WaPo skeet: To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare. Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates.
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Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.
Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.
A tooth infection.
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If you're mid-career or senior in something related to marine biology or ocean conservation and would want to join us for a day of shark research in Miami in exchange for talking about your career path to my students, let's chat!
A cyclist was killed yesterday a few blocks from my house. Bike lanes are a culture war thing now that cuts across parties. The Trump-Bowser side of that war removes bike lanes even if it doesn't create parking or improve traffic. They think no one should bike, cyclists getting hurt is the goal.
The American Chemical Society @acs.org started a really funny and charming Planet-Money-ish youtube channel and I want more people to know about it.
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Post a banger not in English.
the scientist who invented self-assembling disco ball liquid marbles sent us some of the materials to play with 🧪
YouTube analytics screengrab showing "1.0M views, 1.0M more than usual"
Every once in a while YouTube gives you a backhanded compliment like "good job, loser, this video has more than your normal zero views"
the scientist who invented self-assembling disco ball liquid marbles sent us some of the materials to play with 🧪
Going to be dangerously cold again in DC this weekend. If you see someone in need of assistance call the shelter hotline to have folks transported to a shelter bed or warming center at 202-399-7093 or 311 for transportation to a shelter bed or warming center.
oh cool we could have a second DC airport that no local says the official name for
“New groundbreaking research - the largest dataset ever conducted on shared book reading - reaffirms that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library significantly strengthens early literacy skills for children across the five countries, reinforcing the power of shared reading in the earliest years of life.”
These are our friends, our neighbors. We can continue to give these folks food and tents, but these are really only temporary measures to hold back the effects of state violence against the unhoused. These deaths are always avoidable and, arguably, intentional. May they rest in peace 🖤
4 people froze to death in DC because we turned our collective backs on them. Absolutely shameful.
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not a slogan, a mission statement
this was back when google actually gave you stuff for contributing to maps, instead of just giving you imaginary maps points
long table set up in what looks like a carport next to a house, with maybe 30 people eating
when I was in Galapagos in 2016 I found the best empanadas I've ever had being sold on the street out of someone's kitchen window. I added them to google maps and now they have hundreds of reviews and have expanded to a full blown restaurant, still right outside their kitchen window.
Two chem profs decided to check George's work after our Mexican Coke video, so we went to see what they'd found. In the process we accidentally discovered Coke's doing something totally new and hasn't told anyone. Naturally the next step was to break into NPR and talk with @planetmoney.bsky.social 🧪
Two chem profs decided to check George's work after our Mexican Coke video, so we went to see what they'd found. In the process we accidentally discovered Coke's doing something totally new and hasn't told anyone. Naturally the next step was to break into NPR and talk with @planetmoney.bsky.social 🧪
A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
My neighbor cleared the sidewalks, cleared the alley, dug several people in/out of parking spots, parks his truck in another neighbor's driveway so it stays clean for her, and is now out joyriding his ATV while smoking a big cigar. You earned it, dude, let it rip.
hooray! HOORAY! BOOOOOOOOOOOO
MIN S3AT STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET, MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS YOU ONLY WEAR WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS. DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING." DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP. TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON." NOT METAPHOR. NOT HYPERBOLE. A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK. PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED. UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL. UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS. STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH. YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY, WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE. YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND" IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND. THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH. THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING. THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM. THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT. IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE-GOOD. GROWTH ALWAYS IS.
Statement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @gregolear.bsky.social)
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
Heads up: The National Guard will patrol Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park 24/7 "for the foreseeable future," per an email from the superintendent of Rock Creek Park. The request came from U.S. Park Police, which traditionally patrols the park, due to "high levels of incidents."
sine waves
start scrolling this list and see how long it takes you to get through it
color correction final boss
