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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 8d

BONESHAKER BOOKS IS MOVING! And we need your help! After 14 years the stalwart volunteer-run bookstore @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social is moving from Seward to Uptown* and has a fundraiser to get us across town. Perks include prints, totes, and your name on the wall!

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Help Boneshaker Move to Our New Home!

After fourteen years in our current space, we have made the decision that it’s time for Boneshaker Books to move. While we treasure the time we've spent in Seward, and will miss existing as a communit...

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 10d

NEWS: Boneshaker Books is moving! And we need your help to pull it off! We are looking to raise $15,000 to get us there and set up. $6,000 of that needs to be raised by 10/17. Please share! Radical bookstores forever! @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social

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Help Boneshaker Move to Our New Home!

After fourteen years in our current space, we have made the decision that it’s time for Boneshaker Books to move. While we treasure the time we've spent in Seward, and will miss existing as a communit...

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · 29d

We count on reader support. Help us continue science reporting like this but subscribing at this link:

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · 29d

NY subway platforms feel hot as hell in the summer.

Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground.

🚇New in @sequencermag.bsky.social

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The covert project to (finally) measure hellish subway heat

Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground.

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · Sep 8

@sequencermag.bsky.social is on Ghost!

They're a writer-owned publication run by science journalists @goesbykim.bsky.social, @maxlevy.bsky.social, @dsamorod.bsky.social, and @maddiebender.bsky.social

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Decode the universe. A writer-owned popular science magazine

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FashionPlate99 @fashionplate99.bsky.social · Aug 22

"How do we connect with nature? Fleeting thoughts for a fleeting summer" was a thoughtful post by Max Levy that I read today in my newsletter from Sequencer Magazine.
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Decode the universe. A writer-owned popular science magazine

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · Aug 11

When will the law cover the rights of cyborgs? New piece on Sequencer, live now:

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Cyborg rights depend on new and better legal protections

Law and policy scholars consider whether pacemakers powered by the users themselves can resist corporate control, and how far the augmentation of the human body extends into the law.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · Aug 11

Do cyborgs have rights? When an airline damages a prosthetic, is that bodily harm or property damage? Another fascinating banger from Haley McAllister, up now @sequencermag.bsky.social

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Cyborg rights depend on new and better legal protections

Law and policy scholars consider whether pacemakers powered by the users themselves can resist corporate control, and how far the augmentation of the human body extends into the law.

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · Jul 3

"A couple months ago, while I was thumbing through old magazines at a record shop, I landed on a gem. “Learning To Love the Computer” emblazoned the cover of Nutshell magazine, a now-defunct periodical for college students," writes @maxlevy.bsky.social

www.sequencermag.com/ai-critical-...

What AI can actually do to your critical thinking skills

Chatbots won't obliterate everyone's critical thinking. Lessons from the past tech revolutions and today’s experts signal how to protect your mind.

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · Jul 3

"A couple months ago, while I was thumbing through old magazines at a record shop, I landed on a gem. “Learning To Love the Computer” emblazoned the cover of Nutshell magazine, a now-defunct periodical for college students," writes @maxlevy.bsky.social

www.sequencermag.com/ai-critical-...

What AI can actually do to your critical thinking skills

Chatbots won't obliterate everyone's critical thinking. Lessons from the past tech revolutions and today’s experts signal how to protect your mind.

www.sequencermag.com

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Jun 30

Clouds play an important role regulating the climate. To incorporate clouds into climate models scientists are learning more about the *biology* of clouds: studies of plants, plankton & organics flung up by sea spray.

Major thanks @joespring.bsky.social for edits on this

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Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Life Makes Clouds, and Their Discoveries May Drastically Improve Climate Science

Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · Jun 18

At Standing Rock, the FBI had 10+ inside informants. The pipeline's security company used Iraq War tactics. Modern disinfo tactics were rampant.

For @sequencermag.bsky.social I talked with @alleenbrown.bsky.social of @drilledmedia.bsky.social about misinfo and the legacy of Standing Rock.

