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Steve Silberman@stevesilberman.bsky.social |
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Award-winning science writer, author of the New York Times bestseller "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," and an upcoming book on cystic fibrosis, "The Taste of Salt."
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Ward Q. Normal
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Good luck to any history teachers out there who have to try to explain this bullshit in a US government class this fall. I thought quantum mechanics was a confusing mess, but hoo boy.
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Steve Silberman
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"Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law... With fear for our democracy, I dissent." - Justice Sotomayor
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Steve Silberman
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It's too bad the 2nd Amendment dudes who swore they'd be the undauntable defenders of our democracy against attack by a brutal monarch turned out to be too busy denouncing rainbow plushies at Target.
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Charles Louis Richter
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biden needs to go on TV and say that SCOTUS has just given him, joe biden, the power to commit any crime he wants as president, and that this erasure of a bedrock principle of the rule of law and the constitutional order terrifies him as an american citizen
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Steve Silberman
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American Democracy [1776-2024]. The killers are still at large. Eulogy by Justice Sotomayor.
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Steve Silberman
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Wonderful to have dinner with @ferrisjabr.bsky.social and his partner Ryan to celebrate the publication of Ferris' brilliant book "Becoming Earth." They're marvelous guys and a great couple. Read an excerpt here in NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/m...
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Steve Silberman
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Wonderful to have dinner with @ferrisjabr.bsky.social and his partner Ryan to celebrate the publication of Ferris' brilliant book "Becoming Earth." They're marvelous guys and a great couple. Read an excerpt here in NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/m...
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Steve Silberman
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We're so proud we don't even have to go to a parade anymore to show it. We just love one another and fight for the rights of our fellow #LGBTQ+ people under attack.
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Steve Silberman
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So sad to learn the Rubin Museum of Art is closing. With its treasuries of Buddhist images and sounds and fascinating lectures by folks like David Byrne, it was one of my favorite spaces in NYC. [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/a...
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Steve Silberman
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If such a creature as Trump - with such power to make filthy and corrupt and enshittify and confuse any institution or person - existed in the Star Trek universe, it would have some mythical name and the episode would end with the Federation launching a beacon warning all starships to stay far away.
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Steve Silberman
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If such a creature as Trump - with such power to make filthy and corrupt and enshittify and confuse any institution or person - existed in the Star Trek universe, it would have some mythical name and the episode would end with the Federation launching a beacon warning all starships to stay far away.
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Steve Silberman
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Wonderful to meet our buddy Winter Cashman on his first trip to San Francisco. Happy Pride!
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Steve Silberman
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To paraphrase David Wojnarowicz, when the corrupt Roberts Court overturns Obergefell to destroy marriages like mine, drop my body on the steps of the New York Times editorial board.
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Steve Silberman
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What form of meditation? Just curious.
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Jamison Foser
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LEFT: New York Times columnist Ross Douthat RIGHT: Also New York Times columnist Ross Douthat
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Steve Silberman
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Oh thank God Biden gave the pundits something to do besides not mentioning that Trump has been babbling and blathering word salads of incoherent racist nonsense and treasonous lies for a decade now. They almost had to actually work - whew!
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Steve Silberman
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Weird, hollowed-out GOP sociopath Ron DeSantis decrees that Floridians should swim in sh*t. I'm not even exaggerating. www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis...
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Steve Silberman
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TFW you think, "OMG, my computer sounds like it's melting down -- WHAT the heck is THAT?!" and then you realize you left a Dick's Picks on, and now you're in the Seastones segment. #Deadheads
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Steve Silberman
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To paraphrase David Wojnarowicz, when the corrupt Roberts Court overturns Obergefell to destroy marriages like mine, drop my body on the steps of the New York Times editorial board.
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Steve Silberman
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How the Republican thugs, grifters, and crooks on the Roberts Court declared themselves victorious over expertise itself in one of the most dangerous and shamefully corrupt decisions in Supreme Court history. [gift link] wapo.st/3VBMZi0
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Steve Silberman
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NY Times calls for felon and rapist who brags about building camps for immigrants, sold top-secret documents to our enemies, promoted quack treatments as Americans died, and daydreams about dating his daughter to drop out of the race "for the good of the country." HAHAHA J/K IT'S THE OTHER DUDE
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Steve Silberman
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No matter how dark your life seems today, it would be darker if you were the parent of a #trans child in Texas. www.texastribune.org/2024/06/28/t...
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Steve Silberman
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Instead of letting Trump stuff my head with brainworms last night, I watched @ferrisjabr.bsky.social's talk about his new book "Becoming Earth" with Jenny Odell at the Commonwealth Club. It was one of the most lyrically articulate, quietly visionary, and uplifting science presentations I've seen.
