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  Trump loudly denounces communism, yet his actions look a lot like it. He negotiated U.S. government ownership stakes in Intel and Nvidia, meaning the government now holds shares in major corporations. Communism is defined as a system where the government owns the means of production and private property disappears. If Trump keeps expanding government ownership of corporations, the United States moves closer to that model. So when he calls other candidates communists, he might want to check th...

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  PG&E: You recently experienced an outage near [my address] on 08-12-26. We have learned that the outage was caused due to an animal. Seriously? What animal? What exactly did it do? Is it now dead from electrocution? I want the whole story, PG&E!

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  @Natasha_Jay I think it would be good on a t-shirt (wear the t-shirt and carry the book).

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  The failure to prepare and warn Nepal that a catastrophic flood was imminent is unconscionable. I was wondering about the cause. I read this in The Guardian: The glacial and hydrological data from the Tibetan plateau, the information often needed to anticipate flooding, is also treated as strategically sensitive by China and is closely held. Nepal has no mechanism to receive real-time glacial lake and river data from the Chinese side and its officials have sometimes gone further, accusing Be...

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  Today I’m announcing a personal victory: I finished reading Bleak House by Charles Dickens. All 900 pages of it. Started in June. Finished in September. I feel like a gold medal would be appropriate.

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  I know it is #Caturday ... but my beloved cat Nudnik passed away this week. 😭 However ... I had a meeting with a lady who just received a miniature dachshund puppy, named Luna. It felt so nice to hold the little furry creature in my arms.

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  About 38,000 people in the US work in #coal, compared to about 100,000 registered #yoga instructors. But coal gets all the attention ... why? “Petro-Masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire” Daggett, C. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/17/trump-fossil-fuels-industry

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  Imagine if there was just one compromised private key and it was 42. From Ars Technica: The private key sizes of the compromised keys ranged from 3 to 8 bits. Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.

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  On the "Shrinking Trump" podcast yesterday, a psychologist stated that he drove around the neighborhood and jotted down the addresses of houses with Trump signs in their front yards. He then wrote them this anonymous letter: "I am really concerned about your support for a pedophile, and I really hope you can clarify for the sake of the safety of the women and children in the neighborhood." All the signs came down. In two instances, he sent a follow up let...

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  Melania Trump demands that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel, calling him corrosive, because of a joke about her as an "expectant widow". Melania does not seem to know about the Supreme Court case of Hustler v. Falwell, where the Court held that parodies of public figures, even those intending to cause emotional distress, are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Imagine that! Melania, an immigrant to the U.S. on a "genius" visa,...