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A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.
August 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.
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Give me interfaces that feel like this
August 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Give me interfaces that feel like this
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Instagram’s “Friend Map” sounds like a fun way for friends to share their location.
Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops.
Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵
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Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops.
Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵
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August 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Instagram’s “Friend Map” sounds like a fun way for friends to share their location.
Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops.
Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵
1/5
Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops.
Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵
1/5
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The ODNI’s newest proposal is 8,000 steps in the wrong direction: a centralized one-stop online marketplace for intelligence agencies to buy all the data harvested off your cell phone.
Hell No: The ODNI Wants to Make it Easier for the Government to Buy Your Data Without Warrant
New reporting has revealed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is attempting to create the Intelligence Community’s Data Consortium–a centralized online marketplace where l...
www.eff.org
June 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The ODNI’s newest proposal is 8,000 steps in the wrong direction: a centralized one-stop online marketplace for intelligence agencies to buy all the data harvested off your cell phone.
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the past few years has had the same energy as when the lights turn on after last call
May 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
the past few years has had the same energy as when the lights turn on after last call
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Fuck off, Blumhouse and Meta. The only movie theater that should be allowed to have bots in it is the one on the Satellite of Love.
Blumhouse, the horror studio, teamed with Meta to experiment with a technology called Movie Mate. It’s a chatbot that encourages people to use their phones as they watch films in movie theaters.
Meta and Blumhouse Create Chatbot That Encourages Phone Use During Movies
Blumhouse, the horror movie studio, has teamed up with Meta on a chatbot that encourages people to use their phones while watching a movie.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Fuck off, Blumhouse and Meta. The only movie theater that should be allowed to have bots in it is the one on the Satellite of Love.
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Unusual and beautiful Nacreous clouds over UK, 2024, photo via Kate Guilding #WomensArt
May 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Unusual and beautiful Nacreous clouds over UK, 2024, photo via Kate Guilding #WomensArt
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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
April 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
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A few of the 53 "potted landscapes" made for each of the stations of the Tōkaidō road, the most important route in Edo-period Japan. After they were made the artist had a relatively obscure ukiyo-e artist named Utagawa Yoshishige to illustrate them: publicdomainreview.org/collection/5...
April 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A few of the 53 "potted landscapes" made for each of the stations of the Tōkaidō road, the most important route in Edo-period Japan. After they were made the artist had a relatively obscure ukiyo-e artist named Utagawa Yoshishige to illustrate them: publicdomainreview.org/collection/5...
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Share pictures from the protests today, and amplify them when others share. The public hates what the GOP is doing to this country--and it's critical for everyone to know that people are fighting back.
April 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Share pictures from the protests today, and amplify them when others share. The public hates what the GOP is doing to this country--and it's critical for everyone to know that people are fighting back.