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Maham Chaudhary (she/they)
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Data Scientist… just hovering… I like all pronouns, some consonants and most prepositions
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campuscodi.risky.biz
Extortion groups have no clue on what corporate enterprise bureaucracy is and how slow it is. Just scheduling a meeting with legal can take 2 weeks.
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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nypapajoe.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
It’s incredible the kind of campaign someone can run when they’re not over 60
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 23
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.

New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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warren.senate.gov
The United States should not wage war against Iran.

Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.

This is a horrific war of choice.
June 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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carlblatro.bsky.social
"Users describe having their accounts wholly shut down, being blocked from creating new accounts, and having features heavily limited after posting about Gaza or making remarks critical of Israel."
www.middleeasteye.net/trending/blu...
#BlueSky #Censorship
'Palestinians must be heard': Bluesky urged to review 'punitive' policies towards Gaza content
Social media users say Gaza accounts and pro-Palestinian voices are disproportionately 'censored' by the platform
www.middleeasteye.net
May 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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xkcd.com
Reading a Big Number

xkcd.com/3102/
Comic. Thought Process While Reading A Big Number: 54,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000,0000,054,000"000,00c2ef46 [comments progress along the line, approximately every 3 digits] (1) 54! Great! I know that number. Solid start. (2) Oh, a comma and some zeros. Cool. Must be at least 54 thousand. (3) A second comma! I wonder if we’re talking population or money. (4) Yikes! If this is money, it’s a *lot* of money. (5) Why am I reading this? Whatever this number is, I’m not going to be able to visualize it. (6) All right, either someone made a unit conversion error or this is one of those incomprehensible astronomy numbers. (7) [4 zeroes between commas instead of 3]] Oh no. Is this a misplaced comma or an extra zero? I guess we’ll see if the next group has two zeros or three. If it’s two, we can at least hope the digits are right. (8) [4 zeroes between commas] Oh *no*. (9) [repeat of the digits 54] What is happening. (10) [a quotation mark in place of comma] Someone messed up real bad. (11) [final digits are c2ef46, cut off] Someone messed up real bad and I hope it wasn’t me.
June 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
🧪🌎
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
I saw a guy in Times Square doing the robot and realized that might be the only job truly safe from artificial intelligence
June 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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techcrunch.com
Applications are open for Startup Battlefield 200 — apply today!
Applications are open for Startup Battlefield 200 — apply today!
Are you a pre-Series A startup founder looking to make your mark on a global stage? This is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. Applications for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 — the premier startup pitch competition — are officially open. We want…
tcrn.ch
March 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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xkcd.com
Water Balloons xkcd.com/3061
March 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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newsycombinator.bsky.social
NIST Selects HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post-Quantum Encryption (nist.gov)

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March 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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esa.int
📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NGC 4900 and a prominent star. They appear to be close to each other, but the star is in our own galaxy, a mere 7109 light-years away, and the galaxy is about 45 million light-years away 🔭

esahubble.org/images/potw2...
A spiral galaxy seen face-on. Broken spiral arms made of blue patches of stars and thin strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s centre, forming a broad, circular disc. An extended circular halo surrounds the disc. The centre is a brightly-glowing, stubby bar-shaped area in a pale yellow colour. A bright star in our own galaxy, with long cross-shaped diffraction spikes, is visible atop the distant galaxy.
March 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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stephenking.bsky.social
Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.
February 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
alittlepenguin.bsky.social
As if *alleged* sex trafficking wasn’t enough we also have money laundering… worth watching! youtu.be/wkhSAHJxI5k?...
tate brothers released despite crimes
YouTube video by voidzilla
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February 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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newsycombinator.bsky.social
Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design (@github.com)

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February 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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fascinatingfinds.bsky.social
Amazing picture of Saturn taken by the James Webb Space Telescope
February 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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jamellebouie.net
let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”
maxkennerly.bsky.social Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Feb 22
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.

Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.

This is what "merit" means to them.

apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
Happy Presidents’ Day
February 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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newsycombinator.bsky.social
Privacy Is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset (@privacyguides.org)

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February 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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techcrunch.com
Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps
Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps
Google Maps officially updated the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Monday. Among many other executive orders, President Donald Trump decreed on the day of his inauguration that the Gulf of Mexico would be renamed the Gulf of America.…
tcrn.ch
February 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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newsycombinator.bsky.social
Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law (fedscoop.com)

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December 27, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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techcrunch.com
‘AI Granny’ is happy to talk with phone scammers all day
‘AI Granny’ is happy to talk with phone scammers all day
On Thursday, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, O2, introduced a chatbot designed to frustrate phone scammers. Called “dAIsy,” it mimics an older woman with all kinds of time to chat – about knitting, her cat Fluffy – with the aim of keeping…
tcrn.ch
November 16, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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thomasfuchs.at
I can’t save all the photons from crashing into my driveway—but here’s a few that ended up in my trap.

The Clamshell Nebula in Cygnus.
🔭🧪 #astrophotography
A colorful image of a space nebula, in reds, oranges, teal and deep blue. The blue center, showing oxygen-rich gas areas, is approximately oval. There’s also complex formations of gasses that almost look like an atoll on Earth; and a few smaller dark nebulas in the foreground. These dark lumps is often where star formation happens in space nebulas.
November 14, 2024 at 12:12 AM