Leslie P
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Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I will see you in Valhalla. 🫡
Duane Roberts, Inventor of the Frozen Burrito, Dead at 88
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2363023/duane-roberts-inventor-of-the-frozen-burrito-dead-at-88/
Duane Roberts Billionaire Who Invented Frozen Burrito Dead at 88 Published November 2, 2025 9:51 AM PST Duane Roberts — the billionaire …
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Duane Roberts Billionaire Who Invented Frozen Burrito Dead at 88 Published November 2, 2025 9:51 AM PST Duane Roberts — the billionaire …
Duane Roberts, Inventor of the Frozen Burrito, Dead at 88 - Dining and Cooking
Duane Roberts -- the billionaire businessman credited with inventing the frozen burrito -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
www.diningandcooking.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I will see you in Valhalla. 🫡
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#Technology #Tech #AI #PBS
The amount of fake AI-generated content on #socialmedia is exploding. It’s already unlikely you can scroll without seeing a post that includes “AI Slop”.
This video dives into spotting the fake photos and videos, and ways to minimize its misleading and dangerous impact.
The amount of fake AI-generated content on #socialmedia is exploding. It’s already unlikely you can scroll without seeing a post that includes “AI Slop”.
This video dives into spotting the fake photos and videos, and ways to minimize its misleading and dangerous impact.
How to Detect Deepfakes: The Science of Recognizing AI Generated Content
YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#Technology #Tech #AI #PBS
The amount of fake AI-generated content on #socialmedia is exploding. It’s already unlikely you can scroll without seeing a post that includes “AI Slop”.
This video dives into spotting the fake photos and videos, and ways to minimize its misleading and dangerous impact.
The amount of fake AI-generated content on #socialmedia is exploding. It’s already unlikely you can scroll without seeing a post that includes “AI Slop”.
This video dives into spotting the fake photos and videos, and ways to minimize its misleading and dangerous impact.
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Map: Public media outlets serving Virginians that will lose federal money www.vpm.org/news/2025-07...
Map: Public media outlets serving Virginians that will lose federal money
UPDATED: Impacted stations range from rural independents to national affiliates.
www.vpm.org
July 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Map: Public media outlets serving Virginians that will lose federal money www.vpm.org/news/2025-07...
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More from USGS:
The Central Virginia seismic zone is far from the nearest tectonic plate boundaries and is laced with known faults, but numerous smaller or deeply buried faults remain undetected. Even the known faults are poorly located at earthquake depths.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
The Central Virginia seismic zone is far from the nearest tectonic plate boundaries and is laced with known faults, but numerous smaller or deeply buried faults remain undetected. Even the known faults are poorly located at earthquake depths.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
earthquake.usgs.gov
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earthquake.usgs.gov
May 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
More from USGS:
The Central Virginia seismic zone is far from the nearest tectonic plate boundaries and is laced with known faults, but numerous smaller or deeply buried faults remain undetected. Even the known faults are poorly located at earthquake depths.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
The Central Virginia seismic zone is far from the nearest tectonic plate boundaries and is laced with known faults, but numerous smaller or deeply buried faults remain undetected. Even the known faults are poorly located at earthquake depths.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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A severe geomagnetic storm is underway. It could possibly cause widespread voltage control problems, degrade GPS and black out HF radio propagation. Aurora could be seen as far south as Alabama. https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity.html
April 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A severe geomagnetic storm is underway. It could possibly cause widespread voltage control problems, degrade GPS and black out HF radio propagation. Aurora could be seen as far south as Alabama. https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity.html
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What is the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower?
YouTube video by Hidden Disabilities Sunflower
m.youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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As 23andMe files for bankruptcy, learn what you can do as a user of the genetic genealogy testing company if you’re worried about what happens next.
A Sale of 23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for Privacy. Here’s What Customers Can Do.
The CEO of 23andMe has recently said she’d consider selling the genetic genealogy testing company–and with it, the sensitive DNA data that it’s collected, and stored, from many of its 15 million custo...
www.eff.org
March 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
As 23andMe files for bankruptcy, learn what you can do as a user of the genetic genealogy testing company if you’re worried about what happens next.
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I wish there were a social etiquette around these things. Guests should know if they’re in the presence of a listening device
March 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I wish there were a social etiquette around these things. Guests should know if they’re in the presence of a listening device
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Etymology of the day: ‘prevaricate’, meaning to act in an ambiguous or evasive way to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself, is from the Latin ‘praevaricari’, meaning to ‘walk crookedly’.
March 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Etymology of the day: ‘prevaricate’, meaning to act in an ambiguous or evasive way to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself, is from the Latin ‘praevaricari’, meaning to ‘walk crookedly’.
