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Vogue France, March 2025, n°1055

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We experience geologic vibrations in our bodies thanks to the Pacinian corpuscle, a type of touch sensor. When the fingerlike protrusions on the neuron’s axon vibrate and stretch, the cell is activated, and we feel rumblings.

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sunbeam with perfect aim #photography #macrophotography #BlueSkyArtShow #sunlight #art an alstroemeria flower in a shady spot. catching a beam of sunlight. one beam of sunlight goes right to the center of the flower. shining on it... and through it. saw this. ran for the camera. photograph.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Easter Sunday in Harlem, 1947 www.moma.org/collection/w...

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Martha Benyam of Kino Lorber spoke with @blavity.bsky.social about our Oscar Micheaux Collection, the process of restoring and releasing his films, and what they mean to Black cinema. blavity.com/entertainmen...

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Resist. Rebel. Rebuild.

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Interesting read: #history #politics #democracy

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The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

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Never forget: Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off her career as a college professor.

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This is the way. It's not too late for most universities. #courageiscontagious #uniteinadvance

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The Trump gang doesn't even need CIA, NSA or FBI... DHS is just good enough for their unconstitutional activities...

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Huge scoop and absolutely crucial info from @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

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Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the official account of the White House - is it being run by a six year old?

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Cato published my new paper today coauthored w/ Jake Vigdor & Mike Howard that shows that immigrants have improved housing wealth for Americans and generated $3.3 trillion in property tax revenues for localities, sharply improving state and local fiscal effects of immigration.

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Morning Bluesky. Seymour Johnson Air Force Base has removed articles about the first female Thunderbird pilot, Col Nicole Malachowski, because of Trump’s anti-DEI policies.

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The alarming consolidation of federal government data and processes into private corporate control threatens democratic oversight, public transparency, and national security – all without adequate safeguards or accountability.

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Connecticut libraries. #beautiful #Connecticut #Nutmegsky

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🚨🚨 Just out - a letter from almost 900 Yale profs to our leaders, urging them to stand with us to defend the values of higher ed - and to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Please share!

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MIT following Harvard's lead here

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Okay, it's genuinely good news that they're resisting, but I can't believe the NYT has Harvard at the top of the page and not "Trump defies Supreme Court" or "Trump plans to send Americans to foreign gulags"

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Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov!

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Once a dozen or so more major institutions figure out that courage is currently the same as informed self-interest, I think we’ll have a real widespread noncompliance movement on our hands.

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NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

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If you need a bike and want to buy American, check out guardianbikes.com. We started on the path of bringing mfg from China to the USA in 2020. Indiana. And they are now there. From Shark Tank to possibly the leading bike company in the USA

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Someone grab the A1! The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.

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vimeo.com/47027495

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After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.

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