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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s the map for the swallow. Each dot represents a bird, and each line links the places where they were found.

A map of Europe and Africa, with multicoloured dots, and connecting lines leading roughly north to south.

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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 2d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 20h

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 8h

congrats!! Can't wait to read it!

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 22h

We are realizing that we have no idea what British people think a “flapjack” is.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 8h

Rise and shine

Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 18h

Ludwig the coyote does a big stretch.

A coyote arches his back and closes his eyes.

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Spice 💕 @spicedyde.bsky.social · 23h

🐶: “Very spooky! A corpse is a dead body.”

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 17h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 8h

Anyway, no, Stanley Kubrick didn't write a letter to an MGB executive threatening to shove a prop bone up his ass

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Stanley Kubrick's 'Don't F*** with Me' Letter

A threatening letter purportedly written by film director Stanley Kubrick to the head of MGM in 1970 is circulating virally.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 8h

Don't want to cast aspersions but I feel like if you disable replies and quotes on a *fake image* it's edging up to likely "consciousness of guilt"

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22h

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 17h

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah he’s on deaths door

Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 17h

I can fuck with left yimbys, but the real hard core ones are so funny, it's basically Roko's Basilik with them, but instead of bringing about the AI god, you have to be doing everything in your power to reward real estate developers

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18h

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 17h

Yes it's antisemitic to demand Jewish people specifically answer for Israel but at the same time it's kind of a bummer to find out a celebrity you like is Jewish and hasn't said anything

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