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Shakira standing up for immigrants, dedicates her Grammy to them. ✊🏼❤️
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Shakira Wins Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album 2025
Shakira won the Grammy for best Latin pop album 2025 and dedicated the victory to immigrants. Here's what she said in her speech.Griselda Flores (Billboard)
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here are a few crops from a mural I painted for Wollaton Hall Museum (Nottingham, UK), 2020. This is one of the most detailed paintings I've ever created.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Owl #Gorrilla
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Over on X a bunch of dimwits are posting every nonsense red-yarn-on-chalkboard conspiracy theory bullshit about what USAID funds (terrorists! censorship! woke prosecutors! campus protests!) and Elon is just retweeting each one as if they're true... leaving out the fact that they're all bullshit.
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X (Formerly Twitter) disclosed on HackerOne: Discoverability by...
**Summary:** By using this vulnerability an attacker can find a twitter account by it's phone number/email even if the user has prohibited this in the privacy options. **Description:** The...HackerOne
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Winter Driving Conditions
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I need to start a hash tag for "ant of the day" but I'm scared to commit to that much work until I know I can stick to it.
I will keep posing ants of the day for a bit and then go back and tag them all when I feel like it's going to keep going for a good long while.
That's a task I'm looking forward too. It would be fun to look at all of the posts in one place.
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do you take requests? That's probably even more work. How about Oecophylla kraussei , a fossil weaver ant from the early Eocene of Okanagon highlands, British Colombia, Canada?
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Fossil weaver ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Oecophyllini) of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of far-western North America | The Canadian Entomologist | Cambridge Core
Fossil weaver ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Oecophyllini) of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of far-western North America - Volume 156Cambridge Core
there's also a bunch of bulldog ants known from the same formation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleofau…
oh yeah, and Titanomyrma, the titan ant!
(to me the Eocene is neat because it's an example of how climate radically alters the where and how of where plants and animals live )
"Ant of the day" to me means no more than one ant on that day. It doesn't mean "an ant *every* day." Just whenever you feel like it ❤️
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A couple snaps from the mapping of Casa Batlló tonight 😍
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Over at @WIRED, reporters like Vittoria Elliott are doing excellent work documenting Musk's takeover of the federal government
In this piece, she tracks down the names of the people Musk has installed at various agencies
these guys are all 19 to 24 year old engineers -- one is a Thiel fellow
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Unpaywalled: archive.is/L2C7d
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.Vittoria Elliott (WIRED)
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@Old_IT_geek This is the part I've been waiting for. They're going to get to the IRS, see the mainframes, perhaps remember the outage on Tax Day 2018 due to a bug in the storage array firmware that the subcontractor forgot to apply, and they're going to jump to the conclusion that they can just migrate everything to AWS in a week.
Then they're going to discover that the IRS's millions of lines of mainframe code are IBM mainframe assembly language and not even as portable as COBOL.
Yeah, very good point – they are totally unprepared, technically, for the vicissitudes of these legacy systems
But I’m not sure they actually want to do any of this work correctly, carefully, and without destroying massive amounts of recordkeeping inside the IRS
For them, I suspect, changing things in a way that absolutely wrecks the IRS’s ability to collect would be a feature, not a bug
"Move fast and break things" aplicado al Gobierno federal estadounidense. Va a salir MUY mal y va a morir gente. No es hipérbole: VA a morir gente.
#EEUU🇺🇸 #tecnobros #política #noticias
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Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.Vittoria Elliott (WIRED)
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todos los que se van de box es porque descubren que eran machistas, o racistas, o antidemocráticos. Son muy poco originales, podría alguno decir "mi atracción hacia Abascal hacía imposible trabajar con él" o "no puedo tolerar su sesgo anti-schopenhauer"
Via Katie Phang:
NEW reporting from Yamiche Alcindor::
At the Dept. of Education, dozens of employees who attended a diversity training course encouraged by former Education Sec. Betsy DeVos during President Trump’s first administration have been placed on paid leave as part of Trump’s targeting of DEI programs.
