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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine what we could have been spared if someone at around Harry Potter book 4 had been able to tell her "half of this needs to go, and half of what's left needs to... okay we'll talk about that after the first part".

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 13h

This is so cool. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Boston Public Housing Upgrades Units With Window Heat Pumps

A pilot project aims to cut heating costs and provide air conditioning while reducing emissions.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 6h

No.

Don’t do this.

Patients will die.

#MedSky

ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 1d

My specialist cancer hospital is downgrading from N95s to surgical masks for apheresis, cell therapies and the haematology ward (which includes autologous stem cell transplant pts).
🤔

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 9h

my "I'm disabling my moderation labeler completely voluntarily of my own free will" post has people asking me a lot of questions that are answered by my post,

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 10h

the "do your own moderation!" to "no NOT LIKE THAT" timeline was shorter than I expected. I really did think they'd wait until we had ads and people started coordinating to block those

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe the issue is that they're too vanilla, whereas half the weirdos that post here have a List for the stuff we want to see but don't want to drop into everyone else's timeline :)

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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 7h

Lawyers say Techbrahs are bad at lawyering, but as someone who's actually in tech, I can assure the techbrahs are also bad at tech.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhhhh, I know what I'm giving to my fire marshals tomorrow to make them sad and delve into The Code. futurism.com/future-socie...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

futurism.com

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect I have just triggered a "Well, shit" moment regarding the building code, its to imagine datacenters facilities like this, and the potential of people just outright ignoring the code to load as many GPUs in as possible and run them at 99.999% of maximum clock speed until they melt.

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Malachite Tigerbunny @malachitetiger.bsky.social · 10h

The COO of the site, who posts on the site, is apparently unfamiliar with the basic already-displayed-prominently-on-the-sidebar functionality of the site.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 7h

...Mornington Crescent!

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 7h

Clearly they mean it is governed by all of the laws of all fifty of the United States :)

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 7h

Microsoft gets tired of playing the fish on the line, lets OpenAI die, and absorbs all their IP (for what it's worth) while everyone else gets nothing.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 8h

Also our lectures are recorded and the computer lab has remote access.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 8h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 12h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

Yup. Been saying whomever can break this story that his crew is sitting him in front of a TV while he gets his IV treatments before he has to go on TV or sign EOs is gonna save the fucking country

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Again, if you live in Portland, just strolling around the city to verify the (checks notes) existence of store windows would do wonders for counteracting the delusions of President Livia Soprano.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 8h

another data point of a Dem MORE popular on trans issues than they are in the abstract. As with abortion, the theory of a socially conservative electorate before whom libs must cringe is simply not borne out in general.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

5. The CNU poll shows Spanberger with a commanding +10 lead in the governor’s race. When asked which candidate would better handle transgender issues, voters sided with Spanberger over Earle-Sears by a 50–37 margin, giving Spanberger a whopping +13 advantage.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 8h

(A) Trump has dementia,

(B) can any news channel just... phone somebody in Portland? Quick Zoom call, Facetime, just check in re the whole war zone thing?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia …”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 8h

And/or burn the site to the ground!

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