Sam B. Rambling
@sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network
Disabled itinerant archivist moving into chaplain work. Cascadia made me, Third Coast raised me. MLIS Drexel 2014. Former associate prof in archives at Virginia Tech + doc student at UA ischool. rant.li/sambramble
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The hotline provides accurate, helpful counseling & information on military discharges, AWOL & UA, and GI Rights:
1-877-447-4487
girightshotline.org
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"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”
Previously, I posted that Na-ion batteries were likely to reach Li-ion battery energy density faster due to the prior advances and experience from Lithium work. Well, that’s appears to be the case. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.uh.edu/news-events/...
Breakthrough New Material Brings Affordable, Sustainable Future Within Grasp
Researchers have developed a new material for sodium-ion batteries, sodium vanadium phosphate, that delivers higher voltage and greater energy capacity than previous sodium-based materials. This break...
www.uh.edu
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”
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If you pay attention, it’s always what AI is “going to” do. It’s never, ever present tense. There‘s a reason that for every rush product that doesn’t deliver they have a new one about to drop that’s “going to” be even better than all prior promises.
“Slop that works” is an oxymoron. These AI tech CEOs are desperate to keep the gravy train flowing, and they will keep spewing lie after lie about the functionality of their bullshit products and vaporwares.
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
If you pay attention, it’s always what AI is “going to” do. It’s never, ever present tense. There‘s a reason that for every rush product that doesn’t deliver they have a new one about to drop that’s “going to” be even better than all prior promises.
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The question people ask me most in my current position is about AI. People passionately opposed to AI, people who believe it is the answer to all our problems, people who wonder what it will mean for the humanities. However most people change the subject when I mention the people bearing AI's costs.
December 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The question people ask me most in my current position is about AI. People passionately opposed to AI, people who believe it is the answer to all our problems, people who wonder what it will mean for the humanities. However most people change the subject when I mention the people bearing AI's costs.
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This is what extraction capitalism looks like. It's not about maintaining economic health, but about taking the bag and running.
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate.
Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is what extraction capitalism looks like. It's not about maintaining economic health, but about taking the bag and running.
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Happy holidays to all, and let us take the time to remember those who are struggling this season.
For this reason, Fund Me Friday comes early! Post your mutual aid below, and let’s make some Christmas wishes come true.
I mean, I don’t want to sic the Jólaköttur on you.
For this reason, Fund Me Friday comes early! Post your mutual aid below, and let’s make some Christmas wishes come true.
I mean, I don’t want to sic the Jólaköttur on you.
On this, the day before Christmas, or the day before the coming of Jólaköttur, I present to you:
EARLY FUND ME FRIDAY!!!
Post your mutual aid below, and let’s try to make some Christmas wishes come true!!!
EARLY FUND ME FRIDAY!!!
Post your mutual aid below, and let’s try to make some Christmas wishes come true!!!
December 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Happy holidays to all, and let us take the time to remember those who are struggling this season.
For this reason, Fund Me Friday comes early! Post your mutual aid below, and let’s make some Christmas wishes come true.
I mean, I don’t want to sic the Jólaköttur on you.
For this reason, Fund Me Friday comes early! Post your mutual aid below, and let’s make some Christmas wishes come true.
I mean, I don’t want to sic the Jólaköttur on you.
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Happy Holidays from the Haynes lab and our awesome epigenetic lncRNA bioengineering collaborators from NYU! Thanks to the Jones lab for a great micro-symposium and for hanging with us at our holiday party!
December 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Happy Holidays from the Haynes lab and our awesome epigenetic lncRNA bioengineering collaborators from NYU! Thanks to the Jones lab for a great micro-symposium and for hanging with us at our holiday party!
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Merry Christmas! Y’all Come Eat! ❤️👍🏾
@jongraywb.bsky.social saw something on Reddit that reminded me of you
December 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Merry Christmas! Y’all Come Eat! ❤️👍🏾
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Why does there need to be fireworks on Christmas ??
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Why does there need to be fireworks on Christmas ??
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Farm workers are silently in the background of all of our lives working tirelessly to deliver the food we eat.
Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.
act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.
act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
December 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Farm workers are silently in the background of all of our lives working tirelessly to deliver the food we eat.
Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.
act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.
act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
My stomach
With Christmas approaching, celebrations in Haifa were met with chaos after Israeli police stormed the Wadi al-Nisnas neighbourhood, arresting and beating Christians in the area.
December 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
My stomach
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Work with Luis E. Rocha at www.csi.ugent.be!
UGent opened a competitive call for PhD scholarships to students from selected developing countries. UGent finances 24 months (full-time), and the other 24 months must be financed by the candidate (his/her home university or employer).
UGent opened a competitive call for PhD scholarships to students from selected developing countries. UGent finances 24 months (full-time), and the other 24 months must be financed by the candidate (his/her home university or employer).
The Complex Systems Institute – Complex Systems Institute – Ghent University
www.csi.ugent.be
December 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Work with Luis E. Rocha at www.csi.ugent.be!
UGent opened a competitive call for PhD scholarships to students from selected developing countries. UGent finances 24 months (full-time), and the other 24 months must be financed by the candidate (his/her home university or employer).
UGent opened a competitive call for PhD scholarships to students from selected developing countries. UGent finances 24 months (full-time), and the other 24 months must be financed by the candidate (his/her home university or employer).
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I think this is the best way to put it. It is the human contribution that breathes life into the AI slop and gives it direction and intention. AI garbage doesn’t possess this on its own.
When you edit a human draft, it has intention and perspective. Your job is to figure out what those are and then get the writing to better align.