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the cognitive dissonance of Betsy DeVos encouraging diversity training leads only to "it's a trap"
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My blueberry bush and I both love winter storms apparently #bloomscrolling #plants #garden
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Ecuador President Says New Trade Deal With Canada Finalized usnews.com/news/world/articles…
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Protestors blockade Farnborough airport over private jet expansion plans
Local residents and climate activists have blocked access to Farnborough Airport to protest against the proposed expansion of the airport which they say will almost double the number of private jet flights to 70,000 a year
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#Farnborough #Rushmoor #Hampshire #England #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #environment #climate #ClimateStrike
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yesterday‘s hike was phenomenal. my body feels wrecked today but it was worth it. 💯
more photos in colour incoming on my new pixelfed @gestalter@pixelfed.social.
#hike #hiking #nature #landscape #photography #landscapephotography #fuji #fujifilm #blackandwhite #mountains #alps
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Marianne Faithfull was the ultimate poster child for the “freewheeling spirit of the 1960s”, says The Times. Born in 1946, the daughter of Glynn Faithfull, a British spy during WW2, and Eva von Sacher-Masoch, a baroness. She left home at 17 sank into drug addiction, made multiple suicide attempts, and ended up living on the streets. Her road to recovery was marked by a refusal to feel sorry for herself. “I don’t feel cursed,” she said in one of her final interviews. “I just feel f***ing human.”
Sonnet 120 - CXX
That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for that sorrow, which I then did feel,
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammer'd steel.
For if you were by my unkindness shaken,
As I by yours, you've passed a hell of time;
And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken
To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.
O! that our night of woe might have remembered
My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,
And soon to you, as you to me, then tendered
The humble salve, which wounded bosoms fits!
But that your trespass now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.
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Photos from today's walk to burr oak road. I think my longest walk yet 25.5 Miles.
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Another sunriser at the beach... barefoot running and scenery fishing #running #barefootrunning #Phuket
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CPBD is down in Chile doing plant surveys in urban environments and cussing up a storm.
He talks about how "anthropic stone is shaped by water" which kind of gave me chills.
anthropic is geologist speak for "man made" and I think about how all of this will just be a very strange layer among many some day in a far future. The trace fossils of humanity.
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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when i take people on bird walks i hope im even half as entertaining and informative lmao
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I don't know if you ever dabble in video games, but one of the best pieces of fiction, in any medium, I've experienced in my life is titled Horizon: Zero Dawn. I saved the sequel as a pick-me-up "for emergencies," I'm playing it now. Both titles debuted the same year as major entries in famous beloved series, so they were very undersung.
Specifically (likely only) because of that context, "anthropic stone" didn't startle me in the least. It's a major feature of the game's landscape.
If you’re anything like me and are disheartened by businesses bending the knee, this article gives me a bit of hope.
“Business has to pick up the mantle when government fails you” Rose Marcario, CEO of Patagonia
‘Rampant Consumerism Is Not Attractive.’ Patagonia Is Climbing to the Top — and Reimagining Capitalism Along the Way
Patagonia is hoping to use its reputation to advance a humble goal: changing capitalism so that it’s less focused just on profit.Alana Semuels (Time)
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We have come to accept that businesses will gouge us if they can; that a business's only motive is making as much money as possible. Businesses not longer even pretend to be primarily interested in providing a good product or service. I think this is a change.
For example, if I ran Netflix, I'd think about how to provide entertainment to as many people as possible, while keeping employees paid a decent wage and the doors open. But Netflix simply announces, "We are raising our subscription prices and will start showing you ads, because we want to make more money."
Pues solamente quería deciros que he corrido una carrera con mi hija y estoy súper orgulloso de haberlo hecho
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I object to everything about this.
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Alas, those things are nothing french, nor mexican. It is just pure junk in a wrap, and I don't understand why here in France some people look like having fun to eat those.
In french : "c'est dégueulasse"
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I'm french and Yes, me too.
