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This is a handy tool which adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted github.com/ocrmypdf/OCR... #opensource
GitHub - ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF: OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched - ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
github.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is a handy tool which adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted github.com/ocrmypdf/OCR... #opensource
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After 450 million years of evolutionary history, shark populations are collapsing, and more than a third of shark species and their relatives face extinction.
Now scientists are trying to use the lure of “Jaws” to advance shark conservation efforts.
Now scientists are trying to use the lure of “Jaws” to advance shark conservation efforts.
‘Jaws’ made people fear sharks. 50 years later, can it help save them?
Scientists are using the lure of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster to aid shark conservation efforts.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
After 450 million years of evolutionary history, shark populations are collapsing, and more than a third of shark species and their relatives face extinction.
Now scientists are trying to use the lure of “Jaws” to advance shark conservation efforts.
Now scientists are trying to use the lure of “Jaws” to advance shark conservation efforts.
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"Even if you doubt Israel’s claim that Iran was days away from producing enough weapons-grade uranium for 15 atomic bombs, there is reason to believe that the regime’s capabilities were accelerating." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/w...
Iran Is Breaking Rules on Nuclear Activity, U.N. Watchdog Says
www.nytimes.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Even if you doubt Israel’s claim that Iran was days away from producing enough weapons-grade uranium for 15 atomic bombs, there is reason to believe that the regime’s capabilities were accelerating." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/w...
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Number one enemy of people and dogs everywhere.
June 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Number one enemy of people and dogs everywhere.
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Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide. www.wired.com/story/no-kin...
'No Kings' Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings
Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.
www.wired.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide. www.wired.com/story/no-kin...
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Denmark Wants to Dump Microsoft Software for Linux, LibreOffice: The Danish Ministry for Digital Affairs will move half of its employees off Windows and Microsoft 365 next month as part of a four-year 'digital sovereignty' push
www.pcmag.com/news/denmark...
www.pcmag.com/news/denmark...
Denmark Wants to Dump Microsoft Software for Linux, LibreOffice
The Danish Ministry for Digital Affairs will move half of its employees off Windows and Microsoft 365 next month as part of a four-year 'digital sovereignty' push.
www.pcmag.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Denmark Wants to Dump Microsoft Software for Linux, LibreOffice: The Danish Ministry for Digital Affairs will move half of its employees off Windows and Microsoft 365 next month as part of a four-year 'digital sovereignty' push
www.pcmag.com/news/denmark...
www.pcmag.com/news/denmark...
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One of the true geniuses of my lifetime. Thank you for the soundtrack. RIP
Breaking News: Brian Wilson has died
The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Dies at 82
The beloved musician had been living with a neurocognative disorder akin to dementia
pitchfork.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the true geniuses of my lifetime. Thank you for the soundtrack. RIP
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I'll be at part of #ICA2025 in Denver this week! Notably, I'm giving the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture on Saturday at 3pm. Hope to see some of you there. :)
June 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'll be at part of #ICA2025 in Denver this week! Notably, I'm giving the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture on Saturday at 3pm. Hope to see some of you there. :)
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Just a reminder that the federal minimum wage in the United States has been $7.25 per hour since July 2009, the last time Congress raised it. The overall cost of living, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has increased by 36.41% between 2009 and 2022 according to In2013dollars.com.
May 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just a reminder that the federal minimum wage in the United States has been $7.25 per hour since July 2009, the last time Congress raised it. The overall cost of living, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has increased by 36.41% between 2009 and 2022 according to In2013dollars.com.
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The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.
How to get to Sesame Street? Kids can now head to Netflix as well as PBS
The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.
www.npr.org
May 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.
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Bruce Springsteen has always stood for the working class, the marginalized, the dreamers just trying to survive, & if you missed that, you weren’t listening. The real problem in America isn’t partylines
#BruceSpringsteen #HumanRights #Politics #EmpathyIsNotPartisan #DoBetterAmerica #UnityNotDivision
#BruceSpringsteen #HumanRights #Politics #EmpathyIsNotPartisan #DoBetterAmerica #UnityNotDivision
May 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Bruce Springsteen has always stood for the working class, the marginalized, the dreamers just trying to survive, & if you missed that, you weren’t listening. The real problem in America isn’t partylines
#BruceSpringsteen #HumanRights #Politics #EmpathyIsNotPartisan #DoBetterAmerica #UnityNotDivision
#BruceSpringsteen #HumanRights #Politics #EmpathyIsNotPartisan #DoBetterAmerica #UnityNotDivision
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Adriana Smith is brain dead and her family is being forced to watch her body be kept alive for months - not for her, but to serve Georgia's cruel abortion ban.
Adriana deserves dignity and her family deserves compassion, not state-mandated torment.
Adriana deserves dignity and her family deserves compassion, not state-mandated torment.
This is the cruelty of abortion bans on full display. This is not “pro-woman,” “pro-life,” or “pro-family,” this is inhumanity.
Adriana Smith, we fight for you.
Read more 👇.
Adriana Smith, we fight for you.
Read more 👇.
May 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Adriana Smith is brain dead and her family is being forced to watch her body be kept alive for months - not for her, but to serve Georgia's cruel abortion ban.
Adriana deserves dignity and her family deserves compassion, not state-mandated torment.
Adriana deserves dignity and her family deserves compassion, not state-mandated torment.
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A fascist government in the United States is testing boundaries daily, ignoring the courts and getting no repercussions. None. Zero. If you don't think you could be next, you're not paying attention.
May 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A fascist government in the United States is testing boundaries daily, ignoring the courts and getting no repercussions. None. Zero. If you don't think you could be next, you're not paying attention.
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
May 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
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What starts with banning books and mistreating librarians?
Fascism.
Fascism.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What starts with banning books and mistreating librarians?
Fascism.
Fascism.
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Funny one.
I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.
May 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Funny one.
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Robert Francis Prevost, so Bob Pope...
Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
May 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Robert Francis Prevost, so Bob Pope...
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
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I haven’t been able to confirm this but suspect the reason my AI education NSF grant was canceled was this sentence in the abstract: “Meanwhile, informal learning for young people increasingly takes place on social media, which is also full of myths, misconceptions, and misinformation around AI.”
April 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I haven’t been able to confirm this but suspect the reason my AI education NSF grant was canceled was this sentence in the abstract: “Meanwhile, informal learning for young people increasingly takes place on social media, which is also full of myths, misconceptions, and misinformation around AI.”
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