Threnn
@threnn.bsky.social
Irish Canadian. Yoga, boardgames, comics, sourdough, culinary adventures, coffee, crochet, your mom. She's awesome. She/her. #BLM #TruthAndReconciliation 🧡
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A timely read - Naomi Beinart, a high school junior, on what it felt like on campus last week, via Nextdraft: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...
Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.
On the day after the election, it seemed boys and girls woke to a new reality.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:41 AM
A timely read - Naomi Beinart, a high school junior, on what it felt like on campus last week, via Nextdraft: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...
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Roger is smart
We should acknowledge that MAGA and Trump’s victory were enabled by internet platforms whose business models reward fear and outrage. Dems had 8 yrs after FB enabled Trump and never had a floor vote in either chamber on a single bill that could possibly have addressed the harms. 🧵1/x
November 16, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Roger is smart
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Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other
November 16, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other
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August 11, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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The Norwegian navy paints barcodes on the sides of its ships so that when they return to port they can scandinavian.
July 29, 2024 at 2:46 PM
The Norwegian navy paints barcodes on the sides of its ships so that when they return to port they can scandinavian.
Yay, delighted to see this!!
Congratulations to the winner of the 2023 Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction - To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
June 9, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Yay, delighted to see this!!
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Tell your friends and alert your enemies.
sample chapter has dropt.
#jamessacorey
www.polygon.com/24164196/exp...
sample chapter has dropt.
#jamessacorey
www.polygon.com/24164196/exp...
The first chapter of The Expanse team’s new space opera, The Mercy of Gods, revealed
And you can read it right here!
www.polygon.com
May 30, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Tell your friends and alert your enemies.
sample chapter has dropt.
#jamessacorey
www.polygon.com/24164196/exp...
sample chapter has dropt.
#jamessacorey
www.polygon.com/24164196/exp...
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Current estimates say that every prompt you give a generative "AI" system— not each session, every PROMPT— is like pouring a 16 oz bottle of water onto the ground.
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
Annoyed by articles that go into great detail about what companies say they're doing with so-called "A.I." but do not ask what companies are doing about the technology's ecological impact.
Better Siri is coming: what Apple’s research says about its AI plans - https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24147995/apple-siri-ai-research-chatbot-creativity
May 5, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Current estimates say that every prompt you give a generative "AI" system— not each session, every PROMPT— is like pouring a 16 oz bottle of water onto the ground.
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
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Threads doesn’t want you to see this article.
April 5, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Threads doesn’t want you to see this article.
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Kindred Spirits, the Monument to the Choctaw People in Co. Cork.
Dedicated to the people who, 13 years after the Trail Of Tears, saw the Irish people dying under the British Famine.
The people who gathered their meager funds and sent $170 to the Irish people.
The people who just wanted to help.
Dedicated to the people who, 13 years after the Trail Of Tears, saw the Irish people dying under the British Famine.
The people who gathered their meager funds and sent $170 to the Irish people.
The people who just wanted to help.
April 5, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Kindred Spirits, the Monument to the Choctaw People in Co. Cork.
Dedicated to the people who, 13 years after the Trail Of Tears, saw the Irish people dying under the British Famine.
The people who gathered their meager funds and sent $170 to the Irish people.
The people who just wanted to help.
Dedicated to the people who, 13 years after the Trail Of Tears, saw the Irish people dying under the British Famine.
The people who gathered their meager funds and sent $170 to the Irish people.
The people who just wanted to help.
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world war 3 will start not because of skynet but because expensive autocomplete was trained on a bunch of racist conspiracy theorists
Ah. Twitter’s AI, Grok, JUST FUCKING MADE UP that Iran is attacking Tel Aviv.
It was first seen in the trending column.
Bluechecks are running with the story
It was first seen in the trending column.
Bluechecks are running with the story
April 5, 2024 at 10:17 PM
world war 3 will start not because of skynet but because expensive autocomplete was trained on a bunch of racist conspiracy theorists
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the private equity acquisition process where they take out huge loans to buy a company, put those loans on the company’s balance sheet and liquidate the company to pay them off (while looting the assets) should be made illegal
it is a purely destructive process and it’s absurd that we allow it
it is a purely destructive process and it’s absurd that we allow it
Just got a news alert saying Joann Fabrics is going into bankruptcy due to decreasing demand.
Article fails to say that it was purchased by a private equity firm a while ago and recently went public and is carrying $2.4 billion in debt.
Private equity strikes again.
Article fails to say that it was purchased by a private equity firm a while ago and recently went public and is carrying $2.4 billion in debt.
Private equity strikes again.
