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by jordanpg 1y ago
You may be right, but I'm guessing the Administration is not done with NPR and PBS yet. This is just phase I.
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by jordanpg 1y ago
Every parent reading this knows full well how much time their kid has spent watching PBS Kids and playing the many pretty-decent games on the PBS Kids app. All free. Donate. Recurring is better.
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by jordanpg 1y ago
No, but I think it's likely that NPR and PBS will change because of this. A lot of people work there because of its explicit mission to serve the public. As with every other federal institution that's being pointlessly kneecappe
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by jordanpg 1y ago
This is it. It always was a house of cards. A house of cards that everyone tacitly agreed to protect and preserve through norms. Then, the Conservative Think Tanks found someone who was willing to dispense with all of those norms. They
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by jordanpg 1y ago
I'm a lawyer. I write 10s of pages of text every day. "Reading through it once yourself" is obviously an imperfect solution. See, e.g., Poisson statistics. It's also slow and I bill in 6-minute increments. There is s
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by jordanpg 1y ago
And so what?
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by jordanpg 1y ago
As the father of a 5 year old boy with a genetic degenerative muscular disease whose lifespan will depend directly on how fast these technologies progress, I have difficulty responding in a civilized manner to the pointless, cruel, and stup
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by jordanpg 1y ago
All humans act like humans would. From a security standpoint, it is a mistake to assume otherwise in any context. https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+security+human+natu...
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by jordanpg 1y ago
> when they feel they can get away with it. It's not just this. Security involves compromises and trade-offs. Humans will be stupid humans and re-use passwords, install better but insecure software, not ever update, etc. It's
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by jordanpg 1y ago
OP, please grapple with this. This is precisely why Ted Cruz, etc. go on TV and read out the titles of silly-sounding research about beehives and condoms. Because they know that most Americans have no sense of very low-N statistics. A few
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by jordanpg 1y ago
> There is so much fake, useless research produced with NIH dollars. You're going to need more that 2 examples (one of which has nothing to do with NIH) to substantiate this claim. Have you been to the doctor recently? One of your l
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by jordanpg 2y ago
I keep thinking that the real story about this Signal stuff is that whatever authorized government equipment/software they’re supposed to be using probably just sucks. Onerous, old, too much authentication, password silliness, biometri
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by jordanpg 2y ago
This sounds just like the kind of thing that the federal government in a robust constitutional democracy could involve themselves with. Oh wait.
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In the Pipeline: mRNA Vaccines Under Attack(science.org)
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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them to Scrub mRNA References on Grants(kffhealthnews.org)
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In the Pipeline: The Continuing Crisis: Rare Diseases at the FDA and More(science.org)
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by jordanpg 2y ago
** WAKE UP FOLKS! ** THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US. If you're in the US, it's time to start asking yourself what you are going to want to be able to say to your kids or grandkids when they ask what you d
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by jordanpg 2y ago
What fraction of those tax dollars do you imagine is going to waste and fraud? Cite your source. And this isn’t an interesting thought experiment. It’s the whole ballgame. This is the focus of right wing propaganda. And also consider whethe
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by jordanpg 2y ago
All of this lament is great, but if you don’t like this, please pick up the phone and call your reps. Every day. Please. It’s an emergency. No one is coming to save us.
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by jordanpg 2y ago
All of this lament is great, but if you don’t like this, please pick up the phone and call your reps. Every day.
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by jordanpg 2y ago
The name of this man is Russell Vought. Don’t forget it. He’s just getting started. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russe...
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by jordanpg 2y ago
Was with you right up to the “entrepreneur” part. No, fawning obeisance to entrepreneurship isn’t the answer, sorry.
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by jordanpg 2y ago
> These are not nameless, faceless bureaucrats. They are our family, friends and neighbors. They contribute to our communities. Every. Single. One. of these firings is a story involving human beings, with families, with ongoing concerns
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Ask HN: How is the integrity of voting devices/software determined?
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by jordanpg 2y ago
Even in this narrow context, the cuts are indiscriminate in their domain. Moreover, they are rolled out aggressively, carelessly, and abruptly -- a lot of "masculine energy." Science takes years and requires long-term planning. T
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by jordanpg 2y ago
The reputational damage to US scientific prestige is incalculable. And all for amounts that are tiny slivers of the federal budget for research that benefits potentially everyone.
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by jordanpg 2y ago
There is something about this story, isn't there? Even among Lovecraftian lit, it stands apart. Not exactly a god-like monster, just a presence. Something malignant, whatever it is, wherever it is, that just gets mentioned from time to
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by jordanpg 2y ago
One healthy way to consume Reddit that I recently learned about is creating a "custom feed" (see left margin of new UI). You can just add subs that are of interest that lack the torrent of bad news and only ever visit that custom
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by jordanpg 2y ago
Yep. For all of these sensational headlines we're seeing recently, we need to keep in mind that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg of what's happening, and that we are seeing exactly nothing of what's happening behind
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by jordanpg 2y ago
Also, pardons are for criminal liability. They do not absolve you of civil liability (i.e., they can still be sued).

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