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every time i see Linda Park in For All Mankind, I think "who is that, she looks SO familiar"

and so i go to IMDB and learn that she's Hoshi Sato, in Enterprise

this has happened like 4 times now

06.03.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

does anyone know what the pdf was

05.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh

05.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 4408 πŸ” 839 πŸ’¬ 159 πŸ“Œ 46

It's wild to think the xenofeminist manifesto is now over a decade old and some folks haven't encountered it?

There's a zine version folks made too: anarchotranshuman.org/post/1222154...

05.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

learning to make a nuke is easy: you major in nuclear physics and get a job at LANL

05.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"the AIs can tell people how to make nuclear bombs once jailbroken" ok but so could any physics nerd, the hard part is all the precision manufacturing of high explosives required to actually do the hard part of it.

i get that people don't think about it but like, it's absurd.

05.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

what a way to lose a Senate seat

05.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.

Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

05.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 1460 πŸ” 361 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 30

I don't think that the SAVE act includes anything about points 4 or 5? I think he's just throwing in some anti-trans stuff into his post for the fun of it?

05.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 1565 πŸ” 185 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 6

β€œPerhaps more worrisome are studies that have found implicit racial bias within chatbots. Experts say the technology can skew educational outcomes by reflecting and amplifying historical inequities in data and design, raising concerns about fairness, access, and equity in K-12 classrooms”

05.03.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Blue Owl Sets Off New Private Credit Fears

The biggest private capital firm behind most of the AI hyperscale deals such as Meta's Hyperion and xAI's Colossus, is seemingly in financial distress as it shops its debt holdings at a discount. It's not looking good.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

05.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 485 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 16

Rule number one of being incredibly lazy at work is that if you find a way to automate your tasks you never say that in a place your boss can see or hear which is why, even by their own terms, people that won't shut up about LLM coding are dumb as rocks. "Yeah, that was all me man" is what you say.

05.03.2026 04:25 πŸ‘ 1266 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 15

scarcity is rooted in a number of things which are rapidly ceasing to be scarce in meaningful ways

eg electricity and water

05.03.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

just did the math, and it turns out that my power bill is high enough, and solar panels are cheap enough, that I could power my entire apartment with solar built out from about two or three months of my power bill

05.03.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Omar Yaghi's team at Berkeley has been working on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that have the potential to maaaaaybe convert atmospheric CO2 (and presumably atmospheric H2O) into methanol, which is a potentially huge development

05.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Allagash Tripel Belgiant-style Ale is really delicious

05.03.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there are some recent technological advances that make the @pluralistic@mamot.fr idea of walkaway seem like it's right over the horizon, which is kind of exciting

05.03.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They had 500 billion they couldn’t spend the other day. They don’t need it.

04.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump is lying.

I serve on the Intel & Armed Services Committees.

There’s no intelligence that Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S. or the American people.

03.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 2556 πŸ” 926 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 35

Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power

03.03.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 1524 πŸ” 685 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 46

i hope russia and china know enough to not permit their nuclear weapons to be used

just let the US exhaust itself into collapse, and you guys will have won

03.03.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the secret ingredient to delicious maple cinnamon oatmeal is salt

03.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Making the Industrial Revolution, Part 1: Background and Hand Spinning of Thread
Making the Industrial Revolution, Part 1: Background and Hand Spinning of Thread YouTube video by Rebecca Valentine

new video time!

Making the Industrial Revolution, Part 1: Background and Hand Spinning of Thread

youtu.be/AQj3nRFVEok

03.03.2026 04:11 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the markets today are responding far more like i expect markets to behave when there's some big stupid war happening

03.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

not to my recollection

03.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there isn't a single thing that the tech world is doing right now that is interesting and compelling, tbh

everyone is doing stupid boring shit that doesn't matter and has no vision

03.03.2026 09:22 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a tall thin bell shaped object made of verdigris corroded bronze

a tall thin bell shaped object made of verdigris corroded bronze

or this Yayoi sculpture (bell??)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Do...

03.03.2026 05:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a brown corroded bronze mirror with a handle made of a statuette of a woman

a brown corroded bronze mirror with a handle made of a statuette of a woman

or this Caryatid mirror

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eg...

03.03.2026 05:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
a verdigris corroded tablet with small cuneiform text on it, with chains coming through two holes on the top corners

a verdigris corroded tablet with small cuneiform text on it, with chains coming through two holes on the top corners

or this Hittite bronze tablet

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_...

03.03.2026 05:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
a verdigris corrosed bronze gridwork with ornamentations

a verdigris corrosed bronze gridwork with ornamentations

tell me this isnt gorgeous even broken and corroded

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaca_H...

03.03.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0