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“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard so many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

submitted 19 hours ago • 99 comments

EPIC response.

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We really need to stigmatize conspiracy theories again. We gotta get to a point again where people at least say "I know I sound crazy" when they say they believe in some far-reaching plot.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

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One of many reasons it’s dumb to try and “fix” the trade deficit with tariffs is that trade wars hurt exports in addition to imports—keep in mind we usually have a manufacturing trade surplus with Canada, before Trump began wrecking that trade relationship

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Keep up the pressure!

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be the admin of your own heart ✨

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Institutional Books: Massive Historical Text Corpus - 983K books, 242B tokens, 386M pages - 19th-20th century texts in 254 languages - Refined OCR with quality scores & metadata - Noncommercial early-access release huggingface.co/datasets/ins...

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You can’t stop the MAGAfication of the judiciary or pass progressive laws of any kind if you don’t have a strategy to win the senate. www.slowboring.com/p/why-im-obs...

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We're thrilled to announce our new project: docs.coop! Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (docs.numerique.gouv.fr), we're offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.

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Hats off to anyone attempting Viz Buzz, it's really tricky to recreate a plot in just 40 minutes! Especially if you waste lots of minutes on basic data cleaning... Here's my version and the original. I popped the whole thing on YouTube as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8sE... #databs #datasky

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Two geometric facts about 63, but how to connect them? nedbatchelder.com/blog/202506/...

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Any half-sensible govt would be falling over itself to attract these academics to the UK to boost our universities & therefore our economy. But obviously we can’t, because in place of policy we’re fixated on numbers, in a pointless attempt to placate implacable people, round of applause everyone

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"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too." -Zohran Mamdani

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I just published The Shadows of Silicon: How We Built Our Most Brilliant Machines to See Only Echoes of Human… medium.com/intuitionmac...

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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

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This is huge. The Trump administration wants to vastly expand the practice of shipping people to random countries they have never been to before, and are now making this part of a threat; either the countries accept taking third country nationals, or they get banned from visas.

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1.) Fucking Lmao 2.) Stephen Miller is big mad. 3.) This is a pretty big walkback.

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🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

Important steps towards what may end up being litigation against the immigration courts' decision to turn away members of the public and the press. They are looking for information from anyone who's been turned away (see the second post).

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The Virginian colonels in the US Army at US Civil War outbreak were: R.E. Lee, John J. Abert, Edmund B. Alexander, Philip S.G. Cooke, John Garland, Thomas Lawson, Matthew M. Payne, Washington Seawell, George H. Thomas, René De Russy and Thomas T. Fauntleroy. Only Lee sided with the Confederacy /1

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Absolute fucking 🔥. "Over eight hours...people throwing back tear gas...throwing anything that they could to defend themselves...Border Patrol retreated. “And the hundreds of workers in the factories were able to escape. If any community was going to fight back without apology, it was this one."

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

We have to keep having the conversation about asking elderly leaders to step aside in public because there is simply no evidence it is happening loud enough in private. This is all just so sad. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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www.reddit.com/r/space/s/g1...

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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 10 days ago • 975 comments

just watched a video on Obsidian that described it as "future-proof," i.e. it uses open file formats so you can easily migrate to a different note-taking app & you're not locked in. could borrow that to explain bluesky decentralized → open → billionaire-proof → future-proof

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To anyone migrating over from Threads and looking for a native iOS / iPadOS / macOS app:

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What are your best Taco Trump memes

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ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why. SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes

submitted 26 days ago • 909 comments

Neguse was grilling Jim Jordan so hard this morning over language in the reconciliation bill to restrict federal judges' ability to enforce court penalties that Jordan had to consult with his lawyers

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🚨 Just 10 Days Left! 🚨 The countdown is on — only 10 days left to grab your early bird tickets for our 2025 edition! Lock in your spot at the best price before rates go up. pydata.org/paris2025/ti...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

atproto has more in common with (souped up) RSS than (watered down) blockchain

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Legal Aid hack: - over 2 million pieces of data gone - 15 yrs worth of info - extremely sensitive data incl details of victims of domestic violence and people’s criminal cases - unbelievable potential for harm well beyond “scams” The CEO says this:

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English is not a serious language

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

🔭 Milky Way over Maunakea Image Credit & Copyright: Marzena Rogozinska apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25052...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

We’re testing a new feature! Starting this week, select accounts can add a livestream link to sites like YouTube or Twitch, and their Bluesky profile will show they’re live now.

submitted 28 days ago • 1130 comments

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The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" is here! 🔥🐍 From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python. 🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel. Subscribe to stay updated!

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

one of my personal metrics for "is the ecosystem happening" is the number of 9s in bluesky's share of the global atproto firehose. folks we've broken three 9s. from the last ~week of volume it's just 99.98% {app,chat}.bsky.

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