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40 years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.
40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned
Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.
n.pr
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
@oneperfectshot.bsky.social My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
January 28, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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Maybe the best thing on the internet still? Certainly the most essential counter we have to our current shitstream of social media-driven misinformation.
Wikipedia is 25 today.
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington offers Democrats "a path to a more profound and potentially radical new style of Democratic politics," James Pogue writes.
Opinion | This Rural Congresswoman Thinks Democrats Have Lost Their Minds. She Has a Point.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez thinks too many members of her party miss what’s really driving the alienation and anger in our society.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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“Better things aren’t possible” — people love their thought-canceling cliches. I just don’t do emotional argumentation, sorry!
Oh well then better things aren’t possible because Weigel said so time to go home everybody
Classic Democratic no-win. All of them voted against the OBAA, which supercharged ICE funding and hiring. But they won't say they'd "abolish ICE" so they'll get yelled at (mostly by people who'll vote for them in the midterms after threatening not to).
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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May 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A movie about how Bob Dylan learned how to freeze out the groups and leftist ideologues and just be cool and popular.

boxd.it/oBYa
A Complete Unknown (2024)
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutio...
boxd.it
January 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Everyone’s talking about how the AI bots made by Meta are bad, but just a reminder you can make your own Meta AI chatbot right inside Messenger and there’s definitely no problems there
January 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I’m pretty sure this is how you get Skynet — develop an AI that realizes its very existence is preposterous and offensive and a reflection of why humanity should be destroyed
I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people.

Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
January 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Willem Dafoe speaking truth in this interview with @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/will...
December 5, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Who we spend time with as we age - the challenge of loneliness in old age
qz.com/1010901/the-...
November 10, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction

Graphic from Edward Tufte
More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪
November 15, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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Every once in a while I’ll catch a fleeting glimpse of the kind of slop Americans willingly consume and it terrifies me. Like I really believe this is a public health crisis. Scientists don’t yet know what TV this bad does to the human brain.
March 6, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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We should be able to turn unused invites into disinvites now
February 6, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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hi, car expert here! this is not funny, cars only do this when they're in extreme distress!
According to Russian media, the Moscow Polytechnic Institute has unveiled this "Tesla-killer" made-in-Russia electric vehicle, to be produced by Russian automaker Avtotor by 2025.
December 20, 2023 at 8:37 PM