Sarah
@sempiternalsap.bsky.social
data scientist, hiker, bird lover
(she/they)
(she/they)
krakens time babyyy
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
krakens time babyyy
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Gates Foundation IP maximalism killed a ton of people when pepfar and HIV prevention was spinning up but that was long enough ago that it's forgotten now :)
Gates insistence on prioritizing intellectual property rights before distributing the COVID vaccine definitely resulted in unnecessary deaths of children.
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
www.wired.com/story/opinio...
The World Loses Under Bill Gates’ Vaccine Colonialism
As many countries wait for Covid vaccines, the world needs a patent-free “People’s Vaccine”—not more of Gates’ intellectual property stubbornness.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Gates Foundation IP maximalism killed a ton of people when pepfar and HIV prevention was spinning up but that was long enough ago that it's forgotten now :)
I've let my feed become far too liberal but many of the leftist trans people on here are incredibly annoying about tech and/or gender. wahh
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I've let my feed become far too liberal but many of the leftist trans people on here are incredibly annoying about tech and/or gender. wahh
me next week for real this time
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
me next week for real this time
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Farms are filling the water with nitrates. But wait, what if we could let them off the hook because there's an easier punching bag
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Farms are filling the water with nitrates. But wait, what if we could let them off the hook because there's an easier punching bag
today's the only day i work this week and i have very little to do unless i want to jump into major code restructuring that'll take 2-3 solid days. blah
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
today's the only day i work this week and i have very little to do unless i want to jump into major code restructuring that'll take 2-3 solid days. blah
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"Never trust woo woos" has been my guiding principle in life and has literally never once let me down lol
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"Never trust woo woos" has been my guiding principle in life and has literally never once let me down lol
i think 12 year old me would be fine knowing that im trans but the fact that i don't want to be on the computer 16 hours a day would horrify her
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
i think 12 year old me would be fine knowing that im trans but the fact that i don't want to be on the computer 16 hours a day would horrify her
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Neither Davis nor Foucault were interested in defining a specific horizon of total abolition, but instead a) a real and direct means to resist, avoid, repurpose, disempower the institutions and b) creating new social structures that might be more effective for certain shared goals.
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Neither Davis nor Foucault were interested in defining a specific horizon of total abolition, but instead a) a real and direct means to resist, avoid, repurpose, disempower the institutions and b) creating new social structures that might be more effective for certain shared goals.
she likes watching birds out the window
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
she likes watching birds out the window
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Kind of unfortunate for the “tech=instrumental rationality=fascism” crowd that fascism loves holism, organicism, vitalism, all that good Völkisch stuff, and actually hates ungemütlich abstraction just like they do
blatantly wrong, ecological and environmental thinking informed nazi thought to a significant degree
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jane...
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jane...
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Kind of unfortunate for the “tech=instrumental rationality=fascism” crowd that fascism loves holism, organicism, vitalism, all that good Völkisch stuff, and actually hates ungemütlich abstraction just like they do
roasted squash and lentil curry incoming though
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
roasted squash and lentil curry incoming though
the tendency for all things to become turmeric stained over time
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
the tendency for all things to become turmeric stained over time
always funny to see the "transgender 14 words" poster dogpiling someone else for saying rainbow imperialism stuff
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
always funny to see the "transgender 14 words" poster dogpiling someone else for saying rainbow imperialism stuff
im not saying there's *nothing* here but it does seem that studies like this are basically just showing that people do better with tools they know how to use than with tools they don't (yet)
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
im not saying there's *nothing* here but it does seem that studies like this are basically just showing that people do better with tools they know how to use than with tools they don't (yet)
the first three Dune books are actually so good. hell yeah
November 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
the first three Dune books are actually so good. hell yeah
tis the season (of having eczema all over my hands from washing them too often)
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
tis the season (of having eczema all over my hands from washing them too often)
wherever you make a career change it's important to find a new brilliant Asian woman to be your role model
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
wherever you make a career change it's important to find a new brilliant Asian woman to be your role model
kristi noem won't see you making fun of her face but trans girls with similarly shitty plastic surgery will ☝️🤓
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
kristi noem won't see you making fun of her face but trans girls with similarly shitty plastic surgery will ☝️🤓
simple trick to get your partner doing more than their fair share of housework: always be cleaning when they get home from work, they'll feel guilty and do more to compensate
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
simple trick to get your partner doing more than their fair share of housework: always be cleaning when they get home from work, they'll feel guilty and do more to compensate
there's a freakin cheeto in the white house
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
there's a freakin cheeto in the white house
maybe the real bubba was inside each one of us all along
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
maybe the real bubba was inside each one of us all along