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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

That badguys pantse are NOTT flantering , @dieworkwear.bsky.social wouldenot approove

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15/08/2025

Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ps: there are mRNA vaccines that are showing promise to FIGHT CANCER (including pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, and more)

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 07/02/2025

A *2011* grant from NSERC Research Tools and Instruments, for 60000 CAD, to Geoff Hinton (@geoffreyhinton.bsky.social) For "Large scale machine learning using GPUs" Everything you're seeing now started from a pittance of cash given by the Canadian government for fundamental research

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In the early 21st century, a reality of writing airline reservation code was dealing with seat availability being restricted to 0-7. Because 3 bits was what early-60s SABRE established. Asking for 8 would give you 0 seats. Legacy programming is 100%about dealing with quirks.

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It’s not that COBOL is a bad or overly-complicated language. Just the opposite: it’s a language that will lull you into taking things at face value. “This seems unnecessary complex to do the required thing.” Maybe! Or maybe it’s a crucial workaround some bizarre dependency introduced in 1967.

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

These 20-something DOGE coders have probably never even encountered EBCDIC before.

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In just a few years with mainframe code I saw the craziest stuff: print commands that would cause bugs by changing the timing of functions, log files being used as command queues, ad-hoc arithmetic for few-bit fields… It’s an entirely different world than modern dev.

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The chances of a 20-something engineer making a mistaken assumption injecting live code into a mainframe system is very close to 100%. It's not a knock on younger engineers, it's just that they almost certainly have never been exposed to the ways that such systems evolve. tl;dr: OMB is f***ed.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A problem with trying to communicate to so many of potentially reachable Americans that this stuff is patently racist is you have to try to talk about it in a way that breaks thru to millions of people who’ve been conditioned to think attacking affirmative action isn’t racist, who just apply that…

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Writing, in an educational setting, is not essentially valuable bc of style or personal expression. It is fundamentally valuable bc it is the simplest possible method for students to externalize and reorganize a complicated thought pattern, which is necessary for any other complex task.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/01/2025

One of the lessons of the mid-late last century is that consistent systems will beat smart people every day of the week.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I BET DEI DID THIS

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Nature @nature.com · 29/01/2025

Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise go.nature.com/4hDtGhL

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Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed

Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life - but with a twist.

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Boggled that the market is tanking because "[Chinese] [ML] devs figured out how to optimize for the hardware available." Does no one remember how good USSR coders were by the late 80s-early 90s? #DeepSeek

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I live in Hōlualoa and _I_ think Ka‘ū coffee has been the best for a few years now.

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Here’s the radiolarian model after removing the supports #sciart #3dprinting

Hand holding a spiky, clear, cellular model of a radiolarian with two spherical lobes and two concentric layers. Shadows from the complex skeleton blanket my hand

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2025

AOC 🔥🔥🔥

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Well, DeepSeek R1 won't answer questions about censored events from Chinese history so that's fun

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

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Bonbu_Kushiyama @bonbukushiyama.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

“Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is not the end. But it is *an* end. Things will get worse. (Much worse.) We will endure. (Not all of us. The losses will be profound.) And we will, one day, build something better. (I hope.)

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Joe HC @hxcprogrammer.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

They should just break in and watch. I hear they have experience doing that.

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I was going to opine that I too would ban an app controlled by a potential adversary that undoubtedly cultivates one-day exploits that could take over your phone. Then I thought about Xitter, which has exact same potential. FB and Insta, too, but Zuck isn’t as borderline sociopathic as Elon.

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I bet you could get an informed answer at r/msfs (Microsoft Flight Simulator). Simulating long-haul is very popular.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Yes, there will be a lineup of planets in the sky this month but they're not actually "aligned" in their orbits...they just happen to be on the same side of the Sun right now to all be visible from Earth between dusk and dawn.

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Jeff Millisen (www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-...) had one almost get his gluteus a couple weeks ago. Swimmers have gotten hit by them. I know a person crossing the ʻAlenuihāhā Channel got nailed, which was probably not on their list of "Extremely dangerous aspects of swimming the ʻAlenuihāhā Channel."

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A Field Guide to Blackwater Diving in Hawaii

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

How hold on just a minute I protest

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

6 hours on the water yesterday off #KailuaKona#Hawaii. Slow few hours and then #Humpback activity really picked up, with some huge breaches and what looked like some males jostling. Pretty good for mid-January. BUT very little singing. Dropped hydrophone 4-5 times and only distant sounds.

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 16/01/2025

Proud to share that the Global Ocean Artificial Light at Night Network (GOALANN) has been endorsed as one of the UN Ocean Decade's new actions! Find out more: pml.ac.uk/news/marine-... #LightPollution

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Banded pickerel: sad fish. Little pickerel: happy fish. Got it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/01/2025

andressen is the very cloistered elite that he despises! the idea that the public would hate medicare and social security if they knew more about them is literal insanity

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Bill Nemacheck @billnemacheck.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I thought Nazis were better with rockets?

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Larry O’Brien @konakoder.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Damn. I hope they play this on a loop at the next "Elon wants landing permission anywhere in the East Tropical Pacific." In the dark moments, you can see that it's not just 15-20 separate pieces but a total shotgun blast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zC0...

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SPACEX STARSHIP FROM THE AIR!! Upper Stage Failure - January 16, 2025

YouTube video by Bob Beresh

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I was very sad to hear that Bob Uecker died but I also smiled because that's what you do when you think about Bob Uecker.

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makana yamaghosto @makana-yama.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

IT'S PUBLICATION DAY!!! my debut novel HAMMAJANG LUCK is now out in the US! come for the cyberpunk space heist, stay for the butch/femme childhood friends to enemies to lovers, oops all lesbian cast, found family crew, and a setting that is my love letter to my homeland--Hawaiʻi links below!!!

graphic of a trope map of Hammajang Luck. Hammajang Luck's cover is in the center, with a person with brown skin and brown hair wearing a red hoodie seated on a pile of junk. behind them is a futuristic cityscape with a blue sky and golden clouds. the trope graphic is on a background of the golden clouds and cityscape. the tropes read "ocean's 8 meets blade runner," "crimes and heists," "found family," "childhood friends-to-enemies-to-lovers," nonbinary MC, and "lesbian cast."

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lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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There Is No Safe Word

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’m the daughter of a fighter pilot and even I’m in awe of these pilots because JAYSUS

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Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Deep sea mining ⛏️ is the new industrial frontier with devastating implications for the marine environment. ✍️Sign our petition and join the 51,000 people calling on the International Seabed Authority to end deep sea mining. www.change.org/p/internatio... #stopdeepseamining