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Erin, STEM Librarian in Texas somewhere@cybrarerin.bsky.social |
566 followers 831 following 1119 posts
STEM Librarian, AI Literacy = Digital Literacy Hikes and crochet. Yoga teacher. (She/her) Let kids read.
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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It is September 15. Biden has declined to do 15 pushups for NYT. They are endorsing the abstract concept of Youth for President. Trump, just out of frame, is listing NYT columnists he intends to have Seal Team 6 assassinate
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Erin, STEM Librarian in Texas somewhere
@cybrarerin.bsky.social
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I don’t think this is the feel good story they think it is.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Pre-existing conditions bans: insurers reserved right to limit a person’s insurability if they had certain illnesses prior to getting insured. You know what completely innocent NICU babies are? Giant clusters of pre-existing conditions. The most vulnerable, the most innocent, the most uninsurable.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Lifetime caps: some insurers would say that once a person had run up a (lifetime) bill of $2M or so, they were no longer insurable, kicked forever to Medicaid and Medicare. NICU nurses told me abt pre-ACA kids who would hit their lifetime cap before their first breath of fresh air.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Ah, FB memories serving up some winners. This is what an itemized $1,330,000 NICU hospital bill looks like (only 96 days to get there). The apple is there for scale. Here’s why I share it. Too many ppl don’t know abt lifetime caps and pre-existing bans. Bc the STILL-VULNERABLE ACA banned them.
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The (Reverse) Size Queen
@hyvemynd.bsky.social
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I completely agree with this, but also... 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 people who needed financial help. People can't create when they're worrying about staying housed and fed.
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Megan L. Cook
@meganlcook.bsky.social
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Pleased to report that "drinking white wine and reading old issues of New York Magazine on google books" is a functional warm weather substitute for "drinking vermouth and reading 19th century Maine newspapers on the Library of Congress". The scent of sea air is wafting through my windows as I type
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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What a twist of fortunes that Bernie gives one of the strongest affirmative defenses of Biden while the centrists try to shiv him
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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“Trump's Project 2025 wants to take money out of your wallet and give it to your boss” is like verbatim what we should be putting on billboards for undecided voters in swing states
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Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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so many things about the US government that are now treated as Inviolable Precedent are based on things like "this is a number I just pulled out of my ass" and have been modified repeatedly over time until one day people decided changing the number was too hard it doesn't have to stay that way!
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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"the House is 435 members" is from 1929! this is not The Unchanging Vision of George Washington of whatever if these things aren't working, we can change them, and we should
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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The original vision of the founders: Uncap the House.
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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Looking forward to the @washingtonpost.com publishing dozens of stories and op-ed calling on Clarence Thomas to resign, because his inability over decades to fully complete a simple financial disclosure form raises serious questions about his cognitive ability to do his job.
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Samantha Ferreira Wants to Talk About Anime History
@sam-animeherald.bsky.social
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I've been saying it for a while now: I get developer emails from Microsoft - they outright brag about how many people are "logging on to Copilot to help them" every day. They don't care that, like, 50% are so people can make shit to dunk on it. Engagement is engagement, which justifies bigger spend.
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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For a while now I have had this icky feeling that a lot of our use of AI is us just using it to find examples to show each other how bad AI is and TBH I think we should probably all stop doing that cause excessive energy consumption doesn't differentiate between real use and joke use. 😬
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
@scumbelievable.bsky.social
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Alice Munro's daughter coming forward about the abuse her mother alternately blamed her for and ignored is an incredibly brave thing.
archive.is/2024.07.07-1...
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🏳️⚧️ The Josie Zone
@josie.zone
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I wish the NYT would finally follow through and just run a “How Wrong Is QAnon, Really?” piece in the Opinion section
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Margaret Sullivan
@sulliview.bsky.social
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