Marty McGowan
@applemcg.bsky.social
Retired, I moderate an Alumni book club. As Grandpa and Grandma, we have 9 grandchildren born between ‘08 and ‘23. My "About" is at mcgowans.org/marty3
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September 2025 Book Club News
Book balance A request from Nancy Hall, which we’ll do our best to respect: More fiction, please. I’d been working on one fiction book every 8 months (1 out...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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May 2025 Book Club News
Current Book Schedule May 22nd, Northern NJ Club: The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science 6:30 p.m. Prezzo Restaurant, 50 Mt...
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April 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Last night in Cranbury NJ, Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman talked with and listened to ~ 150 of her constituents in a crowded library. I was honored she listened to my suggestion: the Congressional Democrats form a #shadowcabinet. That's "himself", lower left with the camera.
April 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Last night in Cranbury NJ, Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman talked with and listened to ~ 150 of her constituents in a crowded library. I was honored she listened to my suggestion: the Congressional Democrats form a #shadowcabinet. That's "himself", lower left with the camera.
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Book Club's Home Page
This page collects the history of our Book Clubs. MIT Club of Princeton MIT Club of Northern NJ If not already a member, if elidgeable, you may join on the...
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April 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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March 2025 Update
Current Schedule March 20, Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them April 16, Madame Foucade's Secret War Special Event save the date: May 23rd, MIT Club of...
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March 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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This resource came from the CJR: psst.org
Psst.org
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February 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This resource came from the CJR: psst.org
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There's a lot of talk aboot the asteroid #Apophis. Some people are scared it will hit our planet.
As Canada's Space Force, we assure you that you are safe!
We have a sophisticated plan involving precision lasers that will ensure the safety of Earth - the only planet with Poutine and Nanaimo Bars.
As Canada's Space Force, we assure you that you are safe!
We have a sophisticated plan involving precision lasers that will ensure the safety of Earth - the only planet with Poutine and Nanaimo Bars.
January 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There's a lot of talk aboot the asteroid #Apophis. Some people are scared it will hit our planet.
As Canada's Space Force, we assure you that you are safe!
We have a sophisticated plan involving precision lasers that will ensure the safety of Earth - the only planet with Poutine and Nanaimo Bars.
As Canada's Space Force, we assure you that you are safe!
We have a sophisticated plan involving precision lasers that will ensure the safety of Earth - the only planet with Poutine and Nanaimo Bars.
Reposted by Marty McGowan
Now that the chances of impact are reducing to next to nothing we can focus on how cool this #asteroid flyby will be! Hopefully space missions can investigate up close like RAMSES for #Apophis... or maybe it will hit the moon which would be fascinating for impact studies! #PlanetSci
The likely path of the asteroid 2024 YR4 has drifted away from Earth and toward the Moon. Here is what the view from the small Asteroid could be at closest approach to the Moon, extrapolated from the most recent visualization on NASA's Eyes On Asteroids. Sunlight and Earthlight shine on both.
February 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Now that the chances of impact are reducing to next to nothing we can focus on how cool this #asteroid flyby will be! Hopefully space missions can investigate up close like RAMSES for #Apophis... or maybe it will hit the moon which would be fascinating for impact studies! #PlanetSci
waking up for the New Year, and updating TTGL - Time To Get Liberal mcgowans.org/marty3/TTGL/, dedicated to Ted The Great Lion, built on TiddlyWiki, tiddlywiki.com
Time To Get Liberal — TTGL – or Ted The Great Lion
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January 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
waking up for the New Year, and updating TTGL - Time To Get Liberal mcgowans.org/marty3/TTGL/, dedicated to Ted The Great Lion, built on TiddlyWiki, tiddlywiki.com
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the way that you know AI isn't really a sentient being is because if it were, the tech tycoons would be trying to kill it
Anthropic hired an "AI welfare researcher" to "explore whether we might have moral obligations to AI systems". This right there is the dumbest shit I have read in months. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having thought about it.
www.transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-...
via @davidgerard.co.uk
www.transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-...
via @davidgerard.co.uk
November 12, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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It's amazing that we've had the two hottest years in the last 125,000 and it's barely registered in our collective consciousness. A few thoughts on the role journalism is playing (or not)
www.cjr.org/analysis/bil...
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Hiding in Plain Sight
The climate story this election missed.
www.cjr.org
November 11, 2024 at 7:08 PM
It's amazing that we've had the two hottest years in the last 125,000 and it's barely registered in our collective consciousness. A few thoughts on the role journalism is playing (or not)
www.cjr.org/analysis/bil...
www.cjr.org/analysis/bil...
Busy day with therapy for my left hand followed by a seasonal doctors visit.
A hope to keep up with a lively interpretation of what passes for the real world.
A hope to keep up with a lively interpretation of what passes for the real world.
November 14, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Busy day with therapy for my left hand followed by a seasonal doctors visit.
A hope to keep up with a lively interpretation of what passes for the real world.
A hope to keep up with a lively interpretation of what passes for the real world.
Reposted by Marty McGowan
I use the similar Libby app. It’s fab 👍
November 13, 2024 at 12:00 AM
I use the similar Libby app. It’s fab 👍