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First American Art Magazine

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Weavings by Marilou Schulz (Diné) on view in “Once within a Time” at SITE Santa Fe.

August 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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Adam Rawnsley

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Meanwhile, on Facebook

June 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social

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New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

June 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)

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PBS didn't "become woke". You grew up to be a bad person.

May 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM

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Hakeem Jefferson

@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

stanforddaily.com

April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠

@drjacekdebiec.bsky.social

This speaks volumes:

Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.

leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...

munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

Stanley from Yale to Toronto

Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...

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March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM

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Christian Schneider

@anti-knowledge.com

New phone, Houthis

March 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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Matthew Green

@matthewdgreen.bsky.social

The Navajo code talkers are DEI now. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order

Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.

www.axios.com

March 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈

@nuclearanthro.bsky.social

Uh.

There is close to zero slack in the USA nuclear weapons complex.

This bullshit will almost certainly further delay, complicate, & increase costs and risks of NNSA activities.

I am a disarmament person and we don’t get there this way.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Mar 17

NYT catalogs the people from NNSA who took the "fork in road" buyout.

Turns out (stop me if you've heard this) DOGE really did chase out critical people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

Kyle Fowler, director of the program to enrich uranium, which is used in nuclear warheads and reactors on naval submarines, took a job with NATO. Also gone is Linda Cordero, a director with the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium, called pits, that are fitted into warheads.

The field office that oversees the agency’s laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., where plutonium pits are made, lost nine staff members, according to the documents reviewed by The Times. Budgeted for 97 employees in the fiscal year ending last September, it is now operating with 76. Among those who left was the deputy facility operations manager, a top job.

March 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

@briantylercohen.bsky.social

The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...

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March 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM

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Krassensteins

@krassenstein.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Monitors were just hacked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to display an AI video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s toes.

The caption over it read: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”

February 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM

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Anna Merlan

@annamerlan.bsky.social

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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Alex Wellerstein

@wellerstein.bsky.social

I obtained a high-res version of the Daghlian "demon core" experimental setup, and have since added it to Wikimedia Commons, so now the world can stop using low-res photos of it. I find that when I look at it, I'm obsessed with identifying the "seam" between the two hemispheres for some reason...

"A sphere of plutonium surrounded by neutron-reflecting blocks of tungsten carbide. A re-creation of the August 21, 1945 criticality accident at Los Alamos to measure the radiation produced when an extra block was added, making the mass supercritical." https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partially-reflected-plutonium-sphere.jpeg

Detail of the core of the previous image. At this resolution one can clearly see that a) the core is laid on a horizontal axis (presumably so that it can be easily removed without disassemblying the whole thing), b) it has striations along its (nickel-plated) surface. For scale, the core was 8.9 centimeters (3.5 in) in diameter, so about the size of a large-ish orange. (Or just see previous photo, which conveniently has a ruler in place for scale).

I have placed a blue (in honor of the "blue flash") line along what appears to me to be the deepest striation, which looks about 50% down the middle of the sphere (which is slightly off-axis within its housing). the tolerances between the two hemispheres was very small, but should be large-enough to be visible (on the order of 1/1000th of an inch)...

January 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM

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aziz

@texasvc.com

Jimmy Carter was a literal superhero that saved Ottawa, Canada from a nuclear meltdown by repelling into an out of control reactor to unjam control rods by hand. The power plant is still operational.

The Historical Society of Ottawa

The world's first nuclear reactor meltdown occurred right here in the Ottawa Valley - and a young U.S. naval officer (future U.S. president Jimmy Carter) was brought in and put in charge of containing the disaster - 69 years ago this week.

Leading a team of two dozen men, 28-year old Lieutenant Carter courageously had himself lowered into the damaged reactor. That week, Carter and his team exposed themselves to a thousand times the level of radiation considered safe by today's standards.

News of the December 12, 1952 reactor meltdown at Chalk River sent a shockwave of panic among scientists, politicians and the general public around the world.

Hydrogen explosions followed the meltdown, which then caused hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive water to flood into the core.

When the Canadian government turned to U.S. nuclear experts for help, Lieutenant Carter was put charge of the urgent operation. Carter was one of the few in the world at that time with any expertise in this new technology.

First, the reactor had to be shut down - and then disassembled and replaced.

Carter had his team build an exact replica of the

disassembled and replaced.

Carter had his team build an exact replica of the reactor on a nearby tennis court to practice each move and track their work as they progressed. Every pipe, bolt and nut was rebuilt exactly to replicate the damaged reactor.

Carter divided himself and his men into teams of three. Each team worked 90-second shifts, rushing in and cleaning and repairing the reactor, precisely as they had practised on the tennis court.

A minute and a half was deemed the longest the human body could handle the amount of radiation that remained in the area even with protective gear.

It was still way too much radiation. Carter and his team absorbed a year's worth of radiation in each of those 90-second shifts. Carter's urine was still testing as radioactive six months later and the future president's health was affected for the rest of his life.

This nightmare experience affected Carter's views on nuclear power for the rest of his days as well.

His first-hand exposure to the Chalk River disaster suddenly gave Carter a more profound respect for the destructive power of nuclear energy and that influenced decisions he would make a quarter century later in the Oval Office - including his decision to cancel the U.S. military's development of a neutron bomb.

December 29, 2024 at 10:50 PM

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Tube🍂Time

@tubetime.bsky.social

picked up an interesting book the other day: "EOR #$FF 6502 Ponderables and Befuddlements" by David Youd

December 4, 2024 at 12:57 AM

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Stephen Schwartz

@atomicanalyst.bsky.social

This morning in 1945—at 5:29:45 AM (Mountain War Time)—about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang. Contrary to widespread assumptions, the area surrounding the remote Trinity test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.

A black and white, high-speed photograph of the Trinity explosion at 0.025 seconds, showing what looks large a large, slightly irregular bubble with a curtain of dust all around its bottom edge. A scale indicating “100 meters” shows that the fireball was already approximately three times that size.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion a few milliseconds later, showing an almost ghostly mushroom cloud rising from the ground above the very bright fireball.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion with the same 100-meter scale, this time at 60 seconds post-detonation, showing a very large and billowy mushroom cloud rising into the sky.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion taken some minutes after the previous photograph showing the ominous looking mushroom cloud at a distance, its top spreading out and touching the regular clouds.

July 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM

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Dr Sophie Hay

@pompei79.bsky.social

I had the huge privilege of visiting the newly discovered room at villa Civita Giuliana and just the detail of the blanket left untidily on the bed was incredibly touching and elicited such a strong human connection to whoever it was who once occupied this room.