Weaverbird
@weaverbird.bsky.social
Fiber artist, day-dreamer. Interests (partial list): nature, art, photography, music, books. Mostly I lurk.
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Administrative agencies: very dangerous, must be line edited by Matthew Kaczmaryk
President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking
President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking
July 1, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Administrative agencies: very dangerous, must be line edited by Matthew Kaczmaryk
President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking
President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking
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God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board
Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.
www.inquirer.com
June 29, 2024 at 10:39 PM
God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
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In preparation for the Biden and Trump presidential debate today.
June 27, 2024 at 8:02 PM
In preparation for the Biden and Trump presidential debate today.
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the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it
New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.
Read The Big Take ⬇️
Read The Big Take ⬇️
AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems
New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.
www.bloomberg.com
June 22, 2024 at 7:26 AM
the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it
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It is my personal opinion that menopausal hot flashes are the last of one's fucks burning up.
June 23, 2024 at 5:01 AM
It is my personal opinion that menopausal hot flashes are the last of one's fucks burning up.
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I put tennis balls out on the patio to see if the baby raccoons would play with them and...
June 21, 2024 at 11:20 PM
I put tennis balls out on the patio to see if the baby raccoons would play with them and...
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I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.
June 18, 2024 at 10:56 PM
I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.
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one of my deep seated beliefs is that elephants are one of the other high level intelligences on this planet and that if there is a judgment day humanity will be held to account for our crimes against them www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
Elephants call each other by name, study finds
Researchers used artificial intelligence algorithm to analyse calls by two herds of African savanna elephants in Kenya
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2024 at 12:11 AM
one of my deep seated beliefs is that elephants are one of the other high level intelligences on this planet and that if there is a judgment day humanity will be held to account for our crimes against them www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
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Don't worry kids, it's just an awkward coincidence that major news outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @thedailybeast.bsky.social are replacing their top editors with right-wing propagandists before the most fraught election in American history.
NEW: Daily Beast editor in chief Tracy Connor is stepping down, according to a staff memo from CEO Ben Sherwood. Hugh Dougherty, formerly of NYPost, Daily Mail, Telegraph, will be the new executive editor. (via Max Tani, Semafor)
June 4, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Don't worry kids, it's just an awkward coincidence that major news outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @thedailybeast.bsky.social are replacing their top editors with right-wing propagandists before the most fraught election in American history.
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This is why book bans are on such a steep incline. The far right extremists who organize them are capitalizing on easily inflamed bigotries to defund institutions of public learning bc it's the most effective and cheapest way to cling to their power.
Poor people use libraries. Rich people shut them down because they don't *want* poor people to read.
June 3, 2024 at 4:10 PM
This is why book bans are on such a steep incline. The far right extremists who organize them are capitalizing on easily inflamed bigotries to defund institutions of public learning bc it's the most effective and cheapest way to cling to their power.
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Just fold the studio into Disney and kill it already. Make Toy Story sequels till the sun fucking burns out. Love how this shift conveniently happened when more woman/POC were really pushing to direct their own stories. Defining their experiences as not "universal" is saying the quiet part aloud.
June 3, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Just fold the studio into Disney and kill it already. Make Toy Story sequels till the sun fucking burns out. Love how this shift conveniently happened when more woman/POC were really pushing to direct their own stories. Defining their experiences as not "universal" is saying the quiet part aloud.
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TRUMP: If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone.
Yes. If you commit 34 felonies by filing false business records to cover up election interference, you too can be convicted by a jury of your peers via the due process of our criminal justice system.
Yes. If you commit 34 felonies by filing false business records to cover up election interference, you too can be convicted by a jury of your peers via the due process of our criminal justice system.
May 31, 2024 at 4:08 PM
TRUMP: If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone.
Yes. If you commit 34 felonies by filing false business records to cover up election interference, you too can be convicted by a jury of your peers via the due process of our criminal justice system.
Yes. If you commit 34 felonies by filing false business records to cover up election interference, you too can be convicted by a jury of your peers via the due process of our criminal justice system.