AI writing does not have intention. It often isn't saying anything at all. You don't edit it, you resuscitate it. It's more work than writing yourself.
AI writing does not have intention. It often isn't saying anything at all. You don't edit it, you resuscitate it. It's more work than writing yourself.
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I think this is the best way to put it. It is the human contribution that breathes life into the AI slop and gives it direction and intention. AI garbage doesn’t possess this on its own.
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As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
Memory work read for my future self
"In other words, they argue that Holocaust memory, which was designed to prevent the worst, is being used to motivate and justify the worst. And they feel outraged — and betrayed." Dirk Moses thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...
Is Holocaust Memory Over? – the Diasporist
How the German political and media classes have hollowed out the lessons of history
thediasporist.de
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Memory work read for my future self
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Check it out.
Maybe others find this interesting, too.
We follow his ideas with our work and it's very beautiful to share our grief with others in a very deep and touching way.
We follow his ideas with our work and it's very beautiful to share our grief with others in a very deep and touching way.
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Check it out.
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✨Winter Accountability Post ✨
I just wanted to share that I've made all the donations we can (+a lil extra) to each organization, family or individual we hoped to raise funds for by selling solidarity skeins, packages, & holiday/seasonal yarn colorways. 🧶
Below are some receipts.
1/4
I just wanted to share that I've made all the donations we can (+a lil extra) to each organization, family or individual we hoped to raise funds for by selling solidarity skeins, packages, & holiday/seasonal yarn colorways. 🧶
Below are some receipts.
1/4
December 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
✨Winter Accountability Post ✨
I just wanted to share that I've made all the donations we can (+a lil extra) to each organization, family or individual we hoped to raise funds for by selling solidarity skeins, packages, & holiday/seasonal yarn colorways. 🧶
Below are some receipts.
1/4
I just wanted to share that I've made all the donations we can (+a lil extra) to each organization, family or individual we hoped to raise funds for by selling solidarity skeins, packages, & holiday/seasonal yarn colorways. 🧶
Below are some receipts.
1/4
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Everyone who has melanated skin is at risk for being kidnapped by ICE because it's not about immigration, it's an ethnic cleansing.
“According to Bonacci, the three members of the housekeeping staff taken by agents included two Puerto Rico-born U.S. citizen…”
A hearty Merry Christmas from Justice Kavanaugh
A hearty Merry Christmas from Justice Kavanaugh
“It really does make me feel like less of a citizen, even though my mother and brother and everyone else tells me that I’m perfectly okay, that I’m good,” he said. “I’m a citizen, but what I know is that I don’t look like a citizen to ICE. To them, I look like a number, a logistic.”
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Everyone who has melanated skin is at risk for being kidnapped by ICE because it's not about immigration, it's an ethnic cleansing.
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art returns three sculptures to Cambodia
Researchers at the museum concluded that the three artefacts were removed from Cambodia during the civil war of the 1960s and 70s
Researchers at the museum concluded that the three artefacts were removed from Cambodia during the civil war of the 1960s and 70s
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art returns three sculptures to Cambodia
Researchers at the museum concluded that the three artefacts were removed from Cambodia during the civil war of the 1960s and 70s
www.theartnewspaper.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art returns three sculptures to Cambodia
Researchers at the museum concluded that the three artefacts were removed from Cambodia during the civil war of the 1960s and 70s
Researchers at the museum concluded that the three artefacts were removed from Cambodia during the civil war of the 1960s and 70s
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Oh, I love this song!
December 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Oh, I love this song!
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Before Beyoncé, there was Esther Phillips: Celebrating the "Rhythm & Blues" singer's 90th birthday
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Before Beyoncé, there was Esther Phillips: Celebrating the R&B singer's 90th birthday
Esther Phillips was a hugely popular teenage R&B singer who, in 1962, recorded the top-10 hit "Release Me."
www.wbur.org
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Before Beyoncé, there was Esther Phillips: Celebrating the "Rhythm & Blues" singer's 90th birthday
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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BREAKING NEWS: We’re leading a lawsuit to protect the consumer protection bureau that provided $700k+ in relief to Oregonians last year.
The Trump administration wants to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – but that would harm working families in Oregon & beyond. #orpol #breakingnews
The Trump administration wants to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – but that would harm working families in Oregon & beyond. #orpol #breakingnews
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
BREAKING NEWS: We’re leading a lawsuit to protect the consumer protection bureau that provided $700k+ in relief to Oregonians last year.
The Trump administration wants to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – but that would harm working families in Oregon & beyond. #orpol #breakingnews
The Trump administration wants to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – but that would harm working families in Oregon & beyond. #orpol #breakingnews
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The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss that threaten over 1 million plant and animal species with extinction.
https://to.pbs.org/3Kne3QE
https://to.pbs.org/3Kne3QE
UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss
The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss th...
www.pbs.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss that threaten over 1 million plant and animal species with extinction.
https://to.pbs.org/3Kne3QE
https://to.pbs.org/3Kne3QE
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#BestOf2025: “The improvements made so far by the state are inadequate for what’s coming. [The crypto industry isn’t] interested in investing in alternative energy. They want a lot of energy, a lot of electricity, right now, which means fossil fuels. The industry creates an enormous footprint.”
The Crypto Racket
Bitcoin mining afflicts locals with noise pollution, threatens water supplies, and receives generous public backing.
www.texasobserver.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#BestOf2025: “The improvements made so far by the state are inadequate for what’s coming. [The crypto industry isn’t] interested in investing in alternative energy. They want a lot of energy, a lot of electricity, right now, which means fossil fuels. The industry creates an enormous footprint.”