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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
February 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
Algorithms are breaking how we think
YouTube video by Technology Connections
www.youtube.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
February 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
USAspending.gov
www.usaspending.gov
January 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
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Entertainer, childhood literacy advocate, and *scientific philanthropist* Dolly Parton was born #OTD in 1946.
Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world. 🦋 📖 🎶
dollyparton.com/imagination-...
Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world. 🦋 📖 🎶
dollyparton.com/imagination-...
January 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Entertainer, childhood literacy advocate, and *scientific philanthropist* Dolly Parton was born #OTD in 1946.
Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world. 🦋 📖 🎶
dollyparton.com/imagination-...
Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world. 🦋 📖 🎶
dollyparton.com/imagination-...
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Snow on the ground this morning allows a few features to show up nicely in the visible spectrum satellite image.
January 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Snow on the ground this morning allows a few features to show up nicely in the visible spectrum satellite image.
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🎥 Remix creative works like THE SKELETON DANCE for our 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest!
Use one or more classics from 1929 to create your 2–3 minute short film.
📆 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025
💰 First prize: $1,500
👉 Details: blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...
Use one or more classics from 1929 to create your 2–3 minute short film.
📆 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025
💰 First prize: $1,500
👉 Details: blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...
January 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🎥 Remix creative works like THE SKELETON DANCE for our 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest!
Use one or more classics from 1929 to create your 2–3 minute short film.
📆 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025
💰 First prize: $1,500
👉 Details: blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...
Use one or more classics from 1929 to create your 2–3 minute short film.
📆 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025
💰 First prize: $1,500
👉 Details: blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...
Banner we made at work for surviving that momentous occasion: “Yippee Ki-Yay! We Survived Y2K!”
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
🥳🍾🥂🎉
January 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Banner we made at work for surviving that momentous occasion: “Yippee Ki-Yay! We Survived Y2K!”
Happy New Year!
🥳🍾🥂🎉
Happy New Year!
🥳🍾🥂🎉
Awesome thread!
Albert Michelson, pioneer of optical interferometry, was born #OTD in 1852.
Michelson refined measurements of the speed of light, failed to find evidence of the aether, and developed a method that now underlies gravitational wave detection. 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
Photo: “Practical Physics,” Millikan & Gale
Michelson refined measurements of the speed of light, failed to find evidence of the aether, and developed a method that now underlies gravitational wave detection. 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
Photo: “Practical Physics,” Millikan & Gale
December 19, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Awesome thread!
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🎄❄️🎁 Unwrap Sierra On-Line's 1986 "A Computer Christmas" this holiday season! It's a retro slice of software history, showcasing early home computer graphic design. Preserving software allows us to relive our 8-bit digital heritage.
Enjoy the full pixelated classic ➡️ archive.org/details/sier...
Enjoy the full pixelated classic ➡️ archive.org/details/sier...
December 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
🎄❄️🎁 Unwrap Sierra On-Line's 1986 "A Computer Christmas" this holiday season! It's a retro slice of software history, showcasing early home computer graphic design. Preserving software allows us to relive our 8-bit digital heritage.
Enjoy the full pixelated classic ➡️ archive.org/details/sier...
Enjoy the full pixelated classic ➡️ archive.org/details/sier...
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I got to write in Scientific American about one of my all-time favorite cosmic objects: Barnard 68! It's like a hole in space, except… it isn't.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🧪🔭
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🧪🔭
What’s Inside Our Galaxy’s Darkest Place?
Barnard 68 is often mistaken for a hole in space, but it’s actually a dense, opaque cloud of dust—for now
www.scientificamerican.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
I got to write in Scientific American about one of my all-time favorite cosmic objects: Barnard 68! It's like a hole in space, except… it isn't.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🧪🔭
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🧪🔭
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When it comes to the drinking vessel the dictionary also offers the potpanion (fellow drinker), the tosspot (a hard drinker), the pot-knight (ditto), and the gossip-pint-pot (a chatty one). A pot-wit is a drinker who gets wittier when drunk, while a pot-hardy one becomes way too confident.
A season but not an event? What's the pots suffix of hydropots? Is there a pot definition?
December 6, 2024 at 6:40 PM
When it comes to the drinking vessel the dictionary also offers the potpanion (fellow drinker), the tosspot (a hard drinker), the pot-knight (ditto), and the gossip-pint-pot (a chatty one). A pot-wit is a drinker who gets wittier when drunk, while a pot-hardy one becomes way too confident.
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Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.
November 28, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.
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we can have nice things!
November 18, 2024 at 12:06 PM
we can have nice things!