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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Doubling the age of the Universe with Rajendra Gupta on the podcast this week. Ep 189 is all about how high red shift objects at the edge of the universe change everything 🌠 youtu.be/7O9kkgxAEzI

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Revising the Age of the Universe - Dr. Rajendra Gupta, DSPod 189

Dr. Rajendra Gupta is a cosmologist and professor of physics at the University of Ottawa. He has dedicated his work to making sense of images from the new Ja...

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

what kind of dark magic gets its power from being done in the open?

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 21/05/2023

The Matrix The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Revolutions The Matrix Resurrection The Matrix Couples Counseling The Matrix IVF Clinic The Matrix Childfree The Matrix Eat Pray Love The Matrix Why Won't You Visit Me In the Nursing Home

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

A conversation with Geoff Drumm from the Land of Chem channel about Industrial Alchemy in Ancient Egypt for Ep 149 of the podcast. Really stunning work here, looking forward to everyone's attempt to take it apart: youtu.be/MdYdg3OJfrI

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

babe hop in there's rats to catch

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Thinkwert @thinkwert.bsky.social · 18/04/2023

Kisthmus of Panama

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 15/04/2023

would it be weird if I started working on a burial shroud?

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 15/04/2023

hey how many of you have a job you hate?

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 15/04/2023

hey how many of you have a job?

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 15/04/2023

hey how many of you have a job you like

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 15/04/2023

mingus makes a habit of compulsively chasing dopamine to fill her soul-voids but she doesn't have a bluesky so I'm always on the hook

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

what fraction of the people here are programmers, do you figure? How does that change when you control for active users?

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 14/04/2023

It’s big hill of beans day tomorrow everybody. Don’t bring a lunch we’re eating hill of beans

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

what if the universe is eternal? what if life has meaning? inherent to it? baked into it? the millenial project of planetary escape, we are the fruiting body

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

what if there was meaning to life?

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Loopy @strangestloop.io · 14/04/2023

i am once again asking the people who lack ideas and the people who lack execution to collaborate

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 13/04/2023

i expect this to be a very prominent conflict going forward. two visions: one views that the problem with twitter is that the wrong person owns it, and it should be more closed and more censoring to combat "misinformation". the other is open protocols and autonomisim/voluntarism.

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Isaiah @isaiah.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

Better algorithm control, I.e. if the algorithm starts showing me too much of some account, the ability to tell it to “tone it down a notch” without muting/blocking/etc

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rei @relativity.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

I actively preach what I speak: bringing good vibes only, not engaging in or spreading toxicity Me and @atw.bsky.social are actively trying to build a movement of healthy engagement and positivity to text dominant spaces!

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

I love that MJ makes an impossible guitar but kindly provides two hands with which to play it

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

This isn't about shitposting, by the way, which is irreverent and hilarious and I want more people around me to be the kinds you find here. This is about something deeper, more vengeful, uglier than we ever give play to in person being widespread on the internet. Is it lack of physical consequence?

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

but that kind of negativity is universally reviled on a personal, meatspace level! What is the ingredient of difference at work here? Why is everyone okay with the idea that we do and say things online that we never would in person to the degree that it's baked in?

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

one of the strangest things about the internet and social tech in general is that it decouples us from the expectations of a real-life social network. People suggest the answer is to remove anonymity, but that doesn't actually prevent people from being dicks if the algo elevates dick behavior

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

community moderation that produces a massive yet functional environment feels like a non-trivial version of alignment more people should be paying attention to

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

ok last thought before the writing cave, where is the line of personal responsibility vs corporate responsibility in the healthiness of tech?

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🎸Paul🎹 @paul.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

Also, downvotes. You hit a threshold, your post gets hidden. Works for Reddit, will work here too for when negativity shows up.

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kasey klimes @kasey.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

Search mutuals by location (and other features that might make irl meetups more common)

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

we are holding onto the razor's edge of progress and our hands are bleeding because we haven't figured out how to attach it to a stick that will let us come together to hunt the mastodon and feed the tribe. Progress is! We are, too! What comes next?? Root yourself next to meaning and u will flower!

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

I love writing and thinking about things but gd I miss working with people and getting our hands dirty

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 12/04/2023

applying for a journalism internship, forgot about that feeling of wanting something so bad you can feel it like an electric pressure somewhere between the roots of your teeth and the bridge of your nose

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 12/04/2023

no, no, we should call them bloosks. the oooooo is key here. Blooooooooooooosks try it

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 12/04/2023

the pure freedom of just not responding

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 12/04/2023

how long before we compress all speech to images?

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 12/04/2023

respectability poasting can't develop in the absence of a clear hierarchy it's just people, mannnn

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 12/04/2023

realizing there's something about a new space, where there isn't the pressure of an enormous mob, that offers a kind of freedom of expression that's missing in more established spaces

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

realizing I'm going to have to put transcripts of the podcast on individual pages of the website at some point but not looking forward to the drudgery of it

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

someone explain to me how alignment is possible if we don't have a cohesive model for human values across cultures

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

a collection of pictures I took of myself when trying to take a picture of something else

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

what even is authentic on the internet? Is it the inescapable inner monologue? Is it the posting of food, of fun, of visions of yourself? Is it the computer generated version of who you could have been if you hadn't committed to the normie bit? Is it just the schizophrenic touching the universe?

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

There are a lot of theme accounts, what should my theme be

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

feels like riding rollerblades around an abandoned shopping mall

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Nastia @demystifysci.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

how auspicious, I haven't added this to my list of websites I can only access for 30 minutes a day

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