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Steve Silberman
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The headline writers that have served us so well thus far are going to have a blast under Trump: "Hillary Whines About Prison Chow"... "Hundreds of 'Vermin' Snared in Border Dragnet, President Says"... "'Groomer' Bar Burned, Arson Suspected"... "Polio Cases Soar into Thousands"
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Steve Silberman
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The headline writers that have served us so well thus far are going to have a blast under Trump: "Hillary Whines About Prison Chow"... "Hundreds of 'Vermin' Snared in Border Dragnet, President Says"... "'Groomer' Bar Burned, Arson Suspected"... "Polio Cases Soar into Thousands"
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Ward Q. Normal
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Looking forward to product packaging in the US having ironic quotes because we can't trust what they contain. Enjoy your bottled "water." Do you need to take some "aspirin" for your headache?
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Steve Silberman
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A great photo by Jeffery Parrish of me and @WardQNormal.bsky.social at the Stand and Be Counted tribute to David Crosby at the Lobero Theater last year by James Raymond, Steve Postell, Shawn Colvin, Chris Stills, Dean Parks, and many others. A healing evening of beautiful music.
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Steve Silberman
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I'm not easily triggered or a Highly Sensitive Person, but I'm seriously considering if watching Trump at the debate for more than a minute or two will be too traumatic to bear. He's the most singularly toxic human being in public life in my lifetime. He makes my skin crawl.
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Steve Silberman
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I'm not easily triggered or a Highly Sensitive Person, but I'm seriously considering if watching Trump at the debate for more than a minute or two will be too traumatic to bear. He's the most singularly toxic human being in public life in my lifetime. He makes my skin crawl.
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Steve Silberman
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"Slow Horses," featuring our flatulent hero Jackson Lamb, will be back Sept. 4. www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
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Steve Silberman
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One thing I find fascinating about Nancy Mace is that she doesn't consider that her kids are growing up watching their mother telling lies like this daily, in an endless loop of the most cynically dishonest BS imaginable. They don't have an easy road ahead. www.thedailybeast.com/nancy-mace-f...
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Steve Silberman
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Thank you!
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Steve Silberman
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Plus, with that era of keyboards.
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Steve Silberman
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Fans of space #jazz, #trance, hypnotic grooves, behold the cannabis-friendly majesty of Eberhard Weber's "Sand Glass." It's peak ECM and Rainer Brüninghaus' finest hour on keyboards. Charlie Mariano's solo on nagaswaram (of all things) pierces the dome of Heaven. youtu.be/0vN4aXWKsmM?...
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Steve Silberman
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Fans of space #jazz, #trance, hypnotic grooves, behold the cannabis-friendly majesty of Eberhard Weber's "Sand Glass." It's peak ECM and Rainer Brüninghaus' finest hour on keyboards. Charlie Mariano's solo on nagaswaram (of all things) pierces the dome of Heaven. youtu.be/0vN4aXWKsmM?...
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Steve Silberman
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"the Jell-O mold of affliction"
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Steve Silberman
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Dayenu.
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Steve Silberman
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This was Sunday before last at Vampire Weekend, for the record.
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Steve Silberman
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Oooh my friend Daniel Harrison just ran into a very cool person at the Greek Theater. I'm jealous!
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Steve Silberman
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San Francisco is caught in such a doom loop the gays are sending secret space-laser bat-signals to the Jews. [photo by Illuminate]
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Steve Silberman
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You're micro-quibbling with the headline? Life is too short.
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Steve Silberman
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You have no idea. RT @danwilburcomedy My grandfather told me he was fine with gay marriage as long as it's monotonous.
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Steve Silberman
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“Since [starting] OceanGate we have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often," said Stockton Rush, who wanted to be the Elon Musk of the deep seas. Then, by cutting corners, the CEO killed five people, including himself. www.wired.com/story/titan-...
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Steve Silberman
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Yes, I am noting that the scare quotes seem misleading, because after a while, asshole bigotry becomes the brand, rather than some guy in sandals who lived 2000 years ago.
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Steve Silberman
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Christian bigots expel Native girls for participating in a dance at the heart of Apache culture, calling it "devil worship." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Steve Silberman
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Is there anything better than getting a signed copy on pub day of a book that deserves to become a @nytimes.com bestseller? Friends, there is not. Thank you @ferrisjabr.bsky.social for your generous inscription and for writing such a brilliant book, "Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life."
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Steve Silberman
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Though I knew him well, I had no idea that poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the first major cultural figures to warn about the threat of global warming - in 1969! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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That excerpt was fascinating.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/m...
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Steve Silberman
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It being #Pride month, and me being a #queer #science writer, special congratulations to @ferrisjabr.bsky.social, whose brilliant "Becoming Earth" is published TODAY. (See a recent excerpt in @nytimes.com.) Here with his partner Ryan. One of the chapters focuses on the garden they've grown together.
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Steve Silberman
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Laughable pile of ugly garbage that credulous media keep insisting is cool recalled for the fourth time by fascist-enabling fake savant.
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