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Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
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"...The revolution that was meant to reshape our world has mostly extended Big Tech’s wealth and influence. Who would have guessed that AI’s most astounding feature would be making the world’s most powerful companies even more powerful."
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 29, 2024 at 6:44 PM
"...The revolution that was meant to reshape our world has mostly extended Big Tech’s wealth and influence. Who would have guessed that AI’s most astounding feature would be making the world’s most powerful companies even more powerful."
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Decades ago, when I began airing my thoughts on the quantum substrate of consciousness, they all laughed.
A few months ago, one of the world's foremost universities asked me to write a paper about it for them.
So that was fun.
brianjflanagan.substack.com/p/quantum-pe...
A few months ago, one of the world's foremost universities asked me to write a paper about it for them.
So that was fun.
brianjflanagan.substack.com/p/quantum-pe...
Quantum Perceptions
Please hold your applause.
brianjflanagan.substack.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Decades ago, when I began airing my thoughts on the quantum substrate of consciousness, they all laughed.
A few months ago, one of the world's foremost universities asked me to write a paper about it for them.
So that was fun.
brianjflanagan.substack.com/p/quantum-pe...
A few months ago, one of the world's foremost universities asked me to write a paper about it for them.
So that was fun.
brianjflanagan.substack.com/p/quantum-pe...
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Our new paper profiles the threat of targeted fish maw fisheries to sharks, rays, and cetaceans. 1. maw is facilitating landing and trade of CITES listed species. 2. Global trade data bases need to recognize fish maw as a product driving fishery effort conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 28, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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An old Edgmond custom was known as 'Ringing the Dead home'. This involved chiming the church bells continually, instead of the usual sombre tones. The bells stopped when the coffin reached the lych gate. It was thought proper to welcome the dead to their new home. 🪦
#Deathlore #Shropshire #Folklore
#Deathlore #Shropshire #Folklore
November 24, 2024 at 8:30 AM
An old Edgmond custom was known as 'Ringing the Dead home'. This involved chiming the church bells continually, instead of the usual sombre tones. The bells stopped when the coffin reached the lych gate. It was thought proper to welcome the dead to their new home. 🪦
#Deathlore #Shropshire #Folklore
#Deathlore #Shropshire #Folklore
This just in from Oxford.
"This immediately suggests that perception is likely more than simply the binding of molecules to receptors. This is where the additional depth that quantum mechanics could provide comes in."
brianjflanagan.substack.com/p/quantum-pe...
"This immediately suggests that perception is likely more than simply the binding of molecules to receptors. This is where the additional depth that quantum mechanics could provide comes in."
brianjflanagan.substack.com/p/quantum-pe...
March 7, 2024 at 10:06 PM
This just in from Oxford.
"This immediately suggests that perception is likely more than simply the binding of molecules to receptors. This is where the additional depth that quantum mechanics could provide comes in."
brianjflanagan.substack.com/p/quantum-pe...
"This immediately suggests that perception is likely more than simply the binding of molecules to receptors. This is where the additional depth that quantum mechanics could provide comes in."
brianjflanagan.substack.com/p/quantum-pe...
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When communities speak up, good things happen!
Props to the Kwakwaka’wakw leaders and their supporters on this win:
www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/glyphos...
Props to the Kwakwaka’wakw leaders and their supporters on this win:
www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/glyphos...
Toxic herbicide spray drops 97 per cent throughout Ma’amtagila territory in Great Bear Rainforest after alarm sounded
Over 9,500 ha of forested land saved from glyphosate spraying in 2023 VANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES — A pesticide use summary document recently obtained by ...
www.wildernesscommittee.org
March 7, 2024 at 5:58 PM
When communities speak up, good things happen!
Props to the Kwakwaka’wakw leaders and their supporters on this win:
www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/glyphos...
Props to the Kwakwaka’wakw leaders and their supporters on this win:
www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/glyphos...