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Richard Linklater's romantic thriller Hit Man is minor Linklater but major fun, w/ movie-star-in-the-making Glen Powell as a philosophy prof who moonlights as a fake contract killer (based on a real guy!). See it in theaters to show Netflix that, yes, we still like movies. slate.com/culture/2024...
Finally, an Honest-to-Goodness Great New Rom-Com
Hit Man is actually funny, actually sexy, and announces the arrival of a major new movie star.
slate.com
May 24, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Richard Linklater's romantic thriller Hit Man is minor Linklater but major fun, w/ movie-star-in-the-making Glen Powell as a philosophy prof who moonlights as a fake contract killer (based on a real guy!). See it in theaters to show Netflix that, yes, we still like movies. slate.com/culture/2024...
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I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
May 23, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
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GOP campaigns staffed with young operatives who are into Nazi stuff is bad actually. Very charitable explanation of "just trolling" is still quite bad.
Do you know what they called people who weren't into Hitler's worst ideas but backed him because they liked how it bothered people they hate?
Nazis.
Do you know what they called people who weren't into Hitler's worst ideas but backed him because they liked how it bothered people they hate?
Nazis.
May 21, 2024 at 1:50 PM
GOP campaigns staffed with young operatives who are into Nazi stuff is bad actually. Very charitable explanation of "just trolling" is still quite bad.
Do you know what they called people who weren't into Hitler's worst ideas but backed him because they liked how it bothered people they hate?
Nazis.
Do you know what they called people who weren't into Hitler's worst ideas but backed him because they liked how it bothered people they hate?
Nazis.
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Now I’m no tech visionary, but if I asked a very famous actress to provide the voice for my product and she turned me down, I would not simply use her voice anyway
(Statement from Scarlett Johansson on OpenAI’s “Sky”)
(Statement from Scarlett Johansson on OpenAI’s “Sky”)
May 20, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Now I’m no tech visionary, but if I asked a very famous actress to provide the voice for my product and she turned me down, I would not simply use her voice anyway
(Statement from Scarlett Johansson on OpenAI’s “Sky”)
(Statement from Scarlett Johansson on OpenAI’s “Sky”)
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English actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and The Lord of the Rings, died on Sunday. He was 79.
Bernard Hill, who starred in 'Titanic' and 'The Lord of the Rings,' dies at 79
The English actor played Captain Edward John Smith in the 1997 film Titanic as well as King Théoden of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
www.npr.org
May 5, 2024 at 5:58 PM
English actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and The Lord of the Rings, died on Sunday. He was 79.
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The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 3, 2024 at 11:25 PM
The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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#DYK it's rumored that the character design for Yoda was inspired by tarsiers?
The resemblance is uncanny!
Happy #StarWarsDay, and May the 4th (of nature) be with you. 🌍🧪
The resemblance is uncanny!
Happy #StarWarsDay, and May the 4th (of nature) be with you. 🌍🧪
May 4, 2024 at 10:33 AM
#DYK it's rumored that the character design for Yoda was inspired by tarsiers?
The resemblance is uncanny!
Happy #StarWarsDay, and May the 4th (of nature) be with you. 🌍🧪
The resemblance is uncanny!
Happy #StarWarsDay, and May the 4th (of nature) be with you. 🌍🧪
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denver students chanting “i don’t see a riot here. why are you in riot gear?” at the cops assembled
April 26, 2024 at 7:04 PM
denver students chanting “i don’t see a riot here. why are you in riot gear?” at the cops assembled
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Happy 460th birthday to William Shakespeare! #literature #shakespeare
April 23, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Happy 460th birthday to William Shakespeare! #literature #shakespeare
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They've done it! Voyager 1 is talking to NASA again. After 5 months of absolutely heroic efforts from the JPL team, they isolated a single faulty memory chip in one of the onboard computers. The coding workaround sounds both cunning and devious, and it's worked. 🥳🧪🔭
ℹ️: blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/
ℹ️: blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/
April 22, 2024 at 8:35 PM
They've done it! Voyager 1 is talking to NASA again. After 5 months of absolutely heroic efforts from the JPL team, they isolated a single faulty memory chip in one of the onboard computers. The coding workaround sounds both cunning and devious, and it's worked. 🥳🧪🔭
ℹ️: blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/
ℹ️: blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/