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Glad you asked!!! Look for The Book of Notable Sandwiches: A Lunchtime History of the World next summer!!!

If a company has to lay off 10,000 people, the executive team should be fired, because they clearly weren’t businessing very well.

The @wilwrite.bsky.social Conference starts early with Mary Robinette Kowal as our online kick-off keynote speaker! Get your craft jolt on structure this July 19, 1-3 pm PDT as part of your in-person or online track registration. Here's the full schedule: willamettewriters.org/programs/con...

There are so many guys out there! The numbers are good we don’t actually have to keep all the bad ones! There are endless guys! Toss the bad ones out I promise there will still be more guys! You’re not gonna run out of guys!

Star of a TV show run by a monster, at 1 point, heard EVERYTHING & more from credible & voluminous reporting on said monster (incldg some facts not published) He considered & said "we don't throw people overboard," illuminating that all the people *already* thrown overboard were invisible to him.

Check out the cool work some of my friends just finished up!

Duck typing: Not even once.

Live your life so that your Nazi tattoo is not the least problematic thing about you Also don't get a fucking Nazi tattoo

Absolutely fucking exhausting that our elected leaders continue to see the moves the administration makes as “failures” and not what they really are: wildly successful *intentional* plans to steal wealth and move money from public services to the pockets of their billionaire buddies.

"Why did the casting of a Black actress cause so much controversy?" because small gangs of slobbering gutter racists aided by an unprincipled media landscape in the business of selling outrage have been allowed to run wild. there is literally nothing else to discuss.

“but they remember things” nope! llms do not remember anything. the chatbot has an app layer between you and it that stores “memories” aka database records, and injects them into the conversation in a way that is hidden from you not unlike a data broker + a phone scammer

needless to say a “being” that pops into existence for the span it takes to “answer” 1 question cannot “be” at all, much less “be” conscious llms are actually quite interesting but they’re absolutely provably, undeniably, unequivocally nothing more than fancy association-calculators

And another new asteroid! Here's Torifune, captured during yesterday's flyby by Hayabusa2. www.jaxa.jp/press/2026/0...

Tianwen-2 had arrived. Here's asteroid Kamo'oalewa seen from 20 km away www.xinhuanet.com/20260706/eb8...

This is one of more beautiful pieces of palaeontological art I've seen in some time Follow her on social media: @/Macchan xhslink.com/m/9j6lopyv1c5 Her work: xhslink.com/o/1Q3BQLYkIHq If you're searching for a palaeoartist / dino toy designer for a museum, a perfect fresh grad to reach out to.

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Reminder that sesquicentennial for the Statue of Liberty is in 10 years and is an excellent excuse to do a vastly improved celebration of what America can be. We got shit to look forward to folks.

Immerse yourself in the rich sci-worlds of multiple Hugo Award–winning author John Scalzi with books short stories like: - Old Man’s War - Starter Villain - Redshirts - and more! Supports @wck.org | https://bit.ly/448EYpA

What better way to celebrate the 4th of July than by getting a bunch of my novels, with a big chunk of your purchase price going to World Central Kitchen, my selected charity for this bundle. Pay what you like (the more you pay, the more you get), and help feed people in need all over the world.

There's an online track for @wilwrite.bsky.social's conference: willamettewriters.org/programs/con... * Traditional vs indie publishing * Building your brand * Memoir as fiction * Writing as resistance * Applying for grants, fellowships, and residencies * Workshop with a literary agent * Open mic

Process of Artemis II Eclipse Teapot (available tomorrow!)

We've started a mini video series for the #JAXA Martian Moons eXploration #MMX mission where team members are hunted, shot with a camera, & hand over 1 mission fact! 🛰️ Facts have been technical to whimsical. Officially published on the evil site, but here's our 1st video with our Project Manager 🔭🧪

On here, everyone may follow @elizabethtasker.bsky.social for English-language coverage of the MMX mission. bsky.app/profile/eliz...

So the Simonyi telescope can take a picture of a big swatch of sky in a single image. This is enabled by the unique mirror design (primary+tertiary mirror design) allows that image to be in focus (crisp clear image) across the focal plane rubinobservatory.org/explore/how-...

The July issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by K. J. Khan, Fiona Moore, Carlos Hernandez, Ju Chu, Thomas Ha, R.S.A. Garcia, and R.L. Meza. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_238 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

🐙 In this month's Clarkesworld, I give you my ultimate octopus essay. You're so welcome. (And go read the stories! What a lineup 🤩) 👉 clarkesworldmagazine.com/de_winter_07...

July issues of @clarkesworldmagazine.com, Forever, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, The Dark, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, Dirty Magick, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, Sally Port, @locusmag.bsky.social, and @smallwondersmag.com are here: weightlessbooks.com/2026/07/

LSST is officially underway! I have loved this telescope since I saw the mirror being cast here on campus. This survey is going to change so much of we know about the universe - and I don't say that lightly.

Our Founding Fathers were also long dead when the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, Congresswoman.

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

All of today's rulings are bad.

14th Amendment (1868): “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” It couldn't be more clear. Alarming that this ruling was so close.

Trans fam: your lives are precious no matter what the fuck these people say translifeline.org/hotline/

It's such a *clear* equal protection violation to me, if for no other reason that trans *men* are not subjected to the same restrictions, only trans women. But, since the court already decided that the constitution doesn't apply to trans women, I can't be surprised.

I’m finding this to be a problem when talking to students and the public about our work - anything ML is now thought of as Super ChatGPT instead of stats/physics/signal processing like it actually is

More owls in the moonlight

Do you want to see incels get they asses beat? Because there’s a movie out right now where you get to do just that This piece is a long-winded version of ^ which I posted on Threads yesterday

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Inner main belt asteroid looks like chihuahua poop

My god. "Stream of Beef Particles."

Told you. "Worse but cheaper" only works until it categorically fucking doesn't. "AI" cannot do these things and the people selling you on the idea that they can cannot be trusted.

Lots of us pointing out the unsupervised algorithmic decision & $39.95 charged for blank page that says, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” But Springer Nature also killed an editorial that the editor-in-chief of Naturwissenschaften planned to write about the retractions.

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

But my university continues to tell us to "embrace AI without fear" and incorporate it into all our classes

AI has not made any discoveries. Iterative AI models have helped *scientists* make discoveries. No version of LLM (generative or iterative) is autonomous and working under its own direction. Being imprecise with language and allowing AI grifters to co-opt the term “A.I.” in the first place

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“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Mamdani. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...