And since I know what it looks like, and what friends who tried them said, you can't understand how far below what you think it is this is in reality
And since I know what it looks like, and what friends who tried them said, you can't understand how far below what you think it is this is in reality
Statistics Stumper:
Throw darts at a 1*1 square in uniform distribution. You can estimate pi by comparing the ratio of darts inside of an inscribed circle to those that fall outside of the circle.
But, what happens if you are aiming your dart? If the darts are normally distributed about the bullseye?
Can you still extract pi from the data? What will ratio of those inside the circle and out approach?
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@bob I just wrote a program to test this and it works! and the further out you go the better an estimate of pi you will produce— you do need to take two samples: a square and an inscribed circle but the normal distribution is almost kinda uniform if you don’t mind ignoring like 99.9% of the graph— should I show my students? I don’t think I can resist!
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@bob I feel like I’m being a bad influence—but they *did* drop this course in my lap at the last moment “please show up and teach the stats kids some python” OK. so… well I’m off the leash and don’t have to write grades let’s have some FUN
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US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-websites-are-disappearing-in-real-time/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Elon Musk's Twitter @elon-musk-s-twitter-WIRED
US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.Vittoria Elliott (WIRED)
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And now a federal agency says it will withhold public information in order to lock journalists into a failing private communications channel. (Yes, that one.) The courts will stop this, if anyone cares to sue.
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NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X
The NTSB says it will only notify the media about press conferences and investigative updates on two recent plane crashes via the social media platform X.Matthew Keys (The Desk)
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My overarching goal for 2025 is to organize, simplify, and clarify how I spend my days. I'm working on a loose framework to guide my overall wellness. To thrive in the ways that I want to thrive.
One early discovery: I forgot how much I love the library.
It's the second Saturday in a row that, as part of my new routine, I'm at the library to basically do some disk defragmentation for my brain. "Braintenance" I call it.
The library has a perfect blend of "solitude" and "be productive!" for me.
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NYT, Feb 11, 1933
DANES SEE HITLER WAGING TARIFF WAR
Increases Virtually Ban Their
Cattle
Scandinavian Papers Call for Reprisals.
Wireless to THE New york Toes,
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 10.
The recent cancellation of the Swedish-German trade treaty, with the resultant voiding of the most-favored-nation clause, has seemingly been used by the Hitler government as an opportunity to open a tariff war
on the Scandinavian countries andthe Netherlands.
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A small offering left over from yesterday eve. #StBrigidsDay #Mastodaoine
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Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders
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USAID website offline. usaid.gov
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"We were easily felled.
For our democracy became words upon paper, instead of conviction within our hearts."
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#Rom #trastevere #italy #streetart
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Really enjoying the wastewater treatment facility
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Outside Landers, California, is a bizarre domelike structure called the Integratron. It was built between 1959 and 1978 by a former test pilot, engineer and UFO enthusiast, who claimed he received instructions from the planet Venus. The structure was built at a special location apparently influenced by alignments from the Great Pyramid and the nearby Native American sacred monument of Giant Rock. The builder of the Integratron claimed it was capable of time travel, defying gravity and rejuvenating human cells via electromagnetics. Following the creator's death, there were plans to turn the dome into a disco, but it was bought by two sisters who believed the 'acoustically perfect structure' could offer healing 'sound baths'. #folklore #weird #architecture #UFO #psychogeography #bizarre #California
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I'd love to see that as a disco. As it is, for some reason it's giving me Mormon vibes. 🤷 Great history though! I've always had an interest in mid-20th century Venusian architecture. 
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Democracy is dying in daylight as a media institution crumbles and uncertainty hangs over the local section.
The Washington Post Is Hemorrhaging Talent at an Unprecedented Rate As Big-Name Journalists Head to Competitors
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#JeffBezos #WillLewis #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
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13.1 miles run in the rain and a chapuzón for my 33rd consecutive calendar month in the sea.
#Running #runnersofmastodon #barcelona
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This protest is a good idea.
Young people agree.
Parents agree.
Doctors agree.
Gender affirming care works and is essential health care that makes people's lives better. The above are the *only* people who have any right to have a say in the matter. The opinions of the president do not matter.
