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Paul Guinnessy
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Welcome fellow poll worker!
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Paul Guinnessy@paulguinnessy.bsky.social |
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Physicist, Journalist, Director of Digital Experience. All views are my own, not my employer. Fan of Film Festivals, Opera, and theater. Believer in buying two books for every one leaving the house. Doing my bit to reduce climate change impacts.
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Paul Guinnessy
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Welcome fellow poll worker!
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Paul Guinnessy
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If you’re going to send a 5000 word newsletter to someone, at least make it mobile optimized otherwise a lot of people will simply dump it in the trash.
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Paul Guinnessy
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This is very good advice (and like most good advice, hard for most of us, including me! To follow).
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Paul Guinnessy
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He also apparently claimed there were 45,000 people at the rally (it was in the hundreds, some of whom can be seen yawning on tape) as well as confirming once again he will rule as a dictator. #USElections
news.yahoo.com/news/watch-t...
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Paul Guinnessy
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President Biden signed the #ADVANCEAct into law yesterday. The law, aimed at speeding up the licensing process for new #NuclearReactors and cutting related fees, requires a report on simplifying the environmental review process. In other words big news. #nuclearenergy thehill.com/policy/energ...
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Paul Guinnessy
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This actually does not surprise me at all. Research shows that many college students lack comprehensive and standardized knowledge of #nuclearweapons. #ArmsControl
www.armscontrol.org/act/2024-07/...
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Paul Guinnessy
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Trump claims not to know anything about the extremist #Project2025, despite that "his own appointees wrote it, his own political action committee advertised it as his plan, and his name appears in it 312 times." #media #USElection open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Paul Guinnessy
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I thought NPR could have handled it better this morning. I still got the impression that they had softened their abortion stance, while it didn't take much looking to realize that wasn't the case.
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Paul Guinnessy
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To add some context, I noticed this morning that like Boeing, Fifth Third bank is paying a $20 million fine but "admits no wrong doing" in creating fake bank accounts, creating fake car insurance, and forcing customers to pay it. No employees were charged. Again. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Paul Guinnessy
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Should scientists who commit #ResearchMisconduct that gave them prestige, money, and polluted future research, undermined the credibility of science, and may cause the deaths of millions of people face consequences. "The vast majority are never caught." #academia chris-said.io/2024/06/17/t...
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Paul Guinnessy
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Apparently Trump is running for President. I wasn’t sure as he hasn’t been covered in the news for a couple of weeks now. But, as per usual, without context or with the batshit crazy things he’s been saying (except challenging Biden to a live golf match instead of going to the NATO conference).
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Paul Guinnessy
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15 undergrad and grad students from UMD and three other D.C.-area colleges are learning about language, science communication, and take turns conducting experiments spanning neuroimaging, generative AI, and translation, memory and prediction throughout Planet Word.
today.umd.edu/a-good-word-...
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Paul Guinnessy
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You wouldn’t even know this was happening based on NPR’s coverage this evening (which is all about ‘disarray in the democrats’ for the first four stories, no mention of Trump, who must be not running anymore based on their coverage). Getting rather pissed off to be honest.
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Jamison Foser
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UPDATE: remains unclear if Donald Trump is still running for president
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Paul Guinnessy
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I quite liked this description. "Measuring your business by page views is like measuring the business performance of a Walmart by counting cars on the freeway nearby. Yes, the numbers are somewhat related, but you can't draw any conclusions." #analytics news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4090...
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Paul Guinnessy
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Interpol has listed Canada among the top 10 worst countries for #CarThefts out of 137 in its database - a “remarkable” feat, said a spokesperson, considering the country only began integrating their data with the international police organisation in February. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Paul Guinnessy
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"In a troubling milestone, June marked Earth’s 12th consecutive month of global warming at or above 1.5º Celsius — the internationally accepted threshold for avoiding the worst effects of #ClimateChange." www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Paul Guinnessy
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“If we can’t solve the issue in a simple domain like #Go, then in the near-term there seems little prospect of patching similar issues like jailbreaks in #ChatGPT,” says AI researcher and study co-author Adam Gleave. #AI #artificialintelligence www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Paul Guinnessy
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Universities and institutions across the globe are finding ways of helping students and staff cope with the stress of academic life. #AcademicChatter #Academia #MentalHealth
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Paul Guinnessy
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As someone who had to spend seven weeks and many phonecalls to fix an issue with a car I bought at a dealer (six years ago!), I can well believe this. #dealerships #financescams
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Paul Guinnessy
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YouTube previewed a tool to use generative AI to replace copyrighted music from your videos without affecting anything else. Which means music creators are going to lose out. #music #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
support.google.com/youtube/answ...
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Political Punnery
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"In 2011, a year in which his wealth held roughly steady at $18 billion, Bezos filed a tax return reporting he lost money...What’s more, because, according to the tax law, he made so little, he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children."
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Paul Guinnessy
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"JP Allain, who heads [DOE's] Office of #FusionEnergy Sciences, said China is spending around $1.5 billion a year on fusion, nearly twice the U.S. government’s fusion budget" They can also get more for that money that the US can here too. #fusion #internationalpolitics
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Paul Guinnessy
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That's a fair point. Although as the article points out, they do less work than previous judges, and they will be having to do a lot more based on their new decisions. A bit like having a lawyer do surgery....
