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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 7h

artwork of some guy hunched over looking at like a bird thing, orange high-relief terrain with starry sky and gigantic skull in background. caption over skull reads actual deadly diseases, caption near guy reads RFK Jr looking for penis autism

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 7h

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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · 8h

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Tumblr post from GirliesInnerMonologue:

Did the name Odysseus already exist before The Odyssey?

or was Homer just like "This is my new book 'The Journey' and our hero's name... Journathan"

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 8h

I hope not!

Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 8h

Aaron Reynolds is a goddamned delight AND he's wearing a #STLBlues jersey!

Bird with text that reads I am a goddamned delight

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 9h

So I was at an event for most of thr night and didn't get to tune in until the 9th and was listening on the radio so didn't know how bad the zones were

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 9h

I feel terrible for Kerkering

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 9h

Baseball, man. It'll break your heart.

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 9h

Baseball fans, buy this book. And buy Andrew's other books too. He's a phenomenal author who writes about baseball like no other.

Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 9h

To celebrate the Jays' ALDS win, @pressassembly.bsky.social is making Field Work available for 34% off the e-pub edition (1% per run the Jays scored on NYY). Not valid on print b/c Assembly isn't shipping rn in solidarity with striking Canada Post workers...

assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...

Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living

Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew Forbes Baseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a…

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 16h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 18h

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 16h

Griff II as a bull-rito

an english bulldog resting with his tongue hanging out and wrapped in a fuzzy white blanket while laying on a couch

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 17h

Obi Wan watching the #STLCards lose their final game of the season: That team was our last hope.

Yoda: No. There is another.
#STLBlues

a blue and yellow logo with the letters tm on it

Alt: a blue and yellow st. louis blues logo flag waving

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · Dec 9

Tomorrow's already the 10th...

A man with wet hair and a bathrobe, probably either drunk or high (maybe both), saying "far out"

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 21h

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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