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Researchers study extinct hominins using enamel proteins from their teeth arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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I resent so thoroughly how much ChatGPT has made people recoil from the em dash EMILY DICKINSON AND ALSO ME HAVE NOT LIVED AND FOUGHT IN VAIN THE ARTROOMBA ROBOTS WILL NOT TAKE THIS FROM US

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I…I have ADHD. You can’t take one of English’s bare handful of universally-recognized typographical digression-signals from me. I will physically die.

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Having Crohn's disease is weird, because I'm honestly having a lovely time except that my abdomen hurts and I'm afraid of food. Ugh, bodies are just such nonsense.

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This sentence so precisely sums up exactly what I've witnessed: "That they believe they can replace government workers—people who care an extraordinary amount about their arcane corner of the bureaucracy—with hastily-written AI code is another defining characteristic of right now" Read it all

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THIS x1000.

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Super happy with the way this post has turned out. An exploration of the earliest recorded tradition of anatomical science in ancient Egypt. Every body was treated by skilled embalmers, who shared different knowledge from the thousand-year tradition of physicians. www.johnhawks.net/p/roots-of-a...

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Here we go, y'all -- join me, an erstwhile archaeologist and current science journalist, in hate-watching Fountain of Youth, either live or vicariously. 🏺🧪

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The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed. There was a shimmer - a demon appeared. "Curious. What ritual is this?" "I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!" "I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Tornado sirens went off earlier in the evening than I was expecting last night. What did I shove into my purse on the way to the closet? Meds, Kindle (it's a 2016 model and my TBR is huge, don't judge), dad's pocketknife, and my three hardest-to-replace pens (subjectively). Never not on brand here.

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Yikes. Good one, guys.

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Updated this piece about how the Trump admin removed images of women and persons of color from websites. The good news is that the webpage about a NASA employee overcoming adversity was restored after she posted about it. The bad news? NASA then fired her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

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Amid the news of the day, I, for one, really needed to see Chip.

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How nations fail.

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Just a reminder: I have a free weekly newsletter. I geek out about writing, pop culture and personal shit. Recent topics: - the 18th century's coolest outcast - the main flaw in Seth Rogen's The Studio - why I took a break from trans visibility - queer art vs fascism buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth. He couldn’t, so he created grok. Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.

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I'm sitting next to my partner, reading Everything is Tuberculosis, while he plays Red Dead Redemption 2. I did not foresee this when I packed my reading material for this weekend, but here we are, on theme.

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National Archaeology Week kicks off today in Australia! As 2025 is also the 25th anniversary of space archaeology as a discipline, I'm going to post a thread of 11 talks by space archaeologists so you can see what it's all about. 🧪🏺 #SpaceArchaeology

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The worst part about generative AI, besides the plagiarism, is the way they keep trying to force it on us in EVERYTHING.

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Big article on space archaeology www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Had a good freelance thing going that is now basically dead so re-upping this to remind you I am available to write good things for your site. Also open to editing work, mock reviews, etc!

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Neat! NASA just released a thermal image of Mars taken by the Jupiter-bound Europa Clipper spacecraft. Their story is here; I'll provide some context in following posts. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-e...

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from an actual lawyer memorize it verbatim

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"Every way that we try to put a strict, solid line of demarcation on biological sex, there are people who fall outside of those lines," Estabrook said. 🏺🧪

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I was in my early 20s before I discovered that "alligator" wasn't a standard slang term for metal shavings.

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Another day, another barrage of news about how AI developers are getting billions of dollars for vaporware while NSF, NOAA and NASA are defunded.

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This is a spot-on summary.

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Ugh, I can't get the kids to out their video games down and come eat the dinner I cooked for them. And by "the kids," I mean "my mother, who has just discovered WH40K Tacticus."

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