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Life bending events are afoot, but i really want to know whether my kale seeds will sprout
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i think it's time for people to start using the profile description field to announce their stance on chatbots

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i have just one reason to follow an account on here: i looked at the profile page and left feeling that i'd gained something. Maybe better informed, maybe laughing, etc.

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Ken Martin, on Amanpour: "We're the oldest ..."

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1/ Little kale sprouts there in the center

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As someone who has dedicated essentially his entire adult life to following Middle East politics, and as someone who publicly has no great love for the actions of Iran in the region, the perennial, open urge to carpetbomb Iran is one of the most deranged impulses in US Middle East policy circles

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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Our weak, pathetic President seems desperate for a role in the Israel Iran war

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cw: self harm, sa in the quote the time it takes to undo a supreme court ruling is usually way longer than a presidential term. i hope trans kids stay hopeful, survive, find alternate care. but i know not all of them *will* stay hopeful, survive, find care. and i think that’s a fucking tragedy.

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On today's Lawfare Daily, @nkorpett.bsky.social spoke to @suzannemaloney.bsky.social and Joel Braunold about about how the Israel-Iran conflict is unfolding, the nature of U.S. involvement, and why, after so many years of tensions, Israel chose this moment. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

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It is impossible not to read this in conjunction with the Supreme Court's heartrbreaking, awful decision in Skrmetti allowing states to deny transgender teens the health care they need.

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🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

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knees weak paws r sweaty human's home hair spaghetti

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GO GET YOUR FUCKING PASSPORTS

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A Coppery-headed Emerald #hummingbird today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica These are one of the less common hummingbirds here, as they are usually found at higher elevations. They will come down during wet, cold weather. #birds #nature

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reminder that just last week ICE rescinded a policy meant to curb warrantless arrests:

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i appreciate a podcast host who "knows" (maybe intuition, maybe self-discipline) how to let the guest have their say. A little interruption goes a long way.

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OSPREY CAM SEASON www.explore.org/livecams/osp...

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Gift Link wapo.st/4e5Hq49

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Here we go. The cover up. Feds stepping in to cover it up. MN needs to try him and not give it Feds.

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1/ For people who are concerned that voting machines were altered in ways that produced a false result in 2024, i would like to share a couple thoughts. First, it's true that no one asked me, and likely true that no one wants to know what i think. But my quixotic blueskyng must continue.

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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree

submitted 6 days ago • 225 comments

Historians and AI. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

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I was like ”damn this really has a like 00s vibe" and it's ex Holy Fuck dudes groove time I think

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Chicago showed the fuck up!

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@maddow.msnbc.com Do you still share our rally/protest videos? No Kings in Truth or Consequences NM. 225 people, 105 degrees.

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