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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

(Just so it's clear, this skeet was posted **three days** before László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize for Literature)

Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 4d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 1d

This is not how you science.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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KMUW @kmuw.bsky.social · 1d

“I think it’s unfortunate from a community’s point of view. They either feel they’re not thought of, or they’re isolated in general.” www.kmuw.org/community/20...

Amid funding cuts, High Plains Public Radio builds a network

The only public radio station serving the five-state, mostly rural High Plains region is organizing a fresh era of community-based journalism after $1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting. A grant…

www.kmuw.org

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34

Wasn’t really sure what to expect from Chapel Bill. But after that drive, I have him as second best college coach I’ve ever seen, just below Saban.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 2d

A few years back, I half-consciously sang the chorus to "Sixteen Tons" as I walked down a campus building's hallway; I admired the acoustics and then suddenly realized what I was singing.

Classes were in session. Of course.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 2d

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao

Not all attempted performances of this work have been successful. In 1970, Australian pianist Peter Evans decided to abandon a solo performance of the piece after 595 repetitions because he felt that "evil thoughts" were overtaking him and observed "strange creatures emerging from the sheet music". [8]

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for this!

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

I know we’re going in circles but it is abundantly clear that they have literally no idea, let alone a plan, to fix their own mess.

Nobody is at the wheel, it is the first social media AI presidency and they drove themselves into a blind alley.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 3d

This being Texas vs. Oklahoma Week, I want to share with you the little-known fact that Tolkien, casting about for a name for Sauron's kingdom, had originally wanted to call it "Norman," but he decided it was just too terrifying a name.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

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Mexicology @mexicology.bsky.social · 5d

Another tidbit the breathless Sheinbaum stans seem to ignore is the eradication of collective injunctive relief in - every (potentially) injured party must bring their own suit... to the newly party-picked courts.

Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 5d

We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 5d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5d

Aw yeah that’s what charts were designed for

Lateralized Sleep Positions in Domestic Cats bar graph. 192 cats curve left. 109 curve right.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Jeremy Ra inhabits the conflicted mind of chimpanzee caretaker Janis Carter in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: "Alien." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jeremy-ras-janis-carter-lives-in-gambia-for-years-to-rehabilitate-lucy-the-chimp-back-into-the-wild/

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5d

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

Stephen Miller
@StephenM
The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 6d

This week's top story: The long game that research historians played depended on the impractical approach of waiting out the natural death of the traditional narrative, a creation story of frontier exceptionalism that was baked into the Texan identity.

How Scholars Lost the Culture War over Texas History

And how they could still start winning it.

www.texasobserver.org

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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 6d

Kavanaugh Arrests

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7d

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 6d

Oranges. And boxes. So simple yet so perfectly balanced by Luis Egidio Meléndez of Madrid, whose day is today.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 6d

"Survey says . . . "

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 8d

Are you editing it, or reading it for funsies?

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 9d

Nailed it.

They're aware of how little control they have of the military and can't figure out how to change that.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 9d

Thread.

Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 9d

US left media covering Mexico like it's a new international social justice beacon never seem to ask the perspective of people like the collectives of madres buscadoras, Indigenous groups fighting projects like the Tren Maya, anyone living in Morena-governed jurisdictions being attacked by drones...

Ann Boo-uise Deslandes 👻 @anndlandes.bsky.social · 9d

Apart from the current horror & trauma of US, losing it is devastating if you believed in it/had to. But projecting that loss onto Mexico and refusing to examine the reality of mass militarization, large-scale cooperation with US gov including eg outsourcing of justice is perpetuation of harm

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 9d

To put it another way:
The Supreme Court may be damaging its own legitimacy with its own lower courts even faster than it's damaging its legitimacy in the eyes of much of the public.

I don't know what that means or looks like over the long term.

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