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99% reskeeting others to make myself look clever. Reading recently about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Her father wanted her to marry a guy named Clotworthy Skeffington. Possibly the greatest name ever.
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

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Evaluating the productive contribution of government workers (or anyone in the non-profit sphere) to the economy can be challenging, but the bland assumption that they are all negative contributors represents a triumph of ideology over evidence.

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The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

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It seems like the goal is to get rid of all knowledge in this country, so let's deal in this valuable commodity. I'll share this: Today I learned that Debussy's Le Mer symphony was inspired by Hokusai's Great Wave Off Kanagawa, which he had hanging in his house. open.spotify.com/album/0Zby80...

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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

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For your mental health I present: Plum’s paws

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Local planners: 7 years and $1.2 million. #Beavers: just vibes and sticks. Nature's engineers get it done. No permits required

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Happy Record Store Day, everybody. Make sure to shop local.

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Today we cycled the 25 km round trip between Delft and Schiedam through Midden-Delfland. Whenever we share such rides, someone invariably comments such distances are unremarkable; entirely missing the point. Our physical act isn’t the remarkable part. The infrastructure network that enables it is.

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How it started // How it’s going

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Good morning Bluesky !

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RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation.

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Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica]

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Cuddling a water sausage.

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Ring Nebula snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope

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White-fronted Bee-eater at Kruger National Park, South Africa. #birds #nature 🌿

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Sometimes, the Moon passes directly in front of the beautiful Pleiades star cluster in a celestial event called an occultation! This composite image from Spain captures the Moon's visit. These monthly occultations last until 2029, then not again until 2042! Credit: Cayetana Saiz

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Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

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*cough laughs*

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Mr. Tidy Paws! By Frances Clarke Sayers with art by Zhenya Gay, 1935.

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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Love the sentiment but wtf is this data graphic

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my neighbor used to call this cat “bagheera” which our then-toddlers heard as “big ears” so this is big ears the cat

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Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman. by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

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Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

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