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everyone I know either spent last night in tears or in rage

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

On May 3, 1997, I had a Star Trek themed Bar Mitzvah www.startrek.com/news/i-had-a...

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

This isn’t hard. Everyone gets due process. EVERYONE GETS DUE PROCESS. Everyone. Gets. Due. Process.

submitted 11 hours ago • 139 comments

Can confirm, ICE in the baggage claim at Logan is a level of awful I have actually never seen before. And I have seen some things in my time.

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

When your "anti toxicity" formula depends on anti-racism ==ing "toxicity," then your formula is, itself, racist. Rinse & repeat for any other technoscientific application + power-related bigotry. Just as a heads up for any technologists somehow still pretending to be confused about how this works.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

In light of the recent troubles, I’m coming around to agreeing about this approach to the federalist society on law school campuses.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

submitted 101 days ago • 252 comments

I'm trying to rebuild my RSS feed from scratch. What blogs do folks read? You likely know my interests if you're reading this, so that's the filter. This post does seem to be from 2005, I know.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

I thought this was a really interesting read, particularly as someone who's dealt with a few of these characters. If the price is too steep, I got it through inter-library loan.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I improved the signage in this AirBnB, added wayfinding for the bathroom

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

my feed right now is just substack blog after substack blog after substack blog and half of them right now are specifically critiques of the guys from the big fascist signal chats article and those critiques are delivered on the platform that makes nazis money and it’s making me sad.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

This is an interesting article because it does raise this great point about how the paranormal has always involved 'fake'. I I wonder is AI driving a new idea of 'fake'?

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

“Terry. Terry. I am the Pope. Did you see the picture? The hat? The beautiful white hat? The tremendous cross? Get him the picture.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 341 comments

I just keep reading these three sentences again and again and again. I love when words cut so incisively, so concisely... to reveal otherwise hidden aspects of reality.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

*Wink Trimeroceras bulbosum from the oncocerid video. It's more zoomed in in the final version. but here's the original shot with some Eucalyptocrinites #Paleoart #SciArt #Oncocerid #3Danimation

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

Against AI: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-spookl...

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

This made me want to go see Sinners again in 70mm this time (saw it in full IMAX for the first viewing) youtu.be/78Ru62uFM0s

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Blew a client’s mind today sharing something an energy healer once told me, “You don’t want to live in a world where what they did to you makes sense. So maybe stop trying to make it make sense.” The client literally looked like their entire belief system was being rearranged 🤯🤯🤯 #TherapistSky

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lol SO I MET TIM WALZ. And it was the MOST wholesome thing ever: shows Tim the decree he signed for me in 2023 "OMG I REMEMBER YOU. What are you doing here?" "I'm a PhD student at Harvard!" "THAT'S AMAZING." fist bumps

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

Immigration is not a problem. Nothing has to be done about it. The US national debt is not a problem. Nothing has to be done about it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

On May 19 a new book will be published open access that addresses some important topics. It’s called _ How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond_ Edd. by @davidrafferty.bsky.social, Christopher J. Dart, Frederik & Juliaan Vervaet: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

submitted 16 hours ago • 74 comments

Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court. New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case: newrepublic.com/article/1948...

submitted 17 hours ago • 73 comments

Someday we should talk about how badly our generation was obsessed with getting to “choose” a particular offering that “represented” us, and how capitalism used that to play us like a fiddle. Choose your side, choose your class, choose your main, choose your ipod colour, choose renegade or paragon..

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Oh, nothing... just Hawthorne's copy of Moby Dick, gifted to the Rosenbach by Maurice SendakSp

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This looks amazing. The White Christian Nationalist I'm writing about who was chair of the OR GOP in 1978-9 ran a bunch of MLMs in his day through which he ripped off people who trusted him, and he also got ripped off by a bunch of rich MLM'ers he trusted as well. Financially it was a wash for him.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

i will never apologize for a post

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

#digitization (of the day, -ish) Rather than being overwhelmed with all this, I decided to be overwhelmed with my backlog of unscanned/unprocessed antiquarian stuff to scan. Might be a fair trade. archive.org/details/@vag... (1/2)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We're already living under authoritarianism. It's not "coming" or "approaching" - it is here now. Lots of vulnerable people need help. These are serious times.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Correct. The tech oligarchs absolutely believe immortality is possible. It’s why they are pushing AI so relentlessly. Because they think it will help bring about the Singularity (machine/human merging). It’s why Musk is doing Neuralink. I wish I was kidding but they are deadly serious.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Weird update to this: while I’m officially laid off, my separation date isn’t until May 16th and I don’t know how to keep working…? Going into the office has been an even mix of hugs from sympathetic coworkers and me wandering the halls in a daze.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Thing I did not expect to find while researching wolves

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NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Just Switched On. Time to Map the Entire Universe in 3D gizmodo.com/nasas-sphere...

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If you believe in creating equitable opportunities for housing in Ann Arbor and making it possible for more neighbors to live here, please host a Neighbors for More Neighbors yard sign, #a2council. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

AI sickos rage posting about how they are sick of the tyranny of artists and how AI is going to level the playing field, meanwhile every single f-ing artist I know is owed money by some publisher, publication or company, and is having to once again email them to beg to be compensated

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The use of color in scientific visualization is steadily improving, but I still see variants of the rainbow palette more often than I’d like. For more info, and recommendations on for good color palettes, read my series “Subtleties of Color“: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegan...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

So many slow-moving bullets are coming our way.

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Low quality reviews from computer science conferences are a big problem. Have seen it my entire career. Will only get worse as people us AI to do reviews. #compsci

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