@rodhilton
Didn't know he was dead. Less gooooooo
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lol god DAMN this is the entirety of the White House statement on the death of #henrykissinger.
This is about as close as I think you could get to Biden publicly saying "fuck that guy I'm glad he's dead."
@alexwild
If people park in bike lanes, maybe APD can get off their asses and get themselves some ticket funding. Sounds like a win-win
My dentist friend was telling me about how she's the one dentist at a practice, but the practice is owned by some guy out in California. So I figure he's a denture capitalist
@capntransit @streetsblognyc @nycmayor
"Cops charged the driver, identified as Hector Yepes, on Friday with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care"
I'll never understand how this isn't, say, manslaughter. It's no big deal to kill someone as long as you do it while driving a vehicle, apparently.
I suppose it's worth asking my extensive mastodon network: I'm trying to buy a ticket to Austin City Limits this saturday. Anyone looking to sell a day pass? #acl
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Here's a short video from Latvia showing why you shouldn't treat railway lines as a playground.
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This is possibly the funniest social insect study of all time. To keep them from eating all the food, female wasps stuff male wasps head-first into empty cells and threaten to sting them if they try to escape.
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blowing fat clouds of leaded solder fumes
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🏳️🌈🖖🏽
The Daily Beast is reporting that Elon Musk ordered engineers to switch off his Starlink satellites just as Ukraine was preparing to attack the Russian naval fleet with drones. He said he feared nuclear retaliation by Russia. It’s high time we ask the question: How much power and influence does it make sense to hand just one person?
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'We’re speaking out—despite pressure from the WVU administration to remain silent—because we’re impelled by our responsibility as employees and stewards of this public university to safeguard its integrity and its future.'
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-open-letter-from-faculty-at-west-virginia-university/
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Al Jazeera’s Defence Editor Alex Gatopoulos explains how Ukraine's troops appear to be nearing a breakthrough.
Ukraine’s months-long counteroffensive at the crossroads
Ukraine’s months-long counteroffensive at the crossroads
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A Texas judge blocks the new law that prevented cities from enacting local regulations, declaring it unconstitutional.
@w7voa to be fair, there was no way anyone could have predicted that it would get hot in the summer
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If this isn't a hoax it could change the world, and this isn't hyperbole.
Video of a room temp superconductor:
https://youtu.be/EtVjGWpbE7k
Paper pre-print (not yet peer reviewed: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008
Paper ends with the line:
"We believe that our new development will be a brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind."
Babe wake up, new ambient pressure room temperature superconductor just dropped
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12008.pdf
Here it is demontrating levitation due to the Meissner effect
https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n
It's easy to make and easy to test so if it's legit we'll see reproductions in the next few days. Exciting stuff
@tinkel they're park rangers, they're likely better informed on climate change than 99% of Americans. Their job involves being outside in one of the hottest places on earth; if they want to enjoy themselves doing it who are any of us to look down on them for it?
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Some outstanding conceptual judo in the opening paragraph of this proposal. “Often depend … may assume … certain aspects of”… therefore we would like to propose killing non-chrome user agents in general ad blockers in particular.
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
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The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.
Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit
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