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Cephaloplod@archytoothless.bsky.social |
53 followers 421 following 185 posts
He/him. Mostly in need of sleep and cheese.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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The fact they're simultaneously running don't vote campaigns and trying to undermine the dem candidate is proof that the moneybags who own these publications are united in realizing their robber baron days are drawing to a close under a guy who is the most pro labour president of the 21st century
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Jake_Vig
@jakevig.bsky.social
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In view of their continued performance, I hereby demanding that the mainstream media step aside during the current presidential election and be replaced by actual journalism.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Bruv looks like a Kids in the Hall character
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Cephaloplod
@archytoothless.bsky.social
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Few things as enjoyable as a new Sean Duffy book by Adrian McKinty, especially when your library has the audiobook brilliantly read by Gerard Doyle so you can still be reading it while cleaning house or doing dishes
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Cephaloplod
@archytoothless.bsky.social
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Or it would be sent back to its room like The Squire of Gothos by its parents
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SF Encyclopedia
@sfencyclopedia.bsky.social
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Artist Michael Whelan [SFE entry: sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/whelan... ] was born on this day, so here's some of examples of his artwork. 1st for Joan D Vinge 'The Summer Queen'; 2nd Anne McCaffrey 'All the Weyrs of Pern'; 3rd Paula Volsky 'Illusion':
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SF Encyclopedia
@sfencyclopedia.bsky.social
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Some more Michael Whelan artwork. 1st for Asimov's July 1990 (and Gardner Dozois 8th YBSF ); 2nd for Tad Williams 'To Green Angel Tower':
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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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On a related note: Hitchcock used to say that (and I paraphrase) unless you could direct a silent film, you couldn’t really direct. George Miller is like the only one working today, seems like, who actually gets this.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...
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Michael Whelan
@michaelwhelan.bsky.social
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New privacy policy is in place for Meta today so we've switched our Instagram and Threads accounts over to Private to prevent use of Michael's art in training AI. We're considering next steps which includes deleting existing content there and leaving the platform altogether.
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Elizabeth Bear
@matociquala.bsky.social
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Thanks to @jodimeadows.bsky.social , here's the best set of instructions I've found on how to opt out of META's AI training bullshit, if they will even let you.
deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t...
The deadline is today!
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Pretty much every one of these studies comes up with similar results.
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Mary Robinette Kowal
@maryrobinette.bsky.social
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I've just learned that the International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after me.
I'm... I'm a little overcome.
It's out near Jupiter, so there's no danger of it hitting the Earth.
ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_l...
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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I've just realized
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Cephaloplod
@archytoothless.bsky.social
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Cutter’s Way is the natural mid-point between The Long Goodbye and Big Lebowski. Absolutely.
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Cephaloplod
@archytoothless.bsky.social
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Jeff Bridges again, with John Heard and a brilliant Lisa Eichhorn, in Cutter’s Way
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Martha Wells
@marthawells.bsky.social
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And System Collapse won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel!!
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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I guess I’ve become sort of a science-hype debunker so as far as this goes, let me just say: it’s real. Really really real. You could soon get a shot every six months that would basically eliminate your chance of getting HIV. Taken a step further: we have the tools to eliminate HIV in our lifetime.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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The central joke in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a race of dipshits building a planet-sized computer to answer the question of "life, the universe, and everything" and then a million years later it says the answer is 42, and somehow that has taken on a William Gibson level of prescience
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Martha Wells
@marthawells.bsky.social
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Woohoo! Witch King won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel!!
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the Mountain Goats
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
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towing a cybertruck destroys the cybertruck; they often need to be towed. this is a Theodore Sturgeon story all day long
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Mx. D.E. Anderson
@diannaeanderson.bsky.social
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The line she took - that she fully believed she was telling the truth - is such an interesting one because the law...doesn't care? It doesn't matter if you *believed* it to be true at the time.
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Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.bsky.social
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When Prunella Scales, the first actress to play a living British monarch onstage (in Alan Bennett's 1988 A Question of Attribution), was presented to Her Maj in 1992, the Queen took Pru's hand and said: I suppose you think *you* should be doing this.
