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21| She/Her | New to BlueSky. Hope to make some friends here!
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In the newsletter, I wrote a defense of the AI cynics

www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
February 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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If anyone else has been shut down, blown off, or otherwise served rudeness from Senator Susan Collins' office, get in touch. I'd like to take this to the press.
February 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Public libraries are only possible because of funding at every level of government
Libraries Working Together for All Americans
Public libraries are only possible because of funding at every level of government
medium.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday (Gift Article)
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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If you work at NOAA or have details about recent changes there, you can contact me via @signal.org (dell.3030) from a non-work device/network.
NEW: Sources tell WIRED that NOAA* employees were ordered to give a Musk engineer (Nikhil Rajpal) editor access to all NOAA's Google sites by EOD.

*monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change.

By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:
This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all NOAA Google sites by the end of business Wednesday.
www.wired.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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There are a number of efforts from scientists, researchers, journalists, and advocacy groups to compile and save information that has been removed from federal websites (or is at risk).

lifehacker.com/tech/find-de...
Where to Find All Those Deleted Government Websites
In recent days—in response to directives from the Trump administration—thousands of federal agency web pages have been deleted or altered to remove research, reports, and references to everything from...
lifehacker.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This circuit board made from leaves could help reduce the tons of electronic waste humanity produces every year.

Learn more: scim.ag/4gsI0bF
February 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Oh, that's sick. I kind of want to try recreating that at a human scale
January 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Like any scientist, I keep playing until I find something interesting. Bubbles are fun. #physics #science #bubbles
January 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Dumb question for you all: Did the four fundamental forces (Gravity, Electro Magnetism, Strong & Weak Forces) sort of 'form' over time or were they always a stagnant law of the universe? Thank you!

#Physics #Astronomy #FundamentalForces #Science
January 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM