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Back on my last monthly hunt to raise 400 in a few days[last because everything is falling in place together about what I ought to do to avoid this].. You're, of course free to help, but I know you either can't or what's more likely, won't!

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Girl who excels at dad jokes wants you to understand that she's in the know about current pop culture

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You folks veteo resolutions upon resolutions when it comes to Israel-Palestine. This is just a redirection of those rogue state tendencies on an issue that now miraculously merits sending the world to the verge of nuclear warfare for, at least in the eyes of liberals n some "leftists"

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Just finished the latest by @quinnslobodian.com. Offers a lot of historical clarity on the right-libertarian/neoliberal to hard right pipeline that's been broadly speculated on. The chapters on IQ and race...

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Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia Vol. 5, No. 1 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... De-Constructing Nubia @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @jubudka.bsky.social #openaccess

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Plus she recruited a Nazi to write it.

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Another not so unrelated point. It lays bare how hollow supposed learning and education has been.. When it's mostly geared for tests, interviews, anxious peer review deadlines, etc.. it shouldn't be surprising that y'all will almost always be playing whack a mole with AI unless basic things in 1/2

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US group takes legal action at ICC to probe Biden for complicity in Israeli war crimes - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-group-takes-legal-action-ICC-to-probe-biden-for-complicity-israeli-war-crimes

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so many of us who have written studied and publicly spoken about this have been saying the same thing for a long time AI use is damaging the user in a fundamental way generative AI destroys your ability to think for yourslef in any meaningful way It’s a participatory cage for your brain

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77 year old congressman Raul Grijalva, diagnosed with cancer last year, hasn't cast a single vote since the first day of the congress.

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Let the fact that Elon Musk and Steve Bannon are still upright and platformed forever put to rest the claim that the aggressive repression of students gathered in tents on campus lawns to protest genocide was actually about stopping antisemitism.

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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Yo. This is crazy

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What’s happening now is part of a plan to end democracy: “It is clear that Thiel sees corporations as the governments of the future and capitalists such as himself as the kings, and it is also clear that this is a shockingly common view in Thiel’s cohort.” thebaffler.com/latest/mouth...

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That abandoned feeling ~ for much of the 20th century, the grand Adams Theater, Newark, NJ, hosted stage plays and movies. It’s now been closed for many years ~ here’s how it looks www.henkvanrensbergen.com/gal/abandone...

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I am Reem,🍉18 years old, living without food, water, medicine, or shelter😢 I lost my education and home to the war. Each day feels heavier 😔💔 but my hope in your kind hearts remains alive😢. Please, don’t leave me alone—donate to save me 🙏🏻😔💔 gofund.me/6623ab96

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The only way you win this game is by not playing or very deliberately curating how you wanna play, which is something of a tall order given how ubiquitous and ever addictive these things are. Tech companies have y'all by the gonads and this isn't hyperbole

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How are you gonna overwhelm something designed to optimize brute forced calculations when a fair amount of folks don't even pay attention to the particulars of UI which, on first checking, seems to form a core of the draw to mindlessly use social media

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Always a sign of a convincing argument when the first piece of evidence offered is an SAT score from the ‘80s

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being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)

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I refuse to hold it against you, though you do form part of some literary avatars I am creating to help me make sense of my social life, and I'm afraid the picture isn't too rosy, though all blame goes to me from being so unreflectively naive

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the intimacy of sitting in silence together

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Red-breasted nuthatch moment

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DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mahmoud. Mahmoud ran an ice cream shop before the war that he had worked very hard building and was his only source of income. It was completely destroyed. He is hoping to rebuild it and bring ice cream back to the children of Gaza ❤️ 🍦

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The United Nations Security Council condemned Rwanda for backing a rebellion in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and ordered its troops to withdraw from the country.

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"Affordances.." I like the coinage

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Heard a song from the 80s reference a "long distance call" and it occurred to me that this is a concept that no longer holds any emotional currency whatsoever

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We should kiss where our stress management tricks laugh at each other's reasons for worrying

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An endless event that you think harshly of: OCD

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stop defunding it

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science is just an anarchic and curious experience

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#SouthSudan

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AI has entered its empire era. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-in-i...

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One growing fascination of mine is how people are able to decode inscriptions from dead languages to make sense of the thing with only a few samples.. Sometimes, even reviving it for existing peoples. It's what gives me confidence in trying to.. 1/3

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Cuneiform tablets show that despite the barriers of time, culture, and language humans in many ways have never changed.

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Lmao

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The person whose take we needed the least has finally joined the conversation: "This is a game changer. Everything we know about digital computers is gonna go out the window in the coming years. [...] We made a giant step toward creating a quantum computer." www.foxbusiness.com/video/636911...

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Wanna hear a joke? I'm gonna have an anxiety free day.

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