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Retired, recent (2022) escapé from Texas, living the good life in Girona, Catalunya. (Estic aparenent català, però només parlo una mica.)
We walked by the Unitarian Church in Dublin this morning.
20.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The lesson of 1933 is that you get out sooner rather than later.”
-Marci Shore
(Professor of History, Yale)
An AI expert talks about the need to have a defense against "AI Hype."
"Technical claims need technical evidence. Real productivity is not measured in launch tweets, but in how long it takes to get actual value."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd1f...
Rufus Wainwright played Girona last night - here's a translation of what he said, "I'm happy about the new Pope. We need an anti-Trump: someone who's from the US, but isn't evil."
13.05.2025 07:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week we're having the 70th Annual Temps de Flors celebration in Girona. It's particularly colorful this year, as it's the first time I've attended it that we weren't under drought restrictions.
www.catalannews.com/culture/item...
Important interfaith discussion. Nice to see Parliament doing this work, not just during the official 'Parliaments'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9EW...
This is a really good video I found on YouTube. As the spouse of a retired teacher, it really hit close to home.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeb6...
Simple, treatments are far more financially lucrative than one-time preventive actions.
04.05.2025 19:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Delighted to see that SRL is still around and kicking. I had one of the VCR tapes back in the ‘90’s and was thrilled with their work.
04.05.2025 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is what happens when you let scientists into your kitchen.
Yummy!
pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...
Subjugating the world for Caesar. Fun for the whole family!
18.04.2025 19:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I realize that saying "stupid" and "Trump administration policy" in the same sentence is redundant, but here it is. If Catlans want to watch movies in Spain in their native language, then United States will apply a tax.
www.catalannews.com/politics/ite...
The problem is that this board has also voted Elon a $56 Billion bonus (which was knocked down in court). So they have a history of ignoring their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders to enrich their liege. This makes the odds of them firing him *really* low.
22.03.2025 10:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0L'extrema dreta torna a prohibir i penalitzar la dissidència política i reactiva el rearmament per generalitzar la cacera de bruixes i el control polític.
Els EUA volen cremar infidels dissidents fent servir els llibres de les biblioteques com a combustible natural.
#ForaFeixistesDelPoder
It's not enough for him to resign from Tesla. If the board wishes to save the company, they *must* FIRE him as CEO and a board member. Otherwise, it will just look like they are only being expedient, and not truly attempting to put the company on the path to positive change.
22.03.2025 00:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0As a scientist, I've been thinking about this parallel a lot recently, especially after reading SISTERS IN SCIENCE 🧪 by Olivia Campbell, about four female scientists' struggles to escape Nazi Germany. 📚💙
They had the best science program in the world, and they trashed it.
Interesting newstory about a woman who spent much of life near here in Catalunya.
14.03.2025 00:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oldest person in the world had microbiota of an infant, according to unpublished study.
Genes she inherited allowed her cells to "feel and behave as if they were 17 years younger than they actually were".
🧪👵🏼🧬
Link to preprint below.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
el meu anime preferit té un fansub català. anime.fansubs.cat (Frieren)
11.03.2025 23:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the US, does the US Constitution’s 2nd Amendment mean that US citizen have a right to own armed flying drones?
Just asking for a friend…..
🧪 Apropos timing: Aix Marseille University in France is launching a €15M program to support American scientists fearing censorship under Trump.
The initiative offers funding and academic freedom, echoing past exoduses from authoritarian regimes.
We urgently need to celebrate the Spring Equinox. In a country where the government is repressive and authoritarian, the rebel celebrates the joys of life, freedom, self-expression, and the sacredness of nature.
www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbe...
They are all characters in future Disney stories.
04.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The principles of Space Law have been under discussion for several decades. It's just that nearly all of the entities with the means to go into space have either ignored, or explicitly stated that they have no intention of adhering to those principles.
23.02.2025 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Imagine Salisbury Steak flavored Pringles....
It's actually pretty good. Also, Julie found Dr. Pepper Zero for sale at the same store - something she'd been missing ever since she left Texas nearly two years ago.
Store: Normal, 31 Carrer de Joan Margall, Girona
Sorry I didn't post this last week:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_5q...
Couple nights ago I had a dream about a book:
"How to Spell: The magic of English grammar and the grammar of English magic."
Seems like too good of a title to not exist, has anybody ever heard of it? It was a thin book, kind of an occult version of Strunk & White's Elements of Style.
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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I'm interested in the wine pairing. What kind of wine is in the glass?
24.01.2025 11:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Usually I'll all for government spending on science. But the new administration seems to even screw this up:
23.01.2025 10:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
