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Paul Guinnessy

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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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Welcome fellow poll worker!

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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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This is very good advice (and like most good advice, hard for most of us, including me! To follow).

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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UPDATE: remains unclear if Donald Trump is still running for president

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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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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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"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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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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"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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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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Scalpers have reverse-engineered how Ticketmaster creates tickets, and are now generating and selling them on their own parallel infrastructure

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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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"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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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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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's avatar Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social
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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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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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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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You’ll find some, particularly climate hub, on my climate change list (via my profile page)

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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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A lack of fact checking is why I canceled my subscription (on the I don’t vote article)

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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's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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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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