Eyjólfur Guðmundsson
@eyjolfur88.bsky.social
UChicago alum for #YesGSU | hann/he/him | #sannaReykjavík 🇵🇸
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Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
January 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
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just a friendly reminder that mars colonization is 100% science fiction.
take mount everest, stack four more mountains of equal size on top of it, and then try to live there.
it’s absolute nonsense.
take mount everest, stack four more mountains of equal size on top of it, and then try to live there.
it’s absolute nonsense.
December 30, 2024 at 10:42 PM
just a friendly reminder that mars colonization is 100% science fiction.
take mount everest, stack four more mountains of equal size on top of it, and then try to live there.
it’s absolute nonsense.
take mount everest, stack four more mountains of equal size on top of it, and then try to live there.
it’s absolute nonsense.
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
This is what they wrote.
This is what they wrote.
December 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
This is what they wrote.
This is what they wrote.
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*taps the "because they're using the 1920s Klan definition of elites" sign*
December 20, 2024 at 2:55 PM
*taps the "because they're using the 1920s Klan definition of elites" sign*
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You still have people saying, "I don't see any evidence that Musk is a neo-Nazi." And it's like, I can't know what's in his heart, but he follows them on Twitter, retweets them, promotes their conspiracy theories, parrots their rhetoric, and now recommends their party for Germany. But who knows?
December 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM
You still have people saying, "I don't see any evidence that Musk is a neo-Nazi." And it's like, I can't know what's in his heart, but he follows them on Twitter, retweets them, promotes their conspiracy theories, parrots their rhetoric, and now recommends their party for Germany. But who knows?
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This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.
December 19, 2024 at 3:30 PM
This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.
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This Day in Labor History: December 1, 1868. A young black former Union soldier named John Henry was among a group of convicts sent from Richmond to West Virginia to blast a railroad tunnel, where he would soon die. Let's talk the real John Henry, an actual human being who suffered under racism!
December 1, 2024 at 5:17 PM
This Day in Labor History: December 1, 1868. A young black former Union soldier named John Henry was among a group of convicts sent from Richmond to West Virginia to blast a railroad tunnel, where he would soon die. Let's talk the real John Henry, an actual human being who suffered under racism!
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all the liberals should read this also to prep for suddenly caring about what is happening in gaza in a couple of months
President Biden and family exited Nantucket Bookworks this afternoon with the president carrying the book, "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi, according to pool reporters.
November 30, 2024 at 10:16 AM
all the liberals should read this also to prep for suddenly caring about what is happening in gaza in a couple of months
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The delicate excavation of a scatter of flint waste flakes from the manufacture of a handaxe. It was left behind 480,000 years ago, maybe by early Neanderthal people. The scatter preserves the shadow of their knees. Boxgrove, UK 🏺 #FlintFriday
November 22, 2024 at 7:54 AM
The delicate excavation of a scatter of flint waste flakes from the manufacture of a handaxe. It was left behind 480,000 years ago, maybe by early Neanderthal people. The scatter preserves the shadow of their knees. Boxgrove, UK 🏺 #FlintFriday
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A finalist for the 2023 LAT Book Prize in science 🧪
“Leaving a 2 (degree Celsius) warmer Earth for Mars would be like leaving a messy room so you can live in a toxic waste dump,” write the authors of a book that argues Elon Musk’s intention to settle the red planet within the next 30 years is doomed to failure
Elon Musk has pledged to settle Mars. This book offers a reality check | CNN
In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing that Elon Musk’s dream is doomed to fail.
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November 22, 2024 at 1:46 PM
A finalist for the 2023 LAT Book Prize in science 🧪
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I went to a 2 hour training today on deep fakes & AI technology & I can say that 1. I'm believing nothing I don't experience first hand anymore and 2. Holy FUCK the rules of evidence need to catch up on foundation & authentication IMMEDIATELY.
