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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1h

🗿 The moai really walked

New evidence shows Easter Island’s giant statues were engineered to 'walk' upright using their curved bases & forward tilt. A 4.3-ton replica moved 100 m in 40 min with just 18 people, & no logs or sleds.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SciComm 🧪 #Archaeology

The walking moai hypothesis: Archaeological evidence, experimental validation, and response to critics

The transport of Rapa Nui's (Easter Island) monumental moai statues has been debated for over a century. Based on a systematic analysis of 962 moai, w…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 4h

My hands hurt. My ass hurts. My brain hurts.

But the book IS IN.

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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 18h

If The Hunger Games went on sub today.

Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 18h

“Too many districts to keep track of. Can we make it 5? And just one kid from each district. Our commercial readers would want a stronger romantic throughline. Let’s age up everyone to 19 so we can add spice. We might lose commercial readers with all the politics. Katniss isn’t relatable.”

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 7h

I am sneering so viciously that my face is gonna stick this way, Beks, just like my grandma always said it would.

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 9h

You bet your ass it checks out!

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 10h

Like, and they also had to have time to HEAR ABOUT THIS FREAKING KID first too!

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 10h

Of course they weren't there at the birth! They had to travel from afar, and they had all that gold and frankincense and myrrh to carry!

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 12h

Me as a writer: does months and months of careful research and worldbuilding
Also me as a writer: actually writes the damn thing in like three weeks

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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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 14h

These words alone damaged me.

THEN I SAW VIDEO.

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 17h

dawg the kirkinator videos are fuckin frying me. the one where alex jones takes him to hyperborea and he meets hulk hogan and aryan kash patel. what the fuck is even going on anymore

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 15h

That is not a serious person. Like...even Dylan thought Johnny Cash was the shit, and vice versa. They worked together a lot!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19h

"The demise of literate culture has just left us with a form of nonliteracy, in which simple texts can be processed but elaborate ones may as well be written in Linear B."

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 21h

It's silly that refusing to use AI is seen as such a stubborn, rebellious stance, but here we are. Fight fascists, save our planet, remind others to think for themselves, save your own brain... it's all there, in one simple act we can all do.

Just don't use AI. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 22h

Praying is funny though bc idk yall real names most times so I be going to Big Sandals with your @. Like “Lord I’m asking you to step in and intercede on MsGoodPussy93’s behalf as she goes in for the 3rd round of interviews. Bless her with this job lord and open more opportunities for her. Amen.”

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 21h

That is... 🤨

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23h

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Kriss Kristofferson took such good care of Sinead O Connor and I love him for it

And I’m also always amused by the Flanderization of Willie Nelson because he’s

Just been a pain the collective ass of people for years

Because he’s SO pleasant and a cornerstone of country and such a n OG hippie

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 21h

For US law enforcement to WHAT

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

AI has a lot of issues but a big one is the way it’s used to :

- demonize basic real emotional desires and needs
- the inability to just straight up and say

“ there is something maladaptive and ill intentioned about wanting to have a digital slave “

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

www.npr.org

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 1d

🙃

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 1d

Mine is kinda half "the world is on fire and I feel wretched" and half to treat my undxed ADHD, so the fact that I'm functional is aces.

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 1d

I had an appointment earlier to discuss how my new antidepressant is working. I was like, I'm still upright, so I think it's doing a GREAT job.

Because yeah.

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 1d

I have taken my meds AND scheduled a doctor's appointment today because yes, I am SO OLD HOWWWWW JILL IT WAS YESTERDAY

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Cranky Bitch Sedai @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 1d

At least that asshole got ratioed. But they deserve worse.

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