Ravi Shah
@r-to-the-s.bsky.social
Here for the positive community!
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
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Red (Marjorie Taylor’s Version)
Showgirl Greene gave MAGA men wood, even if they knew she was trouble. Now that she’s never ever getting back together with Donald, she’s proving to be more than just a blank space.
by Maureen Dowd
Showgirl Greene gave MAGA men wood, even if they knew she was trouble. Now that she’s never ever getting back together with Donald, she’s proving to be more than just a blank space.
by Maureen Dowd
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Red (Marjorie Taylor’s Version)
Showgirl Greene gave MAGA men wood, even if they knew she was trouble. Now that she’s never ever getting back together with Donald, she’s proving to be more than just a blank space.
by Maureen Dowd
Showgirl Greene gave MAGA men wood, even if they knew she was trouble. Now that she’s never ever getting back together with Donald, she’s proving to be more than just a blank space.
by Maureen Dowd
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The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
I love this quote from Stephen Colbert’s Emmy acceptance speech:
Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!
Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!
September 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I love this quote from Stephen Colbert’s Emmy acceptance speech:
Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!
Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!
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James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died.
Astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 moon mission leader, dies - The Boston Globe
One of NASA's most-traveled astronauts in the agency's first decade, Jim Lovell flew four times, including on the groundbreaking Apollo 8 and the harrowing Apollo 13.
trib.al
August 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died.
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A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little red dots" and found clues about their identity.
James Webb Space Telescope's 'little red dots' come into focus
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little red dots" and found clues about their identity.
www.npr.org
January 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little red dots" and found clues about their identity.
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Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
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More birthright citizenship knowledge:
The Fourteenth Amendment's Birthright Citizenship provision was intended to address--and repudiate--the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott, which said that those descended from African slaves were not citizens, regardless of where they were born.
The Fourteenth Amendment's Birthright Citizenship provision was intended to address--and repudiate--the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott, which said that those descended from African slaves were not citizens, regardless of where they were born.
Please arm yourself with knowledge. Birthright citizenship is not a policy choice it is a constitutional imperative (14th Amendment). It can no more be signed away by Executive Order than the First Amendment.
Now that attacking birthright citizenship has become a Day 1 project for the incoming Trump admin, I dug out this rather comprehensive piece I wrote in 2011. It includes the source of Sen. Lindsay Graham’s emergence as the pitch man on this issue. politicalresearch.org/2011/03/01/c...
December 9, 2024 at 11:18 AM
More birthright citizenship knowledge:
The Fourteenth Amendment's Birthright Citizenship provision was intended to address--and repudiate--the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott, which said that those descended from African slaves were not citizens, regardless of where they were born.
The Fourteenth Amendment's Birthright Citizenship provision was intended to address--and repudiate--the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott, which said that those descended from African slaves were not citizens, regardless of where they were born.
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Piers Morgan: “50 years ago, before Roe came in, it wasn't a federal law. So why are you so exercised about it?"
BTC: "Prior to Black people having the right to vote, they weren't allowed to vote. I'd be worked up if that was rolled back, too.“
BTC: "Prior to Black people having the right to vote, they weren't allowed to vote. I'd be worked up if that was rolled back, too.“
November 22, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Piers Morgan: “50 years ago, before Roe came in, it wasn't a federal law. So why are you so exercised about it?"
BTC: "Prior to Black people having the right to vote, they weren't allowed to vote. I'd be worked up if that was rolled back, too.“
BTC: "Prior to Black people having the right to vote, they weren't allowed to vote. I'd be worked up if that was rolled back, too.“
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This take on what happened is vastly underrepresented out there compared to its likely proximity to the ground truth.
I wrote about the things I think are missing from the Dem discourse:
1) scope of the losses (you'd think this was 1984)
2) how media struggles to explain a second Trump win; easier to yell at Dems
3) there might not be a grand theory. it might be uninformed voters' vibes.
njour.nl/s/726851?unl...
1) scope of the losses (you'd think this was 1984)
2) how media struggles to explain a second Trump win; easier to yell at Dems
3) there might not be a grand theory. it might be uninformed voters' vibes.
njour.nl/s/726851?unl...
Decisive margin probably came from whims of low-information voters
Many swing voters only pay attention to politics long enough to cast their ballots.
njour.nl
November 19, 2024 at 10:57 PM
This take on what happened is vastly underrepresented out there compared to its likely proximity to the ground truth.
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If you're curious why everybody's username is a domain, it's because every user is essentially a website
October 20, 2024 at 9:20 PM
If you're curious why everybody's username is a domain, it's because every user is essentially a website