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  We again recognize the Representative for Minneapolis. QT Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social 2026 October 23 Best way to fight back? Vote. Minnesota: You can vote now or cast your ballot by November 3. https://bsky.app/profile/ilhanmn.bsky.social/post/3mylb3nzrfc2w

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  #subpost No, the text generator programs still cannot do orbital dynamics. And I am really tired of people pretending that they can. The next AI winter really cannot come soon enough.

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  Octavia Butler, mid-1990s: "Imagine a future where food prices are high because of climate change and war, while grocery store shoppers are subjected to invasive surveillance." Me, shopping in the mid-2020s and being told I have to wait for someone to unlock the toothpaste: "Wait a minute."

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  Hertz did the first demonstration of radar in 1886. Weather radar was in use by the mid-1910s. And in 1946, Walter McAfee did the math for the first radar observations of the Moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Diana

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  #CloseTheCamps and #AbolishICE https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/24/georgia-ice-man-dies

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  @froge It is also an ADA violation. Someone pointing that out is how I learned about the problem.

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  Ilhan Omar and her family members are being persecuted by Donald Trump and those with him for no reason other than bigotry. Today; the St. Paul Pioneer Press's editors decided to run an OpEd by people out-of-state that perpetuates outrageous disinformation about that. Require far better from local media, #Minnesota .

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  I have discovered a new way to confound Youtube's recommendation algorithms: Listen to Tom Morello's new song with Kneecap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDFzlqhgpMU

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  Minnesota remembers Paul Wellstone. QT ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com 2026 October 25 wellstone was the first politician i ever got to volunteer for. people love to quote “we all do better when we all do better” but i try to live by this one: “If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”

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  I am reminded again how in 1935, the US Congress passed a tax law that created a new top tax bracket of nearly 80%. That tax bracket contained exactly one person, John D. Rockefeller, and was designed to stop him from causing so much trouble. In case anyone needs the precedent.

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  Check your sources. Even if you like what they are saying. QT Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social 2026 October 13 Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation. https://bsky.app/profile/katestarbird.bsky.social/post/3mxrjoq7cqs2b

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  @lazyb0y@mastodon.social @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz The investment that Reflect Orbital has gotten has been from venture capital groups focused on software, weapons, and finance. Nothing to do with spacecraft engineering, optics, or energy. Quite the scam.

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  Margaret Hamilton is rightly remembered for her work programming the flight computers for Apollo. But she should also be remembered for her work on early weather prediction software, which informed the realization that weather is chaotic and the limits to predicting it. https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/117349244161954260 There is no AI, only exploitation of labor.

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  Yet again, USA: Get the kids their shots. Get yourselves your shots if you have not had them. Get your immunity checked if it is doubt. Require that the state governments expand vaccine mandates. QT Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social 2026 September 26 "At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." https://bsky.app/profi...

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  @BlueDot@left-tusk.com @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Amy Klobuchar was Hennepin County Attorney during 1998 - 2006. Her refusal to prosecute police brutality and killings committed by cops during that period is well-documented. Derek Chauvin was hired by MPD in 2001. As well as numerous complaints of brutality; he was involved in the killings of three people before he murdered George Floyd - including the 2006 October killing of Wayne Reyes of the Leech Lake Ojibwe. Klobuchar did not bring an...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117299861062480465 Keep voting, #Minnesota.

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  Because this apparently needs to be explained: Current human-caused CO2 emissions: ~40 gigatons of carbon/year. Total global CO2 sinking by geochemical weathering: ~0.25 gigatons of carbon/year. Work for everything necessary to sharply cut emissions, everyone.

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  Since I read people not understanding this today: The text generators make programming slower and more error prone. Some programmers claim that they are useful, but that is not the same as their actually being so. There is actual data on this: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/

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  One bit of good news for today. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/fda-approves-moderna-mflusiva-first-mrna-flu-vaccine/

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  "Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him." "He was one of thousands of immigrants arrested during Operation Metro Surge" https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/03/orbin-mauricio-henriquez-serrano-survived-a-violent-border-patrol-arrest/

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  I am once again asking scientists to do multiple-comparison corrections when computing statistical significance.

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  Require that all of these trumped-up charges be dropped, United States. Remove all of the Trump DoJ appointees responsible for them. And #ImpeachTrump and #AbolishICE. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/28/ice-protests-antifa-minnesota

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  Today on the #arXiv : Minker et al. 2026, "Unmasking (44) Nysa: Evidence for a trilobate structure" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25786 Describing adaptive optics images of the main-belt asteroid 44 Nysa and its satellite. It is a strange place.

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  Yet again, USA: #AbolishICE and the Border Patrol. And also disarm cops of weapons they manifestly cannot be trusted with. "Immigration officials misused weapons hundreds of times during protests, report finds" https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/30/immigration-officials-misused-weapons-hundreds-of-times-during-protests-report-finds/

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  Yet again, USA: Do not allow anything like this. And require that Congress #ImpeachDuffy. "Proposed rule would exempt commercial launch licensing from environmental regulations" https://spacenews.com/proposed-rule-would-exempt-commercial-launch-licensing-from-environmental-regulations/

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  No, electronic medical records software vendor, there is no circumstance where I would want you to run my test results through the automated-plagiarism text generator. Not even if you pretend it is to change the actual results into "easy-to-understand explanations and diagrams".

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/116997505799021780 Montargès et al. 2026, "VLT/SPHERE imaging of the candidate companion of Betelgeuse" - https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2611/eso2611a.pdf . Confirming that Betelgeuse B does indeed exist. And calling for more data to understand what it is doing to the larger star.

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116997866703618863 #AbolishICE

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  Yet again, USA: Do not accept this. Require that the state governments & Congress shut down the ghoulish scams that are "prediction markets". And #ImpeachTrump for abusing the apparatus of government to enable them when his family is profiting from them. QT Minnesota Reformer 2026 July 28 "Judge halts Minnesota ban on prediction markets" https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/judge-halts-minnesota-ban-on-prediction-markets/