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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 2d

Me too. Any idea what it’s about?

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 4d

I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper.
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 5d

Based on the experience of countries that have tried this, there’s overwhelming evidence that it is utterly unnecessary.

Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 5d

This serves absolutely no purpose other than to reduce vaccine uptake:
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

www.reuters.com

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 6d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 8d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 9d

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e2fb8ba...

The student-as-customer model is an expensive lie that burdens Canadian universities

Postsecondary institutions shouldn’t be vendors, but instead vehicles for national productivity

www.theglobeandmail.com

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10d

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 10d

Got a nature climate change paper accepted. Have you seen the page charges? Yikes. “The APC to publish Gold Open Access in Nature Climate Change is £9190.00/$12690.00/€10690.00. “. Didn’t do that!

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 11d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 13d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13d

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 14d

So exhausting..

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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 13d

House of William Smith Jr., beside the Don River near Queen Street, Toronto, circa 1912.

Artist: Frederick Victor Poole
Medium: Watercolour painting
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, TPL

#1910s #watercolour #watercolor #torontoartist #art #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13d

Direct air capture is too expensive and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

Direct carbon capture falters as developers’ costs fail to budge

Some experts say the technology is crucial for climate change goals but scaling up is proving hard

on.ft.com

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 13d

Mass shootings aren’t random tragedies anymore, they’re policy choices.

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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 14d

RRS James Cook leaving Halifax.

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princehak33m.bsky.social @princehak33m.bsky.social · 15d

The way people get mocked for not knowing something is part of the reason folks pretend to be experts on every topic.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 16d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Noah Williams @bellmanequation.bsky.social · 17d

Routine for every class now:
- sign out previous person who used the system
- sign in to AV system computer
- verify sign-in with authenticator on phone
- wait for phone face ID to recognize
- wait for AV system computer to load
- kill Microsoft Teams auto-launch
- sign in to course system web page

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Stanislov Petrov Day to all that remember and celebrate

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Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 17d

Tree climbing lessons.

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · Aug 22

“Among the many [proposed] deep cuts to scientific research…is the abrupt termination of the Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. icebreaker dedicated to Antarctic research. The budget also pauses development of a new vessel that was supposed to succeed the Palmer in the 2030s.”

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Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship

www.nytimes.com

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