March 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
the private equity acquisition process where they take out huge loans to buy a company, put those loans on the company’s balance sheet and liquidate the company to pay them off (while looting the assets) should be made illegal
it is a purely destructive process and it’s absurd that we allow it
it is a purely destructive process and it’s absurd that we allow it
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Tim Phipps's review of the 2016 Trek film did a perfect, perfect take on this
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
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Star Trek Beyond
I'm here to review a film. When the end credits roll, I know that I'm meant to go home and distil my impressions into words. Yet here the credits are, and I don't really feel like I understand what…
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March 12, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Tim Phipps's review of the 2016 Trek film did a perfect, perfect take on this
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
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Our culture has real trouble grasping that we can't bring back what it felt like to see The Prisoner/Ghostbusters/Star Wars the first time by doing them again, because the thing that made them compelling is that they were different. We can only feel that feeling again by making more new things.
March 12, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Our culture has real trouble grasping that we can't bring back what it felt like to see The Prisoner/Ghostbusters/Star Wars the first time by doing them again, because the thing that made them compelling is that they were different. We can only feel that feeling again by making more new things.
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I will say one thing for the explosion of "AI" crap, it's made me more appreciative of the people who are making real things. Not just the professionals who are practicing traditional art forms, I appreciate everyone who is taking the time to learn a skill and practice it at any level.
February 29, 2024 at 4:05 AM
I will say one thing for the explosion of "AI" crap, it's made me more appreciative of the people who are making real things. Not just the professionals who are practicing traditional art forms, I appreciate everyone who is taking the time to learn a skill and practice it at any level.
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TIL learned a fun fact
the vast, vast majority of microplastics aren't actually from breaking down single-use plastics like I thought, but from car tires. Car tires, simply by being worn down while driving, emit more microplastics than anything by far
the vast, vast majority of microplastics aren't actually from breaking down single-use plastics like I thought, but from car tires. Car tires, simply by being worn down while driving, emit more microplastics than anything by far
Environmental risks of car tire microplastic particles and other road runoff pollutants - Microplastics and Nanoplastics
Tire wear represents a large source of microplastic entering the aquatic environment, however little is known about its environmental risks. Here, we provide the first assessment of the environmental ...
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February 29, 2024 at 2:29 AM
TIL learned a fun fact
the vast, vast majority of microplastics aren't actually from breaking down single-use plastics like I thought, but from car tires. Car tires, simply by being worn down while driving, emit more microplastics than anything by far
the vast, vast majority of microplastics aren't actually from breaking down single-use plastics like I thought, but from car tires. Car tires, simply by being worn down while driving, emit more microplastics than anything by far
Alllllll the facepalms. Can't even. 🤦🏻♀️
the odysseus moon lander's mission will be cut short. it landed sideways because the company operating it skipped, on purpose, an expensive preflight check on the pad
Moon lander Odysseus mission to be cut short after sideways touchdown
Engineers on Earth expect to lose radio contact with the private U.S. moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, effectively cutting short the mission five days after its sideways touchdown, the company behind the spacecraft, Intuitive Machines , said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
February 27, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Alllllll the facepalms. Can't even. 🤦🏻♀️
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This revelation throws into question every Hugo Award ever given. If the US & Canadian admins quietly disqualified people for political reasons this time, have they done it before? Will they do it again?
People keep asking me if this is worse than the Puppies. YEAH. THIS IS WORSE THAN THE PUPPIES.
People keep asking me if this is worse than the Puppies. YEAH. THIS IS WORSE THAN THE PUPPIES.
For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards.
Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3
Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3
February 15, 2024 at 3:55 AM
This revelation throws into question every Hugo Award ever given. If the US & Canadian admins quietly disqualified people for political reasons this time, have they done it before? Will they do it again?
People keep asking me if this is worse than the Puppies. YEAH. THIS IS WORSE THAN THE PUPPIES.
People keep asking me if this is worse than the Puppies. YEAH. THIS IS WORSE THAN THE PUPPIES.
Wow. Just wow. 🤦🏻♀️
For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards.
Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3
Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3
February 15, 2024 at 6:57 AM
Wow. Just wow. 🤦🏻♀️
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Every time I think about getting into an argument online, I stop, remember this Keanu quote, and then go about my day.
February 8, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Every time I think about getting into an argument online, I stop, remember this Keanu quote, and then go about my day.
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"It's impossible to very quickly stop using this product I sell" is not really controversial from a fossil company CEO, but from a COP president, it's utterly unprecedented and COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.
Because it's not true: eliminating fossil fuels from society very fast is very possible.
Because it's not true: eliminating fossil fuels from society very fast is very possible.
December 3, 2023 at 10:44 PM
"It's impossible to very quickly stop using this product I sell" is not really controversial from a fossil company CEO, but from a COP president, it's utterly unprecedented and COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.
Because it's not true: eliminating fossil fuels from society very fast is very possible.
Because it's not true: eliminating fossil fuels from society very fast is very possible.