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Going viral on the Libby app for my perfect list of books on hold

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Not entirely clear why it's important to have a free press that isn't allowed to identify obvious lies

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“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

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Everything in history happens ̷t̷w̷i̷c̷e̷— multiple times. First as tragedy, then subsequently as tragedy, too.

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My cats when I don't feed them on time

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I use em dashes and quotes all the time 🤣

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This is pretty shocking. Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.

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Like the Library of Parliament, the Library of Congress is an inspiring place. Today that inspo is a touch bittersweet. "The inquiry, knowledge and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature"

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

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New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/

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We lost 😿

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Let’s go Kraken! 🤓🦑

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Here’s to the detours—the sudden dips, the sharp turns, the plot twists, the side quests, the odd collisions, the frantic curls, the useful digressions, the curious whirls—the delightful surprises and cosmic improbabilities that make you who you are.

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I don't have any reach at all on social media but if you happen to see this, can you please repost? It's a displaced Black family gofundme directory for people impacted by the California wildfires. If you can't donate, please share; any little bit helps. Thank you! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Hello new followers - you are springing up from the ground like lovely mushrooms. Hi! Welcome. I'm a science journalist, I write for a bunch of different publications. And I write this here newsletter, to which you may subscribe. www.thereengineer.pro

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Exploring the gap between what LLMs really know vs what people think they know www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.

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Use Signal to talk about protests Use Signal to talk about your wordle score Use Signal to talk about abortion Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club Use Signal to talk about parties Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care Use Signal to talk about the weather Use Signal

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this is basically all human civilisation

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Theorem: The more advanced the math, the thinner the books Corollary: In the limit there is no text for the most advanced topics

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That’s 👏 my 👏 walled 👏 garden

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look at the dates on these articles. (my point is not that anyone in weimar germany was reading the NYT. My point is about approaches to coverage that are stupid and evil)

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New plan is going great, y'all. Get the left to blither on about how free speech is something only Trumpists care about, then take their free speech rights away while they're busy pearl clutching for crap like a fact checking system run by the oligarchy. www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

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The Twitter Files boys’ve been writing this one for 2 years now

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Oh gosh I can’t pick, I like them all so much, I’ll just take the whole lot! -me, choosing my battles

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Just posted, for the last time on FaceBook, I think. Hitler had Der Stürmer to rail against gay people & incite their murder. Trump now has FaceBook. Zuckerberg is a man with no awareness of his own heritage, it would appear #NeverForget

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WARNING: This product contains programming languages known to the State of California to cause memory unsafety

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cats sleeping in temples #vietnam

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idk man having a demon vampire boyfriend that lives in a castle tucked away in the mountains sounds kind of nice

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“Give me your hand!” “But-“ “You’re gonna have to trust me!”

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it’s only a hotline if i answer the phone

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today I learned that you can create a special text file to use for logging curl timing details blog.josephscott.org/2011/10/14/t...

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Do I believe in dinosaurs? Buddy, I believe dinosaurs can be whatever they dream. Dream big, dinosaurs.

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Good to see The Great Hack (on which I was senior researcher in 2019) is still Number 1 of the Must-watch #privacy documentaries! www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

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The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023

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PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it: -keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice. -do not feed them raw dairy -do not feed them raw meat

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The best feeling is right after having an amazing idea and right before doing any of the awful work needed to publish it

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variable names are code comments

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Peace 😊

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association (ADA) endorse water fluoridation. The CDC has recognized water fluoridation as one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century.

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What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

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