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If you can't go to a protest. You could call the hospital and tell them not to let politics interfere with their work.
Act. It's time. 2/2
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Also if you don't like the DSA don't tell me about it right now. I don't run them and they organized this protest which is logical and needs to happen.
If you don't like them you should go help them to understand what mistakes they might be making. My understanding is they need help and energy and level heads. If you have one full of opinions go lend your voice in that manner.
Do not sit on your hands and just watch NYU "just following orders."
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If you have ever felt exasperated at people who won't vote for democrats to keep republicans from power because democrats aren't perfect. If you've ever felt mad about that then you should be able to understand that this is EXACTLY who you sound like if you complain about the DSA right now.
The big tent needs to extend in both directions. None of us are perfect, most of us are good let's not be enemies.
Help the people who show up.
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"If you don't like them you should go help them to understand what mistakes they might be making."
Oh G-d no. This is a recipe for sending over people who will talk to cops and turn protestors over to cops. If they think that their complaints about the DSA are similar to people's complaints about genocide, which is what Democrats did and is why they lost, they should be nowhere near people who are actually doing anything.
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in reply to Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ • • •I’m not worried about this. Anyone doing such sensitive work should spot such people a mile away. I’m very over the performative contempt for “normies” from some of the left (almost as sick of that as I am sick of “upstanding professionals” who think anything “left” is automatically too scruffy and ineffective.)
When are all yall liberals and leftists going to realize once and for all that the right can’t tell you apart!
We are all the same to them.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •"Anyone doing such sensitive work should spot such people a mile away. "
How? It's not like you can vet people who are showing up to a public protest. I'm not talking about people who are doing something illegal: I'm saying that disapproving people who go to a protest will talk to cops and will get people arrested, because cops will use what people tell them to arrest people whether something illegal is being done or not.
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I'm an anarchist. We're aware of the difference between liberal and left.
What does anyone gain by going to your siblings/Democratic voters and telling them a lie:"we're the same and want the same things?" We don't. For instance, no leftist should be interested in a return to the genocidal status quo pre Trump. Liberals keep saying that we all have to work together and meanwhile destroy us whenever they are in power.
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Of the ten other races, 7 were unopposed, and two might as well have been (the opposition Congress candidate did not campaign) the last was a non-partisan with four choices.
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I do want to say though that people should be careful if they see a viral campaign for a large coordinated protest action or a general strike or something like that. I’ve seen a couple in the past few days from groups I have never heard of and the advocacy organizations I’m plugged into have no idea who they are.
Knowing who you’re showing up with and being able to trust them is critical!
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Hypolite Petovan
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@myrmepropagandist I showed up at that event and while it was nice and I got to clap speakers and shout "Shame" a dozen times, it was held in a public park out of the way which means no disruption and probably no larger awareness beyond the 1,200 or so mostly white people that were there.
I left before the event was over because my feet were freezing but I don't have much hope NYU will be moved by this gentle rally. They might not even know it happened.
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IDK they are not accustomed to being protested by people who might normally like them on name recognition. I’m glad that it wasn’t just… quite. like NYU isn’t screwing up big time. They backed off building a dorm in Harlem once over less. (and of course it’s mostly white people it’s manhattan)
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Unknown parent • • •I generally agree with this, and for specific questions about inclusion I'll let DSA speak for itself. But it's probably worth mentioning that this isn't a case of "reasonable centrist liberals who want to include everyone in their resistance" -- it's the other way around. Democratic leaders are doing nothing, and DSA is doing something. Telling people to include themselves in with the idea that they know best? Not a good idea.
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It's a thread about a specific protest which one can still go to: actionnetwork.org/events/prote…
which the thread author (one of the two center-leftists I can still read) approves of and wants people to go to. It's organized by DSA. Then:
"If you don't like them [DSA] you should go help them to understand what mistakes they might be making. My understanding is they need help and energy and level heads. If you have one full of opinions go lend your voice in that manner."
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What I was responding to was really a well-meant post saying that centrists should join DSA protests and pull them to the center.