"Drilled" goes deep on fossil fuel industry misinformation and the legacy of Standing Rock

Investigative journalist Alleen Brown, the host of the podcast's 12th season, spoke with Sequencer about the how energy companies use misinformation in courtrooms and the court of public opinion.

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · Jun 10

If you've ever read a book review on Sequencer and wondered, "hey, where can I buy this book?" don't worry, we've got you covered: buy it on our Bookshop storefront!

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As seen on Sequencer

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · Jun 9

If you're not subscribed to @sequencermag.bsky.social's newsletter, you should be! Get another 2,000 words sent directly to your inbox, with a fun picture of me dancing with my friends:

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · Jun 9

New on @sequencermag.bsky.social: medical device makers have a long history of stranding patients or straight up killing them with poorly manufactured batteries. A new kind of pacemaker, powered by the heart itself, could last a lifetime and free patients. From our mentee, Haley McAllister:

A heart-powered pacemaker could free patients from the grips of medical device makers

Engineers in South Korea developed a battery-free pacemaker powered by the beating of the heart that could, potentially, last a lifetime.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · Jun 9

I wrote about a personal belief of mine for @sequencermag.bsky.social: that life-extension people, and by extension a lot of biofuturists who promise the world but ultimately are just selling something, are hacks. Be a bioluddite instead.

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Who even wants to live forever?

Centuries of scientists, physicians, and con men have tried to sell the idea of radically extending life beyond what medicine and good hygiene can achieve. Don’t believe them.

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Jun 6

Now that people are talking to/about AI as if they're people, is the internet going to have to switch to serif fonts?

Lower case "L" and capital "I" look identical. And people use chatbots for therapy and itineraries.

"I asked AI for advice"

Alex? Claude? Albert? ChatGPT????

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Jun 2

In true Sequencer fashion, I wrote something about something that seems silly but really isn't that silly IMO!!

Maybe season 3 of The Rehearsal can be in an operating room...

Read a report from my little field trip here:
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The Innovative Way Surgeons Rehearse

Surgical simulations are about more than just practicing fine motor skills.

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · May 8

NEW: "If you then read in a newspaper about human rights abuses happening in Nauru, you're implicated against your will... Your body is a part of that story."

@maxlevy.bsky.social speaks with Jack Lohmann about his book, WHITE LIGHT

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On Fear, Death, and Phosphorus

Author Jack Lohmann speaks to Sequencer about the complicated story of phosphorus: “There might be little pieces of Nauru in your teeth.”

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · May 8

Check it out for a snippet of audio. Writing nerds and chemistry dorks (@maxlevy.bsky.social included), this is a fun one you won't wanna miss.

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · May 8

Check it out for a snippet of audio. Writing nerds and chemistry dorks (@maxlevy.bsky.social included), this is a fun one you won't wanna miss.

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · May 8

NEW: "If you then read in a newspaper about human rights abuses happening in Nauru, you're implicated against your will... Your body is a part of that story."

@maxlevy.bsky.social speaks with Jack Lohmann about his book, WHITE LIGHT

www.sequencermag.com/on-fear-deat...

On Fear, Death, and Phosphorus

Author Jack Lohmann speaks to Sequencer about the complicated story of phosphorus: “There might be little pieces of Nauru in your teeth.”

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Max G. Levy @maxlevy.bsky.social · Apr 23

New video just dropped! I helped produce this one for TED-Ed, in which we ask.... what the hell is a tree???

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No one really knows what a tree is - Max G. Levy

YouTube video by TED-Ed

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · Apr 22

"The medical memoir in the contemporary context, for me, is also a critique of the modern state."

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Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social · Apr 22

New on Sequencer, public health-trained historian Edna Bonhomme speaks with Sequencer about her new book, “A History of the World in Six Plagues.”

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The intimate power of a patient’s testimonial

Public health-trained historian Edna Bonhomme speaks with Sequencer about her new book, “A History of the World in Six Plagues.”

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