Charlie
@charliemb.bsky.social
as i tumble from the precipice, clutching my mobile, fumbling to fire off one last text, i realize, 'huh, the luddites were actually on to something.'
About the banner pic. Paddling the Chilco in B.C.
About the banner pic. Paddling the Chilco in B.C.
Is there any religion that isn't a fucking death cult?
September 19, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Is there any religion that isn't a fucking death cult?
In its rush to support Israel the West eviscerated, then incinerated its own moral standing in the world. We are less secure today than we were a year ago.
September 19, 2024 at 9:20 PM
In its rush to support Israel the West eviscerated, then incinerated its own moral standing in the world. We are less secure today than we were a year ago.
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"The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it."
www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/tu...
www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/tu...
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog
www.bunniestudios.com
September 19, 2024 at 8:47 PM
"The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it."
www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/tu...
www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/tu...
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just gonna say that, whatever comes of this scandal, Mark Robinson is as of now the sitting Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina and none of this stuff prevented him from rising that high. please fund local journalism everywhere i'm fucking begging you
September 19, 2024 at 8:28 PM
just gonna say that, whatever comes of this scandal, Mark Robinson is as of now the sitting Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina and none of this stuff prevented him from rising that high. please fund local journalism everywhere i'm fucking begging you
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"Pierre #Poilievre has ‘axed the facts,’ and Canadians are being fooled by a dumb slogan" #AxeTheFacts #Climate #cdnpoli cultmtl.com/2024/04/pier...
Pierre Poilievre has 'axed the facts,' and Canadians are being fooled by a dumb slogan
Pierre Poilievre has 'axed the facts,' and Canadians are being fooled by a dumb slogan.
cultmtl.com
September 18, 2024 at 8:10 PM
"Pierre #Poilievre has ‘axed the facts,’ and Canadians are being fooled by a dumb slogan" #AxeTheFacts #Climate #cdnpoli cultmtl.com/2024/04/pier...
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Two years ago, we demonstrated that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic likely began at the Huanan Market via zoonosis resulting from the wildlife trade.
Many unanswered questions remained about the animals themselves.
Some answers, out today in @CellCellPress.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Many unanswered questions remained about the animals themselves.
Some answers, out today in @CellCellPress.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Genetic tracing of market wildlife and viruses at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic
DNA of mammalian wildlife species susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 was detected along with
SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in environmental samples from animal stalls located at
the market epicenter of the emer...
www.cell.com
September 19, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Two years ago, we demonstrated that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic likely began at the Huanan Market via zoonosis resulting from the wildlife trade.
Many unanswered questions remained about the animals themselves.
Some answers, out today in @CellCellPress.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Many unanswered questions remained about the animals themselves.
Some answers, out today in @CellCellPress.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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BTW, the new GOES-19 satellite in orbit made its debut with its first imagery (NOAA). And you're going to hate this, but guess who got the best shot!
www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-de...
www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-de...
September 19, 2024 at 8:11 PM
BTW, the new GOES-19 satellite in orbit made its debut with its first imagery (NOAA). And you're going to hate this, but guess who got the best shot!
www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-de...
www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-de...
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So, genAI generates nonsense slop, it's released into the wider ecosystem of knowledge and information, which genAI feeds on to generate more slop which further pollutes the ecosystem, ad infinitum?
Cool cool.
Cool cool.
genAI is a threat to knowledge and information systems and is eroding public trust in technology at a fast pace and will eventually shred social fabrics that hold us together
September 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
So, genAI generates nonsense slop, it's released into the wider ecosystem of knowledge and information, which genAI feeds on to generate more slop which further pollutes the ecosystem, ad infinitum?
Cool cool.
Cool cool.
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I actually do think that a Jewish-led philosophy of self-determination is important to our continued safety and I’m not saying I have all the answers but I am saying that what self-determination can and should look like in 2024 is something we desperately need to confront and reevaluate.
September 19, 2024 at 7:38 PM
I actually do think that a Jewish-led philosophy of self-determination is important to our continued safety and I’m not saying I have all the answers but I am saying that what self-determination can and should look like in 2024 is something we desperately need to confront and reevaluate.
the party of trump trying to porn-shame someone into quitting is fun
September 19, 2024 at 7:54 PM
the party of trump trying to porn-shame someone into quitting is fun
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Wild Faith
The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals a...
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September 19, 2024 at 7:41 PM
my book comes out in THREE WEEKS aaaaaaaa PREORDER HERE people say its GOOD www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...
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“Wilson and his co-author argued that the master-slave dynamic was “a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence,” and “there has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world” as that of the antebellum South.”
