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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Apr 5

Search Engine podcast also followed an entrepreneur trying to make a BBQ brush entirely in the US. The most I've ever heard about die manufacturing!

The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

Why it’s so difficult to manufacture something entirely in America, and what happens if you try anyway. The Smarter Scrubber Grill Brush Destin Sandlin’s YouTube Ch…

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Apr 4

I love the little "would you like tea or coffee?" at the end

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Mar 27

Excited for my new side hustle as Boulder Sundance concierge lol

Sundance Institute @sundance.org · Mar 27

Big news! Sundance Film Festival reveals Boulder, Colorado as our new location starting in 2027 and beyond. The annual event by the nonprofit Sundance Institute will continue to entertain and inspire audiences through independent film. 🎬

Read more: sndnc.org/boulder2027

#SundanceFilmFestival

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Feb 18

1/ One thing I can say with 20+ years of experience on this, is that the MSM (a term I hate but) is incredibly slow to cover protests and to understand what they signify.

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Mar 22

For a clear-eyed take on this, I recommend Meghan O'Gieblyn's book, "God, Human, Animal, Machine." After leaving Bible school and losing her religion, she finds extreme parallels within the Silicon Valley hype of things like AI and transhumanism. Really a fascinating read.

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Mar 21

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)

Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Mar 22

I really enjoyed Meghan O’Gieblyn's book, "God, Human, Animal, Machine" on this subject. It's in part a memoir - she loses her faith, leaves seminary, and then finds incredible parallels between the rapturous hype of AI and her (former) devotion to God.

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Mar 21

@standupforscience.bsky.social

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Mar 19

Same goes for going into protests - write key phone numbers on your arm with permanent marker

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · Mar 15

The Alien Enemies Act proclamation is out. Obviously this is an illegal invocation of a wartime authority for peacetime immigration enforcement.

Many thoughts to come, but the first is that they messed up the drafting for what they're trying to accomplish.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Mar 14

Are there any nonpartisan shows among the top followed, by these metrics?

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · Mar 12

hey #copolitics folks, got a government transparency story? Tell it to @coloradofoic.bsky.social Friday at the Denver Press Club at the Transparency Slam! register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/cfoics-sun...

CFOIC's Sunshine Week Transparency Slam

Bring your Colorado open government stories with prizes for the best and worst. Judged by celebrity FOI attorneys.

www.eventbrite.com

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Mar 12

Great ep about ADAPT and the fight for the Americans with Disabilities Act, on this day 35 years ago

Witness History - The Capitol Crawl - BBC Sounds

On 12 March 1990, hundreds of wheelchair users crawled up the steps of the US Capitol

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Mar 3

Protest today (Monday 3/3) at 11:45 MT at NOAA/NIST campus in Boulder, CO if anyone is looking to connect with federal lab workers (lots of them on r/Boulder btw)

From the boulder community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the boulder community

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Mar 1

🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Feb 28

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Feb 27

They do understand that all the private weather forecast services (like the Weather Channel) are just reporting NWS data, right? This is not something you can farm out, NO ONE ELSE is collecting data on this scale.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Feb 27

BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.

The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Feb 27

Putting aside whether they get direct payments, it comes from the platforms themselves. If you create content *out of* someone's content, you can monetize it. Some call it "clip farming" - whole YouTube channels that are clips of other creators. You get your own subscribers, ad revenue, etc

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Nora Gully @nonorarara.bsky.social · Feb 22

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