This just in from Oxford.
oxsci.org/the-quantum-...
This immediately suggests that perception is likely more than simply the binding of molecules to receptors. This is where the additional depth that quantum mechanics could provide comes in.
See: “Are Perceptual Fields Quantum Fields?”
oxsci.org/the-quantum-...
This immediately suggests that perception is likely more than simply the binding of molecules to receptors. This is where the additional depth that quantum mechanics could provide comes in.
See: “Are Perceptual Fields Quantum Fields?”
March 6, 2024 at 3:07 PM
This just in from Oxford.
oxsci.org/the-quantum-...
This immediately suggests that perception is likely more than simply the binding of molecules to receptors. This is where the additional depth that quantum mechanics could provide comes in.
See: “Are Perceptual Fields Quantum Fields?”
oxsci.org/the-quantum-...
This immediately suggests that perception is likely more than simply the binding of molecules to receptors. This is where the additional depth that quantum mechanics could provide comes in.
See: “Are Perceptual Fields Quantum Fields?”
I’ve been a fan of Terence Tao for some time, but his essays in the Princeton Companion to Mathematics really won me over. So I was delighted to find this piece in Quanta:
www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-f...
February 2, 2024 at 2:54 PM
I’ve been a fan of Terence Tao for some time, but his essays in the Princeton Companion to Mathematics really won me over. So I was delighted to find this piece in Quanta:
www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-f...
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Journalists say tech giants Google and Meta aid suppression
Journalists say tech giants aid suppression – DW – 01/20/2024
Independent media websites blocked by the Russian and Belarusian authorities say they are disadvantaged by the Google search engine. Journalists are calling for a new algorithm.
www.dw.com
January 20, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Journalists say tech giants Google and Meta aid suppression
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Great! Biden's agencies are truly doing all they can to speed renewable energy permitting processes in the absence of much-needed congressional reform, with this being the latest example at BOEM:
www.utilitydive.com/news/boem-en...
www.utilitydive.com/news/boem-en...
January 20, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Great! Biden's agencies are truly doing all they can to speed renewable energy permitting processes in the absence of much-needed congressional reform, with this being the latest example at BOEM:
www.utilitydive.com/news/boem-en...
www.utilitydive.com/news/boem-en...
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I really don't think most cis people realize how bad it's gotten, how fast it's happened, and how much worse it could get
January 4, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I really don't think most cis people realize how bad it's gotten, how fast it's happened, and how much worse it could get
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“It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.” - Charles de Lint
December 25, 2023 at 2:49 PM
“It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.” - Charles de Lint
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Polar bear and her cubs sleeping in a field of verdant wildflowers. (📸: Martin Gregus)
December 31, 2023 at 6:49 PM
Polar bear and her cubs sleeping in a field of verdant wildflowers. (📸: Martin Gregus)
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Temperate rainforest once covered most of Ireland + western Britain.
Its natural return must become an absolute priority, right across the archipelago. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Its natural return must become an absolute priority, right across the archipelago. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Jewel of Britain’s nature crown’: Plan to restore rainforest welcomed by campaigners
Conservationists say government strategy to recover Britain’s degraded temperate rainforest is a good start but want a target to double the area by 2050
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2023 at 7:53 AM
Temperate rainforest once covered most of Ireland + western Britain.
Its natural return must become an absolute priority, right across the archipelago. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Its natural return must become an absolute priority, right across the archipelago. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Breaking news: Maine barred Donald Trump from the primary ballot Thursday, making it the second state in the country to block the former president from running again under a part of the Constitution that prevents insurrectionists from holding office.
Donald Trump removed from Maine primary ballot by secretary of state
Maine is the second state to block the former president from running again under a part of the Constitution that prevents insurrectionists from holding office.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 29, 2023 at 12:18 AM
Breaking news: Maine barred Donald Trump from the primary ballot Thursday, making it the second state in the country to block the former president from running again under a part of the Constitution that prevents insurrectionists from holding office.
