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Jarrod Baker's avatar Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social
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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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"Disability should not be a fringe topic. On the contrary, to reflect on disability is to explore the fragility and potency, dependence and independence, constraints and possibilities, and hardships and joys that are a part of every human life." -- Shane Clifton, "Crippled Grace"

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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These were not technologies that no one had heard of or that were not recognized as breakthroughs when they occurred. The inventors of blue LEDs and lithium ion batteries won Nobel prizes! But they never lead to huge investor hype cycles or contemporary recognition of their revolutionary potential

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Elly is 3 birds in a trenchcoat's avatar Elly is 3 birds in a trenchcoat @almost-elly.bsky.social
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It's been extremely hot here the last few days, and I've been seeing birds sunning themselves! They fan their feathers out to kill mites and parasites by exposing them to sunlight, and if very hot will sit with their beaks open to cool down just like a dog panting. 🪶

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.

www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

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Hillary Monahan's avatar Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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People cannot seem to understand--or refuse to understand--that not all disability is static. With many conditions, some days are better than others. That doesn't negate the disability. It doesn't make the shitty days not count anymore.

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Jill Weinberger's avatar Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social
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It's important to note that in France, yes, a fascist majority was prevented, but they still doubled their presence in parliament. The fascists didn't stay home. They went & voted. It's just that enough decent people showed up to beat them back to a significant degree (& make them cry). SHOW UP.

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Melanie D’Arrigo's avatar Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

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BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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You and your wife are both fantastic!

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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Way cuter than your average gangster tho.

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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I'm a fan of the Black Gotham Experience and the work they do. In particular, their walking experiences are excellent. I joined one of their walks this afternoon and it was a great experience. If you're in NYC, check them out.
blackgotham.com#2

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Maladroithe's avatar Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social
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Getting word that Larry the Chief Mouser of Downing Street has coasted to another peerless victory with no opposition and 100% of the vote, truly Britain’s greatest statesman

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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Not surprising at all, actually. Covid is not a seasonal respiratory virus and folks' temporary immunity from winter infections has worn off.

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Mad Scientist VTuber's avatar Doc Vivi Leandra - Mad Scientist VTuber @docvivileandra.bsky.social
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90% of research into "bionic limbs" is guided by "what makes abled people more comfortable to see" rather than what is actually more helpful for disabled people Like why are people trying to make "bionic legs" when leg prostheses are already better than "natural" human legs

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Jacques Nyemb's avatar Jacques Nyemb @jnyemb.bsky.social
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Life’s tough for a whole lot of people & I try to temper my optimism for the future with the realities many of us face. Yet I still want to say that forming community that uplifts no matter how small does move the needle forward. Joy IS an act of rebellion and is fuel that helps us face adversity.

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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This is correct for NY. Thanks for the reminder!

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This is true in New York. If you're in the US and not sure about your own state... Google it now and commit it to memory!

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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Oof. Yeah. This. Thank you. ❤️

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cagey ratfish 🐟🐈‍⬛🎨🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar cagey ratfish 🐟🐈‍⬛🎨🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social
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that saying "You might not think climate change is real or serious, but your insurance company does" is becoming more true for covid as well

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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However, the CDC continues to go out of its way to stigmatize masks, not listing it in its core prevention strategies for respiratory viruses, and calling it an “additional” prevention strategy instead.

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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The CDC has finally acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 is not a typical “winter” respiratory virus, and COVID-19 is a threat that can surge throughout the year.

Source: www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-...

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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"We are the founders we should be revering." 💯

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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And just to clarify, I have no problem with anyone of any gender pursuing bulking up to create huge muscles, but any cis woman won't get huge muscles (with very rare exception) without plenty of steroids.

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Bad headline (re: "bulking up" with "huge muscles") but a good story. If women want to care for their bodies & brains as they age, they need do resistance training. 💪

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Bad headline but a great article. The bad part is about huge muscles. Women, with *very rare* exceptions, don't grow huge muscles without steroids being involved...

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Torr Leonard 🧵's avatar Torr Leonard 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social
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“A new study found that health problems stemming from even mild Covid infections can emerge as many as 3yrs[!] afterward.

The study found a greater risk of problems in the gut, brain and lungs, including irritable bowel syndrome, mini-strokes and pulmonary scarring.”

www.wsj.com/health/welln...

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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Yup. Which is why I keep trying to not catch Covid (again). *sigh*

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Premee Mohamed's avatar Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com
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I love this and I feel this really hard as a writer of, specifically, cosmic horror. What do you DO when you're faced with a foe you can't defeat or understand? You still have choices left in your humanity -- not many, but a few -- and the horror is about exploring what those choices are.

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niqaeli torres's avatar niqaeli torres @niqaeli.bsky.social
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Having looked at the details: Decatur, Georgia, you’re up right now, they are actively recruiting there! Mineola, New York, you’re on deck, they’ve got you listed but flagged as ‘not yet recruiting’. The intranasals look to be our best hope(s) for a sterilising covid vaccine, so this is important!

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Torr Leonard 🧵's avatar Torr Leonard 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social
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2023:

“in a historic decision, LA Times announced Thurs it would drop the use of “ internment “ to describe mass incarceration of 120k people of Japanese ancestry during WWII.

The decision comes 8 decades after LAT *campaigned* to incarcerate Japanese Americans.”

www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Meredith Rose's avatar Meredith Rose @mrose.ink
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Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this

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Chuck Wendig's avatar Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social
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EUROPEAN ROBIN: a precious feather baby, a ruddy sky dumpling, a good friend, will help you find your keys, full of ice cream AMERICAN ROBIN: big, often wet, surly, has your wallet, killed a rat underneath the bird feeder to make an example to the other animals

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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In my youth, I dated a Greek-American New Yorker who thought the NYC Marathon must be longer than the Boston Marathon because NYC is just bigger & better than Boston. 😑 Didn't know his own Greek heritage well enough...

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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 's avatar Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 @knilirabaj.bsky.social
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Today marks the 60th anniversary since The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted on July 2, 1964.

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Allison's avatar Allison @alizinha.bsky.social
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No you're really NOT in the same boat. At all.

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mx elle is eepy's avatar mx elle is eepy @ellearmageddon.bsky.social
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i want to add: if you’ve stopped masking for whatever reason, you can start again. it makes spaces more accessible, it helps preserve your health and the health of the people around you. it’s a tiny action you can take to make the world safer.

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