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Paul Guinnessy
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It's approaching 7%. Although its hard to believe sometimes based on their coverage (particularly on fact checking).
www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/is-t....
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Paul Guinnessy
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"If the justices did not wield such awesome power, and if lawyers who practice before them did not have to treat them with ritualized obsequiousness, most of the justices would be laughingstocks. Few people this famous are so ostentatiously bad at their jobs." #SCOTUS www.vox.com/scotus/35920...
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Paul Guinnessy
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Although everyone is usually focused on solar, and despite all the issues turbine companies have had with supply chain issues and political cancellations, #windpower is the number one power source in the US. #climatechange #renewableenergy#windenergy
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Paul Guinnessy
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The main surprise here is that he’s already promoted extremists to #SCOTUS. So much more extreme do they have to be to ‘break the mold’? Still, nice that they finally noticed Trump, and hopefully this won’t be on page 20.
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Phil Lewis
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Scalpers have reverse-engineered how Ticketmaster creates tickets, and are now generating and selling them on their own parallel infrastructure
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Terry McGlynn
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A new program from NSF is targeting graduate fellowship money to people who received Honorable Mention on a GRFP within the past three years, who are currently enrolled in grad school in EPSCoR states.
here is the solicitation: new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
and a map of EPSCoR eligible states:
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Katiesaurus
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"While most Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group companies have gone into liquidation or bankruptcy, Emerdata Limited which is run by Rebekah Mercer is still fully active."
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Paul Guinnessy
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Spoke to three federal employees over the weekend from different departments (State, Education, Economics) and all are planning to resign if Trump wins. They said they didn't want to deal with inexperienced bosses, and they had read the Project 2025 plan and wanted nothing to do with it.
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Paul Guinnessy
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I think it would require more than just Apple (who actually pays more tax than the ones listed below). americansfortaxfairness.org/big-corporat...
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Paul Guinnessy
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An industry scientist, a career development leader and a sales specialist have tips on how to stop your application disappearing into a black hole. #sciencejobs #STEM #ademica #academicChatter
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Paul Guinnessy
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A basic four-stop #elevator costs about $158,000 in NYC, compared with about $36,000 in Switzerland. A six-stop model will set you back more than three times as much in Pennsylvania as in Belgium. Maintenance, repairs, and inspections all cost more in America too. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...
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Daniel Gilmore
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One reason why a Parkinson’s expert might have visited the WH 8 times in 8 months is bc a big Parkinson’s bill just got passed and signed. But don’t let that little bit of fact get in the way of your shitty ableist rumor mongering, NYT
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Paul Guinnessy
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Voting matters
Coalitions are necessary
Conservatives should be conservative
Big business should support democracy
Citizens should not obey in advance
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Paul Guinnessy
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Coal accounted for 80% of Alberta’s electricity grid in the early 2000s and it still amounted to 60% just 10 years ago. Today it's compepltely coal free. #ClimateChange #renewables
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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Paul Guinnessy
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A short history of #book #publishing in America and its implications for class society.
janefriedman.com/how-printing...
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Paul Guinnessy
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I don't think we can change them. I think they have to come to that conclusion themselves. In the meantime just recommend papers that act as newspapers, like Philly's Inquirer. We could always ask for AG Sulzberger to step down for the good of the country but I doubt that will happen.
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Paul Guinnessy
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The number of far right MEPs in the #EUParliament has barely changed. Oddly, the countries where the far right vote collapsed aren't being reported as much as the ones where they gained. #InternationalPolitics
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Paul Guinnessy
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Seems to be an awful lot of #media pressure trying to force Biden to resign again. I was hoping they would give up at this point. At least Fadel asks the right question, which is "are you hurting the party by keep going on about this?" Weak answers in response again.
www.npr.org/2024/07/08/n...
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Paul Guinnessy
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In yet another reason why the #WaPost has been totally clueless they suddenly realized that they are a local newspaper, hence after Axios DC has been eating their lunch for years now, they decide to launch a new newsletter. It's too late for that. #media
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Paul Guinnessy
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You’ll find some, particularly climate hub, on my climate change list (via my profile page)
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Paul Guinnessy
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Seems an apt day to watch this scene. #ViLaFrance youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM?...
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Noah Shachtman
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Paul Guinnessy
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What they are overlooking in this article is everywhere these expats are based, provide free or cheap healthcare and transportation because their voters (and unions!) encourage it instead of tax cuts like in the US.
apple.news/AqMXhmo3nSBS...
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Paul Guinnessy
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A lack of fact checking is why I canceled my subscription (on the I don’t vote article)
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Julie DiCaro
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It's almost like citizens can ignore the media narrative and that voting matters.#VivelaFrance
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Lydia Polgreen
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This is incredible news out of France - the left really saved the center's bacon. It has always seemed that the true cordon sanitaire for the center and right in the amnesiac 21st century was not against the far right but the left.
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