📷: CDC/Alissa Eckert
We're all inured to Trump's impunity by now, but ordering a prosector to being criminal process & jeopardy of criminal punishment against a person with no reasonable basis is objectively impeachable corruption, and this is like the sixth time Trump has done it
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2d agoA few minutes ago to press: *TRUMP, ASKED ON PIRRO: SHE MADE A MISTAKE *TRUMP ON REFLECTING POOL ISSUES: THE CONTRACTOR WAS RUSHING *TRUMP ON PIRRO: I THINK SHE CHOKED CNN just now: edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
"The area is small, less than 1 square foot" is a very funny remark considering basically the whole pool peeled within a week from the date of this email s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 3d agoThis internal email from June 11 reporting discovery of peeling liner is also very funny bc it has the unmistakable air of an employee who knows he’s gonna get flamed for reporting bad news “Hey guys, bad news / good news situation: the liner is peeling a teensie bit. Good news is it’s still blue”
Indira Gandhi was ousted in an election Milošević was ousted in an election Pinochet was ousted in an election Orbán was ousted in an election Chun Doo-hwan stepped down after an election There are several examples in post-colonial Africa
Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 4mo agoNope. Nope. Nope. This post is just two false statements.
This “settlement” just got flamed by a trial court, but a main theme of Trump2.0 is trial courts see Trump2.0 for what it is, while other sources of accountability including members of congress, courts of appeals & SCOTUS, and flagship journalism have deemphasized, obfuscated, and dissembled
![But perhaps the most startling misstatement advanced by Plaintiffs is their
characterization of this case as "ordinary." (DE 89 at 9). The Parties here are not private
actors to a mine-run dispute, recounting their proficiency in the art of the deal they
negotiated. Lead Plaintiff and Defendants are public servants-the pinnacle of the Executive Branch-sworn to uphold the law, faithfully perform the duties of their office,
and protect the interests of the American public. The issue before the Court is whether,
instead, they ignored ethical norms, court rules, and legal authority to manipulate the
judicial process.
The issue is whether they did so to gild their efforts to gain
unprecedented access to the public fisc with the patina of legitimacy. There is nothing
"ordinary" about this case; it is the very definition of sui generis. 2 Plaintiffs also—with no apparent sense of irony-criticize the non-party movants' political motivations, their previous disinterest in the case, and their purported inappropriate promotion of "abstract grievance[s]." (DE 89 at 10).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreierzf4idyfdm42c5rlxonpomtxneccrpc7cju3yofnj2draygaqqa)
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
The world-record parking deck is on-the-merits the worst part of the Trump-trademark unnecessary, stupid, self-aggrandizing meddling in a big public project, but I can't sleep on his criminal insistence on ruining Eero Saarinen's iconic ticketing area, which is the one Great Thing about Dulles
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2d agoOne part of Trump's $22 billion makeover of Dulles that's been missed is his big, beautiful, world-record 32,000-spot parking garage. That's *way* more parking than recent estimates show the airport needs, and it would tower over the historic terminal: www.notus.org/metro/dulles...
There are many problems with this NYT framing & reporting, but this paragraph in particular is bizarre First, the case wasn’t in federal court it was in DC court—how did this get past an editor? Second, this framing of the USAO’s motion is a crazy level of editorializing?
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d agoAnother example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Corps professoral of l’École centrale des travaux publics: “hoooow is it already Fructidor”
I just want to know whether Planet Nine exists and if so what does it look like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_...
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
It’s one thing that the Atlantic runs essays with a point of view with which I disagree, it’s another to pretend to offer provocative intelligent arguments but actually run shoddy, poorly researched work www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 4d agoOk this too is embarrassing for several reasons 1) “irreparable harm“ is a legal term-of-art, not just ordinary English 2) the injunction was interim 3) BC repealed the provincial law in Nov. 2024 bc it *was redundant in view of changes to Canada federal law* which banned open use near parks etc.
I obviously must reserve judgment, but the fact that this complaint is coming from the Chief of Police on behalf of himself and St. Paul PD in the immediate wake of the mayor trying to cut police overtime pay, and that he’s aggressively demanding a full clone of her phone, makes it look calculated
St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her under investigation for sexual harassment allegations
St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her is facing an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment.
mprnews.org
The original industrial use in cultured food production also explains why these applications were originally filed by Danisco (yogurt company) and the patent family includes a lot of coverage in Denmark
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 5d agofun fact: the first patents directed to CRISPR (after the bacterial immune system mechanism had been worked out, but before the gene editing machinery had been worked out) were directed to methods of immunizing yogurt cultures against virus infection patents.google.com/patent/US100...
I obviously must reserve judgment, but the fact that this complaint is coming from the Chief of Police on behalf of himself and St. Paul PD in the immediate wake of the mayor trying to cut police overtime pay, and that he’s aggressively demanding a full clone of her phone, makes it look calculated
St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her under investigation for sexual harassment allegations
St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her is facing an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment.
mprnews.org
