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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
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December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@jacobinmag.bsky.social I spent hundreds of dollars on a lifetime subscription to support your work. Now i cant get into my email; how do I reach someone about updating my info without the email???
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
I don't ever wanna hear someone from the UK talking shit about the US court system again, lol www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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captainacab.airbud.website
humans aren’t designed to live life without 24/7 internet access
March 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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beaveinflow.bsky.social
It’s fine to recycle your posts if you came here from Mastodon because no one saw them the first time anyway.
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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patloika.bsky.social
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate.
A panel from Watchmen. Doctor Manhattan appears in a kitchen on November 10 as a circulatory system as he is reconstituting himself. Art by Dave Gibbons.
November 10, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Concept first, jargon second is from a biology pedagogy study but I refer to it constantly doing scicomm for linguistics

(Note that acronyms and symbols also count as jargon)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26537537/
In this experiment, students in a large undergraduate biology course were first exposed to the concepts without new technical vocabulary ("jargon") in a pre-class reading assignment. Their learning of the concepts and jargon was compared with that of an equivalent group of students in another section of the same course, whose pre-class reading presented both the jargon and concepts together in the traditional manner. Both groups had the same active-learning classes with the same instructor, and then completed the same post-test. Although the two groups performed the same on the multiple choice questions of the post-test, the group exposed to concepts first and jargon second included 1.5 times and 2.5 times more correct arguments on two free-response questions about the concepts. The correct use of jargon between the two groups was similar, with the exception of one jargon term that the control group used more often. These results suggest that modest instructional changes whereby new co
June 10, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Google's AI-Generated Search Results Keep Citing The Onion www.readtpa.com/p/googles-ai...
May 24, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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mary.my.id
git rebase? no thank you, my commits are already based
May 21, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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