Nycturne
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the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
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December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.
October 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.
Agreed, and much the same can be said about self-driving cars too. Especially as folks push to make human spaces unfriendly to humans for the sake of a service they want to sell. And in both cases the only asset here is owned by a corporation you lease time from.
The time to push back against clear bullshit is now + the way to do it is in clear, unequivocal language that doesn't mince words out of cowardice or *letting shitty tech bros convince you that your opinion on a subject is wrong*. The tech bro class is often blech. Express yourself accordingly 7/7
September 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Agreed, and much the same can be said about self-driving cars too. Especially as folks push to make human spaces unfriendly to humans for the sake of a service they want to sell. And in both cases the only asset here is owned by a corporation you lease time from.
I swear we are the country that got wealthy through hard work (and WWII) while denying ourselves the benefits of that wealth under the guise of “the rich earned it”.
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
September 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I swear we are the country that got wealthy through hard work (and WWII) while denying ourselves the benefits of that wealth under the guise of “the rich earned it”.
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The problem that you're suggesting that AI solve is not a problem that should be solved with AI: it is a problem of culture and it needs a cultural solution.
To help students think through an idea without facing ridicule or bias, we don't need AI: we need to create a better educational environment.
To help students think through an idea without facing ridicule or bias, we don't need AI: we need to create a better educational environment.
What if this tool (AI) allows a student to think through an idea (critical thinking) without facing ridicule or bias before a concept comes to fruition. Gen AI could serve to help us develop better questions that lead to solutions. Isn’t that the goal of academia?
August 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The problem that you're suggesting that AI solve is not a problem that should be solved with AI: it is a problem of culture and it needs a cultural solution.
To help students think through an idea without facing ridicule or bias, we don't need AI: we need to create a better educational environment.
To help students think through an idea without facing ridicule or bias, we don't need AI: we need to create a better educational environment.
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"But if something that used to be a normal childhood activity is now seen as so dangerous that parents who let their sons walk in the neighborhood are considered felons, the problem is not just with how we enforce our laws but also with how we allow cars to define how we live."
Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"But if something that used to be a normal childhood activity is now seen as so dangerous that parents who let their sons walk in the neighborhood are considered felons, the problem is not just with how we enforce our laws but also with how we allow cars to define how we live."
i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere
August 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Hell yeah @molly.wiki preach! RSS is the way.
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hell yeah @molly.wiki preach! RSS is the way.
Littering across a dozen planets.
July 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Littering across a dozen planets.
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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
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For anyone wondering what the game in the gif is, it's CrossCode. It's got a demo, check it out. I do need to play more of it myself at some point..
store.steampowered.com/app/368340/C...
store.steampowered.com/app/368340/C...
May 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
For anyone wondering what the game in the gif is, it's CrossCode. It's got a demo, check it out. I do need to play more of it myself at some point..
store.steampowered.com/app/368340/C...
store.steampowered.com/app/368340/C...
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I.D.I.C. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
May 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I.D.I.C. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
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as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
May 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
Photo of a cat enjoying the sun before having to go in for major surgery this week.
April 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Photo of a cat enjoying the sun before having to go in for major surgery this week.
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that image of all the girls keeps getting reposted (you know the one) so I drew going on a date with all of them
June 9, 2024 at 10:02 AM
that image of all the girls keeps getting reposted (you know the one) so I drew going on a date with all of them
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apropos of nothing but it's funny how certain folks will always try to chase the style of studio ghibli/miyazaki but only on a surface level and never tackle the themes of environmentalism, anti-war, and empathy i.e. the stuff that made those movies masterpieces
March 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
apropos of nothing but it's funny how certain folks will always try to chase the style of studio ghibli/miyazaki but only on a surface level and never tackle the themes of environmentalism, anti-war, and empathy i.e. the stuff that made those movies masterpieces
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Imagine making Tay, but on purpose.
Multiple xAI employees say Grok is now being trained to be right-leaning and to fight 'woke'
"The general idea seems to be that we're training the MAGA version of ChatGPT"
"The general idea seems to be that we're training the MAGA version of ChatGPT"
March 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Imagine making Tay, but on purpose.
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Just look at how we view hoodies. On Mark Zuckerberg, the hoodie is a symbol of whiz kid meritocracy breaking norms and developing the New Economy. On people like Trayvon Martin, the hoodie is sometimes seen as proof of criminality. Again, it's about the bodies beneath the clothes.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just look at how we view hoodies. On Mark Zuckerberg, the hoodie is a symbol of whiz kid meritocracy breaking norms and developing the New Economy. On people like Trayvon Martin, the hoodie is sometimes seen as proof of criminality. Again, it's about the bodies beneath the clothes.
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Or, and hear me out, don't use genAI in your lit reviews. My god.
If you leverage AI in literature review, CHECK THOSE REFERENCES. I just finished reading through a proposal on a topic that I knew well, and thus was surprised to see several papers referenced that I hadn't known of. Then when I looked them up online, I found they didn't exist. 7 fake references.
February 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Or, and hear me out, don't use genAI in your lit reviews. My god.
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Checking the query response ruins the point of using an LLM. People want it to be this magic thing that spits out the answer so they save time and effort. So why would you double check that? And why do we expect high schoolers to check their query responses when adults won't even fucking do it?
February 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Checking the query response ruins the point of using an LLM. People want it to be this magic thing that spits out the answer so they save time and effort. So why would you double check that? And why do we expect high schoolers to check their query responses when adults won't even fucking do it?
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When you see posts like "THIS HUGE NUMBER HAS BEEN SAVED!" ask, "At what cost?" What necessary systems are about to fail horribly?
👏 Starvation 👏 Diets 👏 aren't 👏 healthy 👏 for 👏 People 👏 or 👏 Nations.👏
👏 Starvation 👏 Diets 👏 aren't 👏 healthy 👏 for 👏 People 👏 or 👏 Nations.👏
February 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
When you see posts like "THIS HUGE NUMBER HAS BEEN SAVED!" ask, "At what cost?" What necessary systems are about to fail horribly?
👏 Starvation 👏 Diets 👏 aren't 👏 healthy 👏 for 👏 People 👏 or 👏 Nations.👏
👏 Starvation 👏 Diets 👏 aren't 👏 healthy 👏 for 👏 People 👏 or 👏 Nations.👏