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Jason Molenda
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kissing books, cat pics, maybe a little lldb. he/him.
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popheist.com
Autumn Reeser and Niall Matter play hopeless romantics who fall in love after spending a random, fateful night in a beautiful hotel. WE MET IN DECEMBER premieres tonight on Hallmark — but does it hit the mark or miss it?

Read the review:
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November 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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fatedmates.net
It's that time of year! We're talking about the Best Romance Novels of 2025. We've chosen ten books that we love and that cover a range of historical, contemporary and paranormal, featuring romance with werewolves and cowboys, vaudeville actresses and vikings, Dukes and the actual Devil.
The Best Romances of 2025 — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
It's that time of year! We're talking about the Best Romance Novels of 2025. We've chosen ten books that we love and that cover a range of historical, contemporary and paranormal, featuring romance wi...
fatedmates.net
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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olivia.science
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications. But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff. As you, the leaders and policymakers in our schools, craft an AI policy for our district, we the undersigned call on you to: 1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect our students and teachers from de-skilling and allow them the space and time to engage in assignments themselves. 2. Resist any direct financial relationship or contracts with AI providers, as well as the “training” they might offer. 3. Provide a digital literacy curriculum to help students navigate the current digital landscape, and promote critical engagement with technology. 4. Guarantee that anywhere generative AI has already entered our classrooms or curriculum, an opt-out will allow students and teachers to refuse the use of these products at no risk to their grades, progress or employment.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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andylevy.net
the ziwe interview with eric adams has dropped youtu.be/-9CmFvGEXXk?...
November 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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atrupar.com
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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paultobin.bsky.social
Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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dfeldman.org
A guy I used to work with was a tenured psych/CS professor as well as on an elite amateur crew team.

He said "you're never going to make learning easier, just like you're never going to make rowing easier."

I think about that a lot.
drjoehanson.bsky.social Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · Oct 28
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
I’m not even really kidding here. Character matters. I’m increasingly not moved by the myth of the asshole who Gets Shit Done. In primaries, I increasingly just look for a politician who has a semblances of a soul. A bad person, Dem or other, can say or do all the right things when it’s convenient…
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Oct 27
I think a good test for who the next Dem president should be is did he or did he not do something like bang his best friend’s wife to the point it made the news
October 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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tomandlorenzo.bsky.social
Sometimes, the highest acts of bravery manifest wearing high heels and carrying a good bag
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Oct 21
ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.

Make statues of this.
A woman in what looks like business attire with a black handbag over her shoulder stands in front of an armed vehicle flipping the bird with both hands. Unfortunately a friend sent this to me, I don’t know who the hero woman is or the photographer
October 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
I see they have called in the famous and eccentric detective.
carrietait.bsky.social Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · Oct 19
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
life when women like the vehicle
richard scarry pickle car. a pink pig driving a car made out of a hollowed out pickle and the words i’d relish a chance to drive the pickle car.
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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October 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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jeffreytumlin.bsky.social
Speed safety cameras are astonishingly successful. We know the tools that reduce traffic violence. Legalize them.
www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe...
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.
Twee fruit
October 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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carlylane.bsky.social
The first OFFICIAL installment of #KissingBooks is back with a cozy fantasy, a monster romance, and one of my all-time favorite horror authors who has never let me down with the smooching. Also, an assortment of links!
Happy October! (With some appropriate, fall-themed kissing books recs to match)
It might not be cold for everyone, but these books are primed to get you in sweater-weather mode.
kissing-books.ghost.io
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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heydebigale.bsky.social
I watched Adventures in Love and Birding, which is an adaptation of one of my favorite contemporary romances, BIRDING WITH BENEFITS

It was so fun to watch a movie focused on birding. A lot of you nerds will love it!

But I think romance novels must be the hardest books to adapt…

#romancelandia
Book cover of the book BIRDING WITH BENEFITS by Sarah Dubb. Via te an illustration of a woman looking through binoculars and seeing a bird and a man while biting her lip Movie poster for Adventures in love and birding made by the Hallmark channel
September 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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popheist.com
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A new RuPAUL'S DRAG RACE UK recap from @brettwhite.bsky.social is live! 💋
New queens enter the Werk Room, serve personality at the Brit Gala, and rep their hometown on the runway. But what's this Lucky Cow business? 🏁
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September 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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olivia.science
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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johnxuandou.bsky.social
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
jasonmolenda.bsky.social
omg they also have all the seasons of the Great British Sewing Bee??? And I see Roku just added a subscription service called Howdy for $3/month to watch ad free or reduced ads or something? DONE. Max has denied me my needed pottery show seasons for far too long.
lmansley.bsky.social Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · Aug 11
I couldn't be happier to learn (thanks to the @fuggirls.bsky.social) that two seasons of The Great Pottery Throw Down that haven't made it to HBO Max yet in the US are now streaming on The Roku Channel.
a man says i really like this bowl
Alt: Keith looks teary while saying "I really like this bowl"
media.tenor.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
jasonmolenda.bsky.social
I was just reading a book yesterday and was wondering the difference between 聴く and 聞く in a sentence, and had to dig through a couple dictionaries until I landed on a clear explanation in a 例解学習漢字 made for children, lol.
August 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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hjm.bsky.social
This is incredible
August 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM