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Waiting to see If he pardons Bob Menendez

I restarted my @wired.com subscription this year, and get it delivered. But can anyone help me understand why there's no Wired app?

This is gross and disturbing fascist xenophobic symbolism. Dept of Labor building in DC

Ok wait. Switched to a Mac. Are you telling me I can't filter #Excel to "Add Current Selection to Filter"??? Wut?

I agree this is a moment when we all need to work together in getting the temperature down, but that doesn't mean excusing hate speech. Charlie Kirk did not support free and open debate. He supported engaging in bad faith as a monetization strategy and otherwise suppressing free speech.

Funny / Not funny

Dead Kennedys recording Nazi Punks Fuck Off in 1981.

I think NJ (most densely populated state in the union) is the only state where both species noted are invasives

If you refuse to endorse the overwhelmingly popular Democratic nominee for mayor of America's largest city, you should not be leading Democrats in the U.S. House

"Come home at dinnertime" said to kids on their way out the door each morning in summer. No parent knew where we were all day

For a long time, I've felt that much of the offered algorithm music on Spotify was AI, fake bands. It all sounds so bland and the bands just don't seem believable. So yeah. wapo.st/3IgfD5k

North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist! 🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd ⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding 📨 apps due 7/18 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303... #botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs

Saw these around Paris today @brenttoderian.bsky.social

Doesn't really work when you're mostly vegetarian

This is also what's happened to Spotify as it's adopted AI. It's getting dumber and dumber. And making me feel dumb for using it

Soon the media will start running stories about aluminum tubes

When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

I was at an event when I happened to glance across the room at the same moment Nicole Kidman stepped out of the elevator. We're both fairly tall and our eyes met over everyone's heads and I smiled and nodded thinking I was greeting a friend, only to immediately realize she did not, in fact, know me

"Whatever the nature of the crisis, it forces the revolutionaries to make a choice. Give up—or radicalize. Find compromises—or polarize society further. Slow down—or use violence" The logic of revolution is always the same www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%. So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.

Having access to trustworthy experts and being able to parse what is and isn’t misinformation or disinformation is a PRIVILEGE. Education is a PRIVILEGE. People aren’t “stupid” because they can’t do this. And if you think you’ve never fallen for propaganda you’re lying to yourself.

#BeekeeingFail Watched a swarm settle on a branch about 30' up. Longest extension ladder couldn't reach. So I climbed up with a powerful hose to knock them down & collect them on the ground. Haha, hoho, hehe. Lots fell, the rest made a beeline for me and I don't think I've ever gotten so many stings

Oh Microsoft, Did you know that chemists use Excel *a lot.* Every day I have a dataset corrupted by having CAS numbers switched to dates. I know I can format as text, but sometimes it doesn't matter, Excel thinks it knows my data better than me. Here's a hint: add it to the "special" list, maybe? 🧪

4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us. These posters are made to be shared! We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online. get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Just me, or is it true that the earliest versions of streaming services had way better music suggestions than the AI algorithms of today's versions?

If Google turns my perfectly functional Nest thermostats into doorstops, I will 100% replace them with another brand & never look back. I don't care if they give me a rebate on a new one. Why would I trust them every again? It's a shame Google bought Nest www.zdnet.com/home-and-off...

Happy Mayday! "Nature is just as much the source of value (and it is surely of such that material wealth consists!) as labor, which itself is only the manifestation of a force of nature, human labor power."

Really looking forward to listening to this @inquirer.com podcast on MOVE www.inquirer.com/move-bombing...

"petroleum-based" food dyes is fear-morning language

Fucking hell. Elected Dems suck

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But her emails

During the period 2000 to 2002, soil moisture declined by approximately 1614 gigatonnes, much larger than Greenland’s ice loss of about 900 gigatonnes (2002–2006). From 2003 to 2016, SM depletion continued, with an additional 1009-gigatonne loss. news piece here www.carbonbrief.org/global-soil-...

I hope everyone has an exit plan

In the US we're facing the end of democracy; in Europe they are considering an intention for a harmonized classification of peanut butter under REACH as a biocide (repelling or attracting pests) ... because it's used to bait mouse traps? #ECHA #REACH #CLP echa.europa.eu/substance-in...

As a reminder, executive orders—while noteworthy and significant—are basically advisory memos from the White House, as the president does not have the legal or constitutional authority to issue edicts with the force of law

The CDC has named fluoridation one of the top public health achievements of the 20th century, and RFK jr wants to ban it. Many people cannot access regular affordable dental health - it's a separate insurance! Bad oral health causes other health problems...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

MUSTAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRDDDDDDDD

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Strom Thurmond holds the record, at 24 hours and 18 minutes. Which he did to protest Civil Rights. Decades later, it was revealed he had had a child with a 15 year-old Black girl whose mother worked for his family. Also he sexually harassed colleagues and staffers. Feels relevant.

Thank you @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com push back

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Sad to hear of the passing of Dorothea von Moltke, who was a Princeton institution in her own right. www.tapinto.net/towns/prince...

i was 8 when i got my first glasses. mom yelled about sitting too close to tv; i said, “i can’t see if i don’t”; that was all it took. i hated the cheap frames but cried from relief when i remembered the world made sense & had crisp edges. i’d forgotten so quick how gorgeous & unremarkable it was.🧵

Serious question for you #bakers: how do you feel about people toasting your freshly-baked bread? I am of the opinion that it's a shame to toast bread in the first 24 hrs (or so). After that, who cares? #bakesky #baking #bread #sourdough