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Hey @eryk.bsky.social lookit this mug we saw at the flea market on the weekend! I made sure the words "organize" and "committee" were both in the shot. #FORTRAN #COBOL #ALGOL #weinberg

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bless CVS for trying to sell me a TDAP. I don't need it but at this point I'm here for wanton vaccine consumerism lol

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Most of the Library's holdings are on paper, but some are on papyrus, the common writing surface of the Mediterranean world before paper was invented in China. Notable papyrus holdings at the Library include fragments from Homer’s Iliad & the biblical Book of Isaiah. 🧵

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Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

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This story made me very sad. We have a women's shelter in our neighborhood, and it is a good thing. sanjosespotlight.com/west-valley-...

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getting to use an interoffice pneumatic tube system would fix me

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More than 200 people remain locked in prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration, without any right to trial.

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Those of us who study protest have been noting this issue since January. Over 5 million people in the streets is newsworthy (and if you want to know why, dm me and I’ll share the toplines from our research on the protesters)

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This man broke his ankle. But the police were ordering people to move. They didn’t care that the injured man could not move. Another civilian bravely saves the injured man from the cops’ wrath. He throws his hands in the air, angrily, at the end at the officers’ indifference and lack of assistance.

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I didn’t believe this, but looked for myself. Two headlines about the parade … and zero about two percent of all Americans taking to the streets yesterday to protest Trump.

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Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

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The 3.5% rule comes from @chenoweth.bsky.social's incredible research. It's commonly misunderstood or misused in public discourse, but it's still a very helpful goal to aspire to. In my opinion, the biggest misconception is that you need to simply activate 3.5% of the public once.

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I almost snarkily quote posted a silly and outrageous thing other people were quote posting. But then decided to just go back to enjoying my weekend. Please clap.

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btw i just want to say 6 months now of no amazon has been a lot easier than you'd think. every bit matters at this point. the most inconvenienced i've been was not being able to get a specific usb-chip programming cable while i was still in the flow of a project. oh no, the horrors.

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palantir also stands with ICE www.wired.com/story/ice-pa...

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put the trans back into transhumanism

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“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” @msnbc.com reporter #nokings

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"According to our back-of-the-envelope math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4-6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2-1.8% of the U.S. population attended a #NoKings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...

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Thread.

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🧵 of my favourite sixteenth-century bronze statues flanking the empty tomb of Maximilian I in the Innsbruck Hofkirche

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Turnout for the first day of NYC primary early voting was nearly twice what it was in 2021. gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

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More than 1 million in Boston! www.wcvb.com/article/more...

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“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.” In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.

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Thousands of protesters jammed the streets around Manhattan’s Bryant Park on Saturday afternoon in a massive march that spilled down Fifth Avenue.

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Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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#NoKingsDay protesters demonstrate in Fayetteville, NC.

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Let me remind you: we don't have kings in America — and I won't bend the knee to one. Never stop speaking out and showing up, Illinois. This is what democracy in action looks like.

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Language models may not get us to “superintelligence”, but they’re definitely already powerful enough to create very socially and economically destabilizing technologies so it doesn’t really matter. We have to make the world ready for that.

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i am running for office on a platform of nationalizing chick-fil-a and giving popeye's a modified liquor license that allows them to sell go cups. a better world is possible

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My latest: With one possible exception, there have never been this many coordinated protests on a single day in the U.S. before. I explore why the omnipresence of these peaceful demonstrations matters so deeply, in the face of authoritarian overreach: lakauffman.substack.com/p/when-peace...

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The polarized tribalism of our society originates from Babbage's difference engine. If he had instead designed an engine that unites rather than divides, imagine the course of development humanity could have taken

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Paper books printed prior to 2022 will become the currency of the knowledge economy of the future… and I’m not even joking.

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I may not have been able to make it, but so proud of the approximately 500 protesters at the Tuscaloosa, AL #nokings protest. www.tuscaloosanews.com/picture-gall...

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According to the latest WaPo/Schar School poll, Trump’s handling of deportations has 37% approval, 52% disapproval. And Quinnipiac has it at 40% approval, 56% disapproval. But @facethenation.bsky.social insists “public approval is so high on deportation.”

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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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