Richard Naples
@drastician.bsky.social
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My blood type may be B+ but my brain never got the memo 📚📊🍲🎨
It’s me! See the presentation here
docs.google.com/presentation...
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It’s called therapeutic lying to in dementia care circles
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about 2 months ago
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Don’t like the idea of poor people eating? Just think of SNAP as handouts to big ag and supermarket conglomerates! That’ll make your cold dead heart warm a little, right?
about 2 months ago
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Hope everyone is doing ok!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
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Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/nyregion/wikipedia-conference-gunman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU8.LNoS.mQjnUyIIG5qC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Brendan Nyhan
8 months ago
"Authoritarian leaders topple democracy faster than you can imagine. If you wait to speak out against them, you have already lost."
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New York Times Opinion
9 months ago
“The use cases for artificial intelligence across every domain of work and life have started to get silly really fast,” our columnist
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
writes. “Most of us aren’t using A.I. to save lives faster and better. We are using A.I. to make mediocre improvements.”
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Opinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
http://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/ai-tech-innovation.html?smid=bsky-nytopinion
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10 months ago
Today, we're releasing our folio and retrospective on Wilhelm Reich, featured in Issue 05: Economies. The folio's brilliant intro—"Too Communist, Too Freudian—was written by
@hzeavin.bsky.social
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/too...
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Too Communist, Too Freudian — Parapraxis
The life and times of Wilhelm Reich Hannah Zeavin
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/too-communist-too-freudian
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Has anyone checked if members of Congress have invested in iron lungs?
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10 months ago
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Has anyone checked if members of Congress have invested in Xanax recently?
11 months ago
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jamelle
11 months ago
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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Jess Calarco
11 months ago
The crash in DC highlights the dangers of a push for efficiency-by-austerity, because it shows that much of what gets misperceived as government "inefficiency" is just the result of chronic underinvestment and neglect.
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Victor Ray
11 months ago
Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my
@theemancipator.org
article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language.
theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
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Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist
New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.
https://theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/topics/u-s-politics/eliminating-dei-isnt-just-racist-its-segregationist/
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In the coming media hellstorm of disinfo and bad takes, at least I will find succor in this
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My mother told me to only speak good of the dead. She’s dead. Good.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-n...
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Anita Bryant, Singer and Crusader Against Gay Rights, Dies at 84
She has hits with songs like "Paper Roses" and served as a spokesperson for Florida orange juice before her career came crashing down.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/anita-bryant-dead-singer-orange-juice-gay-rights-1236105715/
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The Public Domain Review
12 months ago
You can read more about it on a blogpost on the PDR site:
publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01...
Or just dive straight into the PDIA:
pdimagearchive.org
And follow on BlueSky here:
@pdimagearchive.bsky.social
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Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive
After a year of quiet labour, we are launching our new image-forward PDR sister-site!
https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01/announcing-the-public-domain-image-archive/
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Thiago Carvalho
12 months ago
What is the impact factor for? (fm "Replication Crisis", John Whitfield
@londonreview.bsky.social
2021)
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I wish this were not so obvious and there were some way to counter it.
getpocket.com/explore/item...
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How Narcissists Climb the Career Ladder Quickly
People with a high degree of narcissism get promoted faster, new research shows. Why?
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-narcissists-climb-the-career-ladder-quickly?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
12 months ago
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Just gave $30 even though I already donate monthly ;)
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12 months ago
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hyperbolbri
12 months ago
Another wild one. Mass resignation after Elsevier implemented AI that introduced errors after acceptance, stripped out capitalization of cities, removed italics of genera, etc. H/t
@jo.nny.rip
retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...
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Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/evolution-journal-editors-resign-en-masse-to-protest-elsevier-changes/
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Andrew Belfry
about 1 year ago
If you're thinking of spending $40K on an MFA, just read "What We Talk About When We Talk About Tariffs" instead (via
@mcsweeneys.net
). Should provide all you need.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tariffs
With apologies to Raymond Carver. - - -My friend Kevin Maddox was talking. Kevin Maddox makes a fortune selling novelty pickleball T-shirts on Etsy...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-tariffs
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Shannon Mattern
about 1 year ago
"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project)
quiltindex.org
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Trevor Owens
about 1 year ago
If you have’t seen it yet, I’m working with
@rfrank.bsky.social
as co-editor of “Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary” for
@mitpress.bsky.social
. You can read and comment on all the draft chapters on PubPub ->
digital-preservation-a-critical-vocabulary.pubpub.org
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Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary
https://digital-preservation-a-critical-vocabulary.pubpub.org
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Samuel Moore
about 1 year ago
'I must say that in libraries the paid databases are viewed more and more critically. The question is now: what are the essential use cases for which you really need Scopus or Web of Science?' Jeroen Bosman on the benefits of OpenAlex.
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OpenAlex, a big step towards Open Science?
The new and free database OpenAlex seems to fit in with the Open Science ambitions of Utrecht University. An interview with Jeroen Bosman about the options OpenAlex has to offer.
https://www.uu.nl/en/background/openalex-a-big-step-towards-open-science
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Nancy R. Curtis
about 1 year ago
My sympathies in advance to my colleagues who work in land grants & larger Federal Depository Libraries, as
#LibraryLand
sees yet another purge of formerly free & accessible data, & the agencies responsible for collecting & disseminating that data are rendered minimally functional. 📚
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David Ingram
over 1 year ago
EXCLUSIVE: NBC News has the first interview with Vivian Jenna Wilson, the trans daughter of Elon Musk. She says he was an absent father who berated her as a child for being queer. But she says she won’t let his latest comments go unchallenged.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child
In an exclusive interview, Vivian Jenna Wilson said her father’s recent statements including that she is “not a girl” inspired her to speak out: “I’m not just gonna let that slide.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-transgender-daughter-vivian-wilson-interview-rcna163665
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When you realize both your glasses and your Excel report metadata template are
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