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A woman with red hair in a black shirt and light grey skirt, smiling, standing in front of a curtained window and floral wallpaper, behind a striped cushioned chair or sofa and dark wooden table with vase and bouquet of white, blue and pink flowers.

Lynn Conway, electricial engineer and computer scientist, co-architect of the VLSI design revolution, and transgender activist, was born #OTD in 1938.

She invented Dynamic Instruction Scheduling at IBM, but IBM fired her when they learned she was transitioning. 🧪 👩‍🔬

Photo: Lynn Conway

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

Gavin Newsom comes out swinging against California billionaire tax Ballot initiative, opposed by the ultra-wealthy, would levy one-time 5% tax on individuals worth more than $1bn

Psst! Your crown prince is aggressively fighting the California billionaire tax. He’s doesn’t care about you, pass it on! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

move slow and repair things

Yeah like to put things in perspective, the damage done by Sergey Brin’s ex-wife single handedly funding large segments of the anti-vax movement probably undid shitloads of positive public health work done through philanthropy. The ability to use that money for evil shit is just far greater.

we need leaders that can do better than Susan Collin’s Concern Eyebrows

This is the most unhinged, cursed thing I’ve seen in a long time. Great work.

It. Was. So. Good!

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

YouTube screenshot of a woman next to the text. “understanding the final below: an English phrase explained.”

ah

A thread posted on Threads by Senator Cory Booker: “Here is to the decency of past presidents and the urgent need for us to have this again.” A video clip of George W Bush speaking at a lectern is included. Above the video is the text, “I miss seeing this kind of dignity & grace from a Republican President.”

BRO, WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

one word longer, but this is giving “for sale baby shoes…” a run for its money

These vaccines could prevent so much absolutely horrific suffering if anyone in power actually cared about preventing human suffering… everything from MS, ME/CFS, multiple cancers, dementia… we could stop them in their tracks if we wanted to

#TripleTheNIHBudget

It was groundcovers!

MARY-KATE MACKEY
Living Mulch: Choose the Best Groundcovers
Hood Room, 2/18/2026, 5:15pm
www.gardenshow.com/seminars/spe...

My mom is talking there again this year! Groundcovers I think?

The whole thing is a great show — I love hearing about all the drama getting the show floor gardens together 😄

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Greedy peasants splurging on food and water again, say sensible, fair minded overlords.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work

anne frank died from typhus in such a "prison"

every person perishing of disease or medical complications from being denied care is another anne frank we have created. they may have their own diaries we'll never read.

it's a concentration camp. you can, and should call it what it is.

A reminder: this is an Irishman with valid papers speaking about how he's being held in US concentration camps. If you don't have to go to the US, do not go to the US. "GDC" is not "have to go". One denial at the border is going to mark you for life, and that's the best of the bad outcomes.

I'm uninstalling my RING today.

Dystopia notwithstanding, the Ring commercial about their surveillance finding lost pets makes no sense.

Of the ~10M pets lost annually, their service finds ~500. They want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

Yeah, no thanks. Cancelling.

it’s just a lil cheerleader

Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to the Senate claiming to "hold big tech accountable" while promoting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda and boosting groups like Morality in Media (aka NCOSE), which has sought to criminalize LGBTQ sex, w board members that support conversion therapy

Tina Belcher apparently writing Levi’s commercials now

“Accessibility is necessary infrastructure.” Accessibility is political. “It has always been defended by people who chose to act anyway.“ We can uphold good design practices with inclusion at their core.

Thank you for writing, @annaecook.com!

Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.

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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.

For folks asking for a source on the claim:
finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...

For folks who want to see the original IG post I screenshotted and read more:

www.instagram.com/quitgpt/p/DU...