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jdcburnhil.bsky.social
he/him. Writer of stories, scripts, and essays. Strongly committed to clear thinking. Always fascinated by writers' shop talk about how to achieve certain effects. Also interested in science, esp. computers and epidemiology.
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Concerning!

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Peach Girl 🍑

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Ah, bummer. Bill Atkinson has passed. Kind of an unsung figure in the early GUI-based computers and, before that, image processing.

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News you can use. From Scientific American mag, of all things!

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you may not like it but this is what 2 high agency males look like

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I cannot stress enough: If you have no other goal in life, "do not needlessly diminish the happiness of others" makes an excellent one. If you spend your time scolding people for finding joy in dark times because there is much Serious Work to be done, you are an offense to their basic human dignity.

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All joking aside -- just for a minute -- the Trump/Musk spat, along with all the fractioning of the right as they take sides, neatly illustrates a core weakness of modern conservatives in power: at their core, they are deeply selfish people with no love for, or loyalty to, each other whatsoever.

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This is actually the 7th person confirmed infected from one measles flier. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases that exists, and a lot of people in North America have it right now. People can be contagious days before developing any symptoms, and it can be spread simply through breathing.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Says @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social in #Healthlaw #HLP2025 by #ASLME: project at early stage - so raw Secretary Kennedy would drink a shot of it.

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Most of the best tech innovations are so boring they'd put people to sleep, like "We made this solar panel 3% more efficient!" or "We can make cheaper modular home units with less wood waste!" and while everyone's chasing AI, people doing shit like this are saving the world by inches.

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Prasad says he has never met RFK Jr. when asked why Secretary doesn't want research published in certain journals. he says one of Kennedy's issue is he wants govt papers publicly available - someone in audience yells out this has been policy for 20 years.

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Busby Berkeley's Suspiria

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Dear Members of the Press. P0TUS bragging that his tariffs are "already" bringing TRILLIONS of $$ into the US. Beyond the fact that it's not true, will you please ask him, "If that's so, then there's no need to even discuss cutting social services, medicine, education, air safety, etc etc. Right?"

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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If you haven't even bothered to read the studies that don't exist cited in RFK Jr's MAHA report, you have no right to criticize!

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James' parents had no idea the threat assessment even existed until I told them about it, more than a week after it took place. No one from the school notified them of it or interviewed them for it — which is not recommended by experts.

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RFK Jr. probably used "AI" to produce his report littered with fake citations, but even before that he was citing sources for things they did NOT say. One example I checked out myself, he literally claimed 'X was cause of death' when his source said it could NOT reach that conclusion.

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RFK Jr. probably used "AI" to produce his report littered with fake citations, but even before that he was citing sources for things they did NOT say. One example I checked out myself, he literally claimed 'X was cause of death' when his source said it could NOT reach that conclusion.

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One hell of a cautionary tale ahead. Brace yourselves.

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Merge a good movie and a bad movie to make a Frankenfilm. Beauty and the Image of the Beast

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I wonder if there's some timeline where Jean Rollin is best known for his languid, artsy, erotic Bigfoot films.

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