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From over on LinkedIn: a pointer to this article which I've unlocked as a gift. Everyone is safer when machines do what they're best at and people do what they're best at. Flagging anomalies, vs interpreting results. One is a machine's job, the other a human's. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

How many of your heroes have to die before you recognize that no, we did not go back “to normal”?

These men purchased fossils from Mary Anning and then put their names on them as though they discovered them🙃

Well, color me surprised.

The Ministry of Time. Great idea, not so great execution. Boring ending. Also Gore 🤢. But still love time travel stories. #Booksky

Somehow my timeline is composed of celestial bodies, cats and birds. That’s it.

Just read On the calculation of volume I. This story is about so many things at the same time. Painful, lonely, hopeful and hopeless. Loved it. #booksky

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

They're gonna pick a fascist. I'm calling it.

Enjoying our beautiful trails. Who would have thought this desert girlie would end up owning snowshoes and liking the cold.

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

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I recently read the play "Rhinoceros," bc someone on here talked about it and COVID. I borrowed it from my public library and read a bit more about it and the author. The author wrote it to illustrate fascism and how easy people capitulated. Slowly but surely every character but one, Berenger,

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

Today is a good day to donate to your local abortion fund #CecileRichards nwaafund.org/donate/

Mutual aid is not charity! Use this video to talk to people you’re working with about whether your mutual aid project is sticking to its principles or drifting into charity tendencies. Check out the Mutual Aid Chart at deanspade.net for a list of common charity and mutual aid characteristics.

The “voice” to WHOSE ears?? Certainly not Black or queer audiences. This is digital minstrel performance by and for white people. Point, blank period.

Personally, hope is complicated but this is the best thing to read going into 2025. “If the status quo is unacceptable to us, then we need to act with others to lessen suffering and to improve our conditions. We show up for each other by taking consistent action.”

Can native English speaking authors just stop with the random Spanish words when their books take place in Latin America or from Latin American characters? It’s annoying and adds nothing to the story.

Is there an espresso bsky or barista starter pack? Baristas make it look so easy 😭

Even by the abysmal standards of the NYT's coverage of trans rights this is shocking www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...

She's happy to be on this cat app instead.