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Clovis
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3 time cancer survivor - “Shockingly high functioning”
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mercoglianos.bsky.social
It is Raining Container Boxes into the Port of Long Beach | MV Mississippi September 9, 2025

Breakdown of the events on board Mississippi

Video: youtu.be/IEg8EvG9o4w
September 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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unavaleable.bsky.social
Also, like a single missile launch is not the end of the world, and is genuinely within GBI's capacity to handle even if you're super bearish on ICBM BMD
September 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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alanisnking.bsky.social
I was not expecting much more than a normal crossover when I drove the Honda Passport Trailsport for the first time in Moab. It proved me embarrassingly wrong.

Here’s how and why:

youtu.be/M3zcRslKnZI
2026 Honda Passport TrailSport: The Off-Roader You ACTUALLY Need
YouTube video by Alanis King
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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trekkiebill.bsky.social
Ok, one instance of Timothy Olyphant saying "fascinating" makes me want to see him play a Vulcan.
August 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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thresherk.bsky.social
Calicooooooo!

Also:
August 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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jymdyer.bsky.social
Mirror universe explains his admiration of Elon Musk, though.
August 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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nickseaver.website
uh oh, things are happening dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
CHI Al shaming is a social phenomenon in which negative judgements are associated with the use of Artificial Intelligence (Al). This includes comparing someone's work with Al-generated work as a means of disparagement, voicing suspicion or alleging that someone has used Al to undermine their reputation, or blaming the poor quality of an artefact on Al use. Common justifications of Al shaming include recourse to Al's societal harms, its technical limitations, and lack of creativity. I argue that, more fundamentally than any of these, Al shaming arises from a class anxiety induced in middle class knowledge workers, and is a form of boundary work to maintain class solidarity and limit mobility into knowledge work. I discuss the role of Al shaming in protecting the privileged class of knowledge work and its attendant harms.
July 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
people who use AI as a replacement for thinking, learning and communicating should be shamed and punished. the same way we shame and punish drunk drivers, or people who negligently discharge firearms.

it is bad to misuse tools in a way that damages society
nickseaver.website Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · Jul 21
uh oh, things are happening dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
CHI Al shaming is a social phenomenon in which negative judgements are associated with the use of Artificial Intelligence (Al). This includes comparing someone's work with Al-generated work as a means of disparagement, voicing suspicion or alleging that someone has used Al to undermine their reputation, or blaming the poor quality of an artefact on Al use. Common justifications of Al shaming include recourse to Al's societal harms, its technical limitations, and lack of creativity. I argue that, more fundamentally than any of these, Al shaming arises from a class anxiety induced in middle class knowledge workers, and is a form of boundary work to maintain class solidarity and limit mobility into knowledge work. I discuss the role of Al shaming in protecting the privileged class of knowledge work and its attendant harms.
July 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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thrustwr.bsky.social
It is used extensively in Surface-to-Air role now. The first tests for such a setup was validated in 2021. The US and Ukraine use the system in that configuration now.
July 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
clovis69.bsky.social
@democrats.org - let the caucus know that the base does give a shit, they are elected to work and sometimes that means staying at the job late

They need to listen to the voters, that’s the fucking job…
July 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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trekkiebill.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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macspace.bsky.social
My version of Hail Mary spacecraft from Project Hail Mary novel by Andy Weir.

Next week we're probably getting a trailer for the movie adaptation of PHM with Ryan Gosling, so this weekend I rushed to have my own take on the spacecraft, before my imagination gets spoiled by the movie version.
June 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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scientistsorg.bsky.social
🆕 Planning for the Unthinkable: the targeting strategies of nuclear-armed states

Intense secrecy around nuclear targeting means that most individuals—including lawmakers—do not have much understanding of how fateful decisions about what to target during wartime are made.
Planning for the Unthinkable: The targeting strategies of nuclear-armed states The quantitative and qualitative enhancements to global nuclear arsenals in the past decade—particularly China’s nuclear buildup, Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling, and NATO’s response—have recently reinvigorated debates about how nuclear-armed states intend to use their nuclear weapons, and against which targets, in what some describe as a new Cold War. Details about who, what, where, when, why, and how countries target with their nuclear weapons are some of states’ most closely held secrets. Targeting information rarely reaches the public, and discussions almost exclusively take place behind closed doors—either in the depths of military headquarters and command posts, or in the halls of defense contractors and think tanks. The general public is, to a significant extent, excluded from those discussions. This is largely because nuclear weapons create unique expectations and requirements about secrecy and privileged access that, at times, can seem borderline undemocratic. Revealing targeting information could open up a country’s nuclear policies and intentions to intense scrutiny by its adversaries, its allies, and—crucially—its citizens. This presents a significant democratic challenge for nuclear-armed countries and the international community. Despite the profound implications for national and international security, the intense secrecy means that most individuals—not only including the citizens of nuclear-armed countries and others that would bear the consequences of nuclear use, but also lawmakers in nuclear-armed and nuclear umbrella states that vote on nuclear weapons programs and policies—do not have much understanding of how countries make fateful decisions about what to target during wartime, and how. When lawmakers in nuclear-armed countries approve military spending bills that enhance or increase nuclear and conventional forces, they often do so with little knowledge of how those bills could have implications for nuclear targeting plans.
June 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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batsinthebrittfry.bsky.social
Happy “Vicksburg was more consequential” week to all who celebrate. (If you don’t agree with me, argue with Dr. Gary Gallagher who already told y’all that contemporaries didn’t see Gettysburg as any kind of turning point.)
July 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you ever see John Roberts in person and don’t tell him to go fuck himself, you’ll regret it forever.
June 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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mosasaurologist.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday from that one demon fish, this time at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck!
Grumpy curatorial face with a big 3d skeleton of Xiphactinus over his shoulder
June 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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toughsf.bsky.social
Why does Betelgeuse's brightness keep changing drastically?
Perhaps because a Solar System-sized cloud of dust is drifting between us and the star. Here's an infographic to give you an idea of its scale:
www.eso.org/public/image...
June 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
the virgin AAA games player:

* pays $80 multiple times a month for newgame
* has to buy the games his friends buy
* gets mad when the game is bad

the chad 20 year WoW veteran:

* pays $9/mo with yearly subscription
* met his wife in burning crusade raid
* knows the game is bad, logs in anyway
cooperlund.online Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · Jun 9
Absolutely laughable to call gaming "one of the most expensive hobbies around" because a video game costs ten dollars more. Gamers are children and should be treated with distain.
It wasn't that long ago that people were getting used to $70 games. And now that Xbox has finally made the leap, it's only a matter of time until other companies start charging $80 as one of the most expensive hobbies around, gets even more costly.
June 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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batsinthebrittfry.bsky.social
POV: they told you you’re allowed to wear sneakers at work
June 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Never in my lifetime has the Democratic Party been as much as a ghost ship as it is today. Incredible there aren't more insurgent primary campaigns. Power is just sitting there and the only thing guarding it is fossils like Chuck Schumer
May 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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freddyb-aviation.bsky.social
S-300 (SA-10 GRUMBLE) Battery at the Tonopah Test Range. 30N6E "Flap Lid" radar and the white radar van is the Advanced Radar Threat System Variant 1 (ARTS-V1) shot from about 10 miles out August 2024 #S300 #SAM #TTR #Tonopah #missile #nevada #opfor #surfacetoairmissile #radar #russian #NAFO #SA10
May 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM