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can someone please make a chrome extension that shows how much energy searches use and displays that info in real time? so we can visualize the difference between web search and AI prompting? would be useful in the classroom, I imagine.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Here are my top 10 protest dogs! youtu.be/lgOtg-BeV6E

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 9 days ago • 531 comments

I told you we’d be back

submitted 8 days ago • 1597 comments

It is National Loving Day! Loving in general is a good thing to celebrate, but this is specifically the anniversary of the Loving vs. Virginia decision which struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Celebrate decency and fairness. www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

(🧵) Friendly reminder that if you’re overwhelmed right now and feel like there’s nothing you can do, you’re wrong! Not everything requires drone footage or the national news. Real change starts at the local level and it’s powerful. (1/23) Here’s a thread of things you CAN do.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Good reminder. Don't talk to cops.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

So the Real ID is meaningless if you’re brown?

submitted 27 days ago • 224 comments

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! Have you taken three minutes to save the political independence of the civil service? It’s easy! Here’s how you can do it: news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

submitted 38 days ago • 23 comments

You would think by now he would know not to f**k with librarians.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Senior Trump officials attempted to seize control of the Library of Congress yesterday. I analyzed the constitutional and statutory issues arising from Trump's effort to name an alt-Librarian of Congress. firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/a-constitu...

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 51 days ago • 47 comments

A reminder: executive orders are presidential wish lists. Some are lawful. Some are not. The courts will (continue) to stop many of these www.salon.com/2025/04/28/s...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Again, they're trying to take away our vaccines. From the head of the FDA, a gross misrepresentation of the annual process of updating a proven vaccine to target new disease strains. His plan would make it impossible to get seasonal flu and Covid shots, and of course he knows this.

submitted 53 days ago • 97 comments

April is #WorldAutismMonth — a time to recommit ourselves to building a more inclusive and supportive world for all.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 56 days ago • 616 comments

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

submitted 57 days ago • 25 comments

Yes, all of this

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Goddamn, this hits hard

submitted 59 days ago • 16 comments

EVERYONE: “if they deny due process to non-citizens, they can and will deny it to citizens too” SMUG IDIOTS: “I would simply show my birth certificate and clear it all up!” [ICE kidnaps a U.S. citizen] [shows birth certificate to judge] [judge shrugs] “sorry, can’t help u”

submitted 64 days ago • 9 comments

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 67 days ago • 120 comments

Senate Democrats should commit to reading every single one of the 381 books that Hegseth banned from the Naval Academy into the public record on the Senate floor.

submitted 69 days ago • 17 comments

When your government can disappear you for protesting, it’s game over.

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

The students are more likely to save the library from these nut jobs.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?

submitted 73 days ago • 31 comments

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

submitted 77 days ago • 461 comments

Echoing this. If you are having any problems with your Social Security or Medicaid call your member of Congress.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Have any California peeps? Ask them to sign this petition to protect and support trans youth and their families!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

ABC [Mar 17] -- New study in JAMA of 3,592 trans adults over 4 years found that those on gender-affirming hormones had significantly lower rates depression. CDC has found that trans people in general are 2-3 times more likely to have depression. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

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Eyes on Delaware! The Democrats in Delaware are preparing to hand Muck everything in a vote this month. More details here: www.stopsb21.com The video below is captioned provided you click through to watch it at YouTube; captions are hit or miss on bsky unfortunately.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments