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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 1d

The hatch is great. No green light? Not time to come out of our room! Play with toys, listen to a tonie, read a book, see you when your light turns green

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 2d

Thank you so much for letting me know. I can’t believe I forgot to click save

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 2d

Oh my goshhhhhh!! YOURE TOTALLY RIGHT

I’m so sorry. That’s all my fault. It’s live now!

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 6d

Today, somebody had the gall (again) to tell me that science communication and politics are separate.

Before you ask, of course it was a man.

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 6d

I changed it to Ms Ped Neuro and it suggested "herself"

Meaning: it has context to know if sex is specified. Yet, the google coder wrote it to assume male when sex is unknown. They could've just as easily said: if unknown suggest: themself OR suggest both himself and herself

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 6d

ok this is an example of male privilege using a simple spelling error and suggested correction.
Why is @developers.google.com suggestion a male pronoun here? There's no indication anywhere that this doctor is male.

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 7d

It was! Julian did a great job with it. It was on episode 100 1/2!

pod.link/1680094699/e...

Screenshot of the podlink website for the 100 1/2th episode

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 9d

Thanks to everyone who came to listen to @thatsabsurdshow.com at the Bay Area Science Festival! What a treat it was to do our silly show in front of such a great audience. We were so touched that y’all came !!! #basf

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 11d

This is why AI girlfriends (and boyfriends) are not a “healthy alternative” to a human relationship. It’s a real relationship, yes, but with a robot. The AI will never tell you off bc it had a stressful day, will never disagree with your opinion because of beliefs / experiences… It’s. Not. Real.

Engadget @engadget.com · 11d

Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic

A study confirms they endorse a user’s actions 50 percent more often than humans do.

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 11d

This is why AI girlfriends (and boyfriends) are not a “healthy alternative” to a human relationship. It’s a real relationship, yes, but with a robot. The AI will never tell you off bc it had a stressful day, will never disagree with your opinion because of beliefs / experiences… It’s. Not. Real.

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 11d

P.s. if we’re friends and you want to get beers tomorrow night lmk !

Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 11d

San Francisco I am in you. Looking forward to doing a live @thatsabsurdshow.com at the @bayareascifest.bsky.social tomorrow!

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 18d

THE EMAIL THE EMAIL DA DA DA EMAIL

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 18d

Why is Trump being so weird? #dementia
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Why is Trump being so weird?

YouTube video by Trace Dominguez

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · 18d

Tomorrow a pretty controversial short video is going to come out on my channel. I’m worried about the blowback, but I feel like I had to say something

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Oct 4

This month, skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will have the opportunity to observe not one but two once-in-a-lifetime comets in the fall skies.

Here's how to watch.

Two Comets Are Moving Into Your Night Skies in October: How to Watch

The comets A6 (Lemmon) and R2 (SWAN) are visitors from the chilly fringes of our solar system, and could even be visible at the same time.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · Oct 2

This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year.

It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭

Full res: flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

A picture of Mars taken during astronomical twilight (the sun was 13° below the horizon). It shows a dimly lit reddish landscape with some hills at the horizon. Deimos, Mars' smaller moon shines with a small halo in the pale sky above.

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · Oct 2

🚨TODAY IS OUR 100th Episode of @thatsabsurdshow.com !🚨

We answer tons of questions in a wild thunder round, have tons o' guests like co-host Sophie Shrand, and experts @alexdainis.bsky.social aka #blimplady and STEM hero and Mythbuster @karibyron.bsky.social!!!

listen: pod.link/1680094699/e...

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · Sep 30

PLUS -- we crossed a pretty amazing milestone for the podcast! I was doing the math on the different feeds tracking our progress to 500,000 downloads and LOOK!! I DID THE MATH this morning and (oops we did it a little while ago)

Congrats @thatsabsurdshow.com @huggetout.bsky.social et al.!

screenshot of 513,308 and an emoji for celebrating our milestone

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · Sep 30

I am really bad at social media. Horrendously bad.

My podcast @thatsabsurdshow.com just hit 100 episodes and we are SO PUMPED to release it! A good social media person would tease this for a month but I've just been…making things instead.

SO PAY ATTENTION ON THURSDAY BC it's OUR 100TH EPISODE!!

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · Sep 26

As a reminder, the MAGA movement is a cult of cruelty. Just look at farmers in the US right now.

Did farmers vote against their interest OR did they just want Tr*mp to hurt OTHER PEOPLE

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · Sep 11

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · Sep 9

I have no reason to do it, but I want to do bullet time with a bunch of iphones SO BADLY #appleevent

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · Sep 9

i'd love to read that craigslist posting for a hand model

WANTED: Super large remarkably beautiful hands for exceptionally gorgeous secret project. Fingers must be manicured and thicc, but not gnarled. Hands must exude confidence and hyperbolic adjectives.

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Trace Dominguez @tracedominguez.com · Sep 9

so did they get a GIANT finger? or like…is it REALLY that thin?
#appleevent

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