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Akash Peshin

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/05/2025
Budweiser Unveils Social Anxiety Bottle With 900% More Label To Pick At
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 08/05/2025
When Stendhal first saw ‘Coronation of the Virgin’ (1653-61) by Il Volterrano, he encountered a profound experience of ecstasy. This sensation gave rise to what is known as le syndrome de Stendhal buff.ly/2uEUqn6
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Nature @nature.com · 08/05/2025
An analysis shows that large fractions of future generations will be exposed to extreme climate events that would occur only once every 10,000 years in the absence of global warming go.nature.com/43lhNbO
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Climate risk for younger generations is set to soar
An analysis shows that large fractions of future generations will be exposed to extreme climate events that would occur only once every 10,000 years in the absence of global warming.
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
this has been my theory for a while — algorithmic recommendations pushed us to start being generic online / in digital spaces, generative AI will finish the process by just spitting out generic stuff immediately
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 05/05/2025
Me, while writing anything but especially essays:
A Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid where every need is replaced with the em dash.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This sounds right, and is probably a lesson of wider applicability. Life is complicated and frightening, adolescence especially so. Patriarchy offers a set of rules and roles that are simple and easy to understand. Treating everyone like an actual person is, by contrast, fraught with peril.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Everyone believes that theirs is the only job in the world that AI will never be able to do and Andreessen is no exception
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/05/2025
Kashmir attracts millions of tourists each year for its alpine beauty. But last week's terrorist massacre of 26 people has magnified the alienation long felt in a region that lives under the watchful eyes of security forces and has limited democratic rights.
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Kashmir Is a Wonderland. An Attack Shows It Is Also a Cradle of Despair.
The terrorist massacre of 26 innocent people has magnified the alienation long felt in a region that lives under tight watch and has limited democratic rights.
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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“You want a poem to register in every mind the way it did in yours. Then you discover this never happens. Still, it is what you strive for. You try to make a version of it as incapable of being mutilated as possible.” —Louise Glück buff.ly/ZXFxad3
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Nature @nature.com · 30/04/2025
Flourishing – a state in which all aspects of a person’s life are good – should be the goal of people and nations everywhere. Yet, for something so central to all our lives, research efforts on flourishing have, so far, been woefully inadequate. go.nature.com/4iCbrJt
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Why we need to measure people’s well-being — lessons from a global survey
Greater insights into what makes people happy, secure and hopeful will make for a better world.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
It's getting tense in Rome
Photo of some cardinals smoking cigarettes
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2025
4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence theonion.com/4-copy-...
4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
What you don't assess will still hurt you.
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National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration (Gift Article)
The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
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