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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3h

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!

Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.

The world is cruel but squid are good.

A giant Australian cuddle fish swims up from the Moy seafloor and looks at the camera. She is red with w shaped curious pupils

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

We don't know why RFK Jr. is talking about circumcision and autism. We've never walked a mohel in his shoes

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

the DOGE-ification of CBS news

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 7h

There's every reason in the world to be wary of what's coming next, but we can still be happy for the children of Gaza and the hostages' families.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 5h

Oh maaaaan.

jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 14h

#InternetOfShit

temvald @temvald.bsky.social · 22h

Bose to SoundTouch users: Drop Dead.

www.bose.com/soundtouch-e...

SoundTouch Cloud Service Ending | What It Means for You | Bose

Bose is ending SoundTouch app and cloud service support in February 2026. Learn how this impacts your product.

www.bose.com

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 15h

it's an inexplicable self-own and could be devastating for the students already enrolled.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 15h

"The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence."

Ranganathan's balls. What are we doing here.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

My alma mater UNC going all-in on AI feels very similar to colleges betting on MOOCs and computer science in the 2010s when I was a student.
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

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.

www.dailytarheel.com

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 1d

Grampa Simpson here was only 63 years old.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 1d

“the female body (also male)”

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting with alt because this is too good not to. Letter to the editor from 1983.

Censorship
TO THE EDITOR:
Censorship is a word that is no longer in our American dictionaries across the USA. There was a Hayes Censorship Commission in the 40s and 50s which controlled the morals of our country, but the do-gooders and excessive freedom of expression people destroyed the purpose of the use of the word censorship in our American society freedom to destroy the USA.
An example. I went to the cinema (not often) and saw the picture "An Officer and A Gentleman." It was shocking, disgusting and debasing to adults and to our youth. Ninety-eight percent was exposure of the ways of the flesh, but the profits were terrific. TV and advertising is in the same category. TV a year ago didn't get into the boudoir until the last reel. But today, halfway through the first reel the characters head for the boudoir.
Avertising is getting there, using the female body (also male) to sell their products in any and all ways to attract the gullible public - profits have no restrictions.
To sum up what is happening to the morals of the USA, we are surely poisoning the minds of our youth, our greatest resource. Remember, freedom of expression must be, even if it destroys our country.
Russia won't have to drop their atom bomb on the USA, we have our own simmering atomic moral sex bomb which is slowly but surely going to destroy us from within. Some day it will go off - hold onto to your hats.
Remember the great Roman Empire was destroyed while Emperor Nero was fiddling. The USA is fiddling with the same bomb..Destroy the minds and morals of our youth and you destroy the USA. The patience of the Good Lord one day will run out on us. We think our country is indestructible, but so did the Romans.
Old Timer
Bill Santo:
AHS ‘38

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, is that from Maria Romano, former perpetual candidate for the select board, who became opposed to everything in involving the mass ave corridor reconstruction mostly because she didn’t want a traffic light on Bates Road?

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 1d

It me.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 1d

95% accuracy is, uh, also quite a thing to promise. Depending on the benchmarks they use, anyhow.

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 2d

13 years is forever but the tech industry doesn't work that way now, definitely. In the 90's there was more of an eye to retention; these days I think the attitude would be "meh, let's take our paper and go elsewhere." (And the poorly understood dependencies are vastly worse.)

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jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 2d

thank you so much. I've lost a lot of respect for unexpected folks tonight.