November 21, 2024 at 5:04 AM
I went to a 2 hour training today on deep fakes & AI technology & I can say that 1. I'm believing nothing I don't experience first hand anymore and 2. Holy FUCK the rules of evidence need to catch up on foundation & authentication IMMEDIATELY.
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Strikingly, the only group that responded en mass and IMMEDIATELY to the neo-Nazi march this weekend in Columbus was a group of black men.
Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day.
And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.
Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day.
And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.
The only weekend march that mattered – Matter News
Less than 24 hours after a dozen or so masked Nazis walked the streets of the Short North on Saturday, Brian Winston, president of 100 Black Men of Central Ohio, helped lead a counterdemonstration mea...
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November 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Strikingly, the only group that responded en mass and IMMEDIATELY to the neo-Nazi march this weekend in Columbus was a group of black men.
Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day.
And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.
Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day.
And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.
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great thread and this has been one of my obsessions in my column, to point people away from the european example and toward the american one.
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 2:53 PM
great thread and this has been one of my obsessions in my column, to point people away from the european example and toward the american one.
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A) Never forget the Palestinians.
B) All oppressions are linked.
C) Colonialism is an ongoing atrocity.
D) Race and caste are not biological realities.
E) Unfettered capitalism will be the death of us all.
B) All oppressions are linked.
C) Colonialism is an ongoing atrocity.
D) Race and caste are not biological realities.
E) Unfettered capitalism will be the death of us all.
November 19, 2024 at 3:51 AM
A) Never forget the Palestinians.
B) All oppressions are linked.
C) Colonialism is an ongoing atrocity.
D) Race and caste are not biological realities.
E) Unfettered capitalism will be the death of us all.
B) All oppressions are linked.
C) Colonialism is an ongoing atrocity.
D) Race and caste are not biological realities.
E) Unfettered capitalism will be the death of us all.
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no one ever seems to highlight the single best feature of this app, the one that hands down holds this place miles above every alternative: no fucking advertisements, none, zero, not every 3 posts, not every 3000 posts, no brand activity at all!! where else besides wikipedia has that kind of freedom
November 19, 2024 at 5:06 AM
no one ever seems to highlight the single best feature of this app, the one that hands down holds this place miles above every alternative: no fucking advertisements, none, zero, not every 3 posts, not every 3000 posts, no brand activity at all!! where else besides wikipedia has that kind of freedom
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📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines
November 18, 2024 at 4:04 PM
📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines
Önnur (og skemmtilegri) merking á að vera SUS-ari: að nota mikið af sus hljómum.
Dæmi, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson:
Dæmi, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson:
November 17, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Önnur (og skemmtilegri) merking á að vera SUS-ari: að nota mikið af sus hljómum.
Dæmi, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson:
Dæmi, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson:
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Introduce yourself with four video games:
November 17, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Introduce yourself with four video games:
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I checked with an editor at the NYT Magazine this week and they just… don’t publish poems anymore.
People underestimated the impact of Boyer’s refusal at the time but whew. Powerful refusal.
People underestimated the impact of Boyer’s refusal at the time but whew. Powerful refusal.
Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”
November 15, 2024 at 3:12 PM
I checked with an editor at the NYT Magazine this week and they just… don’t publish poems anymore.
People underestimated the impact of Boyer’s refusal at the time but whew. Powerful refusal.
People underestimated the impact of Boyer’s refusal at the time but whew. Powerful refusal.
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BlueSky is filling a void that 35+ up been looking for. Social media should be a cool distraction. Not stressful and annoying. Folks wanna laugh and have healthy banter and wit and sarcasm. A feeling of community. Not all these bots and ads and weird ass algorithms and engagement farming
November 15, 2024 at 3:51 AM
BlueSky is filling a void that 35+ up been looking for. Social media should be a cool distraction. Not stressful and annoying. Folks wanna laugh and have healthy banter and wit and sarcasm. A feeling of community. Not all these bots and ads and weird ass algorithms and engagement farming