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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · 24d

This was such a roller coaster because I’m like nah this thing isn’t fast and then it showed me up

Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Aug 7

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

paired with

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

It was an absolutely perfect combo earlier this summer

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Aug 6

I’m about to turn 23 so this is terrible news before my birthday

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is the kind of quality content that keeps me hopelessly addicted to youtube

youtu.be/A3Lcf1vQFEY?...

Can I Build an Elevator With a $1 Motor?

YouTube video by Current Concept

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jul 27

I adore this! Slartibartfast may just need a new character sheet

Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jul 26

Beam. He may be half a letter off but still vibes with all his bean friends and they except him just the way he his

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jul 26

He’s been working there for a few years but hasn’t hosted until this week. He killed it all three nights though

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jul 25

Josh Johnson has been single-handedly getting me through 2025 with his weekly standup and he rocked the Daily Show this week 🙌

Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · Jul 25

latenighter.com/news/ratings...

Josh Johnson Is a 'Daily Show' Ratings Phenom in Hosting Debut (Exclusive) - LateNighter

First on LateNighter: Longtime Daily Show writer-turned-correspondent Josh Johnson made a splash in his hosting debut Tuesday, outdrawing each of the show’s other rotating hosts—and Jon Stewart—among ...

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jul 22

Imagine explaining the current world situation to someone from 2015 and then adding “but I can remotely operate my 3D printer from my backyard so it’s not *all* bad”

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jul 3

It’s here :D

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jul 1

After many many years of holding out I finally bought a 3D printer and man having something to look forward to is such a game changer

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · May 17

git commit, git push, git out

Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Feb 21

It’s #EngineersWeek and I’m flattered to have my photography work featured by @olincollege.bsky.social 👀

www.olin.edu/articles/sto...

STORY: Designing the Future with Photography

www.olin.edu

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Feb 14

This is my 10th P4A!

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Feb 13

*This* is what the internet is for

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Feb 13

“There is yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer”

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Feb 13

Reminds me of The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/th...

The Last Question

users.ece.cmu.edu

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jan 24

This sounds like old Hank at a retirement home waiting for someone to say “that’s nice, dear” and give him some apple juice

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jan 17

I was googling a frog from the late Cretaceous period when Google AI helpfully informed me that its “conservation status” is extinct.

Hate to crush anyone’s dreams of starting a breeding program, but the giant dinosaur-eating frog Beelzebufo went extinct 65 million years ago.

Beelzebufo (the ‘devil frog’) grew over a foot long and weighed about 10 pounds

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jan 17

So some degree of ignorance is required to make the world go ‘round.

How do we develop systems with this in mind? How do we accredit real experts? How can we develop education that teaches the next generation to think critically?

This is a big, tough problem but I don’t think it’s unsolvable.

Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jan 17

I think it’s important not to let the chaos overshadow the beauty, though. Through specialization we’ve developed such a detailed understanding of science.

Because we can have people who spend their entire career within a hyper-specific field we unlock innovations like the mrna vaccine

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jan 17

On one hand it’s absolutely amazing. We’ve built so many things that no one person can understand fully.

On the other hand it can be so chaotic that it becomes dysfunctional, even within a single institution.

As a group we become more powerful than one, but that’s not at all a linear relationship

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Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jan 13

When I said “this can’t get any worse” I was not, in fact, asking the universe for an additional two weeks of Covid. That was not a dare, and I’d appreciate if the genie terribly misinterpreting my wishes could please stop

Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jan 13

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social once said during the pandemic “The only way out is through and the only way through is together”

That’s one of those things that’s stayed with me. It’s still true. It always will be.

Kat Canavan @thegalaxykat.bsky.social · Jan 13

I’d make the argument it’s actually very Sci and not very Fi for the fish