Modern Day Bartleby
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- Reposted by Modern Day Bartlebyi think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyThe US was able to declare that it had eliminated measles in 2000. Now we're here. from @emilymullin.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyIn Minneapolis, people are literally singing resistance before marching to the hotels where ICE agents are staying—inviting them to defect and join us in solidarity. It’s an action rooted in compassion, courage, and collective humanity. Transforming fear into shared power.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyIt's a story of magical thinking in assuming we could ever rely on benevolent billionaires to save journalism. It's also a story of oligarchs turning their backs on democracy and exploiting their media assets to advance class interests. Above all, it's a tragedy for news workers and for all of us.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyEarly in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyAfter the Trump administration formally withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization, the New York City Health Department joined a WHO network aimed at countering new pathogens and emerging outbreaks.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyIt really is a determined, systematic effort to take everything the government does that people might find helpful or worthwhile and destroy it
- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Turns out the Profa Republican Party international crime syndicate were the snowflakes cancelling culture for safe spaces all along
- Reposted by Modern Day Bartlebyalways bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyHeads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
- Reposted by Modern Day Bartlebyy’all know I was skeptical but Spanberger has been great. Her people have been great. Had a meeting earlier today with some of her folks and they’re saying exciting things about employee rights and enforcement. very happy so far.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyColumbia Heights has now connected the located child and her family with legal counsel. But TX lawyers told MPR they have spoken to MN families at Dilley who were not provided required legal counsel before being shipped out of state. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Modern Day Bartlebyyou don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyRemarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyBezos fucked the paper and instead of fixing it he’s destroying it despite the fact that he could spend the money to make things right without even noticing its absence.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyThese people are terrorists. Full stop.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyThe library? Yes, the library is hosting a series for Chicagoans to learn about Puerto Rican history ahead of Bad Bunny’s historical Super Bowl halftime show performance this weekend.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyHow the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps. SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract to funnel tens of billions to ICE for a nationwide "ghost network” of concentration camps—just got a lot bigger. | Migrant Insider migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...
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- Reposted by Modern Day Bartlebycontinue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition
- This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyVery important article by Josephine Lulamae, with warnings for those who may be tempted by narratives of rural revivalism and "Uncivilisation". “Any group that follows a purity mentality, seeking deep, unadulterated roots in nature, risks nativist thinking.” www.codastory.com/polarization...
- Reposted by Modern Day Bartleby🧵 At 3pm ET today, I'll be live-posting highlights from the public forum for @lawfaremedia.org. This will some witnesses' very first public appearance and the only one for Brent and Luke Ganger, who do not plan to do any additional interviews. Follow this thread for updates as they happen 🧵👇
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View full threadReposted by Modern Day BartlebyMartinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."
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- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyICE agents don't wear masks because they're scared for their safety. They wear masks because they know if they can be identified they risk being shunned and shamed. ICE agents may be evil assholes, but just like other humans they want to avoid social disapproval and humiliation.
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- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyIf you had reasonable concerns about trans women in sports, surely your first step would be to find out what the science says. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyI am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe
- The Profa Republican Party is an international crime syndicate
- This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyI find this excuse completely ridiculous. Given the fact that the dangers of raw milk are so well-known (and this is precisely what they look like), the idea that they were just inexperienced babes is absurd. This is like saying you didn’t know you shouldn’t make Match-N-Oily-Rag play kits for kids.
- This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyThe republican party is literally the most openly pro pedophilia organisation I have ever seen in my life
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyWhat did they think crypto was being used for? It’s like 85% crime.
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- Reposted by Modern Day Bartleby‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand’ Blog on Anthropic’s site www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Reposted by Modern Day Bartleby‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyStriking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- ‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyEven Microsoft's own paid studies show that AI harms learning. Students that just took notes did better than those that used AI. Students that used AI and took notes didn't do as well as those that just took notes. From this puff-piece page on their site: www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat...
- I love that Jacobs is a "pop" person
- This book is great
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- This is fascism
- This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyHow did they redact abusers but not the victims? And they expect us to believe 40 nude photos went unnoticed? That’s exactly why people think the DOJ did this on purpose, to shame these women for coming forward.
- Reposted by Modern Day BartlebyThis is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
