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Check out Thomas' post on LinkedIn about Postful and my team at Mozilla: www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...

Oh man, Dan Wells, why did you pick that name for a jerk? #IAmNotASerialKiller #MrMonster

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien." Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the USA. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway. This is Fascism.

@nerdmysteries.bsky.social I'm super behind on my podcasts (because I speed ran a bunch of audio books and my commute recently halved), so I just now got to the ep on early women in gaming. I looked up Carol Shaw on Wikipedia to see that's she's married to Ralph Merkle since 1983.

I'm almost done reading "When Women Were Dragons" by Kelly Barnhill. One the central events of this fictional memoir/historical fiction is an event in 1955 when 140-some thousand women turned into dragons. HUAC had classified hearings about it. It got me thinking, how long did HUAC last? UNTIL 1975!

A mathematician explains the Trump trade formula: youtu.be/j04IAbWCszg

I think all of us crave to be creative. That the act of creating something fills us in what is for me an indescribable way. I think it's worth noting the point Jacob & Hank make here, "I think creativity doesn't show up when you are afraid to make a mistake." "I think it takes curiosity out of it."

Drunk mediocre reactionary sex pest hostile to women as judges, big surprise

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social were you concerned with how far Kaveh leaned back in his chair for the majority of the show (event? Reading?)

Just waiting for vertical video sensation @hankgreen.bsky.social’s brother

How can AI help us? What would make it less scary? #ai#fearofthemachine#takeoverhumanity

It would be impossible to arrive at Mars by 2026. This is a laughable lie. Also human shaped robots are so fucking dumb. This is the kind of lie you tell that you think sounds smart but is just incredibly stupid to anyone that knows anything.

‘“Nature has its way of taking out the weak and the not so well and the injured. The eagle likely thought it would be able to take it out quite easily,” Sequeira [the Ontario-based photographer] said. “But, it wasn’t.””

I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Los Angeles! Come on out Sunday for my book launch! I’m gonna get real nerdy about this movie and early Hollywood. I’ll sign whatever you want!

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often *quite* intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

Listen, it's not doomscrolling, it's just flirting with oblivion

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

I’ll fix this later but it’s truly that time of the year again

@nerdmysteries.bsky.social a couple comments on the sega channel episode by an old guy: * “21 cable providers” these are random local companies. This wasn’t a choice, you either bought the local cable or you only had over the air channels

@chad3814.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduat...

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.

youtu.be/grdu6UBK76w?... @hankgreen.bsky.social on a scale of "making coffee" to "interstellar travel", how hard would it be to move Ganymede outside the Jovian system and into a solar orbit? Would it still maintain it's magnetosphere?

Fatal plane crashes in USA: 2025 - 3 in the last 18 days* 2019 - 1 (per 365 days) 2018 - 1 2017 - 0 2016 - 0 2015 - 0 2014 - 0 2013 - 0 2012 - 0 2011 - 0 2010 - 0 2009 - 1 2008 - 0 2007 - 0 2006 - 2 *no 2025 Boeing fatalities - the 3 crashes involved Bombardier, Learjet, and Cessna

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

Thank you! A U.S. District Judge has approved requests from anonymous federal employees to proceed under pseudonyms in multiple cases against the Trump administration to protect themselves from potential harassment and threats.

I just had a grown adult man tell me there’s no way Musk could get any of his data or information because he has Norton antivirus. Stop the world, I’m getting off this ride.

@batmanandsobbin.bsky.social I think there were ghosts in the last ep of @nerdmysteries.bsky.social. First, the episode just stopped in the middle of a sentence. So, I re-downloaded it (I live in the boonies with variable levels of cell service), and jumped back to about where I was.

Look, I have no idea what I’m talking about, please do not start a conspiracy theory. Do you think that because we (as a people) have more science communicators than ever before, and video production is easier than ever, we have more people watching slightly less qualified people 1/2

@elksneedle.bsky.social hi. So, about two weeks ago I got a recast on Let’s Learn Everything of you and @tomlumperson.bsky.social talking about the uncanny valley. I was like, “I got to hear this podcast Spellbound & Gagged.” I’ve now listened to all the episodes and am sad there aren’t anymore.

I have a dog, his name is Monsieur Boeuf la Tête. It's French, it means "Mr. Beef Head." I didn't name him that, I wanted to call him Spot. Hey Spot! Come here Spot! youtu.be/Aa7rqmWJXOc

YES!

@nerdmysteries.bsky.social I know that @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social didn't have a lot of time to research George Pal, but he directed the 1960 "HG Well's Time Machine" movie, and also, in that racism trend, 1964's "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" (with Tony Randal as Dr. Lao) www.imdb.com/name/nm06571...

Oh my God retire you old raisin

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Withdrawing US funding from the World Health Organization is a potential disaster for public health worldwide, due to the impact it will have on the important work the WHO does. Preventing the CDC from even *talking* with WHO personnel is a step much farther toward undermining global health & safety

I think there’s an empathy drought. It seems like nobody is able to envision what it is like to be in someone else’s shoes. So, let me help you out: * people that work at stores have nearly no control over the stock * people that work at store have no control over how long online orders take to ship

Muting yourself on a call while you get some work done is kind of like listening to a podcast… until they specifically ask you a question.

Done.

Both only want money.

The fact that this isn’t among the ten worst nominations, or probably among the five worst things that will happen today, is a sign of how terrible things are, because by normal standards this is a scandalously bad appointment. thehill.com/homenews/med...

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

More on how the NIH was working to address bird flu, before the change in federal administration www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Anyway I hope that the big media outlets can start making these connections; it only takes really one very short piece of string