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2:00PM Water Cooler 2/28/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Goddamned Democrats; Big Z at the White House (transcript); Economy already worrisome; Epigenetics: Violence alters human genes for generations ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/27/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics;

Executive Order details DOGE’s Bolshevik-style structure and operation; DOGE as class war; Cuomo floats Presidential trial balloon; Employment figures warn of a souring economy ~
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2:00PM Water Cooler 2/26/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; DOGE has a Palantir-friendly acting administrator; Gavin Newsome launches podcast; Problems with 737 FAA exemptions ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/25/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/24/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump and patrimonialism; Spooks stirring from slumber? Elon’s “five bullets” email debacle.HP performs minor act of de-enshittification ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/21/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics;

Who were the strategists who put DOGE together? Should somebody check in on Elon? Meta’s original accumulation of training sets ~
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2:00PM Water Cooler 2/20/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; The goddamned Democrats; Mask ban in MD; Why is grayscale taking over? ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/19/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics

Court filing: DOGE website claims another victim; : Myopia epidemic: literally!; Pseudo-science in machine learning. ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/18/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics;

Court filing: Who’s in charge at DOGE? If not Musk, who? Ed Zitron: “The Generative AI Con”; The value of note-taking ~
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2:00PM Water Cooler 2/17/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Humphrey’s Executor on the chopping block; Elon’s (putative) baby momma; Velvet ropes and the American dream ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; USAID shutdown vexes evangelicals; from their websites, the DOGEbags couldn’t code a lemonade stand; Boeing not out of the woods; Valentine’s Day musical interlude ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/13/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Yanis Varoufakis on Trumponomics; DOGE not putting up the numbers on fraud; Zephyr Teachout on the real powers the Democrats have ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/12/2025: DOGEbags to Infest Entire Federal Government with Bolshevik-Style Parallel Party Structure

Bird Song of the Day Patient readers, I apologize for the enormous typo. This is what I (and you) get then I deviate from my standard template. –lambert Brown Thrasher, Sippo Lake–Exploration Gateway, Stark, Ohio, United States. * * * By Lambert Strether There’s a quotation from John D. MacDonald’s Pale Grey for Guilt that […]