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nutedawn.bsky.social
You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???
November 26, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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charig.bsky.social
Brazilian drug busts as icons of architecture

Today: the Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy)
Marijuana plant in a pot that leans to the left. DrugBust The Leaning Tower of Pisa
November 25, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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odedrechavi.bsky.social
Big if true
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 25, 2024 at 6:50 AM
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politico.eu
From assassination plots to incendiary bombs, Russian aggression is escalating across Europe.

Is the West too afraid to act?

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
November 25, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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amroali.bsky.social
188 Palestinian journalists killed in the last 14 months.
November 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Marsrover Perseverance Navcam Sol 738 - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2oqKpQ9
The NASA Perseverance Mars Rover captured these high altitude clouds with its left navigation camera on Sol 738 before Sunrise. These high altitude clouds, likely made up of CO2, were already lit by the sun. Calibrated for approximate visual appearance and upscaled. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
November 25, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
What’s the value of the humanities?

Well one answer might be to teach people not to misread the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to think it’s core lesson is that we need to colonise other planets

on.ft.com/4g0C35U
The question that The Hitchhiker's Guide prompted Musk to ask is: how to "expand the scope and scale of consciousness and knowledge" And Musk's answer? Become a "mul-tiplanetary species". During the past few years, Elon has placed less emphasis on the need to combat climate change, and more on the idea that the planet we currently inhabit is doomed.
November 24, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
I worry a little bit that too many people think that science fiction type technology is going to swoop in and save the day with respect to climate change
November 23, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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gildafoster.bsky.social
This is a great cover of "Creep"
My new favorite

youtu.be/nZoHuoFQyrI
Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)
YouTube video by Avie Sheck
youtu.be
November 24, 2024 at 5:56 AM
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icelandcricket.bsky.social
Lava, lagoon and life...
November 21, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
1. In states across the country, education officials are turning public schools into Christian indoctrination centers.

A new state-created K-5 curriculum that received preliminary approval in Texas quizzes Kindergartners on the order of creation in the Book of Genesis.
November 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time
Vincent D'Onofrio & @vincentdonofrio Pigs can't look up. But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.l want 2b treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time.
November 21, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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jennykleeman.bsky.social
James Marriott does not like Jordan Peterson’s new book www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
November 20, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
November 19, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Just an incredible sentence to appear in a news story about the man who might be the next attorney general.
Joel Leppard, an attorney representing two women who claimed former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz paid them for sex, told CNN on Monday that Gaetz paid for sexual favors through his adopted son Nestor’s PayPal account
November 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Getting a lot of replies along the lines of "oh, you rube, you still think the law matters" and it feels strategically foolish to just concede that it doesn't. Contest everything. Expose the hypocrisy.
November 18, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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simongroth.com
Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.
November 17, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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jerrylevine.com
The guest essay that everyone is talking about:

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The New Lork Cimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women- girls.html GUEST ESSAY I'm 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft. Nov. 16, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET By Naomi Beinart Ms. Beinart is a 16-year-old high school junior. On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back. I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes. There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were breathing freely. We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven't fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday. What made my skin burn most wasn't that over 75 million people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election didn't seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me, whether their parents supported Mr. Trump or not. Many of them didn't seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair. We don't even share the same future. I am scared that the Trump administration will take away or restrict birth control and Plan B - the same way they did abortion. I am scared that the boys I know will see in a triumphant, boastful Mr. Trump the epitome of a manly man and model themselves after him. I was 8 years old the first time he was elected. Now I am 16. I am still unable to vote, but I am so much more aware of what I have to lose. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Get it sent to your inbox. I have seen the ways in which many of the boys in my generation can be different from their fathers. The #MeToo movement went mainstream when they were still wearing Superman pajamas. On Tuesdays in health class, they learn about the dangers of inebriated consent. They don't pretend to gag when a girl mentions her period or a tampon falls out of her backpack. They don't find sexist jokes all that funny and don't often make them in public. I've heard they even use new language in the locker room about getting rejected by a girl, one where no means no and don't try again. I love and care for many of these boys and have always felt they were on my side. I'm grateful to my school for taking gender equality as seriously as it does trigonometry. But most of the guys I saw that Wednesday appeared nonchalant. A smiling student shook his friend's hand and said sarcastically, "Good election" in the same hallway where I saw a female teacher clutching a damp tissue. Why did it seem these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy friends might only care about women until it conflicts with other, more pressing, priorities. That morning, I spoke with a male classmate. He asked if I was OK. I nearly melted with relief. See, I knew not all guys were ignorant! Then, before I responded, he continued. Why, he wondered, are so many girls crying? I stared. I swallowed that familiar lump. And I had one thought: I pray that my older brother never asks that question. How could my classmate not know why girls in his grade were biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom? It seemed like our future was sliding down the sides of our faces, and he asked me why we were crying? I have never felt that disconnected from men. I have never felt more like a girl. Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton's loss. Now at 16, I've had the wind knocked out of me. On Wednesday, I was flush with anger - but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher. In a terrible way, I've never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been inhaling since Nov. 5. I can't predict how well I'm going to do on an English test tomorrow and I definitely can't predict the future for me and my fellow young women. For now, all I can do is tell you how I feel. Naomi Beinart is a 16-year-old girl and a junior in high school.
November 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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xor.blue
good for him! work-life balance is so important
book shelf labels pointing down to "Shakespeare plays" and up to "Shakespeare studies"
November 18, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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billybragg.bsky.social
This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
November 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
OMG. This is real.

Today, Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters told school leaders statewide they must play this video of him to all their students & send it to all parents.

In it, he bashes ‘woke unions’, announces a new “Office of Religious Liberty & Patriotism” & prays for Trump.
November 15, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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elakdawalla.bsky.social
The best thing about this image: the night side of Saturn. It’s not totally dark. Why not? Because it’s vaguely lit by light that has reflected from the rings. If you could somehow stand on the top of Saturn’s clouds, when it’s night, your world would be brightly lit by the huge yellow arc of rings.
hourlycosmos.bsky.social Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · Nov 16
Titan in front of Saturn - From Val Klavans - https://flic.kr/p/sAJDww
This is an approximate true color view of Saturn and its moon Titan. Titan is seen here hovering near Saturn's rings. This composite is made of images that were taken by Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on May 22, 2015 and received on Earth May 24, 2015. The camera was pointing toward Titan and Saturn, and the images were taken using the green, violet, and infrared filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans about.me/valerieklavans
November 16, 2024 at 7:19 AM