Can't help but think it'll be well received.
Thanks @clairelamman.bsky.social for some of the gingerbread VLA! 🤩📡🎅🏻
I confess it’s too pretty to eat so I haven’t tried it yet, don’t ask how it tastes
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I confess it’s too pretty to eat so I haven’t tried it yet, don’t ask how it tastes
🧪🎢🔭
December 25, 2023 at 8:40 PM
Can't help but think it'll be well received.
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This holiday season is an ideal time for watching this video with the family & for thinking about how we could "Rewild the world" An important lesson from David Attenborough
A Life on our Planet - Attenborough's witness statement
For free at: ihavenotv.com/david-attenb...
🧪🌍🌿🦤biodiversity #nature
A Life on our Planet - Attenborough's witness statement
For free at: ihavenotv.com/david-attenb...
🧪🌍🌿🦤biodiversity #nature
December 25, 2023 at 7:19 PM
This holiday season is an ideal time for watching this video with the family & for thinking about how we could "Rewild the world" An important lesson from David Attenborough
A Life on our Planet - Attenborough's witness statement
For free at: ihavenotv.com/david-attenb...
🧪🌍🌿🦤biodiversity #nature
A Life on our Planet - Attenborough's witness statement
For free at: ihavenotv.com/david-attenb...
🧪🌍🌿🦤biodiversity #nature
For an excellent view of the history of QM, see 'Inward Bound,' by Pais.
The author was a friend and colleague of Einstein and a distinguished physicist in his own right, who knew many of the principal players. 🧪
The author was a friend and colleague of Einstein and a distinguished physicist in his own right, who knew many of the principal players. 🧪
Happy Quantum Day!
Max Planck presented work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society OTD in 1900. His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. 🧪
Image: AIP
Max Planck presented work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society OTD in 1900. His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. 🧪
Image: AIP
December 14, 2023 at 3:43 PM
For an excellent view of the history of QM, see 'Inward Bound,' by Pais.
The author was a friend and colleague of Einstein and a distinguished physicist in his own right, who knew many of the principal players. 🧪
The author was a friend and colleague of Einstein and a distinguished physicist in his own right, who knew many of the principal players. 🧪
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December 14, 2023 at 2:06 PM
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The nation’s largest pharmacy chains — CVS Health, Kroger and Rite Aid — hand over Americans’ prescription records to police without a warrant, a congressional investigation found
Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warrant, inquiry finds
Findings of a congressional inquiry raise privacy concerns as some states seek to criminalize abortion.
wapo.st
December 12, 2023 at 4:31 PM
The nation’s largest pharmacy chains — CVS Health, Kroger and Rite Aid — hand over Americans’ prescription records to police without a warrant, a congressional investigation found
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Analysis by Glenn Kessler: A bogus claim every 12 seconds, on average. That’s what a single five-minute clip of former president Donald Trump speaking in Iowa on Dec. 5 yielded.
Analysis | Trump on Hannity’s show: 24 false or misleading claims in 5 minutes
The former president falsely claimed he could save Social Security with oil and gas revenue, among many bogus claims — an average of one every 12 seconds.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Analysis by Glenn Kessler: A bogus claim every 12 seconds, on average. That’s what a single five-minute clip of former president Donald Trump speaking in Iowa on Dec. 5 yielded.
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One thing about Alex Jones getting his Twitter account back is that the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary had to move 12 times after far-right conspiracy theorists posted their home addresses www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/u...
Sandy Hook Parents to Testify Against Alex Jones, and a Culture of Lies (Published 2022)
The families of 10 victims have waited years to hold the Infowars conspiracist and the political environment that enabled him to account.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2023 at 4:48 PM
One thing about Alex Jones getting his Twitter account back is that the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary had to move 12 times after far-right conspiracy theorists posted their home addresses www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/u...