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darth™️
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
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“accidentally“
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🦟🧀
@mackayim.bsky.social
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Study Confirms One Type of COVID Mask Is 'Significantly Better' Than Others.
-zero surprises here. Good work Don et al.
www.sciencealert.com/study-confir...
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Cephaloplod
@archytoothless.bsky.social
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Doing my first full circumnavigation was how I kept my head sane after Trump got elected.
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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Oh hey tech firms what’s up, I found the miracle solution: throw this unwanted AI shit into the fucking trash where it belongs
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Nicola Griffith
@nicolaz.bsky.social
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Hey, HILD (and Gwladus!) finally make it into Current Archaeology thanks to the perspicacious Kate Macdonald. A lovely start to the weekend! Medievalsky
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Cephaloplod
@archytoothless.bsky.social
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Quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn't a hit
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Destroying shit to this extent so that populations cannot even rebuild is RESILIENCE TARGETING and it will continue to be favored by vicious power-mad lunatics until we build enough resilience to stop them.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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As in, Netanyahu's IDF is using Kremlin tactics
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Daniel M. Ford
@soundingline.bsky.social
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Stephen Maturin wouldn’t even notice an edible under 25 mg
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The retconning of The Force from the original trilogy where it's presented as this qi-like universal force anyone can tap into, to the sequels where it's a type of in-universe magic only those with special blood can use in proportion to how special their blood is, really degraded the series
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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Wow this is seriously messed up
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Doctora Malka Older
@older.bsky.social
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this is not dumb, this is misinformed. maybe it's deliberately misinformed, or negligently misinformed, but without good accessible education, information, and news systems, it's not a democracy, because voters aren't deciding, they're being manipulated by those in control of those systems.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Scond point is a recent empirical confirmation of Leovy’s prediction. A book I’m reading on 21stC Chicago gangs notes outdoor drug markets are basically gone, but violence has gotten WORSE, in part bc corporate gang structure has collapsed. Violence, but not due to prohibition-driven turf wars.
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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Another one bites the dust
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Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social
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During the Vietnam War in 1971, Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda organized an anti-war troupe called FTA (Free/Fuck The Army) to entertain GIs as a counter to pro-war USO tours with Bob Hope.
FTA performed outside multiple military bases across the US.
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ushistoryscene.com/article/fta/
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Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
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I may or may not be inflicting Donald Sutherland tings on you in the following days.
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C. Robert Cargill
@crobertcargill.bsky.social
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HOLY FUCKBALLS ON RICE!!! SOUL COUGHING IS REFORMING AND TOURING! SOUL COUGHING IS REFORMING AND TOURING!!! MOVE ASIDE AND LET THE MAN GO THROUGH! LET THE MAN GO THROUGH!
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Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com
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Nothing says libertarian like denying others the freedom to celebrate liberation.
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Peter Clines
@peterclines.bsky.social
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"While the labels give retailers the ability to increase prices suddenly, Gallino doubts companies like Walmart will take advantage of the technology in that way." Any third grader could tell you they will absolutely take advantage of the technology that way.
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Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.bsky.social
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This is amazing.
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Charles Johnson
@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
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I’ve gotten used to not having the flying cars and robot butlers I was promised, but nobody told me there were going to be this many fucking Nazis around in 2024.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@theradr.bsky.social
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- it's a low prestige job - it's most convenient for the army this way (though technically they could do it from anywhere I *think* ) - lolsob my sweet summer child nb the pressure the IDF puts on traumatized soldiers to go back to do their jobs
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Mel Moorer🏳️🌈 she/they
@knownforms.bsky.social
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This is always where our increasing corporatization/privatization of universities was headed. They record your classes then use those recordings to give "virtual" classes the next year. TAs do the grading/interaction. No need to keep the adjunct or professor around.
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Please read @ferrisjabr.bsky.social's brilliant new book, "Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life." Ferris is my favorite young science writer. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623907...
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