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Michael Ann, spooky, scary, spooky scary halloween femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 3h

Hey. Hey you. Yeah, you.

Stop trying to fight fascism with fat jokes. Targeting people based on weight makes you an asshole, and honestly reflects a mindset that's a lot closer to those fascists than you'd probably like to admit.

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The Dreaded Abighoul @popeguilty.bsky.social · 2h

it's long past time to pass a law instituting the death penalty for making things like this

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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nanaslugdiva @nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app · 4h

So many people of color who ever attended a majority white college or university or high school could tell you tales about their racist peers or instructors.

It is something we are/have been expected to endure.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

Like it is totally tragic that they don't care what white liberals think of them anymore and that the balance of power is such that they are able to do even more of this shit consequence-free but they were always calling us monkeys and hanging nooses at school and getting away with it. that matters.

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Nemesis Adrasteia @nemesisadrasteia.bsky.social · 4h

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

“No One Asked for This Reboot”: ‘Tron’ May Mark End of Jared Leto’s Franchise-Leading Days

As 'Ares' disappoints, insiders question whether the self-styled boundary-pushing A-lister can still be counted on to carry a franchise vehicle to the bank.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 4h

Looks like the PDX airport renovations are mostly done, and I gotta say I’m impressed. Govt shutdown be damned, security was smooth.

I’m also pleased they kept the goofy old 90s-core carpet!

I’ll be speaking at the @ffrf.org convention this weekend.

Who out there is coming to Myrtle Beach?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

People are also grappling to describe experiences that, to them, are unprecedented at this scale. "X group in history had it SOOOO much worse" is both unhelpful and asinine. You are not scoring points by snarking on terrified immigrants hiding in their fucking homes

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Happy to block anyone whose contribution in this moment is to immediately police the language people are using to describe fed invasions of their cities. People are going to be imprecise. They are experiencing immense trauma. If you haven't had a gun pointed at you recently, maybe sit this one out

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 5h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Nemesis Adrasteia @nemesisadrasteia.bsky.social · 4h

they can always add more technobabble

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 4h

the whole “yound republicans weren’t always like this” stuff is a lot of people talking past each other. some people are saying “they fundamentally were always like that” while others are saying “they would have never praised hitler openly 20 years ago!”
these statements are not mutually exclusive

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Nemesis Adrasteia @nemesisadrasteia.bsky.social · 4h

agreed

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Nemesis Adrasteia @nemesisadrasteia.bsky.social · 4h

if there's anything you can say about Jared Leto it's that he starred in the third best Tron movie and had a cameo in the second best Suicide Squad movie. and also starred in the highest grossing adaptation of Morbius the Living Vampire

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 18d

hey there. jana here. I've decided to make my new story Clara (Or, The Drowned God) free (or pwyw) for a few days, because I think it's good and more people should read it

Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 27d

just published this story on itch

72 pages
7950 words
one dead kaiju
one down-on-her-luck writer
one famous conceptual artist
three gunshot wounds
and blood, leaking into formaldehyde

I am extremely proud of this little monster. I hope you enjoy it

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

Emancipate yourselves from the authoritarian idea that you cannot criticize the Democrats because the Republicans exist

pat12311.bsky.social @pat12311.bsky.social · 6h

Question…you’d rather support the racist, sexist, misogynistic, bigoted, anti-science, anti-freedom white supremacy GOP? Make it make sense…

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

Tbh when I see a prominent influencer caping for the Democrats at this particular point in time when they are literally popular with NO ONE, I have to assume someone is paying you to do it

And it makes me sad that you’re for sale

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 10h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 10h

a skull full of soup.

cinesthetic. @TheCinesth.... 13h
Teaser trailer for 'AMADEUS' starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released.

Graham Linehan @Glinner 7h
How would you like to see Amadeus again, except this time Mozart is black?
Me neither! Yet here it is!

Clara @Americana Mama79 6h
That guy is black?

Graham Linehan @Glinner 6h
Apparently not but the point rrrremains!

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 6h

There are still medical educational tools in circulation that falsely teach that Black people feel less pain than white people & do no require anesthesia. In fact half of white medical trainees believe this bullshit.

We need to be eliminating bias, not outsourcing it to machines.

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 6h

On TikTok there's a woman taking an anatomy course where the professor assigned a textbook that they "wrote" using generative AI, and virtually every diagram in the book is incorrect.

There are muscles that don't exist and diagrams that are completely wrong.

Gen AI has no place in education.

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Kingdom Games Official👑 NEW FREE UPDATE OUT NOW @kingdomthegame.bsky.social · 6h

Behold! The Monarch of all reigns – Thomas van den Berg, the original creator of Kingdom - is here👑🏇👑

We sat down with Thomas to ask him about the very origins of Kingdom - see a teaser attached & get the interview details at bit.ly/4omy73U

#IndieGame #KingdomTwoCrowns @rawfury.bsky.social

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Is That Vyn Vamp?! 🦇 @vynvox.com · 6h

AND WHAT I DONT GET IS
LIKE
WOD WAS PROGRESSIVE AND SUBVERSIVE FOR IT’S TIME ANYWAY WHY YOU MAD????

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Is That Vyn Vamp?! 🦇 @vynvox.com · 6h

YOU FORGOT HOMOFAGGATRON 9000

WE’RE GAY AND MENTALLY ILL

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