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The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

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He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.

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I had to read this several times as “prioritise growth” and “hit universities over the head” are so mutually contradictory

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

Bluesky feature where you can scroll back upwards to erase what you just read from your brain

submitted 12 hours ago • 26 comments

The Australian Government needs to back up their words with action. We should be stepping up as a middle power and taking concrete action against the Government of Israel for the horrors it’s inflicting on the people of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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One of the insane facts I discovered writing this article is that WA collects more revenue from motorists in registration than it collects from fossil fuel companies in gas royalties

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gavin newsom: thanks for coming on the pod today, really learned a lot conservative podcaster that incited bomb threats to children’s hospitals: hey thanks for having me, this was really fun

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[opens bsky] [takes a quick look at what people are talking about] [closes bsky]

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Really wish the discourse around sending money to Gaza had started with "what you are doing is breaking the law and put your own safety at risk" (the conversation happening today) rather than "anyone who claims to be Gazan is a scammer and if you say you've spoken to them then you're a scammer too"

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Absolutely do not do this and absolutely absolutely do not post about it. For fuck's sake

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

The scorn heaped on "Underwater Basket Weaving" was based on college courses in experiential indigenous anthropology. Reeds are traditionally softened underwater to make them flexible for bending into baskets. It's a more useful skill for most than memorizing the 3 orders of ancient Greek columns.

submitted 12 hours ago • 34 comments

ok at this point it’s shame on the roof

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the main utility of an AI headset in this mode is to shift blame for warcrimes from soldiers to software

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When you read statements like ‘AI is going to make 20% of people unemployed and abolish white collar entry level work’ these are not so much predictions, so much as desires. Bosses have always wanted that, before LLMs were a thing

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To offer a more substantive thought here, a reactive "please don't hurt me" politics that focuses on trying to deny Republicans opportunities to attack you is doomed. You fundamentally cannot deny liars ammunition against you.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

The thing is, they pay a lot of money for people to be this fucking stupid. Big bags of cash for some Elmer Fudd-level intelligence to write shit like, “Uh, um, uh, maybe if we give Republicans exactly what they want, they won’t make up other wedge issues anymore like they do in every election.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 15 comments

old ads used to be so cool. baffling lie. four kinds of typesetting. ends in a demand

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before and after today’s glacier collapse that buried 90% of blatten, switzerland

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Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the videogames industry is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

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Holy shit. This is... just such a human thing to do, right? This is a moment of resonance, of shared experience with a person who lived 43 millennia ago. It's a dot on a rock, demonstrating an internal experience: pareidolia, seeing faces in things. Compare that to an experience of "AI art".

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"Visitors are damaging the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland by wedging coins into the cracks of the basalt columns, causing the rocks to stain and crumble." [Guardian] Stop it.

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"I am completely fine with some universities collapsing" = "I am completely fine with the local economies of some former industrial towns collapsing"

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Magda Szubanski has announced she has cancer and because she doesn't share their extreme right-wing views, the Daily Mail has chosen to publish the most vile imaginable comments about her. They are pieces of shit, but you already knew that.

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"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way" "chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

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i think the lessons of American presidential politics since the 90s is that authenticity is about being a vessel for others to project into rather than having some essential core

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Physical climate risk is the thin end of the wedge for climate change – and impacts are extremely unevenly distributed, the importance of 'climate justice' has never been more visible or urgent.

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Climate impacts: This couple’s insurance premiums went from $2000 to $28000 in two years. Across the road is $75000. Per year. What’s Labor’s plan? approves massive gas field out to 2070

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