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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFiday Had to use the diary view because I added a late log from a week ago, and, despite logging the date correctly, it showed in my "Recent Activity."

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#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s DOGE was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a competitor

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

1/ So @jasonleopold.bsky.social just posted a big story about one of Elon Musk's DOGE goons, the 19-yo Edward Coristine, who was fired from a data-security firm internship for...sharing company secrets... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Just got MUBI, so I've started watching from there. from there.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text

submitted 17 days ago • 589 comments

This NYT sleight-of-hand is part of why Trump’s insane racism flourishes. The implication is that it’s possible to “attack diversity” WITHOUT a “racist undercurrent.” And it “surfaces” - as though Trump hasn’t been a rabid and explicit racist for years, and this is some new tone.

submitted 19 days ago • 103 comments

Why doesn't #IMDB have a listing for the doc streaming on PBS, Jacqueline Du Pre: Genius and Tragedy? PBS gives the date as 1/24/2025, but maybe that is the air date, and it is older under a different name?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

via @admcrlsn.bsky.social on the other site

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s the Nicole Kidman AMC ad parody with an otter puppet that I saw at the big aquarium in Long Beach. youtu.be/GfhJhZSlUJY?...

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Very happy with the way @rollingstone.com and my boy @milesklee.bsky.social played this headline! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 23 days ago • 95 comments

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

submitted 25 days ago • 884 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Prime Suspect has some of the worst math in a show premised on a math whiz. Just laughable. But it is really just an excuse to set up the story, I suppose. They obviously didn't hire (or listen to) a real math consultant #appletv

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Everybody is trying to figure out how we got where we are in America. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Good god

submitted 28 days ago • 100 comments

The important difference between a committed nazi and someone who just likes to troll people by acting like a Nazi is that there is none.

submitted 29 days ago • 115 comments

#LastFourWatched

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Ganja and Hess's subtitles show a term used as "harmony grits." Whoever did that was even more of a clueless white northerner than I am. #filmsky

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

submitted 37 days ago • 88 comments

TCM seems to have something on their mind today.

submitted 33 days ago • 52 comments

“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.” MLK Jr

submitted 34 days ago • 103 comments

Pam Hemphill, a J6er who has since expressed serious regret for what she did, says she will not accept a pardon from President Trump. “I committed a crime.”

submitted 33 days ago • 288 comments

American media: What could Elon Musk's hand gesture have meant? German media: We know exactly what the fuck that meant

submitted 33 days ago • 107 comments