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Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social |
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I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats, Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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For what it's worth, I did note in my first story on Project 2025 that it was an update on the first "Mandate" document meant for Reagan, that it's target was the administrative state, and that the power behind it was not merely a document but the staffing plan... newrepublic.com/article/1788...
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Adam Bonin
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In case you had forgotten that Donald Trump's orations had become the live-action equivalent of the late Larry King's rambling columns in USA Today, here's a one-minute reminder.
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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Honoré de Balzac Writes About “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee,” and His Epic Coffee Addiction www.openculture.com/2024/07/hono...
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Jennifer Ouellette
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How disinformation from a Russian AI spam farm ended up on top of Google search results arstechnica.com?p=2035995
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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New Antikythera mechanism analysis challenges century-old assumption. Physicists drew on statistical techniques used to analyze gravitational waves to conclude that the mechanism's calendar ring was designed to track the lunar calendar. arstechnica.com/science/2024...
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Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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Here’s a new fresh horror I hadn’t considered yet: not only will GOP change rules to entrench their hold on power if they gain the presidency in November, they will also entrench the detachment from reality of all Republican voters, by wrecking the machinery of objective fact gathering
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Ars Technica
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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ICYMI: You can watch our discussion on Time Travel in the Movies on YouTube. Feat. Sean Carroll, Jim Kakalios, Ed Solomon, and yours truly. :) www.youtube.com/live/PNUSUZr...
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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The next challenge isn't just limiting climate change, but helping people adjust to/survive its impacts on daily life. Does anyone trust the GOP to do that?
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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It’s another bloody power struggle for Rome’s future in first trailer for Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II." "What is the dream of Rome if our people are not free?" arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
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Jennifer Ouellette
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Ars Live: Join us TODAY for a lively discussion on time travel in the movies. "Bill and Ted" co-creator @edsolomon.bsky.social joins physicists @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and Jim Kakalios—and me. :) arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I also would really like to see legacy US media avoid re-electing Donald Trump for its own good - because it seems like too many of the people behind legacy US media don’t really grasp that they’re near the top of a Trump dictatorship hit list.
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914). Macrophotographs of the creatures below our feet, magnified to a wondrous degree. publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
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ProPublica
@propublica.bsky.social
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Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas leads the nation in funding for crisis pregnancy centers. The system is meant to help growing families, but it’s riddled with waste and lacks oversight, a ProPublica and CBS News investigation found.
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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Kathryn Hahn is ready to walk the Witch’s Road in "Agatha All Along" trailer. arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
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Jennifer Ouellette
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How an Abandoned Elevated Railroad in New York City Became the Popular ‘High Line’ Public Park laughingsquid.com/new-york-cit...
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Jennifer Ouellette
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She did lose that election. The playbook is, alas, effective.
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Jennifer Ouellette
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Brad Pitt stages a Formula One racing comeback in first teaser for "F1"—and the cars are front and center. Pitt: "You've never seen speed, you've never seen just the G forces like this." arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
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Dr. SkySkull
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A good reminder. I don't know if Biden's mental state is a serious cause for concern or not, but we're seeing *exactly* the same playbook that was used on Clinton, down to the "allies are concerned" articles. And Clinton is *still* doing fine.
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.
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Boston Tom Levenson
@tomlevenson.bsky.social
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Another fantasy: Biden, getting a question from Maggie Haberman about taking a neuro-test, answering, “You seen the other guy? On stage he spouts nonsense sounds. He forgets who he ran against last time. He didn’t do the job last time-remember “executive time.” Why do you think he’s up to it now?”
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the Mountain Goats
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
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look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”
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Robin Marty
@robinmarty.bsky.social
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I feel like there are a lot of people who have forgotten what it was like during the Trump years to wake up every morning afraid to look at your phone and see what fresh atrocity happened since you went to sleep…
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@celendine.bsky.social
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Reddit: I shared my seal with my neighbor, AITA? Bluesky: Shark Dick Saturday
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Mastodon: Well actually that's a sea lion not a seal
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Social media from a shark’s perspective: Instagram: Here are photos of seals I ate Facebook: My high school friends eat bigger seals than me and I’m jealous LinkedIn: My skills include eating seals. Twitter: Why do (((dolphins))) control the world?
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Rebecca Sear
@rebeccasear.bsky.social
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UK election: scientists welcome Labour’s landslide win 🤞🤞 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Among the many evils of "crisis pregnancy centers": they are not medical providers and so do not follow HIPAA or medical privacy ethics. Instead, they gleefully give away (to right-wing orgs) and sell (to data brokers) all information you give them. They should be illegal.
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Adam Rothman
@adamrothman.bsky.social
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"every trick in the book"* *voting
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Manisha Sinha
@profmsinha.bsky.social
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For all those on the path of Hurricane Beryl, Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language www.openculture.com/2024/07/tsun...
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Sheril Kirshenbaum
@sheril.bsky.social
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A detailed news story at CNN about record breaking heat across the US, yet no mention of #ClimateChange? 🤔
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Meredith Shiner
@meredithshiner.bsky.social
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Congrats to other country’s liberal coalitions for ever being able to get their shit in gear tell us what that’s like
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Julia S.
@booktweeting.bsky.social
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FASCISM IS NOT INEVITABLE
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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Baron Pierre de Coubertin, The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics daily.jstor.org/the-french-h...
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Jennifer Ouellette
@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
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Review: Catching up with "Doctor Who" and Ncuti Gatwa’s stellar freshman season. The "Sex Education" actor brings sparkling energy, charisma, and superb style to the role. arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
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Ars Technica
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
@mbkplus.bsky.social
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He doesn’t even bother to disavow Project 2025’s aims, but the fact that they’re shying away from direct association with it demonstrates that it’s a vulnerability. If the press is looking for something new and substantive to report on, they could start with the dystopia that these folks want for us
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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If you like to learn about the universe in ~5 minute videos, check out my new series!
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Pavel
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Well this is grim
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@jiminnh.bsky.social
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I'm going to end up sharing this everywhere, but look how easily it *could* be done donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...
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Peter Jacobs
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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.
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John Brown stan account
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Exactly this
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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"RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS" is, to me, a deranged and instantly disqualifying thing for a presidential candidate to say, but on the other hand joe biden looks and sounds very old
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Jennifer Ouellette
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ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034 arstechnica.com?p=2035383
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Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️🌈
@kennedytcooper.bsky.social
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This is a picture of a newly discovered pool never seen before by human eyes 700 ft deep in Lechuguilla Cave a part of Carlsbad National Park here in New Mexico
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Artologica
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If you enjoyed my piece on the grid in art (artologica.substack.com/p/on-the-grid), check out this work by Henry Segerman, using stereographic projection to create a grid on a flat surface using a 3D printed sphere and overhead lighting. youtu.be/VX-0Laeczgk?... #sciart 🧪
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David Noll
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No coincidence that Robinson is using the same "you made us do it" rhetoric as Kevin Roberts--it's a textbook strategy for persuading people to get over their moral scruples and just do it.
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Jeffrey Vagle
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What is Heritage rebelling against?
- Civil rights
- Regulation of financial markets, environment, consumer goods, antitrust
- Marriage equality
- Fair immigration
- Anything that they see as discriminatory against white people and their brand of Christianity
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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