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Got this notice while trying to access a paper with the subtitle "Is Mutual Love with a Robot Possible?" Not at this rate!

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. @allaboutchemist.bsky.social and I are developing different take-aways from Mexico. Me: “I will never again go more than 3ft below land.” Him: “The tuna is a revelation.”

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here is an ungated version from 2022 www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...

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[email protected] is creating floor plans for those in Altadena who lost their homes in the fires and might need a simple floor plan for insurance reasons (or just memories): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I've been thinking about "running to" versus "running from" and enjoyed this similar Orpheus/Odysseus parallel that apparently was a rhetorical parallel that MLK Jr used: davidepstein.substack.com/p/how-to-mak.... (Next line, of course, notes this didn't really work out for Orpheus.)

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This detail on anti-social architecture—from a smart @theatlantic.com feature on solitude—caught my eye. Just last week I was thinking about how my place (built 1910) had a "bad" layout because the living room was too large and bedrooms too small. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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where does the new york times even find these people

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Odd connections in science (pseudo-science?) history: Chester Carlson, inventor of photocopying technology, bequeathed $1M to past lives research. Today, that institute is also funded by the endowment of 1920s silent film actresses: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/s...

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in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

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One of my favorite article genres is "tracking down a zombie stat" and here's a great addition. Have you seen the stat that men are only 20% of the fiction market? @constancegrady.bsky.social tries to track it down: www.vox.com/culture/3929... @vox.com

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Proof that the "this amount of flavor would kill a medieval peasant" meme is at least partially true. They would sell out their family for a Turkish Delight because they had never experienced a Starburst.

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People complain about babies on flights but when a baby started screaming during the end of mine—as we were stuck on the tarmac for an hour after landing an already hours-delayed redeye—all I could think was "only this baby is brave enough to express how we are feeling. This baby speaks for me."

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There are a LOT of ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in the US right now. We've been keeping track at @wired.com—and, to make things easier on everyone, created this interactive visual guide. It'll be updated w/ any major developments: www.wired.com/story/ai-cop...

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The Gisele Pelicot rape case—which just ended with a "guilty" verdict for her husband—has gotten a lot of attention. @marincogan.bsky.social wrote about the case, and a similar one in the US due to our exemptions in marital rape laws: www.vox.com/world-politi.... @vox.com

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Very funny detail from an ongoing case accusing selective unis of letting in rich, academically weak kids. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/u.... Imagine the incentives if kids actually got an admissions edge from having divorced parents!

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"The most popular translator in the history of Iran translated hardly anything at all...In some cases, the author of the book Mansouri was supposedly translating didn’t even exist." This 'translation' of Lolita is truly amusing. From @yalereview.bsky.social: yalereview.org/article/amir...

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In 1910 William Sadler traveled to Europe to study under Freud. Like many early psychoanalysts, he developed a relish for debunking mediums and psychics. What makes his work interesting today, though, is the paranormal claim he believed was real. On its curious role in AI copyright battles:

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"The way we think about how China would overrun Taiwan may well be wrong. Rather than an all-out invasion, it could attempt to capture the island without firing a single shot through 'gray zone' tactics." @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/world-politi...

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"It had taken Zoë four years to persuade her family and her psychiatrist that she should be allowed to die. Yet at the last minute, she had decided not to go ahead." www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

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really interesting new research on IVF and pollution, via @jkutzie.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2024/12/air-...

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If only this hed had been written in 2012—the joy I would have felt sending this to the professor who made us read parts of said novel. (It's Что делать? — "What is To Be Done?" — by Chernyshevsky. I remember this vividly because as a joke I wrote my last name as Chenyshevsky for the relevant exam.)

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Native New Yorker @allaboutchemist.bsky.social is visiting the Bay Area & so far: a) I caught him staring longingly at an image of Times Square b) he wanted to go to a Halal Guys sit-down restaurant (yes, based off NYC food cart) c) he told me the weather but turned out he googled "weather nyc"

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My Friday: looking at a “software buttons” exhibit at the Computer History Museum. I’d wear the Word one, but for Google Docs.

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. @rachelmcohen.bsky.social on how joint filing — the default for married couples in the US — keeps women out of the work force: www.vox.com/policy/39077.... Most peer countries have embraced individual filing, to good effect.

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Black plastic spatulas may be fine after all—a "typo" may have been to blame: "But 60 times 7,000 is not 42,000. It is 420,000. This is what Joe Schwarcz noticed. The estimated exposure is not even a tenth of the reference dose. That does not sound as bad." nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

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Just logged into a meeting wearing a puffer jacket and explained that the jacket is because I'm in California, and not in spite of that. Hyperlocal conditions (parents refusing to turn on the heat inside) matter.

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I was surprised by how startled I was about Chiung Yao's death, given that I've never read her books. Still, the 1998 TV adaptation of My Fair Princess fully consumed the Chinese-language diaspora and felt like a formative childhood cultural experience. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/b...

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The majority of Americans consider themselves "working class," including nearly 60 percent of Republicans in the upper-income tier (according to Pew). Is the term even useful then? @abdallahfayyad.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/390...

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Annie Dillard's greeting for those who land on her website:

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Took me a couple days to figure out what I wanted to say about the United Healthcare shooting. Here is what I’ve been thinking about: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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How LA Paul, with undergrad science degrees, prepared to get into philosophy grad school: write to a bunch of philosophers, ask if they'll correspond with you for $250, get their letters of rec. I like it! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Didn't know this! "Since at least 1931, vaccinologists have used fertilized chicken eggs to make influenza vaccines." worksinprogress.co/issue/animal...

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If you have an idea for a memoir and are looking to jumpstart it—or are already underway and want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this class is for you! We'll meet two Tuesdays/month over Zoom, 7-9pm ET. Apply by 3/14. Please share w/ anyone you think might be interested!

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