To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
www.motherjones.com
September 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
“Wilson and his co-author argued that the master-slave dynamic was “a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence,” and “there has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world” as that of the antebellum South.”
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These people are so bizarre to me. Nichols ostensibly agrees that Trump is a threat to science and democracy, but then he dedicates an entire column to discrediting an institution standing up for these values. Is everyone supposed to just think that Trump is bad but not say anything?
Vote for Kamala Harris to Support Science, Health and the Environment
Kamala Harris has plans to improve health, boost the economy and mitigate climate change. Donald Trump has threats and a dangerous record
www.scientificamerican.com
September 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM
These people are so bizarre to me. Nichols ostensibly agrees that Trump is a threat to science and democracy, but then he dedicates an entire column to discrediting an institution standing up for these values. Is everyone supposed to just think that Trump is bad but not say anything?
it's completely absurd, and yet hilarious - crushed by the weight of supporting an industry that doesn't work and nobody wants - beyond a handful of dysfunctional, misanthropic billionaires & gullible politicians
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revi...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revi...
AI is revitalizing the fossil fuels industry, and big tech has nothing to say for itself
Silicon Valley is helping to accelerate the climate crisis in at least 3 major ways
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 19, 2024 at 6:28 PM
it's completely absurd, and yet hilarious - crushed by the weight of supporting an industry that doesn't work and nobody wants - beyond a handful of dysfunctional, misanthropic billionaires & gullible politicians
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revi...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revi...
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September 19, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Now that Vance has locked up the racist incel vote, he’s marketing to the eugenicists who think people with medical conditions should just die.
JD Vance let slip: One of the “concepts” of the Trump-Vance plan is to screw over people with pre-existing conditions, specifically.
Vance Lets Slip: He and Trump Are Coming For Your Health Care
It's not just Project 2025 or Trump's failed ACA repeal. Vance accidentally admitted the NEW plan is to screw over people with pre-existing conditions specifically.
www.offmessage.net
September 19, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Now that Vance has locked up the racist incel vote, he’s marketing to the eugenicists who think people with medical conditions should just die.
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“Put simply, regardless of your views on taxes or Ukraine or the deficit, a candidate who rejects established science and seeks to corrupt truth (either through unqualified flunkies in government or propaganda) disqualifies himself from the presidency" 🧪 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | For only the second time, a top science journal endorses for president
Scientific American endorsed Kamala Harris, arguing that Trump’s attack on scientific fact is singularly dangerous.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2024 at 1:13 PM
“Put simply, regardless of your views on taxes or Ukraine or the deficit, a candidate who rejects established science and seeks to corrupt truth (either through unqualified flunkies in government or propaganda) disqualifies himself from the presidency" 🧪 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Nichols pretends that his argument is about *how* the magazine endorsed Harris, that it endorsed her moral and political positions rather than her scientific ones.
This is ludicrous on its face since every political issue is also empirical, but the endorsement did link its arguments to science.
This is ludicrous on its face since every political issue is also empirical, but the endorsement did link its arguments to science.
September 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Nichols pretends that his argument is about *how* the magazine endorsed Harris, that it endorsed her moral and political positions rather than her scientific ones.
This is ludicrous on its face since every political issue is also empirical, but the endorsement did link its arguments to science.
This is ludicrous on its face since every political issue is also empirical, but the endorsement did link its arguments to science.
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60% of this magazine's output now is just variations on "To be fair, the premise of my article is false..."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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September 19, 2024 at 3:06 PM
60% of this magazine's output now is just variations on "To be fair, the premise of my article is false..."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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one thing that comes to mind reading this is that the right is fully post-truth, post-reality, post-empirical grounding. conservatives don’t seem to think that anything is real and that nothing they say matters or should weigh in any judgment of their character. it’s all trolling, all the time
Why Trump’s lies about Haitians are different
Trump says nasty things about immigrants all the time. But these ones have disturbingly specific Nazi parallels.
www.vox.com
September 19, 2024 at 2:41 PM
one thing that comes to mind reading this is that the right is fully post-truth, post-reality, post-empirical grounding. conservatives don’t seem to think that anything is real and that nothing they say matters or should weigh in any judgment of their character. it’s all trolling, all the time
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the media wants you to believe that this story of mindblowing trump corruption that physically harmed americans merits less attention than the timing of tim walz' retirement from the national guard after 24 years. why do you think that is?
Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers pressured them to "delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves."
(Via @propublica.bsky.social)
(Via @propublica.bsky.social)
EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.
Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to ...
www.propublica.org
September 18, 2024 at 6:37 PM
the media wants you to believe that this story of mindblowing trump corruption that physically harmed americans merits less attention than the timing of tim walz' retirement from the national guard after 24 years. why do you think that is?
