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Kung-fu alto, Green Bay Packers fan, gamer and sometimes geologist. She/her. Partial to tea, sci-fi and chocolate. Lazy Gardener.

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Mo Ryan's avatar Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social
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I was just saying to a friend, someone who was horrified by a prominent person’s wretched behavior (but this individual was fine/good to my friend)—I said, “never forget, these people choose the targets of their generosity & goodwill & appreciation as carefully as they choose their abuse targets.”

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Vertandor's avatar Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social
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Really interesting thread on catching the issues with LLM answers (though it seems they would be plausible to a non-expert reader) and could the LLM unintentionally interpolate a true secret (no)

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HappyToast's avatar HappyToast @happytoast.bsky.social
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At least the Greens will get as much coverage as Reform across all the channels now.

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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher's avatar Prof. Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com
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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.

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Vertandor's avatar Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social
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Walked to the polling station for 7pm, voted with at least 5 people behind me (and one very cute dog), then home to pick up my bike and cycled so not quite #BikesAtPollingStations

[please note the flowers are decorative and not indicative of my vote because f*ck transphobia]
Remember your ID!

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Dr Eleanor Janega's avatar Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social
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I encourage those whose lives are not going to be immiserated by the incoming administration to perhaps consider the feelings of those directly threatened by them. Ask trans people or immigrants how they feel about the new, more "effective" neo liberals coming into power. Tina has aptly put it here:

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Mary Gillis's avatar Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
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Remember when a group of crypto bros bought a copy of 'Jodorowsky's Dune' for $3 million (around 100x more than it was worth) thinking they could turn it into NFTs and an animated series because they didn't understand what copyright is?

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Vertandor's avatar Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social
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Shine on you crazy diamond too...

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Vertandor's avatar Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social
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Time (Breathe is a close second)

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Gautham FC's avatar Gautham FC @gauthamrao.bsky.social
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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start.

www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

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Dr Eleanor Janega's avatar Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social
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It bears repeating that part of the reason the major parties love to do transphobia because they are bigots, yes, but also because it allows them to pretend they are doing something for women and thereby get out of doing anything real or meaningful.

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Vertandor's avatar Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social
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Day off today is already awesome; unexpected Raven Forge delivery! They'd been stuck in customs hell for 2 months. J got me a rapier as a (belated) anniversary present (and a bonus 2-hander for himself as a treat), and we got a free pizza axe and tanto!
#swords ⚔️

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Thom 🏳️‍🌈's avatar Thom 🏳️‍🌈 @mongreldog.bsky.social
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fulfil the prophecy......

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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we spent decades refining the model of “the computer gives the right answer” and I remain unconvinced people wish to replace this with “the computer gives the wrong answer, but in plausible-sounding words”

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)'s avatar Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social
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the erasure of 20+ years of news stories here is yet another sign that future generations will have much richer knowledge of the 1930s than they will the GW Bush and Obama years. The wayback machine is carrying a lot of weight these days. If that goes, adios: variety.com/2024/digital...

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~Tilda is short for Majoritilda's avatar ~Tilda is short for Majoritilda @hulcricket.bsky.social
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I reject the goth/preppy binary and instead approximate this system using multi-dimensional analysis, with the 5 axes being: scary, sporty, baby, posh, and ginger

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Dan the Gnome's avatar Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social
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Cities, "Not overdrawing the power grid is a matter of personal responsibility, don't use your AC!" Every tech company, "LET'S ADD MORE AI SUCKING UP POWER" Cities, "Great idea! How about you do it here and don't pay taxes?"

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Hypervisible 's avatar Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social
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“Research has shown that some emotional AIs disproportionately attribute negative emotions to the faces of black people, which would have clear and worrying implications if deployed in areas such as recruitment, performance evaluations, medical diagnostics or policing.”

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Mx. D.E. Anderson's avatar Mx. D.E. Anderson @diannaeanderson.bsky.social
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my favorite fact about the cybertruck is that all the electronics are daisy-chained together on a single system so ONE fail point and the entire thing bricks.

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Alejandra Caraballo 's avatar Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.bsky.social
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There were 16 trans youth suicides after gender affirming care restrictions were implemented in the UK in 2020 compared with only 1 in the 7 years prior. Staff at the NHS attempted to cover it up. Hilary Cass knew but minimized what was happening. This is a massive scandal. Cass lied, kids died.

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Dr Susannah Lydon's avatar Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social
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If you are interested in fossils & culture this is a great #FossilFriday read. Geomyths - such as "griffins have origins in Protoceratops fossils" - can be hugely seductive, but that doesn't mean they are supported by evidence.

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Vertandor's avatar Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social
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The garden is really starting to come alive now we're getting some warmth and sunshine (happy Solstice!) as well as the rain, such a nice distraction from work and *waves hands* all that

So here's one of the creeping thymes from the plant ladder - enjoy!
#solstice #bloomscrolling 🌱

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Natee (they/them)'s avatar Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social
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'Well shone, Moon! Truly, the moon shines with a good grace.' This Solstice's full moon is a gift for trotting out this quotation from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The last time that occurred has been variously reported as 1986 or 1967. Pity I couldn't do better with the photograph.

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Robin Ince 's avatar Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social
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I don’t want to hear about tax cuts - I want to hear about proper access to assistance for people with special needs, effective healthcare, decent education with smaller class sizes, public services that are run for the public not profit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tracy Chou's avatar Tracy Chou @triketora.bsky.social
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i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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I said similar years ago, but for anyone just recently aware of the UK Post Office Fujitsu Horizon Scandal: Carefully consider the facts— central, paradigm-setting authorities eager to disbelieve large swathes of humans in favour of a faulty computer system— then look at "AI," then sweat nervously.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious's avatar Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Vertandor's avatar Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social
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Reskeet with how old you are using a vague proxy: First computer at home while we were growing up ran on Atari BASIC and had a 5 & 1/4" floppy disk drive

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Vertandor's avatar Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social
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Yup, this last week has been rough on my sinuses, with a banging headache as well

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Tracey No™️'s avatar Tracey No™️ @traceyno.bsky.social
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fuck my face is it really monday again?

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Sasha's RetroBytes's avatar Sasha's RetroBytes @sharkabytes.bsky.social
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Oh hey, there's a pretty hefty gaming anniversary today - the 35th anniversary of the release of the original 'God Game' - POPULOUS. Released originally for the Commodore Amiga today in 1989, Populous found its way to a lot of formats, both computer and console.

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Ariel Waldman's avatar Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com
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This is fascinating stuff. The TL;DR is that pH massively affects the longevity of viruses in the air and the CO2 we breathe out makes the air more cozy for viruses. Therefore, poor ventilation is bad both for keeping viruses in the air and significantly extending their lifespan in that air! 🧪🦠

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Chillbo Hangins's avatar Chillbo Hangins @woskethoughts.bsky.social
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Google explaining the “glue pizza” search result by stating EXPLICITLY that the wrong answer was given BECAUSE nobody had ever asked that question in the training data tells you that what we have isn’t artificial intelligence. It’s a server that copies, changes slightly, and pastes. Not intelligence

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John Bull's avatar John Bull @garius.bsky.social
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In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards.

They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments

vimeo.com/293437684

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