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I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born OTD in 1964. Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program. Image: NASA

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like honestly in this time of dire attack on trans and queer peoplein games if im not working on a game with queer mech pilots fighting for their best lived and their community what am i even arting for bro

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It is taking all my self-control not to reskeet every terrible thing. I know everybody's seen it all already and it would just add to the doom loop. But it's tempting to just howl endlessly

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Amazon, McDonald’s, Target, Lowe’s, Tractor Supply and Walmart are all named in the advisory

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AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library www.404media.co/email/7a1109...

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Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski will bring pierogi – Poland’s famous stuffed dumplings – to space with him when he joins an upcoming mission to the International Space Station. He has worked with a Polish family firm to freeze dry the pierogi so they can be taken to the ISS.

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elon: telling ppl who works for me is a crime economic times of india: here is every life detail of the Indian kid

submitted 19 days ago • 72 comments

Fun fact: I am the origin of this quote from the 2016 Trump presidency. It went immensely viral and gets reposted constantly, frequently with grammar "corrections" that disrupt the flow of my original intentional stream-of-consciousness post, and said grammar corrections are INFURIATING.

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It's preordering season! And I realize that it coincides with a terrible news cycle - but this is my job and besides, I love this book and I don't want it vanish into the digital ether. Maybe you'll love it too, if spooky art deco murder mansions are your jam 👇 www.cheriepriest.com/blog/it-was-...

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Vote now in the 55th annual Locus Poll and Survey. poll.voting.locusmag.com

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upon reflection, this year's funniest inclusion is The Promised Land, starring Mads Mikkelsen as a farmer in 18th century denmark. sorry but i love to watch a miserable old man dig holes in the tundra!!!

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Now up at the #MindPalate site: A truly amazing butter commercial from post-WWII Germany. Contains cartoon cows, donkeys, and human internal organs. If you're a cardiologist or other adjacent healthcare provider, please be sitting down when you watch this. mind-palate.com/the-past-but... #medsky

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PSA: Four great alternatives to getting books and audiobooks from Amazon. LINKS Hoopla (books and/or audiobooks) - www.hoopladigital.com Libby (books and/or audiobooks) – libbyapp.com Bookshop.org (books) – bookshop.org Libro.fm (audiobooks) – libro.fm #booksky

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www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l... More censorship/knowledge reshaping. #history #queerstudies #womenstudies #sexuality #history

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It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

submitted 24 days ago • 897 comments

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

submitted 24 days ago • 269 comments

do you get what we’re saying?? www.peculiarityshop.com

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Folks. I am still telling jokes on the internet like a doofus. I want to explain why I am telling jokes like a doofus when people, especially marginalized people but also everyone else, are being slowly pulled apart by the most ghastly people imaginable. The answer is, for my mental health. 1/

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Hi #AcademicSky, it appears that the NSF is continuing to send emails telling PIs that their funding is paused — even though there's a court injunction on the funding pause. Let me know if you received one of these emails after the injunction (i.e. 5pm yesterday) and want to talk about it...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Republicans have played chicken witn shutting down everything for years over every petty desire. Call their fucking bluff or get primaried.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Yo, Bookshop is doing ebooks now! This is huge. Also, a great way to support indies.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Regarding Trump's desire to end birthright citizenship by reinterpreting the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, here's an interesting note of contrast by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social, political scientist at Johns Hopkins University:

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It's almost time of HUGO NOMINATIONS! Here is a selection from my Portfolio of 2024 covers! #sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart

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Don’t sign shit. Make them fire you. Do not resign your position based on an assurance from an administration whose head has a reputation for stiffing contractors who did work for him.

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hear hear

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I'm trying not to flood people's TL with more shit to get mad about, but this is TRULY beyond the pale. She literally tries to thread the needle between "this is an important feminist issue" and "but he shouldn't face professional repercussions," concluding with... further self-promo??

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They’re flooding the zone, yes. But they also know they have to implement the bureaucracy of the fascist state BEFORE Trump dies because public acceptance depends entirely upon his charismatic authority. Every time you push back, even a little, you’re helping buy the time we need to survive this.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

there are people telling me in front of god and everyone that they are giving chatgpt all their medical and financial information on purpose so it can handle tasks for them and i do not even know how to respond

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OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

submitted 25 days ago • 340 comments

I can't help with the little espresso, but we're working on the free healthcare here: www.wholewashington.org

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I will start by posting the pic from my current banner, this stratosphere chase!

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Men call it mother glass, call it nipple glass and yes of course, they call it witch glass. I call it laughable that any man was ever deluded enough to think the products of his industry would act as witch-ward. Our magics are not deterred by silica distortions. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Did you know there's still wonder and beauty in the world, like being able to see Jupiter and its moons from your back deck with the telescope your MIL gave you for Christmas a few years ago???

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OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property www.404media.co/openai-furio...

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For my trans and gender non-confirming friends. For all of you. 🏳️‍🌈 🫶🏼 🏳️‍⚧️

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During the Industrial Revolution, textiles workers were being replaced with machines. They protested by throwing their Dutch wooden shoes, called sabots, into the machinery & disrupting production, sometimes ruining the mills. The resulting act and word became known as “sabotage”.

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Drawings will be my flat, minimal shading comics style. Icons - $60, Half (with hands) $80, Full figure $120 Fill in this form if you're interested. I will email you when I have time. (Note filling in the form does not guarentee a spot, but I'll try :) ) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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If any scientists and/or researchers who are working for the NIH OR otherwise rely on NIH funding and want to talk about what's going on right now, my email ([email protected]) and the @futurism.com tip line ([email protected]) are open

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

the audacity of Word dropping a little 'copilot' icon into my document without asking to 'help me write' or what ever, while their in-line dictionary puts little red wiggles under 'aubergine'

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There’s a caveat to this. Indie authors HEAVILY rely on KU and Amazon to make their books accessible. Some people can’t sell directly and keep stock. Bookstores don’t really or at all have indie books and ESPECIALLY by marginalised people. I wish we would think about this #booksky #blackbooksky

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Okay well over the last 90 days at least we're on track! :)

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Meta's top lawyer on AI will no longer be defending the company due to Zuckerberg's decent into "neo-Nazi madness." "Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, free to do whatever he wants to do," Mark Lemley says, "but I decided that that wasn't something I wanted to be associated with." Exclusive w/ WIRED:

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a thing that most companies have grappled very poorly with is making offices actual collaborative spaces, because if they’re not, it’s very hard to understand why you should be in them

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